The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02

our present, by threats of murder, and, If
necessary, by murder itself, the emigra-
ton of meninto Kansas, who, it was tho't,
would be likely to exert an influence in
favor of making Kansas non-slayehold-
ing State.
If any man, whether editor or private
citizen, chooses to brand us as Freesoif in
our propensities because we denounee
the outrages of the Missourians upon the
rights of the inhabitants of Kansas, and
are in favor of permitting those inhabit-
ants to fix their own institutions for
themselves according to the provisions of
the Nebraska law and without obstruc-
ton orhindrance from any outside power,
we have only to say that he is a ealum-
niator. The late proceedings in Kansas
and Missouri are infinitely more to be
deplored by the South than the North
We all know tlata deep and terrible ex-
citement was created throughout the
North by the Missouri Compromise re-
peal, which gave to the people of Kansas
the nominal power of deciding by their
own votes whether they would have slav-
cry or not, and we all know too that there
has been from the date of the repeal, a
mighty array of strength in the north, re-
solved on never permitting Kansas to
come into the Union as slsveholding
State, no matter with what kind of con-
stitution she might apply. By a course
of fairness and moderation this peryerse
and wrong resolve on the part of the
North might possibly and even probably
be overcome, but we ask how it can fail
to be vastly and boundlessly strengthen
led and increased when the people of a
slaveholding State, in utter disregard of
the rights guaranteed to Kansas, avow-
edly control her elections by physical
force, decide in mob meetings who shall
and shall not be tolerated within It's bor-
ders, adopt measures for forcing a slave
constitution upon her whether her set
tiers are willing or not, and brandish the
murderous blade before the eyes of the
world as the instrument by which they
mean, in the event of resistance, to exc
cute their designs. If such proceedings
as have recently taken place shall be con-
tinued or repeated, and if, under such
circumstances, there shall be an applica-
ton within the next two or three years
for the coming of Kansas into the Union
with slave constitution, we ask whether
the men of the North, fanatics if you will,
: but nevertheless having majority in
Congress, will not have a strong pretext,
aye and perhaps something more than a
!pretext, for treating the proposed consti-
tuition as the result, not of legitimately
expressed opinion, but of fraud and vio-
lence, and for sternly refusing, even at the
risk of the most dreadful and possibly ia
tai agitations, to admit Kansas until she
shall at least have time and full opportu-
nifty ofuttering her will without suspicion
of having been swindled or frightened
out of her rights. We entertain a deep
and earnest and painful conviction that
the guilty seed just sown in Kansas and
Missouri will sooner or latter bear fruits
of bitterness and blood. We have moi
a doubt that the migratory rufians and
the accursed mobs of Missouri, warning
upon the rights of Kansas to self-govern-
ment, have done more injury to the cause
Fof republican institutions and the Union
than fifty times their number of good
patriotic citizens could repair in life
time.
As steadfast opponent of the repea
of the Nebraska law, we are especially
anxious to see that law fairly and honest
flY executed