The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-05-12
More Proof.

to the cause of freedom, by charging US
with falsehood and cowardice. Very
well, let the editors pursue that course as
long as they desire, and we will continue
to show that they have proved false to all
their anti-slavery professions, and are ac
tually in league with the South, and are
laboring-by indirect means-to make
Kansas slave State. Our evidence does
not, and shall not, rest upon our as
sertions, but shall be drawn from their
o,On confessions, the highest evidence in
the world, when given voluntarily and
without any hope Of direct personal ben
eft. =
The editors of that sheet charged home
upon US for having, in our first issue af-
ter the election, given at different periods
during the publication of the paper addi-
tional facts in relation to the outrage per-
petrated on freedom on the 30th of March.
Whilst we were giving plain, unvar-
nished statement of actual occurrences
to that days proceedings, the Free State
was publishing articles of an entirely
different character, as we have shown
from frequent quotations from its col
umns. We add this week another quo
tation. Read it, freemen. 1t comes
from a paper protesting to advocate the
making of Kansas free State. Itcomes
from the gentlemen who claimed in their
first issue to be the only free State paper
in Kansas, and which had the cffrontery
to assert that the HERALD OF FREEDoM
was "neutral or conservative on the sla
very question" Read it, free State men,
and tell us if you have any confidence iii
a journal which is SO well posted in the
secret motives of pro-slayery men. We
quote below the entire paragraph with the
heading
THE REsULT.-Thc Squa:tcr ticket,
as it was called, received 1873 votes, and
the free State ticket 255, The Squatter
ticket contained the names of Mr.: Chap
man and Mr. Banks, both free State men.
These were put on the ticket to carry the
free State Missourians and others, who
were dissatisfied with the free State tick
ct"
Can any one tell why the term ''Squat-
ter ticket" was used in the above para
graph, in preference to pro-slavery or
Missouri ticket? Was it not to give the
impression abroad that it was the actual
settlers here who put i'll nomination that
ticket? They say that Chapman and
Banks were both free State men, and that
they were put OH the ticket to carry the
free State Missourians aud others.'' How
does it appear that the uitra aatt-slaUery
editors Of free State Journal should be
SO thoroughly advised in regard to the
secret motives of the enemy? Perhaps
we can aid the reader little in arriving
atacorrect conclusion in the premises. by
informing him that it is said that the pro-
slavery party put their ticket in nomina-
ton the night previous to the election
while encamped on the west side of this
town, and that one of the editors Of or
ultra anti SLAVERY journal Wos also n the
enemy's camp the night previous, ''laugh-
ing and joking about the southern chiyal-
ry."
He denies in his last issue that his
press was in the employ of the pro-sla-
very party on election day. Will he de-
ny that the tickets of the pro-slavery
nominees, or the 'Squatter ticket, as he
is pleased to call it, were printed in his
Office, and will he assert that he can prove
the negative of that interrogatory by ev-
cry man in Lawrence?
Ii the reader was a member of jury,
and called upon to decide whether the
editors were not treacherous to freedom,
would not his verdict be given at once,
in view of all the evidence, that such was
indeed the case?
To cap the climax, let us add the
certificate of character. which the edit
Ors of the Free State publish, with their
Introductory comments, merely premis-
ing that ,rhen ICE go into tie camp Of the
enemy to get complimentary letters and
certificates of character, we hope anti
slavery men will discard us, and charge
US with proving recreant to freedom:-
"As he doubtless wants to gather all
the information he can about our pro-
slavery proclivities, we give the following
letter from STAKEHOLDER in Missouri
We did not think of publishing it until
we saw the abusive remarks of the Her
aid, and as it suits our purpose at pres
ent, We hope the author will pardon us
for giving it to tho public
"MEssRs. MILLER Il ELIoTT-I feel
that | ought to let you know the high ap-
probation that / and some of my neigh
bors, who have been reading your paper,
have of the manly, honorable, and can
did manner in which you conduct the
Free State, in opposition to our institu-
tlOn. 1bslieve in 'tgiving the devil his
DUE, and must express to you that the
people of our State, so far as / have the
means of knowing, regard you as the
most powerful enemy to our institution
In Kansas, because you, like Mr.. Clay,
take liberal, honorable and candid, but
nrm and decided s.and-knowing no
Northsnd no South-the very policy that
Is calculated to draw with you all of our
people who have migrated to the Terrific
~ with feelings rather Indifferent to our
institutions. We have no fears of an
Abolitionist in an Abolition community,
and is pro-slavery in pro-slayery crowd,
or Is wlsha washa when there is some of
both about. Nor do we have any fears
ot any one who is connected with the Aid
Company-as understand your co-tem-
Porary is-as these kind of men only
make our boys more attached to slavery.
Ihey DO good work for us. am not
very particular about slavery, but as 1
nave good number of slaves, must
taks care of them; but if I read your pa
per one year I'll be pretty good Free
ooiier Continue to send it TO me. Tho
lam STAKEHOLDER, admire your con-
sistency and candor, and must hear what
IS going on in the Territory, as feel that
what you say is true. Yours truly"
There, ffeemen, is document worthy
9i pfeservation-shere is proof that the
Tree State win do some good il it can be
Aept en0at for ona war. e. no l,.-o IL .