The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-12-12
Evening psrk. bu. szoruin. Pal,

has its reverse" Is it not SO with all |
things? To-day the clouds lower upon
US, and the face of all nature is gloomy
and sonowful; tomorrow sunshine breaks
out upon Us, and everything looks gay
and more lovely again, because of the
drearyness of yesterday.
Adversely sets in, and we feel for atime |
borne down by the pressure from without;
then change comes on for the better, and
we can enjoy our good fortune the more
because of the sadness which surrounded
us, from which we have so recently
emerged.
Reader, did you never have occasion to
call up that truthful old maxim, @The
darkest hour is just before day." OF, in
the words of the poet,
The evening was dark.
But the morning is fair
If not you have been one of the fortu-
nate ones, and hardly know how to APP
preciate good things when surrounded
with them.
Often during the last season have we
reviewed the condition of affairs, and
when the sky seemed the most frowning
it appeared to US We could see clear sky
beyond, and hope cheered us on to still
greater exertion. One measure after an
other undertaken by US has triumphed,
and looking back upon the past we cannot
but feel that perfect victory has been
ours.
Our support of Gov. WALKER, which
was so violently opposed, is now generally
approved, and that man is written down
as radical in the extreme who has not
candor to admit that Gov. W. has made
a very excellent Governor.
The voting policy was approved by the
people, and as We write Free State Leg
islature is in session, the first in the Ter.
ritory, as consequence of that measure.
Others may and do claim the honor of
favoring that measure, ard many are
entitled to credit for leading off in the
support of it, but those who re-
member the tone of the Kansas letter
writers; and of portion of the press in
the Territory, and many of the leading
papers out of the Territory, because we
favored voting, will not give them credit
for truth, however zealously they set up
their opposite position.
Not day passes but we are in receipt
of letters congratulating US on the triumph
of the Herald Of Freedom policy, and very
many of our leading Free State politicians
have assured us that at times they felt
doubtful of the result with us, but now
they are free to admit, our future is with
out a cloud. Not but what lies and
falsehood viii be employed against us, as
in the past, but that they are powerless
for evil.
Within the past few weeks we have re-
ceived several letters from some of the
, prominent and influential anti-slavery
men in Boston-persons who disapproved
of our policy when first introduced, and
who wrote us to that effect, who now say:
=" Mr.. Brown, we did you great injustice
last summer. We thought you were Ia
boring to lead the Free State party astray;
but now we see that you were guided by
wisdom, and we embrace this early OPP
portunity to acknowledge our mistake,
and congratulate you on the triumph of
your policy
Whilst this is the language of one, it
is the tone of numerous letters now be-
fore us. Instead of cutting off our sub
scription list it has been gradually on the
increase in the Territory, while out of it
the falling off has not been one particle
greater than we had reason to expect in
dependent of the falsehoods propagated
to our injury. From all parts of the coun-
try we are in the receipt of letters say
iing:-"We are about getting up clubs for
the Herald of Freedom while Others
write:
cat one time we thought we should
not renew our subscriptions, but as the
time approaches for discontinuance, and
when we call to mind the fact that the
termination of our subscriptions will be
taken by your enemies as evidence that
we sympathize with your falsifers, We
have not only determined to renew our
own subscriptions, but we shall labor with
our neighbors to induce them to renew
theirs, and in case any should feel in
ciined to discontinue entirely we will fill
their place with new names"
Thus things move on. Though we have
passed through a sea of falsehood, we feel
that the time has never been when our
paper was welding so great an influence,
or when its policy was better understood
and generally adopted than now. Alive
ask is for our true friends to go to work
from this hour, and aid us in swelling our
subscription list, and the future we viii
leave with unerring Wisdom, who directs
all things well.
/ Confession.
Gen. Calhoun, the President of the bo-
gus Constitutional Convention, on retiring
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