The Kanzas news., 1857-11-07
The Danger.


Are the people Of Kanzas fully awake to
the perilous position IN which they stand ?
Do they comprehend that in few weeks
more Constitution, bloody with the life
fluid of our martyrs and black with the
blackest infamy of slavery, viii be in the
Halls of Congress asking to be received
as the compact under which You, FREE
Mem OF KANzAs, are to be admitted into the
Union. Do you comprehend that in all
probability this villainoas document will be
received by the Democrats and Dough
faces who now have majority in the Ma
tional Councils9
We have been iuI1ed to sleep by the syren
song of peace while there was no peace,
and the traitors now In session at LecomP-
ton have never closed their eyes. Not one
step have our foes retreated-not one but
surely, steadily, persistently have they gone
on in their work Of enslaying Kanzas, and
to-day the instruments of this fearful plot
of treason and crime are engaged in con-
sslnmating one of the last and most impor
tant acts in their bloody and dismal drama
They finch oct or retreat, but onward march
to the object which they have set them
selves to achieve. eternal vigilance is the
price of Liberty" and there can be no peace
while one stone of this despotism remains
unturned-and yet we have been idly lying
on our oars, or running after false gods,
while they have been cemented together
more strongly than ever.
clay not the flattering Hnction to your
souls" that the oligarchists and Rufians
who have played for SO high a prize as the
fair soil of Kanzas viii yield that prize when
but one more crime is needed to secure it.
The men now assembled at Lecompton
in the Treason Convention are the deepest,
shrewdest and most talented of their party.
They know well what they are stalking
every foot of the ground is familiar to them,
and not one step is taken bat the conse-
-quences are well weighed. While we are
traffcing in town lots-building up our
homes-they are scheming, planning and
working out our ruin. There is no swerv-
ing-no faltering feel assured of the
success of their plans, and go forward to
the goal to which they aim. These men
knew well when they allowed the people of
Kaazas to gain bare triumph in the Ter
ritorial Elsctien, that the latter machine
would be completely superseded by the one
that In the Treason Convention they are
making. They knew well that by the bay
onets of the U. S. Troops they were to be
protected in their task of infamy. They
determined that the Constitution should
be as ultra as it was possible to make it,
and what does the fact show ? In all the
Slave States there is no Constitution so in
famous as the one now to be forced upon
the people of Kanzas. Would they do this
if they felt they were not secure from the
vengeance of an outraged people, and as
sured of ultimate success !? They know toe
that Gov. Walker will leave for Washington
rs soon as this document is framed, never
we believe to return. They know too that
no matter in what shape or manner it may
come before it, a majority in Congress will
vote for its adoption, and the Representa-
tives and Senator'S elect will take their seats.
Men of Kanzas VIII you submit tc
this foul treason {? Shall all the fruits Of
your bitter past be turned into ashes in your
grasp? Have you become SO disheartened
that miserable minority of two thousand
though abetted by Federal influence and
Federal bayonets, can rule and reign over
twenty thousand What is life without
Liberty; and shall we allow this to proceed
to its close ?
There is something worth living for be-
sides that which material wealth can give
In your hands, men of Kanzas, rests the tri
umph or failure of those great principles Of
self government for which the swelling
heights of Bunker and Breed were strewI
with dead, aud the snow of Valley Forge
marked with the bloody footprints of the
Revolutionary Spartans. There is gran
deur and power in numbers which can be
felt but not described. "Thrice armed is
he whose quarrel's just;'' and if the Pro
PIE OF KANzAs but sCiH to stay this treaeh-
cry. they can do it.
There is but little space left for labor. In
a few weeks the crisis of our strife will be
on u.s. Let us "work while it is stiil day.
The people must repudiate the work of these
traitors in tones of thunder-not only in
word but deed. Let the Convention. Pres
ident Buchanan and the Federal Congress
understand that this Constitution mast moi
and shall not be forced upon us. Cali your
meetings in every district throughout the
Territory; speak your condemnation in
faru1s not to be mistaken. and which shall