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

So am /.
You went to Kansas. when the troub-
les broke out there-not TO "settls" or
speculate" -or from idle curiosity but
for one stern. solitary purpose-to havs a
shot at the South. So did I.
On pages 4. S and 8. he gives his
Greed" from which We take the follow
ing extracts:
lam an Emsncipaiionist-and some
thing more. believe slavery to be q
curse, which it is desirable to speedily
abolish. Bot to gradual Emancipation /
am resolutsly satagonistic. For l re-
gard property in man as robbery in man;
and ] am not willing that our robbers
should give notes on time-for freedom
and justice at thirty days. or thirty years,
or any other period: rather let them be
smitten down where they stand. and the
rights that they have wrested from their
slaves, be wrested-if necessary-with
blood>hsd and violence, With the torch
and the rife, from them.
i am an Abolhianist-and something
more. I an in favor. MOI only OF GOoI-
isaing the Cures. but Of making rspdrd-
t,On for ths Crims. Not an AbolisiOnist
only. but Reparationist. The negroes.
l hold, have not merely the inailenabls
right to be free. but the legal right Of
compensation for their hitherto unrequit-
ed services to the South. I more than
agree with the Disunion ,Abolitionists.
They are in favor ofa free Northern Re
public. So am I. But as to the boun-
dairy lines we differ. While they would
fix the Southern boundary of their free
Republic at the dividing line between
Ohio and Kentucky. Virginia aud the
Keystone State. I would wash it with the
warm waters ofthe Gulf of Mexico "But
what shall we do with the slaves?" Make
free men of them. "And with the slave
holding class % Abolish them. "And
with the Legrees of the plantations 2"
Them, annihilatel Drive them into the
sea, as Christ once drove the swine or
chase them into the dismal swamps and
black morasses Of the South. "Any-
where-anywhers-out of the world r.
1 am q Peace-Msn-and something
more. 1 would fight and kill for the
sake of peace. Now, slavery is a state
of perpetual war.
am Non Resistant-and something
more. l would slay every man who at
tempted to resist the Liberation of the
slave.
I am Democrat-and nothing more.
l believe ia humanity and human rights.
l recognize nothing as so sacred on earth.
Rather than consent to the infringement
of the most Insignificant or seemingly
unimportsnt of human rights, let races
be swept from the face Of the earth-let
nations be dismembered-let dyuasties
be dethroned-let laws and governments.
religions and regulations be east out and
trodden under feet of men
On page "a we find the following:
Our duty to the slave, 1 think, de.
mands that we shall speedily appeal to
the taskmastsr's fear. Let Us teach,
urge. and encourage instructions. and
the South will soon abandon her hsugh.
ty attitude of aggression. Then it will
be time enough to advocate schemes oil
compensation then it will be time
enough to ascertain whether or not the
Constitution gives us the power to abol-
ish slavery everywhere. Until then, ]
confess. l regard all such labors as I'M
necessary, or. at best. but an awkward
mode of fighting a powerful and defiant
foe. If we want to make good terms
with the Slave Power. let us bring il
on its knees first i! And there is but
one way of dsing that; by attacking
it where it is weakest-at home. The
slave quarter is the Achilles heel of the
South. Wound it there and it dies
One Instruction in Virgins, in 1882,
did more for the emancipation cause
than all the teachings of the Revolution.
airy Fathers. What il, in such rising, 9
few lives are lost? What are few hun.
bred lives even. compared with the lib.
critics of four millions of men? l have
no ill-feeling to Shareholders as a class
Yet 1 could hear of the untimely deatf
of ten thousand of them without
a sigh, or an expression, or a feeling o.
regret, if it resulted in the freedom Of q
single, State.
/ dismiss the argument that we have
no right to encourage instructions, the
dreadful punishment of which. if unsuc
cessful, we are unwilling or do not pro.
pose to share. by replying that am no
Inprepared to hazard the danger of such
a catastrophe, and the chances of a spec
dy death or enduring victory with the
revolutionary slaves. To still another
objection urged against my plan. 1 an.
swer that, in an instruction, if all the
slaves in United Statesmen, women
and helpless bsbes-were to fall on thu
field or become the victims of Saxon ven.
geance, after the event, if one man only
survived to relate how his race heroically
fell, and to enjoy the freedom they had
won, the liberty of that solitary negro, in
my opinion, would be chesply purchased
by the universal slaughter of his peopl,
and their opprsssors.
On page 129. referring to some work
ne had previously written, be says:
Although I believe now that the spec,
diest method of abolishing slavery, and
of ending the eternal hypocriticsl hubbub
in Congress and the country, is to incite
few scores Of insurrections-in q quiet,
gentlemanly wsy-simultaneously in diff
ferent parts Of the country, and BY a lit
tie zrholasnma slnnnhfer To arnnsa The