Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-06-18

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"A splendid eomPauy Of about so men. well oil
oerei-ara about to start from St. Paul, where
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expense Of three bundled dollars per d,y, Tor the
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through the county inhabited by the outlaw
Sioux. and ifthey meet them, will surely bring
in tldr seslp Niogo TrBrae.
WHY THE FREE STATE MEN IN KAN.
sAs WILL NOT VOTE AT THE COM
ING ELECTION.
The A-yus Of Saturday begins a characteristic
article, as follows:
The Republicans in Kansas, or a great many
Of them, at least, have determined tina. they will
not vote to make Kansas a free Stae. They are
determined to stand back and give the pro-slavery
men every encouragement to make a slave State Of
II, hoping that in case It is made a slave State
10y their own concurrence, they win be able to
raise an excitement over the matter, and gain
office.
As full and satisfactory answer to these Bor-
der Rufian ialseboods. we ask attention to the
following from the New York Evening Post
which used TO be considered pretty good Dem
%ocratic authority:
Thus far, the heroic men who have sustained,
at so great a cost, the cause Of free labor on the
plains Of Kansas, have maintained the position
that the odicts imposed upon them by the riOtous
and Illegal assemblage styled the Kansas Legisla.
turo should derive no validity from any voluntary
obedience on their part, and the protest from a
party embracing so large a majority Of the legal
voters Of the Territory. has had no little effect
in obstructing the contamination by Congress Of
the scheme for its enslavement. Now, however,
we hear, from certain quarters, advice rendered,
them to FeliHquish this advantage-to recognize
the authority Of the spurious Legislature, for once
by voting at the Constitution al Convention author.
lied by that body, in the hope Of obtaining a free
State majority Of the delegates This proposition
they have, we doubt not for sufficient reasons,
rejected. They, as rel as Governor Geary,
asserts that The election law, in all lis details, is
framed 10 secure the aseenianey of tie pro.Sla-
Uery parry, that all the arrangements for the con.
daei ofhe election are IN Border Ru6fan hands,
aud that tie certainty of a defeat By fraud, mua-
sion and violence is too clearto warr eat them in
enteringho contest.
Whether this conclusion be right or wrong
none are so able to detelmin as the parties who
have adopted it. They are men of tried pru-
d,Ece, experience aud devotion to the cause of free
labor, and, jndging from their past course, we
have every reason to expect that no circumstance.
no petty or personal motives, will induce them to
sacrifice the grave interests they represent. Crit
icisn and c]ensure, therefore, even Of a friendly
character, by persons a thousand miles away from
the seeae Of action, aud unable to understand all
the facts which constitute the present exigency of
the free state cause. can only serve to embaraass
and distract the movement, and can only benefit
its opponents.
All that remains for the friends of free Kansas,
in the States and in Congress, is to furnish their
representatives in the Territory with that moral
support which they so much need, and which the
address of the Topeka Convention implores.
AT all events, A continued AID resolute abstain
ance from concession to the Border Rufian
authorities and their spurious code, should be
encouraged, nay, insisted upon; for until the rad
cal evil under which the rights Of Kansas freemen
are now PROSTATE be removed, there is no hope
Of the restoration of order in the Territory. 1t Is
not peace, merely, which is desirable. The free.
State men could have had peace long ago, had
they been willing to submit 10 their oppressors -
Peace coupled with justice will alone satisfy the
men who in this address have renewedly pledged
+ 'their fortunes and their sacred houors" to tie
cause Of free Kansas and free labor. Il Wiscoa
sin State Journal. .