Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-09-08

.lsverv to be a Christian institution and a
national blessing. They are proposing to
,rnish with Imprisonment the utterance OF
lows inconsistent with their w And they
ore irving to perpetuate their preposterous and
;nfrrnal tyranny, by appointing tor a term Of
n,,x creatures of their own, as commissioner
= ovrrv county, to collect taxes, and see that
,ho laws they are passing are carefully execut-
~ ~ Has this age anything to compare with
acts in audacity!
~ The free state men of Kansas have resolved
,a+ to submit to this dangerous usurpation of
u y NON resident obligarchy. They have called
",nyeption of the people of Kansas, to meet
=, santember next, and frame a constitution
rr their government. This movement will be
nnnorted by thousand; in Kansas, and it will
.uHnr and bring to their aid the northern states
,Lat have been for the time staggered and
',nf,sed bv the untoward events in Kansas.
Tbe next Congress will find, then, this issue
,,f,re them-a free state constitution present
~ hv one portion Of the people of Kansas,
and rro-slayery territorial laws of the present
c.an5ulent legislature. The House of Repre-
,~ontatiycs of the next Congress will be largely
r.o,soiI or anti-Nebraska. The pro-slayery
Lws If the bogus legislature will be rejected,
and without congressional sanction they are not
~,Id and the contest will then be on accept
inc fine constitution presented by the free state
,s,nle This free state constitution may pass
ttbo Vousc. but not the senate. But the effect
nU Inc \ disastrous to Missouri and the South.
Kansas will be left to anarchy. The slavery
that is there will flee from it, and perhaps even
tho slave property of western Missouri give
nav mder the panic, and seek safety in the
cation fields and sugar plantations of Texas.
Ithasb been the common opinion with thought
los ncrsons and tlick-headed DULLES at the
West that the northern and eastern men
will not FIGHT. Never was a greater mis-
rake. The sons of New England and of
The middle states do not like to fight. They
vouII rather work, plough, build towns, rail
roadS make money and raise families, than
frbt, But fight they will, if need be. Re
mTenher the sons of New England shed the
first blood in the American Revolution, and
thew were the last to furl their flags in the
terrible struggle. They have never disgraced
their country by cowardice, and they will not.
They are Americans, with spirit, courage, en-
dprance and deep love of liberty to animate
them. The free state men in Kansas will fight
lrforr they will be disfranchised and trampled
mon Mark the word.
Here comes, then, the suicide of slavery
The outrageS committed by AtchisOn and his
fellows in the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise. and by Stringfellow and his followers in
,nl:uyatinr Kansas to nonresident rule, will
hrpr Oh a collision first in Congress and then
IN Eqasas-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 a peace
Never, never ! Once light the fires of in
tmernecinc war in defense of slavery, and it
will Perish while you defend it. Shareholders
will not stay to meet the fight. Property is
rnniI. and the slaves will be sent to Texas, to
he in a " safe state" while the fight lasts and
as soon as the slaves are gone it will be found
that Misrouri has nothing to fight about, and
thc fight will end d" before it begins"
Thus the slave propagandistS who repealed
the Missouri compromise to make Kansas a
laYe state will make Missouri free and in
cuicavoring to eXpel abolitionism from Kansas
they will find both Kansas and Missouri with
an entire free white pOpnlation-worth more
to the two states than all the ncgros in Ameri-
ca.
Is not the Kansas outrage the suicide of
slavery Have not the people Of Missouri,
Interested in the preservation of Slavery in the
state. brought themselves into a desperate pre-
dctamcnt by following the insane ~cOunselS Of
Atchison and Stringfcllow