New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-30
Some time last Spring, our attention was called

Some time last Spring, our attention was called
by The N. Y Express and The Albany alias to a
story they were circulating which imported that
the National Committee of the Kansas League had,
at recent meeting, voted to dispose of the re-
mander of the contributions of clothing, &C., then
in their hands to those settlers of Kansas who re-
quired such articles, and take their obligations
therefor, the proceeds to be devoted, when re-
ceived to the redemption Of the Scrip issued to de-
fray the necessary expense of organizing the Free
State Government in Kansas. In reply to repeated
calls on US for explanation we stated In substance,
that We knew nothing of the resolve thus reported,
but that we could perceive no harm in it. Yet now
they return to the charge in paragraphs like the
following:
"ToPEKA scRIP-BLEEDrye KAysAs-rhe prtyias upon
fanatic part Of the community has been reduced to
excitement created whether for the slievegammop Fund in
Ireland for Kansas Fund in America the phsnthrOp.
and s on and s snS
accounted for has the Kansas Fund The Albany A,gl
ssS nd E Is sPs Fund
for the needy and suffering Kansas used to buy up stock
meet their EXPENSE this earnestly denied in TIE
NEwYoRx TRIBUNE a. were the :u'Pcions and charges
r:RRds the H''PP''P''An 0' ''e '"A Esps@
"Denied in THE TRIBUNE" is probably meant
to be excused by referring to some correspondence
or paragraph copied into our columns; our own
response to the charge was as already stated. We
are no wise responsible for the acts Of the Kansas
National Committee, any more thaa they are for
ours; we had no knowledge of any such action of
that Committee as was alleged; but, if such had
been had, we saw no harm in it
Who oave the funds which were intrusted to the
Nation al Kansas Committee Friends Of the Free
State Cause and Free.State Organization in Kan
sas, nearly every dollar of it. We believe more
money was contributed to that Kansas fund by per-
sons connected with THE NETWORK TRIBUNE
than by all the Three Million voters for Buchanan
and Fillmore. we gave our money to help make
Kansas Free State, and We presume nine-tenths
of the $50 600 and over contributed through this
Office had the same impulse. To attain this end,
if was essential that food and clothing should be
supplied to the most needy of the Free State H.
habitsnts of Kansss so that they should not be
forced to abandon her by the severity Of the last
Winter. But many of those whose necessities CON-
PEELED them to claim share in the Distribution
were not beggars-they loathed the idea oil receiving
something for nothing. Border Rufisn rapne aud
unforeseen misfortunes had reduced them for the
moment to want but they would be able to pay for
all after few months, and would prefer to pay.
Ard there WINS u debt owing by the Free State
organization of Kansas for the necessary cost OF
efectiDg that organizations charge as just ana
inevitable az that for the cost of the ammunition oy
which Bunker Hill was defended and the field OF
Saratoga won. The Free State men Of Kansas
were rearly all poor; they who attended their
Legislature supplied it with stationery &C.
were men to whom the loss of even weeks time
was a serious privation. The members OF the
bogus Legislature, chosen by fraudulent con-
spiracy in and invasion from Missouri,
were regularly paid out Of the Federal
Treasury; so were all their doorktepers, printer,
stationer &c; while those whs represented three
f,urths Of the People of Kansas, and upheld the
cause Of Free Labor therein, were never paid at
all, unless it was in Topeka Scrip. We say,
tlen, rs a contributor to the Kansas Fund to the
extent Of our ability thst if our contribution, after
feeding the hungry and clothing the naked IN that
beleaguered Territory, could be used over again to
defray the necessary cost Of maintaining the Free
State organization, we are heartily glad OF it.
And. if those who gave the money feel like this
as We presume most if not all Of them dove don't
see why those who never gave penny, but did
their best to prevent others from giving, should
borrow trouble about it.
The Express, improving On its own caumnies,
says:
18th. Topeka .crip-sis Protection Fund he'd n
n YorL lie other scrip In Wall street bought doubt
s,he .hriekers-ss wAstreet scripts ofen bought
,h.,e fr third OF OF ts nominal SHIe aad mere
I'm. by the Mr. Army resolsec ~ ne Nsnn
COMMITTEES NewYo to sell the iha Oh ue
i,,eIior 10 buy up Topeka scrip in Hew-foTh
All this is pure guess-work, OF very malicious
ard improbable kind. We never heard of dollar
of Topeka Scrip" being brought to New-fork
for sale or sold here, and We should have been
ouite as likely to hear as The Express bad there
been any. That any was redeemed here, or that
apy held here was redeemed anywhere, we DO not
believe. The statement Of The Express that Mr.
Arpy SAYS ii was resolved to use the Kansas fuod
"to buy up Topeka Scrip in Nfr- York" i' SIMPLY
,eve, heard OF any money other valuable contrib
ia A., ,Le ef Of Kansas being battered to Kansas scrip
vi r car conceive Of ths, change a. probsee and