The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-14

tcOittt[neu IN tIsE NOUS Anu uecuS OF fio-
lance in the South and along the Kansas
border. We have gone even further, and
asserted that Il was not men born viii.
pro-slavery sentiments in the South. and
educated there, whowere SO ranting upon
the subject of slavery. but it was the rem
egades of the North who sacrificed eve
rything, honor, manliness, and all the
virtues which good men possess, that
they may gain position with shareholders.
The fire-ea:ing editors of the southern
press have been repestedly referred to as
traitors to freedom. In almost every In
stance which we can call 10 mind thev
are northern men, but have sold their
birth-right, Esau like, for mess of pot
tage. Southern men of intelligence OBJ
serve these things as others do; yet they
allow their positions to be compromised
daily, and their own characters to be
sadly tradueed by these, their professed
friends. The st. Louis Intelligencer, in
late number, spoke out very earnestly
upon the subject. Hear how a true
southern man can talk:
after a fe-time residence in the
south we can say this with truth, that ne
never yet knew a mob composed ofslaye-
holders. Public outrages have been COM
mi.ted In the south-mobs have been
raised-presses destroyed-persons out
ragged, and life taken, and all in the name
of slavery but We have never known an
instance in which shareholders themselves
hare been the members of a mob. The
ACTORS have always been 'lewd fellows of
the baser sort'-panderers to position
aud wealth they never aspire to-who
thought By thus acting they might gain
favor from Shareholders, men of wealth
whom they were willing to serve as mas.
tefs. But VIC have never known slave
holders who do not spurn and. despise
the trucking rowdies and law-breakers
thus acting in their name :, S
We believe there is more truth in that
statement than many of our eastern read
ers may be inclined to credit. OF The
whole gangof marauders who came down
upon Kansas on the 3oth of March last
lit seemed as if the Very spawn Of Mis-
souri, had burst upon US. There were a
few men of intelligence who appeared to
labor to restrain the mob, but the great
mass appeared to be bar-room loafers,
hangers on, adyentureFs, WHO saught
Kansas merely because of the probability
OF row being connected with it. Could
they have been induced to believe that
all would have been quiet they would
have remained at home, and not forever.
'lisgraced Missouri by their drunken or
gies praeticed in q neighborihg Terrific:
ry.
In furtherenee of our opinion that the
fault is with northern men giving the lie
to their professions, we may be allowed
to state single fact in relation to mem
ber in our Quasi-Legislature of Kansas
We found the noisiest, and the most de-
graded lick-spittle of southern masters in
that body to be a man, who, :i7t a year
and half ago, was the most ultra free
soiler of Ohio, and as such was proclaim
ing his principles in public aud private.
In Kansas he is now quite as valiant in
defence of slavery. A friend who knew
the recreant free -soiler while in the north,
in conversation with him ON the sub
iect, was informed that he disliked sla-
very as much as ever; but that he had
come to Kansas, his family was suffering
for the want of bread, and to relieve them
from distress he had accepted nomina-
ton on the partof pro-slavsry men to a
seat in the Legislature, and while he con-
tinued member of that body he should
not prove false to those who had placed
him in power The miserable seape-
grace, with his low. trucking spirit, for
got there was no necessity for his deseen-
ding so low In the scale of being. for the
sake of breading his family He should
have known that there is no crime so
great as that of betraying his manhood.
Mrs. Swisshelm. remarked lately in
her Family Journal, that there mas no
necessity fora woman TO sacrificeher yir-
tue al the shrine of necessity; so long as
there was q river in which the sufferer
could drown herself. or a loaded revol-
yer could be borrowed for half an hour.
We think the same in regard to man
hood.
We look upon no set of men with such
detestation, loathing and disgust, as upon
those panderers to power which We have
frequently Witnessed in the North. but
which has been exhibited to Ear greater
extent in Kansas than elsewhere.
Council City Banner.
Our friend P. o. CoSyER. a young
gentleman who has been engaged for the
past few months as compositor in this
Office, purposes commencing the publi-
cation of weekly newspaper. devoted
to free principles. and the interests of
Kansas in general, in Council City, ham
sas Territory, on the first of September
next. lie is a good workman, an ener.
getic man. writes well, and withal is a