The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-22
NEWS FROM KANSAS.
SPECIAL Correspondence oG shs Herald.

Wsnot <'fogorm ~ tAe kj6s Ndts {dTy-7ASIT C"hlH
o. F0iGy-ino1asiseaoy Z s~suraJse CJurse IF their
Naturalization Of JUICE Conway and The Rank and
File Of the Party--Ahsoncc of the roSarcry Leaders
The Happy Conseqbnoes--7he STATE A9ia'O's, DC, DC.
The Presidents message accompanying the IecoCcptoD
constitution to Congress has been received here has
created considerable foeling who have talked re-
be'iob acted rebellion and made political capital out OF
such talking and such acting aetoniahed when the
cbe OF our greet ration soemny declares TO Congress
that they have been in rebellion They think rebellion Is
very fine ~ a game, ard very funny as ground upon
which to make political capital here but when is cody
brought cut before the world and their position shown
they begin to conceive that there yet amoog
who love neither the traitor the rebel to his country
An organized government avowediy enseavoring TO
subveTt the legal government Of State Territory 10
rebellion Such the position OF the Topeka State govern
ment and its supporters Not only ia their position that OF
rebellion but that Of the most facous inconsistency The
grounds taken by the party the oath of
September 1867 were that they would in any way
shape form, acknowledge tho existence, authority
legality laws of the fret fraudulenty elected Legs
laure. In the Convention held Grasshopper Falls
the oath September 1857, they solemnly and debe
rasey departed from those grounds by dcc-ug almost
unanimously TO acknowledge that Legislature s authority
and its laws by going into the election for Territorial
legislature under the provisions CT said laws a. tho time
specified in those laws and for the purposes therein de-
seDsted By thst decision the free State party obtained
the present Territorial legislature That decision at Grass
hopper Falls should be lost sight of it has been too
little regarded both inside and outside Of Territory
Well, having acknowledged that which they had
TO Wedge, hav rg after mature elaboration
to change their tactics and designs the only
consistent judcous policy they could have followed
would been to have continued the acknowledgment
of Legislature, fallen in with the provisions OF s
laws, TILL having a majority in the Territory, they could
have at the ballot box destroyed every line and letter Of
said laws, obtained the entire command Of the local gov
erpment sent their party representatives and senators TO
Congress and had everything their way Just
much if Ksosas had been admitted under the Topeka
constitution. But peace was not the desire of their
leaders they must pursue factious policy-today
knowledge the first Territorial Legislature, morrow
they never would do it in any shape manner
They could easy have killed the opposition and had
troll Of everything before but that the desire
Of the free State leaders, for contemptbe selfish pur
poses they have been determined to keep up the
men here-extraneous influences have aided them In H.
hence they have led their party into crooked ways
Judge Conway, than whom in the free State
party respected and who Is said be the abest
speaker the Territory at Grasshopper Falls Convention
spoke for two hours in favor Of putting the Topeka State
government into operation then he had pledged himself
TO acknowledge tho authority Of the bogus Iegs
ture, and determined 10 act up 10 his word He
the only in that Convention who voted against nc
knowledgng the bogus Legislature, by voting directed
by It's laws But since that day Mr. Conway has ignored
the Topeka movcmert-he considered buried then
there-that the popular verdict there had been given
agains. it. He has since maintained that the pro-
slavery party their laws Legislature and constitution
should be killed legally through the provisions the
cknowedsment of the laws OF ,he original territorial
Surh IN thp frpe Xag tba
skten the only udicioss policy but the demagogues
Of that party who then voted for voting, CONT
nuay going befo tho people and advocating the original
plan TO acknowledge the called bogus Legisla
Nrc, its authority laws, when they have already done
In the most solemn and public manner; they cont
rualy binding themselves by oaths and Impressions
to do II, and frequently doing it, BY this fac
tous, inconsistent, contemplate course, they have
confused the people, deceived the people, and battered
the peoples peace for selfish gain and hope OF ONCE Al
Grassbopper Ia Is Convention the people decided against
rebellion and for aw-hey relinquished their original
factious policy was popular verdict peace
der for peaceable settlement OF difficulties But the
fanatics in the party the men who have fingered abolition
gold and the political aspirants have changed and
fuse all this until would be difficult to say where tho
party stands, rent is with hostile factions The
rates and despicable politicians who would join right
hands with the devil to secure a POSITIONS, how
ever, marked and plain. To all arguments they
by merely referring you 10 the frauds and outrages
Commits by the pro slavery party.
That frauds have been committed, no one will deny;
that free State have been outraged will deny;
but that they should when tho sectional parties In
Union standing in such dangerously hostile position
for form which they forsook at Grssshopper Falls
the substance Of which they will have under any
stiution, throw themselves into rebellion against the
United States TO rrupt said sectons parties shotild be
deprecated by every inside and outside OF Kansas
They claim patriots but because their neighbors
side outsde Of the Territory may have injured Them
they willing TO subvert Union Is that patriotism
Because they or come individuals among may have
been wronged give them the strongest case they claim
Ss sy destroy Se bonds Of ancn
claim be unsesh and yet for selfish rebels
to their country. They claim that thor liberties have
been nnsed upon and for that that
which Ia the most perfect embodiment OF liberty must he
destroyed Nationality should teach them that their rst
duties are to the nation-its obligations is demands
their second and that for abstraction which
cannot benefit the young branch, the sourcethe tree
should teach them 10 suffer, 10 yield, 10 die, for
their country, but dshonor permit her 10 be
inc gulf 10 save the CITY Reason should teach them
that human governments and laws are bua compact,
compromse-with M compromise between the majority
and minority compromise In which local interests IRE
auenty have W suffer, and IN which, IN common par
lance, have give and take the good and evil result
ing from such compact II should teach them too
human in.trument executed by human hands never
be weld Of offence 70 And history should teach
them devotion TO this prodigy Of human government,
for little local passions and interests that
never fail by external foes, that real danger only
assai from within, and that danger-civh strife
should not be played with, courted, but crushed
herever II appears with the mailed hand Of the
tive and the blackest frown OF the people.
Such should be the considerations OF the free State
men, giving them their story 10 its fu-a the wrongs
they feel anxious 10 bear Is but few, however,
of the rank and le OF this party with the majority OF
their leaders, who have been and willing 70 stand
like the hormops In rebellion against the unted States.
The majority Of the party, the great Of the honest
humble, aborng squaters though terribly confused and
deceived in regard TO the state Of affairs not willing
their hands sganst their honored country But
II may be asked wha, the leaders here want; do they
expect 70 whip the United StaesS Oh, mol They want
fret 81 all, Office; they expect to ride int) upon the
excitement II the opposition carry the day they will
re, Offices and rather than that should place they
desire 10 have money and troops sent here from the free
States, TO create great civil and overthrow the
democratic party. in the doing Of which they willing
~ overthrow the nation. The quiet men In the Ter
ri,ory think they occupy an unfortunate position
The sentative In the Territory consider that they
occupy unhappy position, domincered over by the
fanatics but IA these fanatics who occsry supvemey
unfortunate position, for they merit the prooundcs
contempt OF every citizen IN the Union, and their
fully known BY every citizen In the Union they would
z eperaly receive H.
But the question most important TO Eastern readers n,
will have civil war the Lecompon constitution passes
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