Freeman's champion., 1858-07-01

the Leavenworth Times, the Qulndaro
Chindow0n, our namesake OF Atchi-
son, Fyeedom's Champion the Kan
gos News has long been known as ia
verable to such movement ; in fact
all Of the radical press Of Kanaas are
wheeling into line and hoisting the
Republican standard. We are in IA
vor, as none can doubt who have
been our readers, Of the same step,
and call upon the citizens Of Prairie
City and vicinity not to be behind
hand in the movement Of organizing
the Republican party, now going on
all over the Territory. You who
have stood in the front ranks of the
Free State struggle, who have marched
and toiled beneath the summer sun
of '56, can need no exordium from
us, to be firm and true to the duty
that now calls you in forming new
combinations to secure not only your
own Freedom, but to place the gov
ernment of the Nation in the hands
Of those who will endeavor to admin
lister it in accordance with the princi-
pies which found voice in the De-
claration of Independence, and make
of that instrument living fact, in
stead of its being as at present, mere
"string Of glittering generalities. +"
We know by your past history, where
the uncorrupted I" old guard" will be
in the new combinations. To those
who came here Republicans, we need
say nothing. Their principles have
been strengthened by what they have
seen and felt in the fiery furnace oi
Kanzas politics. To the honest Dem
ocrat, who really believes in the prin-
ciples of Jefferson, but whose early
education and prejudices made it al
most impossible for him to realize
the truthfulness Of the wrong perpe'
trated in Kanzas, before he came here
himself and saw and felt with his own
senses, we have but one question to
ask, and that is, which of the present
political parties embody most truly
the sentiments you profess to believe
in? We know your answer will be,
the Republican party, and that you
will be found giving your support TO
the KanzaS wing Of the great Nation
al army whose cohorts are marshaling
all over the North and West for an
other struggle with the hydra headed
slave oligarchy. To the Anti-Sla-
very man those who oppose Slavery
because it is a high crime and mis-
demeanor against all that is holy and
lust because it is atheism of the
blackest dye against the Godlike prin
ciple of humanity; becausei it degradet
not only the slave but the Slave-hold
er, the oppressor as we'll as the op'
pressed to those who, standing or
the pinnacle Of moral principle, make
Republican parties by the agitation
they create through the prophetic dc
nunciation and warning they utter
in the faithful discharge of that duty
which the clear-sighted vision the.
gain from the heights they stand up
on, imposes Upon all who occup.
flhem, we have but one request t.
make, and that is, to give to ou
movement, which is really q step be
yohd the Free State party orgauiza
ton, all the cheer and counsel whicl
you have to bestow. Stand not aloo
from us, but endeavor to lead tn
multitude from the paths Of politlca
f expediency in whose maze they nov
wander, up TO the grand mountai
: heights of moral principle, where hig
above the mists which obscure tn
!, vision below, they may see the whol
field Of philosophical progress mappe'
out before them, and thereby lear
which road leads to Triumph an
Truth.
We have nothing to say to tho
/ strange compound Of absurditics an
: prevarications, that hcrmaphroditico
; mass Of politicol CANNON, the burde