The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-11-17
Gov. shannon---Abo,itioni...

wrong condition of the mind amopg, nj
iticians than for them to descend to ami,
abusive and reproachful epithets to .ha;
That editor who demo.,.
himself to speak of an opposing mrr
by name which is not agreeable 70 Il.
party spoken OF always lowers his stand
ard of morals. and wieIds less inaupr..
than the one which never stoops n -
low device to accomplish his end.
The WING party were in the habit .,
speaking of the Democrats as Lecofoeo,
Who believes that they ever gained aDv.
thing by.such an expression: while wbo
is there who is not conscious of the a.,
that they aroused the luminosity of the,
opponents by the expressions, and mad.
their hatred ten times more bitter tl.,
otherwise would have been the case
While on the other hand, what Viii
has not felt his blood course faster wbsa
he heard himself or party stigmatized IS
Federalists, and, by ignoramuses, with
the Eame of Tory?
The Freesoil party, too, has athOusan1
times felt indignant at being reproaeb+d
with .A6OlitioRisns, not that there are =,
Abolitionists in the party, as there Wer.
Federalists in the Wing and Democrat.
parties, but this was not a distinguisbiOr
feature of their organization as the eC.
forts ofthe party were directed to the p,e.
vention of the extension of slavery, 10,
for its abolition. No gentleman with o.
binary intelligence will descend to speak
of the FreesOil as an AbOlitiOn party, and
if he uses the expression he must frs,
descend from the gentleman to the black.
guard.
Persons filling exalted positions, as The
executives of the several States and Ter.
ritories, and of the United States, are
expected to cease playing the parliz.n As
soon as they enter upon the discharge
of their official duties. Read Gov
SHANNoN's letter on the fourth PAGE Of
the HERALD OF FREEDOM this week, d.
rected to Col. MEDARY of the Ohio States
man, and then Judge whether in bis case
the demagogue is sunk in the faithful
public officer, whose protecting care
should extend over his schote people
The Herald of Freedom and kindred
prints he stigmatizes as addition jour
nails. Gov. Shannon, knew, or could
have known very easily, that the Herald
of Freedom, nor no other paper in Ran
sas Territory, has advocated the abolition
of slavery anywhere. They have de-
clared, and viii continue to do so from
time to time, that slavery does not legally
exist in Kansas Territory, and this We
reiterate now, for fear we may neglect to
say it elsewhere in this number of our
paper yet this is not Abolilionism.
The border press are in the habit Of
calling everything which is not in favor
of notification Abolition" and Gov.
SHANNON, fit disciple of the pro-
slavery party, and of the border press,
joins heartily in using these terms Of
reproach. They must feel that they
have very apt student, and will con-
graduate themselves on the ease which
he has exhibited in falling into the use Of
such terms but will be chagrined at his
assertions that he did not avow himself
in favor of slavery in Kansas while at
Westport on his way to the Territory.
We would suggest to Gov. Shannon,
and to the border press, that we are not
conscious of any better way of making
Abolitionists than by reproaching those
who are not of this faith with being
such.
The Hon. B. F. WADE was elected
TO the United States Senate as an oPpo-
ser of the extension of slavery, but he
never dreamed of being an Abolition
list :" ON the contrary in 1842 he was
nominated by the Liberty party of Ohio
as representative to the State Senate
from the Ashtabula district, but so much
did he differ from the views of that party
that he came out in a card and declIn-
ed the nomination, and was unwilling
to be supported by them, although he
was a nominee of the Wing party tor
the same Office at the same time
Subsequently he appears in the United
States Senate, and is tainted from time
to time with being an "Abolitionlst.
With him as would be the case with any
other man of nerve and backbone
similarly circumstance, said he in reply
to one of those mean and contemptuOus
thrusts-"Whateyer / may be at home,
while / remain a member Of the Unliea
States Senate l wish to be known anu
recognized of all mon as an AdOlaioH'S''
and that of the rankest kind
Oppression has the tendency to make
men ultra. We have no doubt it con-
tributed It's influence with Mr.. WADE, IS
it is doing with thousands of Others al
over the country. If the same line o.
policy is pursued by our border neiSh'
bors which has characterized them 'O'
the last two years, and who are receiving
great support from their new ally ""'''
Shannon, a few years will only eiaP''
when the crop of Abolitionists, both III
Missouri and Kansas will he too nufnef-
-or,a;n IN oither State