The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30


der Rufiian influence and outrages, and
n whom the Masses of the people have
The utmost confidence. Men who carried
out, at this Convention, the voting policy
advocated by Brown from first to last, as
an honest, consistent conductor of a pub
lie journal, devoted to the single object of
making Kansas free State-willing, for
the time being, Republican as he is in sent
ment, to merge party feeling and party
measures into the all absorbing considera-
ton of checking the further progress of
slavery and oppression in the land.
Condemned and abused, by yourself
and others, because he had sufficient man.
illness, and independence, and selfrespect
not to come out in wholesale denuncia-
ton against Cows. Geary, Walker and
Stanton, each in their turn, and treat them
as perfect scoundrels, unworthy of conf
dence or respect, as Hinton and other
salaried harpers have done, in advance of
any just cause or provocation.
The head and front of Browns offence
consists in his being one of the few who
can discriminate, and is willing to make
some effort to see the difference between
denunciation, dictated by mean spirit of
jealously and suspicion, and facts, and
wait for development and evidence before
he condemns. Wherever and foheneuer
the above named officials have acted
against the interests of the Free State
cause, he has not failed to condemn, and
equally ready to justify when commend
alton was their due. And she finale of
both Geary's and Walkers administra-
ton have extorted, from Kansas letter
writers and eastern journals, who have
been unsparing in their abuse of Brown,
the unwilling admission, in one form or
another, that. the difference, after all,
between him and them was, that by
treating the Kansas officials with due
respect he had better understood their
policy and better apprehended the result
of their action; aid sufficient honesty of
heart to keep him from base Suspicion
As an illustration, take the Free State
policy, indicated by Brown in the Herald
Of Freedom, of July 4th, as to voting at
the October election, for which he received
so much abuse from your Especial Cor
respondent" and others, which policy was
finally adopted at the Great Grasshop-
per Falls Convention" and secured a
noble triumph to the Free State cause in
Kansas.
And where this same Hinton admitted
publicly, that the Convention had at last
adopted Browns platform, which himself
and others had opposed, and for which
they had abused him all summer.
And for believing that Walker would
not falsify his oft repeated pledges, in re-
gard to securing a fair election, he was
denounced in the most bitter terms by
this Johnny Bull wiseacre, and others of
like kidney, by whom yourself and many
eastern journals were misled and betrayed
into an unjustifable abuse of Brown,
whose views and policy you had so hear
tily maintained a year ago; and from
which we defy any man to show he has
swerved or deviated in the least. Still
you join in the hue and cry, "Down with
the Herald of Freedom !"-Don't renew
your subscriptions Brown has gone over
to the enemy turned traitor, and sold |
himself, Judas-like, to the Slave power
He is thoroughly despised and distrusted
by large majority of the Free State par
ty of Kansas, &C., &c. Now, sir, you af- |
firm and we deny; upon you, therefore,
rests the burden of proof, and where is
it ?-echo answers, where Aside from
your own false and slanderous representa-
tions, backed up by Hinton, your "spe-
cial" lying correspondent, proved to be
such by Wilberforce, your regular. We
shall wait your answer, or refusal to give
this communication place in your col
umns, which is the more probable, when
it will be spread out before the public in
other columns. If Brown is, as you say
in your weekly issue of the 4th ultimo, a
sordid, avaricious, treacherous demagogue,
in Kansas, what say you of those with
whom he acted, and by whom his policy |
was sustained at said "Bolter's" Conven-
ton To wit Gov. Robinson, Gen. |
Pomeroy, Judge Smith, and Others named
above, who were put in nomination by |
the Free State party, for the highest off,
ees in their gift, as reported by Hinton as
well as Wilberforce. JUSTICE. |