The Kanzas news., 1857-09-12
The Future.

Tn0 tuGurG.
The Free State party have decided to go
into the October election. The importance
of the Territorial Government has been mag
ni6ed. All the obstacles that have risen
like mountains in the path between the peo-
ple and fair election have been overlooked.
Dodges, sophisms, fimsy pretences, have
covered up the steps before us.
Well, we opposed the policy before it
was adopted; but it is the policy Of the Free
State party, and be it for good OF evil sue
cess, we must do our best.
To us the matter is an ttnimportant one.
We have no representation, or next to none.
We must sit with tied hands until the fates
decide, and while we do not lift our voices
to distract our friends in more favored Por-
tons of the Territory, we must look to them
with hope that they will remember those
in bonds as bound with them"
The Free State party may be successful.
Let us hope they will Let us pray that the
remorseless pro-slavery power, which holds
the election in the hollow of its hand, will
be more remorseful than formerly. Let US
hope that those who have been deaf to the
voice of conscience, viii hear it. Let us
hope that those who have built up their
power by monstrous fraud, will break that
power by becoming suddenly honest. Let
us hope that fear at least viii prevail, if
conscience is dead and honor paralyzed.
But there is future. Should success
point out line of policy before Legisla-
lature, of which majority claims to beFree
State. what shall be that policy? This is a
proper question. This is proper time to
put it. We see that communication, over
the names of G. w. Smith and G. w. Hutch
inson, in the Herald Of Freedom, says we
must keep out "side issues What are
''side issues go Does any man propose to
elect member of Legislature on no issue =?
Is the simple question that man is in favor
of Kanzas being Free State enough ?
Stringfellow is one of that kind. He left
convention because it was too pro- o-slavery.
Gov. Walker pretends he is, when he gets
Free State man by himself. We have po-f
sition. Should we succeed in electing a
Territorial Legislature there will be most
trying position, and then We will want men
of principle. Should We only elect mi
nority, then the necessity is doubly great.
But for fraud we could carry the election
in every district. We know that there will
be frauds. They may be of the most infa-
nous character. We do not want minority
whose love of the four dollars per diem, or
of power or place, would weigh with them
for an interest against the popular right.
We must not have men there who would
legalize such fraud merely to crafty the
miserable vanity of being lawmakers.
We want men Of principle. We want men
of tried integrity. We want men of sobrie
ty, who will not forget their duties over their
cups. We want men who love the Peoples
Constitution-who will. l.not use the power
we give them to stab it like Brutus stabbing
Caesar on the floor of the Senate. Wewant
men who love the Topeka Constitution
men who hate the bogus usurpation, and
who will not strike hands with the usurpers.
These are legitimate questions. These are
just questions. These are questions We
want met, and they can only be met now, if
we would meet them at ALL A gag-rile on
these questions is only another way to let
an unpopular minority win. We want Free
State men of the truest and most unfaltering
typo in that Territorial Legislature. if we
want anybody.
Let these questions be kept before the
people In their primary meetings and con-
yentions. Let candidates be selected from
the good and true. We think that if there
is any danger Of the people not going to the
polls. that danger viii be most imminent if
they have only the chance of voting for
those whom they despise, or whom they