The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-09-06

of the citizens of Missouri, headed by Atchison
and Stringfellow, denounced the Northern emf
grants as "paupers and hirelings," because
they were sent west by the money of a society;
and so they held county meetings in Missouri,
and raised money and sent Missourians to Kan
sas to make Kansas slave Territory Were
these Missourians "hirelings too? And did
these two wrongs make one right?
Atchison and Stringfellow, with their Missouri
followers, overwhelmed the settlers in Kansas,
browbeat and bullied them, and took the Gov
eminent from their hands. Missouri votes
elected the present body of men, who insult
public intelligence and popular rights by sty-
ling themselves !" the Legislature of Kansas"
This body of men are helping themselves to fat
speculations by locating "the seat of Govern
ment," and getting town lots for their votes.
They are passing laws DISTINGUISHING all the
citizens of Kansas who do not believe Negro
Slavery to be Christian institution and a ma
tional blessing. They are proposing to punish
with Imprisonment the utterance of views in
consistent with their own. And they are try
ing to perpetuate their preposterous and ia
fernal tyranny by appointing for term of years
creatures OF their own, as commissioners, In
every county, to lay and collect taxes, and see
that the laws they are passing are faithfully
executed. Has this age anything to compare
with these acts of audacity?
The Free State men of Kansas have resolved
not to submit to this daring usurpation of a
nonresident oligarchy. They have called
convention of the people of Kansas, to meet in
September next, and frame q Constitution for
their government. This movement will be
supported by thousands in Kansas and it will
rally and bring to their aid the Northern States,
that have been for the time staggered and con-
fused by the untoward events in Kansas.
The next Congress will find then this issue
before them--a free State Constitution present
ed by one portion of the people of Kansas, and
the Pro-Slavery territorial laws of the present
fraudulent Legislature. The House of Repre-
sentatives of the next Congress will be largely
Free Soil or nti-Nebraska. The Pro-Slavery
law of the bogus Legislature will be rejected,
and without Congressional sanction they are
not valid-and the contest will then be on ac-
cepting the Constitution presented by the Free
State people, The Free State Constitution may
pass the House, but not the Senate. But the
effect will be as disastrous to Missouri and the
South. Kansas will be left to anarchy The
Slavery that is there will flee from it-perhaps
even the slave property of western Missouri
give way under the panic, and seek safety in
the cotton fields and sugar plantations of Texas.
| 1t has been the common opinion with thought
| less persons and thick-headed DULLES of the
West, that the Northern and Eastern men will
not fight Never was greater mistake. The
sons of New England and of the Middle States
do not like to fight. They would rather work
plough-build towns, railroads-make money,
aud raise families, than fight. But fight they
WILL if need be. Remember, the sons of New
! England shed the first blood in the American
Revolution; they were the last to furl their
| flags in that terrible struggle. They have never
disgraced their country by cowardice, and they
will not They are Americans, with spirit,
courage, endurance, and deep love of liberty,
to animate them. The Free State men in Kan
sas will fight before they will be disfranchised
and trampled on. Mark the word.
Here comes, then, the suicide of Slavery. The
outrages committed by Atchison and his fell
lows in the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise,
and by Stringfellow and his followers in sub
| jugating Kansas to nonresident rule, will
bring on collision, first in Congress, and then
az Kansas-and who shall tell the end?
Slavery will never sustain itself in a border
State by the sword. II may conquer in some
respects but it can never conquer peace
Never! neveri Once light the fires of internecine
war in defence of Slavery, and it Will perish
while you defend it. Shareholders will not stay
to meet the fight. Property is timid, and the
slaves will be sent to Texas, to be in "a safe
place" while the fight lasts and as soon as
the slaves are gone, it will be found that Mis-
souri, has nothing to fight about and the fight
will end "before it begins |"
Thus the Slavery propagandists, who repealed
the Missouri Compromise to make Kansas a
slave State, will make Missouri free; and in
endeavoring to expel abolition from Kansas,
they will fill both Kansas and Missouri with an
entire free white population more to the
two States than all the negroes in America.
Is not the Kansas outrage the suicide of Sla
very? Have not the people of Missouri, in
terested in the preservation of Slavery in the
State, brought themselves into desperate pre-
dicament by following the insane counsels OF
Atchison and Stringfellow?