Kansas weekly herald., 1855-03-16

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poor shift, to which the Aboliionistss are
driven, but the only one to cover tReirsfail.
ure. Another and sufficient answer to
all such charges is, that the judgesof the
election were appointed by the Governor,
who was an active friend Of Fienniken; they
received the votes and returned them with
out objection from any quarter In but one
district, and . m that the objection was with
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5. The truth is, large number of Missou-
rians who have a.claims" in the Territory,
and intend to reside there, were not there
on the day Of the election. But they will
be there in the spring. and will have a
right to vote; they will not. however, like
abOlitionists, return 50 soon as they vote,
but will remain, andH continue to. vote
Missourians have believed that, without
the Douglass bill. and certainly under the
great principle recognized by that bill, they
had the right to move to Kansas, and there
to exercise the privileges, which, as free.
pen, shey had before been accustomed to
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Abolitionists have proclaimed that their
purpose is not only to exclude slayehold.
ers from Kansas, but to use Kansas as
means for abolishlng Slavery in Mlssouri;
it in Arkansas and Texas. Were they to
succeed, it needs no prophet to foretell the
speedy dissolution of the Union. Missou.
rians have thus felt thar in their efforts to
defeat the designs of the Abolitionists, they
were not only defending their own homes,
but the Union itself. To protect their
homes, they have made their homes in
Kansas. II, then, it is intended by the
charge, to say that those who once lived in
Missouri, carried the election in Kansas,
there is some foundation for the Charge
While the people of Missouri are not .'law-
less invaders" many have moved into
Kansas mainly induced by the determina-
ton to adopt all lawful means to- protect
themselves from the invasion of Abolition
lists. Others are ready and determined, il
necessary, to abandon their homes and
move, at whatever cost of comfort or money.
We have a deeper interest at stake, and
are not less self-sacrifcing than the Abo-
litionists. In justice to the people of Mis-
souri, I will say (from an experience, as a
lawyer OF seventeen years, during ten oi
which was prosecuting attorney,) they
are as orderly, as moral, as submissive te
law as the people of any State in the Uni.
on. AT the same. time, composed as they
are of the most enterprising, energetic, il
not intellectual, of the old States, they are
as determined of purpose and as likely te
effect their purpose as any people in the
world When. then, say to you, that te
them this is not as it is to Abolitionists anc
even to our Southern friends at distance
a question OF theory or conscience, but 8
matter OF home, of bread, that they have
determined to- submit to any sacrifice
which they can as good citizens make
rather than suffer the Abolitionists to force
upon the people of Kansas system they
do not approve; you will readily see tina
it is not in the power Of Emigration Soci
eties to effect their purpose. There is nov
in the Territory majority of more thar
tour. to one In favor Of making Kansas ,
slayeholding State; that majority will,
emigration be left to itself. be increased;
emigration is to be forced again, it will b,
found that Missouri is nearer to Kansa
than Boston, a
believe / may assume that the specula
tors who SO freely advanced their none,
Tor the purpose of colonizing Kansas witt
Abolitionists, under pretenee of desire t
make it a ''free territory" but really +
, amass fortunes by laying out towns with tn,
. hirellngs sent out by them, have found thei
speculations so fat a failure that they vii
permit Kansas to be settled in the natura
way. s-,.+-e
If thus settled, it must become slave
holding State. 10 ....5 -..trz z.si7sr-,zs7a.}
i 1t is not adapted to the making of towns
IT is not suited for little farms; it cannot b
settled by those who have. not the commas
of labor. 80 ss..I e.isfa -, ssi a.
To the farmer who has no "help," bu
is dependent on his own unaided labor
Kansas IS, of all, the least desirable coun
try; it cannot be settled by such. .,..-.,
In the timber, the poor man can, wit
! his axe, erect his cabin. make his rails OF
the line of his fence, with his own hand
inclose his land, belt his trees, and with hi
one horse ,pIow break his ground, and pu
I 1t In cultivation. But in Kansas there
no such land for cultivation. Every foot Q
timber is needed for fuel and fencing =
! The timber is confined to, the banks of tn
: streams, on the bottoms and the breaks q
hills; hence timbered land isless fitted fo
Eeultiyation, while, onaecount of its scarcity
tits far too valuable for that purpose. Farm
must be made in the prairie. The farme
tmust have team to haul his rails, and i
!, most cases they must be hauled so far a
: to render fencing TOO costly for little fields
Large fields alone, by reducing the proper
ton OF fencing, can render lis cost reason
able. Dwellings must be. framed, an
, built either OF brick or of stone.s But, pei
: maps, the greatest OF ali the difficulties il
! the way of the poor man, is the first cost