Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-08-12

Kicking against Pricks.
The average, says the Herald If Freedom.
will not vary much from frenty Free Stat,
voters 10 one for the Pro'!Siamry party.
And yet with these facts before us. is it
not surprising that the Pro Slavery citizens
Of Kansas have thus far had e, erything their
own way. while the great majority have
struggled vainly for their own rights and
common justice? Why have such con
temptible minority Ms this been enabled to
maintain power, to elect their legislator
10 pass laws TO govern the majority, and to
elect Convention by which they will give
10 the world a Constitution pretending TO
emanate from the people Of Kansas Why
have they from the first to the last had al
moot the supreme control Of political mat
ters in Kansas, when by actual census they
only number about one 10 twenty Of the
Free State men y-Gazefe
1t is hard for sham-republican Jour
mails and demagogucs, to confess to the
people whom they have so long duped
by political shrieking about Kansas,
that they were only acting part, in a
drama chalked out by Thurlow Weed,
w. II. Seward and Horace Greeley, for
the purpose Of sustaining a sectional
organization having no claims to pop
ular sympathy, other than the fiicti-
tious frenzy of freedom shrieking"
induced by falsehoods about Border
Rufliians" and pro slavery incursions
and expressions. Kansas has been
made the recruiting field Of the Re
publican party. Correspondents of
Eastern Black Republican journals,
wickcdly wrote letters Of the most
infammatory kind, destitute of par
ticle Of truth, and only designed to
assist in the elections to be holden in
the States. Honest men have been to
Kansas and reported truth enough to
cover the shriekers with shame and
disgrace. All respectable journals have
dropped the mask, confessed the base
ness Of the fraud, and cordially support
the policy of Buchanan and Gov. Wal
ker. The N. Y. Times, the Ueraid,
the National Inteiiigencer, the terrific
shrieker the Kansas Herald Of Eredeon,
now all support Walker. They confess
to the wrong Of the bogus Topeka
humbug, and the treason of further
opposing the regular territorial gov
eminent.
But these journals are sensible
enough to perceive, that the peace,
prosperity and freedom of Kansas will
be better promoted, by at once aban.
doning the rascally schemes Of the
Black Republican junta in New York,
while the blind and depravc continue
10 harp about slavery in Kansas.
The extract at the head Of our paper
is rare production. 1t is the offspring
Of ignorance snd stupidity. 1t confesses
that there are 20 free state men in
Kansas to pro-slavery man, and then
foolishly asks why it is that they have
not control Of the territorial Legislature
and the Constitutional Convention
"Why have such contemplate minor
ity been enabled to maintain power,
70 elect their Legislators, &c. How
yrss~ the Gazette affects to be. It
knows Why oil this is permitted. 1t
knows that Il, obeying the N Y Tribune
has continually counsclled the Free
State men aever again TO rote IN any
election held wnder the Territorial Leg
islatsre, and it further knows that this
scandalous advice has been obcyed by
the foolish men in Kansas who have
y long been the tools and dupes of
Black Republican wire-workers. It
knows that At every election of lepisla.
torn since the famous Topeka humbug
was enacted, the free State men have
wholly repudiated the Territorial gov-
and have been encouraged 80
. do BY the heartlcss politicians who
wiahed to perpstuate strife in Kansa.
Or political effect in the States. The
9asstk knows that its party is corrupt
rom core to circumference, that it lives ,
pom excitemsnts that it hauls in every !.
ovel jade that can be made hobby ,
E such - the Main Liquor Law, :
Know NOTTINGHAM, freedom shrieking 5
boat KansaA and any and everything 9
Aat can b used for . few months to
Issaceth igaoraat and the bigoted to
V Republican rankA u
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