The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-12-26
Mezunsss of Parasans.

A friend of ours has handed us a COM
munication headed Don't do it." which
we insert at his request. We had not OBJ
served the article in the Tribune, on which
our friend bases his remarks, and had not
supposed that any man could be so con-
temptibly mean as the author Of that par
agraph has made himself. But it vas
part of the programme. By damnable
ffalsebooas they have sought to rob us of our
position, and now they wish, by the same
means, TO rob us of our subscribers. In
I'll we saw that article, for months past,
we had proposed dissolving our connec-
ton with the press as soon as possible
but the mean instrumentalities employed
to put us down, has half induced us to re-
call any promises We have made our friends
to retire from the business on account of
our health, and to plunge into it again
with new life and vigor.
If the Republican party wish to pre-
serve their identity as a party, the sooner
they wipe ont from their number that class
of men and editors which have made COM
mon cause against us to crush us, the bet
ter. While those dogs now barking upon
our track were serving the old bunker
parties we were laboring for the cause of
freedom. We stand there to-day, and we
brand those men as unworthy their posi-
tion, as disgracing their professions, as
demagogues seeking position, by the
basest of appliances
That we have enemies in Kansas and
out Of it is very true, bitter, unrelenting
ones. Those who have not enemies are
cringing sycopha,ats, mere tools which do
as they are hidden, slaves of popular i'm
pulse, who watch the gale that they may
go with it. They are without influence,
and are as destitute of real worth, as are
the gewgaws which adorn their PERSONS
We love enemies, but We hate liars
were taught to scorn them from our youth,
and so fixed has this hatred to them be-
come, we can only look upon them with
feelings of contempt.
'Sordid and avaricious!" Yes we are
sordid, base, and mean, because we have
planted ourself upon principle, and liv-
ing or dying will stand on that principle
against the world. AUarfcious twill do
for editors in Chicago who are coming their
thousands annually and are living in idle
ness, to talk to us about being aUarieio,s;;
but those acquainted with the labor we
have done from day to day for many
years who are acquainted with the pri-
vations we have undergone to establish
ourself in business; who yet know our
poverty, and the great difficulty we expe-
rience from week to week to keep our
business going, will never taunt us with
that charge. He who has soul within
him, would never have expressed himself
so meanly as has the author of that ar
ticle.
We have been in the way of aspiring
demagogues, in Kansas and out of it, and
they have sought to get rid of Us, and
have employed their tools in the States
| to work our overthrow. They have charg
ed us with deserving our party, and play
ing into the hands of the pro-slaVery par
ty; they have represented every thing of
us which was mean, and beneath the
man and yet we live; and now, acepledge
ourseJf ane.0 before Col and our readers,
that ne soiU labor still to circunaUent their
,raholy schemes to rob the people Of their free
dem Better for them had they long since
called off their sluth- hounds, and sought
by honorable means to have redresSed
their past villainies.
Were we less intent on the freedom of
Kansas than We are, we would long since
have followed these hypocrites into their
dens, and scourged them until an incens-
ed public would have joined US in lashing
them into decency.
To the Chicago Tribune, and other
sheets of like character we have but a
word to say; and that brief one: 1t
looks to us as if that editor must be hard
run for subscribers, when he is compelled
to attack another. nearly thousand miles
away, with such vile epithets as are con-
tanned in that paragraph; copied at the
head of our friends remarks.
All of our subscribers who desire a
truthful sheet from Kansas, which dares
to expose meanness in any party, are de-
sired to subscribe for the Herald of Free
dom, and they are requested to do it i'm
lmediately. Those who wish to build up
jparties On falsehood, or who would rather
see Kansas slave State than not see a
party defeated outside of Kansas, have no
business with their names on our books,
and are not wanted here. But the other
class, those who consider that freedom is
paramount to all other questions, are ex-
pected to send in their names, with two
dollars in current funds with as little de-
| lay as possible.
The Legislature.
| It is stated that in consequence of the
President of the Council and House of
Representatives neglecting to afix their