The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-06-20
n.,.....1 Parties in Kansas.

ecent decision Of the Supreme Court, it
Ieems Africansincapable of citizenship in
be United States; that they arc an in
crior race and unfit to he elevated to
,olitical equality With the whites. They !
lold them in servitudc ayowedly for the !
,urpose Of gain.
What is the position of the Free State
,arty in Kansas: They express them
,eiyes as opposed 10 the existence OF
slavery in Kansas; many of them state
distinctly that they care nothing about the
). niegers' ar who else has slavery IN
their midst. This opposition is based, if
we rightly understand them, upon the
idea that the institution IS unfayorabIe 10
the growth and development of State.
In other words, il is opposed to their ir-
teresis.
Let us see how the two parties differ
with reference to the institution The
one foro,s it for the purpose of gain. The
other opposes il for a Ike reason. The differ
ence seems then to be about that which is
generally supposed to exist between
tweedledum and twediedee.
But one cannot consent to remain in so
false aud untcna6le position. That we
who have filled the world with our cries
at wrong and oppression, at the same mo-
ment i,y our votes declare our determine
ton to injure others as deeply as our enc
mics have sought to injure us, (for it will
be remembered that the Iro-slavery party
have always been and still are willing that
tce should remain in Kansas, if we will
but allow chem 10 have their own way, and
! only ask that we should leave the country
if VIC will not, is more than we can con-
sent to.
Now why should any party seek to
keep from Karsas any person or persons
who may choose to make it their home!
Certainly all laboTers should be welcom-
ed 10 Kansas, Us the country depends
upon labor for its development; and our
success is dependent upon the number
who NAV come among US for such pur-
pose. As desirable as capital is in our
midst. it is not absolutely Indispensable,
while labor is; 70. while the former can
not create the latter, the latter can and al
WAYS does create the former.
There may be, and VIC believe are, two
reason why the Free State party has suf-
fered itself to occupy this false and un-
tenable position. One of these reasons we
believe to be, that many of the pro-slavery
party pledged themselves to assist in
making Kansas Free State, in case the
Free State party would 90 for excluding
| free colored persons from it. The other
reason grew out OF a spleen OF prejudice
against color. Neither OF these reasons
have any justification, and we have no
apology TO make for them. That those
who were instrumental in engafting upon
the Topeka Constitution such a clause,
will yet be known and execrated, can adj
nit of no doubt.
We know how very desirable is union,
and how indispensable it is to ultimate
success: but we are satisfied that it can
be secured more certainly and speedily by
insisting that our cause is Just. We GER
tainly cannon, as honest men, lend orr aid
to expel Others from the State, while we
protest against being driven out ourselves,
and would sooner sacrifice our lives even
than consent to it.
let rs hope, then, that the people viii
soon put themselves in correct position.
Be or the Lockout
/ Reader. would vou know who were con-
cerned in stealing and running of horses
to Iowa last summer and autumn; aud
who opposed the pacific efforts of Gov.
GEARy 10 restore tranquility to this dis
tractei Territory? Would you know who
+ ii is that is DESTROYS for another collision ;
/ and who. as soon as the strife should open
would be seen ON some honest mans horse
making all possible speed to Iowa again
that he might sell the horse, and return
for another Go INTO the street at any
j time of day in Lawrence, and you will find
him denouncing the HeroM IF Freedom,
threatening to read the editor out of the
Free State party, and branding him with
being renegade TO the cause eff freedom.
/ For the last week we have been writing
down the names of q number of young
men of the character given aboye. Per-
sons visiting Lawrence will have no ocea-
sien to see list of those names; but If
the same policy is pursued in the future
that has been in the past, our forty-two
/ thousand readers III the East shall have
the pleasure of seeing those names, TO the
end that they can see whether they reeog-
nize any old acquaintance. The persons
TO whom we allude will be particularly
bitter during the next few weeks, mark
that; and among that number is one re-
porter for the Eastern press, whose pen
has been dipped in gall for several months
whenever he alluded to our paper.
False.
The idiots who have resolved to crush
the Herald Of F'eedcna, are now reporting
that we have sold out portion of our
office to Gov. Walker. Another one rep
resents that we have been bribed to sup
port Gov. Walkers administration. while
others join in repeating some other false
hood of similar character. We have
only to say that all these representations