Freeman's champion., 1858-04-01
KaQzas PoIitics, &c.
From the Quiudaro Chindowan.l
Traitors in the Camp.

Within the past week, the Free
State men of Wyaudott held a meet.
ing to consider very ominous and
significant report. That report is
this, ,that there are in various parts
of the Territory, men, heretofore iden-
titled with tbs Free State party, who
have leagued together for some ulte-
rior purpose, and have been address
ing letters, in the name of the Free
State party, to the Delegate in Con-
gress and other friends of our cause,
requesting them to withdraw their
opposition to the Lecompton thing,
assuring them that the people of
Kanzas will be ready to adjust their
,affairs under that Constitution. We
know not exactly in what shape the
intelligence Of this conspiracy has
reached our friends in Wyandott, but
of course it has been in a more reli-
able form thGn mere rumor, to clic-
it public aetien ia regard to it. They
passed deannciatory resolutions, just
such every honest Free State man
would respond to with hearty good
will.
We have the fullest faith in the
competency of the Free State party
to meet every emergency which can
be thrust upon it by the scoundrelism
Of usurpers in the Territorial, or des-
pots i'm the Central government; we
have never doubted that the patriots
,of Kanzas can prove themselves equal
ito all the difficulties which the pas
sage of the ,Lecompton Constitution
would precipitate upon them; we
have believed, and do yet firmly be-
llisve that they have the ability to
render that organized villainly in
operative and void, though it be sane
,tioned by Congress, and backed up
by a hireling soldiery; we know
that they can ultimately rise superior
ito every embarrassment with whi III a
,heretical President may annoy them,
and dash aside every obstacle to a
glorious triumph; these convictions,
which give us hope, are felt in com.
mon by all who have confidence in
the power Of Freedom, and, they do
now nerve the arm, energize the will,
and make strong the heart Of the peo-
pie for the apparently impending cri-
sis ; but, Notwithstanding this faith
jim the will of tho people, and this
hope in the strength Of our cause,
could q man with clear head and o
pure heart petition for that action on
the part Of Congress which would
necessitate resistance to the Lecomp-
ton Constitution, and perhaps to the
armed Intervention Of the Federal Ad-
ministration? ,,..lt
The man who would thus hasten
this event may entertain the most pa.
triotic sentiments, may be prompted
by the noblest desire and the most
laudable motives, but surely ii his
o wishes be good, and his purposes hon
ost, there must be something wrong
in the head--a serious lack OF that
sound discretion which those ever
should possess who assume to act
o fora people in q crisis like that to
which Kanzas has now arrived. But
we know some of these men who are
thus using the name Of our people,
and hence we know that at least no
far as they are concerned, the fault
is not one Of the head but of the heart
they are not impelled by a desire
to better the condition Of the people
of Kanzas, but by rash determine
ltion to open, at whatever cost, an
Arena Of strife and madness, amid the
wild eddies Of which they hope to ride
into positions which they well know
are beyond attainment by them so
long as there is harmony in the ranks
of our party, and peace in the Ter
ritorysaiGslo yaiow so youI 4
II IfLscompton is defeated, there will
bo no disparity Of opinion in the Free
STATE party as showwe are to-" got
out ofthel woods"---the most feasible
nlan, will be 80 self-evident, 80 pal
psble to every mind, that the whole
party with one aim, one mind, one
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