The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1857-03-19
Will Kansas be a Slave State?

the Cdsliershp OF Dauk 10 tdba-a
Will Kansas be a Slave State?
We have at no time believed that the Territory
of Kansas would be cursed with the institution OF
Slavery but, while We have held this opinion,
we have known that all the power and influence
Of the South aud that Of the mis- named Demo
craft. party would be exerted to make it a Slave
State-that all fair and honorable means, recog-
nized under our Democratic Institutions would be
thrown aside. and the most Infamous, uuconstitu-
tional and wicked means would be used to make
/ a sister in the nfamy Ct the Sonth. The blood
stained record of the past tvs years verIfies the
recklessness Of the South in erdeavorng to Sc
their object. Almost every grade of crime
known to the legal or the moral code has been
perpetrated, to give Slavery a home there We
fear the dark and bloody of the past are to
be re-enacted there, before peace, and quiet, and
freedom shall be established there on sure and
firm basis but that it will be free, we have not,
and do not now entertain Gingle doubt.
Our confidence in the ultimate establishment Of
freedom in Kansas is based upon the determined,
lnconquerab'e and undying devotion of the peo
ple OF the North to free dom. When an intelll-
gent and patriotic people determine to be free,
they go they will triumph IL is true, the Con
vention which is proposed TO be held. for the pur-
pose Of forming Constitution, gotten up, as it
will be- by the friends of the South, and with
such Infamous restrictions will prevent Free
State men from voting for delegates, may adopt
Constitution establishing the institution OF Sav-
cry in the State-tEe next Congress- with Its
Democratic majority, may accept that Constitu-
tion-Mr Bucs anan, uEier the influence of his
proSavery cabinet, and his fcSr, not OF dissou-
ton of the Union, but breakingnp of the Dem
ocratic party may sign the bill of admission, ard
yet Kansas will eventually be free. That Constr
,ation may contain unheard-of and anti Demo
cratic provision, declaring that the Constitution
hall never be altered or amended except by a
gote of nine-tenths of the people in favor OF it
ret X ansas will be free. 1t has been said with
great truth, that revelations never go backwards.
the patriotic spirit which inspires revolution in
.vor of freedom may be Jailed for a time, may
" crushed down by despotic power, but it &" will
rise again
Suppose all that is desired by the South be
Incorporated in the Constitution of Kansas it
will be Slave State without shareholders or
slaves The great mass ef the people there are
of the soil are of the same class, end they know
as all sensible men know, that ii Kansas is q
free State her lands water-power, townsites, and
property of all kinds. will be worth five times q
much as they would be under slave Constitu
ton Thus, self interest Joined to the love o.
liberty will induce the people, in their first act o.
popular sovereignty to throw off the incubus Of
Slavery and its antiDemocratic laws. 1t viii
b. done. "peaceably if 1t can, forclbiy II 1t must
The encroachments of the Scsth, ard . Northern
men with Southern principles" upon the freedom
of speech, of the press, and OF The Territories
has aroused a spirit which - not TO be stayed
|, had for many years quietly submitted to thes
encroachments, for the sake of peace and har
rnorv it then determined TO defend its rights
and il is now ready to act epon the aggressive
by carrying the war into Africa mot by al
unconstitutional or revolutionary means but b.
the ballot box and when Kansas shall be free
Missouri will follow in her wake. The spirit Q
freedom is already springing mp in her metropo
lis: Republican has been elected to Congress
and in tie aext State canvass the question G
Freedom aud Slavery will enter int the cortes
A few feeble voices spoke out in the Legislature
and responses are heard from all parts of tt
State. The enterprise OF the North will seek tn
cheap lands of the Slave States of kentuck,
Virginia and Maryland, aud these. 100, will hav
to bow to the will of free people. A chang
in the National administration. bringing with
10 the Federal city the antiSlavery sentiment
Of the North will in less than four years thers
after, abolish Slavery from the District OF Coluu
ba. The population OF that city are but IN
serviIe tools of the power that feeds them lher
is no manly independence there-ali fa~n upo
and sustain those who have the power to conf
office.
But we have depressed widely treu the ide
with which we commenced this article, Is OF
intention was only to express our confidence tbs
Kansas will be free. But we are, at the sam
time disposed to think that it may yet CO
trouble, and perhaps blood, to make it 81
Another struggle will be made this summer, 81
if the &C; providing the death penalty for dsob
dience to the laws of the Bogus Legislator
which has Just adjourned, be enforced, it may
more fearful struggle than the last II is bare
possible Mr.. Buchanan may interfere TO relie
the people of Kansas of this unjust and oppre'
i've law. We have but little, if any. conhden
that he will do it. The selection Of his cabiu
has dispelled what little confidence we had in hi
or the influences We had q right to suppose wor
control him in the administration of the Cove
ment