The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-28

Suppression of slavery in ali parts of the
country.
s.. Resolved, That we regard as i'm
practicable and visionary all attempts to
get rid of slavery, either by fcrbidding
them importation of slaves, or By favor
ing the expectation of colored persons.
either BY starving out slavery or leaving
it to die out, by merely Withdrawing
from it our support. or by dissolution of
the Union-all which attempts, however
intended, We deem to bevir.ually evasive
of our great national duty to undo the
heavy burdens" and to ''break every
yoke"
4, Resolved. That there are at the
present time the highest Obligations rest
ing on the people of the free Stsns to
remove slavery, by moral political astion
as prescribed in the Constitution of the
United States.
s. Resolved, That the question wheth-
er the Constitution tolerateS slavery in
the United States, is, in other wosdS. the
question whether the liberties of the
country can, under the Constitution and
without a violent revolution, be pre-
served. d
s. Resolved. Thai the Constitutional
question, therefore, demands The speedy
and earnest attention of the friends of the
slave, of the friends of general liberty,
of the friends of republican institutions,
of the friends of peace.
Z. Resolved, That inasmuch as mon
exterminists,' - or free soilers, would, we
doubt not, exchange their present posi-
ton for that of direct and general aboli-
ion, if they understood that the Constl-
tuition warrants that measure and that
inasmuch as those aboli,ieniSts who now
qdvocate disunion, would also change
their position in like manner, If they un-
Ierstood the Constitution as we do; We
DO therefore earnestly and respectfully
invite both these classes TO examine, la
boriously and impartialiy, the whole
subject, and not to think their time un-
protitably spent in SO doing.
8. Resolved, That it becomes us all
to be jealous of those expositions of the
Constitution, in its bearings on slavery,
which have grown up and been de-
.veloped with the rise, growth and
increasing aggressions of the slavepow-
er.
9. Resolved, That if, when expound-
ing the Constitution, We bear in mind
that atthe time it was formed, (as well
as before and since, there was no legal
lied slavery in tue county 10 be recog-
nized or provided for, and all the States
except Massachusetts, at that tine slave
| hoiding States, though in all of them the
speedy extsi.c ion OF, slavery was-sx=
pcc5ed, so that we shall feel how utterly
groundless is the prevalent idea that tlie
forming of tie American Union was
attended by struggle and by compro-
misses between the north and TIE south on
the slavery question.
1G Resolved, That we lave right
to demand that the Constitution be ex-
pounded by the same rules of legal
Interpretation that by common consent
controltheexposition of all similar instru-
ments and all human laws-the same
rules that do control the exposition of tie
constitution itself when the interests of
slavery do not forbid it /!
H. Resolved, That we deeply feel and
heartily reiterate the appeals SO often ad-
dressedto the friends Of liberty, admon-
ishing them to '.act in concert. to present
an unbroken front, and not suffer them
selves to be divided when all the forces
of slavery are now combining TO crush
them ;" yet we feel still more deeply and
must urge still more strongly the abso-
lutte necessity of uniting in practical
enterprise-one that has not already been
tried and found impossible; one that we
do not feel well assured beforehand can
never be carried, or that, being carried,
would leave the slavery question subsian-
tally where it now is-the slave still in
his chaips, his friends discovered from
him, disabled, discouraged and power
less.
l2. Resolved, That whether there be
few or many of the friends of liberty
who unite on The true ground, the power
of the anti-slasery movement viii be
mainly and emphatically with them, and
they will pioneer the way for others who
Will come after them. Thus it was in
the Temperance cause. in which those
who stood almost alone IN advocating
radical measures, though decided as i'm
practicable, wereafterwards found to have
pointed out. the only practicable course.
IS. Resolved, That while We believe
IN moral suasion as persuading TO efficient
action, We also insist that without such
action it loses lis value.
IL Resolved, That in tie suppression
of crimes against society moral sIlasion
and political action must go hand IN
hand, and thai this truth {once spurned
from the temperance ranks, bHtafserward
welcomed, is destined 10 find similar
favor with the hosts OF freedom and to
achieve sill more glorious triurnpbs
Is. Resolved, That since the prevail
ing religion of country. or It's want Of
religion, decides Of necessity its political
ethics, and thus determines It's destiny,
we earnestly iup!ore the cooperation of
all christians and christian ministers in
our holy work of libersting the enslaved;
and we would remind the friends of lib
erty of the importance Of maintaining q
a consistent position in their ecclesiastical
as well as political relations.
Is. Whereas, The non-slavcholding
planters of the south deserve the sympa
Ihies of the aboiiticnists-andW Whereas.
tlsoae sympathies can. in. many eases, be
most efEectually extended through the
medium of commerce; therefore,
Resolved, That it IS desirable to man.
ifest our sympathies for such planters. BY
encouraging the culture of.free labor
productions in preference to those pro-.
duced BIZ the labor OF slayes.
IL. Resolved, That We regard the
German settlers of Texas and elsewhere
who are cultivasing the sod by their own
free labor as especially deserving our
appreciation, and the 800 bales of free
free cotton produced In Texas last year
as an indisputabIe argument In favor of