Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-29
WHAT CAN WE DO FOR KANSAS.

Tile Buffalo RepuJlic seems to like, so far as it
went, the statement of the Kansas Question made
in that city at the Republican meeting last Friday
by one of the Editors of the Tribune, but cont
plains that
'IIe merely reiterated the opinions entertained
by the masses of the entire North without d:stnc-
tion lie admitted in part that on this subject
there was no diversity of sentiment among the
masses, but he desired that something should be
DONE and done Immediately to stop the encroach-
ments of Slavery and for the protection of Kansas.
lie did not, however, enlighton his auditors to
what he proposed to have done in the premises,
nor condescend to point out how the injuries al
ready inflicted should BE remedied. The gst of
his remarks was, that the North had been outraged
by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise-that
the rights of the actual settlers OF Kansas has
been grossly violated and trampled upon by the
border ruffans Of Missourithat the free institu-
tions of the North, and the whole territory of the
United States were endangered by attempting to
carry out the principles of squatter sovereignty,
and that the present Administration is responsible
for these great evils, all of which no reasonable
man will dispute, and with which no party at the
North pretends to make ISSUE"
1t was certainly not the purpose of that ad
dress to ''reiterate opinions" Its aim was tC
state Jaets-to bring all the material facts bear
ing on the case fairly before the people assem-
bled, and let them determine what action on
their part was demanded by those facts. But
since the Republic thinks should have gone
further, we will obey the suggestion. We hold
then, that the People of the Free States ought
in view of the facts set forth in that address
the fairness of which is conceded by the RepuL
lie to
! /. Dismiss from power and Danish from then
confidence all who aided to break the Missouri
Compact, and thus open the door for the frauds
and outrages by which the free Settlers o. Kansas
have been so grossly wronged
2. Brand with especial reprobation those who
counselled and him who decreed the removal oi
Gov. Reeder for trying 70 protect the actual set
tiers of Kansas from the most fragrant of those
ouraees.
3. Stiffcn the back-boncs of their Represents
tives in the new Congress about to assemble, sc
that they will Indignantly repudate and brush
aside the usurpng despotism imposed on the
settlers of Kansas by the Missouri mob, who by
preconcert and secret conspiracy, seized and vita
ted their polls last spring, and who have thereupor
pretended to legalize Slavery in Kansas, to make
the expression Of Free opinions felony. to fill
all the officers of the Territory for sir gears ensu
ing, and to enact election laws which disfranchist
the Free settlers and confer the Right Of Suffrage
on Missouri invaders.
| 4. Instruct the House of Representatives to ad
nit promptly the Delegate from Kansas whom tho
Free Settlers will elect in the second week of Oct
instead of the pretender whom tie NJ isourians
will elect in the week preceding.
| 5. Instruct their Representatives to insert dnC
retain in the Appropriation bill which shall under
take to provide for the support of Territoria
Government in Kansas in a clause to this effect
"Pforided, That no person in said Territory shal
be deprived of life, liberty property except by
due process of law; and that any act or portion
of act of any Legislature of said Terrtor,
pretending or purporting toestahsh slavery there
in is hereby declared to be void"
6. Make it perfectly clear to all parties tha
such acts of recreancy to freedom and serviity Il
Restriction and the removal Of Reeder icont pay
that whoever abets or attempts to uphold then
must make up his mind to gain decided loss b.
them.
| Such are a part Of the remedies which W
deem. appropriate for the wrongs inflicted tn
Free States in the recent acts of the Federal Gov
ernment and of the Missouri borderers with re
gard to Kansas. What has the Republic to say II
I them Tribune