Kansas weekly herald., 1855-02-23


trample underfeet law, as we'll as humans
ty. they must be no less abused and traduced!
From the above quotation the Republican
asserts that the Officers have "setup squat
ter sovereignty. ia direct conflict with the
laws Of the country. and in open violation
of the rights Of the Indians" We submit
it.does the language quoted justify this
Iconclusionf On the contrary we assert The
Republican is guilty of subterfuge in the at
tempt 70 pervert the facts into harmony with
Its inferences. We ask where is the s'con-
fict with law or violation Of the rights of
the Indians 2' Is it in the assertion that
persons in the Government employ are
themselves of the people?" Or is itin the
assertion that it is not IN the Commanding
Officers power or mind to prevent them
from exercising individual rights, common
to all, by making. claims upon land subject
to squatter occupancy?" The Republican
must have keen judicial eyes to see soon
fliet with laws" in this; for we think it a
doctrine every free man can subscribe to.
The Republican discovers other wrongs
In the Officers because Mr.. Mannypenny
recommended they should be cashiered,
and the Secretary of War refused to cashier
them, notwithstanding Mr.. M. reported
their ''swindling transactions upon his
{ (Mannypenny's) personal knowledge"
And then the Republican assails the Secre-.
:ary because he decided the Officers should
be heard in their own defence, and would
not take for truth what Mannypenny did
write. And it is we'll he acted thus. 1t is
we'll for justice that the Secretary doubted
the truth of Mannypenny's charges; for
those charges were uttered against men,
than whom none more high-minded or hon
orable exist, either in the Army or out of it;
and when those charges were met, it was
shown that Mannypenny had published
nothing but wicked and malicious false
hoods. From beginning to end his report
was LIE! False in its conception; false
in its utterance, and false in its influences ]!
And this the Republicans correspondent
did know, or might have known; for in the
very documents from which he makes his
one-sided quotations, were a full and COM
plete refutation of the Mannypenny SLAM
ders.
The Republican further says THE
Secretary of War was determined to screen
the Army, even at the expense of the vera
Oily vi vi lIlC
This is another false point raised to obscure
the real one. The ''veracity of the Depart
ment Of the Interior was not in question
1t was Mr.. Mannypenny who made the
charges, and it is his ''veracitv' tha: must
meet the shock. But the Republican is too
smart to talk of Mannypenny's veracity in
these days. The man and the article, if
ever associated, parted company long since
1t is a virtue, presume. he has never dis
covered the use certainly he has not
used it in this controversy; and, if once pos
sessed by him, was long ago condemned as
unserviceable, or has grown so sssmall by
degrees and beautifully less" that the eek
pense'' of it was not heavy tax on the
Secretary's appropriation for contingencies.
Why the Republican should lend itself
to Mr.. Mannypenny's purposes we cannot
conceive, unless it be to crafty a morbid
thirst for notoriety, or to feed its proclivities
for assaIling class of men who certainly
have rendered the State some service; who
are poorly enough paid for their services,
and who Interfere not with the Republican's
politics or patronage.
And this friendship for Mr.. NJ. is the
more strange, as that person is now devo-
ting all the mind he possesses, and all the
influence his position commands, to deprive
a large and honest population of their new
homes, in which many of them have en-
barked all of their present wealth, and much
of their hope of future improvement. And
these people, whom the Republican is now
aiding to drive from the Territory of Kan
sas, are-at least two-thirds of them-em-
igrants from Missouri, State to which
that paper pretends to devote its best exer-
tions. Well may these once Missourians
exclain, sssave US from such friends"
ADuoiutueutsb nv fe,e G,overnor.