Squatter sovereign., 1855-05-15
"a Tempest in a Teapot. !"

L
raises juvenile hurricane oEera few sqibs
with which we saw proper to quiz Its YER
dant editor. We have, at times, noticed
the Herald, and the village in which il is
published, with the very charitable view of
bringing them before the public, who, as
yet, had scarcely learned their Whereabouts.
We generously threw the Herald rope.
supposing that sef-preservation, the ruling
law of nature, would have induced its edi-
tors to accept our assistance up the tide of
human life. This they foolishly refused /;
and, in consequence, will now find them
selves. like the yawl that follows in the
wake Of steamer, and is cast adrift,
swiftly falling astern.
The Herald's article is curious ANAL
gamation of absurd incongruities and high
flown palaver, amounting to nothing more
thanan expose of the editors lack of brains.
Like all yarn-spinners, he commences his
chapters with few lines Of verse, antici-
pating, we suppose, to "crush us OUT by
thus g coming the poetic;' or to awe US
into reverence for his brilliantly accom-
plishments. We've no particular desire to
ape the novelist, and therefore shall con-
fine ourselves to prose and facts.
A fimsy pretext is seized upon by the
Herald, to convict us of malicious intent
against Leavenworth and its 10xl2 print.
Its editors fly into tantruns over our styl-
ing their town village, and still, in the
same breath, affirm city and village to be
synonymous terms in this country" How
we can have been guilty of righteousness,
or injustice, in using the word village in
stead of city, when the two have similar
bearing, is problem we leave for the soft
headed editor of the Herald to solve. 1t
then speaks Of our "inveterate rancour,
implacable hostility, and pertinacious jeal-
ousy" to Leavenworth! This is truly
laughable. The city of Atchison jealous
of the one-horse village of Leavenworth! !
Pooh man, you are certainly crazy. If
we had wished to injure the prospects of
your village, we could have spoken of the
uncertainty of settlers there getting a title
to the lots they think they have purchased.
We could also have pointed out the posi-
bility-yea, even the probability Of some
rich eastern company buying the whole
town., at the sale, and gushing the present
intruders on the Government reserve. If
it had been our desire TO injure the place,
as the Herald charges, we should have
spoken of its unhealthy situation-the prob
ability of its being, in less than two years,
an inland town! For we are creditably
informed, by the old pilots on the river, that
the channel of the Missouri but a short
time ago was on the other side of the is
land, and no boat could land near the pres
ent location Of Leavenworth. We could
have also, if we had been so disposed,
pointed to the rapid growth Of Kickapoo
City, their rival town, and asked, if two
large towns could be built on the river, with
SO short distances intervening. We might
have also brought up the beautiful site OF
Delaware City, to show that persons OF
capital wishing to build a city in that neigh
borhood, would not select site SO far from,
the ricer as Leavenworth soon will be,
when they could invest in a town where
some advantages are presented. But these
things, with many other serious objections
to the place, we permitted to pass unno-
ticed, and shall continue to do so.
| A great stew the Herald man has got
into, because we made little of the circula-
ton of his paper. The truth when spoken
is apt to cut, hence the bombastic attempt
to controvert the impression our assertion
was calculated to convey. He strives to
make out that the circulation of the Herald
exceeds that of the Squatter. There is a
method of getting at the accuracy Of such
matters, and we make the Herald man this
offer: If the circulation of the Squattel
Sovereign is not DOUBLE that of the
Kansas Herald, the editors of the former
paper shall pay to the Herald men the sum
of one thousand dollars; and If the clrcu-
lation of the Squatter doubles that of the
Herald, then the Herald men must fork
over like amount. Toe the mark, Cap
tain, or Colonel. or whatever name you &C
by-accept our offer, and let us have one
point Of this dispute settled. If the sum
specified over-sizes your pile, name YOU
stake, and we'll cover it. Instead of doub
ing only, we would be comparatively safe
in saying, that the subscription list of tie
squatter Sovereign is three times that o
the Herald.
The bombastic editor of the thumb pa
per further asserts, that Leavenworth City
has been selected as the starting point TO
most of the Mormon emigrants- This as
Isertion is so palpably false that it hardl,