The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-04-05
DisesilaQeoQs.
Resolutions to the Point.

The following resolutions Were pend
ing in the Massachusetts Legislature at
last advices. They were ordered to be
printed, and there ale hopes of their final
passage:
RESOLVES IN RELATION TO THE TERRITORY
OF KANSAS.
IHIereas, TIE Conmenwsalsh OF
Massachusetts has called in vain, through
its Legislature, upon the State Govern
ment of Missouri, and upon the Presi-
dent of the United States. To protect the
settlers of the Territory of Kansas against
the unparalleled outrsges 10 which they
have been repeatedly subjected, and of
which they now again stand in imminent
peril, which outrayes have bcen heaped
upon them by the slave interest in this
country, for the purpose of forcing sla-
very upon Kansas, against the will of its
inhabitants, and against the will of a
majority of the people of the Union.
And schereas, This reprehensible neg
lect of the government of the United
States and of Missouri, has left the inhab-
itants of Kansas no resource but to fall
back ON the original right of self-preser-
vation, and to appeal at the same time TO
the American people for assistance ;
therefore, ---l.t
Resoiued, That we have sieard the
cry of distress which has come up to the
people of the United States from the set
tiers of Kansas, with the deepest solicit
tude and sympathy; that their sulferings
have touched our hearts, and their manly
defence of undoubted rights has won
our admiration, and we earnestly recon-
mend to the people Of this Common
wealth, and of the country, to initiate
some speedy and general movement for
the purpose of supplying the necessities
kof these heroic freemen, and aiding them
to maintain their liberties against the
ruin which impends over them.
Resolved, That the Inhabitants of
Kansas are right in their determination
not to submit to the code Of bbod which
was forced upon the Territory bya horde
of ruffians from Missouri, calling itself a
Legislature, and that the President of the
United States, in endorsing those Ell act
nents as the true laws ofsksasas, and in
his recent threat that the settlers shall
be made to obey them, even at the point
OF the bayonet, has exhibited a servllity
to sectional slave interest, and an indif-
ference to the fundamental principles of
Justice and freedom, which merit the
deep condemnation of the American
people.
ResolUed, That this is 6t occasion to
re-assert the principle, SO often declared
to be the policy OF Massachusetts,, that
Congress has full power to abolish and
prohibit slavery in the Territories of the
United States, and this power should be
exercised to its entire extent.
Resotved, That as the intrigues to
thrust slavery upon Kansas have been
growing more and more violent and des-
perate ever since the repeal of the Mis-
souri, prohibition, until at last they have
at last made it the paramount question
before the country. and driven the whole
nation to the verge of civil war, we
hold that the speedy admission of Kan.
sas into the Union, as Free S.ats, is a
measure of the FIRST imporsance % the
welfare of that Terr::.ory, AID to the
tranquility. freeiom and honor of the
United Sizes: and that our Senators
aud representatives in Congress be earn
/ es,iy requested to use every cxertion tc
tr ng about this result.
Resolued, That His ExceIleney. the
Governor. be requested to transmit 1
copy OF these resolves to the Governor o
each of the States and Territories, and b
leach of our Senator'S and Representative
lin Congress, and another 10 the Presi
dent Of the United States.
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