The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-02-28
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HISTORY OF KANSAS,
First Discovery by the French to
the Close Of 1857.
FROM ITS
BY the E ditors 8
CHAP f II vi.

CHAPTER vi.
.,.,, op THE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BILL
,cr,ox or THE BORDER COUNTIES OF MISSOURI
'Nvopx.rtoy OF EaIGRANT AID SOCIETIES
.Sp FIRST SETTLEMENT OF LAWRENCE.
The Kansas Nebraska bill became a
law on the SOth of May, 1854. By
this act the Missouri Compromise was
repealed. That ancient landmark of
freedom was removed. This compro-
mise, fraught with SO much of good
70 Kansas and Of peace to the Union,
was first brought into the United
States Senate by Shareholder, advo-
Gated by a Shareholder, passed by
s,ave-holding votes. receiving the sane
tion of slave-holding President, and
his cabinet, majority of whom were
shareholders and was made the con-
dition of the admission of Missouri,
which otherwise could not have been
received into the Union as a State
The Compromise was, that if the
North would admit Missouri as a
sIaye-holding State, then, and in con-
sideration of that, slavery should be
prohibited forever in all the remain
ing territory of the Louisiana pur-
chase, north of SO degrees and 80
minutes.
The General Assembly of the State
Of Missouri, as late as 1847, resolved
"That the peace. permanency, and
welfare of the Union, depended upon
strict adherence to the Missouri Com
promise of 1920"
With the indecent haste of crime,
and without consulting the people, OF
receiving from them one petition fol
that object, the kansas-Nebraska act,
so huge in its enormity, so bold in its
aggressions, so violent in its pro-
gress, overturned the barriers which
our fathers had erected against tyranny,
and by slayeholding votes, snatched
from the free men of the North that
equivalent for Missouri which theil
predecessors had most solemnly pledg
ed thirty -four years before. Simulta
neouSly with this, the new doctrine
of Squatter Sovereignty was promul
gated as a popular catch-word. b.
this. few settlers who might frs
inhabit territory, could establish it
present and future domestic and po
litieal institutions.
AS this Territory was thus suddenl,
thrown open to settlement by tn
slave-holding party for their own ag
grandizement, and as they suppose,
1t an easy matter to throw in settler
from Missouri in sufficient number
to establish slavery, their rage wa
beyond control when they saw tn
reused spirit of the North.
In order to take the lead, and gai
what influence first move would ren
der, leading MEN Of Missouri passe'
into the Territory early in June, he'll
squatter meetings, passed resolutions
and then returned home. Amongs
them may be found the following =
we will afford protection to n
abolitionist, as q settler of this Terri
tory"
eve recognize the institution Q
slavery as already existing in thi
Territory. and advise Shareholders t
introduce their property as early a
possible
Similar resolutions were passed i,
different parts of the Territory, ais
In the border counties in Missouri
thus before the arrival of Free Stat
emigration, the resolves of a few squat
ters from few counties in an adioin
ing State, are claimed to have estab
hshed slavery here, according to tn
kansas-Nebrasks bill, and to hav
superceded the deliberate action @
congress, aequiesced in for thirty-fou
years.
AS it was evident to all homes
minds that this action was not i
harmony with the law. other settler.
as they came in, repudiated it. and,,ds
handed a voice in the decision
During the summer and fall, man
Free State emigrants arrived, VIII
supposed the vote of the squatteI
Would determine the question of slave
~ at some future day. The North S
understood it. The South SO under
stood it. Mr.. Seward, in his abb
speech in Congress, accepted thei
terms in the following words -
so far as ] am concerned, tn
ane for looking on the dark side hs
passed. | feel quite sure that SLAYER
q most can get nothing more tha
Aansas; while Nebraska, the wide
1ofthern region, will, under existin
- tsaeamstanees, escape, for the reaso
a' =, Its soil and climate are unconger
=. with the staples of slave culture
NJ sugar, cotton, and tobacco
Sufeover, since the public attentio
zoe. as oeen SO well and SO effectually di
ea toward the subject. l cherish