The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1858-05-29

The Leavenworth Herald, though it
Pro-slayery. sometimes gets of a goot
article. We make the following -extrac
from long article in its last issue -
We have no idea that Kansas viii again
be visited by the disturbances and agita
tons which have too long marked on
progress. IT'S true the fierce fires hav,
not as yet died out-the slumbering EN-
bers may yet hide the living Goals, ant
though some may beendeayoring to fan
them into blaze, yet the fuel is wanting
and We know that their efforts can never
be successful. The question of slavery
In Kansas is settled. No more will it ex.
ert Its influence upon the masses. Parties
viii now assume other shapes, with other
principles and other objects, and more
conservative action will mark their future
course.
Kansas has been cursed with politicians
Broken down political hacks in the States.
without characters to lose, have swarmed
to Kansas, hoping to ride into power upon
the turbulent waves of agitation which
they have lashed into fury, and steering
their ambitious course by the light of tbs
burning wreck of the ship of state which
they, too, had fred. Men of every grade
in the political scale, from the ballot-box
stHffer to the influential partizan leader.
have cursed the soil of Kansas. Spoils
alone being their object, they had no prin-
ciple, and professed none, except those
which appeared most popular, only to
change them with the next breeze.
Such as these have been our curse: such
as these have caused us to rush onward in
our headlong course of destruction, eoaded
on by appeals to the worst passions of
man, into bloody strife; and such as
these are still endeavoring to hold the
reins of our government, and sway the
destinies of Kansas. But the present con-
dition of affairs sounds the death knell of
these reptiles whe have SO long proved a
curse to US. Called into existence by agi-
tatlon, fattening upon the morbid desire
of strife and bloodshed, and living only
for the spoils, they will now starve. If
we remain in our Territorial condition for
some years to come, we may expect an
exodus of such as these from our midst.
Their trade is gone. Sordid ambition is
never patient, and it will seek new fields
of agitation in which to re-enact the un-
holy strife; new spheres of action in which
to pander to its depraved desires. Kan
sas has been the arena in which these
political beasts of prey, urged on by their
unholy thirst for power, and desire for
office and spoils, have displayed their ra-
pacity, and made her people aid in the
disgraeeful orgie. And we have good
cause to congratulate ourselves that at
length the hand of time points to our de-
llverance from these monsters.
The people of Kansas need have no
nisgiVings for the future. From this
date it will be bright. compared with the
past. The "reminiscences of the past NAV,
perhaps, cast slight shadow upon the
present, but time will obviate it. The
lark and surging waves of the sea of DO
itical tumult have already spent their
orce, and though the ripples may chase
Zach other upon our ocean, yet the barque
which bears our hopes, our prosperity and
'ur happiness, will henceforth have a
mooth sea and fair wind.