The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-05-23

Whatd Kansas Becomes Free State?
This question greatly agitates the
nerves of Mr.. Pryor, and the terrible
apprehensions conjured up by it find
vent through TIE South of the I'd inst.
de breads the "excesses of anti-sla-
very resentment in Kansas if the
Free State men should get the upper
hand. He calls to mind. we suppose,
the scalpings, the robberies, the burn
iags and the murders perpetrated by
the ruffian invaders last year, and
fears that the resentment inspired by
their recollection will lead to retalia-
tion. Let him calm his fears. These
things are not at all to the taste of
the sober citizens of Kansas. They
are busy just now putting in their
crops, and nothing will divert their
attention hereafter from the peaceful
pursuits of industry, save some gross
invasion of their rights. A fresh
bloody conspiracy against these would
very probably rouse them to resistance.
Does The South know of any such
conspiracy in process of incubation I?
But what most alarms Mr.. Pryor is
the apprehension that "the fanatical
emissaries of New England will be
impelled, as well by the circumstances
of their situation as the instincts of
their nature, to press forward upon
the career of conquest which they have
initiated with SO signal triumph" +"
Looking to the contingency, he gloom
lily prophesies the result:
Kansas will become an outpost of
abolitionism, garrisoned by the most
restless, adventurous and fearless spir-
its which may be rallied in support of
the cause. The first blow will fall
upon Missouri, whose frontiers lies
open to the rsvages of the enemy, and
whose power of resistance is enfeebled
by domestic distraction and disafec-
ton. With Illinois on one flank,
Kansas on another, and emancipa-
ton triumphant and defiant in the
heart of the State, Missouri will fall
an easy and early prey to anti-slavery
propagandism. It will be so-no
power can prevent the catastropha-if
Kansas is lost to the South.
"But that is not all, nor the worst.
The anti-slavery movement will in
crease in momentum at each step of
its progress for every success will
multiply its resources, and stimulate
it to yet more audacious enterprises.
From the vantage ground of Kansas,
it will be enabled to subdue slavery in
Missouri. The conquest of Missouri
will open the way, through Kentucky
and Tennessee, to the stronghold OF
slavery in the Atlantic States of the
South.
Meanwhile, other abolition forces
from New England, in the disguise OF
free-labor colonies, will be operating
directly npon Maryland and Virginia
and SO hemmed in by a constantly
contracting circle, slavery must ulti-
mately expire by its own internal
pressure and suffocating weight, even
if it does not first fall under some as
sault of violence.
''Ihis is no hazardous prophecy. Il
is only tracing the connection between
visible causes and inevitable effects.
Such is the doom of slavery-unlesf
the South resolve in season to inter.
cept the catastrophe, by some adequate
measure ofprotection. What is that ?''
THE South is true prophet. Why,
then. will it not yield with dignity to
what it confesses to be inevitable
Even if Kansas should not be imme.
diately lost to the South, slavery
could not exist much longer in the
border States. How foolish, then, to
seek to protract its expiring agonies
Let the benevolent Mem esis of Free
Labor do its work as speedily as il
may. We have faith to believe that
even Mr.. Pryor. if he should live
twenty years longer, will be as ready
to congratulate the South upon its
benefcient triumphs. as he is now tc
anathematize its encroachments upon
the domain of slsvery.-Demoerati'
Press.