Kansas weekly herald., 1855-06-01

invading horde of Kentuekians armed with
bowie knives and reviewers"
Look out, free States! You must meet the
issues as presented, face to face.
Ihere-what do the people of Illinois
thinks OF such tomfoolery-no to say, kna-
|very-as this Nothing has been done
IN Kansas 70 Change the relations of Mis-
#souu and Illinois. and where is the man in
the latter State, except the editor of the
Springfield Journal, who would hazard
such suggestions 1t is degrading and
insulting to the people of Illinois to be
told that they could be overawed by Ken.
tuckians and Missourians, in an election
because their opponents fou-ished "bowie
knives and revolvers." !" We have better
opinion of the people of Illinois than this
amounts to, and Buena Vista and every
battlefield of Mexico amply attests it,
There may be policy in undertaking. the
ehlValry and the courage of ulinoisans,
but we cannot see it.
Next, we have another phase of what
will soon be converted into a farce, if the
abolitionists 60 on as they have done for
some time past. The Chicago Tribune
has made rare discovery, and we give it
the heneft of its own words:
In all parts of Illinois the belief that the
New England emigrants will be swept out of
Kansas by the mob of armed men who have
sworn to plant slavery in the Territory, is so
strong that the Illinois Central Railroad is in
fuenced by it to send an agent to Kansas, for
the purpose inducing those emigrants to
move to the company's lands in this State -
That agent, prominent and influential citizen
Of Southern Illinois, left this city on Monday
evening last, and will proceed to Kansas with
out delay. This action is timely. Perhaps be-
fore he arrives with the company's liberal offer,
the infamous work will be done, and these set
tiers, who are guilty of no crime except of
loving liberty better than slavery, will have be-
come victims to the fury of the insensate rab-
bic by which they are pursued. Great Heavens
what next will slavery demand? What further
! sacrifices to its fell spirit will the North be
called upon to make? Here are handful Of
men, peaceful New Englauders, who go to
make the frontier wilderness the happy home
| OF man-to send up the sound of New England
| industry from the depths Of quiet valleys-te
found free schools-to make the hills and plains
vocal with the praise of our Great Father-to
lay the foundations of great State; no offence
proved upon them, none alleged they have in
terfe led with no mans property, have enticed
away no mans servants, have encroached on no
mans Territory but, with New England stead
mess, they refuse to worship the idol slavery
that their neighbors have set up. For this their
property must be sacrificed, their wives terri
fed and insulted, and they driven away and
| butchered in cold blood all under the eve, if
not with the tacit consent of the President, and
under the very shadow of our country's flag!-
/ The forbearance of the North will not endure
always.
| Illinois is free from the curse with which
Kansas is ridden; the day of Lovejoy riots and
murders has passed. Here, if the company sue
eeeds, the prosecuted may find home that is
| denied in the slave striken country and here
they may be helpers in the retribution that will
come upon him whose act is the foundation
from which those foundations flow.
Isn't all that beautiful 1t comes from
Chicago too-the city of mobs-where
DOUGLAS, the Senator from that State, who
Originated the great Central Railroad, and
carried the grants of land for that purpose
was refused hearing; where, since
then, men have been shot down, and the
city has been proclaimed under military
law for forty-eight hours and where citi-
zens of Missouri have been imprisoned
when IN search guaranteed TO them by the
constitution and the law. Kansas Is all
quiet noa1, but that does not suit the Aboli-
Itionists, and for this reason it is that new
appeals must be made, of the most frivo-
lous but unwarantab1e character, in order
to keep up the excitement. Certainly the
people of Illinois are not such fools as to
be deceived by the gassy language of the
Tribune or the Springfield Journal, in re-
gard to the danger to be apprehended by
qniet, peceably disposed citizens of Kan
sas, and we are content to let them abide
the result of events for year to come.
tssiid e. st. Louis Republican.