The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-03

Kansas Pioneer.

W Z orc A1Ot nN~n III lAAO ho6AS Va
giving notice to small things, but in
this instance will depart from our usu-
al rule, and devote paragraph to the
above paper, published at KickapoO
City.
In arecent article. headed Governor
Geary, it hits lick at us, and the
Squatter Sovereign, in which it dis
PLAYS such deplorable ignorance of the
true state Of affairs in the Territory,
that it more deserves our pity than our
contempt. a leader of a paper that
processes to be pro-slavery, and can
see nothing in the Governors course
that should cause the displeasure of
any right minded and rational think
ing pro-slavery man, is SO far behind
the times that we can have no hopes
of his ever getting up-he is in Rip
Van Winkle condition, and whilst the
party to which he processes to belong
is fighting for its very existence a.
gainst the insidious attacks of an in
fsiduous foe, he is sound osleep-his
ewes are shut, and he can't see.
Can he see anything in the ominous
dispatches marked "official," that are
weekly coming from Washington, and
rolling in the dust the heads of our
best, truest and brayest men-csn he
see nothing in the thread suspended
sword that is ready to fall upon the
head of every official in the Territory
that belongs to our party, if he dares
thwart the will or oppose the abolition
policy of one man. Does this Editor
see anything alarming in the removal
of Lecompte, Clarke, and others, and
would he see anything in the removal
of the best man in the Territory, as is
rumored. We would advise this Ed
itor to take the Governors course from
its inception to the present-examine
it-lift it, tear it to pieees-turn it
over and around-shut one eye on it
get a microscope or telescope and
turn to it the zig end-and then see if
he can see anything in it that should
cause the "displeasure of any right
minded, rational thinking slavery
man."
The Pioneer says that it docs not,
like some others, praise man one day
and condemn him the .next-that it
does not jump at conclusions, but
takes time to make up its opinion. IL
called upon to act upon some great
principle effecting our interests, we
would take time and deliberate cody,
and not jump at our conclusions, but
when the acts of men are in question
we come to our conclusions about them
and the men in a very short time.
If the Executive interferes with the
Judiciary through ignorance or pre-
sumption-no matter how wrong the
Judiciary may be-we Jump" at our
conclusions and condemn the act as
violating a fundamental principal of
law. The Pioneer is welcome to its
fogy doctrines, We entertain no such.
The richest part of the thing is, how
ever, the Pioneer says. that it viii not
express its opinion of an act to-day,
because he may have to change it to-
morrcw-consistency is an evil-but
consistency merely for the sake of con-
sistency, is a humbug. An Editor
that is afraid to express an opinion a
bout acts because he may be compell-
ed to change them the next day, hasn t
an opinion that is worth expression.
We eomplimented Governor Geary
Immediately after his arrival here, be-
cause he did no act of a serious ma
ture that could command the disappro-
batfon of our .iudgment-on the con-
trary, he acted in such manner as met
our approval. He acted pretty much
through policy, because Presidential
election was on hands. and as we felt
interested in the result we acquiesced
in his policy, expecting that he would
after the election, raise the curtains be-
hind which he had acted-he has rails
ed them, and shows to our view all an
imal with which we can have no sym
pathy, and we will oppose him to the
utmost of our ability, notwithstand-
| ing he is backed by the Leavenworth
journal and Kansas Pioneer.
P. S. 1t is rumored, upon the au-
thority of one E. G. Garvey, that the
Gov. intends resigning in the Spring
or Summer, and run upon the Free
State ticket for Congress. from the
State of Kansas Can the Pioneer see
anything in that?