The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1855-06-02
Kansas and the Frontier.


lance of accomplishing which cannot well
be estimated by the citizens of this
State, and more especially by the people
upon the frontier, is the introduction of
slave labor in the Territory of Kansas.
This is an object which every business
man, every owner of slave property, and
in short every free citizen of Missouri who
has given the subject serious thought and
reflection, desires, expects, and ought to
labor diligently to attain. What then is
the true policy for the frontier press, and
all the working influences in northwest
Missouri to pursue? Phatthis objectcan
be accomplished, and that, too, easily,
and without any fraud upon the true
province of squatter sovereignty, if the
right class of influences are brought to
bear, and the right men actively engaged
in the work, none can doubt. The enc
my has been, and still is on the alert, and
hard at work, establishing papers, ship
ping voters, emigrants, DC, opening of
fees, hiring agents, publishing books,
building towns, buying steamboats,, SUBJ
orning the pulpit, discounting Congress
sional corruption, and in short, spending
money in any way and every way where
a dollar can be used, to further the OBJ
ject of invading this Territory with
hordes of abolitionists.
All the wire-working springs and un-
derground machinery of the Iscariot al
lies of this abolition party, are kept in
the best repair, and are always in good
running order. And if fraud, corrup-
ton, triekery, stealing, and the Almighty
dollar will accomplish this hellish pur-
pose, then their chances Of success are in
the ascendant.
Our position and our power is well
known to the enemy, and has been for
months, but unfortunately we are as yet
but poorly informed of theirs. To hire
and fix spies in our camp, was one of
their first and most important points
This done they could work to much great
er advantage. inasmuch as they would
know better how to encourage the luke
warm and timid, as also how to stimulate
the bold and ambitious in this work of
abolitionizing Kansas. We, and all
friends of the '.News," for we are not
addressing our enemies, are living at a
point upon the frontier, where our vision
is daily blasted with sights, revealing
the result of the labors of these monied
conspirators.
But for ourselves we have no fears for
the result-whatever may be the present
state of affairs We know that work is
to be done on the frontier, and if there is
any way by which the pro-slavery party
can secure their ends, and that. too, fairly
and bonorably, we are confident they
will be effected.
The future glory and prosperity OF
Missouri, is all in all with her patriotic
citizens, and if in the end she finds that
to secure her own rights, to protect her
own interests, aud to extend the area OF
southern freedom and Southern rights,
she must rely upon her own unaided
arm; THEN SHE ALONE CAN DO IT. No
greater calamity could befall this frontier
than to have a niggcr-thieving ensign
waving upon her borders, and we are firm
in the belief that to avoid this catastrophe
all good and. true citizens in the State will
stand up and be heroes in the strife. Let
us then work-combine all our energies,
and take hold of the subject fearlessly and
energetically, determined to be united in
this work Of protecting our homes and
our property-the end we aim at, and
that we honestly intend to accomplish.
But in everything we are upon called
to do, let prudence and wisdom guide
and direct us. It's true that the opera
tons daily transporting under our eyes,
through the instrumentality of the bias
phemous Aid Associations, are enough
to destroy the virtue of the most forbear-
ing and conciliatory dispositions.-West
port, No., 1escs.