The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-06-30

must be obvious that the existence Of the
Union can only be preserved, by the fna
triumph of the principle of non-interven,ion
the principle Of the constitution, embodied
in the Kansas. Nebraska bill, and now advo
Gated only by the democratic party. Were
this principle uncncumbered by embarrass
ing circumstances, and markedly and broadly
submitted to the American people, we should
/ have no fear of the result. The "divinC
right of selfgovernment would no more
be denied to tho people Of Kansas and Ne
braska than to the founders Of any other o
the states of this Union, or of any govern
ment ON the globe, let northern and south
ern fanaticism rave as it will. But now
mixed up with tho Kansas question is an
other most dangerous, most deplorable ant
unfortunate element. Fanaticism could moi
trust the people Of Kansas with the laying
Of the foundations of her own institutions
Its fell spirit must intervene. Northern fan
atheism gets up her Emigrant Aid Societies
and southern fanalicism her Secret slavery
extension and lanless mob outrage societies
| Amid the Juror and excitement produced by
/ this new collision Of the extremes, the great
danger is that the only principle of safety
will be forgotten and abandoned. tits man
ifest that if the South makes the late occur
rences in Kansas the basis of southern sen
| timent, and the north joins issue, and make:
them the basis Of northern sentiment, we
shall have precip;tated ppor. the country
| purely sectional contest, which may haster
hostile collision between the two sections
The first feeling of every truly national man
must be an earnest wish to see the Terrific
ry organized and prepared for admission as
State upon the principles of the Kansas
bill. But the principle Of that bill must be
obcycd to the letter The decision of the
people Of Kansas must be must be then
ogn decision, unawcd by either south
ern or northern rutiianism. The legal voters
of Kansas alone must decide The safe and
benign principle of the constitution must
be obeyed in substance and to the letter, or
northern and southern fanatitism will incvi-
tably sweep everything to ruin before it
The crisis is imminent and dreadful, anu
well may the true friends ofthc Union gaze
upon the raging political elements with awe
and trembling.
1t is because so deeply impressed with the
tremendous importance that the people OF
Kansas should be allowed to decide this
question alone and unembarrasscd and un-
awed, that we have so strongly deprecated
the least appearance, on the part Of the ad-
ministraton, Of yielding an inch TO the mob
spirit in Kansas, and that we have urged
that herpeoplc should be protected in the
purity Of the ballot box, even at the point of
the bayonet. This alone will save us from an
impending and iearfllly dangerous sectional
collision. If.Gov. Rceder has been unlaw-
fully specializing in Indian titles, so that his
removal is unavoidable, let it be done boldly
and promptly, but for that reason alone,
and let true constitutional, Nebraska
Union man take his place, but one that is
free from the faint as well Of southern ultra
ism as If northern abolitionisn. \ little
presidential decision and firmness, in pro-
tecting the true settlers of Kansas in their
rights, may yet save all, but let either
northern or southern fanaticism force de.
cision on either SIDE, and the Union, and
with it its only hope and egis, the demo-
cratic party, is hopelessly lost.