The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-01-29

VIII Kansas be Free!
The Northern Buchanan journals are
felicitating themselves over the idea that
Kansas will be Free State in spite of all
they have done TO prevent it. We cer-
tainly hope their assurances may be re-
allied. The Republican party has made
the freedom OF Kansas leading object
of its organization, and if that object is
finally secured, every Republican will re-
joice and take courage, and feel strength
enod anew for the work of resisting South :
ern aggression.
1t is not yet certain that Kansas will be
free. but tho prospect looks encouraging.
Tie Southern ruffians seem to be leaving
the Territory in disgust. t.complaining th at
they hfve been the dupes of those who
sent them there to establish slavery;
while It's certain the coming Spring will
witness large Free State emigration
to the Territory.
But, though Kansas comes in free, the
Slave Democracy will be entitled to no
credit. The result will have been secu
red, not by their aid, but in spite of their
opposition. The credit will be due, first,
to the Free State men of Kansas, who,
with scarcely an exception. are Republ-
cans, and whose intrepidity, frn ness,
perseverance and devotion to freedom,
has scarcely parallel in history. In the
midst of dangers and difficulties, they
have been true TO themselves and true
to the institutions under which they were
reared. No set of men ever better de-
served triumph, than the Free State
men Of Kansas over their border ruffian
oppressors. Secondly, to the Republican
party Of the Union, will Kansas be indebt-
ed for the precious boon of freedom A
Southern Democratic" Governor re-
Gently declared in his message, that "Bu
chanan was elected ac1hom the moral force
ofthe Nation" He was right. The emo
raj force of the nation," was, during the
late campaign, enlisted in the cause of
Republicanism, and it is this moral force.
operating through the ballot box, that
has caused cessation Of pro slavery ruff
fauism in Kansas, and which now makes
US look forward with hopes to its ultimate
freedom. Who believes that the ia
electoral votes cast for Col. Fremont had
not something to do with the removal of
that judicial cut-throat, Lecompte, and
Donaldson, and Clarke, the murderer of
Barber, and the change Of policy in the
executive officer of Kansas? Who sup
poses that there would have been the
shadow of chance of Kansas being free,
had the freemen of that Territory, and
Of the North, quietly submitted to the bor-
der rufiian outrages-to the bogus laws
as the Buchanan doughfaces advised
them to do? Had there been no Repub-
lican party to raise the banner of resist
ance to the designs Of the political swim
dlers who broke the Missouri Compromise,
Slavery would to-day be as firmly estab-
ished in Kansas as it is in Missouri, or
any other Slave State. The demagegues
who tell us that there never has been any
danger Of Slavery going into Kansas, on
account Of climate, &C., know hetter.-
They know that Slavery does exist in Mis-
souri,, which is in the same latitude as
Kansas. They know that slave labor is
nowhere more profitable than Ia tLs. Plette
oa,,n4-y-e Missouri, which lies North of
large portion of Kansas. They know
that Kansas is as well adapted to slave
breeding as Virginia, or Maryland, or any
of the Northern Slave States. Let us
hope that Kansas will emerge from the
gloom that has surrounded her, a Free
State. Let us still work on to secure this
result. But whether her fair plains ere
destined to become the home of freemen
or slaves, will make no difference in the
popular odium which will ever be asso-
ciaed with the party that has attempt
ed 10 enslave her,
Greeley's Almanac for 1851.