Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-08-28

lures and individuals, to ooloniZe Kansas
with freesoil incendiaries, and expel sla-
very from its limits The South was arous-
ed by the fierce and plunging propagand-
ism Of the North, and her SOUS went 10
champion her cause in the new Territory;
and her money was given to maintain them
in the struggle AT the very beginning
Of its Territorial existence, Kansas became
the battle ground where the forms of So
ciety and labor, North and South, strove
for the mastery. This was the only ques-
ton agitated in the Territory. Contest
succeeded contest, the South won each; tri-
umph followed triumph, and each was en-
blazoned upon her banner. Three time 4
was Gen. Whitfield elected the Delegate
from the Territory, and each time he was
elected as the pro-slavery representative.
A large majority of the members Of the
Territorial Legislature have always been
pro-slavery men, and the constitution,
which is expected to close the Territorial
career of Kansas, and inaugurate her as
State, is absolutely in the hands of the
same party. Public law makes this con-
vention the absolute architect of the con-
stitution of. Kansas, and usage in many
cases, dispense with the submission Of tie
constitution to popular ratification
Why were companies organized and me n :.
ey levied at the North but TO make Kansas
free State? Why were efforts made at
the South to colonize Kansas, and money
given to accomplish this, but to make her a
slave State2 Every effort, every struggle,
every movement on either side, was mae e
to make Kansas free or slave State. The
Federal Government, as the agent Of, both
parties, was pledged to absol { imp irt' ali
ty between the contendiug parties. The
South won on every phase of the issue and
every step of the fight; and now, when the
sceptre Of control is in her very grasp, it
is suddenly and rudely torn away from her.
How comes it that this change has so sud
denly happened2 How comes it that the
cause of the South has SO suddenly gone
down? Perjured governors have broken
faith to blast her cause, and yet she brave
ly struggles and wins the victory against
all odds. Prostituted patronage insinua
its debauchery, and yet the nerves of the
South ared uuslaeked and her energy un-
quelled. Year after year the territory is
shaken with revolt, is stained with blood,
and wrapped in flames, and yet the cause
of the South prospers, and her banner is
triumphant. The last and closing strug-
gle is made, and the victory is hersl when
lol its fruits turn to ashes in her hands,
and despair settles upon her cause. Why
this SO sudden change? Is it nat the ne
farious fraudulent Intervention of the
Federal Government? There were per-
jured governors in Kansas before Walker
stained its soil with fraud and tyranny;
but their crimes were fruitless, because the
Administration was known not to sympa.
thise with or connive at the fraud and
wrong. How happens it that Walkers
dishonest intrigues too have not been boot
less also2 Is it mot because the Admins.
tration is believed to sympathise with and
abet the fraud and wrong' Is il not be.
cause he is believed TO be clothed with tie
sanctions of the Federal Government, that
he has succeeded in his foul and subtle
Vaccinations? If the cause Of the South
is lost in Kansas, it is lost through the
base betrayal of periured minion of fed
eral appointment. If the cause of the
South be lost in Kansas, il is lost because
a federal official, with the tarnished tinsel
Of Office around him, has travelled through
the territory as vagrant orator, strolliing
player, and political mountcbank, corrup
ting and debauching, tricking and bully
ing, wherever freesoil objects could be ac
cOmplished by these base appliances.
The loss of Kansas to the South is ,
great loss. And does it become the min
ions of the party in the losing section t.
stigmatize those who have shed their blood
and given their money to avert this calam
ity, by saying that the struggle was fool
ish one in the beginning, or that the'caust
; Of the South was long ago hopeless? NJ
--the sacrifices were patriotic, and the Of
forts. made to save Kansas to the Soutl
were noble. Nor were they bootloss, unit
, the Federal Government fraudulently in
, terfered. Is it honest is it manly, is i
, decent for the Administration to gather
{ the spoils Of the fraud committed by it;
minion, and then shuttle off the response