The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-04-10
H-ordsr H.arms /.

We extract the following from the
Kansas Leader for the consideration of
the 'Lntonites and other Fort Scott War
riors. We commend the wisdom of the
editor in not advising such "boys" to
join the Utah Expedition, for they would
probably be compelled to fight or run if
they did So:
eff the insane rawlings of such journals
as the Crusader of Freedom and Lawrence
Republican reflect the policy of the Re-
publican party-whieh we deny-we must
confess that we are not on the books. If
those papers suppose that they reflect the
opinions of the people of Kansas, we can
assure them that they are laboring under
a great delusion. That they are injuring,
materially injuring, the very cause that
they profess to be laboring to build up, is
plainly evident. The charms Of war are
not strong enough to entiee the people
from their peaceful avocations to destroy
the Free State officers and Legislature un-
der the Lecompton Constitution, provided
that instrument passes through Congress.
Men who have their families, their prop
erty, their all here, are not going to rush
to arms to fight over again battle long
since fought and won at the ballot box.
Mad caps who have nothing at stake, and
who expect to gain through plumber in
case of war, may and do advocate a re-
sort to arms in such an emergency
Their logic is so stupid, and their object
so self-evident, that the solid men of Kan
sas-those who have their all within our
limits-are not to be deeoyed into any
such business.
aft these boys as they are signif-
cantly called-and boys they truly are
in wisdom and xperience-desire war,
let them go to Mexico or Nicaragua, and
abandon their rash intentions here. All
this talk about acrayen hearted spirits
not worthy of liberty" about "serfs and
slaves,,' is the wind-infated bombastic of
some ranting braggadocio, who would
cow in silence beneath broom-handle in
the hands of an Irish Biddy. We had
supposed that the high civilization of
to-day taught the world to incline
to peace, and to exhaust any honorable
means in order to secure it We had sup
posed that it was not crime to refuse to
engage in civil wal, when the great object
of that war could honorably be accom-
pEshed in peaceful manner. But it ap-
pears that the John Bull logic of linton
and llis followers is fight-fght first. last,
and all the time. Such pugnaeious crea-
lures should find some other cline than
this in which to practice their one misera-
bic, heathen and barbaTic custom. Old
Mother England needed the services of
her valoroas SONS, Redpath and linton, in
the Crimea, and why were they not there ?
We suspect that the reason is, that they
belong to class Of men who are never
satisfied with the present state of things,
but who, in time of peace, desire war;
and who would be equally clamorous
were things reversed. We have not the
requisite egotism, the supercilious vanity
to assume to be the organ of the Free
State party, or to speak by authority for
the people, as do some of our cotempora-
ries, yet we do affirm that we know some
thing of the masses, and that that feeling
is emphatically against war, against that
folly which courtesy terms fanaticIsm.
and in favor of that conservatism which
will wipe out the Lecompton Constitution,
if Congress should force it upon US, peace
| fully and in legal manner.
"War we win not have, Slavery we
viii not have, the Lecompton Constitution
we viii not have; yet we win avoid ali
quietly and in good order; and the sooner
these aramrod . bravadoes know ii, and
stop their silly threats, the more wisdom
viii they exhibit. Slurs upon the pre-
tended ancestry of Conservatism, vii
avail the Radicals nothing. 1t viii wiz
| In the future as it has In the past-the
petty jealousy of small men to the con.
t-arv ,,atwithstandiuo -