Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-07-02
His Last Dodge.

comes down and admits that the free
State men of Kansas are largely in the
preponderance. This acknowledgment
is tantamcunt to saying that it was in
their power to decide whether they
should have a slaveholding or a free
Constitution, and the attempt Of the
Register nan to cover up their trcach-
cry by the assertion that they refused to
take part in any proceeding because by
doing SO, they would recognize what he
terms the 'bogus laws" is u very lame
one indeed. He knows that the validi-
ty of those laws was admitted by the
Black Republican members of Congress
when they voted for Dun's Bill. and he
knows too, hat the free State men did
intend to vote for delegates to the Con-
stitutional Convention, but when the
arch-agitators of abolitionism discover
ed that their doing so would heal up the
bleeding" wound of Kansas and hurl
back into their faces the o~ft-repeated
liz IlldI, II GnSldN SlIlCl VI l1id
tory was certain to follow a democratic
victory, they counseled them not to
participate in the election, for WHICH
base treachery andsvillainys these office
seeking dcmagogues called down upon
their heads bitter eensure from such
Republican Journals as the National
Era and n. Y. Times. 1t is no use
therefore, for the Register man to try
to cover oyer the treachery of the lead
ers of the party to which he is dangling,
the means by which so many were
deceived into its support last fall-the
veil has been removed and the false
hoods and deception that gave it life ex-
posed to the gaze of an indignant peo-
pie, and its baseless structure is fast
crumbling to the ground.
Not only have ONE of their own par
ty papers denounced the curse of the
Free State men in Kansas, but many of
the Independent Journals of the oun
try have spoken out against them. The
following we clip from the second num-
Der of Sol. Miller's paper, published at
White Cloud, Kansas, neutral in poll
tics, and to which our neighbor of the
Register wished success, and hoped that
when Sol. decided which side he would
take, he would ''steer his canoe straight
through and come out on the right
We opinc from what he says
here, that he has taken our neighbours
and comes out on the right side.
Hear what he says:
"In one respect, the Pro-slavcry pa
pers speak truly-there is an ov~crwhcl-
ming majority of Free State men in the
Territory, and the advantage on their
side is increasing every day. We be
we may safely assert that there are
ten Free State mcA to M Pro-Slavery
in Kansas; aud therefore, it seems
remarkably strange to us, that they draw
back, and utterly refuse to do anything
for themselves. They give a reason for
this, it is true; but it is no valid rea-
son. It must be confessed, that their
enemies have reason to charge that they
to vote, lest the question of Free
should be settled, and thereby
should hereafter lose their claim
to be called martyrs of Freedom. When
men have a professedly desired object
their grasp, and refuse to hold
it, no other reason can be conceived for
conduct. In addition to their in
there has another spirit crept
among the Free State men, which new
fails to destroy those who harbor it
among them, no matter how strong they
be. We allude to discussion, bick-
quarreling, division and jealousy
among themselves. \ quarrel is at
present going on at Lawrence, which
bids fair to wax hotter than my which
they have heretofore carried on with
their Pro-slavery opponents. Brown,
of the Herald Of Freedom, Gov. Robin
son, and others, are the prominent ac-
tors in this feud. Brown seems to have
incurred the ill-will of the Free State
leaders generally, and they arc coming
upon him thick, with proofs that he has
attempted to sell out the Free State par
ty, and Islander its leaders; while he, in
turn, rctaliates upon them; and so they
have it beautifully.
When Kansas excitement has had its
run, and an impartial history is written
of her wrongs and sufferings, those who
permitted their feelings to be carried
away, in times of high political excite
ment, by sympathy for certain sclf-con-
Free State champions, will at
learn that all the true friends Of.
Freedom wore not congregated about
and Topeka; and they will
turn in disgust from contemplating the
in which professed friends of
Freedom attempted to prostitute its sa-
cred name to their OWN personal gain
and self aggrapdizement."
ree The Washington Union closes a
we'll written article on the recent Ohio