Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-09-27
The Trouble and the Remedy.

/ The Democrat of last week had an articie Win
reference to Kansas and its affairs, that will bear
few words of comment. The points of the ar
4 ticle are about as follows:
The legislature of Kansas is composed of Mis-
/ souri, ruffains.
Their laws are an outrage and should be dis
regarded
/ Kansas will be free because its enemies are gi
ven over to blindness of mind.
President Pierce is not to blame because it is
| the business of Congress and not the President
| to interfere.
! We think we state fairly the points. The ge-
neral tenor of the article is that out of the blind
ness of mind of those who now rule Kansas,
some how or other is to come its freedom. Let
us examine this matter little.
short time since a convention of the Demo
cracy of this state assembled at the seat OF GO
vernment, and put forth the following among
other propositions, for the sanction of the people
of the state:
"Rosolred, That the democratic administrations
both state and NATIONAL, are entitled to the
confidence of the democracy for the FIDELITY
with which they have conducted our public at
fairs.
However true may the small dodge of the De-
mocrat that the President cannot interfere with
the laws of Kansas, it neither can or will be de-
MED by any person, that the national administra
ton is directly and Immediately responsible for
the present abominable and most unfortunate
condition of things in that territory. And in
fastening that responsibility on the administra-
ton we need not go as far back as the repeal OF
the Missouri compromise, which is the main cause
of the trouble, for it would have been possible,
even under that repeal, to have preserved the ter
ritory to freedom, But since that time and I'M
der that act, we are not aware of a single move
on the part of the administration which has not
tended to produce the present condition ofthings
with the ultimate purpose of fastening slavery
upon the territory and the future state. Reeder,
it will be recollected, made some show of opposi-
ton to the Eruption of these Missouri rutfains
and denied the legality of the mob Legislature.
This mob demanded the removal of Rceder,
and the President at once removed him and ap-
pointed Wilson Shannon in his stead. Shannon
had no sooner set his foot on Kansas soil than
he fastened to proclaim the legality ofthe legis-
lature declare the validity of its laws, and an
nouncod his intention of enforcing them and COM
pelling obedience to them, and moreover declared
in substance and effect, that Kansas ought to be
Stare state. And besides this conclusive evil
dence of the purposes of the administration, it is
notorious that all its sympathies are with Atch-
inson, Stringfellow, &c Our readers are not
entirely unacquaintcd with paper called the
Squatter Sovereign. This is Stringfellow's or
gan, and more dabolical sheet was never
squeezed to the light Mob, burn, and Destroy
its arguments toward Abolitionists, and it de-
nounces the Union and invokes its dissolution
and destruction. Yet this paper has floating at
its head: "In this paper published the ta,cs and
treaties of the United States, BY AUTHORITY"
We say it is impossible, in the history of Kan
thus far to find time or circumstance when
and in which the whole force of the administra-
ton has not been brought to bear TO sustain this
mob and ruffainism in Kansas. And now what
is the remedy proposed by the Democrat? tits
to have the people of Wisconsin resolve, " that
the National Administration is entitled to
our confidence o, most lame and impotent
conclusion! We are to check this wrong by en-
dorsing it. Pray tell us, some one, how this
blindness of mind is to work out freedom in Kan
sas, with corresponding blindness of mind and
hardness of heart in Wisconsin and all over the
country. Will Kansas be likely to be any bet
ter than Wisconsin, and after we endorse the adj
mnistration, how much nearer than now will it
be to freedoml 1t is really painful to see men
like the editor of the Democrat, who understand
the wrongs we suffer and the dangers which in
vove us, yet so far the slaves of party to lend
themselves to increase these wrongs and dangers.
We could not paint more graphically than has
the editor of the Democrat, the wrongs and dan
gers now involved in this Kansas matter. So
far then as our state election has any national
bearing, the question is distinctly whether these
wrongs and dangers shall be endorsed and per-
petuatcd repudatcd and overcome. The po-
siton of the Barstow democracy is clearly indi-
Gated by the resolution we have published. The
Republicans on the other hand offer the follow
ing to the people of the state:
Rcsolred, That the General Administration by
its trucking to the demands of slavery has for
teted all claims to the confidence and respect of
Freemen.
Can any but the most abject slaves of party
be brought to endorse the former resolution
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