The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-04-11
Slavery . Nuisance.

to conservative. peaceable men, that
they are anxious to have it abated as .
nuisance. 1t has intruded itself into
| the Free States, in manner SO unex-
peeted and impudeRt, that the oldest
of fogies feels the insult. 1t has dis
regarded the comfy of nations, by
imprisoning foreign and native sea-
men, when they were not white men.
Commerce feels the insult, and looks
around for redress.
Slavery throws itself across tho
path of the peaceful traveller, and de-
mands an explanation of his seni-i
ments before he can proceed with safe
ty. Men who before never thought on
the subject of Slavery, nor cared for.
its perpetration on the African race,
are now met at every turn. and dis
turbed in all their peaceful pursuits, by
those who are attempting to force it
upon the country.
For long time, the. shareholders
were satisfied to rule and ruin their
own States to drive out their own
noble and liberty-loving sons. This
accomplished, they then laid sacrile-
.gious hands on the general govern
ment, and turned its vast powers to
the subduing Of freedom in the Free
States. The outrages and annoyan-
ees thus perpetrated have produced a
revulsion in Northern feeling almost
equal to revolution, and bidding fair
to break out soon in open insurrection.
But to cap the climax, the Kansas in
iquity was perpetrated. Here every
right of man has been stricken down.
Whether from Free or Slave State,
has not been questioned ; but whether
in favor of slavery or freedom in Kan
sas. And if in favor of freedom, he |
has been subject to all the catalogue
of insults and tortures known to bar
barism. Men who are publicly known
to be eminently conservative, who vo-
ted in Congress for the Fugitive Slave
law and the passage of the Kansas
Nebraska bill /; or who have aided to
enforce them, and in every manner
shown their friendship for the South
by sustaining slavery in its legitimate
bounds, have been annoyed, falsi6ed,
prosecuted, hunted down in
private and public life. till, maddened
by persecution, they have turned on
their prosecutors and armed. in self
defence. |
For twenty-five years past the Free
States have been appealed to, to take
action against slavery, because it was
subversive of human liberty. To this
appeal they have uniformly answered.
1--WE have nothing to do with slave
ry." For quarter of century have
the Churches of the Free States been
to, to take action against
slavery, because it violated the pre-
cepts of our holy religion, and is q sin
against God and man. To this ap-
peal, the church has replied, that slave.
ry was Divine institution, against
which they had nothing to say.
Patriotism, humanity and religion
have been appealed TO in vain. Liber-
ty. Equality and Human Rights have
also been smothered in the dust. The
victims who were suffering by the vio-
lation of these Heayen-born princi-
pies, were of another race, whom we
despised and hated, and were, therefore.
to bless with the rights and
privileges which we ourselves enjoyed. |
thus turned deaf ear to the
appeals of patriotism, philanthropy
and religion, and esehesed all the
higher motives of human action, the
people have finally bean compelled, in
self-defence and for self-preservation,
to combine and take up arms against
slavery; not because they hated it,
but because slavery interfered with
them in all the peaceful and common
pursuits of life. No man can travel
with safety. or live in peace in his
own home, or hold an Office with ap-
or follow the ordinary pur-
suits of mercantile life, without being
harrassed, disturbed, insulted or ruin
I'd, by its impcrtinent interference, or
open aggression.
As the great organized bodies of the
country. both political and religious,
have decided that they cannot act a.
yainss slavery either politically or re-
the people have decided that
It must and shall be abated as . nuis-
aace. and Tox pepaL est gaz< <Dei,z IT
e Il friend writes us ION Mn T
Minnesota, on the 22d of. Jan
nary, stating that the Thermometer was
lown to 40 degrees. That being
he temperature where the mercury
there is no telling how much
colder the weather was in fact, in the