The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
The Southern Sioa
I Meeting at Douglas.


Jas on the esd ult. We have our doubts
sbout any such meeting having been held /;
but whether it was or not, it shows the
feelings of very few individuals, who
attended the great Territorial Indigna-
non meeting" held in this city on the
-ffth Of January, and who saw the utter
failure Of the movers in that meeting.
Douglas is southern town, as its name
imports, and is designed as rival city
to Lawrence. If by any possibility the
proprietors of that enterprise could sue
eeed in crushing out the capital from our
city, brought here and being invested by
the Emigrant Aid Company, they might
then give an Importance to their town
site which otherwise itcan never attain to.
The following gentlemen, it appears,
were a committee to draft the preamble
and resolutions which follow:
Messrs. Geo. w. Clarke, Henry White,
Abel Thompson, Jos. Smith, T. F. Hat
ton. John Kincaid, P, Ellison, Bell Jones,
o. H. Brown, w. Alton, Truitt, ]. w.
Bryant, and Amos Whitley.
WHEREAS, We have the undoubted ev-
Iidence before our eyes of the existence of
a specializing company in Boston, Massa-
chusetts, who entertain designs of vast
schemes of speculations in lands, towns,
and mines, and to obtain possession of the
fairest and most valuable portions of Kan
sas Territory; and whereas. to enable this
company to carry out their schemes of
aggrandizement, they have been com
pelied to appeal to the reckless hnatieism
of that section of country; to the cupid
ity of the low and ignorant, immoral and
worthless population of Massachusetts
and are now engaged in nefarious efforts
to establish, in this free Anglo-Saxon
country, and enlightened century, the
odious institutiono of Anglo Saxon slavery,
by purchasing up and sending to our
shores ,chite men, who have sold them
selves and families to men of their own
color and race; and who ought, and
should be of right, only their equals
men too ignorant and degraded to en-
brace the prosperity of this Territory
too wicked and Infamous to be permitted
Eto dwell in respectable community; toe
| debased to mingle among our Uack slaves
too degenerate and cowardly to perpetu-
ate a race of freemen. And whereas,
these slaves of Lawrence, Phillips, Par.
ker & Co. have left the plantations oi
their masters near Lawrence City, and
have dispersed themselves throughout,
this Territory, plundering and depredat-
ing upon the claims and timber of the
good citizens; and whereas, the determ-
nation of the Boston specializing "Aid
Association and its kindred societies,
to make Kansas a sch1e slave State, in
despite of the sentiment of the age and
wishes of the people of this Territory, is
boldly ayowed through their press there
fore be it
/. Resolved, That in our opinion the
labor of white slaves is not adapted to
these latitudes; they are weakly, degen-
crate, and have not the constitution ol
blacks, who alone are capable of produc-
ing the staples of this country; that the
institution of schite slavery is a retrograde
in the history of the world, incompatible
to the genius of the American people,
and to the feelings of all white men, and
should not be tolerated or countenanced
by republican citizens.
2. That the doctrines of Garrison, Par
ker, Fanny Wright and Co., that the Bi-
bic IS a forgery, The constitution of the
| United States a humJstg, and this glori-
ous Union IS a partnership s0ith hell,
may be preached and sustained in Bos-
ton, but the people of Kansas are Chris
tians who venerate the Scriptures-loyal
citizens who respect the constitution, and
regard it as the noblest work of man
patriots, who are ready to contribute their
blood in defense of this Union, and to
repel the invasion of infdels and traitors.
8. That while we are a law-abiding
people, we are determined not to be over
run and crushed by the lawless usurpa-
tiens of the avalanche of serfs which
the Aid Society threatens to pour upon
this Territory during the next spring.
emigration. Power and justice are not
always with numbers. One free man is
equal to legion of slaves.
4. That the citizens of the South and
West, and good men, come whence they
may, are invited to make homes in this
beautiful country. To them our hearts
yearn and our hands open; to them we
pledge security in their slaves and other
property. We are able, and will, at all
times, hold this Territory free from the
blasting influences of white serfdom.
5. That Gen. James w. Whitfield, our
undaunted and energetic Delegate in Con-
gress, was triumphantly elected by an
overwhelming vote of the freemen of this
Territory, over the combined forces of the
Abolitionists and Freesoilers; and what
they have "once done they can do again. u
6. That our neighbers of Missouri
have been vilely slandered by the Aboli.
ton press, wherein they have asserted
that the recent election in this Territory
was controlled by the interference of citi
| zens of that neighboring State. Theil
ignominious defeat of the ''higher law .
disciples cannot be accounted for BY
shameless falsehood and effrontery. Theil
principles are too narrow, selfish, and shal
low to take deep root in our soil.
| Col. George Coyle objected to thai
part of the report where the words "white
slaves" were used. He was satisfied thai
all honorable and intelligent men through.
out this broad republic were aware of the
existence of such state of things; but
he was opposed to publishing to the world
| and to the monarchs and aristocrats-the
enemies of freedom in Europe in particu,
lar-these facts-they were too humili.
ating to America and Americans. He
indorsed the sentiments of the entire re-
port; and he would also say to MIR. Lum,
| of Lawrence, that he, too, was ready to
enlist for the war; - more than that, be
was no,c enlisted, and that the Lums and
Beems of Bosting can face the music .
now. if they calculate upon laurels.