The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-05-30
Kansas Items.

on the Sd Monday in June next, of delegates
to a convention to form State Constitution.
A correspondent of the Missouri RepuJH-
can, from Lecompton, May 10, thus specu
lates in reference to the coming election:
50 precious row it will be, far ahead in
deed Of that "pull husband, pull bear con- |
tiict," with the particulars of which your
readers are doubtless familiar. Stop let us |
classify the opposing parties, they number
some half dozen. First-the ultra pro-
slavery man, little on the bowie knife and
six shooter line, and just as square on the
goose as you can set him, with his political
legs twisted under the birds belly He
wants his niggers, is in for the Union some
times, but feels South all the time. Then
comes the moderate pro-slavery man-Union
loving, conservative, good Democrat, who
says: niIgers, IL the majority Of the people
wish it, but Union anyhow, and above all
the unity Of the great National Democratic
party. Then We have the moderate Free
State National Democrat, all right, too
Then an ultra Free State man, who cries
" free soil, and only means Fremont;
corrns niger alias Black Republican, whose
cry is ever anarchy, defiance to law, Bill
Seward and Greeley. Then comes your
AboItionist, but we never did try TO "paint
the devil yet, and wont begin now. So you
see we are provided with all the rau materi-
ais for as pretty fight as ever charmed
that very Irish gentleman, Sir Lucius
O'Trigger.
To be serious, however, it has now be-
come all important. The conservative men,
the true National Democracy of Kansas,
whether from the North or from the South,
free State OF slave State, should organize,
and stand shoulder TO shoulder as the up
holders Of law, and the advocates OF DE
mocracy and n Democratic constitution for
Kansas" Whatever may be the result, SO
lar as the slavery question goes, we may be
mistaken, but we think that Kansas ,eiU be
a Free State, trith JrOtectire cianse as to
negroes H0Ic OgHe1 in the 1errit0ry, and will
be made so by the act of the united and
conservative National Democracy, both of
the North and the South. II this should be
so the Democracy OF the North will owe
debt of gratitude to the Southern wing of
the party whose full extent it VIII be almost
impossible to conceive.
Not only by the above, but from other
sources, We learn that alarming disafIection
has broken out among the abolition free
state army in Kansas. 1t appears about
half of the national democratic party in the
territory is composed Of free state men, and
large portion Of the hitherto Topeka par
~, embracing men who had been formerly
democrats-thcn freedom shriekers, but ne
yer black abolitionists, have shown a dispo-
sitiOn to join the democracy, believing that
by the aid Of the free state sentiment among
the masses Of the national democracy, they
can effect more than by pursuing the no-vo-
ting, do-nothing policy of the abolitionists
In connection with this matter, an amusing
editorial appears in the Herald Of Freedom,
Browns paper, from which we infer that
Brown, by favoring the democratic move
ment, has brought down upon his head the
Examinations of Gov. Robinson, who accuses
Brown Of a desire to betray the free state
cause. Brown, in reply asserts that Robin
son is the traitor, and accuses Robinson of
being thief, liar, coward and so on through
the catalogue. The whole affair is "fun
alive " 10 the democrats who think the quar-
rel deserves encouragement, as being likely
to bring out good deal Of truth from both
sides
y Kansas correspondent OF the y. York
. Times, whom the editor endorses as one Of
the most intelligent and influential of the
( Topeka party, in reply to the ccncures Of
the Times upon that party for refusing TO
take part in the election, admits that their
course in that matter had 10 reference to
the question whether Kansas should be a
free or slave state. lie maintains that Kan
sas must i'll every and any event be free
state-ttat the question IS already settled
but that the policy of the Topeka party, in
refusing to vote, was to keep their party to
gether-to preserve its unity and discipline
in short, to check this dangerous move
ment among its members to coalesce with
the free state national democracy, by which,
but for some such master stroke of policy
the correspondent maintains the new state
! of Kansas, in spite of all their groans and
labors, would in the end become demo-
cratic instead Of a black republican state
Z The Times editor disposes Of his correspon-
dent very ccOliy 10y expressing his joy to
learn that the great question OF f. ecdom or
slavery in the new state is thus happily
settled, and cyinces provoking indifference
as to the result Of the contest which her
people h. reaf:er may encounter for mere
party ascendancy and party power.