Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-03-29

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ven to particular species of property.
General Stringfellow, in letter to the Mont
gomery (Ala.) Advertiser, uses this language
as TO the character of the laws Of the terrific
ry in reference to slavery -
They have now laws more efficient to protect slave
property than any State in the Union. These laws have
just taken effect and have already senced Abotonsts
for in spite of their heretofore boatng they know they
viii be enforced to the very letter and with the utmost
rgor Not only is profitable for Shareholders to go to
Kansas, but politically it is allmportant.'
Not content with enacting laws more eff.
cient to protect slave property than any State
| IN the Union, they attempt to stihe freedom OF
speech and OF the press 10y enacting that
any free person by speaking or writing assert or
maintain that persons have not the right to hold slaves
this Territory shall introduce into this Territory print
publish write circulate to be introduced into
this Territory, written, printed, published circulated
in this Territory any book paper magazine pamphlet
or ercnar containing any denial of the right Of persons
to hold slaves In this Territory such person shall he deem
ed guilty Of felony and punished by at
labor for term not less than two years.
No person who is conscentiously opposed to holding
slaves or who does not admit the right to hold slaves in
this Territory shall sit juror on the trial of anv
ecgon for any violation of any of the sections of this
Such are some of the laws of the Territory
of Kansas which the President has announced
must be enforced ut the point of the bayonet,
If necessary. The first gun fired by the armies
of the Republic in such q cause would be but
the echo of the British musketry in the streets
of Boston on the 10Th of April, IT'S. and its
flash would light fame that the floods of the
father of waters coald not extnguish.
Should despot of the Old World issue an
edict that any of his subjects who should de-
clare that he had not divine right to rule, to
| imprison and to kill, should be incarcerated in
tue dungeons, and that any one should be in
competent to try the accused unless he beiier-
ed in the divine rights of kings, would not an
execration 90 up from the heart of civilization
deep and bitter as the wailings of the damned !;
and his name would head the infamous roll of
the worlds NeroS, Gesslers, and Haynaus vet
in the heart of the Republic American citizens
are to-day required to submit to an enactment
in the form of law not less odious.
1t is to free themselves from such wrongs.
and that they may enjoy the common rights of
American freemen, that the people Of Kansas
have peaceably assembled and formed conSti-
tuition, in order to petition Congress for q re-
dress OF grievances.
The President informed Us, in his special
message, that associations were formed in some
of the States to promote emigration to Kansas,
which awakened emotions of intense ndigna-
ton in States near to the Territory of Kansas,
and especially in the adjoining State of Mis-
souri," Why this indignation at any effort to
furnish settlers 10 the Territory aud thus to
people the wilderness For the first time in
the history of the country has any effort to ia
ciltate the settlement of new States excited
indignation anywhere. But the prayer of the
patriot and the philanthropist has ever follow
pI tho hardy DOunar Ea forth 70 -,,b-
due the forest and convert the lair of the wild
beast into home for civilized man
But the reason assigned for the special in
dignation of the people of Missouri, is, that
their domestic peace was the most directly
endangered" Sir, how could the domestic
peace of any section of this Union be endanger-
ed by building up new States in the wilderness,
and covering its desert waste with the homes
Of civilized men Though the President fail
cd to give Us that information, General Atchi-
son has, in letter to the Atlanta Georgia.
Examiner, dated Platte City, December Is,
1855 =
Kansas and sSOuri have the latitude. climate
and soil aad should have the institutions. The peace
and prosperity of bth depend upon it, k0gsas must
Stare institutions Missouri must hare institu0ns-
hence the Interest the border ruians take in Kansas
Affairs.
III the settlement Of Kansas had been left to the laws
which govern emigration it would have been slave Ter
Tit0ry certainly Missouri Is a slave State but mas
much those laws have been violated and perverted by
the force OF money, and powerful organization in the
North and East il becomes the South TO BE- up and do
ing and Ia send III population TO coCRterac the North.
Let your Young forth to Missouri and Kan
sas let them come IreH armed with money enough TO
support them for twelve months and determined
this thtg "Ut One hundred true men WI! be acqui
sition. The more the better. do not see how TO
avoid civil war; come il will. Twelve months will not
elap>e before "arcS war "f the herceSt kind-wi bc
upon Us We are arminE and preparing for IT. Indeed
Of the border counties prepared We must have
the support Of tie south Jt are fghing The battles Of
ths South Oar institutions at state. You far south
out at the naive OF the but, ii We
fail it viii reach Your own doors perhaps your hesrtLs
We want men. armed We want nlaney-Got for
ourselves. but 70 support friends who may from
distance
Is the domestic peace of Missouri endanger-
ed, then, by an effort to make Kansas a free
State? Arc the institutions Of Missouri and
the South Staked on the issue whether a free
State shall join n slave State on the west ?
Then the only vital question in the politics of
the day is freedom or slavery to Kansas for
its destiny is to shape and control that of all
the territory west of it to the Pacific For,
with slavery established in Kansas, It's inSti-
tutions. as well as those of the South, will be
just as insecure with free State on its wcS-
tern border as would be Missouri with Kan
sas free. The moving cause, it seems then,
for abrogating the restriction on slavery in
this vast territory, once couSecrated TO free
dom. was to plaut upon its virgin soil the in
stitutions of human bondage, so that the do
mestic peace of the southern States might not;
be endangered.
The repeal of the Missouri compromise was,
from its inception. a conspiracy against free
dom The moving cause that abro-ated this
-hOnarnf raS+ rictiaa, waS tn Sacurn the in
PRODUCTION and establishment of slavery, so as
to prevent, if possible, free State bordering
slave State on the west For but one Ter
ritory was needed for all purposes of fair set
tlelnent aud such was the form of the bill
first introduced Yet it was afterwards di-
yided without any apparent reason, unless it