The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-07-10
tn. srusrl. for rrssdem In kansas.

Four years ago the Territory of Kansas
was opened for settlement by the passage
of the Kansas Nebraska bill. Kansas was
the prize thrown into the arena, to be bat
tied for by the chivalrous sons of the
South" and the noble and hardy men of
the North. The one wishing to pollute
the soil by the cursed institution of slavery
the other to dedicate it to Freedom
At the first election, by the means of
President Pierce and his myrmidons, the
ruffians of Missouri, the government was
seized by the enemies of freedom, and for
three long years they kept possession by
fraud and murder. The Free State men,
not acknowledging the validity of laws
enacted by Missouri elected Legislators,
battled and suffered on. For three long
years, by murder and rapine, they were
kept in subjeetion. Their cities and VIII
lagos were laid in waste, their printing
presses thrown into the Missouri and the
Kaw, their hotels razed to the ground,
their dwellings burned and plundered, the
persons of their wives and daughters vio-
lated, and themselves murdered or impris-
oned by iends from Missouri, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and other
Southern States. Yet still they battled
for the right, and finally came out, in part,
triumphant. In the fall of '57, the Leg
islature fell into the hands of the Free
State men. But the villainy of the ''chiv-
airy" did not cease-as the elimination
of all the frauds, murders and wrongs.
practiced by them in the year preceding
they were, after great labor, delivered
of that bastard thing Lecompton ~ Le-
compton how many wrongs it brings to
the minds of the noble men and noble
women who have suffered for the cause in
Kansas. The mind reverts to the sack
ing of Osawatomie and Grasshopper Falls
to the reign of Terror in Leavenworth
City, to the murder of Dow, Barber, Brown,
Gray, Sackett. Phillips, Wakefield and
Buffum, and to other scenes more horri-
Bile, as The scalping of Hopps. And yet
this vile instrument was presented to the
Congress of the United States-the mis-.
erable pro-slavery minority applying fol
admission into the Union under it. In
Congress, it was defended by Southern
Democrats and Northern doughfaces.
The right should have triumphed, and
would, had it not been for the base treach.
cry of an English, Cox, and others oI
that hue. The Republicans stood up fol
the right, to man, working in conjunc
ton with Douglas, Stuart, Crittenden
Broderick, Bell, and others but their eff
forts were vain. The patronage and the
gold of corrupt and imbecile administra-
tion conquered, and the miserable subter.
fuge, the English bill, was passed. And
now the men who harrassed US, say "Takt
Lecompton and come into the Union with
10000 inhabitants reject it, and remain
Territory until you have population
of SO or 10000" But, Mr.. President
and you, We hangers on to the skirts of the
harlot Slavery, talk not to us-you cannot
buy us, were your five millions of land
ten, aye, fifty times five millions, we would
not accept Lecompton.
When you want men whom you car
buy, look not in Kansas, but go to Indi
ana for Bright, an English and Foley
or to Ohio for a Cox; we spurn your bribe
But the end is not yet! The battle fol
freedom is not fnished-kansas free =
other Territories remain. awaiting to b
dedicated to the same freedonl-freedom
for the white man-freedom for all.-Th,
| Grasshopper.