The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-12-19
Pensioned Libellers.


The letter-writers from Kansas Joined
in representing Gov. WALKER as favoring
the Lecompton Constitution; that he
brought the original draft of it in his
pocket when he came from Washington !;
and Phillips had the baseness to represent
that he used money to bribe members of
the Convention into Its support.
How much dependence will the public
place on such correspondents for the pub
lie press =? We say frankly, that our
difficulties have been complicated, and
the cause of freedom in Kansas almost
ruined by the falsehoods of the pensioned
letter-writers in Kansas. But for them
the Free State party would have elected
the delegates in June last to the Consti-
tutional Convention, and prevented the
consequences which have followed.
Had the public followed their advice,
the people would not have participated
in the October election, and, as a conse-
quence, the Legislature, nor the county
and township officers in the Territory,
would not now be in the hands of Free
State men.
Had their advice been followed, no
Free State men in Kansas would have
approached Gov. WALKER, or Secretary
STANTON, and these men would have been
to this day wholly ignorant of the true
state of things here, only as they would
have derived it from Border Ruffian sour
ces.
= Some of them were opposed to the
drawing up of a protest to the Governor
and Secretary in regard to the OXFORD
frauds !; and when the Editor of the Her
aid Of Freedom was laboring night ant
day to induce the proper officers to heat
off these frauds, and Gov. Walker and
Secretary Stanton were doing everything
in their power, even to going in person tc
Oxford, that they might the more effect.
ually expose them, those vile letter-a0ri.
ters were preparing their damnable false
hoods, and sending them East to the
prejudice of Walker, Stanton and our.
SELF
And when the Governor and Secretary
stepped in between the people and thei
enemies. and espoused our cause, and re.
ceived blows directed at the people, with
cut even magnanimity to acknowledge
the favor, they basely represented tha
those functionaries were actuated by mer
eenary motives.
When Secretary STANTON had con-
vened an extra session of the Legislature
under solemn pledge that the Legislation
should be limited to specific acts, thes,
wretches welded all the influence in thei
power to induce the Legislature to disre
gard those pledges, and engage in legisla
ton foreign to the purpose for which the.
were convened. They succeeded so ia
as to blind the Delegate Convention a
Lawrence on the I'd inst, which was in
duced to endorse that act of puraic faith
but the people in Mass Convention a
Lecompton, to the credit of Gen. Lane
who presented the facts to the people
headed off that movement.
And now, while Gov. Walker is stand
ing up at Washington, and is fighting on
battles for us, against the administration
and with the representatives of the ma
ton assembled there and is doing NOR
than the other Governors of Kansas pu
together have ever done to get our tru
condition before the country, instead Q
standing up in his defence, and strength
ening his hands in the maintenance c
the right-these pe,asio:ied fi5eslers are .Iill
ing the Eastern presses icith the most infa
Nous charges against hin.
1t may be that Eastern journals WI
continue to tolerate these hbellers, an
recompense them for their falsehoods
indeed, judging from the past, it is rea
sonable to infer they viii, but the peopl
OF Kansas viii not tolerate them; on th
contrary they will soon meet with the OF
pfoblum which their infamous acts meri
We are frank TO admit that we cann6
Write eoolly upon this subject, for we
Know that it has required harder labor t
overcome the troubles which these letter
Writers have plunged Us into, than il has /
defeat the Vaccinations Of our open an
undisguised enemies. -