The Kanzas news., 1857-08-29

ins of our printing presses laugh you to
scorn. The clank of the sabre. which yon-
der epanletsd and uniformed ninion, with
vile bravado trails through our streets, win
drown your appeals. Go ask the shades of
Barber, Brown, Bufum, Hoyt and Hupps
for our answer Turn to the Fourth of Ju-
ly, 1856, and to the white prison tents that
cleaned on the prairie that memorable sum
mer, guarded by the troops of the Union,
and you win receive our reply. Glove the
Union?'' Ask not us. but rather turn to the
bloody Draconian code that 'encompasseth
us about as with waIl of fire ;''-te the in
famous judges who sit on your Federal
benches to mock justice with their ribaldry,
and to. the armed hirelings who, ike yultures,
are lying around Lawrence at this moment,
waiting for any pretext by which the ven
geance of mortified and baffied Federal of
fcer can be wreaked upon that town. Go
ask all the black catalogue of wrongs and
outrages that we have endured, but come
not near us with your mockery. We love
and revere the PRINCIPLES which lived In the
souls and lighted the actions of our fathers,
but the Union as it at present exists, we
laugh to scorn as libel upon the name and
an inEsmy n the eyes of the nations.
The Federal authority is powerless to aid
us. except by means of expunging the whole
of this damning tyranny OF admitting us in
to the Union under the Peoples Constitu-
tion-neither of which acts is that authori-
ty prepared to do. because the success of a
PARTY is of greater consequence than the
welfare of NATION. We say then take
away your Union and the power welded by
it out of this contest. Recall your officials
Let the instruments of your tyranny pro-
ceed to Utah and fight with the kindred
despotism of Brigham Young. In Gods
name, James Buchanan, if you wish to pre-
vent civil war spreading like fire on the prai-
ries, all over this country. call home Gov
ernor Walker and the tribe of knaves, fools
and murderers that were appointed by you
to control the affairs of Kanzas. They are
powerless for good either for you or for u.s.,
but they are potent to work evil to the peace
of the country. We know how we stand.
By the sword was this usurpation forced
upon us, by the sword has it been sustain
ed, and by the sword must it be driven away.
If you viii take away your army, we will
soon settle this question. We aOiU settle 1t
acheflier you aciH or not. It is your sanction
that keeps it in our midst. Without your
assistance Pro-slaveryism would be stran-
gled almost ere it breathes.
But we know the appeal is useless. The
Federal Government is no longer the con-
servator of the peoples liberty, but only a
passive instrument of the slave propaganda.
1t has proved, so far as Kanzas is concerned,
total failure. Believing that everything
else has failed, and that to enter into the Oc-
tober election win result in certain defeat,
and be recognition of the Territorial usur-
patton, and that we shall thereby prove false
| to ourselves, to the right of self-government,
and the principles of the Declaration of In
dependence, We are in favor of putting our
State Government into operation, making il
the government de ,tacto of the people, and
standing by it, ready to maintain it at all
hazards We are willing to do this whether
admitted into the Union or kept out of it
Feaful as is the die, bloody as may be the
stake, uncertain as to some may be the re-
suit, we would ten thousand times rather
trust to the justice of our cause and to. the
good rifles we have learned TO use, than to
live on in the present horrible state of sus-
pense.
Let US look this thing fairly in the face.
| Drop the mask from our own minds, and
earnestly examine the whole ground upon
which we are asked to participate in the
next bogus election. Having done so and
seen with what infamous care every av-
enue is guarded and every die is loaded,
how can any true and sincere man desire us
to sell ourselves for bare possibility of sue
cess. when by doing it We sacrifice all that
is dear to us and must almost inevitably be
beaten. Freemen of Kanzas, you have no
rights left to-day but those included in the
word-resistanee Said one of the principle
Pro-slavery leaders in conversation at Osaw-
kee, s' We hare oar heels on the necks of The
Free STATE naeaa, and Jy God, sue medn to
keep them there
The putting of our State Government into
operation is to US the just and honorable
way of vindicating the right We dc
now, and have ever believed that the moment
that is done and the people of Kanzas stand
ready to defend the government of theil
choice, that moment is this question settled
The Federal Government when opposed te