The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-09-19
Few ras,..

| L ne following letter was written by
our late assistant, Mr.. Nixon, to the Phil
adelphia Sts1, and as he had every oppor-
tunity of learning the true phase of mat.
ters, it is entitled to public eonfdence:-
LAWRENCE, &. T., Aug. 5, 1851. :
Ed. SUN:-It is most lovely moon
lit evening. / have just returned from
stroll down by the Kaw river, and as l
ping of the water thought of loved ones
IN my mountain home in the distant East.
Old scenes and familiar faces appeared
before me in that tmoon-illumined stream,
and for moment forgot was in this
prairie land. 1t is Just such an evening
as the Indian brave and his dark-eyed
maiden would choose 70 wander and talk
OF love, were they romantic enough for
such. We do certainly have glorious
moonlit evenings here. There is Just
breeze enough to make stroll luxurious.
And then it appears as though the moon
shed more light here than anywhere else
l have been. As sit by the windew, 1
can look out away to the eastward over
the prairles, and can see in the distance a
large dark obiect-that is Blue Mound on
which was erected the flagstaff from
which waved the signal of danger to free
dom on more than one occasion. The
last time it was used was in September
last, when the Missourians were marching
| twenty-seven.hundred strong to destroy
Lawrence, but were sent in another di-
rection by Gov. Geary. A belt Of tim
Der looms up darkly against the clear
sky, marking the course of the Wakarusa.
On the right rises Mount Dread, crowned
| by "Lane's Fort'' Near this fort are the
ashes of Governor Robinson's house which
was burned at the sacking of Lawrence
| one year ago last May. Dotted over the
prairie in every direction are the camp
fires of emigrants, beaming and lending
beauty to the scene. While above all,
in the clear heavens, rides Luna, the
Queen of Night, irradating all with her
soft beams, bringing out and adding to the
beauties This is such beautiful land
that / am sometimes disposed to be char
liable towards the Border Ruffians who
endeavored to gain possession oft
In your paper of the 25th ult., you pub
lished an extract from one of our Terri
torial papers, which casts foul imputa-
ton on an innocent person. The coFre-
spondent of the N. Y. Tribune, Mr.. Phil
Hps,according to the report of the meeting
mentioned IN the extract, said
"He had learned from the gentleman
TO whom the proposition was made, that
a certain editor of paper in this place
Oawrence) had proposed to another edi-
tor to abandon the organization, and go
In with his paper and support Gov. Walk
er, saying that there was to be a Walker
party in the Territory, and that party was
bound to succeed. Great sensation, and
cries of Name him. who is the man?'
Name him. sName hiEn.,1 Mr. Phillips
replied, The man who made the proposi-
tion is g. w. Brown, Of the Herald of
Freedom; the man to whom it was made
is S. S. Prouty, Of the FTeenea's Cham.
pion.' Renewed sensation, and almost
universal kissing throughout the assem-
bly,. /"
This whole assertion has been proved
false. The Herald Of Freedom of week
before last contained an editorial stating
that the editor had made no such propo-
sition, and that the whole statement was
base falsehood.
Mr. Prouty, the editor of the Eeen,ea's
Champion, said that he never mentioned
anything of the kind to Mr.. Phillips.
In the last issue of the Herald are the
statements of three persons who heard
Mr.. Prouty say that the statements of
MIR. Phillips were false. One of those
persons is Augustus w attles, formerly ed
ltor OF the I'hllantlzopist, an anti-Slavery
paper published years ago in Ohio. Mr..
Watties said:-
Mr. Pronty said IN substance that tbe
representations made by Mr. PhilI;ps were
false; that he had never communicated
such facts TO Dir. Phillips, and that Mr..
Brown never made any proposals to him
to join Walker Free State party. or anv
other party which he was about orosn;.,
ing. In conversation with Mr.. Brown
some days before, he stated that MIR. B.
said to him as friend, that he thought II
not advisable to prosecute the Topeka
Constitutional movement any further as
it was evident there was no hope of get
ting into the Union as a State under II
and that no advantage would accrue to
the Free State party by getting into a
quarrel with Gov. Walker; that he wag
in reality our governor, and ought to be
treated as such.''
In his own papcr-the Chau,p;o,,.-oe
last week Mr.. Prouty makes : stase,,,.nt
similar in substance to the above o;y;.. ;,,sns
the lie to MIR. Phillips, assertions ?
1 have noticed this affair bacsus. 7
wish to see Justice done '''''
Mr.. Phillips, speech has been co,,;ad
extensively nv the Nortbev,, fs-... .'..i
the refutaf;on of sfaIssbood sba,s;d 49,, an. IL
as wide spread as the falsebood ifseif i
aiii a"aio .iissS nAi. Dfo~1, OF Ihe Hefctd.
I;csn press &c Iats. .sTs t,,s - sar hephD-
aes.a ..'sS, Sos s.,iih .ney haEe