The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-11-21
Parties.


There has never been a time in the
history of Kansas, when the Free State
element was so united as at present; and
neither has there been atime when it was
30 powerful. The men who compose
this party are from every State in the
Union. They are also from every party
in the Union. Democrats and Wings
have blended into harmony. Abolition
lists. Free Sellers and Moderate Pro- Slave
nv men are united In common cause
against Border Ruffian usurpatlon. Ems
is too bare-faced tyranny to be Justlhed
by any honest man, of whatever party
It will scarcely be believed IN the East
ern States. that some slave holders IN Kan
sas are denounced as abolitionists, be-
cause they are for doing justice to the
Free State men. Yet such is the fact
We know of one man, slave holder, and
a Justice Of the Peace, who was knocked
down in his own court, and threatened
death or expulsion from the Territory, be-
cause he would deal justly by them
He borrowed revolver to carry to his
court, 10 defend himself against the Bor-
der Rufian party. The Free State men
assembled several times to protect him
from violence from his own party. That
party, as such, dread justice, as mad
dog does water. 1t is thrown into spasms
by the sight of it. This party SO hating
Justice, and as hateful in itself to all honest
men, has exerted an influence in Kansas
which no force of reasoning could ever
have DONE 1t has consolidated the liberal,
generous minded men, into one unbroken
phalanx against the present ruling dy-
nasty.
This dynasty has been known, and is
now known by various names, such as Boz
der Rufian-Pro- Slavery-Law and Or
der-and last but not least, as the Ma
tiorlal Democratic party. Under each OF
these names it is equally hateful, and has
been equally sustained by what purpOrts
to be the Democratic party in Washing
ton. There is so fixed and violent hat
red in Kansas against this party, that it
will never be possible to sustain it in any
considerable numbers, or even to rally to
its support many of its old friends. The
question at issue here, is different from
what it is in any other State.
1t is personal, and comes home to
every man. 1t is FREEDOM or Slavery,
not only to the negro, but to the white
man. The right of self-government is
denied; and its advocacy or exercise is
made crime. We have in our midst the
living tyrant. We have also the bleed
ing martyr. Men have arrayed them
selves under these two, representative
leaders in defending, Or crushing out pop
ular rights. One party in Kansas as Free
State and the other as Pro-Siavery. All
the mild names of the old States are melt
ed down and the population is become a
homogeneous mass of concentrated hatred
to the National Democratic party, by
whichever of its Kansas names it may be
known,-whether Border Rufian, Law
and Order, Pro-Slavery or National Dem
ocratic This little faction in Kansas, not
worthy the name of party, would scarsely
be known, were it not for the power they
derive from the General Government
They rule Kansas, Notwithstanding their
acknowledged minority of at least one to
twenty. ALI efforts to give the National
Democracy good reputation are hope
lessly futile.