The Kanzas news., 1858-09-04
a Senatorial Aspirant in the Field
J Rol1inson one of ssYe Letter Writers"

| A Senatorial Aspirant in the Field
Robinson one Of aye Letter Writers"
.Hass you read RobinsOn's last letter 90
i said one friend of the whilom Governors
/ to another, in the Post Office the other day.
/ aftsr the arrival of the Lawrence Herald
/ containing Robinson,s last .sbroadside"
against his friends generally. ''By gracious =
I hope SOL but 1 am afraid not l'' was the
reply. This was quite hit at the Ex off,
clos penehant for .'letter writing" and
created cloud SMILE on all hands.
But really. reading that last letter has al
most raised in our mind serious doubt as
to aRob,s'' sanity He is certainly either q
fool or else he is trying 70 see how soon he
can kill himself off. He takes Capt. Sam.
Walker and L. n. Tappan ''bythe ears quite
cayalierly, and then he pays his ansia5le re-
spects to Thacher, of the Republican And
lastly his :'friend Plumb. of THE News
gets particular s'Gts." He accuses US of
not having s'acted up TO the standard of
honorable business men," and says We can't
tell the truth. Now We feel bad, decidedly,
when our honor and yeracity is called in ques
ton by such an honorable, gpright and truth-
fut person as G. Robinson; but before 4e
believe what he says, We shall make him
prove the truth of i'll in the meantime pro-
nouncing his inuendo a falsehoOd.
Some few of our readers may be desirous
of knowing why Gov. Robinson ''got into
print in so precipitate manner and mood;
and how he comes to strike around him soI
wildly, cutting his best friends.
Well, he went to Southern Kansas along
with Gov. Denver, to look after matters
down there and report the true slate of the
difficulties that had so long existed. He
was one member of Committee of three.
He made out report which did such fla
grant injustice to the Free State men gen.
orally, and Capt. Sam. Walker in particular
(who had been down there in his capacity
of Dep. U. s. Marshal) that the other two
members of the Committee not only refus-
ed to sign it, but publicly protested against
it. Rob-" got mad, went off in tan
gent and went to writing down" the
'sbolters'' And getting badly beaten, he
commenced an indiscriminate fire upon
friends and foes. The consequence is they
are all of the latter kind now.
We have few plain things to say about
Charles Robinson-and will say them now.
He has made-or attempted to make
political bargains, trades and intrigues, with
all sorts of men, in and out of Kansas
National Democrats as well as Free State
men. He has done these things to secure
/ his election to the United States Senate
that he offered to take the Office under the
Lecompton Constitutional he could get it
He went to Washington last winter with the
design and expectation of securing from
the Administration party there the location
of the Distributing Post Office for this Ter
ritory at his town of Quindaro. This is to
our mind very significant. How such a
man as Gov. Robinson has pretended to be
should go to Washington with the ezpecta-
fion of securing favors for himself from a
Pro- Slavery Administration, passes our
comprehension. Immediately after his ar
rival at Washington he wrote letter to a
gentleman in Fitchburg, Massachusetts,,
saying the best thing that could be done
for Kansas was to admit her into the I'm
ion under the Lecompton Constitution
This certainly looked like s'bid" for ia
vor of some kind from the Administration.
The opposition members of Congress gen
orally said that Gov. Robinson's maneuvers
while in Washington, however intended,
were fraught with much mischief to the
cause of anti-Lecomptonism.
These things and many others that have
passed under our observation during the
last six months have completely satisfied US
that Mr.. Robinson is totally unreliable
politically or otherwise. We feel safe in
saying, that from our knowledge of the
people of this section, he has not got doz
en- friends here. And he has his own course
to thank for it.
We hope that we shall not be obliged to
say anything more on this most disgusting
subject. Kicking dead dogs always pro-
vokes stink.
The entire series of Robinson's letters
can be found in the Herald Of Freedom,
published at Lawrence at S2 per annum in
advance. Those who love curiosities In
literature would do well to subscribe.
| Complete Success of the Atlantic Tel
egraph---Messages of the Queen and
the President.
All doubts have been dispelled The