The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1859-05-28

triumphantly, as the natural result of pop
ular sovereignty, and was again quoted as
conclusive proof that Kansas was lost.
Aud they told of the long protracted
droutb, the parched earth, and the scarcity
of water; and, in duo time, the sickness
was dwelt upon, showing that the coun-
try was not adapted to Northern enigra-
ton. This was followed with the incl
dents of the Wakarusa war, and the II
told you so;" and then the troubles Of
$50, and the outrages and sufferings of that
year, and the apparent hope Of these jour
nails that the Free State population would
be wiped ont, that the election Of Mr..
FREMONT might be secured.
We remember it all. and so will every
resident of Kansas at that time, some Of
whom talked of getting up protest
against the doleful lamentations of certain
newspapers and their correspondents, and
their speaking for us.
When it was thought best to wrest the
government from pro-slavery hands, these
presses assured us that there would be no
chance for us-that fraud and villainy
would triumph over numbers and the
right, and that it was effort thrown away.
And when the Lecompton Constitution
came up, there was no way to resist it but
by an appeal to the God of battles, and
thus thousands on thousands have been
discouraged from coming here, who, but
for these journals, would have cast their
lot with us and thousands ofothers have
been frightened away.
Hon. ELI THAYER, in hisspeech in Feb
ruary last, in Congress, very happily takes
off these men thus -
"There is another class, sir, composed
! of THE POLITICAL CAssANDRAs of the Re-
publican party, who are always prophecy
ing, in the middle of one great disaster,
that another still greater is about to come
who are continually saying that slavery
has always had its own way, and always
will have it-that slavery, under the bred
Scott decision, will yet be established in
Massachusetts and New Hampshire-that
secret intrigues are going on for establish.
ing it in Canada, as well as for putting
the White Mountains and Cape Cod un-
der the Lash. / have all account TO settle
with these men. l have met them, and
found them a great impediment to the
progress of freedom in this country. In
the contest for free men and free labor III
Kansas, 1 affirm here that they icere a greot.
er obstacle to our progress than the border
rugianS, the cabinet and pOice, # PreSiden
Pierce. or the bud traveling in the State o.
MissOuTi-FoR THEY WERE FILLING TIKI
COUNTRY WITH THE CRY THAT KANSAS
WAS LOST. With quivering lips and mois
eyes, they went about crying that all ,pai
lost The effect Was to send hundreds
and thousands Of men, who would hav.
joined our good colonists in Kansas, shiv
ering away 10 the cold regions of Mime
sofa / have no sympathy with thes,
men. OF this class was Uzza in the day
| of David, who thought that because thu
, oxen stumbled, the ark Of the Lord woult
surely fall; and he stretched out his trem
bling hand in support of Omnipotence
Smitten by the Power which his doubt
had insulted, faithless Uzza died upol
the spot. Why he died, ask no com
mentary to tell me. Why any such ar
left is not go clear. Without faith, eithe
in the power of God or the destiny o
man, they libel freedom and Islander free
men. They have no joy in the present
and no hope for the future. They seen
pre-destined to disaster and defeat; ant
woe to the party or project in which the,
assume authority or exercise influence
, To q man of this class the present life
one perpetual nightmare; and what tn
future will be, who can say q? Can he b
saved :? Can man be saved withou
, faith, or hope, or works, with only repen
tance-and even that consisting not il
sorrow for his own sins, but for other PEG
ple's virtues? Why, what if by som
; chance he were once in the Holy City P
lie would be no more sdred than he wa
before. He never would see the tree @
life or tho river of life; never would hav
a harp in his hand-but spy glass, an
skalking about the battlements, and peer
ing off into illimitsble space; if he shout
: chance to see bred Scott or the Suprem
5 Court, even though they might be beyon
the great gulf, he would think they wer
coming to establish slavery on the golde
3 psvements of the New Jerusalem"
And what journal was it which lead o
e in these doleful lamentations, and ws
!, loudest in predictions that all hope {
? making Kansas free was gone ? Will nc
D every reader bear us witness that the Ne,
: York Tribune was that paper? Time an
t time again we have felt compelled to a
: Jude to it, and protest against the discoul
e agements of that journal in regard I
Kansas matters. We kno,c it was tbs
0 journal aud its readers whom Mr.. THAYE
q had in mind when he made that speec
in Congress. Every body, too, will bes
: witness that the language fits it to the lei
: ter. The bowie knives and revolvers {
Strinsfellow, Atchison & Co.. the vic
$ lence of the whole horde of Border Ru
fans, aud the drcuths, aud sickness, an
1 penury have not done one-half as muc
: to keep away emigration from Kansas, &
@ has the lamentations of that paper.
S And who was the master spirit? The &C
4 itor-in-chief Of the N. Y. Tribune. An
n who was it that gave tone and directio
s to all it said =? Who but HORACE GREI
y LEY? In May of 1859. the editor of tn,
}. journal appears among US, aud the mass,
y rally around him, and politicians, WI
n have come to Kansas since the gre,
struggle Of freedom is all dFer, laud tn
IS HORACE GREELEY as the political savi
IS of the country. Not that only, but II
g GREELEY seems to claim that great sha
e of the result is mainly owing to his he
I, / cnlaan affnrts 7 We nan ool,, tb;ol- IF -