Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-06-07

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One word more. We reiterate what We have
previously said,-if Kansas is to be subugated
by the Slave Power, let it be over tho dead bodies
of Northern freemen. Rather let this Union toE-
submit any longer to the aggressive march of this
withering, aggravating, domineering curse of
Slavery!
WHY THE EXCITEMENT ABOUT
KANSAS?
The editors of the NJ Y. Tribune generally
write to purpose. They have something to
say, and usually say it. Read the following
article from late number of that paper:
What is it that is hurryng the country TO
the verge Of civil war? Why do we listen,
with anxious, painful interest for each days
telegraphc dispatch bringing tidings from Kan
sas! and. having devoured it. listen again
with deeper anxiety for the next, and the next
Why is it that the settlers of Lawrence are
now in imminent peri! Of massacre and their
homes of devastation
Their enemies tell US that these people are
rebels-against what? Are they trying to
break away and escape from the Union? On
the contrary, they are humbly entreating to be
admitted into the Union. Their memorial to
this effect has been twice submitted to the SEN
ate, and as often kicked out by the Pro-Slave-
ry majority on frivolous pretext of irregular
ity and lack of due authorization. Their
Senators and representatives have attended at
the doors of either House, but have not been
pre-eminently those Of Lawrence, desire moth
ing else so much as to be admitted into our
Federal Union, and made equal sharers in its
responsibilities and blessings. They are care
lul, industrious. orderly. moral, law-abiding,
God-fearing men, who ask only to be permit
ted to earn their bread by honest labor, and
rear their children to habits Of temperance and
frugality, and in the ways of intelligence, vir-
tue and peace.
Why, then, is their mastering of battalions
from Missouri and Alabama, from South Car
olina and Georgia, in the few Pro-Slavery viii
lagos Of that spacious and lovely land q Why
are peaceful travellers waylaid and arrested on
their way up and down the Missouri 2 Why
are cases of merchandise stopped and broken
open on their arrival at the border towns q
Why are Federal cannon and State muskets
and rifles pushed int the hands Of the invaders
whose feet are swift to shed blood Why sits
the New-England mother pale and agitated in
l. L. al e
dren, fearing in every noise the death shot OF
the absent husband and father. and fearing
that the opening of the door may reveal to her
his mangled, CORY corpse7
Who does not know that it is Slavery, and
nothing but Slavery, which has brought all this
horror upon Kansas--Slavery seeking to force
itself upon her, frs. by gigantic fraud at the
polls; next by the most Internal enactmenls
through bogus Legislature; and at last by
butchery and arson in the settlers homes g
Twist it and varnish it as the apoIogists and ac-
seek to do, it still remains unquestionable that
Slavery is the sole and absolute cause Of all the
trouble which has arisen in Kansas and all the
calamity which now threatens her. 1t was
Slavery which pushed over the Missourians in
brigades to debauch and subvert all the Terri.
torial Elections yet held in Kansas. 1t was
Slavery which drove the upright judges Of cleo
tons from the several polls, so as to allow the
invaders to vote by plauoons without taking the
oath Of residence. 1t was Slavery which pitch
ed into the Kansas Legislature those pretend
| ed members whom Gov. Reeder has unseated
as returned by manifest and unquestionable
fraud, turning out at one stroke all the true
members subsequently, elected in their stead
1t was Slavery which extended the laws o.
Missouri over Kansas, and denounced the pen
alties Of felony and treason against any fur
ther resistance thereto, or even discussion o
the rightfuness of its pretensions. And it il
Slavery which is now mastering its forces Il
''crush out" the last murmur of resistance Il
those ferocious ard usurping enactments o
wipe Lawrence and her inhabitants from of tn,
face of the earth.
How much longer shall party sorcery ant
the ability Of the Slave Power to make or ma
the fortunes of National" aspirants to th'
Presidency, seal mems understandings to liv
| ing consciousness uf tlrvsr facts.