The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-08-15
FOREIGNERS.

tofe1E1ef3.
We made allusion to foreigners, in one
of our recent papers, which has excited
considerable feeling. We are glad pub
lie attention has been called to this sub
ject. We have no prejudice against a
man because he is foreigner. We grant
him all we claim for ourselves. Neither
do we believe 'man is horse because he
is born in stable" But We do plainly
see that our neighbor foreigners do not
comprehend the General Government oi
these United States. They look upon ii
as a government foreign TO ourselves,
which rules over us as Austria does over
Hungary, or Russia over Poland. Out oi
this mistaken view grows our differences
of opinion, in regard to the proper meas
ures to be pursued in order to change our
present uncomfortable position. Instead
of being a separate government, we are a
part of the government. Ourselves and
our neigbbors made the laws as they
now exist. Ourselves and our neighbors
elected the present National Executive.
Ourselves and our neighbors, including
Gen. James III. Lane, Lieut.. Gov. w. Y.
Roberts, Ex-Gov. A. II. Reeder, Ex-Gov.
j. W. Geary, Marcus j. Parrott, Esq,
and hosts of others, aided and justified the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and APP
proved the substitute the Kansas n Nebraska
bill-and also other laws, of which we
now complain. These men, with multi
tudes of Others, We are happy to know
have repented, and are doing works meet
for repentance. They are preaching to the
people, and striving to undo the evil they
so ignorantly did. IT'S thus we change our
laws, and our government, by changing
the sentiments of the people.
This, then, is the difference between us
and the foreigners we complain OF. We
go to the people, who made the laws, and
reason with them of their injustice, and
show how badly they work. The people
at the next election, change the admins
tration, repeal the Objectionable laws, and
we go on as one nation, the same as ever.
Or,on the other hand, if the majority rule
that the laws shall not be repealed, we
submit to them for the time being, as they
do, knowing full we'll that change viii
come, whenever they are sufficiently an
moving.
The North is as really implicated in
the misrule of Kansas, as the South, and
it is the merest nonsense to talk of diyid-
ing the Union to get rid of our present
difficulties. Every other man in all the
Free States would have to take up his bed
and walk. if we came to such disunion.
The people who govern this matter are
intcrmixed, and settled alternately in
neighbnrhoods, scattered all over these
United States. If we separate the States,
We do not mend the matter. The people
remain in the same localities, and of the
same opinions, and govern the same as
before.
five are in the minority now,we must
labor to gain the majority by the next
election, and then the whole thing chang
es. If we divide the Union,a as some of our
friends propose, for the sake of obtaining
our freedom, we establish a military gov
ernment in one-half the Union, perhaps
in both-or at best limited monarchy.
This, perhaps, is what is desired by those
who advocate that measure.
We have in our midst a number of
young men, foreigners, who assume
control over political matters in Kansas,
to the exclusion of the native-b born. To
this we object. We have had people come
into our Office, and complain that they
could no longer control their own primary
meetings because of this interference of
young men sent out from Lawrence. We
know the man who sends them. We
know the men who go. We know the |
manner of springing nominations on the |
meetings of the citizens, before they have |
chance to speak for themselves, and we
IRE opposed to the whole thing. We love
liberty as well as any man, and we are
Wiling to give every man an equal chance.
But we do feel annoyed to have few in
foreigners come into our
midst and assume control of public af-
airs, which invariably leads to rupture
# the peace of the country. if not to an
rmed collision with our own government.
they have no occasion to complain Of us, /:
or We -are willing to grant them the
ights we ourselves enjoy, but no more.
We are not willing to be drawn into un-
enable and illegal positions, simply to
ratify their views and feelings; neither /;
re we willing to assume those positions of q
ur own free will.
We wish to have the people at home, in !,
leir primary assemblies, express their =
Onest convictions,a and bring forward their l
wn men, instead of having this whole !
ling engineered for them by persons, .
reigners, or others, sent to them by
ling clique at distance, who cut and
Y all the business before hand.
Another Series Of Lies. "
w. A. Phillips says, over his own sig r.
Iture;- a
Prior to the attacks Of Mr. Brown up
myself, he came to me to propose