Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19
From the A. s. Standard.
KANSAS AND THE FREE CoL0RED
PEOPLE.

MEssns. EDlToRs In the Galveston (rexas)
News, met with the following very fair spcci-
men Of slavcdrving and slavedriyen Democracy.
Nor A NEGRO Cause.-The Day Book says: Ten
thousand white men are giving their money or go
ing to Kansas for the ''cause of freedom" for the
negroes and so little do the negroes care for what
these white fools doing for them that not one
out Of the 10000 in this State and l5UUuQ IN the
other Northern States has volunteered to 60 and
fight nor to give one cent to make Kansas Il free
State! What q comment on the negroes estlma-
ton of "freedom"! The truth is there Is not one
among the 100000 who cares a straw whethcrk an
sas is free State or not.
The editor who indicted the above paragraph
may be honest; bpt if so, it is at the expense OF
from going to Kansas by triple chain, forged and
riveted mainly by the men (if they lie men) who
now scott at them for not going.
In the first place, the laws cf Missouri forbid
their entrance into that State, and Of course sub
iect them to be arrested IN trQRsjiu, and sentenced
to cruel penalties. IT, at St. Louis, the ciyilest
place of all the State, they could, in the piping
time OF peace. incarcerate a company OF colored
men for coming to invite them to Il musical enter
tainment how much more, at the present time
would the Blue Lodges" of jackson, Platte ard
Lexington, "the best Of cut throats,' rersecute
and exterminate culorcd cmigrants suspected of
going to bid them face the music of the rifle.
In the second place, the intrusive and ruiian
LEGISLATORS of the frontier have adopted the whole
bodv Of Missouri laws Except where they have
aggravated their severity the laws of Kansas;
4 and President Pierce has proclaimed that those
laws are valid, and shall be enforced by the army,
within the Territory.
Lastly, the Free State men have provided, in
their Constitution, for the banishment and perpet-
ual exclusion of free colored persons, and this
provision has been specially ratified by the popu-
lar voice. BY the same instrument they have le-
ga.ized for year and a-half the residence and, |
think bv inevitable consequence, the introduction
Of colored men, provided they bear the brand of
the slave. Such double and deplorable violation
of the fundamental rights on whose sanctity and
eternal inviolab:liIy those men base their own
claim to our sympathy and cooperation against the
Missouri invaders is scarcely pallated by the plea
that it was reluctantly consented to a sop to a
bloodhound rabble. 1t is silly as well as obscene
bird that soils its own nest. How much less ami
mostly have the barbarians evinceI, and how
many less murders. cowardly and cold-blooded,
have they committed, in virtue of this discredlta-
ble pandering to their ferocty? But | am de-
parting from my purpose.
The editors of the New York Day Book and tie
Galveston News did not think proper to notice any
of the insuperable impediments to free colored
emigration to Kansas. 1t would not have suited
their mean purpose.
1t NAV be that these editors will be able TO plead
ignorance. 1t is more probable than that they
will have the grace to do 1t. IL, howeTer, they
should | would suggest to them that there is not
eoored adult in the States called free who is not
aware of the crownng indgnity put upon him by
the free Convention and vote of the people of Kan
sas, and of the inhuman enactmentS OF 'the Mis-
souri, Rufians"; and while they regard with deep
and undated interest, and with unutterable in0ig
nation the wrongs and outrages inflicted upon the
be- eagureG and long-suferng inhabitants of that
Territory, they say, and in my opinion, wisely,
that in no case short of general civil war can
they take personal part in the contest. That
some of them have given their money, and that
more stand ready to do so, for the relief of the
Free State men, who spurn them, is known to
Your obedien; servant,
d. LEE CHILD.
W,yIAyD March 9th, 1856.