The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-11-21
60. n rreedon-No, Party.


Free State triumph in Kansas was not a
Republican triumph exclusively, and we
suggested TO our friends in the States,
that they should not claim it as such a
friend lately from the East says, that
expression has cost us one thousand sub
scribers. Though it cost rs seven thou
sand, or all we have, it is nevertheless
true, and as such we repeat it, let its eff
feet be what it may pecuniarily upon us.
For the benefit of such persons we take
the liberty of stating, that the Free State
element in Kansas is made up of every
shade of political sentiment, all uniting
in the one thing-hostility to the ex-
tension of slavery over Kansas. Thou
sands of as good Free State men as we
have in Kansas voted for James Buchanan
for President; and since then they have
migrated to Kansas. They soon saw that
the National Democracy, as organized
here, was acheat-was mere Pro-slayery
party, gilded pill, fair in name, but dis
gustful in character, made up of disunion-
lists, and the most extreme men in the
country.
The Free State power, the Herald Of
Freedom. among that number, wishing to
unite as much strength as possible against
the Pro-slayery ticket, have maintained
this position, and time and time again
have repeated, that our end and aim was
to make Kansas Free State, without any
view to the parties as organized in the
States; and that this distinction should be
kept up until Kansas was admitted into
the Union as a State.
"But," says one, 'as Republican you
had no right to make such an arrange
ment." In reply we say. that the settle
ing of this question no longer rests with
any party in the States-it is question
for Kansas alone, and as such we hope to
work out our freedom. We expect our
friends to look on with deep interest, as
in the past; but their hands are tied, and
viii be until this question is finally settled.
If party lines, as drawn in the States,
were drawn here to day we should feel
doubtful of the result. We believe the
Republicans are in the ascendency, but
this is by no means certain. That We
are in the majority in Lawrence, Topeka,
Osawatomie, and Quindaro, is undoubted-
ly true, and probably in many other
places; but when the Democratic party is
fully organized, and that element is COM
pletely. united, and to it is joined the Pro-
slavery element, which sympathizes with
it to the fullest extent, then the issue is
uncertain. The making of that issue
must be put off until the freedom of Kan
sas is put beyond peril. We would do
nothing to drive our Democratic supper
tiers from US; but when the victory is COM
plete, then the lines may be drawn as
closely as any partisan pleases, and we
shall be found with the party which
promises the most for human freedom,
and which will war the most unrelent-
ingly with the slave power.
Crush us for those views and this action,
if the people please! Our party is the
party of freedom, and our end and aim is
the freedom Of the Mighty Vest. Looking
above the mere party machinery which
seeks to displace those in power to make
room for those out of power, and with no
desire for position or reward, only an APP
proving conscience, we shall struggle on,
as in the past, and we shall triumph; and
then-away from the chickering's of poll
tieians and the envy of demagogues we
shall seek in retirement that true delight
spoken of by the poet, when he remarked
20. knew he but his happiness, of men
The happiest! who, far from public rage,
Deep in the vale, with few choice few retir'd.
Drink the pure pleasures of the rural life.