Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-12-28
KANSAS MATTERS.


The present precarous aspect of affairs il
} Kansas and the gloomy and forbidding pros
poets of the free people of that Territory
challenge the serious consideration of all per
sons who have the least interest in the wei
fare of their country, or just appreciation
of the rights and privileges vouchsafed tc
them by the institutions of our nation. Al
this time there is a conflict going on between
the free people of that Territory and an
armed irruption of desperadoes, very appro-
priately termed "border ruffians," who are
the employees of the slave-drivers, and who
prowl along the confines of Missouri, ready
! to do the bidding of their masters. Blood
has already been split, and from present in
dications, there is every prospect of our Wes-
tern borders being involved in all the hor-
rors of a civil war of the most desperate
character. This seems to be danger i'm
pending over that unfortunate section of
country that will be almost impossible for
human means to avert.
In viewing this deplorable state of affairs,
we are naturally led to enquire into the cause
thereof, and to ask who are responsible for
the consequences? We are bold to assert
that the present so-called Democratic party
are the authors and cherishers of all the
means that have produced these results, and
to them alone is to be ascribed the source
of this dire calamity. This proposition needs
no demonstration fact it will not admit
of it-as it is an undeniable fact, the truth
of which must naturally and necessarily find
its way home to the minds of all candid per-
sons, whatever may be their political creed
1t was the Democratic party that first rup-
tured the compromise between the North
and South, which had forever set at rest the
question of slavery extension beyond a GER
tain prescribed boundary, and out of this
rupture have grown all the chickering's, strifes,
and contentious that are at this time con-
vulsing our Western country Had tho
Missouri Compromise never been repealed,
but been permitted to remain on our statute
books as the law governing the admission of
Kansas into the Union, that Territory would
now have been quietly filling up with an
honest and enterprising population, who
could have followed their respective avoca-
tions in peace and happiness, undisturbed
by the aggressions of outlaws and the per-
secutions of slave-drivers. As it is, we see
the free citizens continually harrassed by the
of Missouri, and deprived of some
of their most sacred rights.
All this we could suffer with a greater de-
gree of resignation, did not our Chief Mag
istrate and his Administration wink at such
give aid and comfort to the par
ty thus guilty, and connive with them in at
the determination of the free party
Of Kansas. He removed from the Govern
orship of that Territory man who was emf
nently qualified for the station-a man of
clear head and patriotic heart-simply be
cause he discountenanced the unlawful acts
If the "Missouri mob" and refused to bow
o the behests of the Slave Propaganda,-I
md supplanted in his place the veriest dem
lgogue the world could produce. We refer
o WILSON SHANNON, and cannot here re-
rain from paying to him our humble tribute
If reproach. By his acts he has shown him
elf to be the very embodiment of political
and to possess heart fostering
With political corruption. He has become
stencil in the nostrils of the free people of
he North, and contemplate in the sight of
he South on account of his base servility.
lis race will soon be run, and he will sink
nto dull forgetfulness, to be remembered
'nly as the firm supporter of injustice and
bettor of wrong
But what is to be the end of this agitation
the consequences of the steps taken by the
wo parties in Kansas? These interrogato-
les are difficult ones to answer, and we will
ot make the attempt; but we will say that
We are really afraid sanguinary struggle is
Inevitable Indeed, the occurrence of such
n event seems almost positively certain ere
he present differences can be adjusted
lime alone, however, can develop the final
'sue, and meanwhile VIC hope and trust that
Il will yet come out right, and that Kansas
ill be numbered with the free States of the
Jnion.
The Death of the DOughfaces.
We think the condition of things at Wash
,ortOD iS birbIy nncOuraoinor tO tho friends