Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-04-17
KANSAS BATTLE TO bic
FOUGHT THE "CONCORD RE
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lie must indeed be insensible to the signs of
the times who does not foresee that the Kansas
battle will have to be fought over again. The
Fanatics Of the North, who rest not day or
night, are preparing and organizing for the
purpose of keeping Kansas out of the Union,
should she present constitution permitting
slavery when her application for admission
shall be made.
No matter how honestly and fairly that con-
stitution shall be framed, no matter how free it
may be from fraud or suspicion of fraud they
are predetermined from the beginning to carry
out Freesoil principles and exclude Kansas, if
they can. Such constitution may have COM
manded the spontaneous suffrage of every
voter in Kansas, yet will it encounter the VIC.
lent opposition of these fanatics.
But in order to make such constitution
doubly odious to all the open and secret enc
mics Of the South, they are taking time by the
foreock. They affect to say that the Kansas
election, which resulted everywhere in the
triumphant success of the pro-slavery ticket,
was carried by nonresident Missonrians This
is asserted on the faith Of a single telegraphc
dispatch, which is as follows:
Several hundred returning emigrants from
Kansas have just entered our city. They were
preceded by the Westport and Independence
brass bands. Immediately following the bands
were about two hundred horsemen, IN regular
order; following these were one hundred and
hiiy wagons, carriages, &C."
We will not pause gravcly to show the folly
OF making so vague and meaningless dispatch
the basis of SO serious an assertion.
We shall neither assert nor deny that non
residents did vote in the Kansas elections.
They may or they may not have done SO. If
they had not voted, the results of the election
would still have been the same. There were
more, many more pro-slavery residents than
enough, to elect pro-slavery legislature. If
bad votes we're given, all of these bad votes
might be struck off, (none others could be-
and yet the same ticket would stand elected.
But our object is rather to reply to some re
marks on this subject, contained in late mum.
Der of the Concord Reporter, 18th of April
We were profoundly surprised to find in the
Reporter such language as this:
" 1t is the people Of Missouri, by a gross and
villainous fraud upon the sacred right of suf
frage, who have decided the question for the
people Of Kansas. 1t is, in our Judgment. one
Of the most bare-faced and daring frauds that
have been perpetrated against the great princi-
pie of popular sovereignty, from the foundation
Of our government down TO the present time.
And what does the slave interest expect to gain
by such an outrage upon the rights Of the
people of Kansas, and the people Of the free
States, who design to make that Territory their
future home? Do they expect that the North
will admit Kansas, or any other territory into
the Union in which slavery has been establish.
ed by such Ubiquitous and unprincipled means?
II it does, it deceives itself most egregiously
Upon this matter, it will find the free States
united to man. Kansas riH necer come into
thus URton Nth a constitution recognizing
sl1reyy.
Let US see what this "gross and villainous
fraud" charged to have been committed by
"the people Of Missouri" is.
The passage Of the Nebraska bill, with the
repeal Of the Missouri restriction, established
the constitutional principle, that the people Of
the Territory should determine for themselves
the question OF slavery. The Abolition fanatics
who fiercely fought the bill from its inception
up to the moment Of its passage, determined
that the constitutional principle embodied in it
should not be carried out. They resolved that
they would determine the slavery question for
the new Territory, instead Of permitting it TO
do so for itself. They Immediately set to work
to buy up all the Migrants, paupers and rascals,
they could find. The associations they formed
to efectuate their purposes were called Emf.
grant Aid Societies. They had their emissa-
rics wherever there was poverty and vice in all
New England. They bought up herds OF these
cattle. They equipped them and sent them of
under masters and directors, for the sole pur.
pose Of introducing freesoil fanaticism into
Kansas. These creatures, thus purchased, we're
pledged TO oppose slavery and shareholders,
and TO support Abolitionists and Abolition.
ism.
Was this what is called popular soyer.
eignty2" Was this the people Of Kansas the
settlers and residents Of Kansas, determining
for themselves the question Of slavery? Far
from it. Had the plan succeeded, the question
Of slavery in Kansas would, to all intcnts and
purposes, have been settled and determined by
the Abolition Societies Of New England.
The honest residents in Kansas saw, with
CONSERVATION and with shame, that the virgin
soil Of that lovely Territory was to be polluted
by the tread Of these hireling Migrants They
saw that men not intending TO reside among
them--mere strangers and sojourners-m
too, not fit TO enter the lowest bcer-houses, had
been sent, by Abolitonisis, 70 make for them
an Abolition Constitution in Kansas. The
people Of Arkansas and Of Missouri saw it.
They became alarmed, for they have a vast in.
terest in the proper settlement Of Kansas.
If under such provocation and pressure,
some Of the people of Missouri, whose property
at homo was endangered, and who had prop
eyty IN the soil Of Kansas, went over TO Kansas,
and voted in the elections, hey did right
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