The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1855-06-23
Massachusetts to be Expelled from the
Federal Congress.

Flushed with its anticipated triumph
over Know Nothingism, and made inso-
lent by the success of the slaveholding
berderers of Missouri in suppressing at
the polls the free sentiment of the settlers
of Kansas, the Democracy Of Virginia,
the apostles and the wardens of human
bondage, have determined to expurgate
from the Federal Congress the liberty-lov-
ing spiritof Massachusetts,. This noble
State has given the South deepofenee, by
the recent act of its Legislature to pre-
serve inviolate the personal liberty of her
citizens. 1t is intended to prevent the re-
currence upon hersoilof such dishonoring
outrages upon Right and State dignity,
as that which shamed and wounded Mass
achusetts in the case of ANTHONY BURNS.
The mouth-piece of the Virginia slave
holders, the Richmond Enquirer, thus
stirs up the South to exclude the Repre-
sentatives and Senators of Massachusetts,
from the Federal Congress, on account
of her Personal Liberty Law.
"The sIaveholding States can no lon
ger, with safety, delay to act What
course shall they pursue? This is a
grave question, but i must be promptly
and resolutely met. 1.-THE act of Massa-
chusetts goes into effect, it will be the
duty of the South to resist the entrance
of the members of either branch of Con-
gress from that State into the Capitol un-
til it is expunged from her code book
The South remains in its bearing to the
North precisely where it stood when
Washington first entered upon his Presi-
Dental duties. 1t has never been guilty
of the slightest aggression on any one of
the so called free States. From this posi-
ton it must not swerve line.
"The metropolis of the Republic is 10
Gated within its limits. That metropolis
it must control, and expel therefrom the
Cloths and Vandals who are undermining
our great political edifce. No member
of either House who comes from State
which sets at defiance constitutional
provision, or a law palpably in conformi-
ty with that constitutional provision,
should be permitted to take his seat"
Neither Massachusetts, or any of heI
northern sister States, will eyade the is
sue thus offered. We are glad that it is
proffered by slavery to freedom. The
sooner this whole quarrel is brought to g
head, and presented for final decision tc
the people of the United States, the bet.
ter it will be for all the interests of the
Nation, political, commercial, industrial
and moral.
Two principles Of civilization struggle
for the mastery in this Union-the Aris.
tocratic and the Democratic. With the
first is allied the erroneous economy o.
slave labor. With the latter is the an.
tagonistic system of free and compensa-
ted industry. The Democratic principle
has the support of most of the popula
ton, most of the wealth, most of the In
telligence, most of the labor of the en-
tire nation. The Aristocratic is in mi
nority of numbers, is inferior in wealth,
inferior in intelligence, inferior in indus.
try, inferior in resources. Economically.
politically, intellectually, and morally,
the South is, taken as whole, weaker
than the North How can she then sue
IcessfuIly struggle for the mastery of the
Government, and the guidance of the Ma.
tionaI affairs Inevitably the North
must beat her in this contest-or else oul
doctrine of majority is false one. and
those laws of God are false; which give
wealth and strength to the industrious
and increase of numbers to free States
which slavery repels from tllesoil iteurs-
les. The struggle between the North
and South is inevitable. There IS nc
possible way of avoiding it, The soon
er It comes, and the sooner it Is decided,
the better for all parties, for all sections
and for all interests. Narrow the issue
land fetch it to trial !-Bgf. Democracy