The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-04-25
words of Counsel.

the n. i. If1oune oil the 0ist ult. II
is replete with good advice TO the peo-
pie of Kansas, and should be read and
re-read and passed from hand to hand,
until every settler in Kansas knows its
contents.
We are conscious that the advice is
different from what some persons de-
sire. but it is the voice of the PEOPLE OF
Kansas, and it will be needed. We are
to have no war this season. Let this
be fixed fact with all persons, of all
parties and more than that, let every
disturber Of the public peace, of either
side, be taught lesson they will long
observe. If persons engage in acts OF
lawlessness, they should be punished,
and severely, too. Horse-thiefS, rob-
bers, murderers, &c, can be safely dis
posed of without court-houses or jails,
and as society is now constituted, with
the experience of the past before US,
we shall expect to see courts organ
lied upon the spot where crime is
committed, and the penalty for crime
inflicted without waiting for the form
alton of future government. Crimes
have been, and are daily committed,
because Of the almost certainty OF
escaping punishment. Reverse the
rule, and crime will be rare.
The editor of the Tribune re-
marks -
"The Free State men of Kansas
now rest under so fearful a weight OF
responsibilities responsibility which
their compatriots elsewere must maa-
surably share-that we cannot resist
the impulse to offer them few words
of counsel and caution, in view of the
pitfalls by which their way is sur
rounded. We offer these with great
Difference, not distrusting their wisdom
or prudence, but in the conviction that
some of their perils are more distinct
ly seen from our point of observation
than from theirs. We would urge
them then, to
/. Bear and forJear to the last er-
tremiy, and arOid Aostilities to the almost
limit Of human endurance. To obey
this entreaty is difficult, but we trust
not impossible. 1t is hard to pay taxes
to support so Infamous and impudent
an imposture and usurpation lis that
of the bogus Legislature ; but let the
Ruffisns rob you of part Of your goods,
under the pretext of leyyiDg for the
satisfaction of taxes, rather than give
them pretext for destroying all you
have. with federal edicts, officers and
bayonets to back them. They will
jump some of your claims and seize on
the Indian reservations in advance OF
the time when any one has right to
enter them but stand anything short
OF humiliation rather than give the
Doughface pretext for accusing you
of provoking or commencing hostili-
ties. Remember that the Missouri
will be blockaded, and the magnificent
stream of Free State immigration
now pouring in will be arrested the
moment it can be plausibly asserted
that hostilities have broken out again.
| Peace is doing everything for you
cherish her to the last.
III. Help one another. Some of you
have teams, others not, some have
shelter. food. seeds. and other neces-
saries which all must have. Change,
lend, entertain-do anything to help
a Free State man get crop seasona'
ably in the ground, though his cabin
as we'll as his fences must wait for it
Get some corn. potatoes, and other
vegetables planted on every Free State
mans quarter-section, and favor eacf
other to the utmost until cop is Sc
cured. Then look out for habitations
forage, DC, for the winter.
Sdre time. The workers in thu
long run, beat the fighters. Every
Free State settler in Kansas who doe
six full days work to each week this yea
will be doing better service to Fre
Kansas than any man who is ready t.
die for her ION paper and is conspi
cIous in the newspapers.
" Watch the conduct of the Pro-slaU
ery census and election. You have de
: cided to take no part in that election
we judge wisely. The result of that ell
ection is foreordained and ioreknown
the dice are loaded; if you were to pol
a hundred thousand votes, you woul'
not alter what will be declared as tn
result, any more than the French al
verssries of Louis Napoleon coul,
: have prevented declaIstion that b
; had been triumphantly chosen Empe
ror. It is well not to countenance tn
predetermined fraud by voting; bu
1t will be well, also, to watch tn
formation of the poll-lists, and not
the frauds of omis, ion as well as com
mission therein made. and be prepares
: to prove them to Congress and tn
People. Let no person be Illegal
enrolled, or left OFF the voting lists
let no vote be illegally cast. If With
: your reach of vision, without takin
evidence of the fact. to be set forth il
due time. They will frame their Pro
Slavery Constitution, of course; bu
if they venture to submit it to fuI
= and fair vote of the People, it will b
Overwhelmingly rejected; if they dar
not do this. Congress will hardly ven
ture to accept it; and even if accepted
it will be the Pro-Slavery CoEstitutio
of an Anti-Slayery State. How lon
can that endure? !?
| ~. Finally. Have faith as wei
S as patience. You will surely trump
at last, if you do not fail through mis-
taken haste and zeal. Do not imagin
5 that the emigration to Kansas of 1S5