Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-17
Che Anti- glaperp Buele,
SALEM, OHIO, JANUARY II, 1857.
KANSAS AS A FREE STATE.

The community seems gradually settling down
into the conviction that Kansas will be h free
state. The Northern people settled down into a
similar conviction in regard to the admission OF
Texas, before the deed was finally consumated.-
Whether in this last case. as in the former this
pleasing dream of security, shall serve to defeat
and disappoint those who indulge it, cannot now
be foretold. That it should, woull certainly be in
accordance with our experience in every contest
with the slave power.
If the north shall succeed however it will be
owing. LIST to the great moral uprising OF the
north against it. 2nd to the superior number oil
free state emigrants and to the firmness and spirit
with which those early in the territory have re-
sisted and repealed their invaders and eventually
it will be accomplished as every thing else has
and must be done during the reign of 4 union
with slave holders, by bargain and Compromise
When Davis and Douglas and Toombs, find it i'm
possible to make Kansas a slave state, because,
overpowered by numbers, they will compound for
peace and sell out their worthless stock at an i'm
mcnse premium. For the relinquishment of Kan
sas when they can hold it no longer hey,will secure
the admission of, perhaps Nicaragua or Cuba and
new SIiNe tuteS lip" icAdN, NdiioiHi"b ~
leo, and Utah, or the accom- p%lishment OF some
other act of piratical villiany which the political
~gudgeons and knaves of the north will willingly
concede for the sake of gain and Office.
But whatever may be the final result, certain it
is that things in Kansas look more prosperous
hopeful than for a year and Il half past. The
settlers there, if we may judge from the Free
state papers. seem to think the great danger over,
Notwithstanding Fremont is not elected, and are
prosecuting their improvements with such vigor as
their crippled resources will permit. Butords
gang of freebooters have mainly left the territory
and Atchison Fand other leaders find Missouri, a
more comfortable residence than the Territory
The Missourians who have manly paid such ex-
penses of the marauders as their thieving, burg.
leries and highway rooeriers failed to afford, have
found it "A very expensive business and are dispos-
ed to Withhold their contributions, and some Of
them who want new lands for their slaves to till,
are giving up Kansas and seeking more quiet and
secure residences in Texas. Governor Gearv,
seems to be doing as well as the bogus Missouri
laws which he administers will permit him to do.
Lecompt, Donaldson, and Jones have been super
ceded, it is to be hoped by men of more humanity
and better intentions. AT the north the great body
of the Democrats, even, notwithstanding their
vote for Buchanan are opposed to the admission OF
slavery as the law of the Territory. While South
Carolina Brooks has declared his willingness To
vote for the admission of Kansas as a tree state il
a majority of her citizens declare their desire that
So it shall be, and even Stephens Of Georgia de
clared on the 9th inst, in his place in the House Of
Representatives, that though he should like to SCI
Kansas admitted as a slave state, he thought there
was no such probability. Not only the laws o
climate and production but of population would
prevent it."
As we have said, all this may intimate tina
that Kansas has a chance Of admission as a FIRE,
state. But SO sure as that chance is made a Ger
tainty, it will be:done only by the consent of a ma
jority in Congress to some other more atrociou
villiany, if such can be set aaoat by men who's
business it is, to frame iniquity by'forms OF law
And the result of this apparent yielding by tn
South will be that the north will quietly go t
sleep and give the Shareholders another opportunit.