The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-03-15
Correspondence.
FIR tie Herald # Freedom.
Advice TO the Kickapoo Pioneer.

JVa OOu0OSSOA0OoJ . 4@sS
your paper, to notice my humble self,
informing me that / was weaving a
hempen collar for my neck. and instruct
ing me to keep my prayers for better
cause than abolitionism. together with
other matters of greater interest, has
prompted me to address you few lines
chiefly in the form of interrogatories,
which | desire you should be SO kind as
to publish in the order here given, and
give such answers below as your can
dor would dictate
What are my offences, by which l am
weaving collar for my neck?
Do you hold the doctrine of free
speech and free press to be good or
do you claim for yourself, under the con-
stitution and laws of the United States,
greater rights and privileges than You
concede to me Z? If you wish, you can
visit our section and make as loud and
as strong a pro-slavery speech as lies in
you, and not hair of your head shall be
injured !; will you allo n me like priyi-
lege in kickapoo
Are You willing the affairs of Kansas
should be governed by majority OF
bona 6de settlers? or would you prefer
the interference of Missouri and civil war,
rather than that Kansas should become a
Free State?
Did not citizens from Missouri inter
fere in the election for the Kansas Terri
torial Legislature, and did they not re-
sort to mobocratic preparations to con-
troll the polls s?
And | would ask, my dear sir, if you
could not employ your active pen and
the Pioneer i'll a better way TO serve your
God and country than urging on irrespon-
sibie and drunken mobs in destroying
the lives and property of innocent men ?
Surely you cannot be delighted in the
work of making widows and Orphans
Allow me to suggest to you better plan
to immortalize the name of Hazard in
Kansas than to beamouth-piece for mobs
and ineendiaries. We're IN your place
| should befearfulthe public would be i'm
pressed with the notion that shared in
the plumber as remuneration for my SER
vices. The suggestion wish to make
is the following Withdraw your infiu
ence from an institution whose effects are
biighting upon every thing that is good,
and take up as your leading articles, the
great and benevolent enterprises of the
day-such as Orphan Schools and Asy-
lums. teaching the colored people to read
the Bible. the Colonization of the free
colored population, the education of the
youth in general, and, above all, the
Temperance reform. In relation to this
latter, have no doubt, had alcohol been
out of the way, Barber, Brown, Cook,
and Collins would now be with their
wives and loved little ones. providing for
their wants and enjoying their sweet
company. If your pen should refuse to
so off upon these and kindred subjects,
let me further suggest that you should
move out on the broad and beautiful
prairie and try farming. l incline to
think If you weuld settle hard by the
Methodist preacher from Iowa. and have
frequent conversations with him upon
human rights and State rights, you would
think more of him, and esteem him more
worthy a Peaceable home in Kansas. If
We should not agree upon the subject of
Slavery We would pray over it. This is
a first rate rule to try the purity of
thing. Try it by the rule of prayer and
see how it will jingle. Marx, you can
not believe in a cause upon which You
cannot ask the blessing of heaven; and
you cannot consistently ask the blessing
of heaven upon cause the righteousness
of which you doubt. Now, sir, as we
prefer our brethren to ourselves we will
let you take turn first, and presume
you would proceed about as follows -
. Lord, thou knowest that Slavery is
right, for thou didst orda,n of old that
Que part of the human family should be
bond servants to the other, and to this end
thou didst create the African race and
thou didst give the negro woody head,
fiat nose, and long heel for that very
purpose. The doctrine set forth in the
Declaration is not true, all men are not
by nature free and equal. The silly
Fathers, with Jefferson for their scribe,
we're crazy when they peuued such an
instrument. And now, Lord, thou seest
thy institution has hard time in Kansas.
We have voted ourselves, and have gone
to the pains and expense of obtaining
large numbers from Missouri, and they
have voted, and We elected Legislature,
and they passed laws consistent with the
Constitution. We gathered strong troops
and went up to Lawrence, and we threat
ened them loud and strong, and killed an
Abolitionist. And we went out to East
on, kicked up fight and killed another
AboliiioHist, and even caused the death
of one of our own party. And yet, my
Lord, thou seest our Territoryis infected
with Abolition dogs. l pray Thee have
mercy, and put it into the hearts ofthe
Rangers to bring in the scalps by scores,
and drive the last yestige of the breed
from the land. Thenwe shall have peace
and triumph and glory to Thee. Amen.
As the Methodist preacher from Iowa
is restricted upon the subject of prayer.
he viii hold, for the present, and watch
for the answer to yours. But, il itshould
be of any profit to you OF any other man
to know my sentiments on the subject of
Slavery, l would just say, | claim to be
an open, frank kentuckian, and would
be as far from abducting slave from his