The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-09-11
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
SATURDAY MORNING, SEP. IL, 1858.
PER AxxrM. IN ADVANCE
Here shaIlthe Press the Peoples rights maintain
Unaw'd by party. aud unbribed by gala,
Pledged bat 10 Truth. to Liberty and Law,
No Favor swRys and no Fear shali awe.
A Brief Reviaw-

Kansas-the Free State and Pro-slavery
parties. Prior to the election of the Both
March, 1855, there were some who claimed
to be conservative, and acted with neither
party; but the legislation resulting from
that election, the persecution following it,
destroyed all middle ground, and drove
all persons either into one or the other of
these parties.
The late elections have established, be-
yond all controversy, that Kansas must be
a Free State. Not only DO the members
of the Pro-slavery party here in the Ter
ritory acknowledge it, but their leading
sbettors in the system of rufianly inva-
sions into our Territory, are now in the
border towns of Missouri, burying the
remembrance Of their crimes deep under
professions of freedom.
Whilst the Prc-slavery party have yield
ed the contest, they have not retired from
the political canvass. 1t is their hope
under the delusive banner of popular
sovereignty" 10 organize a party here
which shall be branch Of the Admins
tration party. Following the lead of the
Charleston Mercury, they propose, as they
cannot make Kansas slave State, at least
to make it Democratic State-which,
of course, is next of kin to slave State.
The Lecompton Constitution is dead.
AS party issue, it is as worthless as would
be an issue for a United States Bank
Elsewhere, in Illinois and iE other States,
temporarily, this issue will be made but
as an issue after this campaign, it will fade
from the political canvass. With this
issue abandoned, with the hope of making
Kansas slave State destroyed, there will
be no principle or sentiment to prevent
those of Democratic faith, who have here
tolore differed upon matters of policy,
from uniting in a common party. That
they will do so, no one can doubt, for
they have already threatened it, and it is
reasonable move for them to make.
This, then, will Re the party against
which the friends of freedom in the Ter
ritory must contend. As lovers of free
dom, we would prefer to see Kansas ad-
mitted into the Union as slave State
under the Lecompton Constitution, repre-
sented in Congress by Calhoun, Lecomp-
ton & Isaacs, than admitted as a free State,
and represented in Congress by the same
or like persons. In order, therefore, to
prevent such a consummation, it behooves
the friends of freedom to act wisely, now
that persons are proposing to organize, out
of the Free State party, new combinations
and parties.
1t is proposed, in certain quarters, to
form Republican party in Kansas. Such
party must be formed out of the Free
State party. While every Republican in
the Territory is a member of the Free
State party, it is not clear that every mem
Der of the Free State party is Republi.
can. The majority of the Free State
party were formerly Democrats. Tht
most of them sympathize with Douglas
to-day, and would vote for him soone
than for Lincoln. They are willing t,
remain in the Free State party, caring no
whether their votes aid the Republican o
Democratic parties; but to sever them
selves from the Free State party for tn
purpose of uniting with the Republican
party, to fight against old leaders whom
they have honored and with whom the,
sympathize, rather than with Seward o
Wilson, is to them a song of quite differ
cut tune.
A proposition to organize Republica
party, is simply proposition to disorgan
ize the Free State party. By it, the me
Of anti-slavery sentiment are welcome
to the Republican ranks, and those VIII
care nothing for that sentiment, except s
far as it may personally benefit them, will
guided by the cry of popular sovereign
ty," seek the Democratic fold, caring nc
If in its operation, like their leader, Dous
las, whether slavery be "voted up
down."
There are men enough outside of ii
Free State party to form Democrat
party. They will do it, and it is bett,
to permit them, before any attempt
made to organize a new party from Il
Free State party. 1t is not policy for Il
friends of freedom to make the formatiC
of the Democratic party easy or respec
able.
When those who are now outside of al
healthy political organization" shs
form the Democratic party, they will uni
with them those pro-slavery men who,
their crimes, have slammed themselv
to eternal fame" With such associat,
no party can prosper. Its candidates W
be more likely to become the victims
mob, than the recipients of honors fro
the suffrages of the people.
Against such party the whole Fl
State party would unite, and unity
such an object would, in time, carry
the members of the Free State party il
Republicauism. The policy should be
allow the Administration men to "shI
their hand,' and attempt to "play j
In the meantime, let the Free State pal
be thoroughly organized. Let its " ult
radicals" who, by their correspondents a
presses, are contributing their influence
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