The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-04-03
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Under the above caption, cur eotem-
posary over the way. has, IN his issne Of
March 9th, given to the public his YER
sion Of the course pursued By the editor
Of the Herald Of Freedom since the year
1855. With grand flourish of his pen.
and with a grave countenanee, he opens
| his battery upon US with short quota
| ton from one Of the first issues OF our
paper in Kansas, and then deals out his
spiteful missiles right and left. Buff ne
would take one hundredth part OF the
trouble to read our late issues that he
takes to misrepresent and abuse US, he
would discover several paragraphs of the
same import, and none possessing con-
Trajectory character.
As regards Northern renegades, we en-
tertain the same opinion of them now
that we did then; but we are now wiser
than when we first came to Kansas, for
events have turned up another class
of Northern renegades, and we can now
classify them and treat each with the
amount of respect which is their due
This new class of renegades, to which
cur cotemporary belongs, are opposed to
doing anything which viii give Kansas to
Freedom, because they are afraid of soiz-
ing their fingers, while they use their
means and influence to prevent Others
from so Going by abuse and balderdash.
and preventing honest Free State men
from exercising their right of enfrsnchise-
nent, by placing hired bullies at the polls,
destroying ballot boxes, &c.
We have never "pandered to power"
If we have shown more respect to Gov
ernors REEDER, GEARY, WALKER, STAN
TON and DENVER than We have to Phi
Hps, Tsache,- and linton, it was because we
believe them to be more honest in their
professions. Not one of the former ever
professed to be Free State men, and yet
they have each done more good for the
Free State cause than a regiment of Phi
lips, Ihaclers and 'Iators combined. We
belong to that class who believe that men
should be judged more by their works
than by their professions.
On the advent into the Territory Of
each of the above-named Governors, we
were in favor of giving them a fair trial.
Each one pledged himself to act with i'm
partiality-to correct wrongs without dis
tiuction of party-and we were, of course,
willing to let them do so. We knew that
the wrongs laid at the door of the Pro-
Slavery party. and foresaw that cur wisest
course was to ceuntenance such efforts, as
far as practicable as an independent jour-
nalist; but in so doing we never tagged
our energies in behalf of the Free State
cause. The results have proved to the
world that we acted right. notwithstanding
the defamations which have constantly
been cast against US by our cotemporary,
and his ilk, for so doing.
But what exercises our cotemporary
most is anonstrous idea, which he is try
ing to turn in his brain, that we are
g working for pay" 1t has already caused
him many sleepless nights. To him its
tenor is Gyclopean. He never works
for pay,n not he. His modest idea of the
immaculate would not permit. In
his own estimation, whatever he does is
done from a conviction of duty; "Pay"
is q secondary consideration.
We have never sacrificed principle for
pay. We have never yielded one iota of
our conviction of the infamous character
of the Leeompton Constitution, or of the
evils of slavery in any form, for pay. And
whoever makes that charge against us
knows that he falsifes our position, be he
T. D. THacher or Senator Green. Our
course has received the favor of three
fourths of the Free State men in and out
of Kansas, and we shall not change it in
consequence of such brayings as are heard
from over theway.