The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-17
Bad Advisers.

Bad Advisers.
We see very little ground to hope that
they viii succeed, while we are sure that
in any case they will iDjure their cause
by such compromise of principle
Anti- Slauery Standard.
Such was the language of one of the
leading anti-slavery papers ofthe country
a few weeks ago in regard to the resolution
of the Free State party to participate in
the election. First, it discourages an effort
to wrest the usurped Legislative authority
of the Territory from the hands of those
who had possession of the government,
and, secondly, it claims that we will COM
promise our position by engaging in the
election.
The Anti- Slavery Standard occupies
the same position, we believe, as does the
/ Boston Liberat0r, and the 4nti- Slavery
Bugle Their motto, in fact, is ''No Union
with slaveholders'' They are open adj
vocateS of dissolution of the UnioD,-
are non-resistants-and oppose voting
ere1, is tie States, because by voting and
participating in the elections they claim
| they become particeps crfmiRis in the guilt
of slavery which the federal Government
evidently uphoIds.
1t seems to us very proper for journals
and persons entertaining such to oppose
voting in Kansas, on the score that to vote
will be compromise of principle" We
have but very few of this school of pol
iticians in Kansas Our friend G. STEANs
formerly occupied this position, and to-
day has only abandoned it SO far as nom
resistance is concerned. He places the
Border Rufians on an equality with "wild
beasts to use his own language. and
thinks it not wrong to fight them in self
defence He is no Office seeker. --.
/ -, the letter-writer, is also an abolition
ist, and we believe of the Garrisonian, nom
voting, ,disunion school, butwe arenot quite
sure that he is anon-reSistant One man of
considerable prominence in the Territory
used to act with that faction in the States,
but since he has become ambitious of Of
! fee he has come down to the voting and
I fighting standard. There are few other
persons, not exceeding, probably, dozen
in the Territory, who formerly occupied
this do-nothing policy. They have been
very wild in their remarks, and have made
thousands believe that their views were
the views of the masses in Kansas.
When the Free State party decided at
the Grasshopper Falls Convention to so
into the election it was the provice of these
men TO either remain silent, or to have
acted with the party; but instead of this
they felt and expressed themselves in
public and private, just as did the Standard
in the above extract. They had their in
huence, and quite number of good men
were induced to remain away from the
polls through their action. The result
has shown that there acas HOPE; we have
succeeded; and we have not compromised
our position no more than would man
in wrestling his hand from the jaws of a
lion when he was about to crush it. By
the action of roting we have placed our
selves in position to throw off the in
cubus which has borne us down for
three long years, and already We see the
day of our deliverance.
| Shall those men who stood "afar off,
and complained of Jupiter because he
would not crush our oppreSsorS, but who
never put hand to the work, share in
the reward? Shall they have the honors
who have all the time tried to discourage
those who had put shoulders to the
wheel, aud who adopted as motto that
"God helps those who help themSelves?'
Or shall they who labored 20 wrest from
good and true men their regulations, be-
cause they differed in the line of policy,
come in, not at the eleventh hour, but
after the triumph is complete, and claim
the glory of aiding in making Kansas free?
Our solemn opinion is, that those men
who have shown so much ability to hold
Jack-who have never cast vote towards
relieving Kansas from thraldom. but who
have all along tried to discourage and
| diSsuade true men inclined to vote from
participating in the elections, have done
more to retard the real progress of the
Territory than any other men in it. We
viii venture the assertion, however, that
if there is an otfice-a clerkship or any,
thing else within the reach of these men.
they will be the first to grasp for it; and
what they could not do towards crippling
the success of the Free State party in the
late elections, they will attempt covertly
in the offices to which they viii aspire.
Look out for them. They have not the
freedom of Kansas at heart. They are
actuated by other motives than to secure
the freedom of Kansas, and they cannot
be trusted.
o. On one occasion during the Revo-
luton "0ld Putt had received lot of
new recruits, and as he had some fighting
which he wished to do before lonn and