The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-03-20
Let hem Pitch In.

IL seems that we nave mortaiiy eHena-l
ed some political demagogues, because We
are sanguine the passage of the Leeomp-
ton Swindle through Congress viii not in
angurate civil war in Kansas. We say it
frankly, that all the speeches in Congress
AID out of tall the letters from Kansas
and the high-falutiR leaders in our
journals predicting civil war on the hap
pening of such contingency, are perfect
nooashine, got up for buneonbe. All the
world is welcome to our opinion, and all
the world may abuse us for expressing it,
If Il chooses. Those who rilify us for en-
tertaining such opinions. viii probably
live long enough to learn that we are
RIGHT and they serong. sfg
The people of Kansas have passed
through one civil war, and they femem-
Der too well the consequences resulting
from it, Missouri, too, has shared in the
strife, and she, foo, has some little expe-
rienee to relate on this subject.
And that man who argues that we are
in favor of the passage of the Lecompton
Swindie through Congress, because we
thus express ourself. argues from false
premises. We are as violently opposed
to that infamous swiDdle as man can be,
and trust We have labored as hard as any
one to defeat if, though we cannot use
arguments against it which have no foun-
dation in fact.
We believe the manner that Constitu-
ton vas gotten UP, and the instrumental
tiles employed under it to rob the people
of their liberties. are the most effective
weapons with which to defeat it. The
threat Of civil commotion only incites rid
icqle, without convincing the Judgment.
Il Putting the worse side out, should that
swindle pass Congress, as we earnestly
hope it will not, and should Calhoun give
certificates of election to majority of pro-
slavery members, the people, IN quiet
manner, without war, without civil COM
motion, VIII proceed, in. legal way,
to TAKE the lires Of the arch seoandrezs, assg
tieir dbettorS, aalo seers concerned in getting
up the fraud = A dozen or twenty may
pay the penalty of treason, but this will
not be a civil war. Indeed, the idea of
civil war is prepusterous We lave no.
body to fight Of the bona fds residents
Of this Territory there are not fire hun
dred men who are in favor of ,tAe Le-
compton Constitution. Half of these men
have already left, and the balance are
making preparations for an early flight.
The passage of that Swindle through Con-
greas will be the signal for the retreat of
the last man of them from the Territory.
Then talk about ciUFl 1cart
This balderdash about civil war has
prevented for this season the heavy emf
grafton which, otherwise, would have set
Kansasward. Business men eyerywhsre
aresaying, "We are ruined unless there is
heavy emigration to Kansas this SPRING y
We say it when it is too late inlthe sea-
son to effect emigration, and too early to
judge of the matter by experience; yet,
nevertheless, truthfully, that this seasons
emigration viii be much smallerthan dur
ing any other since Kansas has been open
to settlement. And this result NAV be
ascribed TO the gasconade of the ssfiction
writer's" who have been getting up CIV
il war weekly at Fort Scott, and to the
Kansas journals endorsing them, and to
their abettors in the States As also, this
cry about eiri1 soar in case.the Lecompton
Swindle becomes lawl
a person who never heard the warning
OF the elements, listening for the jfrst time
to one of our uGpatented thunderstorms.
would naturally suppose that the gorge
Gus display of heavenly artillery, and the
vivid flashes Of lightning betokened the
end OF al things; but to the cool headed
philosopher, who traces events to their
cause, and who knows that when the ele-
ments have spent their fury, the atmos-
heric phenomena, which produced such
friehtful consequences to the novice, will
again relax into a calm hence he sets
composed and cheerful, while the otheris
agitated with unnecessary alarm. Ii is
precisely so in politics. Time and time
again the country has been excited quite
IS greatly as now. against the aggressions
of tho slave power. Repeatedly have we
heard the political thunders rolling along
the horizon, and up to the zenith. and
seen the excited lightning flash, and vet
our country stands Is firm as ever. At
times il does seem as il we were about to
make shipwreck of republican liberty in
America; and then we pass the shoals, and
close By the breakers. and are again in an
open sea, with 8 gentle breeze and open
port The seven years struggle during
the revolution. and over eighty years ex-
psEienee IN self-government, aEs not all
to be lost in the present contestin Kan
sas-to avail Us nothing. we have a
briilian. future, and it does not lay
through sea blood, a sdisnemberea
Union. ncr the downfall of republican
freedom.
or Gov. DEsyER has received a COM
mission from the President as Governor
sef Kansas. bat he has not qualified under