The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-09-03
"sela on, 10 o., pemoeraey.

The charge that we have sold out TO the
Democracy is too stale to be repeated. The
cry was first raised in the winter of 1867,
when we gave what encouragement we
could to sustain the administration of Gov.
GEARY, and aided him, with what humble
influence we possessed, to end the days of
terror which had, to that period, character
lied the history of Kansas. 1t was repeat
ed with ten-fold force when we labored to
do Justly by Gov. WALKER and Secretary
STANTON. The harder we exerted ourseIf
to defeat the Vaccinations of the slave
power, the more boisterous the shout of
"sod out to the Democracy"
The damning cry had reached its culmi-
mating point when, with few others, we
bolted the action Of a certain Convention,
and devised means to thwart the celebrated
Lecompton Swindle, and strangle it ere it
began to live. Since then, monthly, and
often weekly, the cry has been repeated,
and the consideration has several times been
stated. Now it has been discovered that
we have again SOLD out.
1t follows that our market value must be
very great, or we should not be bought out
30 often. Should we continue our connec-
tion with the HERALD OF FREEDOM another
two years, we will venture the statement
that it viii be asserted by certain partisan
journals that we have sold out one hundred
times during that period, because the state
ment has become stereotyped, and when the
doHkeys who make it cease to give it pub
licity, their entire stock in trade will be
exhausted.
So far as our late positions are concern.
ed, first, hostility to the Objectionable feat.
ures Of the Wyandott Swindle, we have on.
ly to say: they were taken before the Dem.
ocratic party had indicated their opposition
to it, or the Republicans had expressed
themselves in favor of it; twas taken upol
the merits of that instrument, and has beer
sustained by arguments, not wholesale de
nunciation; it has teen in detail, and no
against it as whole. We have spoken O.
the meanly partisan features of that instru
ment Just as we did of similar features il
the Lecompton Swindle, and just as W.
should if it had been the unanimous act o
the Convention which framed it.
As for any articles we have penned ia
vorable to Judge JOHNSTON, or which W
have copied from the Lawrence Republican
disparaging Mr.. PARRoTT, they have bee
Just such as would have been the case if tn
parties had been reversed. We owe Mr.
PARRoTr, personally or politically, no il
will and for Mr.. JOHNSTON, we are fran
to concede that his gentlemanly bearing
honorable department on all occasions
strict integrity, frankness and intelligence
have won for him favorable opinion. W
have said 80, and repeat it. If this
Democracy, then we are Democrat. An
should we prefer a sober Democrat to
Republican, whom the leading organ of hi
party in Kansas says is a DRUNKARL
then we suppose we should be Democrat
according to some mems notions of the us
of that term.
I'VE have never become member of tn
Republican party of Kansas our journal
not nor never was, and while tce control i
Hever shall be an organ of that party, s
long as Jim Lane, Ihdcher, Conway, Phi
lips & Co. direct its movements. Neithe
are we Kansas, National or any othe
kind of a Democrat, in the partisan sens
of that term. Our journal is INDEPENDENT
not Partisaa nor neutrGl. We shall suppol
just such men and just such measures a
our own judgment approves, and oppos
such men and such measures as our jude
\pent condemns. Ii our subscribers loy
an honest journalist, who can tell the trut
without being biased by party prejudice,
and which cannot be bought or cajoled int
the support of any measure it does not az
prove, then we expect they will sustain u,
If, on the contrary, they wish a journ;
which shall follow the dictation of its pal
ty, right or wrong; which caters to ever
popular current, and is a sort of weather
cock, then they don't want the HERALD o
Freedom, but viii sustain that paper whic
is the reflex Of their own sentiments.