Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-05-21
KANSAS A SLAVE STATE Al all
EVENTS.


for which the South has eontcnded throughout the
struggle. 1t admits Kansas into the union as a
slave State, and thus consolidates the victory OF
1854. In practice well rs principle, it is now
established that no Federal prohibition win avail to
restrict the expansion Of pro-slayery power.2'
The journal from which we extract this pas
sage is the representative Of that newly deve-
loped feeling in tho Southern States which
makes slavery the only issue, and gauges its
relations 10 men and TO parties by Tic degree
in which they support or oppose the peculiar
institution. Scarcely any measure can be in-
troduced into Congress which The South and
its associates do not approve or condemn from
this stand point. The sectional and sensitive
spirit which is thus encouraged may be aud is
most fatally initiated elsewhere, but so long as
it is as candid as :hat which characterizes the
passage above copied, ample notice IS given to
other parties.
The writer of Lhis article was reared 10 the
school which made devotion to the Southerr
people primary. consideration. Their rights
we're rights common to the North. The states
men of the South were held up as models Of
fairness, and as examples of patriotism. Their
enemies we're the enemies of the Union, and es
pccialy those who embarked IN crusade
against the tranquility of the South The ba-
SIS of this strong Northern sentiment was COM
posed, among others, of the following clear
aud self-evident propositions!
|. The equality of al the States Of the Union,
and Of the citizens Of all these States
ii. The recognition aud enforcement of all
the rights of the South Under the Constitution
of the Uuited States.
Ill. The full right of the South, having, by
liberal expenditure of blood and treasure, aid
ea to acquire the territories of the United
States, to an equal share in those territories
IV. The Abandonment of all Congressional
interference with the Statcs and Territories OF
this Uuion, and the settlement of all questions
of State or territorial character, by the vote
OF the people themselves.
V. Uuabated and uccompromsing war upon
all the enemies Of Federal Unipn.
W The admission of new States, without
reference TO their domestic institutions, and af-
ter their Constitution has been ascertained 10
be republican, ahd in accordance with the wish
es of the majority of the people.
To each and ell of these propositions we con
tinue firmly TO adhere. They unite at this iay
the overwhelming majority of the Northern peo-
pie. The Republicans, themselves; on late
occasion in Congress, ysted patrio,icalIy for
measures of compromise which was in effect an
honorable surrender Of some Of their most fa-
vorite theories. Such is the nioral and poiiii-
cal covenant fof years mlntainsd by the Dem-
ocratie party and South, aud now strongly ar-
proved by thousands who have heretofore be-
tuTTgru ufru srt4f
Such, too, we believe is at this day the opinion
and the temper of every citizen of the South,
except those Gf0 desire dissolution of tie
.fmeficFn gnion.
Hence it is that so many thousands of DEM
ocrats refuse to 90 for this Kansas roliey. Ii
is an expedient never before suggested; il is
fraud: it was nominated in the bond at Ciuc;n-
natl, or set forth in the Kansas and Nebraska
act3 it violates The pledges of the President in
1876, AMI sets up paramount the minority
rule of force and of fraud over the repeatedly
aseertaihcd will of the majority. md it would
now sacm, by the extract copied from the Rich
moDd South, that this policy looks beyond the
mere reputation of principles
il now appears that the demand that Lccomp-
ton shall be tied like a patrid ccutagion TO a
living people, is made for far more practical
purpose than that of saving the hot and hasiy
leaders who have sworn to 20 ont of the Union.
with some three or four States ut their backs.
is this is not done. In plain words, The South
tells Us that the English bill ssadmHs Kansas
into the Union as SiaUp State ~
The real reason for the early excesses IN
Kansas, for the 7iliainies of Calhoun, fer the
border forays OF the Missourians; for the Ok
ford and MGkee frauds, for the broken plede-
es to Walker and Stanton; and for Che threats
of the extreme pro-slavery fanatics, to CRAFTY
whom these pledges were given up--al is now
disclosed. They looked TO but cne end--to
make a siaue State out of free z. yy7fory al
eUerI hazrd.
1t will be easy to do this under the English
scheme-as easy as lying, Exquisite pains
have been taken to bring this result about
Leeompton Is slavery and nothing else. Ii tho
people take it, the deed is doue--they cannot
alter it until 1864, aud before thsa the nuo-
culation will be so far consummated under pro-
slavery auspices, that the State will be as tho
roughly slave State as Arkansas herself. IF
they reject it, then they viii remain outside till
they reach population of one hundred aud
twenty thousand, all the while being ruled by
officials, and daily invaded by Mis-
souri, mereenaries, under the lead of Atchisop
aud Calhoun, intent upon driving away the free
State men, who will be only too glad to fIy to
other regions for that peace and equality of
which they have been SO shan,efully deprived
within the lass three years. The South, having
won all the points of the game, incluiing the
English trick. will pour in her own people, who
will be backed by the army Of the United States,
and encouraged by Industrious officials. AMI
this will close the drama.
We leave to our illustrous statesman, Sena-
tor Bigler, the task of solving the agreeable
problem-how we shall be able to carry the
burden of slave State, thus fabricated, through
the Presidential election of 1860?
Will MIR. Cobb come over to Pennsylvania
AID tell us that this was what he meant in 1856,
When he thrilled our people with his manly APP
peals in favor of fair play in Kansas
Will MIR. Wm. A. Porter enligbten US as to