The Kanzas news., 1857-08-01
me True Ground.

Man has a God-given right, no matter
what may be the inequalities of his material
position or intellectual nature, to the pos
session of his own person. We say that
every human being, no matter what may be
the color of the skin, is alone the owner OF
him or herself. Chattel Slavery denies this.
by making serfs of the African The strong
est and most able of the Pro-Slavery lead
ers of this country say, that it is not color
but position that makes slaves. The s'col-
orphobia' which runs Wild In the American
mind, is therefore, not the cause of slavery,
though it does aid In perpetuating it.
Every man, therefore, whom misfortune pla-
ces In an humble position, is as liable to be
made slave of as are the poor black chat
tells, that are bought and sold in the human
shambles of the bloody South.
We in KanZas have suffered much. Our
dearest rights and privileges have been in
vaded; our brethren slaughtered, our homes
fired, and all the long train of wrongs that
a bitter partizan war could bring upon a
weak and defenceless people, have been en-
dured for two years and half, in the cen
ter Of this great continent, and among those
who proudly claimed the title of american
citizens. We all know what has been the
cause. To carry forward the blsclenrse of
Slavery, has the flag of our country been
disgraeed and the hope of struggling
world well nigh stricken down? Yet all
these same wrongs and others thousand
times more atrocious have been inflicted
upon three millions of crushed and bleed
ing souls for a century past in the midst OF
our boasted civilization. We cannot but
think of this fact when we hear men in
Kanzas sneeringly and oftimes brutally re-
mark, that ''They don't care for the slave.
Let him be one, that's nigger's place any
how !'' To all such we say that the man
who openly avows his belief that the hum
blest human being who walks this beauti-
full planet of ours is not entitled to Freedom,
is himself totally unworthy of the position
and incapable of approaching the nobility
of being Freeman.
Let Kanzas men and women be true to
themselves, and acknowledge everywhere
that their whole struggle and its consequent
train of evils, arises from this Atheism to
Humanity, which does not acknowledge,
alike to the black and the white, the right
To he free LET MS he noble manly and
womanly, and in the midst of heroic con-
f1ict, which shall ring through the ''cor-
ridors of time," down to distant ages, let us
take the highest moral vantage ground
Remember sc that man never fastened a
chain upon the heel of his fellow, but that
God fastened the other end on the neck OF
his oppressor.'
We may join the yelping pack who hunt
down the poor negro; but can we then con-
sistently object to the logical results of the
crime we have committed. Universal Free
dom, no property in Labor, hostility to
Slavery and its progress, are the only
grounds upon which rest the triumphal
Issue of the great battle now waging; which
has the world for actors and spectators, and
the North American Continent for Its arena
Every party will fall and every conflict fail
of favorable result that does not take
these high-toned, philanthropic and human
itarian grounds, as a standard by which to
guide It's action.