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The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-04
Qualification of uot.rs

The following is copy of the bill, As
reported to the Quasi-Legislature, ss re-
CARDS the qualification of voters. 1t is 3
precious document:
Be it enacted, DC.
Sec. 1. That every free white male
above the age of 81 years. who shall pay
to the proper officer in Kansas Territory
the sum of s Il as q poll tax. and shall pIo-
duee to the judges of any election within
and for the Territory of Kansas, receipt
showing the payment of said poll tax,
shall be deemed a legal voter, and shall
be entitled to vote at any election in said
Territory during the year for which the
same shall have been paid. Provided.
That the right of suffrage shall be exer-
cised only by citizens of the United
States, and those who shall have declared
on oath their intention to become such,
and shall have taken an oath to support
the Constitution of the United States,
and the provisions of the act organizing
the Territory of Kansas.
See. 2. That the power making, con-
stituting or appointing judges of the eIec-
ton next to be held in the Territory of
Kansas, for the purpose of the election
of delegate to the U. S. Congress. st
the same time appoint collectors and reg
istors of polls. Their offices on the day
OF said election to be held at the various
places of voting in said Territory.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the reg
istor of the poll tax in the district, for
which he may have bsen appointed, to
make duplicate copies of his register,
Containing the names of all persons who
have exhibited the collectors receipt and
voted, J one Of which he shall transmit to
the Secretary of the Territory. and the
other shall be delivered to the collector
of said district.
Sec. A. The Secretary of the Territory
shall, upon the receipt of said duplicate,
roll or list from the registers of the sew
eral districts or places of voting, charge
to the several collectors the amount,
shown by the recorders return to have
been collected by them.
Sec. S. The provisions of this act so
far as they are applicable, shall extend TO
and have full ferce aud effect at the next
election for members of the Territorial
Legislature. This act to take effect from
and after its passage.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-04
a Word 20 Bow.

Who is respected It is the boy who
cosducts himself well, who is honest,
diligent and obedient in all things. 1t is
the boy who is making an effort continu-
ally to respect his father, and to obey
him whatever he may direct to be done.
1t is the boy who leaves no effort untried
to improve hiEself in knowledge and
wisdom every day. who is busy and &C.
tive in endsayoring to do good acts to-
wards others. Show me . boy who
obeys his parents, who is diligent, who
respects age, who always has friendly
disposition, and who applies himself dill
igently to get wisdom, and to do good to
others /; and, if be is not respected and
believed by everybody. then there is no
such thing As truth in this world. Re-
member this, boys, and you viii be re-
spscted by others, and grow up and be-
coma useful men.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-04
INDEPENDENT family Newspaper, euo onp e anIsfs Raras

nothing but the repeated attacks upon
me. and through me upon those for
whom act, would Justify such course.
While take to myself no praise for what
/ did in California, challenge the world
to scrutinize my acts in that State.
It is to be regretted that Mr.. ..M."
is laboring under so many delusions as
appears from his article: for so far from
desiring to persecute him, or from feeling
annoyed by histwo-fsced position, 1 never
dreamed of such . thing. 1t is part of
the programme Of the slave State party to
get up division on all occasions in the
free state party; and this is to be expect
ed, and the tools they have used, thus
far, are the editors of the Frea State, In
my opinion. Whether they are thus
used ignorantly or not do not say
It's well known that there are mea In
this vicinity who are at heart and from
principle slave State men, yet who profess
TO be free State men, and those men use
the Free State newspaper; and both it
and them, so far as my knowledge ex-
tends, have labored in season and out of
season, on all occasions to divide the Free
State party. AS to trying to buy them
of, it IS all news to me. I would not
thank them to stop their paper much less
pay them 10 do it, for if they did the
slave party would start another of the
same kihd. o, no, gentlemen, prefer
to have you continue where you are and
assure you that | have none of the malice
you seem to suppose | have. The rea-
son | said any thing at all about your
lying course with regard to the Emigrant
Aid Co., was to let people know how
reckless you were of truth. That
done my end is accomplished.
| don't expect to stop your abuse, nei-
Lher do | desire to. Knowing that pe
caniary responsibility on your part, is
put of the question, for any libel You may
oromulgate, l give you Carte Blanche
80 far as l am concerned, to fulfil your
MISSION IN your own way.
G. ROBINSON.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-04
eloise Poetry.
The rreeman's Home.
Er !. Q. WHITTIER.

Lani of the forest and the rock
OF dark-biue lake and mighty river
Of mountains rear'd aloft 10 mock
The storms career. the lightning's shock
Ny own green mountain land forever
Land of the beautiful and brave
The freemanis home, the martyrs grave
The nursery Of giant men,
Whose deeds have link'd with every glen,
And every hill, and every stream,
The romance of soIee warrior-dreaIn
Oh ! never may o son Of thine,
Whereer his wandering steps incline,
Forgetthe sky which bent above
Ills childhood ike dream of love
The stream beneathtite green Hill flowing,
The broad-arm'd tree above it growing.
The clear breeze through the foliage blowing:
Or hear, unmoyed, the taunt Of sceEn
Breathed DER the brave New England born;
Or mark The strangers jaguar hand
Disturb the ashes of Thy dead;
The buried glory of a land
Whose soil with noble deeds is red,
And sanetiied in every part
Nor feel resentment like a brand,
Enshea.hing from big fiery heart!
Oh greener hills may catch the sun
Beneath the glorious heaven of France;
And streams, rejoicing as they run
LILAC iilc- Uciicssu buc Jay -Deafu Sldu.cc
Nay wander where the orange -bough
With golden fruits bending low;
And there may bend brighter sky
Der green and classic Italy
And pillsrid fame and ancient grave,
The records Of another time,
And over shaft and architTave
The green luxuriant ivy climb;
And far towards the rising sun
The palm may shake its leaves On high,
Where flowers are opening, one by one,
Like stars upon the twilight sky;
And breezes soft as sighs of love
Above the broad banana stray,
And through the Brahmin's sacred grove
A thousand bright hued pinions play.
Yet unto thee, New England, still
Thy wandering sons shall stretch their arms
And thy rude chart of rock and hill
Seem deurer than the land Of palms;
The massy oak and mountain pine;
More welcome than the banyan's shade,
And every free, blue stream Of thine
Seem richer than the golden bed
OF oriental waves. which glow
And sparkle with the wealth belowI
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-04

- The northern smigrants for Kan
sss now travel throsgh Chicago. Galena,
and Burlington, and thence by land thro'
Iowa. crossing the Missouri river 1t At
Gibson. Cur two ferries are kept basily
employed crossing emigrants into the
TerritorY.-Sezastsr Soserv;ga.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-04

Secretary Marcy has written let
ter TO E. G. Deleyan, stating that he is
not aware Of any treaty stipulstions be-
tween the United States and Foreign
powers, which would be inconsistent with
any act of Congress. prohibiting the inn
portation of intoxicating liquors.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-04

H The Postmaster General has Is
sued an order forbidding postmasters to
loan newspapers which have been left IN
their Offices for delivery. It seems that
the leaning other peoples newspapers is
. vice practiced to great extent by
many posim.sters in tbs country.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-04

re- Minds capable Of the greatest
things can enjoy the trivial Is the ele.
phant's trunk can knock dswn lion or
pick up pin.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16
VICTORY OVER THE ABOLIT1ONIsTs.

The Kansas Pioneer, Pro,Slavery, published at
Kickapoo X. T., thus crows over the result Of the
special election at Fort Leavcnworth =
Again have the Squatter Sovereigns of Kansas
spoken at the ballot-box Again have they routed
the hireling tools of abolitionism, and declared in
favor of the South and Southern institutions.
Hide your heads,ye whining abolition domagogucs,
and never dare hereafter measure swords with the
stern and gallant s~quatters who have for the third
time ldeclared in unmistaken tones of thunder
thrt slavery must and shall be numbered among
the institutions of Kansas, and that no power on
earth can prevent it. Thank God! Kansas is
saved! Pro-Slavery men can now breath freely
The rampant isms Of the North can never gain 6
foot-hold on this fair soil.
Read and digest it, ye Yankees who live down
about sunrise. Clothe yourselves in sackcloth
and ashes, for it is thus the South asserts her su
premacy.
In another column the Pioneer boast that Sla
very had already been introduced into Nebraska
quietly but firmly, and the North will never be able
to dig it out. That Kansas and Nebraska will both
be slave State beyond doubt.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16

A HARD CASE.

Rev. John Rankin, of Riply, Browo county,
Ohio, Communicates to the Free Presbyterian, the
following particulars of a recent outrage, ~perpetra-
ted by Kentucky lac, upon a poor defenceless man
and for no other offence than that Of exhibiting
the ordinary care and affection Of n man towards
his wife and children. His wife and children
were slaves. The inhumol Kontuctians would
not permit them to e~migrate where they could en-
joy the family and home relation; and because the
husband and father sought q quiet residence near
his wife and family, be is sent to be enslaved,
worked and hogged in the pcniteniiary. Thus is
freedom and natural affection made n crime, by
State law, and punished rs such, that with impu
nifty, shareholders may continue their outrages,-
raising, buying, selling and otherwise treating
fathers, mothers and children as merchandise.
Mr.. Rankin says
In tho year 1850, Jefferson Ncsbet. a free man
of color, of Kentucky, came to Ripley to labor, in
order to get honey to buy his wife and children.
He labored nlne months in Ohio, and returned to
his home in Kentucky, to be near his wife and
children. A short time since, he was arrested for
coming into Kentucky from another State. Messrs.
John Thompson and William Baird, of Ripley and
vicinity, went over to Cynthianna, the place of
trial. By them he proved that he had no property
in Ohio, and had gained no residence. But it
availod nothing. He was sentenced eighteen
months to the penitentiary. The husband of the
woman who owned Ncsbet's family, employed two
lawyers, and did what could be done to rescue the
poor helpless victim from his prosecutors, but all
to no purpose. Nothing could deliver him from
the hands of the incarnute devils who tried and
sentenced him to the States prison. Nothing less
than incarnate devils could have formed and
adopted q constitution giving sanction to oppres-
sion so horrible. Under the constitution Of Ken
lucky, an innocent man, Of good character, is Sc 1t
eighteen months to the penitentiary for no other
offence than that of returning to his wife and
children, after an absence Of nine monthsl And
this is not merely the act of a few individual vii
lains; it is the act Of II State. Truly slavery turns
men into devils. And those clergymcn who ad-
vocatc slaveholding, are devils transformed into
angels of light. When the devil intends to prac-
tice the highest deception, and do the greatest
mischief, he transforms himself into an angel of
light, and acts through the body and soul of some
popular clergyman, us he did through the body Of
the serpent when he deceived the mother of our
race, and brought ruin upon an entire world.
JonN RASKIS.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16
BONNET AND DRESS TRIMMINGS,
pittsburgh matsr- Cure.

Drs. FREASE, heretofore Of the Sugar Craek =
Falls Water-Cure, have opened an Establishment :
on the Ohio River and o.. & p. Railroad. ton miles ,
west of Pittsburgh, at HAYSVILLE STATION
a place favored by nature and art for a Water-Cure
Institution.
Mrs. CELIA P. RIcKER FREAsE, q graduate OF tkss
New York Hydropathic Institute, and Of tbs
Eclectic Medical College Of Cincinnati. will have
charge of the Female Department, assisted By the
other Physicians.
TERMS-From Six to Ten Dollars per TFeek.
payable weekly in advance. Each patient should
bring three sheets, two wooden blankets, ak linen A.,
towels, and two comforts, or we will furnish them
for fifty cents per week. &C., -.
Address sitker Of the Physicians. Pittsburgh, Pa.
S. FREASE, NJ. ID.
II. FREASE, NJ. D. v .
G.. p. II. FREASE, NJ. D.
Nav II. 1853.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16

How ELECTIONS ARE Discussed IN KANsAs.-We
see it stated that StringfellIw, the pro slavery
apostle, a few days before the Kansas election, ad-
dressed a crowd at St. J~oseph's, Missouri, and laid
down the following programme Ct operations for
the election
II tell you to rark every scoundrcl among you
that is the least tainted with Free-Soilism or Abo.
litionism, and exterminate him. Neither give nor
take quarter from the ID ~rascals. | propose
to mark them in this house, and on the present oc-
casion, so you may crush them out. To those who
have qualms of conscience us to violating laws,
State or National, the time has come when such
impositions must be disregarded, as your rights
and property are in danger and | advise you, one
and all, to enter every election district in Kansas,
in defiance of Reeder and his vile myrmidons, and
vote at the point of the bowie-knife and revolver.
Neither give nor take quarter, as our cause demand
it. 1t is enough that the slaveholding interest
wills il, from which there is no appeal. What
right has Gov. Reeder to rule Missourians in Kan
sas, His proclamation and prescribed oath must
be repudiated. Iii your interest to do SO. Mind
that Slavery is established where II is NOT prohib-
lned,"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16
1n~terestins to the Gaoies!
J. & L. SCHILLING,

ARE now receiving their Second Stock Of SUM.
mer Goods, comprising u large and elegant stock VI
LADIES' THIN DRESS GOODS,
such as Plain and Barred Silk Tissues. Berages,
Berage Delaincs, Lawns, White Goods, &C., &c. I,
together with the most elegant stock Of Ladies'
French Worked Swiss
Collars, Lh3erSleeres, Chemiseftes d EmbroidoT~
ever offered also 400 YARDS more of that same
YARD WIDE BLACK SILK.
which has won for itself SO famous a reputation =.
together with n full stock Of Plain, Changcable-
Plaid and Brocade Dress Silks, of the htest sum-,
mer Style also, n general stock of Silk, Braid.
Straw, Pedal and Gimp BONNETS. just received
from the most fashionable New York Houses ,
together with a full supply of
BONNET AND DRESS TRInNTNGx,
Long and Short Mohair Mitts, Gloves, Hosiery
and u general stock Of NOTIONS. u
In addition to the above, we are in receipt Of the
largest and handsomest lot of Calicoes, Ginghamsr
BLEACuED AND BROWN MUSLlNS, :.
Fancy Shirtings, Vcstings, and Summer Panta-
loonery, ever offered, together with a full stock VI
Boots and ShoeJ, Glass and Qucensware, Carpets.
Wall and Window Paper, Groceries, &C., 10.
Thankful for past favors, we solicit an early ear,
well satisfied that we can please.
June 8, 1855. j.. l. SCHILL1NG,
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16

PRo-SLAvEEY CONVENTION IN MlssorEr-Th
Shareholders in Western Missouri are taking meas
ures to get up a State Convention for the purpose
of expressing their sentiments in regard to their
interests at this time. The 81. Louis Mteiiyenccr
tayors the project. BUTT desires that the Conven-
ton should be composed exclusively of shareholders,
1t says it will in that case "be conservative"
after a lifetime residence in the South remarks
the editor we can say this with truth. that zee
nerer get hnetc a mob composed Of Shareholders. Pub
lie outrages have been committed in the South
mubs have been raised--presscs destroyed
persons outraged and life taken, and all IN the name
Of .Siateyy, but we have never known an instance
in which shareholders themselves have been the
members Of the mob. The actors have always
been 'lcwd fellows of the bascr sort panderers
to position and wealth that they could meyer aspire
to-who thought that by thus acting they might
gain favor from Shareholders, men of wealth whom
they were willing TO serve AS masters. But we
have never known Shareholders who did not spurn
and despisc the trucking rowdics andlaw-breakGr
thus acting in their name
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16
PATRIARCHAL GRATITUDE.

We learn from the Boston correspondent of the
New York Evening Post, that the whole South has
contributed the magnificent sum Of ten dollars for
the benefit of Mrs. Bachelor, the widow of the
man who was killed one year ago, in aiding to save
the Union, and send Mr.. Burns back to slavery
from Boston. Virginia came with her quota, the
handsome sum of tpo dollars and fifty cents. They
are no 'picayune" chaps, those Virginia patriarchs.
They show their gratitude by giving whole dollars
all hut one, and he came up to the half of that
sum. The North increased this sum of S12,5 so, so
as to make it in all, SSl7,89.
The Posts correspondent says:
"Some people, habitual grumblers and fault
finders, complain of this, and actually accuse the
chivalry Of meanness. They are wrong and the
Chivalry, as usual are right. The latter show that
they know the exact value of men. which, however,
is not strange, seeing that they deal in them, white
rs we'll as black.
1.-THE South knows that the man who having
been educated in the love of freedom, will aid to
deprive another of so great q blessing, must be a
poor creature, and goes very high, extravagantly
SO, when he brings ten dollars. Besides, ten dol
lars is the exact sum that is allowed to the Com
missioner who sends a slave back to that Arcadia
which lies to the South of Mason and Dixon's line,
and it never would do to rate a truckLnan as high
as u lawyer-to place the dead Batchelder on the
same level with the living Loring, who may long
continue TO distinguish himself in the business Of
keeping the work of George Washington and Ben
iamin Franklin in good order. | trust that we
shall hear no more about the want OF generosity on
The part of Southern men. They have only adapt
cd means to ends, and rewarded acts according to
their worth"
NATIONAL CONVENTION OF CoLoREp AMERICANS,
"A National Convention Of the above character
has been called to assemble in Philapelphia on the
10th day of October next. Its object is the I'M
provement of the educational privileges and bust
ness relations and habits of the colored people, as
we'll as to devise means to secure the enjoyment OF
their social. legal, and political rights. The call II
signed by William j. Wilson, Stephen Smith ad
JOHN ". Lewis, a Committee appointed for :h'
rurpstc by the National Council.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16

An AFFECTING INCIDENTAL seaman of the
fleet before Sebastopol, whose family lives at Pol
perro, in this county, was ordered ON shore for the
purpose of assisting in burying the slain who fell
in n late attack of the Russians on the British bat
teries and almost the first person he met with on
landing was one of his brothers, of whose presence
in the fleet he was not before informed, and who
had been severely woundcdin the late engagement.
From him he learned that his two other brothers
were serving in the naval brigade on shore and
with him he remained until he saw him expire.
We then proceeded on the duty for which he had
landed, and soon discovered the bodies of his two
other brothers, who had been killed in the battle,
His feelings may be imagined MS he assisted in
laying these three brothers Of his own side by side
in one grave,-Co,nwaN Royal gazette.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16

To TIE HuNANE.-A NV IoRK FREEMAN IN \
New ORLEANS JAIL.-We have received a letter
brought by q private hand direct from n black man
named Francis Watson, q freeman Of this City, now
lying in jail in New Orleans, where he has been
incarcerated for nine months, and at the end of n
years imprisonment he will be sold as a slave I'M
less means be taken TO pay his Jail dues and liber-
ate him. The particulars as contained in his letter
are as follows 4:
He states lie went to New Orleans in the employ
Of a horse-traincr, and at the end of two moths he
discovered that his master was seeking to sell him
as a slave. IIereupon he left his employer, but
"haviug no pass or protection" he was thrown into
prison, and now in three months will be sold for
Jail dues, unless the humane come to his rescue.
lie refers 10y name to several persons in New York
who know him. Any sums left at THE TRIBUNE
Office for him will be duly forwarded to his ad'
dress.-N. y. Tribune.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16
DLooDHOUNps.

When 1t was 6rst announced that Cuban negro.
catching L,nodhounds were introduced into this
country duiing tie Seninoie, war t. trap tho red
men, the uaiicn shuddorci. The enemy was saw
age. It Is true; hut we claimed to lc civilized 80
Ii waa thought to be p sicp bach ward fUr q great
aud powerful nation % descend 70 such q means
even 20 hunt oct the people II Oscegla.
It is o question, which becomes the most hard
ened, comparatively, in ini1uity--a nation or an
individuaif The iudiyiduSl Las his moments Of
solitude and rslecuou; bat the nation once On the
downward slope appears 10 have neither brains
nor bowels. The Southern nation, tho negro.
driving race nppaags 10 be going to wreck and
RUN without n thrUb Of com punetiop. The blood
hound, emblem Of cowsrdiy distrust and brutal
eupidity, is now a household word Of the South.
Tic is as reguintly advertised ~ the animal man.
Shame is no longer felt in this regard.
As a speciLcn IF the manner in which this
brutal addendum to the Institution IL parallel IN
he face Of God and man. ,aho ,be following, from
he BVfiear Tenn pemoc3dt Of May 9:
& "BLOODIloUNDsil!.-Tho under.isnet
E5 has purchased the we'll known NEGRO DOGS
IGR- Of David Turner, formerly Ct this county, an,
offers his services TO tue citizens Of this md nd
joining counties, for tho purpose OF catching Run
away Negroes. All who have negroes in the wood
will please giyo Inc q call. | live three miles nortl
If Bolivar, On the jackson road.
JAMES SMITH.
"BJlisar. Tenn, Jan. 90, 1855"
Or take the following--a Mss. placard-(the
original we have which was posted up against the
Court House at Montgomery, Alabama:
"NOTICE.-Tle undersigned would respect.
fully inform the citizens OF Montgomery and sur.
rounding country that he is stationed one mile
from the Court.Ilousc, on the South Plank Road,
with the well-knowu Pack of Negro Dogs formerly
owned by u. W. Edwards, and will attend to all
calls that he may be favored with. Terms of hunt.
ing will lie reasonable. For Ketching Ten Dollars
# in or near the city, and charges in proportion 10
distance and troubles.
N. B.-All persons forbidden TO strife a Negro
With a stick or any wepcn while in my charge un.
less he misliSt, and then with caution unless there
is danger Of damage being done. Information by
any person Of Negroes lying about their primosis
will be attended to without charge if they are no,
their own, A, V. WORTHY.
May go, 1855
After this what shall We say Of the Know Moth.
ingism that il afraid of n handful of forcigers il
tn. South rs dangerous to Liberty, while it patriot
icHlly ignores the existence of Slayesy, with blood
hounds and burnings alive Of the victim ? Blu
these doughftced wretches shall be scourgcd by III,
lash Of public opinion to tier appropriate dens.--
1fi6uae.