New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-15

CsIdOr and frankneAs are virtues; AND, Ike most
virtues, they cost something 10 the psssessor. From
the beginning Of this Kansas controversy, we have
acted on the principle Of not only teling the whole
truth but of letting the wrong side have the fuestuse
Of our columns Not satisfied with dispatching to
Kansas the best correspondents that We conld hire,
we baye copied literally from the correspondence Of
other iournsls, Prs-Slavery as we'll as Free-State
whether in or out Of Kansas, when they coataiaed
anything calculated to cast light on the state of
affairs in the Territory for which Freedom and
Slavery were struggling. or on the position aud
views of any party therein. And the grumblers and
detractors in Kansas, or connected elsewhere with
the Free.State movement. who from tme to time
dropped out of line with its champions because
they could not serve themselves satisfactorily
in its service, have never been refused a hear
ing through our columns. OfcOurse, those who
wish TO impeach the wisdom OF the management
on bel alt OF Free Kansas assa the integrity Of
its champions can easily find matter suited to their
purpose to which they can give point by declaring
that it was extracted from THE NEw.YORK
TRIBUNE"
On the other hand not one of the Northern jour-
mails inimical to the Free-State party in Kansas,
and TO the efforts in other States 10 sustain that
party through the operations Of the Emigrant Aid
Society and the National Kansas Committee, main.
tans regular correspondence from Kansas, OrgiFes
its readers any fair idea Of what is going there
Whatever is said in any quarter to the prejudice
Of the Free-State leaders is greediy caught up
and paraded by them, while the refutation which
follows it is systematically suppressed. Thus Col
Haryey's peeyish outburst over broken promises
which he says were made BY the people Of some
western town that his men should be subsisted fora
year in Kansas without cost to them, has been copied
into every leading Buchanan or Fillmore paper in
the Free States; but not one Of them, far as we
have seem has copied the thorough refutation which
soon followed from Tie Chicago Tribune. Is this
the way to enlghten the public mind
Some DAYS since, . grumbler in Kansas wrote to
Tie Er,niss Post that Mr.. Thaddeus Hyatt, Presi-
dent Of The National Kansas Committee, now ia
Kansas. had turned land-spesulatoS,' and was
doing nothing or worse for the FreeS!ate sufferers
and this calumny was eagerly caught up and ran
the round of the journals In smothered SYM
pstby with -Rufianism. AZ we happen
10 De dfuuslnltu Win tbc 'oe'St VIZ WIN S'C Aucm
in Illustration Of the general character and reliability
Of these assaults on the character Of active Free
State men:
Mr.. Hyatt is an energetic inventor and manufac-
turer of this city, who, while still IN the prime of
life, has won bis way from penury to competence
BY his own talents and industry. An ardent phi
l,nthI opsf, devoted to Human Freedom, he early
engaged personally in the movement to make
Kansas Free State, and his energy and lberaiy
caused bis selection as President Of the National
Ksrsas Committee. From that hour, be has given
far more Of his time and thought to the duties of
that position than to his private business. He
visited Kansas last Summer in behalf Of the Free
State cause, has correspondent extensively with the
trends Of that cause, and hss been more than
month absent on his second visit to the Territory.
where he is now actively experimenting the distr