Kansas weekly herald., 1855-05-25
Fer the Kansas Herald.


character is being manifested in our midst,
one, which is not at all characteristic of, but
withering in its tendency of the high sove-
reign and political institution of free social
and religious people, as well as repugnant
to the refined feelings of our moral nature,
and calculated as they are, to create false
impressions in the public mind in regard to
the political views of those who do not give
tone and character to the same misguided
zeal and claiming to be of Southern descent,
and Southern in feeling and sentiment OF
the deepest dye, I feel myself called on to
give expression to what I feel, and believe to
be, the true southern policy.
And whereas, many of the most worthy
citizens of Platte county, assembled them
selves in front of the Park House in this
place some days since, and took the press
of that insidious sheet, the (Parkville Luz
minary,) and consigned it to oblivion. in
which, aDe all most heartily concur, after
which many resolutions were passed, all of
which / endorse, sdUe one, the purport OF
which is, that if Park and Patterson should
be found residing in Kansas, are to hang.
However dark and insidious may have
been the deeds of Boston mobs, In stealing,
kidnapping and retaining from southern
men the absolute right to their slave property,
the resolution above referred to, is, but per-
petuating their examples and following in
their withering footsteps, eradicating from
our bosom as it does, every vestige of the
nobler sentiment of a great, magnanimous,
and free people, reason dethroned, sordid
feelings of cruel barbarity are too often suf-
fered to usurp its place.
Mob-ocracy, altho' at times and under
very peculiar circumstances, may haze a sal
utary effect, but arising as they do under
high excitement are often carried too far,
yet it took its rise in the dark days of igno-
aorance, superstition and inhumanity, where
gospel truth and public freedom, never once
shed their refulgent rays, and shall aDe, in
this enlightened age of religious, political
and social refinement, return to the dark
age of heather mythology? Shall Kansas
be the burying ground of Americas freedom
and nations independence? God forbid it.
Kansas is yet Territory, and the fede-
raj constitution as we'll as the Nebraska Bill,
guarantees to every freeman the undispu-
ted right to go there with whatever feelings
| of political character he may choose to in
bibe, and whatever species of property he
may see fit to carry with him. This being
the true and fundamental principles of our
political compact, none I presume wiU deny.
But how long they will continue their con-
servative character and hold us together as
band of brothers remains yet to be seen.
There being no constitutional scruples as to
the rights of the people in Kansas, the only
question left for us is, the right of proscip-
ton and the gallows for opinion sake there.
However rigid we may feel in our pro-sla-
very principles, we hope ever to cherish and
extend, for the purpose of our political con-
nexion, } the most liberal feelings of a social
character to ward those who may choose to
differ with US in feelings of a political ma
ture, yet to deprecdte, and hold in solemn
awe, movements of any political faction or
party destructive in their nature and tenden-
cy, of the political institutions of free
people, peace, ever being our true policy,
and the extension of our free institutions for
the good of the whole, it therefore behooves
us, as a truly republican government, to look
we'll on our future destiny, that we may
accomplish with feelings of unsnimity, the
great end for which our government was
formed, but we by our zeal and madness
might loose what would be to Missouri, hel
independence and power, and here it is due
to say, that every State in the sovereignty
had the undisputed right to suppress any
paper or periodical, whatever, within hel
limits of an incendiary character, and de-
Irogatory to the best Interest of her citizen:
land her political institutions.
I But when she exceeds the bounds of hel
Iown limits, and carries her armed force int
an adjoining country, and proclaims The
the gallows the uncompromisng fate OF al
who may not imbibe the same political sen
Itiments with herself. She becomes usur.
per, and tresspasser upon the inalianabls
rights of freeman. Let this feeling of an
inosity be carried on, the ties of politica
connexion severed, the independence ane
sovereignty of the States transformed int
mobs, the sure stepping stone to politica
anarchy, and the vote of national ruin
Dark and fearful forebodings are alread.
seen gathering in our political horison, ant
itbehoves us to look well to the true Amer
lean policy, which is, to guard well the bal
lot box, the palladium of our liberty, the only
safe guard against the insidious machina
ton Of the combined powers of northern ia
natic.. The liberty of speech freedom o
the press, equal rights to all, and exclusive
prisaeges to none are the great elements o
political freedom as contradistinguishec
from political anarchy and dispotic misrule
and can never, under our political code (bt
abridged even by law, Notwithstanding
, the right is recognized by constitutions
sanction, yet each and oyery individual il
: responsible for the abuse thereof, a doctrine
. coeval with the first rudiments of the eng
lish constitution and handed down to US from
our Saxon ancestors Notwithstanding thei
) struggle with the Danes and the violence o
lmormon conquest. J. P. r,