Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-11-01
THE Destiny of Kansas

Under the above caption, the Cleveland
ram Dealer furnishes a very interest
ing article showing most conclusively,
ahd' as we have argued from the first. that
hahsaS must be free State. Congress has
made no slave State free she has no author
ity to do so. Congress can neither mako nor
prevent slavery IN the Territories, because
she has no right or authority to act in the
premises.
The PEOPLE haze made slave States free
the people will prohibit slavery in most of
our Territories-for the very simple reason
that the majority of emigrants, from the
North or the South, are opposed to the pecu-
lar institution-some from principle, some
from policy. The Plain Dealers article
shows distinctly that this will hold true as
regards Kansas, and we consequently give it
without further comment
/ First-A large majority of the actual citizens
are free State men, as demonstrated by their re-
cent vote for Reeder. There is no mistake about
| that. Probably there are many more in favor
OF a free State than Were willing to identify
themselves in the Reeder revolution so that
even the vote for Reeder large as it is, is not a
fair test eff the Free State strength. In our
opinion, and from all the evidences we can get,
there three free State men to one slave State
and the disproportion is increasing all the time
by reason of the pro- slavery men leaving the
Territory, where they have become satisfied
their slave property is not safe. and the con-
slant accession from free and slave States OF
Free State men.
The freedom of Kansas is no longer prob
lem, but is a matter of fact much any fu-
; ture event. With such free State, made up o.
fighting freemen, located in rear and adjoining
} the senior slave States of Arkansas and Mis-
souri,, with the Benton party and papers, king
half the population and Press of Missouri, how
long can slavery last there when it is known
that by the U. S. Census of 40 and so slavery
from quite natural causes, was already on thu
= decrease
The second fact is this-that from an artcl,
in this.day's paper copied from a pro, slarerJ
q paper IN Kansas, 1T appears the Missourians ii
( frequent the Territory in lawless hordes, anS
do vote the pro slavery ticket by thousands il
volotion of all law and all decency. Comics
sion is the highest species of testimony, an'
when these pro-slavery papers, in the nteres
politically of Atchison and Stringfellow con
TESS it, we are left alternative but to beiiers
J, This fact shows that without the lawless aid O
C Missourians, slavery would be norhere in tina
| Territory. And what Is true oil Kansas Is tru
o of every other Territory outside of the presen
n slavery limits. Under the principles of tn
= Kansas Nebraska law. wherever the people ar
r left to regulate this matter without the intere
!, renee of Congress or border State, the sprea
Of slavery is impossible. This was the opinio
Of Everett, Cass, Douglas, and every candi
: man in the Senate, so expressed at the time G
o the passage of said law. Houston went fun
e ther, aud said cit was putting the knife to tn
rs throat Of the South" We have had every col
q fidence in the practical operation of this gres
principle, Notwithstanding the unlocked f.
outrageous interference of Missouri rufians j
, Kansas affairs: and from the first We have pr,
!, dicted just what we now with our own eyes Sc
n the inevitable freedom of that Territory.
IS matters not whether Whitfield or Reeder ge
D. seat in Congress so far this question is col
l. cerned. 1t will not change vote in Kans;
X against freedom, and so long as that vote r
w mains unchanged. so long viii Kansas RENAL
free.