White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-06-18

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ted by the great sovereign right Of the majorit,
of the people in forming State Government Z
adopt their own social institutions, and this pin
cipEe is disregarded whenever such decision i
subvefted BY Congress, or overthrow by exter
nal intrusion, or BY domestic fraud or violence
All those who oppose this principle, are the en-
emies of State rights, of government, of til.
Constitution and the Union.
/ Do you love slavery so much, or hate it so in
tensely, that you would endeavor to establish o.
exclude it by fraud or violence, against the will
of the majority of the peOplel WHAT'S Kansas
with or without slavery, if she should destroy
the rights and Union of the Statesl Where
would be her schools, her free academies, her
Colleges and University, her town and cities,
her railroads, farms and villages, without the
Union, and the principles of self-governm-ht7
Where would be her peace and prosperity, and
what the value of her lands and property Who
can decide this question for Kansas, if not the
people themselves7 And if they cannot, moth
ing but the sword can become the arbiter.
TdE
On the one hand, if you can and will decide
peacefully this question yourselves, / see for
Kansas an immediate career Of power. progress
and prosperity, unsurpassed in the history OF the
world. i see the peaceful establishment of our
State Constitution, its ratification by the people
and our immediate admission into the Union,
the rapid extinguishment of IRdian title, and
the occupancy Of those lands by settlers and
cultivators; the diffusion of universal education;
prescriptions, for the aeutual settlers, the State
rapidly intersected by net work of railroads;
our churches. schools, colleges and University,
carrying westward the progress or law, religion,
liberty and civilization our towns, cities and
villages, prosperous and progressing, our farms
seeming with abundant products, and greatly
appreciated in value, and peace, happiness and
prosperity smiling throughout our borders
With proper clauses in in our Constitution, and
the peaceful arbitrament of this question, Kan
sas may become the model State of the Ameri-
can Union. She may bring dOwuNDn US from
North to South, from East to West, the praises
and blessing Of every patriotic American, and
of every friend of selfgovemment throughout
the world she may record her name on the
proudest page Of the history of our country, and
Of the world, and as the youngest and last born
child of the American Union, and viii hail and
regard her with respect and affection.
On the other hand, if you cannot thus peace
fully decide this question, fraud, violence and
injustice will reign supreme throughout our
borders, and We shall have achieved the undying
infamy of having destroyed the liberty of our
country, and Of the world. We shall become a
by-wOrd Of reprOach and obloquy and all his
tory will record the fact, that Kansas was the
grave of the American Union. Never was so
momentous question submitted to the decision
of any people, and we cannot avoid the alter
natives now placed before US Of glory or of
shame.
May that ever-ruling Providence who brought
our forcfathers in safety to jamestown and
Plymouth, who watched over our colonial pupil
age-who convened our ancestors in hlrmoni-
Gus councils on the birthday OF american hide
pendence-who gave US NVashinstJn, and car
ried US successfully through the struggles a01
peris of the revo,ution-who asscmb,edin 1881,
that noble band Of patriots and statesmen from
North and South who framed the Federal Con-
has augmented our numbers
from three millions to thirty millions, has car
ried us from the eastern slope of the AlleGha-
mics through tse great vallies of the Ohio and |
Mississippi and Missouri, and now salutes our
standard on the shores of the Pacific, rouse in |
our hearts a love of the whole Union, and |
patriotic devotion to the whole country-mav it |
extinguish or control all sectional passions and
and enable US to conduct to sue
cessful conclusion the great experiment of self
government now being made within our boun-
daries.
A QUESTION.
Is it not infinitely better that slavery should
be abolished or established in Kansas. rather
than that we should become slaves and not per-
mitted to govern ourselves Is tue absence or
existence of slavery in Kansas paramount to the
great questions of State sovereignty, of self
government and of the Union Is the sable
African alone entitled to your sympathy and
even fhe were happier as a free
man than slave, either here, or in st. Denim |
go, or the British West Indies, or Spanish |
America, where the emlnci pIted slave has re-
coded to barb irism and approaches the loves:
point in the descending scale of moral, physical |