The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-03-17

ThS Aono0s 101QUAey.
Daplicity has besn sacessnl 70 far, but,
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the 1solution Of the KmpsaS yets1f y 81
haS1 Lexington (Ky.) Ob6ver.
n has come, and the wetM behe1ds ihsl
South betrayed, and Mneoasioas 1apsd md
swindled. II those persons who, short
time ago, claimed to be the Pro.Slavery
party in Kansas Territory, are TO be believed,
then the Kansas excitement was most stu
pendous humbug and svindle, without soils
tary mitigating festure.
The history Of the Kansas question 10 al
most too well known to bear . rehearsal, and
ut this time we shall not enter upon IL only
moral and political turpitude Of those men
whom we once thought were the genuine
friends OF the South. Our attention has
been directed to this matter BY the appear
ance Of an address to people Of the u. S.,
promulgated by the late Lecompton Conven.
ton. The address to which we allude is
signed by committee Of twenty-one gentle
men appointed by said convention, and pur-
ports to give history of the Kansas ques-
ton up to the present time. This document
we have read with great care, and have come
to the conclusion that, il the statements in it
are true, the South has been shamsfully be-
trayed and Missourians duped and swindlcd
-duped politically, and swindled out Of
their money, their property, and their time.
The address is before " in pamphlet form,
and throughout its eighteen solid pages IL
devoted to proving that the question Of
slavery was not the issue in the Kansas
troubles--that the late organized opposition
to the Free State party in Kansas, was not
and never had been Pro Slavery party, and
the whole winding up with an appeal to the
Freesoilers Of the Territory to come to the
standard Of Democracy as set up by the
Convention.
This is indeed strange talk to come from
those who for two years past have flooded
Missouri with appeals for aid-mAterial aid,
men and money-to save Kansas from the
vandal hands Of Anti Slaveryism, to make
Kansas Slave State. Such has never been
our understanding Of these contests in Kan
sas we thought it was Slavery and nothing
but Slavery that was at issue. To accom-
plish the establishment Of Slavery 10 Kan
sas, we are sure, was all that induced the
people OF this county to turn out BY hun
dreds, and almost by thousands, to sustain
their pretended friends in Kansas. To that
end they subscribed hundreds and thousands
Of dollars, and paid it without grumbling,
under the assurance that it was necessary in
order to decide the contest going on in Kan
sas in favor of prO-sldreryism. To that
end they organized in this county an Aid So
ciety, with u capital Of $4,000. TO that
end they rushed in person to the conflict of
arms.
But we desire to give the exact words Of
the address. Speaking of the Leavenworth
Convention, which met in November, 1855,
it says:
s'from the meeting Of that Convention to
the present time, no question OF whether
Kansas should be Free State, or Slave,
has been before tho people,"
To establish this point seems to be the
main object Of the address. Great God how
we have been deceived, duped, and swindled,
if this be true. We will at least be allowed
to speak for ourselves, and VIC unhesitat:ng-
ly say that all our efforts in behalf Of Kan
sas were made solely upon the ground that
slavery or anti-slavery was the issue. Upon
that ground men who could not reconcile it
with their consciences to go to Kansas, or
who for any cause, declined to participate in
the oil absorbing question of the day, or
who refused to contribute money to the cause,
were denounced as Free-soilers and Adolf
tionlsts-spotted for supposed unsoundness
on the goose. And now, after the people OF
this county have expended from one to two
hundred thousand dollars in the cause, the
very men among whom this money was dis
bursed, coolly tell us that emo question of
whether Kansas should be Free State or q
To what end, we ask, was the peoples mon
sy SO freely given, expended, il not to make
Kansas Slave State The committee may
deceive others, but they can no longer de-
csive the people of Missouri. Experience
has been their teacher, and they have paid
paid largely--for their knowledge. So far
as We are concerned, we have nothing to re-
tract for the past. What we said and did,
we would say and do again under like cir
cumstances. We iabored honestly and zeal
ously to make Kansas a Slave State, and we
acted upon the information then before us.--
We could do no less. But the mask 10 torn
OF and all 10 lost-worse than lost, for hon.
est and sincere men in our midst have work
ed to establish in power n set Of men who
now repudiate the designation Of opro-
slavery to call themselves "Democrsts''-
who repudiatc the very issue npon which
they received our support, and declare that
the question Of slavery has never been and Is
not now, an issue in kansAs Territory--And
who wind up the long and bitter contest BY
Ignoring their name Of "Pro-slavery and
Law and Order" party, and assume that Of
the "National Democracy Of Kansas.',--
Speaking Of this change Of position, the ad-
dress says:
sin doing so, as party, we forget slavery
and anti-slavery, in the high purpose of ssrv.
ing our country; and whether We have here.
totore been Wing or Democrat, pro -slavery
or anti slavery, we now unite together under
the Democratic banner to aid our friends all
over the Union in waging = common war
upon the enemies Of the Union and the rights
OF the people Of the States and the Terri
tory
This paragraph needs no comment. tex
plains itself, and is nothing short Of sllowa-
bic Freesoiism.
The address is signed by the followin gen.
tlemen, majority Of whom will be readily
recognized as Kansas leaders:
John Calhoun, Geo. w. CLARK, John w.
Freeman, J. kuykendall, j. II. Stringfellow.
A. .. Hazard. John X. Boyd, E. Ranson, L.
A. MAclsan, II. B. Harris, A. Cofey, John
Donaldson, b. G. Newsome, J. G. Hereford.
David X. Atchison, JET. Buford, w. II.
vebbs, 5. 4. Jones, Hugh NJ. Moore, G.
W. Purkins, A. q. lsaacs, and G. c. ADDER
son.