The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-11
Lawrence, Saturday, Aug. II. 1855.
Must Go Inp'

appearance of our foreman with the proc
sheet, we were taken all aback by tn
sudden appearance of our clerk, with
letter in hand, superseribed as follows
editor Herald of Freedom" and nea
the bottom, in large letters, with thre
ominous lines drawn. under It must
GO M"
Of course we trembied in our boots
Who cos.ld have done otherwise .undel
the circumstances I? Trenabsinyly W.
opened the letter with asgfal forebodine
ofthe consequences If it Didn't go in, ,
and read as follows:
To tie Editor Of the Herald of Free
don-"WE WISH IT TO BE UNDER
STOOD" ."-SIR Under this title ap
peared an article IN yeur paper last weei
rejecting personally upon me. resulting
suppose, from personal interview hat
with you few days previous. HIuset
language upon that occasion so offensive
to your feelings, why did not you reseni
it at the time Perhaps you viii re.
ply that unlike me) you did not make
j. a personal matter, that you only rep.
resented cause. Well, Sir, l, being
identified with, also represent cause,
and have feelings strong enough TO sup
port it personally. You have a press tc
promulgate your views-and had l the
same l should perhaps have attacked
you through that medium, but | have
not-and when read such articles as
weekly appear in your paper-artieles
calculated to arouse the worst feelings oil
my nature because they are directed
against principle that I maintain and
hold to) then, having no other alterna,
tive, and not being willing to succumb
under compulsion, tell you fairly, tell
you fairly, that will do what | can to
put stop to ii
In regard TO the expression-.tsland-
ers, used in your paper. it seems to me
that Ills true. Truely, Sir, you must be
aware that you have used your influence
at least to slander the party to which ]
belong; and are not some Of your stale.
ments tiuged with q bitterness-with 8
feeling of animosity evidently calculated
to stir up the worst feelings of our na-
ture ? Do you not cry down the South
and her institations-make comparisons
with Northern States-sneer at every.
thing that comes in competition with
your ideas of right? Is not your paper
filed with abuse (if you don't like the
word siaadsr of pro- slavery men /? Oh,
Sir! had the language to express my
self in English, / could say from the
very feelings of my nature many things
that | am now incapable of expressing.
To the pro slavery party I beiong-to that
party l Ihold, and ifit must be PERSONAL
issue between you and me-"then let ii
eoms'''-Yes, Sir,-let it eome-and
when you find DR.. Scherf wrong on the
'goose, then KILL him.
DR.. WIN. j. SCHERFF, E. o. S.
Imagine, if possible, reader, the feel
ings of an editor set down here on the
edge of creation, after reading such a
production! Not being versed in the
code of the duelIo, We werecompelled to
re-read the letter to see that we were not
challenged to mortal combat as we had
been informed that we had been threat
ened with missive of that character
But, with expectation on tiptoe, we were
satisfied the language could bear no such
construction. Having relieved our mind
from that embarrassment we concluded
the Doctor should be heard, although had
the writer known the difficulty We Ia
bored under to make room for him, and
the choice articles crowded out we are sure
he would have added. after " MUST GO
IN" nen useki That would have been
a great relief to our compositors as well
as to ourself, andas the Doctoris q modest
man, and would not uitiingly press a
matter too faI, we would suggest in fu-
ture that he hand in his articles at an
earlier day in the week, or add the italics
which we have suggested.
Our friend.i is desirous of knowing
vhy we did not resent his language at the
time it was uttered. We have only to
say we resented it then as much as we do
nop. or have at any time. The Doctor
only threatened US in .fature, not at that
time; hence it was not proper We should
do more than inform him that the HER
AID OF FREEDoM would remain as it has,
"the organ of the editors Independent
mind" We sagely intinated that the
DEGREES of Louis Bonaparte had no bind
ing force in Kansas, and that we did not re-
cognize the authority ofany man or setof
men to callus to account. Weiterated the
same in the Herald of last week, and re-
iterats it now, and shall for adj tnae. We
shall trespass on no mans prerogatiye
and trust no man viii attempt to trespass
on ours.
The Doctor little understands the ge-
MUS of our free Institutions if he suppo-
ses private individuals have right in
America to muzzle the press. Night
May make right in Europe, but . contra
~ principle prevails in America. The
simple fact that an armed mob destroyed
the Lumiaary establishment in Missouri.
gives no right to similar mob to commit
an outrage of like character in Kansas.
The killing OF aLoyEsorin Alton. did not
make the killing of anti-slavery editors
everywhere right; neither does it make
tia safe pursuit for those who attempt to
perpetrats such crimes In other places
The ineendiary and the assassin may go
in the hour of midnight and burn .
dwelling or murder a citizen. bu. an In
censed people would not sanction the
deed.-tfey would pronounee it great
cy;yna md atst aneordineiy