The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-04-10
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For lie Herald Of Freedom.
Lecompton Rejected Popular SoyereiSEsv VIZ
cicated !-Usurpztion, fyrannT and Misrule
hebuked and the People Triumphant.
Now is the Winter of our discentent,
Made glorious Summer

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Now is the Winter of our diseentent,
Made glorious Summer
WYAEDoTT. Z. T., April 5, 1853.
| At 4 o'clock this evening the splendid
Mail Steamer Platte Valley was seen to
round the point, four miles below our
city-a thousand anxious eyes had been
directed to that point for hours in anxious
expectation, and with hopes and fears al.
ternately predominating from the fact that
by this mail the result of the vote on the
Lecompton Constitution was expected
result so big with importance to the peo-
pie of Kansas result upon which hung
the veal or woe of the people.
As the noble steamer breasted the mad
current of the Missouri and rapidly
neared our wharf, the people gathered
from all parts of our city and assembled
upon the Levee. The whistle sounded,
the bell was taped, the wheels were re-
versed, and she touched the first landing
in Kansas. LEcoMPToE Is REJECTED y
was sung out from the hurricane, the
words were caught up by the crowd, and
the welkin rang with the spontaneous
outbursts of joy that gushed from the
hearts of disenthralled people. Three
times three were given for the triumph of
popular rights. Three for Douglas, for
Forney, for the noble Harris, for Mont
gomery, Walker, Stanton and host of
others, went up the shouts of the people.
Then with zest and will three times
three were given for Free Kansas and her
friends everywhere.
| 1t has been my fortune to note the
effect of good news upon the hearts and
minds of men on many joyous occasions,
but the feeling manifested on this, was
of a character peculiar to itself; the JOY of
the people was not only deep rooted in
the heart, but sanctioned by the mind and
gushed out like river, spontaneously
with an unresistable force that stamped
with the impress of reality. Men grasped
the hands of their fellows and with a
heartiness rarely felt in this cold world
congratulated each other on the glad It'd
ings that had been promulgated. The
old and the gray. headed, the middle aged,
and the youth, all partook of the inspira-
ton of the moment, and by aeclamation
a bond Ere was resolved upon.
When the shades of evening had
shrouded our infant city in darkness, an
immense pile of combustibles had been
collected at the crossing of Minnesota
Avenue and Fifth Street. The torch
was applied and this evidence of peoples
joy lighted up the city and thousand
fire balls and rockets streamed through the
air, and the glad shouts of free people
rose up to heaven, and these bore witness
against our oppressors.
A torehlight procession was formed,
that marched through our principal streets
to the soul-cheering music of the fife and
drum, and all the demonstrations of Joy
that deep and true feeling could dictate,
made the night glorious and &plendent.
Speeches were made by Col. Delaha,
VIM. McMath, W. Y. Roberts and others
and whilst write the glad shouts of our
people, as they are returning home. are
heard in all parts of the city.
The heart of Kansas is glad tonight
the fetters that have bound her noble limbs
for years have been broken-the iron hand
of oppression that has sunk deep into the
vitals has been paralized and shaken of,
and she rises in her new robes resplendent
with liberty, and dashes from her breast
the monster tyrant of usurpation, whose
fetid breath, has scorched her virgin cheek
and whose hellish design has been to force
upon. her his disgusting embrace. Her
eye is upturned to heaven, and, as she
thanks the noble friends that have fought
her battles, she points with the finger OF
scorn and directs the eye of justice to the
! skulking crew of black hearted villains
that would enslave her, and justice will
sooner or later oyertake them and they
will every where be driven from the ranks
of the honorable, and the places that they
have so long disgraced will be filled by
Others whose action will accord with the
true and great principles of the rights OF
man.
The people have wrenched the Terrific
rial government from the hands of the
usurpers-thanks to the honesty of Wal
ker and stanton-and Congress has re.
turned the Lecompton Swindle, shorn OF
all its power to harm, by submitting il
hand -cuffed to the will of an outraged
people, and to-day begins the.reign of law
and order in Kansas, and hencefOrth life
and property viii be protected, and the
crippled energies and the restrained enter.
prise ef our people viii burst forth with
tnew life, and deyelope the rich resource;
of the best portion of the American Re.
public with rapidity that is found only
when the rights of man are recognized
and protected. Very truly, &c,
| WYE