The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-05-07

IN value, while the lands of the interior
cannot rise above the price of grazing
lands, or from one to five dollars an acre.
so with the towns. The river towns will
increase in importance, as all articles Of
export must be carried to them by the
farmer, while the interior towns will lose
even their present trade. Believing that |
without the early construction of sys-
tenn Of railroads, Kansas would experience
stagnation of business that would be |
ruinous alike to all departments of indus
try, / felt it to be of the highest impor-
tance to seize the first opportunity to pro-
cure grants of lands from Congress for
railroad purposes.
Having been placed in position by the
people of Kansas. during our early strug-
gle, thatwas likely to carry with it some
influence, l felt it duty to use that in
iuence for their benefit. Accordingly, 1
declined to be member of the Leaven-
worth Constitutional Convention, and
avoided political controversies, with view
to secure grant OF lands while there
was land to grant, and when it could be of
service to the people. l visited three sue
cessive sessions of Congress, chiefly for
this object Last winter a large and re-
spectacle delegation from Kansas agreed
upon system of roads, and grant would
probably have been made had not the
political demagogues interfered. That
system would have given five, if not six
roads to Lawrence, and would have in
creased the value of every lot in town ten
fold, every farm in the county four fold,
and every acre of land east of Fort Riley,
on an average, two fold. The grant was
to have been made to the Legislature, and
no man at Washington would have had
the least advantage over any other citisen
of the Territory. A certain person saw
fit to use what influence the people had
given him by electing him to the Leaven-
worth Constitutional Convention, and a
member Of Congress under that Constitu,
ton, to defeat the grants, ,fand that, too, by
resorting to course of libel, slander, and
lying, unequalled in the annals of Tam
| many Hall politics,
, Should the land sales come off as ad-
vertised, there will be but little, if any
land in Eastern Kansas for road purposes
and we can, in future, lie supinely on oul
i backs, hugging the delusion that certain
men are great benefactors of Kansas, and
especially of Lawrence.
As to the organization of parties 1 hav,
but word to say. I au simply locker
- on, and disposed to lett politicians max
!: their own bed. 1t is we'll known that
e have always regarded the abandonment o
e the Free State party before we are
e State, as bad policy, but it was necessar.
Il for certain politicians, who were not i
1t Kansas during her early struggles, to star
% up something new, in which they coul
J. figure as number one, and they should b
g iudulged. Also, the Revolutionists of tn
lie old Free State party found themselve
10 largely in the>minority in that party, an
d it was necessary to have some test al
ID piled that would drive of enough Of sue
VS. as did not agree with them to keep the
al power in the ascendant. Nothing bettt
l offered for this purpose than the organic:
n, ton of the Republican party The
at ought, also, to be INDUCED. That thec
10 were the chief motives that induced som
Id of the politicians to start up this organiz'
n ton, have not doubt. However, as tt
ne movement is started, and as it is elaine
all a majority of the people favor it, l al
IS, not disposed to oppose. it. Should Il
"a Osawatomie Convention organize goo
be respectable party, that shall nomina
decent candidates for Office in the futur
IN, l shall, probably, vote with il, but shou
~ Ithe party be composed of men who a
/ opposed to the interests of white men
Sc the Territory, and who waste all the
he ammunition on distractions, who nom
! nate for office notorious and willful libs
en- lers and liars, who would have to under
ial a ten years probation before they won
in be fit to be ad mitted to Tammanv Ha
igs then l shall vote with any other par
than that. II is by no means certain Ii
re- Republican party will be organized
he Osawatomie. From present indication
ors the convention is as likely to re-organi
on the Free State party as organize Repu
by lican party. 1t is becoming pretty e
IN dent that Republican organization
the national platform, would be defeat
he before the people, and Leavenworth cot
90 ty is already backing water. Wyand
lid county dare not move an inch from F.
he Stateism, and how they can be represent
ed at Osawatomie without all parties agree
on drop the name of Republican, do !
he see.
$ 1 put my name to the modified call
to that convention, on my return from I
at East, because was told that it was nea
cir the unanimous opinion of the old f
on State party, that the time had come
ig- change the name, aud because 1 did
we want to appear to oppose the kno
of wishes of my old Free State friends.
ith have some doubts about the correctness
le- those representations, but I do not p
lie. pose to withdraw my name till see w
he kind of party is organized, and w
led kind of candidates represent it.
ide Very truly, c. ROBIN, son
for