Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-11-17
Deferred ArtitIcs.
From the N. Y. Evening Post.
GOING RATHER TOO FAB


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That there may be too much Of a good thing is
a common saying. The Washing Union is fearful
that the Missouri bordcrers may push things =
little too far. These persons have lately taken II
into their heads to interfere even with those local
elections in Kansas in which the question of slave
ny is not at all concerned, A kansns print the
Leavenworth Herald, a Jealous organ of the pro-
slavery party, and an upholder of the Lynch Leg
islature OF that territory and of the detestable or
dinanccs it has enacted has, recently uttered this
complaint, which is copied into the Washington
Union.
"On Monday last the election for locating the
county seat of Leavenworth county took place, in
accordance with the law. Polls were opened at
this place, Kickapoo, Delaware, Wyandott, Alex
andria and Summervillc. There we're four corten-
ding points-Leavenworth City, Kickapoo, Del
aware and Centrovillc. 1t was purely n local ques-
ton, one which belonged Exclusively to the citizens
Of the county to settle, and the place receiving the
highest number Of votes of the inhabitants Of the
county Tor the county seat should decide, as it
must, the question, and give satisfaction to all.
To say that the inlabitants, residents of Leav-
cnwortll county, shall not govern in u mere local
election. but that citizens of Missouri have = right
to come and vote, and thereby dictate to us not
where our county seat shall be, but in what man
ncr our business shall be transacted, is, to say
the least, unworthy the character of a free peo-
pic.
That Missourians have come in and voted at
this election, and used extraordinary means to con-
troll the result, does not admit of a doubt. In
proof of which let ut submit q few facts to q can
did public, and let them Judge of the consequent
ccs that must result from such a course. To say
nothing of the INJUSTICE and iniquity of the pro-
~ceedIng, iii is striking a fatal stab at the great in
tcrcsts of the pro-slaycry men Of Kansas and
those in Missouri. whose interest on that question
is identical with that of ours"
IIcrcupon the Washington Union says:
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of Missouri do not sec that such proceedings rs
the Ilcraldhas detailed, if they are not stopped,
must eventually defeat all their wishes and inter
ests in Kansas
In other words, the Missourians played a safe
game while they confined themselves to interfer-
ence in the great territorial question of slavery,
but when they carry their interests in the affairs
of Kansas so far as to NEEDLE in the matter of Sc
Letting the site Of a courthouse, they may offend
those who were lately their confederates. A zeal
Gus pro-slayery resident of Kansas, the head, per-
haps, Of his party, has set his heart on having the
courthouse in a certain nelghborh0od his Missou-
ri friends come over, and hy their vote appoint an
other place for the scat of Justice. or course n
bitter ieud arises between the pro-slavery men in
Kansas and their late associates on the other side
of the frontier, which may for the future prevent
their acting together.
Observe the phraseology Of the passage which
the Union qdotcs from the Leavenworth Herald.
On the question of slavery, says that print, the
interests of Missouri and Kansas are Identical
it leaves it to be inferred, therefore, that Nilsson.
ri has n right to intermeddlc in the elections which
turn on that particular question. In the question
of choosing a site for n courthouse, the people of
the county. it remarks, are"exclnsivcly interested, +"
and, therefore, their border neighbors ought not to
interfere, The slavery question is q general ques-
ton, for which reason the HERALD makes no obiec.
ton to receiving votes from Missouri the site of n
courthouse is n purely local matter, and it there
fore protests against the importation of foreign
voters. Here we have a convent distinction estab-
lished, which %iustifes illegal voting in one case
and condemns in the other.
1t happens, however, that the Missourians do
not sec the force of these distinctions, which arc n
little too fine spun for border use. Having been
taught that they are the proper masters of Kansas,
these people ale disposed to exert their authority
in all cases without discrimination Perhaps they
may yield to the entreatics of the Kansas Herald
and the Washington Union, which inform them
that the interests af slavery are in danger if they
go Oh in this way-and perhaps they may not. If
they should not, they will, as the two journals
plainly tell them, defeat the scheme of Introducing
slavery into Kansas. We condolc with the Union,
but what is to be done with a set Of whiske y-drink-
in bullies from Missouri who do not understand
%chopping logic.
We recollecta story of an organ-grinder who
had given his ape a bag Of stones to pelt a crowd
IF mischievous boys who surrounded and plagued
him. The man and the ape achieved an easy VIC
tory, but after the boys had disappeared, the ami
NAL finding no other use for his missiles, began un-
mcrcifully to pelt his master. The pro-slavery
party in Kansas must bear with the spirit they
have helped to raise as well as they can. The
Missourians, it seems. like the fun of controlling
the elections of the territory so we'll that they can
not leave off even when desired, and the moment
their enemies are out of the field, amuse themselves
with pelting their friends.