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The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21
Fran tie IAt2waukie Sentinel.
LAWRENCE, Kansas Territory,
Nav %. 1855.

An intense excitement was produced
in the minds of few of our citizens-I.
need not say whom the day preceding
the election, by the arrival on the Emma
Harmon of five boxes of books, which, on
being opened, proved to be, instead of
books, one hundred of Sharp's Rifles, ca
pable of discharging 1000 shots per
minute. Threats and imprecations were
loud and long. eff not sent back imme-
diately, they would be thrown into the
Kansas - '.there would be an armed
force from Missouri here to take them y >
sit was the work of the Emigrant Aid
Society, for the purpose of overawing
and holding in subjeetion the Western
men," '.it was opposed to the Constitu-
ton of the United States; ;''-heaven save
the Constitution, If these men are its de-
tenders eff there were two or three
days before election, they would give us
occasion 10 use them" Such were their
feelings and expressions. Even Col.
Lane, the distinguished Ex-senator of
Indiana, who is now one of our citizens,
advised their being sent back. No; gem
tlemen, they never go back; and If they go
into the Kansas, We go with them, and we
don't go alone either. But why this in
tense excitement? Had it occurred in
Missouri, or in any other portion of the
country but Kansas, it would have occa-
stoned no remark, for in every place of
any pretended note is there military or
ganization of some kind, and they appear,
too, to be permitted even by the Consti-
tuition of the United Sta,es--aye, without
objection from the United States Com
missioners, under the Fugitive Slave Act,
to have and carry arms l IwilLtell you
the cause of the excitement. These arms
were donated, as l understand, by few
individuals East, tor the use of the mill
tary companies formed here Immediately
after the former election, and | am happy
to assure our Missouri friends and their
aiders and abettors hereabouts, that they
have absolutely nothing to fear from
them, unless used in self-defense. We
shall not march into Missouri and set
their slaves free, unless they make our
interests common by coming here to at
tend to their business, in which case We
must go to them to attend to oars. We
are no 'Abolitionists'' in the offensive
sense in which they use the term. We
are not "negro-stealers," and we ac-
knowledge the absolute constitutional
right of every State to manage its own
affairs in reference to this question, with
out let or hinderance from any other State
or power in the Union. We desire no
controversy with any State or people in
reference to it, only the CONTROVERSY of
enlightened reason and the claims of uui-
versal brotherhood but we claim the
right to resist the enforcement of its con-
ditions upon, or Its establishment among
us, by any foreign power.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21
Post Office Spies.

Underthis headthe New York Evening
Post-the organ of the ''Softs, .Pierce's
chosen pets-has long article, from
which We make the following extract:
cit strikes us that if the letters we
send to our friends by the public mails
are to be opened and read on the way by
agents of the government; the persons
who perform this delicate service ought
to be sworn agents. They ought to be
confirmed by the Senate, and placed un-
der some very strict obligation, at least
to reinclose all the money they find in
the letters they break open and read. 1t
is not unreasonable, we hope, in free
country, to require as much. as this.
"Iet we learn from disclosures made
in the recent preliminary examination of
Mr.. Kendall, the Postmaster of New Or
leans, that letters sent by the mails are
opened and read by persons in the en-
ployment and pay of the Administration,
whose appointment never comes before
the Senate, secret agents, spies, who
take liberties with our correspondence
which the laws make crime. By virtue
of their commission from the govern
ment they are allowed by the Postmas-
ters to ransack the contents of the mails,
to. select such of them as they see fit, and
dispose of them in the manner they think
proper; and all this they do without re-
sponsibility, without the public ever
knowing who they are or what they have
DONE"
Then the Post goes on to state that in
the recent trial of Kendall, the New Or
leans Postmaster, upon a charge of Off
ciai malfeasance, some of the testimony
which was introduced went to show that
it is the practice of the mail agents to vi
olate the sanctity of the sealsuPon letters
under, what they may choose to deem,
suspicious circumstances, and for what
they may choose to consider laudable
purpose-"the discovery of offenders
by breaking open and reading such
letters as they may think proper. Ii this
be so, we cannot imagine a more abom-
Unable abuse of power under a yirtuous
government. So extreme an outrage upon
private rights by public servants cannot
but awaken in every bosom the most in
dignant sensation. If private letters are
liable to be thus used, then we will 90 fol
abolishing IN toto system which was de-
signed, under the fostering care and pro-
lection of the government, to promote the
interests and convenience of all classes
of citizens, and trust to the fidelity and
efficiency ofexpress companies.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21
toKansaa---Losstoourc to City.

Emigration toKansas--Loss to our City.
We have lately conyersed with gen
tlcman from the East, who speaks with
authority, who says that since the recent
troubles in Kansas, along the Missouri
border, and the bitter hostility manifested
toward Eastern emigrants, arrangements
have been made by which the tide of set
tiers from the New England States, New
York and Pennsylvania, viii hereafter
pass through southern Iowa, and enter
the Territory in that direction.
This will be very serious loss to
our merchants, manufacturers, steamboat
men, and our people living along the
Missouri river. The profits arising from
the emigrant trade have been immense
to our city, and the policy of one portion
Of Missourians, who have thus driven
thousands Of dollars from our doors, has
been one of the most hurtful we can con-
ceire of. The money which has been
borne to our doors upon this tide of emf
grafton will now be diverted 10 enrich
the Northwest, and its cities of Chicago
and Burlington. We have always felt in
a measure secure against the rivalry of
our northern neighbors, as long as our
ports were open and our rivers free to the
thousands of the human family who year
ly seek the regions of the West, but We
confess now, since our Safe has been so
falsely represented and scandalized by
Atchison and his ruffian gang. that there
is danger in store for us. Settlers will
avoid the Missouri river when It's banks
hold set of men who are sworn foes to
emigration. They will avoid our city
where some of our journals and portion
of our inhabitants sympathize with and
encourage these lawless hordes, and it
becomes our merchants, our steamboat
men, and the enterprising of our whole
State, who can truly appreciate the value
Of Kansas trade and Kansas emigration,
and to whom It's loss will be iicalcula-
bic, to look about, lay the blame upon
the proper persons, and strive, by every
means in their power, TO rid themselves
of such deadly foes TO their best interests,
and the escutcheon of the State of such a
disgrace. As long as -Atchison and his
followers hold places of public trust or
power, and wieid their destructive infiu-
ences to betray the Union-breed civil
diseord, and offer insult and opposition
to emigration through our State, so long
will we suffer, not only the modification
of bad name, but such losses in all the
departments of trade, that have built us
up to great city, as will cripple and re-
tard our progress in the most serious
nlanner.-,G Lnnis Df1riorrGt.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21
Governor Reeder,


The President and Cabinet have been
"a long time in deciding what must be
done in reference to the Kansas difficult
ties; and they have finally concluded to
remove Reeder from his Office. The pre-
tense set up is, that he has been specu-
lating in land with the Indians. Reeder
received the information on his way to
Kansas Territory that he could not be
kept in his office, unless he could remove
the impression on the Presidents mind,
that he (Reeder1 was engaged in land
speculations with the Indians. Reeder
promised to reply when he reached Kan
SaS.
We have frequently alluded to the
Kansas outrage and the action of the
President in reference thereto, and we
frankly arew our.utter detestation for the
cowardly policy which he has pursued.
Gov. Reeder's speculations, whatever
they are, were known months ago; he
came on to. Washington to complain OF
the great outrage committed on the set
tiers of Kansas; instead of presenting the
charges against Reeder then, weeks and
even months are allowed to eiapse; no
military force is furnished Reeder to
maintain order, although the pro-slayery
papers ali proclaim that his return to
Kansas Territory win be the signal of
civil war, and as If to add insult to injury,
the President sends the Governor an in
timation of lis removal.
If We of the North were not race of
poltrooRs, one blaze of excited indigna-
ton would sweep over our land, which
would make this degenerate Yankee in
the White House shake in his very boots
An injury to our citizens of the North,
and an insult upon the top of it flung into
our face, and we take it.
Verify, If these outrages be submitted
to, we of the North have naught to do
but to select our masters. Our chains
are forged-our destiny fixed the black
demon of slavery has swept away the
hopes of noble men and virtuous womenl
Viii this insult be submitted to? We
believe not we think the times are indi-
eatiye of better things. The people. of
the North viii arouse, as one man, when
they learn that their own liberty is IN
danger. their own rights in jeopardy
That time has now come, and the South
must feel that there IS at last a North. -
0iire Branch.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21


By yWM. joss Old Pennsylvania
She now holds an exalted position In the
Confederacy; may she keep pace with
all her competitors in the race of honor
and virtue.
By john BANSIsG.-May the bitter
contentious on the slave question be done
away with, and may the majority of the
true citizens of Kansas rule.
By GEo. S. RAMSEY. The Sorere;qns
Of Kansas-May the constitution be their
guiding star, and may they adhere to the
principles of a Cass and Clay, and know
no North, no South, but the Union, one
and indiyisible.
By RAEDAL.--Pennsylpania-"Key
stone of the federal arch !" may her
honor and integrity give strength and
stability to the form of our glorious Con-
federaey-
By s. G. RIFFLE.-The EmgrGat As-
so olation Of Fayeae County, Pa.-May
they long be remembered as Kansas pio-
neers.
By SHrTs.-T The Ladies of Ron-
sas-May they live and bloom as the rose
of the valley
/ By S. G. RIFFLE-The Uashinqton
patriots Of .At Geiiundtoea. Fayeae Co.,
Pa.-May they be true to the noble prIn-
ciples that cost the blood of our llustri-
Gus ancestors.
By S. j. :AcKLIs.-1Ae Sd5Jath School
LnSt;tution-A bright and conspicuous
star in the constellation of moral reform,
giving and receiving light, sun that has
risen To IRA lia'e the moral world and to
set no more forever.
By S. j. AcKL1S.-We BiMe-The
home book of Heaven and the school book
of Earth.
By JoHNR. BowER.-7he Bible-May
its holy precepts be studied and remem-
bered, and its worth appreciated by us
all.
By JOSEPH ALLEN.-The Soldiers of
the Mezican Wor-May their names be
written in the temple of fame, side by
side with the soldiers of the Revolution.
By BENJAMIs J. NEwsoM.-44H prog
ress to the Uaioa-So long as she main
tains inviolate, religious feeedom and the
interests of the South; but otherwise,
-disunion and annihilation
By w. Y. RoBERFs.-O Our Country-
With constitution securing civil and re-
ligious freedom to every citizen, protect
ing the rights of all sections and the SOW
ereignty of the States; let it be strictly
construed and the Union maintained invi-
ola-e, and she can defy the world in arms
and laugh to scorn the spirit of faction
that would promote supposed sectional
interest at the expense of the rights of
others.
After the teasts had been read Rev.
VIM. Cardwell entertained the audience
with a few closing remarks in which he
urged the duty of respecting the feelings
of others, and at the same time govern
ing our conduct by the rigid rules of right
and concluded with benediction.
The company were honored by the
presence of a number of ladies who gave
life and animation to the celebration by
their smiles and pleasant countenances,
without the presence of which all socie-
ty would be insipid.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21
Virginia Radicalis,n.


The Richmond Post is the organ OF
the American" party in Virgins. We
tcopy from it few specimens of Virginia
Americanism, or American Virginianism,
whichever they may be:
''There is one thing, at any rate, that
the South will not tolerate. 1t win not
allow the Abolitionists of the North to
take possession of Kansas, by means of
the paupers, jail-birds, house-breaLers,
and Botany Bay candidates of every
descriptions. which they are sending
tl1ither by means of their emigration aid
societies. They. are determined that
New England shall not slough off the
sores that beset her body polite upon
that beautiful territory The Mercury
may talk as much as it pleases about
wilful blindness. The people of the
South are not blind to the continual in
roads which Abolitionism is making upon
their rights. 1t may ring the charges
upon the '.brutal abandonment of the
South, until the ear aches with the echo.
The South is not brutal enough to aban-
don Kansas to the tender mercies of Gree
ley, Garrison, and the AbolitioniSts.-
"a ggression !'' The expulsion of set
of scoundrels imported to abolitionize
Kansas. Riot l'' The force that was
necessary to lick the scoundrels back to
whence they came"
The acts which even the Missourians
begin to be ashamed of and to disavow,
this ''organ," it will be seen, commends
and approves.
1--WE can also dispense with Northern
sympathy, for we are well aware that it is
a mere hgment. The North never had
any sympathy for the South, nor for any
thing else but the almighty dollar Ii
it keeps within the bounds of the Union,
it is. not because it has any affection for
the South, but because it knows that the
South is its best customer. If the Union
is to be dissolved, the South viii have to
do it. 1t viii never be done by the
North. The Yankees viii sit down to
count the cost, and by the time they have
finished the sum, will calculate that it
costs tarna!ion sight too much money,
any way YOU can nix it." So we set
down all this vaporing for what it is
worth, and that is just nothing at ALL
When were the Northern States ever
known to have any generous sympathy,
for any portion of the Union, or any class
of people ? This very nigger-loring
mania is matter of speculation. They
hope, by keeping up the excitement, to
get a preponderating vote in Congress,
and thus hold all the power and all the
plumber in their own hands. If there
has been civil war, it is due to the emf
grant aid societies. If no more slave
States are to be admitted, then the. u mon
is at an end. That is all. H'e shall
have to dissolve it ourselves. Yankee
dom makes Too much money by it, ever
to undertake the job herself. But We
are not afraid of any such catastrophe
Tie SoRtA has the North in its Jreeches
pocket. IT MEANS To HAVE MORE SLAVE
STATES. IT WILL HAVE THEM, and the
Union will not be dissolved, either
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21
Select Poetry.
Move On.


The mnreheof life should never stay
All.things should onward tend
Nen should not clog Tsogression's way,
But strive to move and mend.
The waters nsoye in depths of ocean,
The streams along tbs dalcs,
And rivillets=with onward motion,
Throngh,sweet and verdant wales
Move on.
The clouds move gently thro' the sky,
The earth rolls ever on;
Time swiftly in It's course runs by,
And years pass one by one.
Men, too, should strive TO follow them,
In this their onward way,
Permitting naught the tide to stem,
But ever, day by day
Move on
kkn may be wiser, if they strive
More yirtnous, if they will;
and who, within this world, would thrive,
Must aim at higher still!
Let bigots stand by doctrines old,
The wise viii. pass them by:
Weak minds may cling with subtle hold,
But strong ones yaliantly
Move on!
Like waters rolling to the ocean,
Down mountains piled on high
Like clouds forever in commotion,
That move across the sky
Will we forever onward press,
Thus fetterless and free;
And. deering virtue, happiness;
our watehwerd ever b.
Move on!
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21
A New Phase of the Anti-Slavery
Movement

We have always said and believed,
says the Pittsburgh Dispatch, that there
was more serFility to the slave power
less manliness ofsentiment and utteranee
in the northern press on the subject of
slavery than in that of the slave States
themselves. In Kentucky and Tennes,
see there is noble independence on the
question. In st. Louis, Missouri, the
press is as free as that of New England,
and it will be seen by the following that
the whole question is being opened, up
and boldly argued both by the political
and the religious journals of that city
The article following Is from the ST. Louis
Democrat of June 22d:
The MoMENToUs QUESTION = The
Music MUsT BE FACED-Ofall the ques-
tons of the day, exercising influence
over the passions as we'll as over the pol
itics of men, that of slavery is the most
important and pervading. Its discus
sion has broken up the wing and old
democratic parties, and within the past
few days we have seen it lead the disrup-
ton of the Know Nothing Hindoo or
ganization. The spectacle is one of the
deepest interest to every patriot, and
should lead all to the consideration Of
some means by which this veroto ques-
iie shall be amicably, and permanently
settled, and placed out of the arena of
politics for until it is, all enduring or
CARNATIONS of parties are rendered i'm
possible. The north will quarrel with
the south, and the Middle States with the
Western. The country has experienced
too much of this already, and it is now be-
ing conceded on all sides that compro-
misses are exhausted, it has become the
solemn dusy OF every journalist, having
at heart the good of this Republic, to
use his best endeavors for the solution Of
this difficulty; to discuss its nature and
bearing temperaiely and mildly, in the
spirit of christians rather than politi-
Clans; as patriots rather than place or
power seekers !; to labor increasingly in
the good cause until the decisive result is
consummated. Ourself a sentinel on
the watch-tower of Democracy, we shall
discharge our portion of the duty consis-
tently, and with what measure of ability
it has pleased Providence to bestow on
us.
In proceeding to inquire into the va
rious causes which have conspired to
make slavery the all absorbing topic of
the day, the issue on which cabinets are
formed and Presidents elected, the stu
dent cannot but be forcibly impressed
with the fact that the compromises and
settlements devised by the greatest states
men of the day have hitherto failed of
their intended result; and an examina-
ton into the cause of this failure shows
couclusiyely the cause to be, that all the
compromises hitherto so made, have been
intended to meet present exigencies alone
instead of extirpating the evil and set
Ting the difficulty at once and forever
Thus it has been that as soon as one CON-
promise was effected, short luli in the
agitation of the slavery question ensued,
only to be succeeded by still more fierce
contention than that which preceded it.
Ii the north was satisfied with the Mis-
souri, Compromise, the south demanded
a fugitive slave law, and so adinfnitam
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21
Water.

shonld you ever be one of fainting band,
With your brow TO the sun and your feet to the
sand.
would wager the thing I'm most loathe tospare
That your baee anal chorus would never ring
there.
Traverse the desert, and then you can tell
What treasures exist in he cool deep we'll;
link in despair on the parched earth,
And then you may reckon what water is worth.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21
French medical journal has al

~ 4 French medical journal has an
article on the arsenic-eaters of Europe.
This poison, SO deadly in its effects when
taken in large doses, is eaten in minute
quantities by the peasants of Austria,
particularly females, to increase their
flesh, and gives roundness TO their limbs.
The practice of eating arsenic has also the
effect of rendering them more capable OF
phJ sical endurance, and also facilitates
respiration in mounting steep ascents.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21

RAIS IN THE SoUTH.-The louisiana
and Mississippi papers are congratulating
the people of those States on the heavy
and timely rains with which they have
recently been visited.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21

~A fool in high station is like a
man on the top of a monnment-eyery-
body appears small to him, and he ap-
pears small to everybody.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21

H scalded milk and allspice is an
excellent remedy for disrhea-so say
those who have tried it.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21

=
individual happiness and prosperity of
her citizens, and her glorious mission,
that of establishing and maintaing the
rights Of man, Mr. r.. could not look
with any degree of allowance upon the
dark spirit of faction and fanaticism that
would disturb the harmony of our sys-
tenn, sow the seeds of discord. invade the
sovereign rights Of individual States and
Territories, weaken the bonds Of the
Union, and, finally. dethrone the goddess
of liberty, and destroy forever the last
hope of mankind
Mr. R., in speaking of the prospects
|ofKansss, remarked that he felt his rights
in the Territory to be as dear as he had
held them to be in the State of his nativ-
ity; that he considered himself as COM
petent for seFf-goyernment here as he had
ever been in Pennsylvania; that he had
planted himself upon the great principle
of popular sovereignty, and upon that
rock lie wished to e.the institutions of
tie Territory established.
We, said Mr. r., the bona fde citizens
of Kansas, wish no law of Congress to
protect US from ourselves, nor do we
wish the assistance of citizens of any
other State or Territory, or the '.fatherly
care" of aid societies, or the force of re-
volvers or Sharp's rifles, to teach US the
principles or practice of self-goYernment
but let our rights be protected and the
purity of the ballot box maintained, and
the people of Kansas will establish Con
stitu:ion under which they will delight
to live, and they will prosper and grow
up, and very soon shall this bright par
ticular star" of the west loom out upon
our national banner, and take ahigh rank
among her confederated sisters.
Mr.. r., condemned most unequirocal-
ly the spiritof ultraism, and contended
that the truth was always found between
the two extremes, and concluded by
eulosy upon the constitution of our
country, and by enforcing the sacred du-
ty to maintain it in all its purity and in
all its parts, and to stand by the Union
as the last hope of our prosperity as an
Independent nation.
AT the conclusion of Mr. Roberts ad-
dress, the committee reported the follow
ing