The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-07-10
from the Sunday lines.
The Kansas Imbroglio.

Kansas is determined to be trouble
some. The disunionists of both north
and south are resolved to effect by it,
at all hazards, continuous agi alton, as
well as irrita ion, and (shouId they sue
coed in their intention the final dissolu-
ton of the Union. We mean precisely
what we say. 1t is impossible to satisfy
the "iire-caters" of the south Ga very
small proportion, to be sure, but very
noisy one, Of our southern brethren)
without making Kansas a slave STATE,
no ma ter what be the wish of it's iona
tfde inhabitants. 1t is equally impossi-
BILE to content the abolitionists of the
north without permitting the Topeka
governor and Legislature to nullify the
territorial laws and defy with impunIty
the federal authority. In sober earnest,
the bogus governor Robinson) of Kan
sas, and Governor Brigham Young, of
Utah, occupy now exactly the same
political platform. Both claim to set
up, in legal parance, an imperium IN
imperio; and while both enjoy the pow
er of making their respe tive territories
the seat of harmony and prosperity,
both prefer from motives of personal
ambition to keep alive the flame of dis
cord, and sacrifice the interests of their
pretended constituents to serve the po-
litical purpose of themselves and their
pariisans.
Kansas, we once thought, had gotten
rid of the incubus that weighed so
heavily upon her shoulders and retard-
ed her advance in the pathways Of sue
cessful enterprise. The appoin ment Of
Governor Walker, whose liberal views
were patent to the world, and whose adj.
dresses have been eminently conciliatory.
appeared admirably calculated to pro-
mote the cause of peace in that unhappy
quarter. But willie the free state
men of Kansas have refused to co-ope-
rate with him in any act that does not
recognise as Legitimate all their illegal
proceedings, and the abolition journals
of the north and east have boldly mis-
represented his motives AID his Ian
guage, the handful of seccssionists who
disgrace the truc-hearted patriots of the
south, have not been less active in the
same cause and in the same direction
1t is very clear that neither of these
extremists cares straw for the welfare
of the Territory. Their sole object is
to keep open the slavery question in that
meridian, in order to make political
capital out of il throughout the rest OF
the Union. General Lane, the abolition
leader in that region, uttered, unwilling
ly, solemn truth, i'll his late speech
before the Topeka convention. THE
frees men in Kansas" said he,
"have more hell in them now than ever
before and may become dangerous.-
They are" he added. ga sleeping volca'
no, and should the fires once more break
forth, and the crater be once more
opened, stream of lava will flow ovei
the land, and will fnl Hercu'aneum
and a Pompeii outside the borders o
Kansas" "Outside The borders oi
Kansas implies threat that we may
not misunders and. The federal gov
eminent must succumb Congress and
the President must yield ; and to what
To the dictation of q party, which
protesting to embrace large majority
of the inhabitan of the territory, re-
fuses to exhibit that majority at the
polls, or to demonstrate its wish in any
thing bat rebellious assemblases, ans
threats like those made by Genera
Lane, to make the carefully sustained
dissension of Kansas tn, grave OF tht
American Union. We see, we mus
confess, very little hope for the people
Of Kansas, as long as its people consen
to be made, in this manner, the play
thing of desperate political gamesters
and are prepared TO lay their entire
future, thus readily, upon the altar o
partisan fanaticism.
--D-sN1sD1