The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-03-29

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We have an amusing letter to-day
from Border. Ruf6an-one who took his
revolver and went over into Kansas to
shoot lot of ''tLe id Yankees" He
burnt no powder on the occasion, and has
since emptied his revolver, firing at a
mark. -
We vouch for our correspondent. be-
ing all he says of himself Virginian,
STAKEHOLDER, and citizen of border
county, almost in sight of Uncle Davy's
farm.
The correspondent himself tells his
own story as follows:
It may not be known to you. the world
and the rest of mankind, that D. R. At
Gibson, q doctor or two, and one or two
others, who have the honor of holding,
or having held, military commissions.
have given great stab to the permanent
prosperity and future growth of the city
of st. Louis than all the rest of mankind
put together. Nor is this all: by their
lawless, and unheard of course of con-
duct, they have damaged shareholders to
! the full extent of o,se-half of their slave
property. These men have, by their
lawless conduct, opened wide the eyes
of the slaves themselves. Now they no
flonger --sce men as trees Walking
Worse than all, they have opened the
eyes of shareholders in Missouri,
| and the world over. The unholy con-
duct of these men, put to the "Compen-
dunn of the United States census" for
1850, afford too much light for 'niggers'
and such as own them not. Did they,
Atchison & Co., not know that by ''sow-
ing to the wind they were likely to reap
the Whirlwind % Perhaps not one yot-
er in thirty in Missouri owns the leg or
finger of slave. Is not this ominious?
All men know that where slavery abounds
| (niggered mean it depresses white Ia
Dor. 1t keeps down the value of lands ;
is discouraging to enterprise and energy;
is a hindrance to common schools is a
drawback to internal improvements. Yet
own them-ever did, and so do and did
all my progenitors, both on the paternal
and maternal sides. Mine are as valuable
as those are belonging to any gentleman
| in Missouri, or anywhere elise and 4
will defend my rights with as much Wig
or and pertinaciiy as God and my powers
will enable me to do. But rather than
witness such barbarous assaults and stabs
again, upon the Constitution, the Bill of
Rights, upon order, decency, morals,
virtue and religion, upon law and justice,
for the sake and intent ofmakihg'by force
Kansas slave State, sooner, far sooner,
would see my negroes, and those of all
my kindred, and all in Missouri, and all
in the United States, sown up in one
huge sack, a thousand mill-stones fasten-
ed to that, and the whole cast into the
depths of the Pacific. am Virginian;
and on my way up the river from ST.
Louis. on the boats and at the landings,
this past fall, l both saw and heard what
1 shall but family describe.
1t has been said that the Kansas Leg
islature, SO called, was legally consti-
tuted body; that Judges John Doc and
Richard Roe, said SO that Reeder said
so; that the Border Democracy, includ-
ing Uncle Dayy, said so; that Mr.. Pierce,
our Great Father, said SO, or at least
nodded assent. Well, how stand the
facts? Missouri Democrats, some OF
them pretty we'll off, as the phrase is,
and numbers of others, not owning or
claiming foot of land on the globe, nor
a horse, cow, sheep, or gun, were hired
to go down and do the voting, the ours
ing, the drinking, and other overt Dem
ocratic acts. Twenty-one of these pat
riots, headed by God loving and God
serving Divine, came all the way from
Macon county. $50 miles, to vote. Who
ever has the right to vote has the right
to be elected-then you know the bal
ance. This sage body of Legislators
moved the seat of government-to the
Indian country,-left Kansas for Brother
Johnson's, in the Indian country and
there they passed real Democratic laws
and sent them into Kansas. Did not a
certain Greek law-giver "a Spartan per-
haps) give his country code which they
wele not to alter or repeal until his re-
turn, and then voluntarily. starved him
self to death ? Well, just so did the
Jackson, Van Buren, Polk, Atchison aud
Stringfellow Democrats of the Kansas
Legislature. They are all dead. When
Brother Johnson first entered the Terri
tory. he was. l am told, very poor, and
riding on an ass, and a colt, the .foal of an
ass. But now who expects to hear him
say, "silver and gold l have none ?''-
Bah he is worth his hundred thousands
and think two sections of land in the
Reserve; but Mr.. Maunypenny knows
whether it is so or not.
| But to return: if all earth, sea and
skies, assert that the Kansas Legislature
was legally constituted body, will i.
not bs cbare faced lie !n Can an hon.
est man say it?
| / have been in Kansas, and can say
LOT truth that there are few. very few,
abolitionists there but large majority
are for making Kansas free State, and
very many of them are not from the
North or East either. They are from
Carolina. Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky
and Missouri Don't this show that
Atchison settled his tavern bill when his
host was from home The frequent as
ssults upon the persons, property and
sacred rights of citizens, Eli even hone st
Republicans and shareholders with disgust
and adherence. The settlers in Kansas
were everywhere styled ignoramuses,