The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-05-19

ton to this institution. This is encourag-
ing for its future restrictions by peaceable
opposition-is it not? 1 know well
enough what some of your nothern radi-
Gals say in reply, and that is We viii
dissolve the Union But you hav'ni
come to that yet; nor you won't at present
s.Now If l were an abolitionist, as lam
not, and lived in the North, as do not
l will tell you what l should do, as q
practical man, DESTROYS of doing some
thing in aid of my principles. / would
leave out such men as Seward and Sum
ner from the Senate, and | would send the
like of Tom Hyer and Yankee Sullivan
to fill their places; assuming, of course,
that those two renowned gentlemen are
right upon the slavery question. And
whenever such chaps as Mr.. Robert
Toombs, or Mr.. Henry Foote, or Mr.
JEFF. Davis rose and put chip on theiI
shoulders, on the niger question, | would
have these gentlemen deputed 10 refuse
the stump. and step up and knock it off
In word, wherever opposing candidate:
offered for my suffrage, to represent the
North in Congress, l would first look fol
fighting qualities. l would vote for nc
man who was not ready to be martyr te
his principles, within or without the code
of honor. When l could have sense and
intelligence with those qualities, l would
like the conjunction. But as between Mr.
Summer and Mr. Seward, who will no
fight, and Mr. Sullivan, and Mr.. Hyer,
who sciH, l should have no hesitation in
choosing the latter. In one word, viii
say, that l believe the only way in which
the North can offset the fighting power
of slavery, and so render Congress some.
thing like an equal ground of contestbe.
tween slavery and anti-slavery, is to send
down dozen or two of Members to out
bully the bullies, and, in my estimation,
the best men that could be sent, next te
the Hyers and Sullivans, would be the
old-fashioned Calvinistie deacons of youl
orthodox Churches. You have little oil
no chivalry of sentiment at the North
and your fighting men must be found
among the men who act from sense o
duty, and who, while they pray to God
keep their powder dry, and know how tc
explode it, On occasion.
"You think that all the talk in favor o
slavery in the South is real. You never
made greater mistake. Nobody know.
any better than the southern slavery pro
pagandar that slavery is nuisance and {
curse. But they feel that they can take
no steps to get rid Of it without making /;
bad matter worse, and SO they put the
best face On things they can. They know
well enough that the march of freedom
is onward in the world, and though it i;
always meeting with rebuffs, often having
great fights and being defeated, yet that
on the whole, every contest sets it ahead
in the main. They think they are doing
great things in getting Kansas, but | an
not sure but that if they succeed they
are not making a mistake. A large abo
lition party is going in there, which mus
make trouble even if it fails TO get the
ascendancy. They are already printing
free-soil papers, and they win keep OIL
printing them. And in this, and by pub.
lie and private discussion they will keep
the shareholders in hot water all the time,
so that the South may, after all, find they
have caught Tartar. But what was
going to say is, that the ultra-southerr
men would be ultra-northern if they were
the other side of Mason and Dixon's line
Wise, Foot. Toombs, Stephens, Soule,
and the whole race of such men, would
be rank abolitionists if they lived at the
North. 1t is just the cut of their jib
They are bold, radical, uncompromising,
and their natural impulses are all strongly
on the side of freedom. If they were
in the North, they would be in favor Of
freedom. In the South they are in favor
of it, but it is freedom more compre.
hensive than yours; for it includes the
claim to wallop the niggers and rule you
fellows who would interfere with them in
the enjoyment of this glorious privilege
Another thing l will tell you that per-
haps may surprise you. The only men
in the North whom the southern men Of
brains truly respect, are the stout and
manly opponents of slavery. They re-
gard all your patronizing and excusing
parsons, all your politicians who talk gin,
gerry in favor of the institution, and play
the doughface generally, as the meanesI
kind of sneaks. They know them to be
either stupid, .soulless or rotten. Having
more vivid apprehension of the Inn
mense evils of slavery, their scorn o.
voluntary apologists for it is inexpressibly
strong. Of course, they cannot utter il
in words often, but the feeling exists to q
wonderful extent. But the man who
boldly condemns slavery and openly OPP.
poses it, that man is respected for his
truth and honesty, however much wordy
hostility he may meet, or however much
brutal antagonism even,-he may en-.
counter.