Kansas weekly herald., 1855-04-06
VOLUME I---NUMBER 80.
FREE NEGRoEs.


The so-called al Free White State Party
which is properly niek-naIned the sWkite-
washed Party. among other principles in
its so-eailed platform, pfoclailns its oppose
ton, te the settlement Of free negroes IN
Kansas. -. -e&f,1-1
We need hardly say this is mere pre-.
tence, which no man can be So silly asso
credit. . =
It was this very principie in the constitq.
ton of Missouri which delayed her adipis-
sion into the Unioni TIE Zee soilers then
insisted that free negroes were citizens of
the United States. and enatisd to all tho
Privileges of sofheF citizens, that they had
the right to settle in any State IN the Enion,
and : that the clause. in the constitutions OF
Missouri which made it the duty Of the Lee
| gislature to pass laws "To prevent free ne
groes and ni1,at:oes from coming to and
setting IN the State, under any pretext
whatever, was violation OF the Constitu.
ton of the United States -. '.-'4a -,
Not until Mr.. Clay offered his amend
ment, and the Legislature of Missouri ac-
cepted it, declaring that nothing in the con-
stitution should exclude ssany citizen-of the
UnitedS.ates" ssfrom all privileges and i'm
munities to which such citizen is entitled un-
der the con>t tution,' could Missourie get
intethe Union. The free.soilers held that
"free negroes" We're ..citizens of the Uni
tedsStates,. and as such entitled to all spriu-
iteges disdinamRnities of other citizens."-
They are of the same opinion still! In
deed, they think negroes little. better
than white men! They are in favor of
| Keeping the poor white Dutchman or Irish.
man from coming among us and enjoying
the blessings Of our country, while they
help the meanest negro to run away from
his master, and then make a hero of him!
+ There is IN truth neither honesty nor con.
] sistency In their. professions. With their
we'll known love for the negro, they ought
not to exclude him.from the Territory; and
with their opinion ofhis rights as a. ssciti.
zen Of the United States they cannot doi..
On the other hand, the pro-s1avery par.
| t. believe the negro unfit to be free-re.
gard free negroes as nuisance, and deny
that they are 'scitizens." Hence they can
| and wall exclude them from settlement in
tlc Territory. They will neither tring
them into the Territory by stealing them
! come to the exclusion of good white men.
Hey nave uo iofe fOI -tnell, ana Will keep
them away.-[Squater Sovereign.
E2.eMs0lst'S Fortune.
The Washington correspondent Of fhs
IN. Y. Courier says of the Supreme Courts
decision.in Fremont's- -fayes: 49,.
The Court also confirmed the CLAIM, Ct Ct
Col. Fremont to the MeliPosa mining tract,
embracing about 376, 900 acres In the most
Iproductive mining region of CALIFORNIA;
The grant of this district was made to Col.
Fremont by the acting Mexican Military
: Governor, few months prior to the con-
teuest and occupation by forces offhe Uni
ted States. The grant has never been
held to possess validity, but that is ques-
tion definitely settled by the Judgment of
= the Court. Iffully carried into effect, it
would endow the grantee with more than
fabulous wealth, and make him the posses
sor of a fortune before which the treasures
of Cresus and the golden splendors of Dem
idof' must pale their Intellectual fires
Grants of the class confirmed in this case,
will probably absorb most of the valuable
!, public lands of California not embraced 10
the denomination of mission lands Ths
loss of property by the general government
in consequence of these two decisions must
; be reekoned by tens of millions.
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