The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-16

stripped of, and twenty brutal men stood
ready, it is said, to fight if the polls were
opened. The true men of the vicinity
who deprecated such action, and who still
desired to exercise voice in the election,
prevailed upon the judges to visit Bloom
ington, and open the polls at that place.
They complied, but were followed by
these rowdies, and an election was pre-
vented at that point. At Lawrence no
violence was exhibited; but through
out the day men were seen around the
place of election, continually laboring to
prevent Others from voting. Argument,
and ridicuIe, and every artifice which a
bad cause can invent, was used to keep
the people from exercising the right OF
suffrage, and about 500 were induced to
withhold their tickets for State and Leg
islatiye officers. Runners, and newspapers,
and lying circulars were sent OVER Doni-
phan county, the object of which was not
to bring the people out in their strength
to the polls, but to keep them away; and
too well they succeeded.
The object of voting was to get control
of the Lecompton Constitution, not to
use the government to oppress the people;
but,in case we were forced into the Union
under it, instead of leaving it in the
hands of our enemies to use for our en-
slavement, that we could use it for its own
destruction, and to supplant it with an
other.
1t is now settled that we have tn
umphed, and that there is no longer a
doubt in regard to the character of the
law making power. There is also no
doubt but we shall be admitted into the
Union under that instrument, if such is
not the case already. Suppose the policy
of these hair Drained mad-caps had pre-
vailed! Where now the chances for our
freedom ? Nothing but a sea Of blood,
would be before us and who shall say
with such odds as the Federal Govern
ment against us, it would not have been
an ignominous defeat, and death On the
scaffold to the leaders in the movement!
Now the problem is easily solved! Not
by grim-visaged war, but by peaceful
means, and through legal forms. We
have the power to work out our liberties
from this protracted tyranny without the
shedding of blood" We have the pow
er to roll back this food-tide which has
broken over our borders, and robbed us of
our rights, and that through the wisdom of
the "bolters," on the 23d ult. The "Brown
Party" born in "Cellar Kitchen" of the
Herald of Freedom Office, like "the rock
cut out of the mountain without hands,
has grown in size, until it has capacity to
accomplish the object of its mission, and
sweep into lifelong captivity the enemies
of free institutions.
The name "Bolter," for this party, and
the men composing it, is proper one.
1t sounds well, and it means WE'LL
The good in all ages of the world, have
been boilers from the vices and customs
of the times. Politically, all persons
who cease to follow in the footsteps OF
some "sagacious leader" is termed a
Bolter. Wilmot and Hale, and several
hundred thousand persons who bolted the
Wing and Democratic nominations in
| 1848 were boilers. We were among that
number, and became accustomed to the
term. Instead of bo7ting nomination oi
the Free State party, we bolted theil
resolution to do nothing. Instead of lying
inactive we determined to "woRK." AL
the lessons we have taken in politics has
taught us to be active and energetic; but
in Kansas politics, where greater activity
is required than any other place in the
world, Sir Sloth, with his usually indo-
lent habits, was trying to have us lay
down our arms and submit quietly to the
consequences. Callthe new party BoLTERs
and their opponents Sloths, and see which
the people will rally around and sustain