The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-28
Massachusetts Done For.

sets are closed. in consequence of reso
lnfions adopted at slayeholSiing meeting.
in Missouri, piedging to refuse 70 pstr,
chase any longer articles manufactured
in The former State, we trust the manu-
facturers viii remove to Kansas, and Ia
Dor az their calling here. 1t is hard that
ttco or three counties in Missouri should
close uP sllorsands of the largest manu-
featuring establishments of New Eng
land, and be instrumental in Withdrawing
millions Of capital from the country, and
all because some half dozen slave breed
crs In Missouri would net buy the shoes
for their "niggers" from Massachusetts,.
or few hundred yards Of their eoarsest
cotton and WOODEN fabrics, amounting in
the aggregate, possibly to the enormous
SIM OF one hundred dollars. Yet so i
Is. we suppose; Judging from the tone o.
the fire eating press Of AIssourt sehicA
is supposed 10 be7wel informed on the
Subject.
In view Of the mighty calamity about
TO fall oD the Bay State, and to.avert the
~gfM consequences to this glorious Union,
would it not be better that she reccde
from her position, take the retrogade step,
or like Capt. SCOTS coon. ''come right
down" and go to chasing "yaller boys"
who may chance to take up their resi-
dence under the shadow of that disgrace
frl representation of their early love for
freedom, the Bunker Hill monument p
The people of New England have no bu-
siness To be freemen they are not such
in fact, nothing but "serfs, paupers, Alb
elitionists, and negro-t thieves, . and ev-
cry mothers son of them, from ELI
THAYEE down to Frank Pierce, ought to
be tarred and feathered and-duckcd in
the Missouri. It's to be regretted that
the Missouri eannot be removed TO New
England, as they have no river there
sufficiently dirty to serve for ducking
purposes.
There is no use OF Massachusetts, hold.
ing out against the storm which she has
brought upon herself Why, up here in
Kansas, the other day, the Quasi-Legis-
lature, with all the dignity of donkeys,
passeda billrequiring that emigrants from
that God-forsaken region should take an
oath of allegiance to the Constitution and
laws of the United States, the fugitive
slave law and the, organic act of Kansas
Territory included and that they should
support the laws enacted by the Terrific
rial Legislature of Kansas, for which they
should pay fee of three dollars, else
they should be debarred from the elect
ise franchise. The people of all other
States, by paying a tax of one dollar.
without regard to the length Of time they
have remained or purpose to remain,
are 10 enjoy an equal privilege with them,
and that without the necessity Of tax
ing an oath.
Fhe descendants of the puritan fathers
may think that this IS partial legislation !;
but they forget that that Safe still holds
the bones of those rebels, John Hancock
and Samuel Adams, which Britain, ever
refused TO pardon! And that is not all
they actually adopted a law in Massachu
sets by which it is made criminal act
to ottesnpt to kidnap and remove into slay-
cry any of her population. Is any one
surprised after learning this fact that
Massachusetts, manufacturesare proscrib-
ed, that her citizens are converted into
aiiens. that they are looked upon with
disgust, and when solitary individual
can be taken without arms, and no i'm
mediate means of protection, his head Is
shaved, he is tarred and feathered, rode
upon s rail, sold at auction, and bid in by
a negro, and finally every artifice and
force of which devils are masters used to
compel him to expatriate himself from
his home and the country of his adop-
ton 2
Massachusetts, legislators, and people,
ne appeal to you in behalf of your man.
ufaetures, in behalf of. your prescribed
and oppressed sons in Kansas, in behalf
of universal freeaoH and the Union it
self, and more particularly on ascount of
the red-mouthed, tire-eating, negro drir-
ers on few plantations in Missouri
where it is presumed from three to five
slaves are employed-repeai your laws
in favor of personal liberty. declare that
10 man shall hold any office in your Slate
who isnot in favor ofsiavery: yea, more,
that he shall have actually caught his
man and sold him into perpetual bond
age. 1t will not be sufficient that he has
paid the expenses of claiming her Court
Heuses. or contributed his share in the
five dollar bribe so wisely given TO the
,lave commissioner-on condition he viii
return the person on arrest before him
into bondage.
Massachusetts, Fit was formerly proud
name to us. We loved to read her his
tory-to recall to mind the stirring events
enaeted-on hersoil-the sacrifices made
by her people, the treasure expended,
and the lives lost to secure our national
freedom; but We love her no more She
hascensummated the deed which hasen-i
shrouded her future history in a pail
more dense than Egyptian darkness =
She has. in violation of ell precedent,