Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-03-25

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latJon of the Kansas mystery Is 1t hand. LEX
isgsos Ky Observer. S $685.
Il has coma, and the world behoids the Sovsh
bstrayed, and Nissourians duped and swindted.
II thosc persona who, Z short time ago, ciaimed
70 Be the Pro- Slavery party 10 Kansas Territory,
are TO Be believed, then the Kaanas sxcitemeni
vas most stupeEdous humbug and swindie,
without soiitsfy mitigating feature.
The histcsy Of the Kansas question u almost
TOO well known 70 bear rehearsal, and at this
| time We shall not enter upon il only 70 far -
may be necessary 70 exposs the moral and DO
iiticAl turpitude Of those men whom we once
thought we're tho genuine friends Of the South
Our attention has been directed to this matter
BY the appearance of an address TO the people
Of the U, g., promulgated by the late Lecompton
Convention. The address TO which we alIude il
signed BY q committee oftwenty one gentlemen
| appointed by said convention, and purports TO
| give history Of the Kansas question up to the
present time. This document We have read With
great care, andhave come to the conclusion that
II the statements In It are true, the South has
been shamefuliy betrayed and the Nissonrians-
duped and swindled-dupcd politically, and
swindled out OF their money, their property and
their time. The address is before US in pamph.
let form, and throughout its eighteen solid pages
Is devoted to proving that the question Of sla-
very was not the issue 10 the Kansas troubles--
that the late organized opposition to the Free
State party in Kansas, was not and never had
been Pro-Slavery party, and the whole wind.
ing up with an appeal to the Freesoilers of the
Territory to come TO the standard Of Democracy
~ set up by the Convention.
This is indeed strange talk to come from those
who for two years past have flooded Missouri
with appeals for aid-rnaterial aid, men, money
Ito save Kansas from the vandal hands of An.
ti-Slayeryism, to make Kansas q Slave State.
Such has never been our understanding Of these
contests in Kansas; We thought 1t was Slavery
and nothing but Slavery that was at ISSUE To
accomplish the establishment Of Slavery In Kan
sas, We are sure, was all that induced the people
OF this county to turn out by hundreds, and al
most By thousands, to sustain their pretended
friends in Kansas. To that end they subscribed
hundreds and Thousands of dollars, and paid it |
without grumbling, under the assurance that it
was necessary in order to decide the contest 20.
ing on in Kansas in favor Of pro.siaueryim. To
that end they organized in this county an Aid |
Society, with capital of 10000 dollars. To
that end they rushed in person to the conflict of
arms.
But We desire to give the exact words of tie |
address. Speaking of the Leavenworth Conven |
ton, which met in November, 1855, it says:
"From the meeting Of that Convention to the |
present time, no question of whether Kansas
should be Free State, or Slave, has been be- |
fore 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 at least be allowed to speak for
ourselves, and we unhesitatingly say that all our
efforts in behalf Of Kansas were made solely
upon the ground that slavery or anti-slavery was
tho ISSUE Upon that ground men who could not
reconcile it with their consciences to 60 to Kan
sas, or who for any cause, declined to participate
in the al absorbing question of the day, or
who refused to contribute money to the cause,
were denounced as Free-soilers and Abolition.
ists-spotted for unsoundness on the goose
And now, after the people of this county have
expended from one to two hundred thousand
dollars in the cause, the very men among whom
this money was disbursed, cody tell US that mo
question Of whether Kansas should be Free
State or Slave State, has been before the peo-
ple!" To what end, we ask, was the peoples
money so freely given, expended it not to make
Kansas Slave State? The committee may de.
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 and do again un.
der like circumstances. We labored honestly |
and zeaously to make Kansas Slave State, and
we acted upon the information then before US.
We could do no less. But the mask is torn off |
and all is lost--worse than lost for honest and
sincere men in our midst have worked to estab
fish in power set Of men who now repudiate
the designation Of "proslavery" to call them.
selves stDemocrats" who repudiate the very is
sue upon which they received our support, and
declare that the question of slavery has never
been and is not now, an issue in Kansas Terri
tory-and who wind up the long and bitter con-
test by ignoring their name of "Pro-slavery and
Law and Order" party, and assume that of the
''National Democracy" of Kansas" Speaking
Of this change of position, the address says:
"In doing SO, as party, we forget slavery
and anti-slavery, in the high purpose of serving
our country; and whether we have heretofore
been Wing or Democrat, pro-slavary or anti
slavery, we now unite together under the DEM
ocratic banner to aid our friends all over the
Union in waging common war upon the ene-
mics of the Union and the rights of the people
Of the States and the Territory"
Phis paragraph needs no comment. 1t explains
itself, and is nothing short of allowable Free
soilism.
The address is signed by the following gentle
men, a majority of whom will be readily recog-
nized as Kansas leaders,
John Calhoun, Geo. w. Clark, John w. Free
man, J. Kuykendall, j. H. Stringfellow, A. B.
Hazard, John r. Boyd, E. Ransom, L. A. Ma
clean, II. B. Harris, A. Cofiey, John Donaldson,
b. G. Newcome, j. G. Hereford, David r.
Atchison, JEFF. Buford, w u. Tebbs, S. G. Jones,
Hugh N. Moore, G. W. Perkins, A. G. Isaacs,
and G. G. Anderson.
Next week we shall publish the address entire,
and thus enable our readers to judge for them
selves. In our Judgment it is either a libel on
;s tory so far as the issue of slavery is concern
"A n = the people of Missouri have been wretch
div ,auped and swindled. Nothing could be
better u, derstood than the great issue sla-
,ery. aud e except for that question, not dollar
,ouid have ,heen raised in Lafayette county for
Kansas settlement and Kansas wars. We shall
refer to this SUBJ ect again.
KANSAS EM1aRAx;s-This morning early
number of families with wagons aud stock, ell
route for Kansas, crossed the river. They were
mostly from Indiana One of them stated that
there would be at least thousand families from
the portion of Indiana whence he came who will
emigrate to Kansas this spring. This must De
tho reserve Of Jim. Lanes army There WIZ
be an outpouring westward this spring.-Quincy
Repub., l4th.