Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-03-29
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1 vi tTcCHitI, GOtiipdTcU with Itldt RlF
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 efficient to protect slave
property than any State in the Union. These laws have
just taken effect and have already senced Aboonists
for in spite of their heretofore boasng they know they
viii be enforced to the very letter and with the utmost
gor Not only profitable for shareholders to 20 t.
Kansas but politically II is all-important."
Not content with enacting laws more eff
cient to protect slave property than any State
in the Union, they attempt to stife freedom OF
speech and of the press hy enacting that
"If any free person. by speaking or writing, assert o,
maintain that have not the hold slaves
this Territory shall introduce into this Territory print
publish, WRITE circulate to be introduced into
this Territory written printed, published circulated
In TINS territory any book paper magazine pamphlet
or erenar containing any denial of the right of
to hold slaves in this Territory such person shall be deem
ed guilty OF felony and punished by Imprisonment at hard
labor for term not less than two years.
NO person who Is conscentiousy opposed to holding
saves, OF VINO does not admit the right to hold slaves in
THIS territory shall sit the trial of any pro-
act" ~''"' - '''''
Such are some of the laws of the Territory
of Kansas which the President has announced
must be enforced at the point of the bayonet,
if necessary. The first gun fired by the armies
of the Republic in such cause would he but
the echo of the British musketry in the streets
of Boston on the 10Th of April, ITS, and its
flash would light fame that the floods of the
father of waters could not extinguish
Should despot of the Old World issue an
edlct that any of his subjects who should de-
clare that he had not a divine right to rule, to
imprison and to kill, should be incarcerated in
the dungeons, and that any one should be in
competent to try the accused unless he believ-
ed in the divine rights of kings, would not an
execratiOn go 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 a 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-
tion 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 to the Territory and thus to
people the wilderness For the first time in
the history of the country has any effort to fa-
ciltate the settlement of new States excited
Indignation anywhere. But the prayer of the
patriot and the philanthropist has ever follow
n1 thn bar1r ho
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
ed to give US that information General Atchi-
son has, in letter to the Atlanta (Georgia)
Examiner, dated Platte City, December Is,
1855 =
Kansas and Missouri have the latitude, climate
and SOIL and should have the institutions. The
and prosperity of both depend upon it. Kansas must
sLdre institutions, Missouri must hare free Institutions
hence the interest the border ruians take in Kansas
affairs.
If the settlement of Kansas had been left to the laws
which govern emigration, it would have been slave Ter
ritory certainly Missouri is slave State but mas
much those laws have been violated perverted by
the force OF money, and powerful organization in the
North and East ii becomes the South to be up and do
ing and tn send in population to counterac the North
Let your young forth TO Missouri and Kan
sas Let them come ,reH armed with money enough to
support them Tor twelve months and determined to see
this thing out One hundred true men will be acqu
sition. The the better. do not how are to
avoid civil war come it will. Twelve months will not
elapse before warcvl of the ercest kind-wil bc
We armlnr and DreUarin0 for it Indeed
of the border counties prepared We must have
the support of the South. We fighting the battles Of
the South Cu- institutions are at stake. You far south
out Of the naive of the but. ii we
fail it will reach doors, perhaps your hearths
ourselves but to support friends who may from
distance"
Is the domestic peace of Missouri endanger-
ed, then, by an effort to make Kansas free
State? Are the Institutions of Missouri and
the South staked on the issue whether a free
State shall join slave State on the west p
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, its insti-
tutions, as we'll as those of the South, will be
lust as insecure with free State on its wes-
tern border as would be Missouri with Kan
sas free. The moving cause, it seems, then,
for abrogatng the restriction on slavery in
this vast territory once consecrated to free
dom, was to plant 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, conspiracy against free
DOM The moving cause that abrogated this
t;p,o- -honorna rect rct ion u-ac tn cacura tho 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
tIement and such was the form Of the bill
first introduced. Yet it was afterwards di-
vided without any apparent reason, unless it