The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-07-11
An Honsst Exnres.inn.


During the temporary absence of the
responsible editor from his post, the mes
sage of Governor" Robinson found its
way into our columns, and inasmuch as
a part of it Is printed on the outside page,
we could not in justice to his "excellen-
cy," cut it of In the middle, by emitting
that part of it which runs over the inside,
and we therefore prefer to let it 60. We
have not read it, and are not therefore
prepared to "under-write' it. We do not
know what it contains, nor do we care.
We believe that the mass Of the people
have had quite as much of "Lecompton
Legislatures" and Topeka organizations"
as they care about, and that in due time
both will have quiet go-by, and be laid
away with the dead past, or be remember
ed only with regret fol- the evil of which
they were the parents or the offspring.
Indeed, it may be said, that SO far as the
pro-slavery party is concerned, this point
has already been reached. At the election
held for members of the Constitutional
Convention, it is now ascertained that not
to exceed 200O votes were polled. This
is not because there were not more voters
of that parry in the Territory, for there
are doubtless two fold that number, but
because the people are DESTROYS that this
strife should end, and they are determined
not to countenance measures calculated to
perpetuate it. We hope that Free State
men will be influenced by similar moder-
ate and patriotic impulses, and that they
will withhold their eountenance and en-
enlargement from any and everything cal
culated to keep alive old feuds and old
difficulties. The Topeka organization
was the expedient of Free State men in
certain political exigency. At the time,
it may have been justifable and proper
expedient. We will admit that it MAS
But the circumstances which gave rise to
it have passed away; and we see therefore,
neither sound policy or good feeling in
persisting in it. Let it go. 1t is part and
parcel of the regretted past. Let it be
buried out of sight, or be remembered only
as an admonition and correction. As good
citizens, as patriots, as philanthropiSts, as
! Christians, let us exercise the good sense
with which God has endowed Us, in de-
vising, proposing and carrying out those
political measures, which work for peace,
for the prosperity, and the true greatness
and glory of our young State.
/ We do not concur with G. Robinson,
and those who act with him, in the opinion
that Topeka" offers the only road out of
the present dilemma. Indeed, through it,
we see no deliverance whatever, or at
least none during the next two years. The
locofoco party in Congress, at the session
before the last, dared to reject the ''Tope-
ka Constitution" in the face of Presi-
dental election, and the number of their
representatives were not diminished in
consequence 1t is useless to tell us that
they will not dare to repeat the rejection,
when there is far less at stake. They
will reject it, and deny the prayer of those
who ask its ratification. 1t may possibly
ruin the Democratic party of the North
if they should do so, but we do not be-
lieve it; at all events, it will take two
years to accomplish that "rtlin,'' and the
state of doubt and uncertainty be perpet-
uated during all that time, and all the
local advantages, which we might gain by
a speedy admission as Free State, be
lost, and lost forever.
We doubt whether quorum of those
supposed to have been elected to Con-
stitutional Convention, on the 10th, will
ever assemble-it will require more auda-
city than we believe them to possess, to
bring them together to speak and act in
the name of the people-but should they
assemble, adopt Constitution, and sub
: NIT it to a vote of the people, can there be
any doubt as to its fate? And should
they refuse to submit it to popular vote,
is there any question about its rejection
by Congress? We think there is nome
none whatever
So far then as that is concerned, we
shall be at the end, just where we are now.
How then shall we escape from the di-
lemma? The answer to this question APP
pears plain and simple Let us all turn
out and vote at the October election. BY
so doing, we can elect an almost unani-
nous Free State Legislature; that Legis-
lature can call Constitutional Convention;
it can assemble immediately, and by the
LIST of February it can present 'People's
Constitution'' to Congress and ask admis-
sion into the Union. A Constitution thus
adopted, would be ratified by Congress
and Kansas would take her position as one
of the Free States of the Union, and al
difficulty and Improbable pickering would
be ended.
/ Is not this the better way? We ask
all cool headed and rejecting men to an
Swer the question for :hemselves-SlUGt
ter Sovereign.