The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1858-06-05
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l light By the Republican journals. It wa
: to e take the place Of the detected Her
aid Of Freedom as the organ of the Ere.
: State party" The \. 7. Tii5ane. anc
the whole family of Fribunes, including
those of Chicago and Detroit, and the lit
tie cOuriers, with that at Alton, joined il
putting and advertising for the CRUSADER
which was to be an illustrated paper, the
, first of the kind in Kansas. Weannounc
f ed prematurely its demise a few week:
, ago. The tenth number of the series j,
before Us. fully illustrated. To show spe-
, cimen of its illustrations we copy:
NoTTHRoTTLED-NoR GOING TO BE-
Gen Lane, among other falsehoods, told
some friends of ours in Doniphan that aft.
ter he saw our extra, he throtled Us, and
told Us that he would have given us s
good whipping if We were not physi-
cally his inferior. We would suggest to
the braggadocio that it would have been
his cowardice, not Our stature, that would
have been our safeguard for the whole
statement-root, trunk, branches, core,
fibres, bark,-is bald and unqualified
untruth. He never saw us after he saw
our extra. We dare Lane to try to throt.
tie rs. We have seen too much of him to
believe in his bravery. All that we ask
of him, is not to attack US at a great dis
lance from water, for we would wish
to wash off the slime that would
necessarily cover US, after a strug-
gle with the incarnate anaconda, at the
earliest possible moment. We might not
pesAeps, accept challenge from him, for
we do not wish to be assassinated and
such fate, in such case, would un-
doubtedly be ours.
+ 1" ne are ready to smear IN any Court of
Justice, or to make solemn affidavit of the
fact that Gen. Lane told us, that if Cover
nor Denver challenged him, he aoould haze
HIM put ont Of the ,Oay By the secret order
k7aoo0n as the Danites''
ave thought that he could not be in
earnest, but circumstances subsequently,
ascertained, convinced us Of our error.
1t was the corroboration of this intention
that determined us, at whatever cost, to
throw the human viper off. It will cost
US everything we possess in Kansas press
and landed property, and business pros
poets; but we prefer to be free and poor,
rather than to remain in the power of an
assassin.
In another article written over his own
signature. Redpath says, speaking of Gen.
LANE ~
He wished me to advocate his name
/ for the Presidency. | told him that if
neto man was to be chosen by the Repub-
lican party, would vote for Frank Blair,
of Missouri, and refused to sustain him,
| in connection with any Office whatever.
| He " looked He'll " at me,-to adopt his
own choice language, but said nothing
about it.
On another occasion he told me-the
request sounded like command-to
praise him for his nsagaaninsity.
A few weeks before, he had tried to
make me the agent for assassinating Rob-
ert S. Kelly-as he was then pursuing
Mr.. Sheppard-with whom he quarreled,
when he could not make him tool
with malignity which it would be eu-
pnOuy W 4nISIudls per
emptorily refused to do so.
Lane organized club of Danites in
Doniphan County. / became a member
of it. Although he could have attended
it, and was expected to attend it, he at
tempted, on the second night of its meeting,
to make me the agent to iipa4cs the club to
XIII Bob Kelley. He saw that my un-
lucky Indebtedness to- him did not give
him a sufficient hold over me-that some
day, if he again dared to rule my edito-
rial course, would throw my property
in his face and defy him. He wished,
therefore, to engage me in criminal en-
terprise-and then would be his slave
forever! / never hated Lane until he
asked me to do this deed. I did indeed
despise him from the bottom of nv soul:
but ! did not believe him capable of
scheme so diabolieal-to involve young
man without any cause, in a criminal act
of private revenge. 1t was so cowardly,
contemplate and hellish, that left him
without saying a word. l need hardly
add that did not put my neck in his hal
ter, that did not become his assassin, that
Bob Kelley was not killed, or that Lane,
after creating the disturbances in Doni-
pban, on his next visit to the town, enter
tanned us with 'magnanimous and conser-
uatire speeches. 1t was expected that the
secret rioter would appear in public as a
conser0ator Of the peace; it was in keeping
with the character of man who once, in
State, friend Of his, who knew the fact,
declared-went from the bed of COM
mon brothel where he had passed the
night, to a Christian Church in the morn
ing, and sacrilegiously partook of the ho-
ly sacrament of the Lords supper.
/ determined now, after / had thus
seen how he had intended to ruin me, to
watch him with ceaseless, untiring yigi-
lance until l could obtain legal proof
against him, not to use it in Court of
Justice, but privately compel him to aban-
don his hopes of igh Office in the party
he disgraees and degrades, and to leave
the Territory TO which his presence, ex-
cepting on two occasions only, has been
great and almost unmitigated curse.
But found that there is danger, while |
watching an anaconda, of being crushed in |
its loathsome folds.
Why I finally and abruptly threw him
of, will be found in tbs article, in an
other column, headed-Not Throttled /
Yet, nor going to be.
am not the only young man whom he
has tried to use for his cowardly schemes
of secret and criminal revenge, and he
may find, too. that he has reekoned with
out his host in more cases than In mine"
I
We have not room to copy all the nice
IL /" illustrated " articles of the Crusadsr,
neither have We inclination to give cur
rency to his calumnies against our candi-
date for the Presidency, as it will require
great labor to refute these slanderous al
legations. In fact, the charge of threat