White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-03-15

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of death and desolation.
Again. on page 269:
We were talking about slavery, and
its probable duration, in the o6Scs Of the
LsavsHWorh Times. / expressed my
doubts Of the action against it, and sta
ted that wss in favor Of servils insur-
rection. / believe found no one who
approved Ofsuch scheme Of abolition.
On pages 300 and 3Ol. be tells the OBJ :
jsct of his visit to the South. with other
matters:
My object was to aid the slaves. III
found that slavery had so far degraded
them, that they were comparatively con.
tented with their debased condition. / re-
solved. before / started, to spend my time
in the South. in disseminating discomfort
ment. Bot il, on the other hand, found
them ripe for a rebellion. my resolution
was to prepare the way for it, as far as
my ability and opportunities permitted.
/ believed that civil war between the
North and the South would ultimate in
insurreetion. and that. the Kansas troub-
les would probably create . military con.
hict of the sections. Hence left the
South, and went to Kansas and endeaV-
ored. personally and By my pen. to pre-
cipitase revolution. That we failed
fer was cot alone in this desire-was
owing to the irdzence Of prominent Re-
publican statesmen, whose unfortunately
conservative character Of counsel-which
it was impossible openly to resist-efect-
ually bsflsd all our hopes hopes which
Democratic action was auspiciously pro-
noting.
Are we, then. without hopef
No /! and. while slaves live. and the
God ofjustics is omnipotent, never will
we be discouraged. Revolutions never
go backward. The second American
Revolution has begun. Kansas was its
Lexington Texas will be its Bunker
Hill, and South Carolina its Yorktown.
Il is fashionable for our animacula-
statesmen to lament or affirm that slavery
cannot speedily be abolished. It is 80
wrought and interviewer with the social
system of the South-with its CONNER
cial, political, and religious organizations
that to root it out at once, they main
tain. would be disastrous to the country
and to the slave himself Perish the conn
try. then, and woe to the slave What
ever falls. let slavery perish. Whoever
suffers, let slavery end. IF the Union is
to be the price of crime. let Us repent
of the iniqulty and destroy the bond.
Do you desire to aid in overthrowing
slavery? There is work for you to do,
whatever may be your talents or ideas Of
policy.
Shall venture to predict? It may
be that | am no prophet-but, as far as
we believe in humanity, and right, and
an everything God. we have the power
of foreseeing results. All fanatics are
prophets to the extent of their vision
for fanaticism is the ardent worship of q
truth and by its light we can--nay,
must--see the sequences Of acts perform
ed in accordance or in violation Of it.
And / am a fanatic.
Slavery will be speedily abolished
That / see. l think. BY, violence nay,
know by blooished, if the present spir-
it long pervades the South. Unless it
repents it shall utterly perish"
On page 300 we read:
But is insurrection possible?
believe that it is. The only thing
that has hitherto prevented Q universal
revolt, is the impossibility Of forming
extended combinations. This the slave
code effectually prevents. To attain this
end. therefore. the agency of white men
is needed.
Arethere men ready for this holy work!
thank God that there are. There
are men who are tired of praising the
French patriots--who are ready to b
Lafayettes and Kosciuskos to the slaves.
Do you ask for a programme of &C.
ton
The negroes and the Southrons have
taught Us. The slaves of the Dismal
Swamp, the maroons of Florida, the free
state men of Kansas, have pointed out
the method. The South committed sui.
eide when it compelled the free squattsrs
to resort to guerilla warfare. and to study
Il both as a mode of sKbsistenee and a
science. For the mountains, the swamps
and morasses Of the South. are peculiarly
adapted to this mode Of combat, and
there are numbers OF young men, trained
to the art in the Kansas ravines, who are
eager for an opportunity of sVenging their
slain comrades, on the real authors Of
their death, in the forests and plantations
Of the Carolinas and Georgia.
MI you aid Mem-rM you sustain
LheDps Are you IN favor Of servils tn
suTTecfio1
Tell God in acts.
The foregoing will suffice. The book
contains very much that Is true as gos.
pei but the tone that pervsdss the fore
going extracts, is to be found throughout
the entire work. We give then merely
to show the sentiments Of the man, and
to show what be would do, and induce
al Others to do whom he could influence.
All things considered, one cannot but
think that Gov. Robinson's testimony
contained "more truth than poetry"
r. TIE RrvER.-The river is falling. and
bars are showing themselves in every d.
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