Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-04-20
Missouri MOVemeRt--Kansas Or
&siniEad-AI6naH SunnLiad n.

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We are glad to see that the. people O
Missouri are beginning TO organize counte
movements 10 the Northern Abolition aiC
: societies, established TO throw an anti-slare
ry population into the territory of Kansas
We have before US the proceedings Of {
meeting at Lexington, Missouri. on the 10Th
at which the following resolutions were
adopted: 1ii 1a
ReSolVed, That The citizens Of this coun
ty will raise fund of sl0.o for the pur
pose of assisting actual settlers from the
slaveholding States in emigrating to Kan.
sas territory.
RssoIved, That VIM. Shields, John Car.
ton and Thomas Hinkie, be appointed q
committee TO take charge of the money
raised under this resolution, 10 be expended
by them as they may deem most expedi-
ent shA- e 9sisi9
A large portion of tho $4,000 was i'm.
medialely subscribed. This Is vigorous
beginning of good work. But the people
of Missouri should not be left TO struggle
unaided and alone. The interest Of every
slaveholding State is deeply involved in
this matter. The struggle is fer the es-
tablishment of. Slavery over a region of
country as large as the State of New York.
A great end is attained when sovereignty
with African slavery as an element Of its
political aud social existence, is broughrinto
being.
OF this organization we hare no doubt,
any more than we have of its object. A
slavery propagaudiss writes from the bor-
ders Of Kansas to the Chicago Democrat
as follows: saga 4T 2ro Ess61 4
We are having stormy times out here
about the Karsas election. We supposed
that the division Of the territories was 50
that the northern one should be free and
the southern one slave. Else, why were
they divided at SO early day when one
government would answer for both? We
expected the Abolitionists would trouble US
somewhat, but we had no fears as to the
final result as TO them. y es-s.--,t--
Lately we have heard that Gov. Reeder
is againat US under the advice of the ad-
ministration. Alarmed at bis defeat in the
free States, since the passage of the Ne
braska bill, it is supposed that Gen. Pierce
is trying to recover bis popularity in the
North BY excluding slavery from Kansas
And this has caused the greatest possible
excitement all through this region. We
haze secret lodges all Over the State vhere
ve raise men aud means, and thousands tOiI
be IN Kansas from this Stale before cleo
tion comes off.
We are very sanguine. You may ask,
can't slaves be taken to Kansas now Ger
tainly they can; but we want some law for
their protection after they get there, or we
shall loose them all.
But proofs not needed. There is an in
vasion Of Kansas by the Slave Power, and
they are using men and money to carry it
for their own ends. That any body might
have fOreseen, must have been the result
I'VE say anybody-for the cause is appa-
rent and of course she effect was certain.
Just look at facts and reflect.
When the Constitution was established,
the Slave Power said" Let US alonei do
so and the curse will die out" Freemen
heard this prayer and granted it-granted
it because it. was to ask for No more. A
purchase Of land was made from France
In less than Mirty years the Slave Power
OVned half thai land!
The free States were reused. This mus.
never be; we cannot submit to it." But
prayers again. and threats also; prayers in
which they said, let us be, make his line,
and we yiH never go beyond it; threats, if
it were not granted. tina. the Union would
be endangered. The free States yielded.
What followed?
Texas, grasped from freedom, and put
under the Slave Law; the Fugitive Slave
bills passed; the Free States made hunt
ing ground for slaves, and Freemen COM
PEELED. legally. to be the blOOd-hOunds.-
No prayers now threats only /" let US have
ali this or we will rend the Union," said the
Slave Power" "and after this we shall be
satisfied, and we pledge ourselves 10 be sat
isfed." Again the North yielded. Itcould
not resist entreaty or vas afraid to meet
bullying and buster. z
Now for the last steps Of The Slave Pow
er.,
Only Eve years after this last villainous
outrage, the Slave Power broke up the Mis-
souri, Compact made by our Fathers, and
now de6es popular sovereignty, law, homes
ty or Justice, in IFS endcavor to make Kan
sas Slave State. 1t breaks its written
word and mocks a: its solemn pledges. II
scatters covenants to the winds and makes
promises and oaths to bind or betray. It
uses prayers and entreaiy to get powerau
then employs power to corrupt and uEurp.
Sum up the action Of the Slave Power as
illustrated by its acts. ,5-s-- -.
"First prayers, then entreaties, then ar
gument, then bargaining, then corruption,
then fraud, then force.'' This tells the sto-
ry, without exaggeration or witboutscol
ing. Will the Slave Power stop then if
Kansas shall he made a Slave State9 CGN