Kansas weekly herald., 1855-01-19


making gratuitous and wanton assault
upon the Heraid-by vainly attempting to
fidentify Us with Abolitionists,; have the. eff
frontery now to say that they are driven
into this controversy by self defence h
Finding themselves driven to the wall, and
all their charges proven to be misrepresen-
tations of our position, they now cry out.
it is controversy made by us, and hope
thereby to throw themselves on the defen-
sive. You cannot escape in this way gen.
tlemen. o. 49, n eis.a is2lr
To the initiated it may seem strange
that the Argus and Herald are in such a
controversy, but to those who know the
n.otires that prompted the writer of the first
article in the Argus, it is not surprising.
For we have charged, and it is not deni-
ed, that the nominal editors of the Argus,
did not write that article, nor do we be-
lieve the same writer wrote the second ar
ticle. If he did, he betrays an ignorance,
we did not suppose him guilty OF.
If we misrepresented Gen. Whitfelds
position, in our paper of the 29th ult, it
was only what we reported in substance of
his speech made at Leavenworth, on the
opening of the canvass, and published in
the Herald, the week following. Why did
not the Argus then charge us with misrep-
resentation2 II did not suit their purposes
then, for they knew Gen. Whitfield was
here, and could substantiate our report of
his speech. Mark it, we have neveESaid,
Gen. w. was not supported as a p1o-slave-
ry man, nor that his friends did not make
that the issue. This is what the Argus
would have its readers believe we stated.
What we said in the article complained Of
was ''that Gen. W. in his opening speech
here laid down his platform, upon which he
stood. He stands forth as the advocate of
Pre-emptious and Squatter rights, fully en-
dorsing the Compromise of 1850, and the
principles of the Nebraska Bill, and in ia
vor of the people of the Territory settling
the question of slavery for themselves, and
that while his own Uiews on this question
were well understood for he never attempt
ed to conceal them on this question he did
not bring item directly in the ISSUE"
This is the "mai1p issue" and the mighty
offence we have committed, that has brought
down upon us the vials of wrath of the
whole squad of writer's for the Platte Ar
gus. Now why did not these astute gen.
tlemen take us to task, for publishing the
same thing in substance long ago2
Can any one believe that their object
noW is to advance the pro slavery cause, by
provoking a controversy with friend to
that cause? Or rather does it not serve
to show there is an under current, at work,
another interest to subserve? If not why
the systematic attack Of the Platte Argus
and Kansas Pioneer upon the Herald g
They both evidently play upon the same
organ and the same tune, and their discord-
ant notes are only to be accounted for by
the obtuseness of vision in one, and the
dullness of comprehension in the other.
The school boy article in the Argus of
the 9th inst, is full of inconsistencies, blum
ders and Misrepresentation, showing that
there are more writers than one engaged in
editing the Argus.
In one paragraph the writer in the Ar
gus uses the term editor of the Herald, in
another editors. Then again he says, the
editor Of the Herald attempts to change the
issue he had made with and against us, and
in another paragraph forgetting himself,
the writer, says. "But the main issue made
with the Herald by us" sc. Then to prove
our neutrality he does not quote from one
sentence we ever uttered, but gives what
Mr.. Osborn, said in his valedictory, man
We never saw until after our connection
with the Herald, and who could not and
did not know our sentiments, and had no
authority to speak for us. This is the sort
of special pleading resorted to by this
school boy writer in the last Argus, to prove
the slanderous charges made against us in
previous number of that paper. And to
cap the climax of all, he attempts to ring in
private conversations he picks up, or that
he should have heard zone of the proprie-
tors'' of the Herald say. He does not at
tempt to prove any of his assertions from
the files of he paper since our connection
with it. This is speceis of subterfuge in
character with the Argus, and if they can
accomplish anything by it, they are wei
come to all the glory they can achieve in
any suchway. The writer finally concludes
w Sfa that how, IL,