The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1855-06-02
Negro Slavery no Evil.

by General Stringfellow, of Missouri, at
the instance of the "Platte County Self
Defensive Association" 1t is labored
attempt TO prove that negro slavery is a
blessing wherever it is established and
the immediate object of it is to secure
the establishment of the peculiar institu-
ton in Kansas. Stringfellow. 1T is re-
ported, received five hundred dollars for
writing it, and the "Self-Defensive Asso-
ciation," with a singular disregard of
their national principles, circulated it
south of Mason's and Dixon's line ex-
clusively. When the distributors were
solicited to allow northern men to have
copies of this document, they were court
eouSly informed that it was not intended
for '.the ID Abolitionists.' This
intention however judicious it may have
seemed to those entertaining it, has not
prevented the pamphlet from finding It's
way North. The New England Emil
grant Aid Company have published it,
together with another pamphlet in answer
to it, by d. r. Goodloe, of North Carroll
Ma. Abolitionists, and Anti-Abolition-
lists, too, of the North, will have no diff
ficulty, now, in seeing what Stringfellow
and the Platte County Self Defensive
Association have to say in support of
slavery.
Stringfellow commences, by stating
what the purport of the Association is.
cit is to fully expose the dangers to
which slave-property in Missouri, and
especially on the borders of Kansas, is
subjected to arouse the attention of all
good citizens, not of slaye-holding states
alone, but of the whole Union, to the
results which must follow if the Adolf
tionists succeed in their purposes; and,
if possible, to suggest means by which
these results may be prevented"
Having stated the purpose of the As
ISOLATION, Stringfellow next proceedeth, as
Pepys sayeth, to describe who the 'svile
Abolition" settlers in Kansas are, what
they mean to do. Stringfellow discour-
seth as follows
"Were these miscalled 'emigrants'
poor and honest farmers, seeking home
and the advantages of a new country for
themselves and families, we might APP
plaud the charity of those who origina-
ted the scheme were these associations
fair means of deciding the contest be-
tween the friends and opponentsof negro
slavery, We might admire the energy OF
the Abolitionists but when we find
these miscalled emigrants really negro
thieves. their purpose not to procure a
home in Kansas, but to drive slavehold-
ers therefrom; that they are not freemen,
but paupers, who have sold themselves
to Eli Thayer d. Co., TO do their mas
ters' bidding; who hesitate not to pro-
claim that they are expert in stealing
slaves; that they intend to follow their
calling, self-defence requires that means
equally efficient, should be adopted by
those who are threatened"
1t is not surprising, after reading the
above moroccan, that the Self-Defensive
Association were careful to confne theiI
pamphlet to slave territory. Amongst
the ignorant and iIliterate, bogus money
passes current as freely as the genuine
circulating medium. 1t is among men
of intelligence and sagacity, that it is de-
teeted and nailed to the counter as false.
Amongst the ignorant mass of flibus-
tering Southerners, to whom the PAM
phlet is especially addressed, its state
ments will probably seem reliable but,
by the intelligent freemen of the North,
every one of Its statements stands de-
tected, as an unblushing falsehood. 1t
must amuse some of our New England
yeomen and artizans, to see their sons
and brothers, who have gone TO Kansas,
described by Stringfellow, in the precise
language which certain parties use
towards foreign emigrants. The only
response fit to be given to the abuse OF
this dastardly libeller, lies in the butt of
a musket and the muscles of a strong
northern arm.
Having described the New England
settlers In Kansas, after the manner OF
Faltaff's description of his ragged
regiment, Stringfellow showeth what
the members of the ..Platte Self Defen-
sive Association" have pledged them
selves to do if they are invited by the
shareholders of Kansas .sto 60 over and
help them.''
That pledge is, that We will. when call
ed on by the citizens of Kansas, aid
them in expelling those who are exported
to that Territory by the Abolition Aid
Societies. With these, the honest men
who go to Kansas from the non-slaye-
holding States, are not to be COMPOUNDED.
The latter go with the spirit Of freemen
to secure a home for their children
they go respecting the rights of others
the former go, the slaves of Thayer q Co.,
and their associates, to do their masters
bidding, to drive others from the Ter
ritory, to steal negroes from Missouri.
1t is, probably under cover OF this IN
timation that Stringfellow viii justify his
late inroad into Kansas. We do not be,
iieye that he would hesitate TO say thai