The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-03-05
For n. Asrsld ef Freedom.
Defeat in wyandotf.
WYANDoTT CRY. Z. T.,(
Eah % 1870

WYASDoTT CRY. Z. t.
Feb. %, 1859.
G. W. BRowN, Esq.-DEAR SIR:-The
election of officers for the new county Of
Wyandott came off yesterday and resulted
in the election of the entire Democratic
ticket.
The highest vote on the Democratic
ticket was, in
Wyandott City, 293
Quindaro, 133
-426
Free State
In Wyandott City, 25s
Quindaro, 81
-335
Majority 81
Whole number in Quindaro, 220
Whole number in Wyandott, 551
Aggregate vote I'll
This result will, no doubt, be claimed
all over the Union as Buchanan victory,
when there is no truth in it in any respect.
Out of the whole vote cast there are not
fifty men who would defend the Kansas
policy of the President, but who would,
on the other hand, vote and act with any
party to thwart his policy, and to establish
free institutions in Kansas and to support
the right of the people to govern them
selves, and to make and execute their
own laws without Executive on Congress
sional dictation. This I assert without
Gear of successful contradiction.
The causes that brought about this
result are few and palpable to the mind
of every one acquainted with the facts.
The negro suffrage feeling that pre-
dominated in the Leavenworth Constitu-
tional Convention, stained the fair es-
cutcheon of the Free State party, and made
that instrument and convention odious to
the great bulk of the people of Kansas.
The itching anxiety manifested, during
the last summer and fall, by many of the
leading men Of that party, to abandon the
great living issue, that of establishing q
Free State in Kansas, and to organize the
Republican party, and to link the destinies
of the Territory in entangling alliances
with outside political issues and questions
over which we had no control; and, lastly,
the insane policy of calling a convention
to meet at Ossawattomie for the avowed
purpose of uprooting our old organization
and establishing the Republican party,
have all combined to direct the eye of the
people away from the great object and
aim of the old Free State party. and to
make them look upon that party as about
being Dissolved, and to seek other com.
binations on other issues and platforms Of
principles suited to their views and feel
ings on other questions.
In vain did We plead that this tendency
to dissolution and to Republicanism, in the
Free State party, was only the action Of
a few ultra and ambitious men; the call
for the convention at Osawattomie, with
the comments of the Lawrence Republican,
was thrust into our faces; and appended
to that call we found not only the names
of Lane, Vaughan, Conway, Thatcher,
Philips, Hutchinson, Larzelere, Canniff, &c.
&C., but along side of them the names Of
such men as Charles Robinson, DR.. Danford,
| t. R. Roberts, Jas. Blood, and others here
tofore considered reliable, showing that
both wings of the Free State party were
about to mouutthe Philadelphia platform
to adopt the dogmas and to enter the
lists as party, on issues other than those
peculiarly Kansean in their character.
The great bulk of the people of Kan.
sas are Free State, sound and unques
tionable; and at the same time they art
as unanimously and unquestionably il
favor of making Kansas free by their oio'
act, and without employment OF tn,
meddling hand of Executive or Copgres
sional power; the right to govern our
selves and to "form and regulate oul
domestic institutions in our own way" are
rights that are perhaps dearer to the
people Of Kansas than they are to any
other portion of the American people
from the fact, that we have been basely
robbed of these invaluable rights. and
having once lost them, can better ap2re-
ciate their value than can others who
have always enjoyed them, and hence
the repugnance of the people of Kansas
and their refusal to espouse the theory
that Congress has the right to govern, and
should govern, the people of the Terri
tories by the iron hand of outside power,
regardless of the will of the governed.
The doctrine of Congressional Sover-
eighty may find friends in the States, bat
in the Territories, and particularly in Kan
sas, this creed will be rejected as unani-
mously as is, and as has'been, the equally
odious and absurd theory and practice Of
Executive Sovereignty, and SO soon as
the Free State party abandon their old
organization and mount the platform Of
Congressional dictation, SO soon will the
people leave the scould be leaders Of the
party and find place in other organiza-
tions more suited to their judgments,
tastes. and feelings.
The prospect of such an organization
emanating from the OsawattoInie con-
vention, has already distracted the Free
State ranks in other localities than this.
If anticipation will have such an effect
upon the popular mind, what will be
the result of its realization ? is ques-
ton that leading men should well consider