Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-07-12
A NEW SCHEME TO SURROGATE KANSAS

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and nomination of FREMONT, throughout tht
Free States has alarmed the Buchaniers, anC
the leaders are busy concocting schemes by
which Kansas affairs can be managed so as tc
pacify the public, and at the same time make
that Territory slave state. From the first
inception of the bill to repeal the Missouri
| Compromise when the Shareholders were
promised that Kansas should become their
prey, DOUGLAS and his confederates have been
earnestly and brutally pressing towards that
consummation, mocking the woes of the Free
State men, and with ruffian vehemence declar-
ing to those who resisted the tyrannical enact
ments of the Missouri Legislature 1--WE will
subdue you"
These desperate schemers are now aware
| that they have taken step too far. The
sufferings of the kans sas emigrants, the sack
ing Of towns, the destruction of printing pres
ses, the array of Southern rufians to enforce
satanic laws, and the thousand brutalities prac-
ticed to make Kansas slave state, have arous-
ed feeling in the North, and determine
tion to overthrow the party by whose power
and sanction these outrages were perpetrated
Not that the work of subjugating Kansas
is to cease. But open violence and border
rufianism, if longer indulged in will seriously
damage the prospect of electing Mr.. BUcHAN-
AN. So DOUGLAS and TooMBs, and others of
that class, who have of course tender regard
for the cause Of Freedom, have introduced in
to, and passed through the Senate, a bill in
tended at once to effect all their purposes, the
details of which will be found iu another col
umn TO this new scheme for the subiuga-
tion of Kansas we invite the attention of our
readers
1t will be seen that after all the repeated
threats and bravadoes in Congress- the pro-
slavery leaders have now apparently receded
from their ground, and in place of open def
ancc aud determination to force the unjust laws
of Kansas, have consented to repeal few of
the more obnoxious. The proposition now
made by DOUGLAS and TooMBs is adding in
suit to the injuries which have been heaped
upon the heads of the Free State Settlers in
Kansas. 1t is virtual admission of all that
has ever been asserted as to the fendish nature
of the enactments of the border ruffan legisla-
ture, yet it does not propose practically to
remedy any portion of the evil If the settlers
of Kansas were entitled to protection, why has
not DOUGLAS iuterposedibefore that territory
was overrun by pro-savery banditti and the
free-state settlers nearly crushed out
The bill proposes that the actual inhabitants
on the fourth of July last shall be entitled to
vote. How ilnpudent is such proposition,
considering the condition of the Territory on
that day. The work is already accomplished /:
the free-state settlers have been driven from
their settlements their leaders are under in
dictment and absent or imprisoned their pres
scs are destroyed ruthless violence has reign
ed triumphant, and as many rs could leave
have fed the Territory Yet now when all
this has been accomplished, Mr.. DoucIAs pro-
poses to remedy the evil, by permitting the
border rufians legally to sanction what their
violence has already accomplished.
That the design of the whole bill is for the
benefit of slavery may be reasonably inferred
from its orginators. The execution of it is
placed in the hands of the President Again
are the deStinieS and fortunes of the settlers of
Kansas to be placed in tho hands of Franklin
Pierce, whose hands are already red with gore
of unofcnsive and peaceful men-whose am
bilious schemes has carried all the desolation
and suffering that now prevails in Kansas
One single word from the President, at any
stage of the proceedings in Kansas would have
protected the property and person of the in
habitants, and secured peace and order. Shall