Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-03-25
CroakcrS As.ain.

SEO4eHASAS
The New York Tribune and press OF
that character, as has been their char
actcr in the past, are now discouraging
emigration to Kansas by mistaken rep
RESERVATIONS in regard to the late cleo
ton. They state positively that Cal
houn will give certificates of election to
the pro-slavery State officers under the
Lecompton constitution, and to a ma
jority of the members Of the Legislature;
and then they are continually stating
that the Lecompton constitution will be
endorsed 3yGSnGress. From these
facts theyf argue that the democratic
party has made Kansas a slave State,
and by this cry they hope to hurl that
party from power. At the same time
they must be conscious that if the dem
ocratic party was sure to be swept from
existence three years hence, that event
could not save Kansas to freedom, as
the question Would have been perman-
emily settled long previous to that time.
THE achote tendency Of these croaking
papers, from, frs:6 last, has Jeen to make
Kansas ,ehat those journals here prcfcSsed
a desire to aroid. Our only hope of
saving Kansas to freedom lay through
emigration. Their croakings, instead
of encouraging emigration, as has been
our policy BY presenting a gilded future,
such as we have full confidence to cx-
poet, has only discouraged it by thou
sands; and these mean are invariably
rcsorted to+whcther purposely or 9th
crwise We leave the reader to determine
for himself after carefully considering
all the facts-at the time when We are
preparing for, and most in need Of, the
heaviest emigration. 1t has been sug.
gested that this was the only subterfuge
of those editors to prevent the East from
being depopulated by the enormous en-
igration which would otherwise follow.
There is not a man, in his sober SEN
scs, who does not know that Kansas
Territory, DIT this time, would boast of a
populationof from fifty to one hundred
thousand more persons than it has at
present had the eastern press, instead Of
constantly predicting the defeat of the
free-State cause, given ample assurance
that its triumph was inevitable through
peaceful means. Talk as much as we
may of the bravery of the American
people, il is not true that any of them
desire tota&e their families to a country
ovcr-run with civil war and cursed with
anarchy.
But the assertion Of the Tribune is
not true that the pro-slavery party fri
umphed, even by fraud, IN the late cleo
tons. Onithe contrary, rs Gssrrt most
positively that the free-S!t& pariy hare
the entire State ticket and nearly,
# moi quite. a tteothjrdS ntj.ority IF both
branches of the Legislature. We take
pleasure, in addition to this, of stating
that we do not believe John Calhoun
will issue certificates of the lection to
TTv-siavery candidates; but that a
majority of tho ffee-Statc men will be
allowed, without opposition to take
their seast in the first legislature convey
ed under that instrument, if admitted
into the Union. And we know that if
IN attempt is made to preventive PEOPLE
ruling in this matter they will
not be foiIed; but, by peaceful means,
through Mdat forms, and without the
'hedding Of a drop Of blood, they will
axe possession of that government, and
proceed to institute meas
Tres for supplanting it with another
Of Freedom, ore =