The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-02-07
Communications.
Letter from a souatter.
SCHENECTADY, n. Y, Jan. II, '57.

ScHENEcTADY, n. Y, Jan. II, '57.
g. w. BRowN-DEAR SIR II see,
by the Lecompton Union, and other
fire-brands, that Gov. Geary is be-
coming unpopular with the border ruff
fans of Missouri and Kansas. Twas
well satisfied that the Governor's peace
policy would send CONSERVATION thro'
the claw and Order camp, and
prove fatal to the brute force policy
Trace these same journals back to the
advent of Gov. Geary in Kansas, and
you will find them industriously ad-
ministering "soft soap" and other
emolients, calculated to render him a
supple tool, with which to work out
their contemplate schemes. But had
their editors known anything of hu-
man nature and physiognomy, they
must have decided, at first sight, that
Gov. Geary was not the man to be
wheedled into Border Rufian tool,
or to be purchased by party patronage.
Pierce, no doubt, designed him for the
same purpose, but he too was mistak-
en- in his man. I saw Gov. Geary
on his arrival In Kansas, and was not
long in making up my mind that he
was just the man we needed, to reduce
our. then, political chaos to ORDER
His intellectual countenance, noble
bearing and gentlemanly department,
gave unmistakable indications of hon
est intentions and decision of charac-
ter. These told plainly that he had
not come (like Shannon to encour-
age invasion and stir up insurreetion,
but on the contrary, to heal those
wounds which Shannon and Atchison
had SO wantonly laid open. True, at
first they succeeded, by misrepresenta-
tion, in leading the Governor into some
errors, but, by his keen perception, he
soon discovered the fraud, and set
about correcting the evil. He has
succeeded nobly in his arduous and
difficult task, and deserves the praise
of every honest man. The fact that
both parties have alternately condem-
ned and praised him, is the strongest
evidence in his favor-at times, his
acts are lauded by one party-then
again by the other-showing conelu-
sively that he is no partizan, but the
Governor of the people. Until / find
Gov. Geary siding with some politi-
cal faction, shall never believe him
capable of such partiality.
But why do the ire-eaters complain
of an impartial Governor The rea-
sons are obvious, when we remember
that that party draws its vitality and
it's aliment from agitation and excite
ment, and whoever attempts to sup
press these must expect to receive an
avalanche of curses and abuse through
the border rufian journals. They are
aware that peace and tranquility are
antagonistic to slavery extension !;
hence the abuse and calumny heaped
upon Gov. Geary through their coll
umns.
Capt. Hampton's orthodoxy, also,
is questioned. at may be that Capt.
Hampton is /" Law and Order" man
If so, he is one of the tender-toed,
slack-twisted kind" Capt. 81. is
probably not a CLAW and order" man
according to the bogus aceeptation of
the term-which being interpreted In
to plain english, reads, Blood and Mur-
der man. / do not believe that Capt.
H., although southerner and slave
holder, will answer to that title. He
is probably humane and reasonable
man. which precludes the possibility
of his being 3 Leconspton Law and
Order" man.
l believe that Atchison will vet fnd
it necessary to whip those of hi
whelps that are running out and bark
ing at their Governor back into theil
kennels, or they will defeat their OWL
masters schemes which he intended
them to work out.
Gov. Geary is on the right course
and am confident that neither party
will be able to secure any partial "a
yors from him, farther than those DO
gus laws compel him to act
You may expect. and prepare for
an overwhelming emigration from tn
Northeast in the ensuing spring; no
adventuFers, loafers and fighters, bu
men Of intelligence. character ars
means. who are already disposing O