Freeman's champion., 1857-07-30
From tho Missouri Democrat, !
DisuniOn Rampant.

history, is aware that in q few years
the entire Territory of the nation,
north of Mason g. Dixon'S line, in
elusive Of the State of Missouri, will
be possessed and cultivated by free
white labor, and that every effort to
arrest this inevitable destiny will only
accelerate the defeat Of the system of
involuntary servitude. If KanzaS
had been admitted into the Union as
slave State, this result, we believe,
would have been postponed for many
years to come. If Kanzas, on the
other hand, had been admitted as q
FREQ State, by the action Of just and
impartial laws, Missouri would have
been able to retain her institutions
ior a much longer period than she
can possibly do now.
But the disunionists of the south
ern States, aided by corrupt admin
istration, would not permit justice to
have it's course, BY aseries Of uSurp-
atoms unparalleled in history, and
discrcditable to humanity, they en-
deavored to deprive the North and the
northern settlers, Of every right, po-
litical and civil, and to drive them
live outlaws from their just domain.
For, let it be remembered that Kan
zas, by a compact, solemnly ratified
by the South, which introduced and
passed it, was as justly the property
OF the northwest as Texas is the
property of the South. The South
received Missouri as her share of the
compromise, and to demand Kanzas
also was dishonorable and perfdiouS
>Perfdity 10 its own reward. The
outrages by which the nullifierS en-
deavored to steal Kanzas, by exas.
perating the Free State men, have
rendered slave property, all alongthe
frontier, the most precarious and
Improbable Of all investments.
Every one who knows the charac-
ter of the people Of Kanzas, and the
history which has formed that char
acter, is familiar with these fae4s.--
He knows that no. stone has been left
unturned that could be turned-that
no northern Territorial leader ha'
been left alive who could safely bt
murdered-that no outrage has been
omitted which could safely be com.
mittod--by the administration o
Pierce, and Atchison's banditti--in
order to make Kanzas slave State
All have failed. Free institutions
have obtained victory by the valol
OF free men. Kanzas mast be free
State. AS q reward and punishment
for her services to the nulliiers, Mis-.
,sqpr;--willing or unwilling--will be
Obliged very shortly to follow in her
train. Missouri, which trisd to "crusf
out the serpent" has been stung by
it, and must succumb.
Aware of these facts, what was tn,
administration to do? The party
had done everything in its power, di
rectly and indirectly. by action ant
inaction, to force negro slavery OF
Kanzas. Itfailed. What next?-
Its best and only policy was undoubt
edly to try and save itself in til,
north, by taking the credit of secnr
ing Kanzas to freedom, This wal
Buchanan's policy. Walker was sc
lectcd as Its executor. He was sue
cecding admirably. Suddenly tn,
disunionists Of the south opened
raking fire in his rear, Nothing coult
bo more unjust, impolitic, unwiso,-
No human agency could make Kan
zas a slave State, and yet these ia
natics seem resolved to insist on i'm
possibilities. The South, of July 10
has seventeen articles from States
rights papers, denouncing Walker
and threatening Buchanan if he Sus
tains him.
The object Of all of them is to in
duce the President to recall Gov
Walker, because in his Topeka speech
he advocated the submission Of tn
constitution to the popular vote
They all admit that such cours,
would insure its defeat--in othe
words, that an overwhelming majorit,
Of the people are froe-soil in Sonti
ment. Yet on this people, thus res
olutely opposed to slavery, they wiSl
the President to force the odorifcr
GUS institution Even the black Re
publican OF this city, the oulogize
and defender Of the scalpels and as
sassins who devastated Kanzas, re
coils from this tyrannical suggestion
Not 80 far-soutbern democracy
However, we have no doubt that ou
cotomporary will yet reconsider III
expressions, and fall into tho ebony
!, line.
Even Gen. Stringfollow, the noto
rious "bordor ryfian," (" ohrc denounC
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