The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-11

overfowing with eleguence say s.
"The Bible is. our rule of faith and
practice. don'teare p d-n, ] don't,
about the Declaration. Old jefferson
was an a5afitionisf or he never would have
promulgated such doctrines. Ifhe lived
IN our day we would make him smell
hemp, we would. The Bible gives us
the privilege to live in the same church,
to worship at the same altar, and 90 to
the same heaven with our black brethren
our niger property. / should have
said. We are commanded to recognize
them as good brothers and sisters ia the
Lord, and d-n me If don't do it,
| Christ commanded brethren TO love one
Eanother'; the whole volume Of inspiration
is replete with similar instruction; We
should not think ourselves one above an
other, but wash each others feet, as Christ
did, to show our own equality Wonder
| if that old infidel jefferson borrowed his
idea of equality from that incident q
have a good viii to turn in6del and burn
my Bible, but then itgives US the priyi-
lege of selling our dear brethren in Christ
to anybody who has money enough to
buy them, and that makes me love the
old book again. When our niggers 60
down south we give them letters of fel-
lewsbip, recommending them to our dear
brothers in the eotton-6eids and sugar
plantations, and the better Christians they
are the higher price they command. For
one thousand dollars. all in "yaller boys"
at that, we, good Christians, can afford
to sell enc another. 1t is no difference
| if the black rascals do cry, and take on a
little over the separation with their wives
und children; it is all hypocrisy on their
rart: they have not the same fine feel
ines we have, and viii soon get over it,
so we can bid them Christian farewell,
telling them to live holy and devout lives.
to love one another as property should ;
and though we meet them no more on
this earth, we would like to meet them in
that land of pure delight where we shall
all be one in Christ Jesus, as the Bible
says we should on earth. There, boys,
don't you see / understand the subject,
do; and don't you see that / could
preach as we'll as make Fourth of July
speeches; but dime, let's licker all
around. Tim it's your treat"
Tim declares that his pocket is empty,
that he treated few minutes ago. and
proposes that Dick liquors this time
A general call is made on Dick, who in
vites his friends to walk up to the bar.
A general rush is made for the whiskey
barrel. One says: Here's death to abo-
litioDists." Pete mounts the barrel,
and hurrahs at the top of his lungs, the
rest following suit. Bill determined to
take advantage of the occasion for the
purpose or influencing his neighbors, Of
fers the following:-
Resolved, That all are abolitionists
who live north of Mason and Dixon's
line, as are all who come from that re-
,gion.
The resolution is adopted by accla-
nation, amid loud and boisterous cheers.
The crowd get more noisy, cheer follows
on cheer; some, '.hurrah for hi; one
man declares, al am the best man that
ever lived, by God" In this way it
goes on until somebody gets to fightin g,
and then general row is got up, and eV-
cry body joins in and comes off victorious,
and nobody is hurt. A whole dozen
unite their purses for big "licker."
By this time the potriotism, with q
goodly number. has got rather weighty.
They can't lean up any longer under the
burden hence some seek the corners of
the fence, others tumble in the ditch, or
fall in the street. or anywhere else; and
in due time you may hear ''New York, !"
from several quarters, and ''were're not
Boston paupers' half. articulated from
others, and then if your stomach is strong
enough you can sec the great oaburst of
patriotism" of which the editor speeks,
"In the Infamous and polluted village
of Lawrence, the day was sadly desecra-
ted" says the Herald. Yes it uas sad
ly desecrated' by the utterance of no
profane oathssaye by one ortwo "P-s,"
who were there, and boisterous with rage
because they could get no whiskey.-l
The day was desecrated by being cele-
brated by fifteen hundred to two thous-
and ofgenteel ladies and gentlemen, the |
most orderly and well behaved l ever
saw, though l have lived twenty-six
years in Missouri. There are number
less towns in that State, as old as the
State itself, which now in the days of
their greatest glory never Witnessed such
a glorious declaration of freedom, and |
such happy collection of people as
was seen on the fourth day of July last in
Lawrence, town settled by eastern
.'paupers, according to the Herald, not
ten months previously.
But that toast which was offered by |
those paupers. They had the impu-
denee to assert that the Legislature was
elected by fraud. If the Herald denies
this statement of the "paupers' it must
be classed with those who always tell the
truth when they can find no lie to utter.
know the facts, Missourian as / am,
having seen them with my own eyes, and
there are thousands of Others who are |
also cognizant of the fraud perpetrated |
upon the ballot-box. the people OF Kan
sas. and the principles of popular sover-
eighty on the 30th to March last. /
the river the same time these
imported and fraudulent voters did and
their leaders offered to pay my ferryage
over if / was agoing to vote the P-s'
ticket. One of them told me that three
hundred of the citizens of his county
we're destined for Lawrence, and that y
hat would be sufficient for fifteen hun
lred votes. He further stated that he
Knew several Of his neighbors who had
Toted four and Eve times at the preyi-
,us election by changing their coats.
lats, DC, and using the names of their
leighbors who remained at home. I,
From what have observed, should
i've it as my opinion that there are plsn- +
y of those 'tserfs and paupers" spoken of
y the Herald, who are able TO buy him |
md ali he is worth and there was not II
me person IN the crowd on the fourth of I
Iuly IN Lawrence who had not more real
ense in one minute than he has or viii
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