Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-05-14
The Gazette--Kansas.


to us, a remarkable arti5lein reply TO par
agraph Of ours last week, in reference to
slavery in Kansas. The editor is gratihed
that he has enlightened us as, TO slavery be-
ing local question, aud then proceeds 10
define the difference between local and ma
tional question, but in rather an unsatisfac-
tory manner. Our opinion is, that any ques
ton is national one which interests the
whole country and such has been the slave
~ question ever since the passage Of the
Kansas Nebraska act. Butthe Gazette says
it is local question. Ii SO why was it lug
ged into every democratic press and demo-
cratic speech during the last presidential
campaign and why was the south SO ear
besought to vote for Buchanan in order 10
defeat Fremont? Was ii not because the
slavery question had become national one
lone in which every part Of the Union was
interested? The theory Of the Gazette may
be very fine, but it will not stand the test Of
practical common sense.
In reply TO our question, didn't the editor
Of The Gazette go to Kansas 10 fight for
slavery, he says no. Very good. But what
did he go for? Hear him:
awe went there to fight for freedom
that freedom which we look alone 10 the in
iegrity of the constitution TO preserve. Then
as now we regarded slavery as local ques-
ton, TO be settled alone under the provisions
Of the Kansas n ebraska act, which we re-
garded and endorsed as sound in principle
and Just in its results" 1--WE
did not go there 'to fight for slavery" but
10 assist our friends in defending personal
right, because whatever affects common
right incident TO all citizens, affects each
personally"
That's all very pretty talk, bat if the edi-
tor regarded slavery as local question TO
be settled alone under the provisions Of the
Kansas Nebraska act" what business had
he there at all? Hasn't the government
power to force obedience 10 her laws?-and
if she does mt use that force, are Missouri
ans justitiable in going there and taking the
matter in their own hands? But the editor
goes on to say he went there 'to assist our
friends in defending personal right" FIX.
actly. But who were "o,Ir friends?" Was
it not the pro-slavery party, whe were en-.
deavoring 10 defend themselves against the
encroachments of the Abolitionists of the
north? And wasn't the personal right he
wished TO defend, the right of southern men
TO take their slaves uninterrupted into the
Territory, until State constitution could be
formed which would decide whether Kan
sas should be slave or free State? And
yet the editor didn't 60 there to fight for
slavery!
Our neighbor denies emphatically that ii
was ever question in Kansas whether il
should be free or slave State. Where he
gets his reason for saying SO, we are at q
loss to determine. 1t certainly cannot be
found in any address put forth by the citi.
zens Of Kansas during the excitement there
nor in any Of the speeches of the various
persons who were sent TO different parts oil
the south to beg for the pro-slavery cause;
nor in the proceedings of any of the meetings
held by southern men to raise men and mon.
eY to assist their friends in Kansas. Thrust
assuredly have found it origin in the fertile
brain of the editor.
We have before us circular addressed
by p. t. ABELL to the people of this section
Of the State, dated Brunswick, August 20,
1886, which commences as follows:
"FELLow-CITIzENs: | left Kansas Ter.
ritorv few weeks since under the order
and commission of the PRO-SLAVERY
PARTY, to make known to the people the
position of OUR party in Kansas, and to So
licit such aid as was deemed necessary tc
sustain our cause"
But this is not all. Mr.. Abel goes on 10
say that he undertook the trust "Soleiy wHh
the uie,0 of aiding IN MAKING KANSAS
A SLAVE STATE;" and says further that
sour panty in Kansas needs aid and that il
must be rendered or our cause goes dopn. u
We might make further extracts from the
same source, but we have additional author
ity to that of Mr.. Abel, In an "Appeal
by the law and order party of Kansas Ter
itory TO their friends in the Somh," signed
by Atchison, Russell, Anderson, Boone
Stringfellow and Bulord, we find the follow
ing language:
"In TertorrIal politics the QUESTION OF
FREE STATE HAS SWALLOWED UF
EVERY OTHER"
The same address appeals to the south FOL
aid as follows:
"Send us money and men. We mus
have your help. Friends of The cause mus
contribute their aid according to their sew
eral gifts"
Other proof is not wanting to clearly es
tablish the fact that the question of whether
Kansas should be free or slave State wa
the prominent one before the people of tina
territory last year, but the above must suffice
Our only wonder is that men here in Mis-
souri, can be found to deny it,especialy thos
who went there 10 assist their friends j
"detending dPersOnaI rigM" Brunswick
er.
Washington Items.
Alfred ]. Vaughn of Missouri, has bee