White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-06-18

thrown, and revolution and civil war inaugurated
throughout her limits 7 Does she want to be
BLEEDING Kansas for the benefit Of political
agitaiors within or out of her limits, or does she
prefer The peaceful and Quiet arbitrament of this
question for Kerself7 Whr benefit will the
great body of the people Of Kansas derive from
these agitations They may for brief period,
| give consequence and power to political leaders
and agitatOrs; but it is at the expense of the
happiness and welfare of the great body of the
people of this Territory.
An ARsUxESrUn AID HoNINEx.
Those who oppose slavery in Kansas do not
base their opposition upon any philanthrOpic
principles, or any sympathy for the African race.
For in their so called constitution, framed at
Topeka, they deem that entire race so inferior
and degraded, as to exclude them all forever
from Kansas, whether they be bond or free,
thus depriving them Of all all rights here, and
denying even that they can be citizens Of the
United States, for if they are citizens they
could not cOnstitutionaly be exiied or excluded
FROM Kansas: Yet such clause inserted in
the Topeka Constitution was submitted by that
convention for the vote OF the people, and rati-
fed here by an overwhelming majority eff the
anti-sllvery party. This party here, therefore,
has in the most;pesitive manner affirmed the
constitutionalty IF that portion of the recent
decision of the seprtme Court Of the United
States, declaring Slat Africans are not citizens
of the United States.
This is the more important inasmuch as this
Topeka constitution was ratified, with this
clause inserted, by the entire Republican party
in Congress, thus distinctly affirming the recent
decision of the Supreme Court of the Union,
that Africans are not citizens of the United
States, for if citizens they may be elected to all
Offices state and national, including the Presi-
dency itself; they must be placed upon basis
of perfect equality with the whites, serve with
them in The militia, on the bench, the Legisl.-
ture, the jury box, vote in all elections, meet US
in social intercourse, and inteTmarry freely with
the whites. This doctrine of the perfect equal
ity Of the white with the black in all respects
whatsoever, social and political, clearly follows
from the position that Africans are citizens of
TIC ChttSu oIteSSs ANOf 10 supreme OOuTL
Ofthe Unisn less clearly vindicated by the posi-
ton now assumed here by the published creed
of this party, that the people of Kansas, in
forming their State constitution, land not Con-
gress) must decide this question of slavery for
themselves. Having thus sustained the Court
on both the contrOverted points decided by that
tribunal, it is hoDed they will not approve the |
anarchical and revolutionary proceedings in 9th |
er States, expungihg the Supreme Court from |
our system by depriving it Of the great power
for which it was created, of expounding the
Constitution. IF that be done, we can have in
fact no unity of government or fundamental law, |
but just as many ever varying Constitutions as
passion, prejudice and local interests max. from
time to time prescribed in the thirty-one States
of the Union.
EFFECTS OF CONTINUED AGITATION.
have endeavored heretofore faintly to fore
shadow the wonderful prosperity, which would
follow at once in Kansas, the peaceful and final
settlement Of this question. But irit should be
in the power Of agitators to prevent such a re-
suit, nOthRg but ruin will pervadG our Territory.
Confidence will expire, and law and order will
be subverted. Anarchy and civil war viii be
re-inaugurdt=d among us. All property will
greatly deprecate in value. Even the best farms
will become almost worthless. Our towns and
cities will sink iHsp fecsy. Emigration into our
Territory will ceass A mournful train of re-
turning settlers, with runed hopes and blasted
fortunes, will leave on borders. All who have
purchased property at present prices will be sac
riticed, and Kansas will be marked by universal
ruin and desolation.
Nor will the mischief be arrested here. 1t
viii extend into every other State Dcspots will
exut over the failure here of the great princi-
pies of selfgovenment, and the approaching
downfall of our coniederacy. The pillars of the
Union will rock upon their base, and we NAV
close the next Presidential conflict, amid the
fragments of the Constitution Of our
once happy and united people. The banner of
the stars and stripes, the emblem of our coun-
try's glory, will be rent by contending factions,
We shall no longer have a country. The friends
OF human liberty in other realms will shrink de-
spairing from the conflict. Despotic power will
resume its sway throughout the world, and man
will have tried in vain the last experiment of |
The architects of our coun.
try's ruin, the assassins of her peace and pros
perity, will share the common ruin of all our
race. They will meet, whilst living, the bitter
curse of ruined people, whilst history will re.
cord as their only epitaph: These ucere the de.
s'royers Of the American Union, Of the liberties
Of their country and Of the poTld
HAPPY PRooNosTicATfoSss
But do not despair of the Republic Ny
hope is in the patriotism and intelligence OF
the people; in their love of country, of liberty,
and of the Union. Especially is my confidence
in the hardy pioneer AMI settlers of
Tie West. twas such settlers of new State I
devoted to the Constitution and Union, whom {
long represented in the Senate of the United
States, and whose rights and interests it was mr.
pride and pleasure there as well IS in the Trea-
'ury Department, to protect and advocate. Il
vas mca ike fhese whose rifles drove back the
invader from the plains Of Orleans, aud planted
he stars and stripes Upon the victorious fields
1f Mexico. Thase are the mch whom gold can
not corrupt, nor foes intindAte.- From their =
owns and villages, from their farms and Gotta
yes, spread over the beautiful prairies of Kansas,
hey will come forward now in defence Of the /,
Constitution and the Union.
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