The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1859-02-19
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LAWRENCE. Feb. 16. $50


LAwRENcE, Feb. 16, $50.
Ma. EDITOR The scenes in our streets
yesterday were enough to make every hon.
est man blush, to own that he is citizen
Of Lawrence. What we have condemned
Missouri for. year after year. The Lawrence
people, headed by Jim Lane, are practicing
every day. Had Jim and his practical
crew committed the same acts in Massa-
chusetts or Ohio, that they committed in
Lawrence yesterday, they would be sent
to the Penitentiary for ten years at least;
yet eastern letter writers. puppets Of that
same Lane, with their private rooms filed
with 'plstnder," will unite and laud them.
selves and their "robber-chief" to the skies
One thing ! have noticed, and others could
not help doing the same. When we held
the boy indignation meeting. Jim Lane,
Esq, saw proper to turn it into political
meeting, and denounced all as Democrats,
or Pro- Slavery men, who were not in favor
Of hanging the whole creU. Jim, at that
time, rantei, and foamed-more like q mad
man, than one having any practical plan
to pursue. Whilst he was ranting, and his
cronies haranguing. four of the kidnap-
pers of boy were in the room, three of
whom escaped, and the fourth would, had
no one but Lane and his friends aided in
the arrest.
Yesterday the robbery ola United States
posse, was declared by Lane to be Repub-
lican measure, and all denounced as Dem
ocrats who refused to receive the stolen
property. to which Conway. Thscher and
Branscomb chin,ed, amen.
For one. I desire to say that if these are
the principles of the Republican party.
and these the leaders, although I never
voted other than Republican ticket, you
can count me out. shall never sustain
robbery and theft, or follow the leadership
of murderer, or political bankrupt, for
the purpose Of being called a good Re-
publican. That DR.. boy did what he had
\ right to do, even under the Fugitive
Slave Law, I fully believe. Every man is
presumed to be free until the contrary is
shoa0n. DR.. boy. nor no other man, had
a right to presume these persons to be
slaves, and even did he know them to be
such, he was doing an act of mercy, OF
bsnevolence, and is entitled to the sympa.
thy and material aid of every well disposed
person. His kidnappers, if justice be
done them. will spend at least ten years
each. inside of the ,OaHs of Pemtentiary
But instead of that, one of those same
kidnGppers, yesterday, helped Jim Lane.
Esq, and Others, to rob United States
posse We all condemned the capture of
boy; it was unlawful. We also denounced,
from one end ofthe country 70 the other,
the people Of Lexington, No., for captur.
ing Free State arms, and disarming Free
State men, yet the same thing has been
done in Lawrence t,oice, within the past
tceek thus disgracing ourselves in the eyes
of the civilized world. Could these out.
laws get strong political party to endorse
their acts. they might go on so for years
to come, but these men may Just as
we'll understand that the Republicans OF
the States do not sustain their cause in
Kansas. When there was necessity for
fighting in '55 and SO, it was hard to
got the Republicans to stand by US but
now, with the law making power in our
hands, they say, truly, that there is not
only no excuse for it, but that we are re-
sponsible no,o for all these outbreaks in
Kansas. But says one Where are We to
60, politically ? Ny answers, go nowhere;
stand right where we are. The Democ-
racy has organized and .fzzled. The Re-
publican party, under Lane and Conway,
will do the same, and all the true Free
State men have got to do, is to organic
under the name Of Republican, Free De-
mocracy, or I care not what, so that it EN- :
bodies the true anti.slavery position, the
non-extension of slavery, the denational-
ization Of slavery, everywhere, and the
right of the people Of a Territory to pro-
hibit slavery 10 the Territory, and we will
sweep this Territory from one end to the
other. All the people have to do no1, is
to stand firm. They need not be driven
into the Democratic party on the one hand,
or led by the apron strings Of Jim Lane,
on the other. Yours,
A WHITE REPUBLICAN.