The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1856-01-19

broke into the Tailor shop of Mr.. ADDS
and carried away quantity of finished
and unfinished work, amounting in the
aggregate to couple hundred of dollars
or moro, alleging that they were taking
| the goods as a reprisaI, for some real or
pretended claim one of the party had
against Mr.. ADDS Whatever the cause
of offending on the part Of Mr. A /,
there can be no justification for such
high-handed procedure for obtaining re-
dress. Had Mr. A. been in his shop at
the time he would have been legally JUS
tiiiable in shooting down every person
connected with the affair." The act was
burglarious, and as such. in country
under the influence of law, would have
been punished with severe penalties.
We understand that Mr.. Adds at
tempted to interest citizens in the matter,
but failing, applied to the 7srritorio!
Courts and through thesesought redress.
We chronicle the fact with pain that any
protested free State citizen should have
occasion. in the first place; and, second
ly, that he should apply for redress In
those Courts. tits an outrage upon the
Free State settlers of The Territory,
which should not be submitted to. We
had thousand times rather see the bow
ie-knife and revolver called into requisi-
lion for the adjustment of differences
than to see Courts, imposed upon us by
armed men from a foreign State, appeal
ed to for redress. No person, however
great his provocation. who has joined
with US as heartily as Mr.. A. has in de-
nounclng the baronial Legislature, has
any business to appeal to body of men
deriving its authority from such a source.
for redress of either public or private
wrongs. If the public cannot be suffi-
ciently enlisted in aiding to bring offenI-
ers to justice, then. before a man should
allow a precedent to be established which
would inyalidate the whole law of nseuns
and team, he should call to his assis-
lance the artificial aid which COR and
other meri.orious gentlemen have de-
vised, and settle the question as to right
shall belong.
We are without law, and something
mast be devised for the protection of So
.ciety. We concede that in the absence
OF proper legal legislation the strong will
give law to the weak, unless the weak
avail themselves of the protection which
art has generously placed within their
reach.
To the eastern reader, surrounded
with refinement, and who is shielded on
every side with the guardianship of law,
such advice as is given above seems
harsh, and uncaled for, and as indicating
bad spirit in one who so suggests, but
let him remove to Kansas, where for two
years there has been no law, save that
which beni6cent Father has implanted
in the breasts of all men, and which, if
properly observed, would dispesne with
every form of human Legislation, and he
will lake different view of things from
what he now does.
While we remain in ourpreSent condi-
ton, every man should be law unto
himself, adopting as bis guiding star the
golden rule, as promulgated by the
Redeemer. Every man will then square
his conduct by that rule, and require his
neighbor to observe the same as far as
practicable.
Asa punishment for those Free State
men who appeal to the Legislation of a
mob from Missouri for protection, we
propose that every man withdraw his
patronage and influence from him. and |
that he be left for the future to the mer-
cy of the pro-slavery men for his support. |
Those pro-slavery men who wish to be
governed by a mob from another State
occupy an entirely different position, and
should receive the same liberation and
kindness as other men; but let those
who desert US in this cri>is feel the weight
of public opinion in such a manner that
it will be life-lasting
New Name for the Presidency.
The name of Col. JOHN G. Fremont
has been props sed by several respectable |
journals in the East as a candidate for
the Presidency. Mr. Fremont has been
long aud favorably before the Americ IN,
people, and has always commanded re-