The Kanzas news., 1858-07-31
The New Volume.

The New Volume.
This number commences the second vol
ume of The Kansas News, and we deem
it proper at this point of our history, in
view of the shape which matters and things
are beginning to assume in the political
world, to say few things bearing upon the
enterprise and also upon our future course.
The News was started and has been con-
Quoted during the year of its existence as
an independent Journal. It has looked to
no party, sect, clan or clique for patronage
or support in any way. but owes its origin
to the enterprise of its proprietor. and its
past support to the patronage of the people
of Kansas. During its publication its sub
seription list has steadily increased.
Since TIE News has been sustained SO
long as it has without any outside aid from
partyism. or any kind of political favorit-
ism, We have good reason to think that it
will be SO sustained so long as it shall pur-
sue the same free, untrammeled course. Its
life is not dependent on the life or existence
of any political party or of any political or
personal interest. If il has advocated the
views of any party, either in whole or in
part, it vas because the objects and princi-
pies of that party, for the time being, were
in accordance with those of the proprietor.
We never have advocated, and we never in
tend to advocate the views, or labor to pro-
mote the success of any party, farther than
We believe will be in accordance with what
is right, and in harmony with the public
good. Pledges in advance to harmonic
with the views and endorse the action of
any association of men IN faItaro, We do
not think it right to make, and viii not
make them. We do not even hold it to be
. duty or merit to be consistent with our
selves. We hold, as We think every free
man should, the opinions of to-day subject
to the review and consideration of to-mor-
row. 80 far, at least, as political action is
concerned; for in politics the scenes change
so often, and so materially, that the straight
est path often leads through the greatest
variety of associations. The boast of edit
ors and publishers-too often made-that
they belong to this or that party, is an idle,
vain saying. and signifies inanity in him
who makes it. Temporary combinations
of our fellow citizens for the accomplish
msnt of certain political ends, are always
necessary and proper: but permanent polit-
ical parties always become corrupt, and are
turned into engines of evil. The theory Of
the necessity of two great, everlasting po-
itical parties, the one to act as the pro-
pslling or locomotive party. and the other
a. conservative, hold d-back or ,rough.lock
party. is lesson in the science of social
government that We have never learnt TO
appreciate. Parties which sustain right
principles are conservative enough, and
progressive enough; and on the other hand,
parties which sustain wrong principles
are anything else but progressive or con-
ssrvatiYe; they ara destructive. An ever
lasting no-party We have no sympathy for.
We prefer to be sorn out by the fric-
ton of activity, rather than to be crush
ed down in the ceaseless toll of resisting
the action Of others. Among all the va
risd issues sprung upon society. We like,
occasionally at least, to enjoy the privi-
lege of voting s'aye" and arguing an af,
frmative proposition. If we cannot pull
fairly at the tongue of some vehicle, we
VIII not consent, as an alternative, to b
used as the eheck-rubber of everybody
'else's go-cart Every man and every
newspaper should be an affirmative quan.
tity. of some denomination or other. We
see papers, occasionally, protesting to b
neutral in politics and neutral in religion,
etc. We would as soon see them pro-
fess they are nothing and acknowledge
that they have no business to exist
Even a cypher sometimes adds value
when used IN connection with other fig
ures, and in this respect it has more
significance than negative quantity