The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-11-29
A Northern ponghfaoe


CALHOUN is Democrat, and halls from
Illinois. lie has often been quoted as
good authority in Kansas matters, be-
cause he came from free State. But
the Union, who knows him well, says:
His sympathies are all acih tie South,
and he is stronger on the slavery ques-
ton than one-half of those born in the
South"
Will the people of Illinois, and the
members of the Democratic party
throughout the North, receive the state
ments of these renegades from freedom.
and be guided by their advice, any
longer? VIII they consent to acknowl-
edge men to be leaders, wl.o are labor
ing continually to extend the area of
slavery, and limit the boundaries of
free Institutions? We shall see /! But
to the article referred to-
GEs. CALHouS.-To the Northern
men, who, with devotion amounting
to heroisIn, have barred their breasts
and received the blows aimed at the
freedom of the South, State equality,
and consequently the perpetuity of the
Union, are the people of the Union
indebted, than all others. To this
class belongs Gen. John Calhoun, Sur
veyor General of Kansas. Born and
raised in the North, his sy1potties are
oH w;th tie South, and he Is to-doy strong
er on the slagery question than one-ha!fof
those born and raised IN the South; and
we say this, too, without doubling their
devotion to the cline of their birth, or
for want of confidence in their will to
defend us, when necessary, against any
enemy.
He belongs to the Douglas school Of
politicians, the men upon whose Shout
ders the weight of this Union has fallen.
Bold in thought-untiring in action,
and sound in principle. Such men are
governed by principle, not motive
There is an under covering of common
honesty in their composition, that de
fies the corrupting influence of brain
sick abolitionism. Neither gold, the
glittering prizes that dazzle the am
bilious eye, the fear of scorn and con-
tumacy, can tempt them from the strict
line Of duty; but, planted upon the rock
of principle, they resist the seductive
Influences of the one and defy the stinSs
of the other.
To such men, more especially, are
the people of Kansas indebted for their
firm and unwavering support, under
circumstances of a peculiarly trying
nature. This occurred to US, after
listening to the very excellent remarks
of Gen. Calhoun, ON last Saturday
evening We will give the substance
of one or two points made by him on
the occasion.
In the first place, he exposed the
injustice and fallacy of the policy that
is being carried out by the Territorial
magnates, under the plausible pretext
of doing justice to all partieS-the lev
cling idea that has sired the advent of
the last gubcrnatorial constellation
doomed up in our political sky-recog-
MIXING noE di4terenee. between the good
and the bad, but placing upon a Gem
mon footing, the sustainers of the law
anl its violators.
Under the workings of this new pol
lev, some of the best and most law
abiding citizens of the Territory, have
been dragged before the inquisitorial
eourt-"spotted and stained with in
dictments, and made to undergo all the
vexations and delays of a legal investi
CATION, to vindicate his honor. If he
shoot down the ineendiary when in the
act of applying the torch to his house
or if he Jumps upon the back Of the first
horse that comes within reach, or
..presses' him, for the purpose of vim
dicating the laws of the country when
tranpled under foot, he must be placed
on an equal footing with the wretch who
applies the torch, and the traitor who
breaks the law, and be branded as a
murderer and common horse thief. Is
it sufficient to enquire whether such
and such an act was done, without en-
curing into the causes that led to its
commission? What will be the effect
of such policy upon our party here, if
persisted in? 1t will degrade US at
home and disgrace us abroad, and it
will force us to either one of two eX-
tremes, to abandon country that pun
ishes for sustaining its laws, and de-
Tending our lives and property when
threatened, or we must make mp our
minds to submit to every humiliation
and degradation that can be heaped
upon US. What will our friends at
Washington apd the States, who have
fought our battles, say, when they hear
of this? 1t will take from them the
only weapon that they have used in
our defcnce-our innocence-and place
in the hands of our enemies a powerful
lever to be used against us-our guilt.
The question is, shall we sustain our
friends, who, in obedience to the proc
lamation of acting Governor Woodson,
! took up arms in defence of the laws,
against a set of .'dogs, seoundrels, and
traitors, who came into the country,
not with the intention of supporting
the laws, but armed and equipped for
fight-traitors at heart, with the trea-
sonable design of overthrowing the
laws and trampling them under foot, or
shall we surrender them to the mercy
of such miserable policy as is being
carried out at present. or Sustain item
to the last.
Our position is, that the law and
order party is in the right, or it is in the
wrong-if the first, it should be sus-
tanned; if the last, condemned. We say
it is the only true, upright, eonStitu-
tional party in the country; there may
be individual exceptions we are not
bound by their acts, nor do we approve
of them.
The idea of appeasing the Unsuitable
gluttony of abolition rage and fanati-
cism, by harrassing and plasterins with
indictments the law and order men, I'M
der the pretence of Impartial justice, !"
sayors of lunacy. If one-half of the