Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-01-29
kansas n Free State.

every hill top throughout the land, by
Black Republican shriekers, that il
James buchanan was elected, Kansas
oouLd be a sluce State. There is no vo-
ter in this county-no reader of the
Fusion papers-the New York Tribune,
or other Abolition Journals but can
vouch for the correctness Of what we
assert.
The New York Tribune of Nov. 8,
dcclared-"The election of Fremont is
all that can now save Kansas from the
clutch Of the stakeholder"
So echoed the State Journal, and 9th
er of the lesser lights of niggerdom.'
The New York Times, of Nov. 4, said
-"The election of Buchanan will make
Kansas a slave Territory and a slave
State"
Such were the expressions used by
Black Republican shriekers in every
section of the North. How different
the song now. Then votes were want
ed, and brazen f%alsehoods were c~ircula-
ted to deceive the masses. So we in
formed the public at the time. Nou,
Buchanan is elected, Black Republican,
ism has nothing to gain by adhering to
these-kansas HES anu tho people are
having a vcrifcation of the truths told
:hcn r the Democracy-Hass2s is to
be a free .Statc!
Those who but a few months ago de-
clarcd that if BUCHANAN WAS elected
Kansas would be consigned to evcrlast-
ing, bondage-vho shed their hypocrit-
zeal tears most abundantly-who prayed
only for 4 murder to be committed that
the wrong might be charged to the De
mocracy, NOW proclaim that the Territory
| Of Kansas Is to be coacccratod to freedom. !
1t is hard to tell which ought to amaze
the people most-the cool, persistent i'm
/ position of a false issue before the cleo
ton. or the mock honest confession, now
the election is over.
The following extracts from the New
York Tribune and Times, show the pres
ent judgement of these Journals in rcla-
ton to Kansas:
From the New York Triblne. Jan. :, 1857.
There prevails a very general, and,
we trust, we'll grounded impression, that
Kansas will come into the Union a free
State. = = We rejoice, therefore, in
il lively hope. that Kansas will be added
to the number of free States.
From tae New York Times, Jan. :, 1857.
We hear from all parts of the Terrific
ry that quiet has been restored; that
general confidence is felt in the inten-
tons and efforts of Gov. Gcary; and that
there is scarcely any roam for doubt that
Kansas will be a free State.
An intelligent correspondent in the
last Buckeye also expresses 4 like spin-
ion. lie says
"As to it (Kansas) being a free or a
slave State, | must say that | have not
the least doubt but it will become a free
State. l form this conclusion from en-
quiries made of the actual settlers them
selves; as 1 had a good opportunity OF
doing so, at the recent land sales ofFort
Lcavenworth, of the "Dcl"warc Trust
Lands"
These admissions of the Black Re
! rUbliban shrickcrs are virtual acknowl-
edgement that when they were preaching
and praying for the defeat of EUcHANAN
as the only means of preventing the ex-
tension of slavery over Kansas, and
when they declared thousand times over
4lo4 L. o1oa@o rro.ll H. o-1.1 e.
bringing about that dread result, they
were preaching and praying and pro.
claiming a falsehood.
"Kansas is to come in as a Free
State" by virtue of the popular sovcr-
eighty doctrine. She will be Il free
State as the Democrats have all the
while said would be the case, because
that is the inevitable destiny of all tho
Territories, when the settlers who in,
habit them are left to their own unrc,
strained and uncontrolled action.
Eeg~In Cincinnati, enc day last week.
Mr.. George, Councilman of the Six
teenth Ward, had some wood for distri
button; he set out to find in his ward.
deserving persons of the latter class. In
his little tour he saw many Genes OF
painful deprivation. In one case 4 wi
dow with her six children had to seek in
bed that warmth they could not obtain
from fire, being out Of fuel. She bore
the hardship bravely, but when Mr.,
George told her he had some wood for
her, she burst into tears of joy. In an
other case he found Il widow whose
daughter was confined to her bed a Grip
pie, a typhoid fever having last summer
left her with a distorted spine. The
supper had just been spread, it consisted
of bread and molasses; a little fire
smouldering in the stove. it was made OF
pieces from a chair; article by article of
the furniture was in the course Of being
broken up for fuel.
mS-A terrible state of affairs is repor-
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