The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-09-05
A sss.onab,s ArnA le.

o,,inion ON Kansas affairs, it is evident
there is something wrong in the political
atmosphere, which needs enquiring into.
The Era Is known Of all men az one Oh
the most consistent anti-slasery Journals
in the country. 1t was established at
Washington City some eleven years ago.
and without turning to the right or left, It
has kept right ON, until a host Of aelo con-
veyts. who have lately left the old parties,
and who voted for Frank Pieree and the
Baltimore Platform of 1852, which en-
dorsed the fugitive slave law and the
compromise measures of 1850, have dis |
covered that DIR. BAILEY is not anti-slaye-
ry enough to suit them. Dr. Bailey was |
associated with one of the editions of the |
Herald of Freedom, in Cincinnati, more |
than twenty years ago, in the publication
of the first distinctive anti-slayery news
paper in the West, and he is covered all |
over with the scars he has received ia /
fighting the battles of freedom. He re-
commended that the people of Kansas
get possession of the Territorial Govern
ment and the bogus Constitutional Con-
vention: and, presto, change! he IS gone
forereri
The New York Times took practical
view of the same question, as did theEra.
It thought, in addition, that nothing was
to be gained by quarreling with the pow
ers that be. 1t told the people of Kan
sas to vote in June last. Fatal advice!
/ The n. i. Times is at once branded
Border Ruffian sheet, and is turned over
to an incensed public as journal TO be
discarded in future.
The Buffalo Republic was Silas Wright
paper during the days of that eminent
statesman. Too conscientious TO follow
the frequent somcrsets of its party, in
184S, when Gen. Cass promulgated his
doctrine of squatter sovereignty, in his
celebrated Nicholson letter, it left the
sinking ship, and placed itself upon the
Buffalo Platform. From that time down,
itlabored continuously for the triumph of
Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, Free
Men, and no further extension of slave
territory. 1t followed the fortunes the
Free Soil party during its brief eareer,and
in 1856 we find it an ardent co-laborer
will. the whole anti-slavery press of the
nation, advocating the rights of free Kan
sas, and urging the election of JOHN c.
FREMONT to the Presidency. In an evil
nour it has dared to cut its leading strings,
and now we see it fippantly announced
that it has "gone over to the Democratic
partym How? BY advocating consis-
tent line of policy to be pursued in Kan
sas!
The Buffalo Eapress' 1t was our text
, book while publishing an independent
anti-slavery and temperance paper in
Pennsylvania. 1t tbelonged to the Seward
:, wing of the Wing party of New York, and
was TO western New York what the III
:, bune of that period was to the north. In
1856 it was found with VIM. H. Seward
:, supporting the claims of the Republican
!, party; but its great popularity is eclipsed
and now it is branded by the same class
of journals which have been denouncine
the Herald of Freedom, with having "sone
d over to the Democratic party"
If The Troy, n. Y, Daily Times, Re.
i publican organ of eastern New York,
says:-
"0ther influential journals will doubt.
:. less follow soon. The fact is ono which
d admits of no dispute, that the strength Of
l. the Republican party of this State is by
70 no means equal to that of last fall. Tho
unwise efforts of demagogues to prosti
tute to unworthy purposes the power
o, which was placed in their hands, coupled
a with the fact which is becoming too appa
% rent, that the just and popular principle.
embodied in tke Republican platform o
the last campaign, are in danger of being
70 made seco,daryto personal schemes, combine
5. to weaken and disorganize the Republi
pf can party; and anless its aRgise friend.
cease their internal schemes tending to dissen
sion,it will be question for time whethc
d the organization which in the fall elec
is ton, with Fremont at its head, swept tn,
60 State by nearly one hundred Thousand
;. majority, will not be ignominiously dc
!, feated in the approaching election"
:, While these are the facts in the States
look upon Kansas. The same proscrip
. tive policy which has been inauguratec
: in the States, obtained the ascendane,
here; and for months a regency of letter
writers in Kansas, has controlled the des
!. TIMES of men and things in Kansas. Her,
,s was PhiHips, and Hutchinson, and Vaughn
- and Tappan, and Raelf, and Kagi, ant
- Hinton, and Smith; and to that numbe
has recently been added Redpath, again
:, Every man in Kansas must do the biddin:
= of these men,or be mathematical by them
.. Where have been the prominent actors il
the early history of Kansas? Judgt
,e Smith. and Pomeroy, and Schuyler, ant
,s Roberts, and Holiday, and Parrott, ant
: Wakefield, and Houston, and Delahay
. and numberless others whose names fg.
|. ured conspicuously, have disappeared tc
), give place to new ones, and new comers
Why, we again ask, is this? It is because
!. these letter writers, by inuendo, and false.
hood, and by crowdins themselves for.
ward on every prominent occasion, have
n taken the places once occupied by these
o men, and raised such a hue-and-cry
3 around them that no one else could be
: seen or thought of but them. Their bread