The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24
Houor n whom Honor Is Due |.

the most yelemenS manner, and his lie /
was hourly endangered by the despera-
does around Lecompton,. It was then the |
free State party were the most bitter a
gainst that functionary, and it was not
until he had left the Territory, and war
fare opened upon the Administration at
Washington on account of their not sus-
tanning him as they should, that our peo-
pie came forward and showed themselves
willing to do him justice.
For the sake of Kansas, and the cause
of personal freedom for which we have so
long and earnestly contended, we do hope
that different line of policy will prevail
in regard to our present Executive, and
the Secretary of the Territory Indeed.
we have seen very manifest and fayora-
bic change already, for which we feel
truly grateful.
Gov. WALKER, in his decision in regard
to the payment of Territorial tax, paved
the way to the polls for us all, without
humiliating ourselves to the alternative of
paying an illegal tax, one levied upon us
to defray the expenses of eur own enslaye-
ment. He did more than this. He gave
full assurances to the people from abroad
that they must not interfere in our cleo
tions, and that if they did so he should
disregard any votes they might poll. He
placed troops at the polls to prevent this
interference, and wherever the troops
were stationed they accomplished their
purpose. True, at Kickapoo he was
charged with an interference there in the
elections. We firmly believe that the
charge made against him was designed for
unworthy purposes, to cry down a valua-
Bile public officer, and to influence the
elections in the States, which were about
being held.
True to his word, and true to his own
generous promptings, the Governor has
stepped forward at the time the slavery
oligarchy were about fastening upon us,
for another term of years, their manicles;
when they thought to head down the last
rivit, and when all of us were despond-
ing, and the black cloud of revolution was
gathering thick and fast and was already
far above the horizon; with that frmness
which became the man, and the reputa-
ton he had acquired in the many public
offices he had already filled, he met the
issue, and throttled the giant monster as
it began to live.
But for this act of Gov. Walker, in
meeting the fraudulent returns from the
Oxford precinct with SO great frmness,
there was not an election district in Kan
sas Territory where more or less frauds
would not have been practiced. Poll
books would have been stolen from the
public archives at Lecompton, and they
would have been superseded by false ones.
Innumerable fraudulent returns would
have been made in the first instance, as
was the case in Oxford and the several
imaginary precincts in McGee county
This was their plan. We mentioned it
weeks ago, and, by our timely exposure,
headed off some of their damnable
schemes to retain power. Resolved to do
right, without stopping to inquire whether
it made for him or against him, Gov. W.
put his foot upon the villainy and smoth-
cred it, and our people see the day of their
emancipation but little way ahead in
consequence of it.
What we have said in regard to Gov.
W., applies with equal force to Ssc,L stan
TON. "My right arm shall sooner be sew
fered from my body than will sign a GER
tifcate of election where / am satisfied a
pereon is elected by fraud" Though we
heard these words from Mr.. Stanton at
privatet able weeks ago, our warm impul-
sive blood almost compelled us to shout
aloudwith joy as he made the remark.
His eye denoted that he meant all he said,
and we placed as great confidence in that
assurance as though it had come from any
other man in the nation. Said we to our
self: 'Let Sec'y. STANTON keep that SOL
emn pledge, and his name will be endear-
ed to the people of Kansas. They will
forget all their supposed wrongs, and will
do justice to the man who showed that he
had nerve for the crisis" Mr.. Stanton
has kept that pledge. He has shown him.
self an honest man, and friends and foes
shall do him justice.
Though Gov. Walker and Secretary
Stanton are each pro:slayery men, yet the
course they have pursued justifes us in
writing them down "THE DELIVERIES OF
KANSAS" and as such they shall be known
to history.
For months, while others were denounc-
ing them, we were conscious of their
honesty of purpose, and we resolved to
maintain them though all the world should
oppose. Guilty of some bad acts, yet we
forgaye them all, for we kaie,0 they did not
intend to wrong us; and now, when parti-
zan warfare and partizan hate is ended,
and the elections have closed in the States,
and the motives to misrepresentation and
calumny are over, we appeal to the gener-
GUS and true to come forward, as honest
men always should do when convinced of
an error, and correct, as far as they have
the power, the injury they have done
those men.
OF Clubs begin to arrive for the Herald
Of FFeelons from the States, in response to
the invitation to our friends TO 90 to work.