The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-24
Sound Peiicy.
LAWRENCE, Feb. 22. 1856.

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LAWRENCE, Feb. 22. 1855.
Ed. HERALD OF FRREDox:I noticed
in your last number very good article
over the signature of g Conservative ,
IT'S high time that the conservative pow
er should be introduced into the soeia
economy of this community. Rampan
radicalism, individual broils, claim fights
quarrels about timber, anticipated con
tests at the Land Office, personal bicker
ings, private jealousies, should be voted
down, and no high-minded man should
for moment give ear to anything of the
kind especially to making these things
subjects of newspaper correspondence
1t is we'll known that the columns of some
of our papers have been pretty well tine,
tured with such reading matter, and nol
few of their subscribers have said they
were sick of it. The press should never
allow itself to stoop to fight persona
quarrels nor perpetuate private feuds
There are questions of the most momen.
tous interests now before us 10 be decided
and neither our time norour talents should
be spent in slandering those who difel
from US, nor in discussing matters which
the great mass of newspaper readers care
nothing about.
The conservative element should and
must enter largely into every well-regu-
lated community. No government car
lay broad and deep its foundations except
it lay them upon those well-settled and
thoroughly tried principles of political
economy and governmental policy which
the experience and wisdom of years rec
ommend. History holds no ambiguous
language on this point She points with
awful significance to the many political
abortions in the shape of kingdoms and
republics scattered broadcast along the
pathway of nations. When any people
cast aside everything that has received
the sanction of ages, and go in for isnss
of every stripe and hue, we can hope for
no good development in the social or civil
arrangements of men. When any ma
ton, under the false notion of progress,
cuts loose from its ancient moorings, and,
under the lead of ambitious demagogues,
sets about revolutionizing the world, and
introducing new codes of international
laws into use, then we are to look for
another of those fearful episodes recorded
in the stormy annals of time, which re-
suit in nothing good or great in true pro-
gress and advancement.
France has been playing this figure for
the last half century. England has held
on the even tenor Of her ways, pursuing
steadily and unwaveringly her adopted
policy, and now she has her Gibraltars
on every sea and in every land. Our
own government has reached her present
high position among the nations by firmly
acting upon the great and leading princi-
pies laid down by the fathers of the re-
public. Washington and Jefferson were
conservative men; they were not carried
away by every ism and doctrine.
Now, so far as we here in Kansas are
concerned, the conservative and prudent
course is the only one which will lead us
ON to victory. Kansas can never be made
free by ultra Abolitionism; for ultra Alb
olitionism never did any one thing really
great and grand. To make Kansas free
is to do great work, and work that
demands strenuous effort, and requires
much prudence and sagacity. We can
not unite the strength of free State men
upon any ultra issue; we must be concil-
iating, vet firm. Let the freedom of this
Territory be the object of all our efforts,
and with conservative men to direct those
efforts, this grand object shall be attained.
TRIMMER.