Freeman's champion., 1857-08-20
From the Republican Union, Aurora, ILL.,,
Kanzas Matters.

From the Republican Union, Aurora, Ill.
Kanzas Matters.
Advices from Kanzas during the
last few days have been exciting
However, as we are pretty well used
to such elbows" of wind-which they
have always turned out hitherto--we
are not going to believe anything more
will be done by Walker than by his
predecessors. There will probably
be some fighting, If we are to be-
lieve the Free State men mean any
thing by their averments, we are led
to believe there will be, if force is
employed to enforce the payment OF
those taxes. And if the Free State
men represent the bone aud sinew OF
the North, there is a small chance of
robbing them of their rights by
merely crying "deliver ?" 1t is not
the paltry dollars they contend for
1t is the principle Of all Republican
ism, that taxation and representation
shall go together, Is there one of
our readers who could be compelled
to pay tribute to foreign invader?
This is what Gov. Walker proposes
to do with the Free State men in
kanzas.
The party that last year burned
their houses, destroyed their fields and
murdered their brethren, this year
come around to collect taxes. Would
not a freeman feel exceedingly like
paying it in leaden coin? Talk
about treason, and all that, as long as
you please; but American freemen
dare be traitors, we hope to that
government which is a traitor to the
principles on which it was founded,
a traitor to the men who founded it,
and o traitor to the men and means
which supports and makes it pow
erful.
We know not if the men of Kan
zas will pay tribute (tax it cannot be
called; j but if they do they are not
made Of the stuff we thought they
were. They have not dlgested the
lesson of Hampden.
From the St. Joseph Valley Register
Cofaxs paper
To allay the excitement now exist
ing against Gov, Walker amongst
the Southern fre-eaters and disunion-
lists, for advocating such q monstrous
heresy as the submission of the Con.
stitution of Kanzas to the people who
live under it, it appears that he has
thrown himself completely into the
arms Of the Border kuflians, and has
attested his allegiance to their behests
by hurting threats and ploclama-
tions at the peaceful city Of Lawrence,
Thus far, that town has remained
unorganized, no one in it being will
ing to accept charter at the hands
Of their tyrants But lately tho peo-
pie there have quietly and unoffen-
sively adopted an organization for
their own convenience by a popular
vote instead Of waiting till the ag-
grieved should complain to the
Courts and ask to have it set aside,
Gov. Walker hastons 10 denounce
them, "cries havoc, and threatens to.
let loose the dogs of war" This is
to be followed by collecting taxes at
the point of the bayonet; but we be.
lieve they will never, never consent,
after every right dear to freeman has
been robbed from them, to pay taxes
to support the usurpers in their tyr
anny--to reniunerate the Sheriif's
posse which burned Lawrence--to
compensate Sheriff Jones and his
compatriot scoundrels, the appoin-
tees Of the felon Legislature--'to to re-
ward The horse thieves, house burn
ers, wOmAn-outragers, and lwaysider
assassins, who ravagcd the Territory
with FIRE and sword"---in o word, to
pay for a reign Of oppression, outrage,
and Y olcnce, and iorcible overthrow
and denial Of their elective franchise
by mArHudorS who have welded their
stolen power ever since to the injury
and enslavsmcnt OF the people from