The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-11-17

| some notlce OF the OutrageS upon the
rights of voters in Kansas, afraid to con-
denim them as they deserve, and yet un-
able to justify them, the President under
takes to find an apology for them, in
certain alleged proceedings of the Aboli-
tionists. So soon, he says, As the Kan
sas bill became law, "the purpose was
avowed by the Abolitionists to defeat It's
great principle, by securing the hasty
immigration into the Territory, through
the influence of capital, of an Anti -Sia-
very population" This is false, notori-
ously false. The indignation produced
by the passage of the bill was not con-
fined to the Abolitionists the majority
of the people interested in settling Kan
sas with free population, were not
t'Aboiitionists," in the popular accepta-
ton of the word. Again the persons
specially engaged in encouraging free i'm
migration into the Territory did not
''avow their purpose to defeat tie princi-
pie of the bill;" nor did they cherish
such purpose. They avowed their
purpose to defeat the object of the bill
slave-colonization-by acting upon its
prlnciple-the right of the bona fde
settlers to determine Its domestic insti-
tutions.
Now, admit what is not the fact, that
eastern men, organized in societies, paid
a premium for Anti-Slavery emigrants,
and transported them free of cost to
Kansas, for the purpose of becoming ac-
tual settlers, what law did they violate,
what right of shareholders, what part of
the Kansas bill ? Might not similar So
cletieS have been organized in the South,
for slave colonization ? Shareholders
were at liberty to contest the ground by
precisely those means. The struggle
would have been legitimate and peaceful.
How could the operation of such eastern
societies, carried on in the way pointed
out, justify the invasion of Kansas by
Mlssourians, not intending to settle
there, but for the purpose of taking pos
session of the polls, and preventing the
bona fide settlers from recording at the
ballot-box their will d? In other words,
could the ''hasty colonization" of Anti
Slavery people, through the means of
''capital," with view to permanent set
tlement, justify the armed interposition
and fraudulent voting of MiSsourians,
retaining their residence in Missouri, and
with no purpose of changing it?
But, it is not true that the emigration
societies of the East offered premium
to Anti-Slavery colonists, or transported
them free of cost. A plain statement of
the case will expose the gross misrepre
sentation and want of candor of this
Presidential Defence. The Kansas bill,
as We have said, was framed to suit Mr..
AtchisOn and the propaganda, who had
avowed their purpose to plant slavery in
the Territory. No sooner was it passed,
than his friends were instructed how and
where to locate their claims, and meas
ures were concocted to obtain by means
of temporary voters the control of the
polls. Conventions were held through
all the western counties of Missouri for
the purpose OF raising money to make
the scheme effectual. The Slavery
party had many advantages. Missouri
bordered on Kansas, and shut it off from
the free States. The western counties
contained large slave population. The
plans of the propaganda had been ma
tured. They had, in the Secretary of
War, who could dispose of the troops on
the frontier, powerful friend at head
quarters, and in Senator Atchison at
Washington, an agent who would give
them the earliest and most important in
formation. Under ordinary circumstan-
ces, ordinary emigration from the free
States might have saved Kansas but
these extraordinary advantages of the
propaganda required to be met by extra
ordinary efforts on the part of their oppo-
nents. And will any candid man say,
that in view of the outrageous violation
of good faith towards the free States in
volved in the repeal of the Missouri
compromise, such efforts were not only
their right, but their duty? The emf
grafton societies were organized, not to
supersede, but to aid, voluntary emigra-
ton. They carefully collected and cir
culated information in relation to the Ter
ritory, and the best routes for reaching
it. They hired nobody to go; but, by
making economical arrangements with
railroad and steamboat companies, re-
duced the price of freight and passage
to the individual emigrant One of them
purchased town site, erected machin-
cry, and in this way invited immigration
No armed colonists were marched into
the Territory, to seize the polls, decide
the election, and then march away again
The whole object of the association was,
to secure rapid settlement of free Ia
borers and farmers in Kansas, bona ide
settlers, so that, taking their stand on
"the principle of the bill," they might
battle the propaganda, who cared nothing
| about its principle.
The societies, after all, operated to a
, limited extent, the larger amount of en-
igration from the free States being oI
individuals, going Gin of their own ac-
cord"
These proceedings, the President, in
!, MS DeleDcS, GLASSES VIII TIE dTI1eu III
reference by Missourians with the right;
of settlers, and the fraudulent voting o
Missouri residents; and he has the har.
dihood to insinuate that they are lille
gal," for he says, ''he has not, and ht
viii not, lend any eountenance to any
Illegal proceeding, whether it originals
, In Missouri or Massachusetts,, which ha:
, for It's object the defeat of the grea
, principle of allowing the inhabitants o
, Kansas to give an unbiased and free
! judgment upon the question whether
slavery shall r.shall not exist in tht
Territory"
: That partisan newspapers, whose voca
ton il is to make the worse appear thu
E better reason, and confound all distinc
$ lions of right and wrong. should attemp
: to excuse an enormous injustice, BY Ii
, belling Its victims, is to be expected ; bu