Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-03-22
From the Q. s. Journal.
Popular sovereignty

The Fourth OF March has past. The lons
to be remembered Congress ofcompacL Sreak
ers and constituent betrayers has dispersed
popular sovereignty" has worked very differ
emily in the case Of most OF its members, from
their own fond anlicipations, and ''the place
that have once known them will know them NJ
more forever" When the late Congress as
sembed, it found the country in peace anC
Qu elness the murmurs of sectional discorC
were husbed. Before it closed its first ses
sion, by the repeal of The Missouri compro
mise, and the throwing open to slavery all The
territories of the Union, it had destroyed all fu
lure confidence between the Free and Slave
States. and stirred up, through the masses o
The people of the Free tstes, a deep.seateC
and burning sense of the wrong done them
which, in the late elections, found some ven
on the heads of the traitor representatives. o
the North. This feeling will continue to agi
tate the Union until the territory be restored II
Freedom, which. by an Infamous fraud, ha
been exposed to the chances Of Slavery.
The insulting taunts Of the minions Of Dcu
ylas and the Administration 10 30 and 6gh
The "blsck plague now trying to spread isei
over the fair territory Of Kansas, after the.
themselves have invited 1t TO walk in on equa
terms with freedom, will not be forgotten.
Their sincerity will now be soon tested, by as
certaining if they are willing to support an.
measure for the protection of their own ban
ling, popular sovereignty and the preven
ton of citizens Of Missouri, pouring illegal Y,
ters into the Territory, for the purpose Of con
trolling and overawiug the bona ide squatters
The frauds committed in the election of Geners
Whitfield, the late delegate, are notorious
and also the preparations now making by III.
Atchison faction of pipe layers in Missouri, 1t
import enough votes TO control the character q
the Legislature to be elected on the 18Th Q
March, notwithstanding the efforts of Govern
or Reeder to protect the pulls. Yet not
whisper is raised against the outrage by th
Douglas popular sovereignty" organs in tn.
Free States,
Congress adjourned without looking into tn.
matter and while perhaps it was too much
expect from set of Representatives so uni
versally condemned. that they would retrac
their steps, and, in obedience to the clearly ex
pressed popular will, restore the Slavery pr,
hibition that had been repealed, honesty requil
ed that they should pass some law that wou
give popular sovereignty fair play in Kar
sas, and punish the residents OF Missouri who
BY Illegal voting, we're interfering with tb
rights of the bona dde squatters. Neither th'
President nor s. A. Douglass have shown an,
disposition TO move in the matter, on the con
trary it is we'll known that Gov. Reeder is dali
denounced in Missouri by the Atchison paper
as an abolitionist, because he protests agains
such interference and efforts are making t,
have him removed, simply because, like man,
an Ohio Nebraskaite, he was green enough /,
believe Douglas HEANT what he said, when h.
talked about POPULAR sovereignty.
The plan Of the pro-slaVery party is, evi