The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-12-25

of leaders. No period OF tims was ster
more pfopitious in eliciting these impor-
tant facts, than the wohted Quiet which
has pervaded ali classes Of our patriotic
citizens since the recent civil and politi-
cal troubles in which our almost entire,
existence has been involved. Like the
ocean, after its waters have been wrought
into foam by the tempest; or the desert,
after the dreadful simeon has passed, the
people of Kansas enjoy season of tran
guilty and silence, undisturbed by the eff
forts of factious politicians. The era of
liberation, if not of greater friendship, has
fairly begun, when men, in all parts of the
Union, are to realize the dependent rela-
tionship which unites all their best inter-
ests in one, and appreciate that to strike
down one section of our common country,
is but to let loose destruction upon the
other. 1t is high time that those politi-
cal leaders should be deserted, whose only
object is personal aggrandizement even
at the Sacrifices of their country.
Let no honest man deceive himself with
the idea that the meager attendance upon
the Lawrence Convention was occasioned
by the impassability of the roads, or any
other local obstruction of that nature
that the country is ripe for the organiza-
ton of political parties, or the ENGRAVING
Republican or Democratic dogmas upon
the Free State party. Let no one be SO
foolish as to think that the Free State
party, in the very midst of its triumphant
exaltation, the pride of its friends and the
admiration of its enemies, should so soon
abdicate her regal palace for a wretched
howell or yield the golden lilies" of her
distinguished prowess to few unpopular
mercenary and weak minded politicians
Can it be that her forty or fifty thousand
fast adherents in this Territory, among
whom are many thousand sober, sensible,
intelligent and thinking people, can be
purchased, without price, to perform the
work of their own self destruction for the
sake of dozen or two political aspirants
whose love for their country ceases when
the spoils cease to be within their grasp
whose ambition prompts them to be first
in organizing, in order to maintain their
claims to promotion; but whose brainless
fanaticism has become odorous through
out the land The people have seen
these things, have tried these men, and
therefore, when they call nobody answers.
They cannot be drawn away from their
peaceful avocations into political strife, by
the croaking of such characters, because
experience teaches them better.
But when it is fully ascertained that the
Free State party still present an unbroken
front-that no idle words of plumber can
decoy its friends from their vigilance and
duty-that to declare war against its prin-
ciples is work of self-destruction, then,
WIRE pullers adopt the plan Of ENGRAVING
their peculiar tenets upon the party and
endeavor to put themselves at the head.
But when the people regard them with
aversion and throw cold water upon their
"altar fires" then they discover the i'm
portant fact that the Free State party il
dead that it could not survive after they
left it, hence, they make propositions to
preach the funeral sermon" Of that par
ty, superciliously and falsely asserting as
pretext, that the "Free State party Of
Kansas, as at present constituted, presents
no issues or measures of public importance
to the people" Such shallow-p ated
schemes soon meet with the retribution
they deserve, and their instigators will find
when public opinion sets foot upon their
consecrated necks, that Jordan is hard
road to travel"
The fact is, the people are not ready for
political parties. Great interests are at
stake, which demand the united co-ope-
ration of all our citizens. Let political
parties be organized, and we shall find
endless difficulty in getting into the Union.
Some will contend for an enabling act by
Congress, before proceeding to frame q
constitution, while Others viii argue that
our Legislature should proceed without
it. Some will succeed after much angry
debate, in embodying their party dogmas
in the new constitution; while 9TH
es, being offended, will oppose such an
instrument at the polls, and by such pro-
ceedings, either defeat it and cause anoth-
er to be framed, or let it 60 before Con-
gress with an opposition to il, of nearly
one-half our citizens. Such q result in
this Territory might very much delay the
action Of Congress, and prevent our ad-
mission into the Union. How much bet
ter it would be to make the constitution
the work of the whole people, endorsed
by all, and let Congress see that to defer
an admission is suicide to our opponents.
In regard to ISSUES and measures of pub
lie importance to the people," let the dis
organizers Of both parties remember that
our many wants demand cooperation to
reach the ear Of Congress. In this re-
spect, as we are yet Territory, it is q
matter Of the first Importance to show q
union Of purpose. Though we may hops
sincerely that all difficulties of local ma
turs are past, yet, as we do not indepen-
IDENTIFY possess the power Of protecting our
own interests, the emergency Of a single
day may demand our united energies
This sentiment already pervades the vbole