Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-06-19

WFaSl SioSs0 aHllnSt Tie actual settlers
of tho season the ballot boxes, which has
enrolled mon beyond the Missouri on the
other side Of the line, plan so carried out
that tho people am made powerless in the
shoice of delegates to the Convention, will
nat accomplish the object of making Kansas a
Slave State. All, all Of the appliances
would fail, ssss,use the people were true to
the great principles, to the aighty impulse,
that brought them into the Territory; and
by their dseds, By the daily beauty OF their
lives, they were winning over to Freedom
many who came here T. blast these ricn
fields with Slavery He should return
home with the conviction that neither fraud
nor violence, nor the Establishments of power
could perpotuate in Kansas the oditas and
infamous code of Slave Laws that dlyScncd
the statute book of the Territory, These
laws had received the sanction Of IN, Nat
ional Government bat they viii - down be-
fore the people. The cvtsus-t.,i;-rs had
found hut 5000 Inhabitants and 5000
voters in the Territory. In fifteen counties
they would not find either inhabitants or
voters They would not finl the thrUug OF
men and women before him, because they
were all FOR Ere, Kansas but all these
things avail nothing. The Free State men
would not be overborne longer. They have
it in their power to take peacefully the
Government and shape the future Of the
Territory, and they would do il in t'isir own
way and in their own time. Their friends
in the States, who had responded TO their
appeals in the DAYS of tseir MS ortunes. who
had in tho halls Of Congress ann b,!ore the
people vindieatod their rights and defend, i
their motives and acts, wanted Kansas not
only to be Free Stat. bat they wanted her
70 be on the side oi Freedom. 1t would he a
most humiliating aud painful spectacle, after
what has trlGspired in kans j., t. - her
come into the Union n frJ-Sitvery State !:
- So, her Senator'S vutllg with mon who
cpued her soil t. slavery. recognized the
4,uvasious usurpltions and the bogus taxes
and indicated or apolosiss.d for the acts OF
Border Rufianism. lie asked the FIRE, men
oi Kansas not only to maxi her a Free
STAT, but place her on the side Of Fr3edoin.
Other hati5s are 10 be fought. The Slave
Power must b. meet on other fields. Its
.chicfains arc already consoling tue slave
holders of the South for tie loss of Kansas,
by assuring them tina, the Territory OF the
ladiln nations viii be Slave Salts TEE
Indian Territory, Utah, New Mexico. all
the territory Of tie Union. must be de,ica-
tod to the free laborins-men OF the 4, pablo
Free Kansas. saved to Freedom by YOUR
prayers and toll, should stand in the future.
not with Arkansas South Carolina ana Ala
bana--the bands Of Buford and Titus but
with NewEngland. the Contra! Stats and
the W est ; not with the Blue Lodges. bat
with glorious St. Louis. Save your friends
in the country. in the Senate Chamber, from
the deep humiliation oil seeing the seats o!
Kansas in the national councils filled BY
linen who will defend the motives. priueiplcs
and acts Of the man who robbed you OF
your rights, Oppressed you with arbitrary
wrongs, invaded yeHr soil, DESTROYED your
free presses, burned YOUR humble cabins,
and murder your brethren for the crime
of loving Liberty. He was fully convinced
that Kansas Was lost to tho Slave Power.
that she would take her place i'll the lists OF
Free States. The Senate might sustain
Lecompte, the president might reward the
men who have wron red, outraged and mar
dereG the people. with official honors bat
no power. not even the s,abers Of Dragon
could much longer. or perpctuate human
Slavery in Kansas. The devotion the
saturing courage and sublime fidelity If the
mon and women oil Kansas. touched the
heart of the nation their brethren had lc.t
their ZONES and GENE here by tens Of thou-
tIem sands ID share their homes ( shar,swith
she trials and the honors Of making Kan
sls n Free State. The contest WAS not VI
closed. but the issue was settled d,.v3ud tie
power or m3a to reverse IT, klns.s was dos
tined spnSliiv 10 repudilte Slavery. thrust
upon her and - cnrrlvc upon her beautiful
pr.iries the world Liberty. in characters of
burning light She would Do this. not by
the vague promises Of 70, National Govern
ment or its officials. bat by the power Of her
own song. sustained by the generous symra-
thieS af the treemen of the North lie siw
that the contest WIS not now - much t.
make Kansas a Slave STATE. Is - deride the
noble sons who stood together in resistance
&c inyasioas. usurp,.iions, arbitrary law and
Ew less oatracCs, and make her pr1-Slaye-
- Administration STATE. He had no advice
&c give the people of Kansas in regard -
= Dc of action they knew better how t.
ft: than he could know hut he warned
,he,n ~ inst the seductive influences which
would be applied-now that the battle was
g,ing against Slaycry-to make her II Pro
Slavery Democratic Stata Kansas has been
eiptized in the tears. prayers, tolls aud
suffering of the friends OF Freedom She
should D. free herself. and he ever for the
srcedom Of Others If his voice could BE-
heard hv the dwellcrs in the cabins scattered
over her prdiries, he would say to them
" DIR fidelity. toll and endurance have
made Kansas Free State see to il that You
place her on the side Of eqlal, universal
and impartial liberty for all men. in the
contest of the future" He should retarn
home filed with admiration Of their Terrific
ry; it would be a great and proud common
wealth. lie could almost forgive the B1r-
der Rutfians who sought 50 fair hermitage
but he cauld never cals, 10 condemn that
policy which opened that glorious land to
Slavery, strif, and blooished. He could
ASSURE them that in the future. as in the
past, he should give his voice and vote, in
public and in private lif, to the viniic4tion
81 the rights and TO the dciens, of the
fame Of the free-Stets men of Kansas -
S.nasor Wilson spike Tor more than an
hour, and his remarks were received with
much applause. At the elose he WAS in
sroducsd TO several ladies' and gentlemen
"A fac smile of the coin received by
Judas fer the BETRAYAL of our Lord. an