The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-05-19
For tie Hsrald ef Freedom,
The Contrast; or Ksnsas Free, VS..
Slave Safe.

4uS GCuI1dSL, Cf SuS45 d EISS, VS.. a
Slave Safe.
Let Kansas become a free State, and she
will shine brilliantly star of the first
magnitude amid the bright luminaries of
our Union; agriculture, manufactures,
and commerce, viii fourish-its coal,
iron, and other mineral beds, viii open
their expansive bosoms to its enterprising
inhabitants-the arts and sciences will
have many votaries people will be
distinguished for their industry, enter
prise, ingenuity, intelligence, and high
toned morality Manufactories, churches,
and fine school houses, will adorn its cit
les, villages and towns; it viii soon far
outstrip its pro-slavery neighbors, Mis-
souri, and Arkansas, in every department
OF noble enterprise, and its lands will be
worth double the value of their lands
but by bordering upon those States, it
will much enhance the value of their con-
tigiors lands, and afford for their products
the best market in the world. Kansas
would become, indeed the garden of
America, and the Empire State of the
Great West But let the dark tread of
slavery fasten upon its soil and its best,
its most industrious and valuable citizens,
like Lot would flee from the Sodom of
slavery to the Zoar of freedom, as such
have already done from slave States, and
numbers of such ones are here in the Ter
ritory, and are among the most decided,
consistent, uncomp.omising and noble
friends of freedom for Kansas They
have seen the monster slavery in all its
hideous and disgusting forms-they
know that the enslavement of the African
sinks the laboring white man nearly to
the level of the slave; that it disgraces all
honest labor, and encourages idleness,
profanity, intemperance, and every vice.
They know that Wesley rightly judged,
when he pronounced slavery to be ''the
sum of all viilainies."
How nobly such a course contrasts
witha small number of fcowafdly northern
dough faces who, like Esau, are ready to
sell their votes to the slave power for a.
mess of pottage; but as there was even a
Judas among Christ's twelve disciples,
SO we may expect Judases among those
who came from the noble free States
Look at free, educated Massachusetts,
with her numerous manufactures, rail-
roads, wealth, schools, COLLEGES, aad near
1ys all her population educated, and con-
trast her with North Carolina. What a
contrast in the wealth intelligence, and
prosperity of the two States! What
causes it? 1t is soon told-the one.is
free, the other a slave State. So with
New York and Virginia, Ohio and Mis-
souri, With these striking facts before
him, what northern man can be SO base
.as to use his vote and Influence for such
a horrid curse as slavery? The mark
of Cain should be fastened upon every
such wretch DiTeful and fell retribu-
ton viii sooner or later sink him into
shame and disgrace, and he becomes
companion of such would be assassins as
fiocked in here from Missouri at the late
election, and of such as lately destroyed
the Parkville Luminary for demonstrating
against the late election outrage in this
Territory. s,5
The average value of land IN Ohio is
about $40 per acre, while IN Missouri it
is net over SIS; buta few adults in Ohio
are unable to read and write, while ia
Missouri are vast multitudes. Look at
the enterprise and activity of Lawrence
and Topeka, whose citizens are from the
free States, and compare with them the
torpidity, sluggishHess and droneness of
pro-slavery Teeumseh and Douglas
The former are advancing with railroad
speed-the latter dras, along at snaifs
pace. G. b..