The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-07-18
For tie Gerasd Of Ftselom.
Shall net these Things cease?-Ksnsas Letter
Writers.

reckless and untruthfui Character of the
Kansas correspondents of the Eastern pa
pers. This, for one am glad to see, and
SO / believe is every genuine friend of
Kansas. am one who regards the .'true''
as always the 'expedient" 4 false state
ment is never other than false policy,
whether we falsely favor and magnify
ourselves and ours, or falsely depreciatc
our enemies.
For weeks past, solely by reason of
their personal luminosity to you. this corps
of malignants have spread all over the
North and East their winged scribblings.
either boldly denouncing you or just
limiting fault or hesitating dislike; not
daring to strike like an open, magnani-
nous scoundrel, for whom VIM. Lloyd
Garrison says he reserves his warmest
admiration. If you are unworthy of their
venom-and l believe you are-your own
ink and paper shall carry its antidote, and
your $4,000 or 10000 readers can refute
by the evidence of their own senses the
impotent SANDER. They have the oppor-
tunity to Judge of your paper for them
selves, and the libel will fall impaled up
on its own weapon; but it is not so in
everything.
OF the actual state of Kansas affairs, her
friends can only judge by papers printed
or correspondents writing from here-one
of whom | wish to call the attention of
your readers to: mean the special CORE
spondent of the n. Y. Tribune. For sew
eral months, have read this persons let
tiers with care. upon the current events
and current politics of our Territory, and
having had some means of information
thereupop, [ desired TO estimate the Just
ness of his statement. My impressions
thus far have not been very favorable to
his truth or candor. Not to Judge of all
by one, look at his three letters, dated
June 18th, June 18th, and June 10th. in
the Weekly Tribune, of July-4th, each one
of which contains distinct and palpable
untruth, with the usual gloss of perver-
sion, false coloring, and clap-trap; while
inuendo, fling, sneer, and negative, i'm
plying a malicious positive, rain down in
a shower upon the heads of Gov. Walker
and his friends. For example,: the long
yarn about certain committee waiting
upon the Governor to deprecate the sub
mission of the Constitution TO the people,
was spun out of his own brain, or out of
that vast fund of floating gossip, so much
of which he incorporates into his commu-
nications TO the Tribune. 1t has not one
word Of truth. do not say that he may
not have heard it from some news
manufacturer, and perhaps have believed
! it; but this will not excuse him from rea-
sonable inquiry of reliable sources as to
I its truth.
1t is common remark here, that this
correspondent details 10 his articles a
variety of narrative trash, which is re-
lated to him as such, but which he iots
down as verities. The same may be said
of those ideal conversations, and little
speeches, which he, after the example OF
certain old fabulists, puts into the mouth
of the Governor or his friends.
! Again: take his next letter. He saws:
1.-THE County Court decided at its May
| term upon voting precincts in this county,
at Lecompton. Franklin, Gum Springs,
| IAN imaginary place. and Washington
Creek" There is not the first line, word,
syllable, or letter, of truth in this; and
what is more, this writer, if he had put
himself on ordinary inquiry, might have
! known it.
Again, in the same letter: the charge
that one of the judges of election for Law
renee, at the late election, refused to serve
because he could not get place upon the
/ pFo-slavery ticket is as baseless as the fan
tastie visions of the evening. 1t has not
as wide foundation in truth as Sir John
Falstaff's heroic charge upon those eleven
thieves in Buckrand. Neither of the
judges (residing in Lawrence) were at the
nominating convention, or in Lecompton,
within ten days before it.
Again, in his next letter: he claims TO
be writing from Lecompton, on election
day. He says: "Some 200 of the disci-
Piles of the Blue Lodge are hereabouts to-
day, and will of course vote" This is
also entirely and absolutely untrue
There was not on the 18th of June a SIM
gle man of that description in or about
Lecompton, offering OF ready to vote. OF
this have the cle2rest proof which can
be given, of negative. IF these men
were ttereabouts, they must have been in
some dingleo on the Kaw lands, hid in the
brush. No eye saw them in daylight, |
in Lecompton, and there were many vigi- |
liant eyes wide open then and there.
As for two hundred men eotinq: the |
whole vote at that precinct for both tick
cts was less than 200, and there were |
nearly GOO registered voters in the county. |
whom every one admits to be, with two
or three exceptions, Iona fide voters, be- |
sides a good many more, not registered. III
In this matter, cannot excuse our vera
cious correspondent, by reason of his too |
ready eredence TO idle report. It seems
to me, If he was in Lecompton on election
day, that he mustha known better: but |
1t Is not my province to Judge his heart.
Tbs Blue Lodges Of Missouri have sins
enough impending over their heads
There is no occasion for such tales as the |
above, if the object is to convict them of |
outrage. But that is not the object; it is
TO keep M, on paper, the rumors of war !
and invasion, for personal objects, and. |
whether designed or not, the result viii /
be, as the Herald has repeatedly and truly
said, to withhold the incoming of that /
fiood-:ide of emigration, which IS waiting |
to overflow us.
Let me quote another choice passage. |
and l shall have done: Sou. Waller Is
IA the horrors. Some think he will leave I
Kansas soon. Should he 10 so, the State /
Government oil go inmeliatezg into actiye
motion. The people are getting tired of
this guoernatorial farce, Satrap after sa-
trap has been sent" &c. Whence did
our correspondent learn this heart-rend-
ing fae:?-frOm his customary sources. or
from his own obseryationin tn. executive
office, whittier he occasionally betakcs
himself, (and where he is treated by its
inmates just as if he was a gentleman to
gather up the shreds and odds and ends
Of things. wherewith, by callocation and
patching, eontortion and devastating cut
ting and fitting, gloss and guess. sarnaise