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

"scores of witnesses, some OF whom
shall be high officials of the Company.
who are worthy the fullest confidence OF
the public :" and as you hold yourself
personally responsible" for the facts { j
you publish, feel compelled to hold you
to the fullest extent irresponsible" for
your statements. and hereby call upon
you to make them good OF 70 render JUS
tice by retraction. After your 'sproofs"
shall be furnished, I will ask the privileges
of speaking more in detail of the enter
prise, whose prospects are daily improv-
ing, and of showing that, instead OF a
failure, it is a success; intending not to
deny or conceal any errors which may
have occurred in its management; but to
show that the enterprise has been prose
cuted with all the vigor and honesty OF
which it was capable, and which have
been such as to lead to really 1attering
results.
viii only add, that my own eonnec-
ton with the Company took place some
time subsequent to its organization, and
that my share in its management, up to
the present time has been very slight ;
hence l shall be free in the matter from
any imputation of personal feeling.
]. NJ. WINCHELL,
Managing Director Am. Set. Co.
We join as heartily as Mr.. w. in the
regret that the friends of freedom, both
in Kansas and out, cannot labor har-
moniously, without any unjust censure
on the part of either. A wrong impress
sion of facts seem to exist, and in con-
sequence the interest of all parties
are seriously prejudiced. For ourself
we have had an eye singled only to the
growth and prosperity of Kansas. We
came here to make it our permanent
home, and probably feel as deeply inter-
ested in its welfare as any other person.
AS we have before stated-the Herald OF
Freedom is established to promulg gate
trath, and not knowingly will We allow
anything else in its columns. Further
than this, it will always afford US pleas
ure to make any correction which the
facts may demand, whether the error is
made by ourself or by correspondents.
At the same time we are not willing
those who are laboring to correct US,
should place US in false position before
the public which Mr.. w. does at the very
outset in his article.
The Herald of Freedom is not the
especial advocate of the New England
Emigrant Aid Company" or any body
else. The Herald of Freedom is our
own personal property, established by
the editor with his own money, who
alone, thus far, has footed the bills, and
who finds himself minus over FIVE thous-
and dollars since commencing his Kansas
enterprise. He projected his expedi-
ton to this Territory long before the En-
igrant Aid Co., or the American Settle
ment Co. were thought of; and came to
Lawrence only because he deemed it the
most important point in the Territory.
and the best from which to issue a free
State paper. 1t advocates the interests
of the Emigrant Aid Co., only as far as
it meets his appreciation. That Company,
like all new enterprises, in its inception,
met with difficulties and embarrasments.
Its promises were not fulfilled for want
of ability, and were made without un-
derstanding the impossibility of their
accomplishment. We are not conscious
that they have represented having done
more than they have actually fulfilled
Their movement has been co-extensive
with the Territory, not centeralized,
as many persons seem ignorantly to sup
pose. But we are depressing from the
subject-stopping to reply to our cor
respondents unjust charges upon us and
the Aid Co., instead of coming to the
facts.
Until Mr.. w. points out our errors we
do not know what particular fact he
wants proved. The principle point In
our last allusion to the subject was that
the American Settlement Co., had moi
founded prosperous town in Kansas, as
claimed by the Independent.
We understand by the term city or toao,1
a populous collection of people. larger
than village or borough. In the West
the term city is frequently applied as the
termination of another name as vile is
used in Ohio, western Pennsylvania or
New York; or as borough is used in
Massachusetts,, and several of the older
States. When speaking of Council City.
we understood it to alude to that portion
included in the survey, and that we
might not be misunderstood. We took
express occasion to remark that '.There
is settlement of pioneers on claims
around Council City. but not so large a
number as represented as being ,Oiadd,
the city limits" Mr.. w. viii not ask US
to prove that statement, as he knows it
to be true.
In our article of Sept. lst. we said
there was but one house on the city site.
In our issue of Sept. 2ad, we stated
that the house was half mile from the
city site. The facts are the company
have moved their site, once certain. and