The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-07-18
TO BE CONTINUED
Another conyention at Topeka.

A set of 'tioon-struck' politicians, styl-
ing themselves Central Committee" have
wro't themselves up into the belief that
Kansas is really State, and have ac-
cordingiy called a Convention, to meet at
Topeka, on the 18th of this month, to
nominate Candidates for Representatives
mot DELEGATE-to Cohgfess. We know
that this is fast age, and that we are of
ten behind the times yet we had suppo-
sed that if Kansas had been admitted into
the American Confederacy, that we should
have known it before this time. Now, if
we are yet Territory, we are only enti-
tied to a Delegate to Congress, and it
seems to lis to be heapiig folly Upon folly,
and adding farce to farce, by electing State
Governors, State Legislatures, enacting
State laws, and sending senators and rep
resentatives to Congress, when there are
no prospects Of our immediate admission
as State, or, in fact, of our ever being
admitted under the organization pursuing
this course. We should certainly be
among the last ones to criticise or condemn
this OF any other movement that would
secure any practical good to our citizens,
or that would advance us one single inch
| toward the port for which we are making,
but we can see nothing of the kind in this,
and therefore cannot let it pass without
protesting against it. We know that our
protest will be of no ayail-we know that
we shall only be sneered at by some and
abused by Others, for making it, yet We
are well convinced that coming time viii
solve the problem and show that we are
right. That Convention may meet, may
nominate its representative, and the faction
which supports it may elect him, and what
will amount to? Just nothing at all. He
may go to Washington, present his crcden-
tials, and be refused seat, as he certainly
will be, and what advantage will Kansas
have derived from it? We cannot see any;
if this Central Committee can, they had
! better peint it ont to the people. The
disadvantage is this, it places us in a
ridiculous position before the world. We
are claifHins to be State without ever
, having been recognized as such by the
proper authorities. We have State Gov.
ernment which enacts laws but never tries
to enforce them, and hardly dares even to
propose to do so. Timidity and indeci-
sion marked the action of the recent Con-
vention at Topeka on this point, but when
assailing men equally as true to the cause
of Freedom as that body could be, bui
who chanced to differ from them as tt
.. how they could best advance that cause
they were as valiant as any chivalroui
, knight that ever placed his lance in res
on field of tournament. They could con-
demn those who disagree from them a
unworthy the fellowship or confidence O
Free State men," and try to discredit then
with the peopls by saying that the,
: : should be regarded with suspicion every
. | where" when they dared not propose t.
enforce single law passed under tn
. Topeka Constitution, if it came in COLI
: sion with the bogus authorities actint
under the bogus statutes. These are ou
would-be leaders, aud the men who hay'
called this Convention and propose t
S elect representative TO Congress, wit
i the stem fact staring them full In th
b face, that We are yet Territory, that tha
T representative viii be rejected. "Rule Q
: RUM Kansas, is their idea "Whom tn
! Gods woald destroy, they first make mad.
t / -kaasas Leader.
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