Squatter sovereign., 1856-03-25
Wilful Lying Of the Abolition Missouri
Democrat. =

We make the following extract, from
leader of one and half columns, in the
Weekly Democrat of the 26th February.
headed "The Calumet of Peace for Kan
sas:
Few will care now to inquire into the
profitless question cf the origin of the diff
culties In Kansas. Who was to blame in
the first instance may be matter ofinter-
est to antiquarians, but can be no fiji subject
for discussion by statesmen. What IS to
be done IN the future to avert impending
calamity is the true consideration that de-
mands attention. Stripped of all the ex-
citements that now involve in obscurity the
affairs of that territory, the solution of the
problem, we believe, will be found to con-
sist in very plain and simple proposition.
1t is this. The people of Kansas, both
these now there and those to come
hereafter, must be secured in the full and
free exercise of the right of suffrage
When that is accomplished, and until then
discord and strife and bloodshed must pre-
vail. It is an unconverted fact that the
last Territorial Assembly, after seizing
upon power attempted to perpetuate it ~
embarrassing the elective franchise in the
future with oaths that would exclude from vot
ing all who might differ with them in regard
to domestic policy. None tUere to be entitled
TO a cote acho did not believe as tkey did
none to sat jurors srho did not approre
their legislation-aaone to hold amy ,:iUil
office who did not justify and endorse their
action, This is the sum and substance of
the difficulty, and upon the abrogation or
enforcement of this anti-democratic usur-
patton hangs the peace of the country
Passing by, as matter of small and mere
local consequence, the question whether
Sheriff Jones be sustained in his tax-gath-
erinc-whether Reeder be admitted to
seat in the House of Representatives
and whether the concoctors Of the prema-
ture State organization to be guilty of IN
standardization, the grave and welghty
inquiry presents itself-are the multitudes
who may go TO Kansas from all parts of
the Union TO be restricted of those Uery
rights which pnecipitated our otcr Rerolas
tions.
And we are firmly persuaded that when
ever that naked proposition, in all of It's
deformity, shall be presented to the citi-
zens of the United States, it will meet
with universal reprobation from the Caro-
lln1anS to Massachusetts.
When we read misrepresentation in
the Abolition press OF the East, ,abou: Kan
sas matters, we are not disposed to Gen.
sure them so harshly for the reason, that
they are misled by their correspondence
But for the lies and slaEders uttered by the
Democrat we have no forbearance, because
there is no such excuse for it. The Dem
ocrat had a hired Reporter at the Shawnee
Mission during the Session of the Kansas
Legislature, an Englisman and an Aboli-
zionist, who reported every act passed by
the Legislature. The Democrat cites
three provisions of the Statutes enacted by
that Assembly, viz: That ''none were to
be entitled to vote who did not believe as
they did, none to sit as jurors who did not
approve their Legislation, none to hold any
civil Office who did not justify and endorse
their action"
The Traitorous scoundrel who wrote the
Editorial we have quoted, knew he was
lying when he wrote it, and nothing hut
his intense Cor hired) hatred of Southern
institutions could have induced him thus
voluntarily to falsify the record. The Kan
sas statutes are now being printed in St.
Louis and any one who will take the trou-
bic can get one and see by referring to the
oaths of officers, to the qualifications of
voters and jurors, that he has lied through
out, and entirely. Voters may be sworn to
support the Constitution of the U. S. the
provisions Of the Kansas Bill (our Consti-
tutions) and the Fugitive slave law. Per
sons who concienously believe negro slav-
cry to be sin or whoa are consciensiously op-
posed to slavery are disqualified from acting
as jurymen in any case involving title to
slave property. The oath Of an officer is the
same as that of Voter.
The Democrat knew all this from its
Reporter G.. R., which is Jas. Redpath)
and yet to pande to Abolition fanati-
cism it wilfully and knowingly utters these
gross falsehoods. In the same article this |
occurs:
IIC 41iSSOuti kdlOS lLilO TAdtlStiS. LIIe Id |
king possession of its first Legislature, the !
OF the ballot boxes, the slaughter |
of its citizens is TO be discussed by all the |
splendid abilities that the North can COM
mand."
No such outrages ever occurred as
are cited, except those manufactured by
such lying Abolition sheets as the Demo
crat. There was not a single contested |
election for seat in the Legislature al |
though the Gov. { Reeder) invited it by a
clause in his Election Proclamation in |
which he was te hear and decide the con-
test. Nor has there ever occurred kill I
ing. in which citizen of Missouri is the t
accused party, not one. We defy any man !
to controvert one position we have assumed. |
One word IN ,orlr Southern brethran IF /