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OF THE
Herald of Freedom.
FOR THE THIRD VOLUME,
LAWRENCE. KANSAS TERRITORY.
G. W. BROWN, and A. wAFTIEs, Editors.
The HERALD OF FgEEpoM. the Oldest Free
State paper published in Kansas Territory. was
ITS third volume. Its protector had been the
publisher of fadeVe5tdest news journal for sew
eral years IN western PENNSYLVANIA, which was
devoted mainly to the PRONUNCIATION of moral
ana ref0rBaat0Fy questions, and had devoted
great portion Of its columns to the discussion of
temperance and anti-slavefy reforms. An en-
thusiastic lover of the right. be never hesitated
10 adyoeste any measure he deemed just, be-
cause it was, for the time being, unpopular. Ii
always afforded him pleasure to combat error,
whether sustained BY individuals or masses and
and conservation on the other. yielding to TRUTH
When the Missouri Compromise was repealed.
IN the Spring of 1854, he looked over the field of
his labors in that section of PENNSYLVANIA, saw
the great revolution there effected, and the germ
OF still greater reforms taking root, and looking
out upon the exposed condition of the great
West, and the strong probability of its becoming
desecrated to slavery, he resolved early as the
fore part of March Of that year, in dcdace of any
Emigrant Aid Company movement; and in ad-
vance OF any other movement in any other direc-
ttOu III tue NOftHcFu states, 10 TeIgOVe 10 kaQS6S
with his family and press, and through the inAu-
enee of that press, aid, by "souatter sovereign
ty, in bfilding up on the soil of Kansas those
for sini fer purposes, had broken down in the
Halls II Congress.
From that time forth the protector Of this pa
per iabored continuously to organize a company
to emigrate to Kansas. 1t was not until more
than two hundred names were registered for the
expedition that Mr.. B. heard of the Emigrant
chusetts. He continued his efforts until theeOth
or September, when 2LO0o copies of the first is
sue of the Heruld Of Freedom were given to the
circumstances, over which he had no control,
delayed the publication of his journal in Kan
cas- until the Sd of January, lass, when the Sec
0nd number was issued. 1t continued to be pub
lished with great regularity, until the destruc-
tion of his Office. in May, 1856, when the editor
was imprisoned, and the paper was temporarily
Brown, and the generous contributions of the
friends Of the cause in Kansas, the paper was
revived on the 1st of November, 1885, Sincethat
time, with the exception of three weeks in March,
The plan adopted BY the publisher for restor-
ing freedom to Kansas, was not by anti-slayery
agitation, nor crusade upon Southern institu-
tlons, but BY developing the resources of the
country, and encouraging bona .fde emigration
from the States. believing that interest and
early education would result in the exclusion of
slavery from the Territory.
Devoted from youth to the UNION of the States,
and with implicit confidence in the ultimate
triumph of the RIGHT. he never turned aside
from his purpose. AT times his journal was viO-
entiy assailed for its cORsercdftsn, and the Gar
rlsonan abolition press with the Li6erator at its
head, denounced it in unmeasured terms; while
the pro-slavery press, because of its violent de-
nunciatlOns of the invaders from Missouri and
its unrelenting devotion to the Free State cause
denounced it as an abolition affair, and when the
leaders OF that party could not suppress il by
other means, its editor was imprisoned and the
press destroyed.
With its revival and the addition of Mr.. WAT
TIES, rs enc of its editors. who had been long
known to the aRti-slayery public, and who was
G. BIRNEY, in the establishment and publica-
ti0n OF the Pbildz,tAropist, nearly quarter of n
century ago, in Cincinnati, and who had contin-
ued devoted and active friend of the cause
down to the present, it was deemed proper to let
by-gones be by-gones as far as possible, and to
go to work again with rs little acrimony as pos
| sibie, to invite among US heavy emigration of
permanent settlers, with the view of controlling
the future deStinies of the TERRITORY
As both of the editors had always opposed war
and violence 1t was deemed proper to discard
the bayOnet and resort to the remedial influence
difficulties.
When Gov. GEARY came here it was deter
mined to sustain his administration so long as it
seemed TO the editors he was pursuing an impair
tiai policy. This brought them in connection
with him, and the motives for many of mis- acts,
| which were not apparent to the public, were up-
derstood q long time in advance b. then but
| the confidential relations existing between the
parties forbade its publication. hence they were
compelled for time to rest under false imputa-
! tions, preferring such to breach of confidence
on the one hand, or explanations to the public
on the other. They felt that their long devo-
tiOn to the cause, their sacrifices in its behalf,
and their exertions continuously to secure tri
umph of principle, entitled them to the conf
dence of the public; and though assailed vio-
lenty by partlsans for pursuing this policy, they
continued in the path marked out, and saw in
the end their course approved by the Republican
press, which had been particularly severe upon
them.
! When Gov. WALKER appeared in Kansas, the
same line Of policy which had governed the in
teresurse of the editors with Gev. GBARY, char
aSteTlzed their intercourse with that functionary.
w lth no abandonment of their independence,
and without rela king one iOta of their hatred of
slavery, or Of the Democratic party, from which
| they had suffered so much; and with an eye in
tent only on making Kansas free State, with
out regard to its influence on parties outside,
| Of the Territory, they engaged in their work
with renewed zeal. They had no quarrel with
which they acted could gain nothing by coming
in collision with him, but that everything might
be sacrificed by blind opposition to federal au-
| thority.
They looked over the country. saw the violence
and boodshed of the year previous, the desola-
fog 9eaHsei hy war. and the extreme suferings
incident thereto. and they resolved to exert al
the Influence which their position and energies
could command to prevent like occurrence
| Though malice, calumny, yituperation, and all
the baser instrumentalities of bad men, have
been employed TO its injury, yet the paper has
continued TO increase in circulation and infiu-
ence, until 1t has now weekly circulation of
nearly 100 copies, more than GOO of which are
TO single subscribers in the Territory of Kansas
Its Influence in restraining the passions, in pre-
venting civil strife, and in inspiring confidence
at home and abroad is second to other journal.
Its reception is everywhere hailed with pleasure
by its thousands of interested readers, sGce the
iJ7o Pottscfdns tcsose hope Of 5er1neRt ts depeR-
dent oH a 21rotoRgGtSOn of our Kansas struggles.
There is not n locality in Kansas where the Her.
all Of Freedom is generally circulated, where It's
policy is not fully approved. That few men,
disappointed in their hopes of Office, have de-
nounced II. IS very true: and that others, who see
in II an obstacle to the success of their ambition
arelaboring to wrest from il Its well earned laur
els il also true; but t is not true that IL is op-
posed by any considerable number of its patrons
either in Kansas or outside of 1t.
The pensioned lettcr-Wri.ers of the eastern
press in Kansas found il in the way of their pro-
mulgating falsehoods, hence. as early as Februar,
last, the entered iafo conspiracy to acrite Il
dOtcR. From that time to this nearly every letter
they have sent to their respective journals ha;
abounded with the must infamous misrepresen.
tations in regard to Us, and yet our journal has
continued to prosper and increase in popular
favor.
In looking over the country, and out upon the
old well tried friends of the eause, we find oul
policy approved by nearly the whole of them
To name them would be invidious, and yet we
distinctly assert that VIC are enthusiastically sus
tanned IN Kansas by nearly all the prominent
leaders of the Free State party, whose struggle:
and sacrifices commenced on Kansas soil, cotem
poraneously with our own.
The Herald Of Freedom processes to be and q
Independent Of all parties other than the Ere,
State party of Kansas. Itdoes not tdesign TO civ,
aid and comfort 10 any party. other than to th,
party Of freedom. Its purpose is to deal in f5cts
and these it viii present to the public, shorn o
maleyOience, and with view to the extension O
truth. We have no Ear upon any person, saw,
those who labor to crush Us, or who are eneEie
Of the cause we advocate The instincts of oul
nature, and of representation. impei us 10 de
fend the reputation of our Journal from the IS
In marking out the policy of the third volume
; of the HERALD or FREEDOM, We see no occasion
to change our programme. Our purpose is th.
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