The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-12-26
For tie Herald Of Freedom.
Donst Do IL

For tie Herald Of Freedom.
Don't Do it.
"The Kansas Herald Of Freedom, edited
BY G. w. BRowS, is calling upon the
people to renew their subscriptions to bis
paper, as the year of most of them is
about expiring.
"Don't do it. He has turned traitor,
and sold himself, Judas like to the Slave
Power. He has played into the hands Of
Buchanan for six months past; ne isa
sordid, avaricious, treacherous demagogue.
The Free State men in Kansas hate and
despise him. Let no Republican give
aid or comfort to this miserable snake in
the grass
The above clipped from the Chicago
Weekly Tribune, of the 4th inst. Wha
does it mean? What is the object Of
its publication? Is it called for, and Is il
true? Mr.. Editor, in making your call
upon 'the people to renew their subscnp-
tons" to your paper. you have done no
more nor less than what you have right
to do, and by so doing, you injure no one,
and whether your subscribers wish to re-
new their subscriptions is matter for
them to judge. They have right to
form and express their Own opinions This
privilege we are denied in Kansas, not
only by high officials ont of Kansas, but
by many of our own people who wish
and endeayor by no fair means to control
and stife our opinions when opposed to
their own. Mr.. Editor, had not watch
ed closely your course, and have known
your honesty Of purpose, and the far and
candid manner in which you have heralded
to the world the affairs in Kansas, Iwoud
not trouble you at this time. FOr per-
sons out of Kansas to judge fairly of our
motives and actions is impossible. 1t Is
necessary to live and mingle with US to
know us. Many minute circumstances OF
the utmost importance occur here daily,
that never come TO light, the result Of
which is often felt and seen. An editor,
instead of calling ON the public to assist
a contemporary, who has devoted his time
for three years in a new and half barbar-
Gus country, among sayages both white
and red, and who has been imprisoned
and foully slandered and abused foroPn-
IONS sake, now calls on the public to de-
sert him.
A better Free State man than yourself
we have not among US, and howy have
''sold yourself Judas like to the Slave
Power" or played into the hands Of Bu-
chanan" we in Kansas have yet to learn
But, sir, do not hesitate to say that you
have not always given to Gov. WALkES
aud Secretary STANTON the credit al
times, they have 50 justly deserved
This attribute to failing Of your head
and not of the heart. Il may be that
you was over cautious, or did not fuiiy
understand their motives. have known
Gov. Walker and the excellent, talented
and high-minded Secretary from the tlllls
of their arrival in this Territory, anu
their line Of policy has been no more hOl
less than what they revealed to me |"
first. Their object has been TO give 70 inc
people of this Territory what they 50
much desire. That is, that the maJonE
shall rule. Their acts and motives,
your own, have been miseonstrued sL'
distrusted by some mischievous ana e'~
minded letter-writers - news has 'esH
manufactured for the East to SUIT tneih-
selves. We have some honest and REM
bic Ietter-writers among US whom knO'
personally. Those evil-mindcd ie''s''
writers in my opinion, have been efs%F
er curse to Kansas than all the Border
Ruffians that ever invaded it.
That the Free State men in Hans"
'ehase and despise' you is untrue. Aie"
political desnagogles, and good-to'-no'a. :.
Ing parasitic drones may oppose you
they do every other honest, upright ap-
prudent man who opposes them IN 'n'A
base and selfish plans, is probably iu''
You are an industrious and hard-SofAiDo
man, and this excites the envy oil lh0''
who 'shate and despise'' you. You h4''
the respect of all good and unbiased q,
liens. I am from the East, and "Oui1
advise those in that quarter of the cOu4
try to give such weight to the aOO'9
q DON'T do it, as it deserves. The VIZ
ter, to say the least, did or does not ~
derstand your views or our affairs 10
have too much charity to say ne nlAN
ciousiy ISLANDERS and Injuries you. h'h'.
wish to subscribe to paper when 'N
may rely upon as fully as any Paps, :
Kansas, subscribe for the Herald q re-
dom. VI '"
I.avRExcE. Dec. Is. 1857.