Kansas weekly herald., 1855-05-04
FRIDAY. MAYA. 1856.
The squaster sovereign.

sThrfce il be armed who has his quarrel just:
And he Is naked thsazh locked up in steel
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted"
It is far from our wish or desire to en-
broil ourself in controversy with the SCAT
ter Sovereign; but when we see our city
grossly and maliciously misrepresented, and
the Herald pronounced ga thumb paper with
fifty or sixty subscribers'-as was in the last
number of the Sovereign-it becomes our
= duty to vindicate truth and justice and. not to
allow such base, false, and unwarrantable
assertions to pass by unnoticed and uncon-
tradicted. We are not greatly surprised
that theSquattsrSovereign should misrepre-
sent our city and denounce the Herald as "a
thumb paper with fifty or sixty subscribers, !"
when we recoilect the inveterate rancour,
implacable hostility, and pertinacious jeal-
ousy, the Atchisonians entertain against
Leayenworth. Nor are we astonished that
the Editor Of the Squatter Sovereign should
have made such unblushingly false state
ments, Yhen we remember that the leading
characteristics Of his pen are vituperation,
scurriity. and mendacity. What better
could be expected of a man whose only plea
-zsure and delight seems to be TO misrepre-
sent and caluminate! "Oh! shame, where
is thy blush! We emphatically and categor-
ieally deny the veracity Of the Sovereign's
statements. We fearlessly pronounce them
unequivocally false-not even possessing
the semblance of truth. We ehallange him,
we defy him, to substantiate his allegations;
or even to produce one iota of evidence in
eorruboration of his infamous and SANDER
Gus charges. Now as to the charges. The
Editor of the Sovereign speaks of this pa
per as 'sa Thumb paper, with fifty or sixty
subscribers published in the uillags of Lea
Yenworth." We are at loss to know what
n.o be understood by ''a Thumb paper" and
when be informs US in what sense the term
aThumb" is to be taken, we will reply to
the charge. If he means Democratic,
pro-slavery paper. literally and honora-
bly, conducted Journal; then the Herald is
"Thumb paper" AS to the circulation of
the Herald: it is well known that it has a
far larger circulation than any other paper
published in the Territory, and when the
Editor of the Sovereign stated its circula-
ton not to exceed eighty, he must have
known he was promulgating base false
hood through the columns of his paper. We
venture TO assert, without fear of our asser-
ton being falsifed, that our circulation far
exceeds that Of the Sovereign. In speak
ing Of Atchlson as starting point for the
Mormon emigration, the sovereign says:
"before deciding upon Athison as the point
experienced agents who had previously ex-
amined the advantages presented by Lea
wentworth "Usilage."
That the Editor of the Sovereign should
call Leavenworth village, when he in
the same breath speaks of Atchison as a
town, certainly evlnces disposition on his
part to misrepresent and stigmatize our ci-
ty; for it is well known to every one at all
acquainted with the respective places that
Leavenworth has eight times the number
of buildings and inhabitants of Atchison
Will the Editor of the Sovereign deny thisa
but even if he should. which would not very
strange In him, will he not acknowledge
that Leayenworth is the larger of the two
places. If this be so how can Leayen-
worth be tie village and A.chison the towns
should it not be vice Uerso.-Atchison the
cilLage and Leayenwofth the town. If we
should consider our population in nune-
rical sense we would say that the term s.vil-
lage," we think, is more appropriate for
Learenworth than that Of "city;" but is the
"sapienf' Editor Of the Sovereign so eyre
griously ignorant as not to know that the
terms "city" and village" are synonomous
in this country: We are surprised that the
Editor of tie Sovereign. should have the ef-
frontery, to call Leavenworth "uiilage'' -
when be speaks of Atchison as q town.
If Atchison is fovn surely Leayenworth
il . city; lut if Leayenworth is village
Pray tell US. Mr.. Sovereign what is Atchison.
The intractable hostility which itobyions
TIE Editor OF the Sovereign entertains a
gainst our city, can only be ascribed to the
factef LcayellwfFsh having teen selected
ass starting point BY the larger portion Of
de Mumons in place of Atchison. The Ed
nor ofsfEe Sovereign should take in consid.
Grafton that nothing las been done BY Us to
make this starting point fOr the mormon
emigration; lu. On d aker band ve Il.