The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-02-14
For the Gate City,



so far as we are informed, has the only report
of it. 1t is of course characteristic.
print openly and shamelessly committed 70
the interests Of negro breeding, slave dry
ing Democracy, whose sympathies from the
first have been with the "border- rufhans,'
and whose whole political stock IN trade
seems to consist in ringing the changes upon
the heartless epthets "nigger" and ''aboh-
tionist," cannot be expected TO report fairly
any thing that may offend its masters, though
Liberty be crucifed afresh and every natural
aud civil right put to open shame. The
Times, in It's way, is an arrant Abolitionist,
but with its mob compeers of the estate of
misery" ( Missouri it goes in for aboishing
Liberty, not Slavery, right, not wrong and
oppression. With these modern missiona-
ries Of the gospel Of Slavery, to defend and
propagate the blessings Of the peculiar IN
stitution, it would abolish the liberty Of
speech and the press, yea, the property and
lives of all who may eonscientiously doubt
that the protection and diffusion Of "slaye
property" arc the chief ends Of American
Democracy, the 'scorner stone Of our repub-
lean edifce."
But TO the Kansas meeting. We attended
expecting to get a more full narrative Of the
border invasion from eve witnesses than we
had been able to CLEAN from the current
newspaper reports. In this we were not dis
appointed. Mr. Mallory, who addressed the
meeting, is a plain spoken, matter Of fact
man, who settled in Kansas with the very
first who entered the Territory, and has been
an eve witness to many Of the facts which
he related. And II they were at all colored
by the part he has taken in them, every ma
/ terial part Of his narrative is corroborated
by previous reports. lie was earnest. and at
times excited in their relation, and we NAV
question the policy Of his Remuneration of
! the Administration and It's supporters but
the real wonder is, that men who have suffer
ed such wrongs can stop to reason about
them at all. They do not admit of reason
ing Of argument, for according to all show
/ ing and every material fact on both sides.
1 there can be no possible question about the
\ right and wrong of the case. One the one side,
we find peaceabe settlers under the laws Of
I Congress, moving into Kansas to make them
selves farms, towns and homes. On the
! other hand, we find hordes of lawless men
/ under various pretences (not one of them
valid, if true) marching oyer the border from
a neIghborlng State, resolved, they say. at
all hazards, to drive of the Free State men
and introduce Slavery. To accomplish their
purpose they question the sentiments Of the
settlers, and threaten the lives of ali in ia
yor Of making Kansas Free State If they
do not leave. Failing in this, at every cleo
ton, in the name Of squatter Sovereignty,
they march over, and with force and arms
take possession Of the polls, elect their own
citizens 70 office, or tools more serylc than
they. They assemble mock Legislature and
enact laws 70 protect Slavery and punish all
who Wlll not bow down and worship it's I'M
age, 80 oatraging every instinct OF liberty
and justice that they are ashamed TO publish
them. and dare not enforce them. As il last
resort, they trump UP an excuse for march
iHg an army into the Territory, strong enough
nv they boast 10 drive out or kill every
Odd Abolitlonist in it, But Coy. Shan
non is at last undeccived, and leaves them
without the color of authority. Disaffected
und threatening, they disband and 20 home
70 me Estate Of misery" whence they came
out, where they are now recruiting and drill
/ iug fresh forces, with the avowed deterInin-
atl0n OF entering Kansas with force stuff
cient 10 Kill or drive out every man and 80
man and child from the Free States before
tae 4th Of March, la56. These, in few
words, are the leading facts about tile s'h an
sas Ioubics," ana they present 30 every an.
pre5udired mind series Of aggression and
outrage ana barbarism entirely without Il
parallel in this country and in this a &c. And
every apology that has thus far been made
Nor them, is worse than futile. Suppose the
Athens OF the Free States did desire 10 send
the largest number Of emlgrants TO Kansas.
and make IL a Free State, and formed aid
Societies TO encourage emigration Had
they not a perfect legal and moral right To 90
so Was II not a far Held for such cmula-
ton between the North and the South Does
That Justify violence and invasion, ana ciyi!
var Must human Slavery, founded in ylo-
lenee and force, be forever spread and de-
nded BY its old barbarous weapons in
us own Internal spirit2
Why did not the free citizens of Iowa. IL
IF, too, a border State. Tia far better
reason say TO the South, .unless YOU keen
\ nr human chattels out of Kansas, (once
8 lslnny dedicated TO freedom, we will march
over and vote them out, or il need be drive
0ut every man from Slave State III the
point Of the bavonet and the mouth Of the
cannon? Would not the threats Of the Mis-
saarians, Tint it should be Slave State,
tHat 'they would Try the strength or Mlssou-
ri hemp upon the neck of every man from a
free State who should dare To settle there, Y
be far better excuse for our citizens
! than those freebooters have ever pleaded ?
Yet men put on solemn airs aud make
long faces over "the Union,' rs if there
were really two sides to this question
; a. If the crime Of coming from n Free State.
, or conseientiously doubling the divine right
a of slavery. were Il nrpfty pooa reason ~ Inv
these border hel-hounds should he et loose
upon the settlers Of Kansas, to threaten their
lives, profane the right of franchise, shoot
! them down in cold blood, and keep them
| under arms night and day for months to de-
fend Their homes from piliagc and flames,
and their wives and daughters from viola
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