The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1858-06-26
The Ifsfalo Of Freedom.
LAWRENCE. K. It.
Saturday Morning. June 26, 1858.
New Party,


A strong movement is being made
throughout the Eastern States towards a
new political organization, which shall
supercede all others, the object of which
is to defeat the corrupt party now in
power. A Convention was recently held
at Buffalo, n. Y, which took the initiatory
steps for the organization Of such party,
at which the following resolutions, which
we heartily endorse, were passed by accla-
nation
/. RESOLVED, That political organizations
are entitled to support only as instrument
talities for securing just government and
promoting the public welfare and when,
from whatever cause, they prove inefficient
for these purposes, blind and passive ad-
herence to their names and forms is un-
worthy of the citizens of free country,
and is fraught with consequences danger
GUS to republican institutions.
2. Resolved, That the so-called Demo-
cratic party of the State and of the coun-
try, has shown itself unworthy of the pop
ular confidence and support, by an aban-
donment of its professed principles, and by
abetrayal of the trusts confded to its keep
ing, since, in its approval and support Of
the present national administration, it has
avowed that it is willing to trample under
foot the fundamental theories of the gov
eminent established by the fathers of the
republic, to encourage and uphold the
most despotic practices, and to acquiesce
in the reckless and corrupt expenditure of
the public treasure by official fayorites, so
long as its leaders and followers can par
ticipate In the enjoyment of executive pat
ronage and in the unclean drippings of dis
honest legislation. 49,
8. Resolved, That, in the deliberate judg-
ment of this meeting, the national Admin
istration, under the direction and through
tho personal agency of President Bu-
chanan, has become despotism, making
its own will the law of the land, using the
money and the arms of the people to en-
force its DEGREES, and prostituting the pow
er with which it was generously invested,
by majority of the electors of the Union,
to the most selfish and demoralizing pur-
poses. 1t has sanctioned the pollution of
the ballot box; it has declared false and
fraudulent returns of desperate and dis
honest officials to be the popular will; it
has made this declaration the basis of e
movement designed to force upon a peo-
pie, entitled to its encouragement and
protection, an offensive and anti-republi-
can constitution and it has done all this
in defiance of the well-known popular
sentiment of the country, for the purpose
Of securing the undivided support of an
aggressive and intolerant political combi-
nation, organized and controlled by the
so-called Democratic politicians of the
South, who are Justly regarded as disunion-
lists and slavery propagandists.
4. Resolved, That this meeting, profess
Ing, as it does profess, desire to preserve
the Institutions inherited from the fathers
of the republic, deems it duty particu-
larly to condemn as Infamous the conduct
of the national Administration toward the
people of Kansas, who, asking only to be
permitted to form their own domesticinsti-
tutions, without molestation and in accord
ance with the territorial sovereignty as
recognized in the Kansas Nebraska law,
have been treated as slaves of a penal
colony, and not as freemen of an inde-
pendent Territory.
.. Resolved, That this meeting deliber-
ately advises its brethren in Kansas to do
aliin their power to secure the rejection, al
freighted as it is with bribes and threats
assuring them that they will always have
the fveliest sympathy of the country in
their resistance to tyranny, and in all theiI
efforts to secure o full realization of their
just aspirations for self-government.
g. Resolsed, That this meeting declares
It's fixed purpose to oppose at the polls the
principles and policy of the national Ad-
ministration, as well as the political organ
ization by which that Administration is
sustained, inviting all, of whatever politi-
cal association hitherto, to join it in an
honest and patriotic effort to wrest the
general government from the bad and dan
gerous influences which now control it
Z. Resolued, That, as citizens of this
great commonwealth, Justly proud of its
progress, in all things which snnoble a
A'S, VIC USlHditu 8U EOtleSI auu cCOuotu-
icai administration of its public finances,
regarding just and faithful expenditure
OF every appropriation of the public nlon-
eys as essential 10 the purity, efficacy and
vitality of each department of popular gov
eminent
8. Resolved, For the purpose of giving
practical effect to the sentiments and pur-
poses of the meeting, as enunciated in the
preceding resolutions, that the chairman
appoint committee of nine to take such
action. from time to time, as may be sug-
gested BY wise and patriotic discretion
70 combine ali the elements and practices
OF the se-called Democratic party.
y. Resolved, That this meeting cherishes
afeellngo of profound respect for those Sen
ators and Representatives in Congress
irom the different sections of the Union
who manfully spurned the dictation o
tne Administration, and resisted, by theil
speeches and their votes, the adoption o
me Leeompton constitution, and that i
nefeoy tenders to each and TO all of then
the unaffected expression of its heartfelt
gratitude. s55e - esSss