Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-19

subIecting the Territory to Slavery /; and
the President is now engaged in consul
mating this treason, by employing the
army of the United States to enforce those
Infamous laws ; while the minions of mis-
power are engaged in arresting and try
ing the friends of liberty for refusing
obedience to such tyranny. The adyo-
Gates of freedom have been robbed, their
dwellings burned, and many Of them
murdered by barbarians employed by
the Executive TO enforce those laws.
The christian world symplthized with
the oppressed Hungarians who, a few
years since, were subjected 10 almost
every outra e by Austrian 1espotism !;
but TIE butcheries of |lIaynau were not
more disgusting than those of AIchison
and Stringfellow nor did the lovers OF
Liberty in Hungary suffer greater wrongs,
insults or outrages, than those which our
friends in Kansas have been subjected,
for their devotion 10 the federal cons'itu.
ton. But the Austrian tyrant had some
excuse for the exercise of his dcspotism
while the President can assign none what
ever for the preparation of crimes from
which the Emperor of Austria would
shrink back with horror. He has exer-
ciSed a tyranny unknown in the annals of
our nation. He has wholly subvericd
the constitution; and in fragrant contempt
of that charter of American liberty, he
has for the time being, o~ver!hrown free
dom in Kansas by military force, bv vio-
lence and b!oodshed, and has established
a slaveholding Oligarchy upon its ruins.
This has been done before the eyes Of
the American people /; and while | now
write the friends Of liberty there, are on
trial for murder and treason, in conse-
quence of defending themselves against
piratical invaders, who had come to the
Territory for the purposes of rapine and
bloodshed. The Executive must recedc
from his 20 i.ioG, or these defenders Of
The constitution must be hanged. VIII
the people of the Free States stand with
folded arms and see them executed? The
question is an important one. If there
be any one duty devolving on us as citi-
zens of this Republic, it is 10 maintain
the Constitution against any and all ef-
forts TO subvert il whether those efforts
are put forth by men in ofica, or by f r
eign invaders. To surrender our friends
to the gallows and Kansas to Slavery,
will but invite aud encourage other and
further ouirages. If We pc nit Freedom
to be subYerted there, what further airoc-
ity will be necessary 10 arouse us to ac-
tioa? The provocsiion which called cur
fathers 10 the battle fields Ct the Revolu.
lion, were trifing when compared with
these which now impel us 10 the rescue
of Kansas. This object cannot be accom-
plished by charitable contributions, nor
by iimid measures. If effected it must
be by physical resistance 10 tyranny 4;
and that resistance should be openly and
manfully cxerIed by the people of every
Stale, whose citizens have been and now
are subjected to persecution in that Ter
r.tory.
have spoken TO you thus frankly, be
lieving the time to have arrived when
public men should not withhold an avow-
al of their opinions. | am about TO leave
you for a while 10 re-enter upon official
duties; bit | may not live to express my
views in Congress, and | desire 10 leave
with you this expression Of my own judy
ment in regard 10 the policy which we
ought to adopt. j. Z. GlDDlNGS.