New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-13
KANSAS AND SLAVERY.
Co1espondenes Of To. n. 7. Trbuna

taken Kansas go easily, that they think il mar be
worth while to take Nebraska also. Tais re-
mark at least shows the drift. of opinion among
the Slavery propaganda as to their expectation of
making Kansas q slave State. They entertain no
doubt Of il. And why Simply bec,u., they
believe that they will be able to control the
legislation Of the Territory, and tina. the North
will back down in it's opposition to her admission
with slave Constitution. Hot aud impetuous,
the Southern men areyet foil efcool subtlety and
wise action. They carry their obje,ts at one
time BY boisterous threats, and q. another By the
gsnilest conduct. They are now as qqiet as the
occupants of doves nest. They have taken q
gigantic stride toward domination over the con-
tineht BY the Nebraska bill, and they can afford
to wait calmly and patiently the sub.idence Of
the Northern waters Of agitation. When the
time comes, as they expect 1t soon will on the
Kansas question, then they will vary the enter.
tainment by shaking the raw head and bloody
bones which they always flourish with 80 much
effect, and again commence the roar whi:h has
20 often frightened Northern men from their
proprety. Then, as of old, they expect to
see the Northern sheep in Congress again
scsmper We do not wish to be conside red
az believing in the Drag Of the propaganda,
We have scouted it too often to lie quietly un-
der such an imputation. But We have faith 10
works. And from these we infer there is immi
nent danger of Kansas becoming a slave State.
The Shareholders are resolu.ely at work. They
have elected their delegate to Congress; BY foul
mesns, it is true. But is anybody fool enough to
suppose they will stick on the means Of accom-
pshiDg Il cir object Has not the whole trans
action been foul from the start The passage of
the Kansas and Nebraska bill was an outrage on
the North, and on the forms of legislation-a
high handed act Of usurpation. The election Of
delegate was an outrage. We need expect moth
ing but series Of outrages to the end. The
election Of the Territorial Legislature is to be an
outrsge. 1t is appointed for March-long before
the Spring emigration can reach there. The
bowie knife MissOurians will elect the Legisla-
ture of Kansas as they elected its delegate. Does
anybody doubt it, Let the future be guided by
tn past. Who but the propaganda paid the ex-
penses of the bulies who invaded and carried the
late electionl Remember that the shareholders,
since the passage of the Nebraska bill. have not
been Dragging, but porking. And what is the
North doing to offset their action In whose
keeping Is the freedom of Kansas In the
hands Of its own people They are yet but
handful, and are overborne and outvoted by the
perpatetc lesions of the propaganda, who, like
Arabs, come and go in night. There is no suf-
ficient force on the ground to maintain itself
against these Cossacks Of civilization. And who
in the North is doing any thing Is the freedom
of Kansas in anybodys keeping there? If 1t is,
we have yet to learn whose. 1t is everybodys
business in the North to exclaim that Kansss
will be free. 1t is nobody's to do anything to.
ward making her so. When we point to facts 10
show what Slavery is doing. aud express our ap-
professions of the consequences, o, then we
are met with the declaration, "You must not
talk SO discouragDgly; you must believe Kan
.ssSs will be free State" Bat this Ia to cry
peace when there is no peace. Kansas Is to be q
slave State, unless the North arises and organ
ICES and does something to prevent it. We want
an Emgrant Society that has life and energy and
brains in it, God knows what the Worcester
organization has accomplished-we don't. 1t
promised well, and inspired the hopes Of the
friends Of Freedom at the beginning. But
whether it's mettle has failed, or its money given
out, or whether it has been directed from its
purpose, we do not know. 1t has certainly accom-.
plishtd little that can be yet be perceived. If has
laid the foundation for any thing in the future, we
shall r. joce to know even that But the North,
which has so much talk on public affairs reserves
its action for private concerns. Its actual con-
duet on all turning points In the Slavery question
has thus far been chiefly illustrated in backing out.
We trust it s not to be so in Kansas. But why
is it not to be expected Will anybody tell US
Hasn't the backing out always been done just at
the appropriate moment Of time Behold 1920
-le50-lS54. Behold Kansas in the clutches Of
the Philistines now. Is the North ready to act
even yet Kansas can still be saved to Free
dom if the prepOsterous, nal apropos Know
Nothingism Of the North does not come in to pre-
vent, and the opponents of the extension of
Slavery but exert themselves even little. An
efficient Society should be organized and money
raised to pour in a steady stream OF emigration
during the whole of next season. Kansas 10 TO-
day the Crimea Of Liberty, and, If 1t falls, no
man can tell when the tide Of invsdon will be
rolled back. 1t should be defended on its own
soil, and not be allowed to fall into the hands Of
the enemy, to await q tardy restoration which
may never come. Energetic measures should be
taken at once to fill Kansas with an early and
mighty emigration, to iutrench the hosts OF Anti
Slavery in the field. with determination never
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