The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-02
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we're on Rev. Fl. P. JOHNSON, the present
leader ofthe Republican party in Leaven-
worth county. Mr.. JOHNSON, it will be
remembered, made an exceedingly radi-
cal speech in this city few evenings ago.
telling the people of Lawrence what kind
of platform they should stand upon, the
first plank of which, he declared, should
be opposition to the Democratic party; and /
the second, opposition to the Dred Scott
decision. The reverend gentleman, it
seems, has succeeded in carrying his point
in Leavenworth and Douglas counties,
and has organized his Republican party
in each of those counties 1t is well, then,
to know something of his proclivities. |
Whether the Herald furnishes it, we are
not prepared to say. though We have al
ways understood that Mr.. JOHNSON came
to Kansas pro-slavery man, and brought
some thirty slaves with him that he Ia
bored unremittingly, as long as there was
the least particle of hope, to make Kan
sas Slave State; that when hope died
out, he suddenly became Free State
man, and now is an "ultra radical" ex-
tremely anxious to organize a aRepublican
party, and to push matters to extremes.
If the Reral1s statements are true, it ex-
plains the reason of Mr.. Johnson's radi-
calism. As we have stated more than
once A Free State man going South and
becominga pro-slavery man, is the most
ultra person to be met with, He will do
meaner things, and get down loscer to ad-
vance the cause of slavery, than the most
ultra man ITO the manor born" This
was observed and remarked upon by us
frequently, in the great contest between
Freedom and Slavery in 1856. We
might illustrate this in the case of Jack
Henderson, Col. Titus, Calhoun, and many
others, all of whom were from the North
ern States.
What is true of Northern men, in this
respect, is also true of those from the
South, who have always been great
sticklers for the slavery propaganda, but
who have been expelled for some cause,
from the party. In order to gain po-
sition in the new party, they take the
most extreme grounds, and actually out
Herod Herod in their desire to succeed.
Pollock's Hyprocrite probably best de-
scribes person Of this character.
The Rerala inquiries, "what plank did
Mr. johnson first stand upon when he made
his advent into the Territory" and con-
tinues:
"What plank did he stand on when he
, was in favor Of making the Planters Ho-
tel, in Leavenworth, a pro-slavery hotel ;
of allowing none but pro-slavery men to
work upon its construction, and making it
stopping place for Southern men
, What plank did he stand upon when he
solicited aid to build Southern Methodist
church ? Whatplank did he stand upon
when he lectured in Kentucky on Kansas,
for the purpose of raising men and money
to make Kansas Slave State? He must
answer these questions before he can
prove his conservative position before the
people. His course is that of many others
who. when it was popular to be pro-
, slavery man, was such but changed
with the crowd.
i ale says he is mechanic, and express
es great love for this class. This he
l may entertain, but let him prove it by ac-
! tions, and not by words. He says that
he is opposed to slave labor being brought
E in competition with white labor, and yet,
this same hyprocrite worked larger gang
4. Of negroes in this city than any man in
, the county, and still works this same gang
upon his farm, in direct competition with
: white labor. Out upon him then, for q
trickester, turncoat, an animated batch
I of inconsistencies, an aspirant for office
who deserts every honorable instinct to
gain his ambitious ends"
/ Wedo not undertake to say whether
the Herald man is too severe on Mr.. John
: son or not, but we may be allowed to say
that we have observed that all the new
,f converts to a new party, for instance
r. those from the Democratic party going
=. over to the Republican, almost invariably
plant themselves upon more extreme po.
~ sitions than those who have been laborine
in in the same party since its organization
" Messrs. GIDDINes, GERRIr SMITH and
~ Gov. CHASE of Ohio, who have been fol
~ lifetime fighting the slave power ar,
a quite moderate in their views compared
: with some recent converts to the Republi
can party, from the Democratic party, whs
have been violent in their denunciation.
= Of these men, and we might furnish some
notable examples, did we desire to.
Here, too, in Kansas, those who cam,
here to make Kansas Free State, wher
o the Missouri Compromise line was broken
III down, and who labored through good and
O. eyilreport, hazarding their lives, proper.
20 ty, everything for the cause, and WHIT
OF have pursued consistent course from the
/" beginning, ever keeping in mind the OBJ
" ject which brought them here, and eve
struggling to hasten the contest to final
issue as soon as possible, find themselves
G outdons by such men as Rev. II. P. John
y :, son is represented as being; and the for
ut mer, because they will not "step to tn,
,e music" of these new converts, are read
re out ofths party, and Journalists Of thil
- description arc branded as "Administra
n ton organs" Out upon such men, and
re their teachings, as ten chances to one
D. like Pat Laughlin, few years ago, they