Squatter sovereign., 1855-04-24
Spirit Of the NorsAern Press.

Z U tiiS DSsiEi4 Oi 0tlI It19c1o VIC pODiiSii
the following article from one ofthe leading
Journals IN the east. The advantages to
the South,5 of making Kansas Slave State
is appreciated there, and desperate are
the means resorted to. to thwart our pur-
poses. We are denounced as sDrunken
bfissourians, and it is broadly asserted,
that s'if Gen. Atchison can succeed IN es-
tablishing slavery in Kansas -sfdce pro-
perty IN .afssours ,ciU be secure" This
assertion is enough to open the eyes of all
who are In the least blinded. Let our
fair Territory get into the possession of the
Northern Fanatics, and where, we ask,
scould slave property be secures Not even
in South Carolina.
GEN. ATcHIsoS-than whom, no truer,
or brayer patriot, ever iyeG-is denounced
throughout the entire East. His defeat for
the United States Senate, in Missouri is
anxiousiy looked for by Eli Thayer s Cos.
forces. They seem to fear him, and are
anxiously waiting to have glorification
at his downfall. If Missouri fails to re-
turn him to the Senate, under the circum-
stances, doubly shamed should she be. In
that event Abolitionists will have just cause
for Growing. But to the article:
Kansas Territory.
The fate of that Territory hangs in
even balance. The Shareholders of Mis-
souri,, under the lead of Atchison, organized
a secret combination, by which the cleo
ton of Delegate to Congress was decided
in their favor. Emboldened by the success
of that proceeding, they are now preparing
to control the elections for the Legislature
in the spring. They are holding meetings,
making threatening speeches against CAB
olitionists,' and passing fierce resolutions
to intimidate emigration from the North.
Shareholders in Missouri intend again to
take possession OF the ballot-box in Kan
sas. Such is squatter sovereignty in prac-
tice.
In the first place it was attempted to
cheat the people with the old story that
slavery would not go there. So said the
supineless Everetf-so shareholders and
services. This failed, and the next dodge
to escape the Indignation of society, was to
purloin the credit of anti-slavery emigra-
tron, and proclaim that by it Kansas was
sure to become free State. See, said
they, how admirably popular sovereign
ty," though slandered, inures to freedom.
The next thing that walked them up to the
beauties of their doctrine, was the triumph
of drunken Missourians over the Kansas
ballot-box, with fearful danger that the
Territory will be finally lost to liberty
Such stupendous villainy as repealed or
supports the repeal Of the law of liberty in
that country, has rarely been equalled by
human depravity. o! the tears, the ago.
nies, the curses that will yet gather upon
their heads!
If Kansas is lost, nothing to human
views can be saved to liberty in all that
center of the continent. Slavery will be
secure in Missouri; it will seize all the ter
ritory west of Kansas and south of it; the
Indian tribes will be exterminated before
it; whatever ofrNebraska is worth ANYTHING
will probably be also lost, and hope for
Utah, New Mexico. and every portion of
Texas, will expire. BEFORE this power
liberty in California, now feeble, will also
speedily fall, and slavery sweep the whole
Pacific coast. All this, and whatever may
lie beyond, tu1ns upon Kansas as its pivot.
If liberty can make stand there, the
opposite of all this may be reasonably an
ticipated.
It is in the power of the free States to
carry emigration enough there to. control
the result, but we fear there is not force of
viii enough. The courage, if not the in
tegrity of freemen in Congress is impaired,
while the slave power and its minions,
North and South, are cheered with new
hope. Although our hope for freedom in
those Territories has been very slight with
out congressional prohibition, yet we earn
estly hope robust men will go there and
prosecute the struggle with unfinching en-
ergy. The example would greatly aid the
friends of liberty In Congress, and we be-
lieye success would in some way crown
their efIorts.-PortIand, Ne, Iqnirer.
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