Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-01-21


The following from the n. !. Tribune, Is
concise and, We believe, correct view Of the
present and prospective condition Of Kansas:
There prevails : very general and, NO frost,
well grounded impression that Kansas will come
into the Union Free State. Not that the
struggle is over by any means, for there the
Border Runian code, enacted by the Missouri
Legislature ut Shawnee Mission, IL still upheld rs
Kansas Law, By which law Slavery is nov legal
" established and slaves held in Kansas, while
Whitfield pretends to represent her in congress
and nearly all her officials are pre-slavery. But
Shannon ia no longer Governor, aud Lecompte
Is removed from the vitality important post OF
Chief Justice. The Southern hordes brought
| in by Buford aud hissubordinates have nearly
all disappeared; Lawrence anu Topeka no lon-
ger stand to their arms against the border ruth
| ans led by Atchison, Reid, Richardson and the
Stringfeilows, and Gov. Gsary seems to be act
ing as fairly as the bogus laws aforesaid viii let
him As to the new chief justice, Harrison, he
has not yet been proved in action. but he goes
| into the Territory with high character, which,
| We trust he will MAINTAIN. But, beyond all this,
| the recent land sales have excited considerable
4 specularion and large tracts OF the unitDproved
| coil OF Kansas have been purchased IN eager
/ competition at liberal prices Whether Tree
/ state or pro slavery men have purchased the
more extensively. We do not know; nor IS it 80
/ important, rs at first might seein. For every
| speculative purchaser must know that land bears
agreater value in free than in slave state, and
/ that the soil Of Kansas will command prices nc
| cordingly. While, therefore, there are doubt
! less pro slavery buyers who will disregard this
| fact, it cannot fail to have influence with the
majority Ii all the soil of Kansas were this
/ day owned BY ten thousand spectators, half
| from the free and hall from the slave states,
there can be little doubt of its being made q
| free State. We rejoice, therefore, in lively
hope, but not in sanguine confidence, that
Kansas will be added to the number of free
| states.
Will not this, we are asked, vindicate the Ne
braska bill from the imputation of slavery prop
! agandism
| We answer-No more than the return, safe
| and sound, of soldier from the battle field
| proves fighting conducive to longevity. Kansas
/ if ultimately rescued from slavery, will have
/ been saved by efforts, sacrifices and endurance
on the part OF her people an their hackers in
| the free states, such as they should never have
been called to bear, and should by no means be
called to repeat. The wholesale fraudulent vo.
ting, the tyrannical bogus laws, the repeated in
vasion aud robberies, the months OF peril, uncer-
tainty and alarm, the pecuniary sacrifices, mise
ries and murders, to which the pioneers of Kan
| sdS nave Oteu SUI JeCteu Wy VIC uefOtees Ol STA
very, ought to serve as an effectual warning
against subjectng another embryo state to like
fragrant wrongs. But for self denying efforts
out side of Kansas, she must inevitably have
| been lost to freedom. Lawrence, the free state
| citadel, but for which the Territory would long
ago have been subjugated and every veslige of
her free spirit crushed out, was founded and
built up by the emigrant aid society. Contribu-
tons have enabled hundreds of free state peo-
pie to remain and live in Kansas, who must have
left or starved but for generous sympathy from
without. This very benefcence has sown the
seeds of evils which years will be required to
eradicate; but, meantime, if properly plowed
up next season, it has saved territory to tree la
Dor. Through tribulation and suffering the free
| dom of Kansas has been achieved let us not
expose another prospective state to such an Or
deal. Utah is today in danger of becoming a
slave state; had Kansas fallen, she would inevl.
tably have followed, When we shall have dri
ven the maraudng cattle from our field, the
job is TO put the fence behind them.