The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-08
Original Goftespoaoence.
Fer tie Herald Of Freedom.
A New Correspondent.
OrrAwA CREEK, Aug. 20, '55

-Ahs- ADAACn . A Jou IA picssSo, HOl5
on a little, I'll give you a small scrap
from Ottawa, myself this time, as l feal
aunt Debby won't be able to write this
week, cause she's tendin' on the sick
folks, and wouldn't have our 4th Dis.
trict miss bein' represented at this time
for no kind o. consideration, cause We
had most glorious little meetin' here
on last Saturday, the 95th inst for the
purpose of choosin' delegates to attend
the Territorial CONVENTION at the s'Bio
Springs"
| couldn't help noticin' how much
quicker the boys here do up sich bust
ness than the Yankees do, at Lawrence
L don't know what's the reason of that,
unless its cause we're kind of mix
ture, of Missourians, Tenneseeans, Buck
eys, Hoosiers' and tip't off with Yankees
So you see when we come together, il
a'int the same old tune, over and over
and over agin, and nuthin' at last but a
bag of wind: no, no, tell you what,
when we sit together. we do something
for certin', and the reason is cause We re
western men aud know what the western
country needs; 'zactly so Mr.. Editur.
Now, when we want anything done
we jist come together and do it right up,
and no mistake; and when it's done
IT'S DONE, without buncomin' and gas.
sin ont two or three days.
Well, now I'll tell you all about oul
platform +; | b. lieve it's tix't just the very
best it can be fx't in this district cause
we know it ALL so We concluded "Free
S;ate-totaL er,tusion Of tie 1frican
roce;," so you see we won't be bothered
with niggars no how you can fix it; but
if we're goin' to have niggars why we
want them to have masters, and not to be
runnin' in among us and 'malgamatin'
with the whites-that's it. Well sir, as
| was tellin' you about our platform we
met and organized, and things went right
on; the platform was all framed and
would went together in ten minutes
after We commenced operations, like Sol
omon's temple, without the sound of a
hammer, if il had mt been for one fellei
that spoke up and said We had black
plank in the platform and he wouldn't
walk on it: we'll of course the fat was
all in the fire, and now there must be
some spoutin' done.
We'll ut it we went, but we couldn't
reconcile that fellerno way at all ; Free
S.atc,' he said, was enough, without
any thing more. Jist then, the man on
my right whispered, "that's an ADoLI-
TONER" well [ takes good look at the
critter, cause I'd often heard of them
are kind O. varmints, but had never
see one before but didn't see but what
he look't jist like the rest of US.
He told us that Washington, jefferson,
and C. NJ. Clay were all opposed to sla-
very, and after they'd 'mancipated their
slaves they didn't ak for BLACK LAW to
drive 'em out of the United States; nor
they didn't steal niggars nuther; he said
every one opposed to slavery was an anti
slavery man and more or less an aboli-
toner.
Well Mr.. Edilur, we thought we had
enough of him; we threatened to black
en- the platform all over, but that only
made him worse he wouldn't tuch that
plank no how We could turn it up.
His brinsin' in Washington and JEFF
fcrson into our little zone horse conven-
ton, sort O. bothered some of us a lit
tie then he talked about the Free Soil
platform; no more slave territory, nor
no more slave States donation of land
to actual settlers cheap postage &c.
&C.: but he said two words were enough
for platform at this time-just FREE
STATE
Well. Mr.. E litur, it did sort o seem
as though he was in favor of the princi-
pie of human rights all the time but
we concluded this ere fe!ler didn't know
it all, for he'd only been on one side OF
the question, while sum OF US, leadin'
chaps, had been on all sides, and, at last,
been hangin' on the fence till we'd list
as leave drop on one side as t'other and
leetle ruther. We thought we know d
something about human rights too, and
we think We are as near human as men
generally get to be, and that 'aint all,
charity begins at home, and that 'aint
all nuther; this feller won't take any
pains to secure himself half section OF
land by pre-emption, like some of US are
doing; he wont even sign a petition to
our Legislature to locate country seat
in the center of our county: no, nor
he's never joined the Blue LODGE" nor
pledged himself to go for slavery and
and get half section, and if slavery
wouldn't carry, why then 60 total exclu-
sion and git half section any how so
if feller won't take care of himself why
we've no need of him.
But there's no use in stringin' this let
ter out so long cause | cant tell near all
no how, and may be sum one has gin
it to you in better stile if they have
why jiist toss this aside But before
close 1 must tell you little more about
this abolitioner.
| tell you now. Mr.. Editur, / was not a
little surprised to find an aboIitioner in
company with Washington and Jeffer-
son why. calculated if ever | got to
see one it would be behind some niggar
pew, a whisperin' to the darkies, to take
stock in the ander- ground railroad.
Well, We went on throug and fixed
up our platform, without 'iendin' much
to these lar-fetched questions about hu-
man rights; we, of course, had nothing
against Washington and Jefferson but
then We concluded, in this progressive
age. that it was not altogether safe to refer
to these old-fashioned rhaps-not but
what they did first rate in their day-but
every aye has is great men, and the men
of the present aye are the ones for the
present use, and SO sure as we run back
into old antiquated forms Just SO sure we
will run into the doctrines of en,aucipa-
ton, equalization, analgamalion. aboli-
ton, revolution and dissolution there
fore We think the best way is list as good
as any. and there's no use In foolia awaic;
time abouE small matters, but let US be !
tryin' to secure the Union. and while
we're a 6ghtin' for the Union, if we Gel