The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-03-07

Satan and worship him, the men OF Law
renee raised their defences, took their arms
to beat OF violence by force.
That courage saved them. The ri1e
brought peace. Had they begun unarmed,
had they been pusillanimous, had they had
such Christians as infest the North, VINO
justify arms for tyrants, but inyeigh against
self-defenee on the side Of freedom, eshouid
have had q monstrous tragedy Of violence
and blood.
The storm was held back, but not dispers-
ed. The same men are still in Kansas, lace
to face. The same ruthless assault from the !
South will be renewed. The same manly
breasts will meet the war. Already we hear
the muttering in the clouds Of those thun-
der-yoices which will yet roll over the prair-
les and reverberate along the Alleghanies
There Is but little time, but that little may
save Us from civil war, II is spark now.
A foot may tread il out. But II il kindles,
il will sweep the prairies in sheets OF tame.
The foot that should tread il out was bred
among the New Hampshire hills. But the
shadow of the Government, black as mid
night, falls upon Free State men its lurid
smile Is with the aggressor. When God
and Goshen was light. In our day, rulers
cast the blaze Of full favor upon Egypt, and
the scorn and blackness Of their wrath upon
the land Of Goshen,
Who are these armed men that already
confront each other, and between whom
this whole land is called to decide? How
have they come into this Territory, and
what are their erands? On the one side
are the representatives Of civilization, on
the other of barbarism. On the one side
stand men Of liberty, Christianity, industry,
arts, and Of universal prosperity; on the
\ other are the waste and refuse materials of
WORKOUT Slaye-State population - men
whose ideas of society and civilization are
comprised in the terms, rifle, a horse, n
hound, slave, tobacco and wiskey; be-
yond these there is nothing but an annual
uproarious camp meeting, where they get
Just enough religion to enable them to find
out that the Bible justifCs oil the immeasur-
able vices and wrongs Of slavery. The Free
State men come hither with books, with
newspapers, with free schools, with lyce-
ums, with churches, and the whole retinue
of benefcient institutions of Christian civ
ilintion.
The slave State men come without books,
without enough education 10 read If they
had them, without schools or wish for
them. They come with statutes framed for
making free thought n sin, free speech o
penitentiary offence, free press punishable
with death, if it in the least looscns the
bonds Of oppression.
The men Of the North come with rare in
dustry with mechanic arts, with all I'M
plements of husbandry. They build towns;
they found cities they convert wilderness
to garden, and will transmit TO coming
generations an inheritance such as Old
England and such as New England never
saw.
The men OF the South, reared where labor
is a disgrace, are without mechanic arts,
without habits Of industry, without organ
izing tendencies, without the creative force
which builds up new societies. They come
to curse the land with u system of husband
~ which the earth detests, Us well it may,
for the foot of the slave burns the soil like
fire. Ii is the agriculture Of exhaustion
II is the husbandry of impoyerishment. II
the South enoculates the State with her
leprOsy, the plains of Kansas are fairer and
richer to-day rs wilderness than they ever
will be again. For slavery robs first the
slave and then the soil. IL sucks the blood
from everything il touches. And nothing
can iatten upon it, except the cunning few
that sit upon the middle Of the web-Oyer-
swollen spiders-while the rest swing in the
edges thereof, mere skeleton insects.
| The men Of the North come upon the
h.,zf nd fhs. Of ha ha
worst, GRAND that ever engaged men,
Peace, and light, and love, and hope, and
JOY 90 with the one-war, and blood, and
cruelty, wasting and despair, 60 with the
other.
Tho representatives of civilization have
conc lawfully, peacefully, to become actual
settlers. The representatives of barbarism
have come unlawfully, violently, with no
intent of residence, but only to put the
sword 10 the throat of freomen, and the
brand to their dwelling, and then to leave
10 the slow immigration Of slavery this
stained victory.
There was never so strong an appeal to
public sympathy Us that which is presented
in the case Of Kansas free settlers, Their
emigration was mission of mercy, full of
the ripest fruits Of Christianity. Their
conduct has been noble. They have borne
hariships without ALTERING; they have
borne outrage and persecution with patience,
returning good for evil. They have suffered
wrongs manifold and infinitely provoking,
without retaliation. When aggression on
one Occasion was pushed 80 sorely that their
patience failed, some Of the men said ave
cannot bear such wrongs" The reply made
by Pomeroy will become q maxim Of Chris
tan men" Be patient your wrongs are
your very strength"
When the armed day came, and their adj
yerSaries came out 10 consume them, then,
and only then, they took up arms, and SUIT
rounded their homes with living men, de
termined not to attack, butnever to surren-
der.
They stood Oh free soil. They felt free
hearts beating in their bosoms. But no
flag OF their country waved over their head!
An army of the United States, made up
mostly OF aliens, carried the flag of their
country over to the side OF their prosecutors.
Yet, deserted, betrayed, and wronged be-
yond the measure of any but heroic patience
they nobly redeemed their lives, and, with
out one drop Of blood split, scattered their
foes. Shall the prayers, the help, the SYM
pathy Of the free men Of the North bewith-
held, while the bugle is sounding through
the South, and men are gathering, and
weeks only are left between this day and
that ON which hattie shall once more unfold
its wings-not again to be closed until the
earth has drank blood to its fill?
But il, with prompt libenlity, we fortify
those heroic men tlal are there, the emiss-
aries of evil will come up, look, be afraid
and pass away. False peace will bring GER
tain war. Arms ana courage will ineyitab-
ly secure an unhrokcn peace.
Once, when England only asserted the
right tn tax the colonies rebollod and went
10 war. But now foreign legislature has
been imposed upon Kansas. That Legisla-
ture has legalized slavery, against the
known wishes Of ninetenths Of the actual
settlers. IL has decreed that no man shall
enter the territory who will not take an
oath of allegiance to this spurious legisla.
ton. IL has made it death to give liberty