Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-04-04


slageryiSm. To that end they organized
in this county an Aid Society, with a
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 Leaycn-
worth Convention, which met in Novem-
Der, 1856, it says:
From the meeting of that conven-
tion to the present time, no question OF
whether Kansas should be a Free State or
a Slave, has been before the 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 ut
least be allowed to speak for ourselves,
and we unhesitatingly say that all our ef-
forts in behalf of Kansas were made sole
ly 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 other cause, declined TO participate in
the all absorbing question of the day, or
who refused to contribute money to the
cause, were denounced rs Free -soiler.
and Abolitionists-spotted for supposed
unsoundness on tie goose. And now,
after the people of this county have cx-
pended frem one TO Two hundred thous-
and dollars in the cause, the very men
among whom this money was disbursed,
coolly tell us that '' no question of wheth-
er Kansas should be Free State or
Slave S Sate, has been before the people :"
10 what end, we ask, was The peoples
money so freely given, expended, if not
to make Kansas Slave STATE The com
mittee may deceive others, but they can
no longer deceive 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 retract for the past.
What we said and did, We would say aud
do again under like circumstances. We
labored honestly and zealously to make
Kansas q Slave State, and we acted upon
the information then before us. We could
do no less. Rut the mask is torn off and
all is lost-worse than lost, for honcstand
sincere men in our midst have worked 10
establish in power a set of men who now
.s'.a-.s-~ -
ery'' to call themselves - Democrats'-I
who repudiate the very issue upon 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-slayery and Law and Order"
party, and assume that of the {" National .
Democracy of Kansas Speaking of
this change of position, the address says
I" In doing so, as a party, we forget
slavery and anti-slavery, in the high pur-
pose of serving our country and wheth-
er We have heretofore been Whig or DEM
ocrat, pro-slavery or antislaycry, we now
unite together under the Democratic ban
ner to aid our frie nds all over the Union
in waging common war upon the enc
mics of the Union and the rights of the .
States and Territory"
This paragraph needs no comment. 1t
explains itself, and is nothing short of a.
lowable Freesoilism.
The address is signed by the following
gentlemen, IL majority of whom will be
readily recognized as Kansas leaders
John Calhoun, Geo w Clark John
" Freeman, J. Kuykendall J. H. String
fellow, a. b. Hazard, John r. Boyd, f.
Ransom, L. \. Maclcan, II B. Harris, \.
Coiiey, John Donaldson, B. G.. Ncwsome.
j. G. Hereford, David II. Atchison, jeff.
Buford, w. II. Tebbs, $. G. Jones, Hugh
NJ. Moore, G. w Purkins, \. G. Ander-
son.
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