The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-06-06

no IncaflS t0ff0WS tflaI AdnSdS SnOtf0 De-
como a State controlled by the treason
and fanatieism of abolitionism. She has,
in any event, certain constitutional
duties to perform to her sister States,
and especially to her Immediate neigh
ber-the slaEe-holdiHg State of Mis-
souri, Through that great State by rivers
and railroads, must flow to a great extent
our trade and intercourse, our imports and
exports. Our entire eastern front is upon
her border, from Missouri come great
number of her citizens even the farms of
the two States are cut by the line of State
boundary, part in Kansas, part in Missouri;
her citizens meet us in daily intercourse,
and that Kansas should become hostile to
Missouri, an asylum for her fugitive
slaves, or propagandist of abolition trea-
son, would be alike inexpedient and un-
Just, and fatal to the continuance of the
American Union. In any event then,
| trust that the Constitution of Kansas will
contain such clauses as will forever secure
to the State of Missouri the faithful per-
formance of all constitutional guarantees,
not only bv Federal, but by State authori-
ty, and the supremacy within our limits,
of the authority of the Supreme Court of
the United States on all constitutional
questions be firmly established.
Upon the South, Kansas is bounded by
the great Southwestern Indian Territory.
This is one of the most salubrious and
fertile portions of this continent. 1t is a
great cotton growing region, admirably
adapted by soil and climate for the pro-
ducts of the South, embracing the valleys
of the Arkansas and Red River, adjoining
Texas on the South and West, and Arkan-
sas on the East, and it ought speedily to
become a State of the American Union.
| The Indian treaties will constitute no OBJ
| stacle any more than precisely similar
treaties did in Kansas, for their lands, val
ueless to them, now for sale, but which,
/ sold with their consent and for their ben
eft like the Indian land of Kansas, would
make them most wealthy and prosperous
people, and their consent on these terms
| would be most cheerfully given. This
| Territory contains double the area of the
| State of Indiana, and if necessary, an adj
| eauate portion of the Western and more
| elevated part could be set apart exclusive
| " for these tribes, and the Eastern and
larger portion be formed into State, and
| its lands sold for the benefit of these tribes,
! Olike the Indian lands of kansas,) thus
greatly promoting all their interests. To
the Eastern boundary of this region on
| the State of Arkansas, run the railroads
of that State to her southern limits come
the great railroads from Louisiana and
| Texas, from New Orleans and Galveston,
which will ultimately be joined by rail-
roads from Kansas, leading through this
Indian Territory, connecting Kansas with
New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico, and with
the Southern Pacific Railroad, leading
| through Texas to San Francisco
! It is essential to the true interests, not
only of Kansas, but of Louisiana, Texas
and Arkansas, Iowa and Missouri, and the
whole region west of the Mississippi, that
! this co-terminus South Western Indian
!. Territory should speedily become State,
not only to supply us with cotton, and re-
J ceiye our products in return, but as oectl-
pving the area over which that portion OF
I our railroads should run, which connect
! us with new New Orleans and Galveston
and by the Southern route with the Paci-
/ fc. From her central position, through
or connected with Kansas, must run the
Central, Northern and Southern routes to
4 the Pacific, and with the latter, as we'll as
with the Gulf, the connection can only be
secured by this South Western Territory
becoming State, ,and to this Kansas should
direct her earnest attention, as essential tC
her prosperity.
Our country and the world are regard
ing with profound interest the struggle
!. now impending in Kansas. Whether We
i are competent to self-government, wheth
or we can decide this controversy peace
fully for ourselves by our own votes, with
out fraud or violence, whether the grea
principles of self government and Stat'
sovereignty can be carried here into sue
cessful operation, are the questions now II
be determined, and upon the plains o
!, Kansas may now be fought the last grea
: and decisive battle, involving the fate o
, the Union, of State sovereignty, of self
, government, and the liberties of the world
If, my fellow citizens, you could, even 70
a brief period, soften or extinguisl
sectional passions or prejudice, and lif
yourselves to the full realizationaNof tn
momentous issues entrusted to your de
cision, YOU would feel that no create
/ responsibility was ever devolved on an
: people. 1t is not merely shall SLAYER
: exist in or disappear from Kansas, bu
: shall the great principles of self-govern
4 ment and State sovereignty be maintaine
r or subverted. State sovereignty is mainl
a practical principle in so far IS it is illus
- rforhk of FL,
e majority of the people in forming Stat
: Government to adopt their own soci;
: Institutions, and this principle is disrt
S earded whenever such decision is subver
5 ed by Congress, or overthrown by extern:
e intrusion, or by domestic fraud or violenc
i All those who oppose this principle, al
t the enemies of State rights, of self Gov
n eminent, of the Constitution and the UI
o ion. Do YOU love slavery so much, {
!, hate it so intensely, that you would ell
d deayor to establish or exclude it By frau
e or violence, against the will of the majo
/ ity of the people ? What is Kansas Wit
c or without slavery, if she should destFo
!, the rights and Union of the States Whel
e would be her schools, her free academic
IT her Colleges and University, her towI
+ and cities, her rrailroads farms and village
e without the Union, and the principles /
= self-goyernment 2 Where wonld be h
n peace and prosperity, and what the yalr
n of her lands and property Who can d.
e eide this question for Kansas, if not Il
e people themselves? and if they eanno
e nothing bat the sword can become Il
|, | arbitrer.
I :"
, On the one hand, if you can and wi
= decide peacefully this question yonrselve
: / see for Kansas an immediate career
It power, progress and prosperity, unsaEpas
; ed in the history of the world. I see II
' peaceful establishment of our State Coz
/ stitution, Its ratification by the people an
e onr immediate admission into the Uniol
J, the rapid extingIishment Of Indian It'll
!, and the occupancy of those lands By Sc
J. tiers and csiitivators; the diffusion of IN
d versal eduession pre-emptions, for Il
/ actual settlers, the State rapidly inteEsec
: ed by a net work of railroads; OF
e churches, schools, colleges, and Univsrs
II ty, carrying westward the progress Of laA