The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-16
Ths Wirs.Pullsrs-Rsad.


The Wire -Pullsrs-Read.
There will be ten Pro- Slavery members |
in the next Territorial Legislature, all |
elected through the unwise and proscrip- |
tive policy of tho Republican wire pull
ers who were determined to 'trule or
ruin" If ten Democratic Pro-Slavery
candidates have succeeded in securing an |
election, ,cithout an organization, what
would that party not have succeeded in
doing were the lines strictly drawn be-
tween the Democrats and Republicans ?
The Leavenworth Times represented the
candidates, run on the Independent ticket
in Leayenworth county, as Pro-Slavery
candidates. Those candidates came with
in less than 200 votes of an election
These eightmembers, if they had succeed
ed in being elected, added to the ten now
elected, would have made 18 membsrs.--
Suppose the party lines were drawn in
some other district, by which two other
members had been elected, then the De-
mOraey, which our Douglas county friends
pledge themselves to wage an eternal war
against, would have had a majority in the
Legislature, and Free Stateism, under the
lead of Repablicanisn,, would have been
''trailing in the dust" f
Ye wire-pulling Densagogues, who have
beer labodng for months to organize
Republican party in Kansas, how does the
practical working Of your theory suit
your You have been charged with la
boring by inactivity, and refusing to par
ticipate in the elections, with desire to
make Kansas slave State, that Kansas
might furnish capital to political party
in the States to get into power in 1860.
Does not your action justify such q
charge, and even stronger one, against
you2 You exerted all the energy of
your natures to induce the people not to
participate in the elections in October a
year ago; but you were defeated at Grass
hopper Falls, by both Mass and Dele
gate Convention of the party, and you
were reluctantly compelled to submit to
the action of the majority. When you
returned home to your constituents you
claimed that as you had been defeated at
GraSshopper Falls, it was but just that
you should be represented in the Legis-
lature; and by your seeming acquiescence
in the action of that Convention, you pre-
vailed upon the people to yield to your
wishes. No sooner had that body organ
lied than you attempted to throw away
all we had gained in securing the ls-
gal law-making power in our hands, by
proposing to adjourn sine die. For ten
days you prevented greatly needed legis-
lation by your silly proposition to dis
solve, which you urged with great peril
nacity, but common sense finally pre-
vailed in defiance Of your efforts to the
contrary, and you were defeated. When
a Constitution had been framed for our
enslavement you opposed, in Convention,
the election Of officers under that Consti-
tuition, with the view Of using it to work
our disenthrallment, If necessary; and
when few true men, who came to this
Territory to labor to make Kansas free
left you in disgust, and met in Masonic
Hall to nominate ticket which they and
their friends desired to support, your
dupes and tools came into that hall, and by
their yells and abusive language broke ur
that body, and compelled it to adjourn tc
the basement of the Herald Of Freedom
building to complete their labors. Wher
victory seemed within our grasp, and W,
were rejoicing that we were out of the
power of the slavery propaganda, yov
then sought to dinde us, that the Pro.
Slavery party might have the ascendenc,
in the, Legislature, and you have nearl,
succeeded. Look over the Territory anc
see the great Free State party everywher,
divided, and all by your own unwise &C
ton. If the people would allow you tn,
direction of affairs, one year would no
intervene until all we have gained, b,
union and labor, would be lost, entirel,
lost BY your unwiss policy. ~-.
Win not the Free State men of Kansa
read and ponder the above charges asains
the ,rire.pulers of the party who hav
been perambulating the Territory for
year past, trying to bring about that din
sion which they have so nearly succeed 9,
IN accomplishing? And when they hav
pondsred sufficiently long, we pray then
to give these men, and their presses. th
cold shoulder; and discard them as the
would their greatest enemy, for they ar
such in fact