The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-10-06
The I(efaio Of Freedom.
Lawrence, Saturday, Oct. 6. 1855.
Council CITY Again.
G. w. BROWN, Editor.


ist, We published an extract from an ex-
change which laid down three distinct
propositions =
lst, That Council City was one Of
the most thriving aad attractive towns
for emigrants in Kansas.
Cd, That it contained population
of 500 inhabitants.
81, That it was situated on She Santa
Fe road. and was laid out by the Ameri-
can Settlement Company.
We took issue with the two first prop
ssitions, and stated in reply to the second
that ten days previous there was not ten
souls on the city site; and referred to
several gentlemen of unquestioned ve-
racity, as our authority. We took oc-
casion to animadyert against the officers
of the Company for allowing story Of
that character to go before the country
without denial then stated several ru-
mors which were current with the pub
lie, in regard to mismanagement; and, as
we supposed, generously rendered the
Company's Agents the use of our col
umns to correct the rumors, if untrue,
which we conceived prejudicial to their
interests. Our article was. intended to
open way for our friends Of the Ameri-
can Settlement Company to place them
selves right upon the record. We have
no prejudices against the Company, or
its officers; on the contrary our brief
acquaintance with Mr.. WALTERS, the
Gen. Superintendent. was of the most
friendly character, and we trust will not
be changed by our humble efforts to
elicit the truth.
With the President, Rev. THEODORE
DwIGHT-a name too well and fayorabIy
known to the country for us to injure in
the least, had we the desire-we have a
friendly correspondence. His SYM
pathies are with us, and we entertain
the kindliest feelings towards him.
But let US pass on, else we shall con-
sume more space than we can spare with
recital of the case. In our issue OF
Sept. 92d, we published an article from
the Independent, in which it was repre-
sented that the American Settlement
Company, had " founded a very pros
porous town in most advantageous To-
cality-Council City-where there are
said to be 1,5O0 inhabitants" We
thought the tendency of that article was
30 iniure the cause of freedom in Kansas,
by conveying a wrong impression, and
proceeded to state what we understood
70 be the facts. Our information was
from gentlemen against whom the tongue
Of sander can find no reproach. Be-
lieving such to be the case we ventured
to become personally responsible for what
We said,
Mr.. WINcHELL, one of the Directors of
the Company, as well as the President
and Gen. Superintendent, volunteered
replies, for which we thank them. 1t is
the truth we seek, and that the public
have right to, whether it makes for or
against us personally, or against the
cause of freedom. Truth does not de-
mand falshood to advocate It's claims,
and our friends of the Council City
movement are not the men who would
knoscingiy employ it in their service
But before we remark further, We will
give the letter of Mr.. W, which is a;
follows -
CouSuG CRY, Sept. 28. 1856.
Ed. HEaALD OF FREEDOM SIR =
Ny attention having been called to the
severe structures on the American Set
tlement Company" appearing editorially
in your issues of the 1st and 29d inst,
avail myself of your proffered privilege
10 reply.
1t is to be regretted that those profess
ing. in the present momentous crisis, te
have an eye single to the freedom of Kan,
: sas, should so often be found arrayed in
~ordy warfare against those with whom
they should be fellow-workers. By this
do not mean so much to censure your
course in giving ready currency to mis-
chievous gossip, as do to rebuke those
persons to whose mendacious statements
You have fallen so easy, if not willing, a
victim. Still, it is but too evident from
the tone of your animadversions, that you
kud an ungenerous satisfaction in the Of
fensiye warfare you are provoking.
The American Settlement Company
has never aspired to be the rival of the
~EmigraHt Aid Company" whose spe-
cial advocate the Herald of Freedom is
supposed to be. In The outset it made
no grand promises. Il did not purpose
operating with capital Of millions, and
OF deciding great national questions be-
hind the counter of a joint stock compa-
ny. 1t did not purpose to send twenty
to fifty thousand emigrants into the vii
dernes of Kansas before accommodations
could be provided for single thousand
1t simply processes to be an enterprise
undertaken by a few gentlemen of limit.
ed means for the nurnasa of iocatinO o1s
foiea In Kansas, under circumstances
which should render that town a most
desirable residence Itwas hoped thai
the location and the character OF the in-
habitants, could both be SO made that the
ann of the projectors should be realized