The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-12-15

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I am quite willing to be read out with
them. Principles are truths-eternal,
everlasting truths-the same yesterday,
to-day, and forever and political creeds,
in my opinica, are made for something
more earnest and. serious than to deiude
the masses and be set up for outside ex-
hibition.
/ They should be the subject of belief
and the rule of action-not TO be discard
ed or perverted at the call of expediency.
Ny own are unchanged now. and will
always remain unchanged, until my rea-
son is convicted of their error. Intimi-
dalton, cajolement or pique can never
drive me from them.
There is an evident effort however, by
those who profess to be par excellence the
friends of the President, (and the article
[ have referred to, is part of the same
policy to treat the northern democrats
who prefer to make Kansas free State,
as apostates to their principles and their
party. If this is to be the policy let it
be boldly avowed, and not concealed in
cowardly, skulking inuendoes, and unex-
planned epithets of Free Soiler" and
.Abolitionist, and it viii be as boldly
met by the thousands whom it viii strike.
The best and truest men of the party
in Pennsylvania, at least, will repel it
with scorn and Indignation, as calculated
to give force and effect to the charge so
often made by its enemies and so often
denied, that the Democracy are engaged,
not only in securing to the slave States
the rights guaranteed by the Constitu-
ton, but also in active efforts to propa-
gate and extend the institution, as a
matter of gratuitous favor, and from a
love of its results or a wish to acquire
and retain political power for themselves.
Let those who secretly cherish this lat
ter idea go on, if they win and can, until
they have made it the dominant pervad-
ing rule.of action, whether incorporated
into our written creed or not, and they
will do by internal corruption and decay
what the external enemies of that time
honored party have never been able to
accomplish.
| The man who religiously and manfully
contends for the constitutional rights of
the South, and outside of them, upon
neutral ground prefers free labor to negro
slavery, is no apostate, no Free So:ler. no
Abolitionist-and sad day will it be for
the true and conservative men of the
South and the Union, when they become
so.
A word as to the position of the Free
State party of Kansas and | am done. l
have said to you that they could not at
tend the so-called election on the 1st day
of October. They held their election ON
the Cd Tuesday by virtue Of a proclama-
ton issued and signed by from 1000 to
1000 of the actual voters of the Terrific
ry and sanctioned by as many more at
the polls they declare that it was con-
templated by Congress that the Territory
should be always represented, and they
provided in the organic act the machin-
airy of the first election, and direction
} to the Legislature to make the same pro-
vision for all subsequent ones, and that
: thus they supposed they had covered the
: whole ground.
But that contingency had occurred
, which was not forseen-that our polls
had been invaded, our people disfran-
chised and prevented from electing a
: Legislature and making an election law
| for themselves, and that they were thus
: compelled to the alternative, whether an
acknowledged and admitted right of
| representation should perish for want of
} the mere machinery of an election, or
whether it had vitality enough to origin
) ate It's own forms of manifestation
They take the obviously proper view of
the case and resort to the source of all
political power 1.-THE people, for supply
: ing the forms, and having polled large
, majority of all the legal votes of the Ter
2 ritory, they instruct me to ask for the
seat
They have elected delegates who are
now engaged in the formation of State
Constitution, which will, if ratified, be
submitted to the present session of Con-
gress. They viii ask that they be adj
, mitted into the Union as a State, and
, thus allowed the exercise offull and I'M
restricted popular sovereignty with their
own Executive and their own Judiciary,
or, if Congress will still insist upon re-
tanning the larger share of the govern
ment, they will claim that Congress shall
/ also discharge the relative duty of pro-
. lection, and secure to the Territory the
qualified right of self government, which
, lis pledged in the Kansas Nebraska bill.
They are eminently willing to abide by
the will of the majority when ascertained
, let the result be what twill.
J, They ask for admission as a State,
| believing that it viii end all <heir diff
culties and secure the peace of the nation
and the preservation of the Union. II
that cannot be had, they ask for the
right of suffrage-not as moekery of
{ it, but the actual right of suffrage, Sc
, cured and certain. If these are all re-
fused-if Congress viii violate the
pledges of the nation in which our peo-
pie have confded-if the Declaration of
; independence and the Constitution of
the United States no longer protects our