The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-02-02
Kansas a Slave state.

UnIted States Is lt more so. Slaves Will
now yield a greater profit in Kansas,
either to hire out. or eul ivate the soil.
tLan any other place; and it will con-
tinue to be SO, if saved from abolition
rule. Those who have brought their
slaves here are reaping Iich reward for
the few priyations incident to IA new
country, and feel as secure in their prop
cry Eere as in Kentucky or Mis- ouri,
and even mole SO, for The means and
mode of escape are more difficult from
Kansas. Why it is that more of our
friends in the old States have not brought
their slaves with them, we are at loss
to devise, unless the falsehoods and
threats of the abolitionists have fright
ened them. We know that there are
thousands Of settlers in the old States,
who own number of slaves, who are
working hard from year TO year, on poor
land, without producing a cent OF profit,
who could, with half the labor. in Kan
sas, make a clear yearly prof of from
twenty five to thirty per cent. on the
cash value of their whole investment
We say to them, come and try 1t; 9TH
ers have proven tllatit is no fiction, and
Kansas needs your aid. Good negro
men will hire out readily at from twenty
to forty dollars a mon;h-women, from
ten to twenty, and girls and boys in pro-
portion; and yet the cultivation OF our
soil will yield even greater profit than
tlat. We have good market at home
for everything We can raise, and it will
continue SO for all time to come.
We purpose submitting few propo.
sitions for the consideration of our
friends.
First-Should Kansas be made slave
State? We say that location, climate,
soil, productions, value of slave labor,
tie good of the master and >lave, all con
spile and cry aloul that it should be;
and the Whole country. save the blinded
freesoilels and abolilioni>ts, admit the
fact. The squatters, too. have already
said three successive times at the polls,
that Kansas should be slave State. But
if all this is not enough. then we say.
without fear of success ul contradiction,
that Kan, as MUST be slave State, or the
Union will be dissolved. Who SD blind.
ed as not TO be able TO see il? Let abo-
litionism once control the United States
Senate, and the Union is at an end, or
the Southern people must debase them
selves by submitting tn insult and injury.
such as We know they never will And
if Kansas is not made slave State, il
requires no sage to fortell, that, wi hout
some very extraordinary revolution,
there never will be another slave Safe
and the administration of the govern
ment must fall into the hands of the abo-
litionists-and experience has proven,
that none but slaves can submit tn be
governed by them. With the abolition
lists at the head of the federal govern
ment, the sovereignty of the Safes is at
an end. and the Union a curse rather
than a blessing. We say, then. that all
good men, in or out of Kansas. who hon
estly desire to see the Union perpetuated,
should unite with the pro-slavery party,
and aid in preventing Kansas from fall
ing into the hands of the abolitioiists !;
for certain il is, that it must~be slave or
an abolition State. There is no middle
ground, and cannot be Tnnsa who
come among us. and cry ou:asainst free
soil and abolitionism, yet do not unite
and work with the pro-slavery party, are
our worst enemies, whether knaveS, fools
or honest men; and are doing US more
injury, and rendering more aid to alb III
tioni>m in Kansas, than the meanest open
mouthed. avowed negro-thief in all tie
land; yes. are rendering them more SER
vice tl.an the notable editors of the Ter
ritorial Register at Leavenwoith, and of
tile Herald of Freedom at Law renee.
Secondly-Can Kansas be made a
slave Sta e? THUS far the pro-slavery
party has triumphed in Kansas, in spi e
of the abolitionists and their all >ociet-
les. Tley have raised their millions of
money, and sent upon US tl.eir hordeS of
tools, armed with Sharp's rifles, TO tram
pie down our insti. u, ions, and conf cate
our property, and drive Us from the
country. yet We have peaceably whip
ped them at the polls. and forced them
to beg for quarters in the field,
and proven to the world that truth and
justice are on our side; and all this has
been accomplished by the hardy squat
ters without any aid from the South, save
now and then Struggling border ruff
fan from Missouri. What. then, is the
the way of making Kansas a slave State
Nothing can prevent it. if The Southern
people do but l.alf their duty but they
must do that. or Kansas will be lost; and
the Union Dissolved.
Tie aboli,ionists are more active than
ever, and will continue to raise money
and arms, and pour into the Territory
their hired serfs, who scruple at no out
rage; and unless every slave State does
It's duty, and comes to the rescue, all our
efforts thus far will avail nothing, and
Kansas be lost. These are Stubborn
iaets. Missouri was near at hand, and
as soon as The Territory was opened Tor
settlement, poured into it hundreds of
good and true iardy sqsatters. who had
the ability to select claims and make
homes, aud the nerve to defend them
selves. and their property. and their in
stitns;ops a,ro:nSr sba laB1a.O ba,I, ,,f