Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-31
BLOODY COUNSEL.

The Pittsburg Gazette of the 9th, inst, has
its indignation stirred even to the poin. of blood
thirstiness, by the fact that Missouri Rufianism
has agOin seized the Kansas ballot boxes and i'm.
posed another legislature of its own upon that i'll
fated territory. Speaking of the late election il
says:
There can be no doubt that the people of Kan.
sas went into this election against their will, with
a clear foresight as to the result and a conseq uen,
conviction that they would be detrauded but the
pressure upon them from the outside was too
great, and they yielded to it.
The people of tho Free States said to them, in
substance-"Gov. Walker and the President have
promised that you SHALL have fair play, that none
but the legal voters shall be allowed to vote, and
tina. the will of the people, fairly expressed, shall
be allowed to have its way. Try them ; if they
keep their promises you gain the point, and if not,
you are no worse off than before" Under this
KIND OF reasoning, and to satisfy the people OF
the North that they had exhausted every peaceful
remedy, they resolved to take part in this election.
They have done so, and the result is given above.
With a clear majority Of 5000 in their favor, they
are deliberately swindlGd out of the legislature Iy
a fraud too barefaced even for Walker and Stan
ten to approve.
1t is perhaps we'll this trial was made, for the
sake of the demonstration it affords that the
people OF Kansas do not possess and cannot OBJ
tain, under democratic auspices the right of self.
government. 1t but remains for them, now, 30 as
sert that right at the point of the bayonet. They
have exhausted all their legal remedies, and it
would not become thom, as men, to submit longer
to the oppressive rule they are buriened with.
There is not n State in this Union, north or south,
whose people would submit, for one hour, to such
usurpntions of power. They would rise as one
man and hurl the usurpers down. SO must the
people of Kansas do. There are %, 900 able
bodied Free State men in Kansas, capable of bear
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by shouldering their muskets and rifles, and say
ing to Walker and Stanton-"We wan. our rights,
and if you will not give them to us we will take
them" The time for talking and arguing has
gone by. These Border Ruiians do not under.
stand anything blunter than the point of a bayo-
net, and that is the argument our friends there
must e.-T shot which disturbed the vitals of
Sheriff Jones did more good than all talking ever
done in Kansas. and if it had been followed up
then, there would have been none of this trouble.
now.
Some timid one may say, why, this would
lead to civil war" We think not the first round
or two from well-trained marksmen would settle
the whole affair. But even if it did, what then ?
Better civil war even, than n shameful submission
to oppression. If the people can be trampled on
in Kansas with IMMUNITY, there is no protection
for the rest of us. If this is q Republican gov.
eminent, no harm can come from q manly resis.
lance to fraud and tyranny ; and if it is not a Re.
publican government why, let it go. We counsel
the people of Kansas to defend themselves against
aggressions from any and every quarter, in the
only efectual way left to them. Let them do and
secure justice to themselves, if the beavers should
fall. The people of the Free States will not fail
them in their hour Of need.
Never was better counsel given than this with
which the Gazette closes its article. But we
doubt whether it means all its language clearly
implies. We heard just such talk months ago
when Lawrence was sacked by these same ruff
fans but when it wac brought to the issue it only
meant fight tho Missourians. and permitted With
out a blow, and almost without u word of remon.
STRANGE, the legislature elected by the people to DO