The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-29
Cverdone.

Overcome.
The self-styled Kansas Legislature has
done more for freedom in Kansas than all
the action of the Northern Aid Socie-
ties,' % of which they complain so often,
and were aboring with such zeal to crush
out. 1t is a fact. go where you will in
the Territory, the strongest pro-slavery
men are incensed at the unheardof leg
islation of the representatives of Missouri
in the Kansas Legislature. To sell the
right of suffrage for one dollar, whether
a resident of the Territory or otherwise
to impose a tax of one dollar upon ev-
cry resident, though he may not have a
dollar of property in the Territory-io
require persons Offering to vote to swear
to support the Constitution of the United
States, the fugitive slave and organic
law of the Territory-to infict the pen
atty ofdeoth for grand larceny-toabridge
the freedom of speech and the press,
and, fora mere matterof opinion, express
ed privately to friend, or written out in
a letter, or such an expression by another
passed from hand to hand, subjecting
the offender to two years. Imprisonment
in the peniteniiary at hard labor-and, to
cap the climax of their wickedness and
folly, to appoint every officer in the Ter
ritory, from Probate Judge and County
Commissioner, down to the most inferior
and irresponsible oficerin counties and
towns, and make their offcers-not cleo
tive in the future, but to continue for
SIX YEARS, and then to be re-appoint.
ed by the same body-seems too vile and
oppressive for those reared under the in
stitutions of the South 10 sanction.
Pro-slavery men spurn and spit upon
such laws. as they will upon their officers,
if they attempt to enforce their infamous
abortions. Every feeling of their nature
has been outraged. as well as those oil
anti-slavery men. and many of them will
90 as far towards resisting the laws as
the freesoilers.
We heard pro-slavery man of intel
ligence and position remark the other
day. in a public meeting of Free State
men, that he would like to know where
he was, and to what party he belonged.
He said he was ashamed of the pro-slav-
cry party, and could not and would not
act with them; the Free State Party was
not willing to receive him into full fell
lowship, and he could not think of fight
ing alone on his own hook, but he would
do SO before he would go back to the
party which had SO basely disgraced
itself.
1t has been amatter ofreproach against
the Pro-slavery Party that severaLof the
members of the Legislature were actual
residents of Missouri down to the period
of the organization of that body but
this reproach is not lessened when it is
remembered that that same body appoin-
ted officers to lord it over the people of
Kansas for the next six years. some of
whom were actually in possession of Off
ces in Missouri down to the day of their
appointment to offices in Kansas.
Free State men, who felt outraged at
the aggressions of the slave power, par
ticulsrly on account of the invasion on
the 3oth of March, by which the ballot
box was desecrated, were apprehensiye
that mild measures would be resorted to
by that body, and that our people would
be induced to submit quietly to their en-
actments, and. by SO doing. become un-
consciously enslaved; but instead of
pursuing a humane policy, they have
driven hundreds of their strongest sup
porters from their ranks, made enemies
the most bitter, and pacifed no one
That body of men, taken collectively and
individually, will pass down the stream
of time, subjects of loathing and oblo-
guy. Unworthy of notice, save as the
representatives of the slave power, they
will be mentioned as the Thirty-Nine
Tyrants of Kansas, and remembered in
history as the concentrated essence of
besotted ignorance. stupidity and folly.
While living they will be pointed at by
boys as worthy the Augean work for The
slavery propaganda which they under
took, and when dead viii ell dishonored
graves.
We hope the future historian of Kan
sas will record the end of these Tyrants
1t will form fit subject years hence to
refer children to. as conditions in life to
shun, as is now the case, with the thirty
tyrantS of Rome.
Pro-Slavery Congressman.
Gen. WHITFIELD, the pro-slavery can
didate for Congress. made speech-if
telling foolish, nonsensical anecdotes can
be dignifed with that name-to about
seventy persons all told, in this place on
the Esd inst. At least fifty of those
present were Free State men, who were
induced to be present from idle curiosi-