The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1855-06-02
The Southern Press on the Kansas
Election.

The papers in the South have generally
shown their sense of the gross and un-
paralleled outrage committed by Atchi-
sons banditti, upon the rights of the peo-
tple of Kansas, by preserving silence
upon the subject. This course is au adj
mission of the wrong, and confession
that it is indefensible. There are, how
ever, many exceptions to this general
proposition. Many southern pro-slayery
papers have not hesitated to denounce In
unmcasured terms, the course taken by
Atchison and his ruffians. and some few
have had the hardihood to defend and
excuse it, among, these last the Republi-
can of this city stands prominent. The
editors of this paper, subs and al, being
northern men, and the senior having in
1855 advocated the abolition of slavery
in Missouri, in the columns of the Repub-
lican, now finds it necessary to take an
extreme course in order to wipe out the
remembrance of his former abolition
proelivities. The defense put forward
BY the Republican is denial of the fact
! that the Missourians went over into Kan
sas to vote at the election. This denial is
in the face of the truth. The fact that
many thousand men from Missouri, with
arms in their hands, went over TO Kansas
on the day of the election to control it, is
as familiar to every person in this State
as any fact can possibly be. 1t is open
aud notorious, admitted and boosted of
BY the Atchison presses on the frontier
of the State, asserted by every person
from that region of the State who has Wis
tied st. Louis since the election was held,
and can be proven by the columns of the
Republican itself. The Republican un-
dertakes to defend the people of Missouri
from the charge of having interfered in
the electienin. Kansas. It's of course
true that the great mass of the people of
this State had nothing to do with this In
famous transaction, and this is perfectly
well known and understood, and, there
fore, the defense of the people of Mis-
souri, by the Republican is gratuitous and
uncalled for. The only persons who are
guilty. are the ruffians who followed
Atchison and his eo-hborers, of whom
the Republican is one. 1t is this fac
ton, who invaded Kansas, under the
lead of Atchison and at the instigation
of the Republican, upon whom the guilt
falls, and when the Republican seeks to
involve the people of Missouri in this
guilt by pretended defense, it does an
Injury to them. The Republican must
take its stand in the criminal box and
plead its own case before the people of
the State, and not undertake to become
the advocate of the State, whose reputa-
ton has been furnished by.its own mis-
conduct. How will it justify its advoca-
cy of the frauds committed by Atchison's
ruffians in Kansas, which has added fuel
to the FIRE of agitation already existing in
this country, and which may yet lead to
consequences fun of disaster to the coun-
try ? How win it justify its defense Of
the mob at Parkyiile, by which the prop
erty Of men was destroyed, and the men
i themselves driven from that county and
from the territory of Kansas, simply be-
cause they did not approve of the frauds
committed by Atehison's minions in the
territory? The Republican is engaged
at this moment in melting these same
rufians to mob violence and murder
2 against every man who emigrates from !