The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-05-26
n9is.ouri ana Kansas

The Atchison fillibusters are not con-
tent with suppressing the freedom of
election in Kansas, but seem determined
also 10 crush ont the freedom of opinion
IN Missouri. They went far journey
last March, with music and horses, rum
jugs and bowie-kHises, cannon and car,
riaeses. rifles and reyolyers, in order to
browbeat. bully and intimidate the Kan
sas settlers, because these settlers did not
wish to have slavery established In their.
midst; and, after they came back again
to Missouri, like brigands from foray,
they commenced to break printing press
es, scatter type, condemn newspaper edi>-
tors to tar and feathers, and Danish
christian ministers from the town OF
Parkyille and countyof Platte. A news
paper called the Industrial Ls,Hsiadry.,
published in ParkYille, Missouri, dared
TO express the opinion that the settlers in
Kansas alone, had the right to regulate
the municipal affairs of that Territory
and, that the citizens of Missouri had no
right to interfere with them. 1t had
dared, also, to express the opinion that
the establishment of freedom in Kausss
would be of the highest possible benefit
to the State of Missouri The opinion,
that the squatters of Kansas are soyer-
eigns of Kansas, was coincident with the
pleasantly Fictitious theories advanced in
Congress by Stephen A. Douglas and
David Atchison, when they spoke in ia
vor of the abrogation of the Missouri
Compromise and, the opinion thata free
State alongside of Missouri. would add
to the wealth, enterprise, and industry of
the latter, was the result of sober ref1ee-
ton and careful observation. Neverthe-
less, the followers of Atchison and String
fellow would not tolerate such opinions |;
and, 50 the man who expressed them was
condemned to the rope and the press
through which ne expressed them was
condemned to the river. Death was de-
nounced against the. editor of the Lanain-
arg, and destruction was dealt out to the
Luminery itself. A bowling mob, Incl
ted to riot By American lawmakers,
rushed into a printing office, hungering
after the lives Of one or two of their fell
low citizens. and not finding blood to
spill, they split the type they found. Such
Idisgraceful outrages were never perpetra-
ted except by the brutal and abject ennis
saries of tyrants. In Europe, the gems
DIES armes of France, and Sbirri of Rome,
have several times wreaked the brutul
vengeance of their imperial employers,
against the great fountain of intelligence
and eivilization-the printing press; and
in our country the press has never been
assaulted, except where the dehumanizing
despo.ism of slavery swings its lash and
elanks its letters.
The invasion of Kansas, by an armed
mob of Missourians, and the destruction
of the Luneinary, by the same gang OF
ruffiaus, are the effects of the same cause,
namely, the abrogation of the Missouri
compact. The object was to make Kan
sasa slave State, and Atchison and String
fellow, despising the shallow, hypoeriti-
cal subterfuges by which their principals
have sought to conceal this, their real
purpose, have boldly acted out the secret
programme laid down for them. They
have trampled upon all the obligations Of
right, Justice, and law, and have auda-
ciously attacked both the right of fran
chise in Kansas and the right of discus
sion in Missouri. Anarchy and Atchison
ride rough-shod over both Kansas and
Missouri, and the United States Govern
ment is paralyzed and dumb.
The citizens of Kansas do not intend
1 to submit to any more such outrages from
pro-slavery Missourians. IF the General
Government does neteprotect them in the
due exercise of their rights, they willsee
| if some other power cannes be raised up
to defend their sacred privileges. Will
the men of Missouri, who dare to have
free opinions, and who dare also. to ex-
press them, submit to such outrages as
1 were committed at Parkville? Will the
Bentonites, who regard slavery as acurse
to their State, and who have dared to say
so thousand times, submit to be berefl
of their freedom of speech by such a fel-
low as Atehison? We do not believe it
The battle field of freedom for Kansas
will not, now. be confined to that Terri.
tory. The slavery propaganda havelight'
ed the flame in their own midst, and now
they viii not need to go far from home tc
meet those who will strive to make Kan
sas a free State. When Atchison mex
organizes his forces for foray into Kan
sas, he viii not only have wall Of frt
in front of him, but a stream of fire II
the rear.-Nass. Spy.