The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-06-20
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nd thousands of the hardy freemen of ]
he North are still on there western way |
0 find home and a country in Kansas,
S the most beautiful Of all Uncle Sans
vide domain, presenting advantages aud
ABILITIES for every branch Of industry,
second TO no point on the continent of
he West.
Still. all who come here are not such as
constitute the nucleus of thriving State
they are not all mechanics, nor farmers,
nor traaesmen. Occasionally a rusty,
worn out politician ilnagines that on the
soil of Kansas, and among her seiai-sav-
age inhabitants, he may retrieve his
ruined fortunes on the stump and, in due
time, be sent, perhaps to Congress, or,
wanting that, TO the State Legislature
when we get one-whicir will serve as a
stepping stone to some other Office in the
gift of the 'dear people,
sIn such aspirations, all, perhaps, arc not
doomed to disappointment. Impudence,-
in conjunction with somewhat of energy,
will accomplish much towards mans ele-
yation in the political scale, and fulsome
fiattery is not always misapplied- They
have examples of political preferment in
their minds eye, where men of compare
five obscurity have assumed a migratory
garb, and in some newly organized Terri.
tory of the confederacy, found the larrels
which those who knew them wcrc un-
willing to bind upon their brows Per-
haps in this category they place many
now in the legislative halls of the nation,
who in some portion of the great North
west achieved their first political distinc-
ton. There are others, perhaps, who,
having risen step by step from an I'M
known station, have retired from the
well-eontested field, after standing upon
or grasping the topmost round in the lad
der leading to the giddy height wherein
sits fame.
/ In this game of chance, these uncer-
tain revolutions of the wheel of popular
/ favor, ten must fail where one succeeds;
but even this proportionate success viii
lure Others, like the buyers of lottery
tickets, to venture their all upon "tht
hazard of the de- fondly hoping theirs
will be the prize, while all competitor
draw blanks.
We have been thinking of some line,
we noticed in times agone, which appear
so strikingly appropos that We cannot for.
bear inserting them in this connection
with a slight deviation from the original
not as rejecting personally on any one
but as illustrative of the general charac
ter of Kansas immigration:
Thrice blest Kansas. in her soil,
Men seek the sure rewards of toll,
And honest poverty and worth,
Find here the best retreat on earth;
And hosts of preachers, doctors. lawyers
All independent as woOdsawyers-
With men Of every hue and station,
Flock to this rising western nation,
Men who can legislate or pillow,
Wage politics or milk COW.
So plastic are their various parts.
I That in the circle Of their arts.
With equal tact the border looms
! Hunt Free State men or hunt racoons.
A doctor, lawyer, or esquire,
Who would ascend q little higher,
First courts the people, honest souls,
I He bows, caresses and cajeles,
Till they conceive he has more merit
Than vas his fortune to inherit;
And running counter to his nature,
He runs into tho legislature;
/ Where, if he pass for wise and mute,
And chance TO steer the proper chute.
In half u dozen years or more,
He's qualified for Congress floor
These aspirants for political honors AM
profit should be helped on, in order to b,
helped off, as, in the chase Of Fife, tn,
pleasure consists in the pursuit rattle
than the attainment of the game, ant
ennui invariably follows success. 0ther
stand in waiting for their shoes, and aspi
rants are numerous for all fat offices in the
land.
But, we decidedly deprecate polite:
without policy other than that of filling
the pockets and building up a name. Il
should be the aim in reality, as it is pro.
fessedly, of all politicians, to endeavor tc
promote the greatest good to the greatest
number. Doubtless they intend to follow
the guidance of this great principle oil
government; but often the greatest num-
Der, to them, is that greatest of all, num-
Der one, which provided for, they may,
perhaps, at the earnest solicitation of Their
constituents, devote few years to the
service of their country; though even
then. if in Congress, perhaps their legis-
lation is based upon the insecure founda-
ton of eight dollars per day.
These demagogues are the bane OF
| party, however noble its aims and pure
its policy. Like rank weeds in a garden
of flowers, they render disagreeable what
else might have been enjoyed-stunt the
growth and crush the vitality of its prin-
ciples, causing doubt in the minds of
honest, candid, thinking men, as to the
ingenuousness of the party to which they
profess adherence. Like the deadly Upas,
they seem to faint the air, and blast all
which comes within the circle of their
miasmatic influence. Such are emphati-
cally, "ail things to all men, mere wealth
crooks in the breeze of popularity, shift
ing their position with the readiness of
scenes in the drama, and changing their
views as the chameleon his color. We
have known many such. and are at pres
ent aware of some of this class. When
the organic act of Kansas and Nebraska
was pending in the House, there were
those who-being placed between two