The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-04-19
The lfsfaio Of Freedom.
The Times.

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The conservative character of le2isla-
ton is proverbial Old Hunkerdom
sleeps no more sonndly anywhere than
in legislative halls. Aristocracy and
money rule England, and have ruled her
for centuries past. English lav and pre-
cedents rule America, in all our higher
courts. Where there is any deviation
from this course. it is for the worse, not
for the better. Il is Ike Judge Kane or
Judge Lecompt following in the path of
the notorious Jeffries. Imprisoning in
nocent cilizens-illegally packing juries,
putting uhder bonds without sufficient
cause, peaceable and industrious men.
The truth of it is, men are naturally
fearful Of change. and would rather "en-
dure those ills We have than fly to others
We know not Of" In Kansas every
thing is changed; or. at least, is practi-
eed to our injury. Laws are thrust upon
us against our will. Rulers, worse than
the laws, are appointed over US. All
the machinery of law and government
is put in motion 10 grind us into submis-
sion. We have suffered, submitted and
waited so long without redress that all
our seneration for old fogyism, and con-
seryatism, embodied in old forms and
usages, is entirely swept away.
While the memory of our wrongs is
fresh, and the full conviction is fastened
upon US, that old things can no longer
protect, let US fearlessly leave them be.
hind, and press forward to that which is
before. Let US make laws adapted to a
new country, new exigencies, and a new
class of inhabitants. The progressive
democracy cannot always travel in the
same half bushel. We need laws to
protect men, women and children. We
need restraining laws to protect ourselves
from the influences of fallen nature.
We need prohibitory liquor law, made
before the courts are made, so as to
adapt the courts to the laws, and not the
laws to the courts. We need home
stead exemption law, to save our wo.
men and children from sufferings worse
than death when they become widows
and orphans. We need law to protect
women and children in their rights o.
property and person. We need law te
educate our children, and furnish them
cheap and easy intellectual, moral and
social improvement. We need law to
protect the school lands from the hands
of sharpers, so that we may not b
cheated out of them. as they have been
in many other Safes.
In fact, We want TO exalt humanity al
the expense of property. We want tc
astonish Id fogyism, and when she see:
our beautiful State organization harmo
niously at work, protecting all and en-.
couraging all, make her exclaim. "Olo
things are passed away; behold al
things are become new i''
Let US learn from the errors of tn.
past, aud avoid those evils under which
older communities are groaning. Th'
following item. from the London Times
contains valuable hint. We hope ou
Legislators will heed it:
"There are many thousand citizen
living within mile of st. Paul's. and
good distance from anything to call
garden or a green field. OF these, a
least nineteen out of twenty go to NJ
place OF worship on Sunday don't emerg
from their musty dens till the middle o
the day. pay an occasional visit to th,
gin-shop. and sot, sit. sulk. or saunte
about during the rest of the day. Fo
our part, we have frequently urged OF
the Legislature the daty of proyidin,
places of innocent recreation for thes
people; pstks. walks and pleasure grounds
but that is just what the Parliament vii
not do. It will do no good, because do
ing good is difficult. anxious, responsi
ble affair, attended with cost, and follow
ed by occasional failures. 1t will onl
forbid what it eonceives to be harm, 70
that is easy and cheap. It acts like tn
parent who never gave FIVE minutes seri
ous thought IS to what to do with hi
child, who never had word TO say to
of an improving tendency, and very sci
dom of cheering one, and who con
fines the exercise of his paternal donin
ion to scolding. beating. snubbmg
thuarting. sileneing. and all the othe
forms of interdiction.'
The times are omiuous of change.
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