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

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servitude is deleterious to human ad-
vancement; morally, it is worse than all
What law of morality is respected By
majority of the slaveholding population
/ of our country, or any other.where the IN
stitution is acknowledged. The argument
advanced is, that slaves are property, ara
that the masters have right to do as thes
please with their own. So argued the
Duchess of Sutherland in her legal razsaa
against her Highland tenantry, applying
it in her own justification. but denying it
to SHAREHOLDERS This may be considered
at the South very excellent argument;
Init we of the North think it super excel
lent nonsense. If we are possessors of a
rabid dog will the South assert that we
have an inalienable right to let him run
at large, stocking the market with hydro
phobia; or if we own the fec simple of
dozen dead horses, have we right to let
them remain uncovered to the certain
detrimenteftheh health of the community?
Noman has right to burn his house or
barn, if it viii endanger the property of
Others. Neither has the South right to
DO with what they claim is their own as
they please, if it exerts an immoral or
detrimental influence upon others. The
principle of .'alI for each aud each for all, "
/ is what alone viii guide US as nation to
the summit of physical, mental and moral
prosperity.
Have they right to do what they
please with their own, if it constitutes an
I evil more monstrous than that of the age
of reason in France, when it breaks down
every social barrier, sunders every tie
which binds the hearts Of men, and tends
to the extinguishment of every attribute
which raises mankind above the bestial
level of the brute creation. When its eff
fects are to bring back the ignorance, fa-
naticism and superstition marking the
d8CO Vi tflE PSiDObo-
ate the reign of sensuality and lieentious
ness, and convert the fairest portion of
the American continent into an immense
brothel, charnel house for virtue and
innocence, and a banquet hall Tor demo-
nian orgies; and all this sanctioned by
statutory enactment, and approved, nay,
blessed by their,inteFpretation of religion?
Most assuredly they have not, Southern
journalists, politicians and ministers to
the contrary notwithstanding. Thus,
morally, the system stands condemned.
To avert this social evil was our first
thought; to that end have we labored, and
shall continue to labor, until the consum-
nation is accomplished, and Kansas is
enrolled among the constellation of stars,
State devoted heart and hand to the
cause of freedom, and human elevation
and deliverance from the many shackles
which bind it. Freedom from the curse
of slave labor, freedom from the bane of
intemperance, ,and freedom from all which
tends to corrupt and enervate the hui
man race, whether in politics, theology
or law, physically, mentally or morally
If We have taken and choose to follow
a line of policy, differing, immaterially
from that of our co-laborerS iii the same
cause, what matters it to them or to the
world, so that the same end is ultimately
attained? There are more thoroughfares
than one leading to given point, and
because others differ from us in theiI
preference, we see no reason therein to
yilify them for such inclination. We
have given our adherence to no principle
except that which aims at making Kansas
"a free State; we have determined opposi-
ton to no powers save those of evil; and
if, in our opinion, we can fight them best
by keeping aloof from tie main army, we
shall assuredly do so. Independent COM
panies, ostensibly, though in a measure
subject to the orders Of the regular SER
viee,were more efficient in battling for our
liberties in '76. than the same proportion
otherwise; and if we incline to the belief
that the cause may be advanced thereby
in this second, though intestine war for
freedom, We shall certainly follow such
course, whatever may be the inference as
to the motives influencing US.
We repeat here, that do not now, nor
never have, professed adherence to party;
but we are satisfied with all, SO long as
their efforts tend to pcrpetnate free insti-
tutions, here, and everywhere throughout
the world.