Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-17
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have met mucn iaYor North ana OOulh, we
have received many evidences Of approval Of
them, and we have no doubt but that it is
type Of the feeling throughout the whole coun,
try We received yesterday letter from an
esteemed friend in Virgins, which, though not
written for publication, we take the liberty Of
giving to our readers The soundness and force
Of his views will commend themselves. 1t is
froMone Of the first statesmen Of the Old Do.
minion. Unhinching in his political affinites,
Jealous in the warmly contested canvass in his
State, doing good battle for our principles
everywhere, he has with that sagacity and pa
triotic vigilance which distinguished him in
our State and national councils for many years,
paused to look upon that portentous cloud
which hovcrs upon our western horizon he
sees, as all candid and honest thinking men
must see, that wherever the right or the wrong
may be, the present state Of things in the
Territory of Kansas is fraught with great diff
Guilty and danger TO our happy Union. And
can there be any doubt tchere-the right is? We
do not wish to tire our readers but let US an
swer this question in few words. First is it
not true thar the principle Of the Nebraska bill
secured to the two Territories the right to hare
slavery or not TO have it? Is il not true that
one Of the Territories, Nebraska, was believed,
for reasons not necessary to recapltulate here,
to be in all respects uusuited TO slavery? Is
it not true that Kansas, on the contrary, was
believed to be adapted to the establishment OF
slavery? Surely this cannot be denied Then
was it not reasonable to expect that the Terri
tory north should have a free State Governor,
and the Territory south, Kansas, slave State
Governor? And ifthe opposite policy was Pur
sued, as uuhappily it was, is it unnatural that
the result should have been what it is? If
such men as Bocock, Edmundson, Powell,
Meade, or any Of host of others We could
name from Virginia, or other slayeholding
States, had been appointed Governor of Kan
sas, think yos the inundation from New Eng.
land would have occurred? Or, did not that
doing so unnatural thing as to appoint a
free State Governor 10 Kaasas, a Stare Terri
tory, encourage the insoent and wild designs
ton from the Southern States 1t is no an
swer TO this question to say, Oh, but he is q
good, sound, national constitutional man
All are there no good, sound, national con
stitutiona men in the South that it should
have been thus Disseminated against, by the
appointment Of q Governor from . free State
to Territory contiguous to its OIcn States, and
congenial in climate, soil, and products to the
introduction Of as o,rn species Of laLor Nor
is il any answer to say, "why, we have given
you Governor in Nebraska; for the obvious
reason that slavery men will 90 there. God
Almighty has inhibited it. Well, now, here We
have the two Territories organized at the same
time, as far as the appointment Of their respec'
tive offices could organize them. How hap
pens it that Nebraska has held its elections for
developing its internal policy, months ago, and
the Governor Of Kansas has absolutely deferred
the elections in that Territory until this time
Surely this is the corst looking thing TO be
called fair and honest we have ever known
Nor is this oil. As far as our advices 90, and
we belieyewe have them from the most authentic
sources, all the "pro-slavery" men Of whom
at least, Governor Reeder spoke so disrespect
fully, are against his continuance in Office
Is II not reasonable, If all this was as fair
as ii is asserted TO be, that there would be
some evidence Of satisfaction upon the part Of
Of the southern emigration cannot possibly be
cutthroats and butchers And yet it would
seem so by the Governors speech at Easton,
and what is even stranger, IL would seem from
the same speech, that all the Emigrant Aid
Society people are really immaculate Or is
the anomaly presented to rs for the frst time
since the creation Of controversy, in which
one side has been all sorong, and the other side
oil right Governor Reeder must present us
better type Of humanity than the Emigrant
Aid Society people, and worse type Of hn-
mainly than our brethren Of Missouri, before
we will believe in such paradox.
We do not mean to claim entire exemption
from error or fault for tho Missouri emigrants
in this contest. Excitement often begets
rashness, and some Of them, though we have
yet to learn it, may have been 50. To err
is human. But we're ever a people so out
raged-so wrung BY wrongs from the very
moment of the appointments by the Presi-
dent, up to the present moment? A man is
allowed to kill a dog that be finds innocently,
Il may be, roaming among his sheep, and is not
expected 10 wait until mischief is done. And
who would suffer Joshua r. Giddings, Gerrit
Smith, Fred. Douglass, or any Of the noted in
cendiaries in the country, to hang about their
negro cabins--to flank the State Of Missouri
by this abolition population We say there
Is enough to inspire the deepest apprehension
for their institutions, liberties and even lives
While we counsel always, and will ever coun-
eel, order and ready submission to the laws
Of the country, yet we consider it a cruel OUT
rage upon the rights and expectations Of any
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