Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-15

81 " .........eAMUEL MCSeELs
Disessss .......... ". ~ sTONEs
.........H. OsCONNOR.
whs Aas k<ps NJ the War In Kansas
The two wings Of the proslayefy army agree
perfectly III their tactics and cross FIRE with en-
sire psecission. One party charges Fremont
With being Catholic and the other with being
Know Nothing. There is little contradic-
lion In this. but 1t Is expected TO work well,
damaging Mr.. Fremont with the x. Ms and the
adopted citizens both In the matter Of Kansas
however, they agree perfectly. The Bachan-
iers tell the people, With much JUNCTION, Slave
~ will never 20 10 Kansas. Oh no. As soon
~ the election Is over there win be no more
war In Kansas" The Fillmore fossils, with
oracuIar wisdom and killing pomposity, say that
the '~srs in Kansas have all been gotten up by
the black Republicans TO elect Fremont, and
that as soon as the election is over we shall
hear no more Of il. Kansas will never be a
slave state u
Most astute and patriotic BUCCANEERS have
You not sung that song little too long When
you passed the Kansas. Nebraska bill in 1854,
did you no. tell the people that you did it TO
stop the agitation Of the slavery question p
And have not the people already decided that
you were either knaves or fools, aud unworthy
of trust or confidence
But you told them also at the same time that
slavery would never 60 TO Kansas, Oh no -
1t was physically impossible. The country was
not adapted to II. Douglas and Dodge asserted
that the bill was passed out OF pure devotion to
human rights and ''squattcr sovereignty" in the
abstract. No body wanted to take slaves into
Kansas. Not at all. But the prohibition was
an implied stigma upon the wisdom of the SOW
ereign squatters which should and ought to be
removed. Every body knew they were lying
The South and the North SO understood it. II
was prcsumable that men who had for many
years tinkered at public affairs, had some pre-.
tension to craftsmanship and would not out
rage the public sense of honor and justice, by
breaking down solemn and sacred compromise
out Of mere devotion to an abstraction. And
when they asserted with heightened faces that
slavery wovld never 60 to Kansas, it was we'll
understood that they were lying, and time which
proves all things has demonstrated it.
Slavery has gone to Kansas and now exists
in that territory. And how did it go there p
BY giving the people right to have or exclude
il! Not bit OF Il. II was carried there by
force OF arms The black piratical institution
was planted there by invasion and conquest
by FIRE and sword---by bowie knife and revolver
law. That ia the law which now sustains It there.
The people of Kansas, who were TO be left ''per-
fectly free" are themselves conquered, disfran.
chised and in bondage
"a But what says the other sidc--the Southern
repcaers of the compromise? Atchison and
Strngfellow and their co-aborers say it 'cas tie
understanding that settlers from the free states
were to 60 to Nebraska, and that Kansas was
to be Slave State?
Look at the proceedings OF the last two years
and see II they do not amour, to dcmonstra
ton so far as proving the truth Of what Atchi-
son and Stringfellow have asserted, is concern.
eds Just as soon as emigrants from the free
states began to go to Kansas, did not the peo-
pie of Missouri make preparations for driving
them outs Atchison left his seat in the Senate
for the express purpose of accomplishing this
object. And has he not been engaged in it ever
since ? Has he not led Missourians into Kansas
by thousands, at least three times to control the
elections and as many times for the purposes of
conquest And the conquest has been thorough
and complete, So successful has been the con-
spracy that the Northern settleris DISTINGUISHED.
he must take degrading test oath, which he
cannot do, or give up the dearest right of free.
men. lie is also deprived of the freedom of
speech-of the right to bear arms, &C., &c. and
tocsp the climax, these laws which they did not
make, are enforced by officers in the choice of
whom they had and can have no voice And
obedience to them is enforced by the strong arm
of the National Government,
The conquest ofthe country is complete. The
settlers are lin the hands of Missouri Rutiiians.
They are tied up hand and foot. Slavery is
there. 1t has been introduced. What is meant.
then by the assertion that after the Presidential
election there viii be no further wars and blood.
shed IN kansas. II is simply understood that II
James Buchanan is elected he will carry out the
understanding and fulfil the contract nv ex.
Guiding free state settlers from that tcr,itory-
That Is what ismeant and that is the way peace
$ to be secured, Whatever force is needed to
accomplish this object will be used, and North.
ern freemen taught that they have no right
in Kansas, and can acquire none by removing
there.
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