Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1855-09-04

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Congress, converted into Free Soil.
The Free States had right to be in
dignant that lifelong Compromise had
been repealed -ond they had a right to
try to keep Kansas free as it had been
by peaceable colonization. They at.
tempted nothing else. But portion Of
the citizens OF Missouri, headed BY
Atchison and Stringfellow, denounced
the northern emigrants as "paupers an
hirelings," because they were sent west
by the money CT society; AMI SO they
held county meetings in Missouri and
raised money and sen, Missourians to
! Kansas to make Kansas slave terri.
tory Were these Mssourians shire.
Iings" too? And did these two wrongs
make one right a?
A,chison and SlrinsfslIow, with their
Missouri followers, overwhelmed the
settlers in Kansas, brow beat and buIli.'
cd theM, and took the government from
| their hands. Missouri votes elected the
presen, body of men, who insult public
intelligence and popular rights by s,yl.
ing themselves "the legislature Of Kan.
sas." This body Of men are helping
themselves to fat speculations by locat.
ing "lhe seat OF government" aud getting
town lots for their votes. They are pass.
ing laws disfranching all the citizens Of
Kansas who do not believe negro slavery
to be Christian institution and ma.
tocal blessing. They are proposing to
punish with Imprisonment The utterance
| n yIo ion o, ,t xth th Al n
And they are Try ing TO perpetuate their pre-.
posterous and Internal tyranny, by ap.
pointing for term Of gears creatures
Of their own, as Commissioners in every
county, 10 lay and collect tax, and see
that the laws they are passing arefaith.
ully executed. Has this age anything
10 compare with these acts in au latity :?
The Free State men OF Kansas have
resolved not to submit to this daring
usurpalion Of non resident oligarchy.
They have called Convention Of the
! people Of Kansas, to meet ia September
! next, and frame Constitution for their
government. This movement will be
supported by thousands in Kansas and
1t will rally and bring TO their aid the
! ANOttuciu StdtcS tudl udsC Ue1u iot tHO
time staggered and confused by the unto
ward events in Kansas.
); The next Congress will find, then,
this issue before them-a Free State
Constitution presented by one portion
Of the people Of Kansas. and the pro.
, slavery territorial laws oil the present
fraudulent Legislature. The House Of
Representatives OF the next Congress
will be largely Free Soil or Anli.Nebfas'
H ka. The pro slavery laws Of the bogus
, Legislature will be rejected, and with.
out Congressional sanction, they are
+ not valid-and the contest will then be
on accepting the Constitution presented
t by the Free State people. This Free
State Constitution may pass the House
. but not the Senate. But tie effect will
be as disastrous to Missouri and the
f South. Kansas will be left 10 anarchy
The Slavery that is there will fee from
it--and perhaps even The slave properly
Of Western Missouri give way unier the
panic, and seek safely in the cotton
fields and sugaf plantations Of Texas.
g 1t has been the common opinion with
thong htless persons and thick headed
bullies Of the West that the Northern
and Eastern men will not fight. Never
was greater mistake. The sons oil
New Eng and and Of the Middle States
do not like 10 fight. They would rather
, work-ploush--build towns, railfo ads
- make money, and raise families, than
, fight. But fight they will, if need be-
Remember, the sons Of New Eng and
shed the first blood ia the American
Revolution, and they were the last to
furl their flags in that terrible struggle.
They have never dissraced their county
by cowardice, and they will not They
are Americans with spirit, courage, en-.
durance, and deep love Of liberty, 10
animate them. The Free State men in
Kansas will fight before they will be
disfranchised aud :rampled on. Mark
word the.
Here comes, then, the suicide OF Sla.
very. The outrage committed by Atchi.
son and his fellows in the repeal Of thu
Missouri Compromise, and by String.
fellow and his followers in subjoating
Kansas to non resident rule, will bring
q collision first in Congress and then in
Kansas-and who shall tell the end ?
Slavery will never sustain itself in a
border State by the sword. 1t may
conquer in some respects but it can
never "conquer peace" Never, never
i Once light The fires Of internecine war
in defense Of Slavery, and it will perish
while you defend it. Shareholders will
not stay 10 meet the fight. Property is
timid, and the slaves will be sent to
Texas TO be in "sale place" while the
fight lasts and as soon as the slaves
are gone it will be found that Missouri
mas nothing to fight about, and the fight
r will end "before it begins.'
Thus the Slavery propagandists who
repealed the Missouri Compromise TO
make Kansas a Slave State, will make
Missouri free; and in endeavoring to
expei Abolitionism from Kansas. they
will find both Kansas and Missouri with
an entire free white population--worth
more 10 the two States than all the ne.
groes in America.