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GEO. W. BBOVSi Editor.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
SATURDAY MORNING, SEP. IS, 1858.
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Hepeblicans vs Fraa 8 lata.
A we stated several weeks ago, the
policy of the Republican faction of the
Free State party in Kansas, has been to
get control of the various Free State
Conventions, by electing their delegates
through the aid of their Republican Clubs,
to the nominating conventions, and then
to put in nomination their own party
friends for the various officers to be elected
at the October election. Professing all
the time that they had deferred their
movement to organize the Republican
. party in Kansas until after the October
lectionTyet everywhere they have been
active in arranging their machinery with
the view of controling the Free State
party. We showed the consequences sev
eral weeks ago, of this movement in Leav
enworth, it having resulted at the muni
cipal election in that city, in the elevation
of a Douglas Democrat to the office of
Mayor. We expressed the conviction
that if the same line of policy was to be
generally 'observed in the Territory, the
Democratic party would succeed in getting
possession of the offices. It was for this
reason that we deplored a Republican
organization, and have labored strenuously
to prevent a success of the movement,
not because we differ in rniBcirLi with
that party, but because we differ from
them, and very widely too, in the policy of
organizing the Republican party until we
are admitted as a State into the Union.
The Pro-slavery presses joined hands
with the ultra Republican papers in advis
ing an immediate organization of parties
on the basis employed in the States. . The
Wy andott ArgushsA a long leader, showing
that the true policy of the Free State party
was to separate, and for those who were
Republicans to join that party, and those
who were not, to affiliate with their
friends, the Democrats. Strange to say,
the arguments of that Pro-slavery journal
were identical with those of the Lawrence
Republican and the Leavenworth Timet.
And why did the Pro-slavery journals
advocate such a policy? Simply because
they desired the same result throughout
the Territory which has been witnessed
at Leavenworth the triumph of the De
mocracy over the Republicans a division
of the friends of a free State that they
might ultimately triumph in fastening the
institutions of slavery upon Kansas.
With them it was a master stroke of pol
icy, and it showed wisdom on their part
But with Tliaclter, Vaughan J- Co., in
stead of showing wisdom, it gave conclu
sive evidence of a total want of it.
Thuir policy would have crushed out the
last hope of freedom in Kansas; it would
hav lost to the cause w hat four years of
hard labor had almost secured to it; it
would have wrecked the last hope at a
time when everything was within our
grasp. Thank heaven the people saw it,
and, generally, throughout the Territory,
the friends of freedom, at their nominat
ing conventions, have took occasion to
record their protest agaiLst the Republic
can movement. But in Lawrence, on the
18th instant, for the election of Delegates
to the county nominating convention, the
issue was understood to be a distinct one
between a Republican organization on the
one hand, and a Free State organization
on the other. The tickets were so headed,
and though both the candidates of the
Free State party for Representatives in
the Legislature sympathized with the
Republican movement, and were Repub
licans in fact, and one of them was very
ultra, yet the people generally voted for
their delegates to the convention with the
understanding that a Free State organiza
tion was to be preserved in tact, and the
Republican organization was to be defer
red until we were in the Union a sover
eign State. The contest opened on Satur
day morning, and the election was warmly
contested. Nearly every vote in the pre
cinct was out The result gave NINETY
SEVEN FREE STATE MAJORITY !
Thua Rupublicanism was supposed to be
put at rest in this county for the time
being, and Thacher, 'Jnlon f- Co., were
done for in Lawrence. But more else
where.
The strangest thing of all was to see
professed "National Democrats," those
who have always acted with the Buchan
an faction, and who have never, in the
past, cast a veto for the Free State party,
going np to the polls along side of Thacher
and his friends, and voting the Republi
can ticket
These political shysters, as on former
occasions,' represented the Free State
.ticket to be "Brown's ticket," though we
, did not learn that they were disposed to
. call it "Brown's Cellar Kitchen Ticket,"
as they did last winter. They even rep
resented that if the Free State ticket tri
umphed, the Eerald of Freedom would
proclaim it as a Democratic triumph.
Poos pools ! They have raised the cry of
Brown's ticket at every election for
year and a half put, and in every one
which has been contested, the so-called
"Brown ticket" ha triumphed! Will
they never learn practical common tense?
Will they never advance so far in the
rudimentary principle of politics as to
learn that misrepresentation and falsehood
never gained to a party anything but dit-
or and defeat t If they can afford to
be false, and thus prostrate all their hopes,
we can afford to let them, but while they
are such, we hope they will remain out
tide of the Free. State party, where they
have placed themselves, and not disgrace
us by their adhesion to it for they are lika
vipers, and sap the life's blood of every
party with which they are brought in con
tact .' :
The Diflerence.
The Free State party, which was organ
ized at Big Springs, on the 5th of Septem
ber, 1855, and which, in the language of
one of the Resolutions, embraced "Demo
crats, Whigs, Freesoilersative and Nat
uralized citizens," pledged themselves,
"that when we shall have achieved our
political freedom, vindicated our rights of
self-government, and become mn indepen
dent Slate of th Union, when those issues
which divide the Democratic, Whig,
Freesoil, and American parties, shall
become vital as they are now dormant,
it will be time enough to divide our organiza
tion by tltese party tests."
The contest was not between Demo
crats, Whigs, Freesoilers or Americans, as
such, but was between those who wished
to make Kansas a Free State, on the one
hand, and those who wished to make it a
Slave State on the other.
Though Gov. Reeder, J udge Johnston,
Col. Lane, and hundreds of others of
lesser pretensions, had been Democrats all
their lives, and then proposed to remain
such, yet we welcomed them into the
Free State party with as much alacrity as
we did Dr. Robinson or Gen. Pomeroy,
who had always acted with the Free
soilers.
Kansas is not yet "a State in the Union,"
hence those who joined in that organiza
tion at Big Springs, or who have placed
themselves upon that platform since, can
not desert it and go over to a new party,
until that event occurs, without deserting
their former position.
The County Convention, held in this
city on Monday last, and which placed
itself upon the Republican platform, es
chewed all those issues made at Big
Springs, even to that of making Kansas a
Free State. Instead of desiring an affili
ation with all men who were in favor of
making Kansas a Free State, as was the
case at Big Springs, and making war only
upon the Pro-slavery party, every resolu
tion, save, perhaps, the 7th and 8th, makes
an issue with the Democrats, and all its
force is directed against the Democratic
party. Instead of making war upon the
Pro-slavery party, it wages, in the lan
guage of the resolution, an "eternal war
upon the Democratic party." In the 5th
resolution it it declared to be the "great
Republican doctrine that it is both the
right and the duty of the people of Kan
sas to make it a free Territory and keep it
so." The Free State party, instead of
desiring to make Kansas a Free Territory
and keep it so, desired to make it a Free
State and keep it bo. '
Everywhere there is a broad and dis
tinct issue between the party which held
a nominating convention in this city on
Monday last, and the Free State party.
The Free State candidates heretofore have
been interrogated whether they were in
favor of making Kansas a Free State,
and would do all in their power to make
it such. The candidates of the late Coun
ty Convention were interrogated to know
whether they endorsed the platform of
the Convention, and their answers were
that they were Republicans. The ques
tion whether they were in favor of mak
ing Kansas a Free State was never pro
pounded to them, but they were asked to
"make and keep it a Free Territory,"
probably with the view of playing "second
fiddle" as long as possible, to parties or
ganized in the States.
Time and time again we have entered
our protest against the organization of a
Republican party in Kansas until we are
a State in the Union. Time and time
again have we assured our readers that
U' would not be transferred to any such
party until the proper time should come.
We have even gone so far as to declare
that we would co-operate with aay party
to defeat an organization of any other
than the Free State party in Kansas, until
we were a State in the Union. We shall
not back down from our position. The
Free State party, which has done so much
for freedom in Kansas, is the only party
we recognize here as legitimate, and all
others we oppose. We are as much op
posed to a Democratic organization as we
are to a Republican organization, and a
thousand times more opposed to its prin
ciples and measures, but we do not pro
pose to affiliate with either.
Beaming and Being.
Seem not but be; this is the gospel that
needs preaching in this age of cant, phari
teeism and sham. We are surrounded
by ghosts, unsubstantial men, men that
are not what they seem. .The politician
barrangues, bnt who knows that he means
it? lie is merely feeding the popular
appetite, and when it demands other food,
this waiter at the public table will be
ready to supply it The editor writes not
what lie believes, but what he supposes
the public think he should believe, and
thus, with some manly exceptions, be
comes abase pandererto the passions and
superstitious ignorance of the multitude.
The minister preaches popular doctrines,
points out the good old way, and cries
"down" to his soul as it rises to tell an
other tale. Oh it would be unfashionable
and, above all, would never pay, so truth
is choked down and the world marches
devilward.
If anything is true in this universe, it is
that every man should be a true speaker
and actor at all times and under all cir
cumstances. Neither priest nor president,
spirits below nor spirits above, can absolve
a man from acting out this law of his
being. He that does this it a hero; he
that does it not is a poltroon in life's bat
tle, that cries quarter to the first enemy,
instead of fighting nobly to the last
Some seem, because seeming pays bet
ter in dollars and cents than being. Poor
Jndaset who sell the Lord wishing for a
few pieces of silver. Esaus who barter a
priceless inheritance for a mess of pottage.
What yon gain in money you lose in man
hood, lose in freedom; you exchange the
crown of angels for the straw-wreath of
the idiot, and then chuckle over your wis
dom, ever to be pitied, poor souls.
Some seem, because they are too cow
ardly to be , they are valiant enough, it
may be, to beard a lion in his den, but
they lack that soul courage which would
lead them to be true to the God within,
regardless of the taunts and jeers of the
little souls around them. Encase your
selves in the panoply of manhood and
dare to speak out. Why shouldst thou,
a born prince, fear the beggars that crowd
the door? What have men to fear who
are honest and sincere, who carry their
best friend along with them at all times,
and have an angel whisperiDg in their
ears, well done ? Do right and fear not
for those weakest on the kings highway,
where no lion nor ravinous boast can come,
and that leads to the city of happiness
that all are searching for.
Some are seemers because it is fashion
able. Sham is lord and they bow to his
sway and walk in his train; they take
their thoughts and words from the leaders
of sham as they take their clothes from
the tailor. It is nothing to them what the
fashion is, but they would not be out of
it for the world. In Ephesus they would
cry "Great is Diana," as they now cry up
every idol that the people worship. How
base is the life that such leada living lie.
Ever the soul says one thing, ever the
lips say another; the soul freighted with
no manly purpose, its helm held by no
honest endeavor, is tossed upon the
treacherous sea of fashion, and sinks in
its dark recesses.
What the soul thinks, then, speak in
thunder tones, if need be; write, though
it be with an iron pen; the lines inscribed
on the world's heart, shall live when tricks
and lies and shams shall be no more.
Better to live in a cottage, eat black bread
and drink cold water, being a free-thinking,
outspeaking man, than to live in a
palace on kingly dainties, never daring to
give utterance to the thought that swells
up in the soul.
Man, woman, everywhere be true to
thyself, and thou shalt be richer than
Solomon, wiser than Solomon and happy
as thy nature will permit tH. .
Leavenworth County nominations.
The Free State party of Leavenworth
county, held their nominating convention
at Wy andott on the 15th inst The result
was as follows:
For Representatives in the next Terri
torial Legislature Leavenworth Lyman
Scott, A. M. Clark, J. L. McDowell, C.F.
Kob; Quindaro John W. Wright; Wy-
andott W. Y. Roberts; Delaware, Kicka-
poo and Little Stranger James Madill;
Easton and Alexandria Otis M. Marsh.
u. Cj. i)uddingion, or yumdaro, was nom
inated for County School Superintendent
Of the Representatives: Mr. Roberts
and Judge Wrioht are good men, and
we know nothing against Mr. Marsh;
but the whole Leavenwerth nomination
"is one thatshonld not have been made."
Lyman Scott was the late Republican can
didate of Leavenworth for Mayor, and
was defeated by a large majority of the
citizens of that town. Dr. Kob is identi
fied, we believe, with the same partisan
movement, aa Clark and McDowell are
understood to be. As in this county, the
Leavenworth delegates in the Convention
undertook, and very successfully, to foist
Republican candidates and Republican
issue upon the Free State party of that
county. Th result will, undoubtedly,
witness a division of th Free State party,
with twotaltof candidates, and the defeat
of the regular nomine. We hope so,
at least, to far at th Leavenworth nomi
nations are concerned, provided genuine
anti-slavery men are elected in their
places, though we should very much re
gret to see Mr. Roberta or Jadg Wright
defeated.
The main feature in the Leavenworth
county platform it hostility to Democracy
and the Dred Scott decision. .
Already several independent candidate
have taken the field, and other will come
forward to fill the entire ticket . .
Geological array.
We learn from the Junction Sentinel,
that on the 10th inst, Mr. Week and Mr.
Hatden, employed by the Government
as Geologists and Naturalists, passed that
place en route for the Saline and Cotton
wood rivers. They intend to thoroughly
examine the lace of the country, and
make an elaborate collection of new and
interesting geological and mineralogical
specimens. The result of their labors
will doubtless be valuable and interesting,
for we do not believe there is in our coun
try a wider or richer field for such research
than is presented in this part of Kansas.
The Cottonwood is one of the finest
streams in Kansas, flowing on over a grav
elly bed the whole year round, even in
the dryest seasons; while the Neosho,
above its confluence with the Cottonwood,
is frequently lost in the rich alluvial toil
through which it flows. The Cottonwood
is the Neosho proper; but the Santa Fe
travelers at an early day, when they cam
to the stream which they had to cross at
Council Grove, supposed that to be the
real Neosho, and, as such, they named it
As they passed on they came to a body of
cottonwood timber, through which flowed
a noble stream, and to this they gave the
name of Cottonwood; and though errone
ous, map makers have adopted th names
thus given those streams, and the matter
is now settled for all time.
OCT The Grand Lodge L 0. 0. F. of
Kansas, meets at Leaven worth on the 12th
proximo., ; .
" " A C erred Foddoa.
Hon. Gerret Smith, in reply to inter
rogatories propounded to him by a Mr.
Austin, while the former was speaking on
political matters at Port Byron, N. Y.,
said : .
" Every member of the Republican par
ty in Congress, except one, voted for the
most atrocious slavery law for Kansas that
villainy and fraud could concoct, or the
human mind conceive." v. -
Mr. Smith's statement we believe, is
strictly correct The so-called Crittenden
bill, almost unanimously supported by
Republicans in Congress, was infinitely
more objectionable to the Free State par
ty in Kansas, and would have been fraught
with far more serious consequences if it
bad become a law, than the English bill.
The Crittenden bill made provision for
our immediate admission into the Union
under a new Constitution, in case the Le
cempton Constitution had been defeated,
as it would, of course, have been. There
was no avoiding this, provided there had
been an elector in each district who would
have voted for a delegate to a Constitu
tional Convention, and that delegate had
accepted the trust There was no provi
sion by which the people could signify
their desire to remain in a Territorial con
dition, but provision for an immediate,
unconditional transit into the Union.
Had the Crittenden bill become a law, the
excitement growing out of the framing of
a new Constitution, when the public mind
was .so much agitated, would have pro
duced any number of broils, and occa
sioned feuda which long yean could not
have healed.
The English bill, on the contrary,
though containing a ridiculous bribe, and
bearing upon its face the consentrated es
sence of demagogueism, yet on its defeat
by the people, we are left free to remain
for a time at rest, during which the pub
lic (xlse, so much agitated, is enabled
to acquir repose, and that degree of
tranquility to which we have been a
stranger from the earliest settlement of
the Territory. After a few months we
can begin to talk about a Constitution for
th State of Kansas, with comparative
calmness. A Constitution thus framed,
will not bear upon its face the evidence
of haste, which has characterized all the
other Constitutions framed for our govern
ment The Topeka Constitution was made un
der peculiar circumstances. The Border
Ruffian Legislature was imposed upon us
in th spring of '55. In September of
that year, the Topeka State Constitution
was determined upon, not that we wished
to take upon ourselves the responsibility
and expense of a State government, but
we hoped Congress would admit us into
the Union under it, and thus save us from
border ruffian tyranny. It was the latter
we wished to escape ; but Congress twice
rejected our petition, and twice sent us
out of that body without relief. It was
then we determined to storm the citadel
of the border ruffian power in Kansas, and
take the offices of government into our
own hands. We succeeded most admir
ably.
It was then the Lecompton Swindle
began to assume form. The people be
gan to be alarmed, and measures were
taken to defeat that fraud. When it was
apparent all other means would fail, a
new Constitutional Convention was pro
posed; not that we were so anxious to
get into the Union, but that we might
head off Lecompton. It was in this way
that the Leavenworth Constitution was
framed ; but while the question was yet
pending, relief in the shape of the English
bill was unexpectedly given us. We ore
conscious that barrels of ink have been
wasted in showing up the iniquitous char
acter of that bill, which, in its details,
were justly obnoxious; and yet in its
practical results, we are frank to concede,
it was better for Kansas and for freedom,
than the Crittenden bilL It was like the
bugbear of "popular sovereignty" itself.
The intentions of those who passed that
bill, were any thing else than patriotic, and
was, no doubt, designed to give the slave
power the advantage ; yet in its practical
results, it will give freedom to all the new
Territories of the United States.
By implication, it was understood while
the Missouri Compromise line was the
law of the country, that all that territory
south of 36 30' was desecrated to slave
ry, as all north of that degree of latitude
was consecrated to freedom. Not so now
A majority of the people are to settle that
question, and they will settle it as be
comes a free people ; though, as in Kan
sas, it may be attended with immense
cost A free press has already found its
way to Arizona, in anticipation of an early
organization of the Territory, and, as a
consequence, a free emigration will follow
it, and free institutions mast necessarily
be the result Freemen are light-footed,
and have little to restrain them, while the
advocate of slavery are clogged down by
negroes, and retarded in all their move
ments in looking after their human chat
tels.
Cirisioa is Lrkias Comaty.
:' We learn that there is a division of
parties in Lykins county. The Republi
can element has' thrown itself into the
canvass, and there is danger of a Pro-
slavery triumph as a consequence, unless
the genuine Free State men fall back upon
the Free State organization. -:
. We learn that a convention was held in
Paola, on the 6th inst, to nominate candi
dates to the Territorial Legislature; that
the names of the candidates, before nomina
tion, were not announced to theconvention;
that an informal ballot was taken, and the
two candidates having the highest number
of votes were, on motion, putin nomination
by acclamation; that the choice of the
convention, as thus informally expressed,
was Abraham Ellis, of Miami, and Sam
uel H." Houser, of Osawatoraie; that im
mediately after the nomination, the can
didates were called upon to ,know their
political views, and that they each placed
themselves on the Republican platform,
and took a pledge of exclusive Republi
canism, and declared themselves in favor
of a radical change in the county lines.
The convention adjourned without nomi
nating a full ticket
The delegates who were in favor of
sustaining the Free State party, as organ
ized in the past, announced that they
would not support the nominees; that
they wished no new measures engrafted
iipon the Free State party. A Mass Con
vention of the Free State party was then
called at Paola. It met on the 18th inst,
and without any dissension nominated
Dr. Wm. Walters, of Miami, and Dr.
M. F. Holliday, of Indianopolis, as can
didates for the Territorial Legislature, and
H. M. Hughes, A. B., for Superintendent
of Common Schools of Lykins county.
We are happy to state in this connec
tion, that better mn than Messrs. Wal
ters and Holliday cannot be found in
the Territory. Genuine Free State men,
and Republicans at the proper time, they
deserve the support of every honest Free
State man in that county. Mr. Hughes
we know personally. He is a graduate of
Allegheny College, located at Meadville,
Pa., is a young man of superior attain
ments, and correct habits, and would do
honor tc the office to which he has been
nominated.
From what we learn there can be little
doubt of the success of the real Free State
ticket as nominated at Paola, on the 18th
inst We certainly wish it success.
Hot SpUad.
A leading Republican remarked to us,
immediately after th reading of the Re
publican platform in the nominating Con
vention, last Monday, "You have no
paper at your office." We replied that
we had not a sheet "Then," said he,
"the Herald of Freedom is spiked, and you
can't help yourself." Thank God, our
paper, providentially, arrived just in time,
Th Herald of Freedom is not spiked, as
Republican disorganizers shall learn to
their sorrow ere the ides of October. If
the Herald of Freedom is spiked, it is with
chain and cartridge, and it will scatter
death and destruction upon the covert
enemies of a Free State from this forth.
ale of Land.
By reference to our advertising columns
it will be seen that the balance of the
Trust Lands, lately purchased of th Kas
kaskia, Peoria, Wea and PiAckeshaw In
dians, will b told to the highest bidder,
in Lacompton, oa th 25th proximo.
Laws Completed.
The General Laws, passed at the last
session of the Territorial Legislature, are
now completed, and are ready for deliv
ery by the Secretary of the Territory,
Huoa S. Walsh, Esq., to whom applica
tion must be made, in all cases, for copies
to supply the public officers. Pamphlet
copies can be procured at the Herald of
FreedomoBke, Lawrence, of G. W.Bbowh,
or at th Democrat office, Lecompton, of
8. W. Daieae, for $3. Copies of the
General Laws, fully indexed and picely
bound in law sheep, for sale at $4 a copy;
or General and Special Laws complete,
bound in one large volume, for $8. Th
edition is quite limited, hence those wish
ing to secure copies, should make imme
diate application. No person will be fur
nished with a copy, under any pretence
whatever, on credit ; and all orders un-
Oar Population.
In 1844, when Henri Clay, and James
K. Polk were candidates for the Presi
dency, there was a full vote of the peo
ple. The excitement attending that elec
tion brought out everybody entitled to a
vote. In Rhode Island it was found that
there was but one vote to fourteen inhabit
ants. In Virginia, with a small property
qualification, there was but one vote to
thirteen inhabitants. In Massachusetts
there was but one vote to eight inhabitants.
In Ohio and New York thre was one vote
to six inhabitants, and this was the small
est proportion of inhabitants to a vote in
any of the Northern or Middle States.
We showed almost conclusively in our
last issue, that Kansas has a voting popu
lation of 20,000, and that our population
is made np of families to nearly as great
an extent as in the States. Yet admitting
it to be even smaller, and but one vote to
Jive inhabitants, then we have an actual
population of 100,000.
None were allowed to vote at the late
election who had not been residents in
Kansas for six months, and, different from
past elections, those who had "declared
their intentions to become citizens of the
United States," but who had not obtained
their final papers, were not allowed to
vote. These two causes prevented several
thousands from voting who would have
been electors under other circumstances.
And then the thousands who were kept
from the polls by the flood and by sick
ness.
The vote of the Republican House, sd
mitting Kansas into the Union under the
Topeka Constitution, two years ago, when
we did not claim a population of more
than forty thousand, and that of th Demo
cratic Senate, last winter, admitting us
under th Lecompton Constitution, when
they claimed that we had a popula
:ion of only forty thousand, and the final
vote of both Houses admitted ns into ths
Union under the English bill with the
same population, if we would only sig
nify our desire to that effect, would seem
to estop either party in Congress from
raising the question of want of population
against us whenever we desire to enter
th Union; and yet we are all anxious to
know our exact population for home pur
poses, and feeling sure it exceed th
number fixed in the English bill, we are
willing to take th census, as it will pre
vent caveling when we present our peti
tion for admission as a Stat to Congress.
Such, we think, will be the action of the
Territorial Legislature next winter, though
it is possible some of the members may
feel a little muleish in consequence of dif
ferent advice from some unwise members
of Congress, and their action may be dif
ferent though we hope not
The Candida tea.
Of the candidates nominated at the Free
State, alias Republican, Convention of
Doudas County, held in Lawrence on
Monday last, it may not be improper in
us, as as independent journalist, to say a
few words. The two candidates from the
Lawrence precinct Messrs. Morrow and
Beaxscoxbe, had alreadybeen endorsed
by a very large majority of the township.
They are both good and true men.' ' Mr.
Morrow is a gentlemen of enterprise, and
has been known as a thorough going Froe
State man from the moment he set foot
in this Territory. Mr. Bbaxscombe was
one of the original pioneers to Kansas,
and was attached to tho first company
which explored the Territory and selected
Lawrence as a town site, having arrived
here as early as the 29th of July, 1854.
He has been identified with the Free State
movement like . his associates, Messrs.
RoBiXBOjt and Poxeroy, from ,the first,
and we art truly glad to see him rewarded
in the manner proposed. He has been
identified with the extreme men in the
Territory, and yet we understand him as
desiring to remain in a Free State party,
and nothing else, until Kansas is a Stat
in the Union.
. P. H. Towxsekd, from the Lecompton
and Big Springs precinct, is an ultra rad
ical, in favor of a Republican organization.
and the chairman of the committee which
drafted the Republican platform of the
Convention. From first to last he has
been a Topekaite; and had he been in
the Legislature last winter we have no
doubt would have voted with Elliott, and
others, to have dissolved the Legislature,
to give place to the Topeka Constitution.
We cannot conscientiously vote fer such a
man for a responsible office.
Alfred Curtis, from the Clinton, Wil
low Springs and Twin Mound precinct, is
connected with the ultra radicals, though
we understand him to be anything else
than a genuine anti-slavery man. He is
person we would not support, under any
circumstances, for the humblest office in
the gift of the people, as we do not be
lieve him' either "honest, capable. nor
qualified " in the smallest degree for the
post to which he aspires.
Dr. Cahniff, representing the Palmyra,
Cole Creek and Prairie City precincts, is
understood to be radical, yet he is a man
of intelligence, with many redeeming
traits of character.
Levi Woodabd, of the Franklin, Eu
dora and Blanton district, we do not know
personally, but we understand him to be a
true man, Intent upon the best interests of
Kansas, zealous to do right, and will make
good legislator, and we shall expect to
see him elected.
We regret the necessity of withholding
our support from any of the nominees, but
when we are satisfied that candidates will
not do justice to their constituents, we can
not do else than silently pass them over,
If independent candidates, who are true
to the cause of freedom, shall appear to fill
the places of Tbwnsend and Curtis, we shall
vote for them ; if otherwise, so far we
must vote a blank ticket The usual
amount of gall will be shed by our cotem
porary, because of our determination in
the premises, but since we do not recog.
nise it as the censor of our press, it will
make no sort of difference to us how much
it denounces us for our action in the prem
ises. A partisan lickspittle swallows
down everything offered him by way of a
regular nomination. An independent
journalist, who has manliness enough to
do right, is above conventions, and acts
from motives quite as honorable as are
those who always go with the majority.
We are pleased to learn that our friends
at Ottumwa have succeeded in pre-empt
ing their town site, and are now prepared
to make deeds to shareholders of the lots
to which they are entitled. - They have
complied with all the requirements of the
law, agreeably to the late instructions and
decisions of the General Land Office. We
learn that business is prosperous at Ottum
wa; that building are still going up, and
the country is settling up very rapidly,
Mr. Cox informs us that the sickly season
has mostly passed; that there has been
but very little sickness in the region of
Ottnmwa, owing to its elevated position.
' They have an abundance of water on th
I town site, but twenty-four feet below th
accompanied with th ch will be disre- j surface, Ottnmwa is one of the best and
garded. tf. ! meet active towns on the Neosho, and as
such w recommend it to our friends
traveling in that direction.
(Tickets for any county in th Ter
ritory, for the ensuing election, will be
printed at th Herald of freedom office,
oa two hours' notice, at the lowest living
rate. Preference will always be given to
th Fro State nominations.
B3r From information in our potation
w learn the land sale in Kansas have
been, deferred until July next See dis
patch elsewhere.
In the East
Thomas Ewino, Jr.. of Kansas, on
Saturday eveniug, at Lancaster, 0., replied
in a speech two hours and a half long, to
speeches made at the same place, Thurs
day afternoon, by senator rcaa and U.
D. Martin, Democratic candidate for Con
gress in that District Fuoh and Uartih
were especially happy in rejoicing over the
Kansas question. Ewiso had "the facts,"
and his reply to their assertions was a
success, complete and conspicuous.
The above paragraph we clip from th
Cincinnati Commercial of the 9th inst
How does it look to the radical journals of
Kansas, which were in the habit of charg
ing Mr. Ewino, and those who acted with
him, with being Administration men?
Last winter, when he was spending his
money like water to advance the Free
State cause, they were so base as to repre
sent that he was a pro-slavery man. The
fact that Mr. Ewiss bad devoted the sum
mer of 1856 to aid in securing the election
of Johk C. Fbemoict to the Presidency
could not save him from these political
vultures who prey upon the characters of
honest men. Unless a change comes over
those journals, and they cease their abuse
of the true men of Kansas who have sac
rificed time, money and health to advance
the caus of freedom, the time will come
when they will stand alone, having read
everybody out of the party but them
selves.
BepobUcaa Freaident in 180.
The South, ever jealous of its rights
and interests, is beginning to look forward
to the possibility of the elect ian of a Re
publican President, and to estimate the
probable result upon the nation and upon
themselves. The Richmond Whig spec
ulates as follows:
Besides, we are sot of those" who
deprecate the election even of a regular
Black republican in the year xaou, ana
for the reason that such an event must
happen, and we prefer its happening now,
when the South is abler to withstand en
croachment upon her rights than she will
be five, ten or twenty years hence, me
North already has the power, and wiu
have much greater power every year. She
is bound to elect a President of her own.
sooner or later. That being so, we would
prefer her electing him now, as w are
anxious to see developed the policy of a
Northern sectional President toward th
South. Iu a word, the North and th
South have wranzled lonz enough. .We
want the issue brought on. We want to
meet it now. And we can only do this
by allowing the Northern sectionalists to
take possession of the government, and
see what they mean to do as regards the
South. They are necessarily bound to
obtain control of the government, any
way, within a few years. Let them have
it now, and if aggression ensues, let th
South meat it with united hearts and arms,
and in the spirit of freemen, who know
their rights, and mean to maintain them
at whatever hsisra." . , w
Cematy Cenrenmea: i
A Free State County Convention was
called to meet in Lawrence, on the 20th
inst, to put in nomination candidates to
represent this county in the next Terri
torial Legislature. The Convention was
composed of Delegates from the respec
tive township and precincts of the coun
ty, and was called to order at ,11 o'clock
A.M., and T. Sampson was elected Presi;
dent pro fern, and Amos Bissel, Secretary.
Committees were appointed on organiza
tion and credentials. '
At the afternoon session, E. S. Lowman,
Esq., chairman of the Committee on Per
manent Organization,, made hi report,
with the names-of H. Barricklow, as
President ; E. W. Rennet and P. H.
Townsend, Vice Presidents, and P. R.
Brooks and W. Learner, Secretaries. The
report of thecommittee was adopted.
A committee of five, to wit : P. IL
Townsend, E. S. Lowman, Oliver Barber,
E. Heath and Thaddeus Prentiss, were
appointed to draft resolutions.
A committee of three was appointed to
apportion the county, and report the num
ber of members advisory for a County
Committee, with their location. . ' '
The Committee on Resolutions report.
ed, through Mr. Townsend, as follows :
We, the Free State party of Douglas
county, in Delegate Convention assembled,
do declare :
lot That the whole history of the
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, in its tyranni
cal and bloody rule over the people of
Kansas, during the last tour years, shows
it to be the unrelenting and bitter foe of
popular rights and the freedom of the
people, -
2d. That the efforts of the DEMO
CRATIC PARTY to force the Lecomp
ton Constitution upon the people of Kan
sas, in known opposition to their express
ed will, deserves universal execration, and
should stamp it with perpetual infamy.
3d. That the DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
in its adoption and support of the Eng
lish Bill, deliberately insulted the people
of Kansas, through the double medium
of a bribe and a threat, and riohly de
serves the overwhelming rebuke which
the people gave it through the ballot-box
on the 2nd of August last .'
4th. That ' the' SDrwintment bv ' the
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, of such wretch
es and criminals "as -Clark, Emory, Jones,
and their companions, to ouces of honor,
is a premium upon crime and villainy,
and a shame and reproach to the nation.
5th. That in opposition to the Dred
Scott decision, and the declaration of the
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, we assert the
great REPUBLICAN doctrine, that it
ts both the right and duty of the people of
f 7.. ,-i x TV r n i PAii v
UWWH W WIOAO It U J r CO llittajlUAl,
AND KEEF IT SO.
6th. That the United States Constitu- 1
tion is an instrument of freedom, and
does not, as the DEMOCRACY assert,
carry slavery into the Territories of the
United States.
7th. That we refer all questions of suf
frage, of banks, and the like, to the peo
ple themselves, to be settled by them at
the ballot-box.
8th. That the nominees of this Conven
tion endorse tins platform of principles, and
pledge themselves to vote for a law abol
ishing slavery in this Territory, and mak
ing it a penal offence to attempt to hold
slaves here.
9th. That planting ourseloees on these
great truths of REPUBLICANISM, wc
PLEDGE OURSELVES TO WAGE AN ETERNAL
war on the DEMOCRATIC PARTY, in
its vile attempt to force slavery upon this
Territory, as well as with its more gene
ral efforts for the nationalization of slav
ery throughout our common country.
10th. Inasmuch as there has been an
unjust discrimination made in favor of
the admission of slave states, and against
the admission of Free States into the
Union, in the legislation of Congress upon
the Lecompton Constitution, we are in
favor of presenting to Congress, at as
early a day as practicable, a Constitution
of the State of Kansas, fully endorsed by
the people, with the demand for admis
sion into the Union, upon an equality with
the several btates.
The following ticket was then put in
nomination, and, with sundry other can.
didates, were balloted for and elected, to
wit : C. H. Branscombe and Robt Mor
row, Lawrence; P. IT. Tbwnsend, Big
Springs; Alfred Curtis, Willow Springs;
Levi Woodard, Eudora ; IL J. Canniff,
Palmyra. ..
The Committee on County Committee
reported that the whola number should
be twelve, to be divided as follows : Le
compton, 2; Lawrence, 4; Willo
Springs. 2; Eudora, 1 ; Manon, 1 ; Pal
myra, 2. The Committee were then ap
pointed as follows : Oliver Barber, Clin
ton ; Mr. Learner and G. W. Morns, Le-
cotnDton : Geo. Ford, K. s. Lowman, ju.
Hartmann, Jas. Blood, Lawrence ; Frank
Powell, Wm. Barricklow, Palmyra.
It was announced that Johnson county,
which is connected with this district, and
ia entitled to two Representatives, had
held two Conventions, and put in nomi
nation two sets of candidates. It sp
peared that the first Convention was regu
larly called by the Free State Central
Committee, and that J. B. Hovet and
Jso. Locuart were put in nomination ;
that subsequently another Convention
was held, and Mr. Storrs and Mr. Holmes
were nominated. After much discussion,
the matter was referred back to the. Free
State party of that county, with a request
that the old Committee would call a new
Convention, and settle the matter them
selves.
Th candidate were called upon to
know whether tbey stood squarely upon
the platform. .We listened to the re
sponse of Mr. Bransooxbe, and left the
room. What further was done we ere"
not able to report
As we state elsewhere, Messrs. Bravs-
coxbz and Morrow were nominated by
tht Free State party of Lawrence, in op
position to an organized Republican move
ment ; hence we cannot raise any partic
ular objection to them. Kr. Woodard,
so far as we know at our present writing,
U unexceptionable. The balance of the
candidates are quite objectionable, and so
far as Ibunsend and Curtis are concerned,
they cannot b supported by us. We es
pecially reserve the right to oppose all
but the two candidate from Lawrence,
for good cause, should such hereafter ap
pear. The County Convention virtually,
in our opinion, resolved itself into a Re
publican Convention, and, hence, none of
it acts ar binding on tu, aa indepen
dent Free State journalist . ' , .
Whether' aFre . State Convention,
which, U opjod to Republican crpaa-
ration, until w are a Stat in the tni.
shsll be called to nominate a tirV .
-vagt qm
whether independent candidates shall bt
put in the field, we leave to our friendi
who are alike interested with os in this
matter. Ther is but little time to work
and' whatever Is resolved upon mart '
don speedily. . A. hort canvas and n
active one ia before us, if a new ticket u
put iu the field. Many are in favor of
taking the two candidates first and legiti
mately nominated in Johnson county the
two nominated by the Free State vote
in Lawrence, and allow the Free Stt
voters of Lecompton and Big Sprinp ta
nominate a candidate for their precincti
those of Willow Springs, Clinton aaj
Twin Mound to nominate on for their
district ; for Palmyra and Prairie City to
nominate one ; and Franklin, Eudora mi
Blanton to nominate one, provided ther
are not satisfied with th on already
nominated. Should these towns take at.
tion in the premises, either through Mm
Conventions, or otherwise, the nomint-
tions thus made would receive the inp.
port of a large number of reliable Fru
State voters all over th county, and w
think enough to elect the ticket Thi
matter is with th people, and they mtut
act upon it
Gov. Walker's Foaiuoa.
Th Philadelphia Press defines Kobe
J. Walker's position relative to the pres.
ent aspect of Kansas affairs, by authority:
"W are authorized to say for Hon.
Robert J. Walker, that he is in ftror of
the admission of Kansas as a State of th
American Union at the next session, (if
the preliminary arrangements can be
made,) or whenever the people present their
Constitution to Congress; and also, becatue
as the English bill proposed to admit Kan
as as a Slave State with a population of
33,000, Governor Walker is in favor of
the admission of Kansas as a Free Stale,
irrespective of the arbitrary and despotic
discrimination of that bill against such a
State. In other words, as th Democratic
party has been for years pledged to admit
Kansas outside of the ratio, now to insist
upon this ratio as - against her people,
would be in the last degree infamous."
Tor the UtraUnf Fnmim.
Letter rem BrewnTiUe.
Browkville, K. T., Sept 14, '08.
Fbiekd Browk: Knowing that ths
columns of the Eerald are always open
for communications from all parts of th
Territory, I thought I would give you a
short description of our town snd vicinity.
As fall emigration is just beginning to
come into the Territory, it is necessary
that they should know something about
different portions of it, in order to mak
a good selection.
Our town is situated near when ths
three branches form the main Wakarwa,
and consequently near quite an extemir
body of timber. The town is built on an
elevation, having a grand view of the sur
rounding country. The Fort Leaven
worth, Fort Union and Santa F roads
pass ths town, over which there is a
great deal of travel. W have a larg
three story hotel, costing about $5,000; s
No. 1 steam mill, a two story school
house, well furnished, in which a good
school is constantly kept There are three
churches to be built her this fall by the
Old and New School Presbyterians and
Baptists. " .
We occupy a very central position, be
ing twelve miles from Topeka, ten from
Burlingame, seventeen from Tecumsshi
and ten from the town of 110.
All the county conventions of Shaw
nee are held here.
A large surplus of corn and potatoes
has been raised this year, which can bt
bought at reasonable rates. Several vein
of stone coal have been found within
three miles of the town. There are some
No. 1 prairie claims unoccupied within
four miles, and some very valuable tim
bered claims (most of which have bees
pre-empted,) which can be booght for
half Pieir real value, for cash.
Prions wishing to make a good selec
tion, will do well to give us a call before
purchasing elsewhere.
A SUBSCRIBER.
ftrr thi UtraH qf frtfM
' "Tttfov Tat"
The election Saturday wa no indica
tion of the strength of the Republican
and Democratic elements in the "Fret
State party," as the ticket headed "Re
publican ticket," was understood to b
the "Lawrence Republican of&x" clique
ticket, and had no distinctive qualities si
a "Republican tickets in contradistinctisa
to "Democratic." It defeat doe net
show the strength of Republicanism, bnt
only the strength of "Tuiothy Dwwht
Thacheb's" Secret Republican Cum1
Ticeet, and shows ONLY HIS itrtngtB.
"Samuel" therefore presents his compli
ments to"2oWy,"and begs to.wiorm
"Timothy" that "Timothy" cannot con
gratulate"2Trotty" upon having 1
the country ; and that so far as 2tioV
influence is concerned, "Border EufSsni"
my again grow upon the fair field
Kansas. "Dtw" wouM '. unuoucwj
have been a great man had not nature de
signed -Green Timothy" only ss feed wt
stock. Oh 1 Timothy, Timothy ! had yo
not better .
"Haa np de addle and de bow."
and resign ? Your friend,
, "SAM lit!"
The Cosset
TwoCometear plainly .risible in ths
heaven at this time. One can be seen -
the evening just after dark, m tns
west . The other is ia the Northeast sn
can be seen, in th morning befor flJ'
They appear to b near the samesis
on approaching th Sun from the M
and th other from the West
VI TneOeUMlnee.
-J a
Mr. Sr. . Matthew has organise -
'company of from thirty to fifty, who wu
tart next week, from Atchison, for the
gold mines on Cherry Creek. H takes
th Northern route, and ad vis every
body , to do the same. Th distance
shorter, tho road better, sad more dis
tinct, with fewer large streams, and can
ons than on any other route. We trJ
parties, by all means, to rendezvous st
Leaven worth or Atchison, -i '
y A steam aawmilL in good runnin
order, and a house and lot in Lawrence,
for sale at one-half tlwir value. Enqtur
thi office. - ,J r,-. .,, :':
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