The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-10-06

as made arrangements for his cheap
and comfortable transportation. and our
feelings have not changed since.
Your article quotes Mr.. Schuyler. In
the paper published at Ithaca, n. Y. Ju-
ly 9th, the Templar and Watchman, J is
letter from him, in which he says many
things in favor of Council City, also =
"Our colony proper consists of about
one hundred families" He was one of
the Managers of the Settlement, and
should have made proposals or objections,
if he disapproyed anything in its man
agement, which he never did. His let
ters have probably been as influential as
any in producing favorable impressions.
Yours, DC, THEO. DWIGHT,
Pres't DIN. Set. Co.
Mr.. D. confirms our statement, which
Mr.. WINcHELL, desired us to prove
and which we agreed to do by "high
officials" It has been volunteered to
us, contrary to our expectation. We
objected to the statements of the press
that Council City had population of
I 500; and said there was not that
number of inhabitants in the settlement
aroand the city. Mr.. D. understands
by Council City the settlement extend
ing several miles up couple of creeks,
and says it embraces 500 or 600 inhsbi-
tants. That statement we believe, and
had no other been published there would
have been no issue between US and
the officers of that Company. The ex-
aggerstion lies in those newspaper re-
ports which we were laboring to cor
rect.
We have ever understood Mr.. Dwight
to be devoted friend of Kansas, and
know that the public have reason to be
greatful for his many sacrifices in our
behalf. Personally, however, we are
not conscious of being any way indebted
to any of the Off GERS of that Company,
as none of them, SO fara we are informed,
has ever paid dollar to sustain the
HERALD OF FREEDOM, not even the Pres
ldent whose communication we give
above. How much they may have aided
US in promo ting the circulation of our
journal we are not advised-certain it is
we have only forty-one subscribers in
New York, and these cur agent charged
us one dollar piece for procuring, and
claimed that his expenses, while on that
expedition, exceeded his receipts some
twenty-five dollars. 1t may be that the
American Set. Co. are also entitled to
credit on account of that list; if so we
shall not be slow in giving it to them.
1t was not our purpose to "vilify as
imposters and sharpers'' the officers of
that Go. but it was our intention to rep
resent that there was something wrong
somewhere" the runsors were correct,
and. those rumors we have given them
liberty to explain. Now we are more
satisfied than before that We were correct;
for we are not willing to believe that but
Sc, 600 have been paid TO agents of the
Co., though we are ready, of course, to
believe that ouly that amount has found
its way into the treasury of the Co.; else
the President would not have so asserted.
The lots have been sold at So a piece,
and each shareholder was required to
pay one-half in hand. Two thousand
shares would amount to S10,OO0.-
Only one-half of this sum would be
$4,000. One gentleman alone, an agent
of the Co., was reported to have sold
500 shares. Four such agents would
have made up the $4,000 if they made
reports of their doings but we are con-
fident, as we have before limited, that
some of them never made report, il
recent statements can be relied upon.
We are well conscious that Lawrence
has been, and is daily misrepresented,
and are glad to learn that our friends OF
the American Settlement Co., are labor
ing for the spread of the truth. All
men should do so, and would, were
they conscious of its influence.
That there has been mismanagement
on the part of the En-. Aid Co., may be
true but if such is the case it does not
justify or even extenuate the circum-
stance of mismanagement on the part OF
the Settlement Co. Mr.. WINcHELL,
when at our Office the other day, joined
in the remark that LoToN SMITH, Esq,
one of the resident Directors at Council
City, had mismanaged the affairs, al
though he claimed, as was no doubt the
truth, that he was an honest man, and
meant well, but did not shape matters
for the best interest of the Company.
This article is stretching out much
longer than is desirable, and yet we have
the letter of Mr. WALrERf before US,
which We give below, with regret that
we cannot give full justice to Mr.. D. for
want of space.
New York, Sept. 18, 1855.
G. w. BRowN, Eso.-SIR:-To my
establishment. in perusing your paper of
the 1st inst, received this morning, I
found an article rejecting most unjustly
on Council City, or rather on the Amer
ican Settlement Con,Danr That vo,,