The Kanzas news., 1858-01-09
s.Right or Fight. /"


Redpath, in the first number of the Cru
sader of Freedom, thus defines the present
position of the Free State party. It is true
every word of it, and the usurpers would do
well to take the warning given in our friends S
forcible language:
GAS we aim TO be the Organ of the Free
State party, as well as an independent anti
slavery journal, we have rendered in three
words, and adopted as our motto, the mean
ing and the purpose of its spirit stirring
creed, and these three words are-Right Or
Fight, To this complexion has it come at
last. No longer standing immoveably on
the defensive, as it has stood since it first
assumed a name and form, the Free State
party has at length obtained, and will inflex-
IDLY maintain its true position-that of a
majestic and irresistible Power, neither do
ing wrong nor submitting to il.
As a party it has never done a single
wrong, but has patiently endured multi
tude. The dog, Slavery, has had its day;
and innumerable are the evils it has wrought.
But its day is over now, and it must sub
NIT to be muzzled or-Shot.
Foreign interference with our Territorial
bles and disasters-will be met in fu-
ture, if the attempt 10 control our affairs is
renewed-by the rifles and artillery of our
admirably organized and now legalized mi
litia. Invaders will not merely be repelled
but pursued. The State which can prevent
such barbarous incursions, and refuses to
exercise the power, will be punished on her
own soil for her criminal neglect. Let Mis-
souri, do her duty, and we will not modest
her; but we will teach her that we can chas-
tise her, and show her that we defy her, if
she renews her insolent and tyrannical ag-
gressions. 1 4
The Press shall be free here-now and
forever. The Forum shall be free here
now and forever. The Pulpit shall be free
here-now and forever. Al men shall be
free here--now and forever. Thus speaks
our party; and its voice is Fate. All laws
which restrict the liberty of the press, the
pulpit, or the platform, shall be repealed at
once, never more to be fe- enacted: all Jud
ges who sustain, all officers who execute
such infamous statutes shall be Immediately
removed, or their DEGREES shall be set at de-
fance. We will not endure another Twelfth
Section. We viii not permit another press
to be destroyed. No clergyman shall be
tarred and feathered again, or sent down the
river on raft. No man, of any race or
color, shall be bought or sold on our soil
again. Right has Might wiM it, and Fight
IN it now, and it has resolved that these
atrocities shall cease.
We will not permit invidious distinctions
between man and man. Equal Justice,
nothing less and nothing more, we have
claimed for ourselves, and will give to eve
ry one. Opinion shall not be out-lawed-
driven from the jurybox, the bar or the
bench. Neither will we allow of invidious
distinctions between race and race. In the
presence of our Law, all men shall be equal.
The present law, for example, which fines
the kidnapper of the white child, and capi-
tally Furnishes the kidnapper of the negro,
must be blotted from the Statute Book, and
never more renewed"
Let not the enemies of Freedom think
that these warnings are impotent threats
We speak whereof we know. The Free
State party has an overwhelming and or
ganized majority in Kanzas, and it is in liv
ing earnest when it utters these words. We
could seize and imprison every one of our
opponents in single night, or, rather-so
perfect is the machinery-in a single hour,
simultaneously, in every part of Kanzas.
Every man who has made himself obnox-
ious is marked, They may never be dis
turbed. 1t is in their own power to live in
peace. We are willing to forgive the past.
But we warn our opponents not to renew it.
The day which inaugurates another civil
war here, would be the Judgement Day of
hundreds VINO live in fancied security. Let
Justice, therefore, prevail Let us prolong
the peace. Act honorably. Submit to your
defeat Obey the laws that are to come
for the People, and not Usurpers, will enact
them; and remember, too, that we will new
er submit to your tyranny again-that our
motto, our spirit and our creed is-RIeHr OR
FIGHr." ~