Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-07-09
"Kansas will be Free.

The democracy Of the north, frequently exclaim
with an air of triumph, kansas will be free. -
Well suppose it will be free, what THANKS to the de
mocracy for such a consumation What agency
have the national democratic party had, in making
Kansas free state Has not its policy been to
fasten the Of slavery upon it? IL is true, III
dvuGls oftLe party may not have desired to extend
slavery into free territory but that the measures
of the leaders and opponents of the party have fay
ored the introduction of slavery into Kansas, is folly
for any one to deny. Let facts be adduced. The
passage Of the Kansas and Nebraska BILL was EN-
phaticaily a democratic measure il was unsni
mousy voted for by the democratic members o.
Congress; it then, and has ever since been
claimed by the democratic party, and incorporated
into Its political platform. Every ono knows that
the net constituting the territories of Kansas and
Nebraska, abolished the prohibition which had hith
prevented the introduction ofslavery into those
territories Did this act the democracy, look like
an intention to make Kansas free state Has il
not been repeatedly avowed the floor of Congress
aud elsewhere, by those who sought the repeal Of
the Missouri Comp romise that the object of the
peal was TO give freedom and slavery equal advan
tagcs IN the territories
Under the act of Congress by which Kansas was
organized a territory. territorial legislature was
elected under circumstance OF fraud and viauy,
unsurpassed in the history of this or any other
country the testimony of this fraudulent election
was placed before Congress, by an invcssiga ting
committee chosen by that body and has never been
disproyed. And yet the democracy have all the
while recognized the validity and The acts of this
bogus legislature, and sought to make the sustaining
Of it q democratic measure The President official.
lydeclsred that the laws ofkansas must be enforced
Gov. Reedcr, removed from office because of
his disnclination to enforce the enactments of the
bogus law makers Gov. Gsary had his commission
taken away from him by the President for like rea
soniShannon was removed because too nbecile to
execute the behests sof the slave power Does this
look as if tho national demo craey intended to make
Kansas free State;
And what was the characte of those laws enact
ed by the Kansas legislature, which the democracy
were called upon to sustain and which the power
sfthe general government was employed to enforcel
Ii would exceed the limits OF Newspaper article, to
giveeven on outline of them example is suffi
eient, to show the intent of them. The bogus leg
slaturs adopted for the gov arument of Kansas the
code OF laws of the State Of Missouri cutireslare-
~ a"ci"ded. Notwithstanding the legislature which
made these enaetments in Kansas, gained is po
stion by fraud and usurpatioa, the genuine govern
ment declares that the Law S must be oheyod and
and enforced, and the den ocraoy yield a willing
support, and endorse the government Attempts
were made in Congress to Sc aside the enactments
of the fraudulent Kansas legislature, but the de
mocracy IN every instance presented solid phal-
anx against their repeal With what reason can
a man pretend that he is in favor of making Kansas
a free state and support the measures and acts of
tho general government in re ation to this territory?
AS well might IMAM pretend desire, to see tho
hr0 OF burning building pu' cut, which co mpa-
ny OF tremen were ;.ttemptinr to cx.ingu;sh while
he himself was ali the time throwing fuel into tbs
flames. There is no concealng. eveding or disgus
ing the fact that the acts of tho national democracy
ever since The passage of the Kansas Nebraska bill
have favored the design Of n aking Kansas a slave
state, The whole southern democracy, with but
slight exceptions have boldly advocated the policy
OF introducing slavery into Kansas and have reioic
ed " the repeal the Missouri Compromise as open
lag the door for such purpose. The democracy of
Me north join with the democracy ofthe aouth in
applauding and commencing the course of the na-
tional administration in respect TO Kansas and
however individuals in the ranks cf the northern
slavery into the territories they nevertheless in
their influence and by their political acts are part
of the great slaveholding democracy of the UnioD
If Kansas comes into the Union free state as ,,e
trust it will, it will thanks to the nat onal
democracy but will be indebted for its position of
freedom, 10 the strong republican anti-savr,ry sen
timent of the north, which has eneourag ed thous-
Hnds upon thousands to emigrate with q fixed deter
inineton, 70 establish the rights of free LABOR and
tree mon, on the soil of Kansas This tile Of hos.
tile sentiment to tie institutions Of slavery, has
rolled into Kansas, through the agency of the free
dom loving party of the north until IT has become
so strong that the unrighteous bog,As laws, which
dem ocratc administration sought TO enforce nv tbo
presence of bayonets of United States troops. are
falling into contempt and becoming powerless. Let
national democracy blot out it's history, before it
presumes to take credtto itself for the prospects, of
freedom in Kansas