New-York tribune., 1867-02-14
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sweu SAM" say to bhthe young negl3 VI m % 1' o
~ VEL b Suiek eve and delicate azorhand as nc Pow P
deTs my face and dabs the rose OH yrtb y where
Shaving room In.5 Gr a. y 5ah'erS D houS'' ~"
"Me riz in Missouri, sar."
"YOu were born q slave, thehl -, -. o,,yavs
ayes saT me slave in Weston; very bad boss always
ayunk and kicking poor Niger bOy;N -, , o
And how did Won get yeur freedom, sam-did you 80
ana ss ss me no fight; tink fighting big sin; swim"
'swim Oh yes you mean you swan aeSss s 'sf sf ~
into Kansas from rom & slave & SISte nf ig3 e Sin away
from Weston rund through the wood along rlyeJnah,
oSer 10 de mud bank pointing 70 the great ridge OF sne
which testers in front Of Loavenworth when tho M %aT
Oh boaYen and de lights in desc houses all about % ad
when daylight come, creep out OF de rushes anu """'
TSea You were free p Sam answers with smile
aide The fiverf-the slaves had always good friends IN
Kansas m cot no holm 70 ,scape for me Debcr tell
ne one cause nc ncber know afore the momeIt % Wneh
ship away The Lord put Il N my sSods eS Se me lust
home from chapel linking OF the WohaeiT & "%y %
s ge In mn i away and be man. II was de voice Of de
IDrd; know il well At first, not see what to 90 me
boss-twelve hundred dollars Den me tink 1t must 9e
right to obey dc voice OBJ de Lord Tor me belog NOR ~
Dc than TO boss, and den slip away lnO &c WOOus
= OF course you were folowedP 80, a.
Sa aon y @y ase s PS oss Come Se oveT @ into
worth, where he find me IN de street Come here yo9
damned nigger, he say, pulling out his TeYOycr anu
catching by de neck: He got boat all ready den
one; Put knife into de damned niger say another
Den big dey fight for me all day, and my
The date Of this little history was six short years ago
Missouri the fertile state beyond the river the forests OF
which / have before me az write, was then save
and lSyedeaiers Nine wears before that tme-that
60 say 1851, when the world was gathering Tor
lts Jubilee of progress Hyde Parka this wide region
iyi6 westward Of the Missouri, from the river bank to
Mountains,
wild Indian tribes, Kansas Cheyennes, Arallahoes,
baffao the antelope, their secret haut Two great
lines Of taye nsd 10 osen e ~ IN S 6e other
running westward by the Platte River toward SAT- LAKE
hunting ground in which the white man could not law
fully reside Half dozen forts had been thrown up by
LARAMIE, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Calhoun Old Fort
but rather with view to guarding the red man rgs %
need Bat while the people Of all nations were assem-
county Which had even then to be representa- by
empty space, swarm of settlers crossed the Missouri on
Calhoun and Fort Leavenworth threw up camps Of log
sSoss on the banks @ Of creeks and pools and
foundation Of what are now the popuoas and Losmng
cities Of the free territory Of Nebraska OF the Tree state OF
Then commenced along the whole line Of the Missouri
River that ul sangunary strife which earned for TINS
region the mourning epithet Of Bleeding Kansas 1t
klsted six years, and was prelude to the Civil War.
Lawrence and LeavenwOrth were the results OF this
sie eiSs'''' u "D'H '"'" -''' ''''' 10y ' -
Every that the great ieud DetWcen ule
ree sOlers and the sayehoders OF AmcrCa tfnce au
been made in 1920 which known IN history as tAe Mis-
Compromise; by which act it was arranged between
the parties that Slavery should never be introduced INTO
any region lying beyond sec 80 OF north latitude
stand line For thirty years that truce held
good and even when the war Of freedom RACED AGAINST
respected the West. AS the final conflict DcaTed, the
with that act OF truce The slaveOwners in Missouri
saving exceptional advantage their State Of settling
saTy their domestic Institution through
the country IN their rear to the loot OF the Rocky Mon
90 the Pacific Ocean, All the South went with them IN
their plans though their action was in open conflict with
nc law Seelee s0SetSS spIK K R ttb M many sd na %
pledged aid these planters in carrying Slavery west
sATd of the Missouri River in the teeth of their own
compromise in violation Of their own truce.
The Shareholders of Missouri victory without
shot in quetlyby local act, which attracted no atten
own frontier Westward from the line drawn north and
sonh through Kansas CITY, up to that OF the Iiver bank
6tste, consequently the of the slave empire.
fiiies noted it until tie bills efecting the change had
become law and the district had been peopled with
GERS and their slaves The appeared to be wholly
On their hands From this slave soil, which lies on
Boca Bands aud sons Of the South stTeaed over INTO
these Delaware reserves into these Kansas hunting
grounds; each boss accompanied by his and his
roes proceeding 70 help himself to the choicest lots
plauded their predicted: In Washington, the
favedeahng Senator'S instead Of calling these MissOu
them sustained them in this outrage Free States
BY course Of partisan agitaons they procured fTesh
Slavery should be referred back generally, to the people
VI any unorgaized country claiming to come within the
supposed by the planters of Missouri aud Kentucky
were to be organized slave territories. But New
England INTO the field The conversion Of Nebraska
from free soil into slave SOIL would have carried the ue
Of Slavery IN the western country as high north Bos
Son A.NortheTn EmgTant Aid Society founded IN
Massachusetts, sturdy armers ervent professors youth
the continent toward the Missouri sworn TO settle
On the new Indian lands to accept the compromise Of
Congress and their quality OF free citizens 10 vote
free constitution for Kansas The Blue Lodges were
already hnted at Leavenworth and Atchson and when
The FIRST New Engander crossed the stream being unable
90 answer these snnes that he owned any ngger they
placed hn IN an open boat without food without
shouts and threats meeting of Sons Of the South
kaled IN Westpor on the Kansas border but within the
kmits Of Missouri at which. after fiery elOQuence the
following resolution was unanimously carried:
THAT this Association WILL whenever called upOn by
Of the citizens Of Kansas Territory hold itself IN
Readiness together TO assist and remove any and all i'm
migrants who 60 there under the auspices Of the Northern
The "Squatter Sovereign" news sheet published in
the town Of Atchson founded and named by David At
Bis declaration Of the planters
1--WE will continue 10 lynch and hang, tar and feather
hollnte our soil"
In July 1854 thirty free soiers crossed the
with them tents and provisions Pushing up the Kansas
River they rested at the foot Of fine bluff the midst
of a rolling prairie, covered with flowers Pitching their
tents and beginning 10 fell wood for shantes they called
tBe place at which they camped the City Lawrence
from the name Of their popular purseholder In August
they were joined by seventy more men like themselves
alarmed and resoute prepared 70 found that city and
20 free that coil Now had arrived the time for Mis-
sour TO show their spirit hundred Yankees sepa-
rated from their friends by six great States had come
into their midst daring them TO carry their threat of
either hanging, ynehing, or drowning every who
should into Kansas without negro slave In his
train Three hundred and fifty Sons Of the South took
horse dashed over the shallow stream, and having early
nthe morning formed camp and thrown out picketent
word into Lawrence that these settlers must quit the
Territory promising never to return Three hours
given the free sOeIs in which TO pack their things and