The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-06-27

Expianzfszz, Personal. I
At the request of our friends who feel
very much annoyed by the ISLANDERS which |
are circulated against us in Lawrence, and
spread by our. enemies over the country,
we this week make few personal explain
atoms.
EMIGRAsT AID FUNDs.-Our enemies
say that we have received funds from aid
societies TO be distributed in Kansas, and
that We kept the funds ouself. We have
never received any such funds; OF course
we have neither kept nor distributed
them. Every cent which We have ever
received has been published in the Her
aid of Freedom, and the manner of its
expenditure has been open and satisfacto-
". Again: it is said that, before our Office
was destroyed, twenty FIVE men offered to
go into and defend If, if we desired them
to do so; and that we objected to it for
| the reason that we could make more
money out of it, if it was destroyed.
This is simply false. Our office, and all
Lawrence, was in the hands of the COM
mittee of Safety, to do with as they
saw proper. This committee surrendered
Lawrence, in whole and in its parts, into
the hands of the United States forces COM
nianded by the Marshall, aided and assis-
ted by David r. Atchison and Sheriff
Jones'" At that time we were prisoner
at Lecompton, in the hands of the Border
Ruffians
THOSE TYPE.-0ur enemies are very
much annoyed because, they say, We re-
ceived pay, two or three times over, for
the type which the Ruffians. under the
United States Marshal, and by order of
Judge Lecompte, took from our Office and
threw into the river, on the 21st of May
of last year.
i The facts in the case are these: There
was in the He7akk Of Freedom, Office about
one ton of type, which cost in Lawrence
$1,000. The newspaper type was carried
and thrown into the river, and scattered
in the street. The jobbing type was
; thrown out of the windows, and lay in
piles about the Office. Mrs. Brown EN-.
ployed the boys to pick up what they
r could, giving thom ten cents per quart
One hand was employed in asserting
| and distributing them During the summer
much of the type was used by the artillery
: company, and run into cannon balls. La
ter in the season, the Central Commute,
came to the He1uM Office, and demanded
D what type there was on hand. The cleri
refused to let it go. After consultation
:. the Committee returned, and said tn
c necessities of the case were such that the,
:, should be obliged to break open the oflic
e and get them, unless they were let in qui
It city. Under these circumstances, tn
clerk gave them the key. They took tn
: type and made them into cannon balls, AN,
: they have many of those balls yet o.
# hand.
g When we were released and came bac
6 to Lawrence, and were endeavoring t
IS re-establish the paper, We presented bil
IS to the Central Committee for the typ
+ ,Ohich they had taken from our office, and fo
e none others. In that bill We charged
y cents per pound for the type, which is les
+ than one-half the cost. The Committe
e had funds in their hands to pay such bill.
&c had they seen proper to do SO. But the
i did not, and we have never received an
e pay for them from any quarter. The BIZ
Y presented was 500.
Y Will the papers which have circulate
IL the other report, please copy this?
- Excitemeuf about CIairns