White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-07-07
Herald of Freedom.

Will SellluS lISSAi1 VIC Ca PAS0oNN NNA S
fidencc in its integrity. But it is with
sorrow that we now say that late events
have wofully shaken our faith in it.
During the late canvass, when every
true Free State man should have been
working for the cause. the Herald stood
aloof; or, when it did seem to take any
interest in the fight, it was to countenanee
or exult in some movement which had
been gotten up to distract the Free State
ranks. by the nomination of Democrats
under the name of Free State men, in
opposition to the Republicans. And the
only apparent reason for all this was, be-
cause the Republican party was organized
contrary to the wishes of the Herald, al
though its editor has always protested to
belong to that party.
While the contest was going on, the
Herald, instead of containing matter ia
vorable to the Free State cause, was filled
with-what, reader, do you think ?
With articles a column and half in
length, endeavoring to rcfute true charges
against the Democratic party, and in de-
fence and laudation of President Buchan-
an Yes, when Buchanan found no other
apologist in Kansas-when his own party
platform failed to endorse him openly,
and when his acts were ignored in the
contest, the Herald of Freedom, a pro-
fessed Free State paper. undertook his de-
fence, and especially the defence of an
act which every wellwisher of Kansas
heartily condemns, and which his own
party platform begged of him to recon-
slider. 1t was the ordering of the Kansas
land sales. The Herald of Freedom comes
out pompously, and declares that the
people of Kansas have had ample time
to enter their lands that the President
has already twice postponed the sales, for
their benefit that the crops last year
were good, and if the people had spent
more time in work, and less in specula-
ting, they would now be in easy circum-
stances and concludes by charging that
the Republican party of Kansas are re-
spOnsible for the misfortunes of the set
tiers Yes, the President has ordered
two postponements Of sic ,chOle months
each, and the Herald praises it as a noble
act In reality, those short postpone
ments only rendered the condition of the
settlers worse, by compelling them to
place themselves at the mercy of usurers
and spectators. But we presume the
Republican party of Kansas are response
bic for the violation of Buchanan'S pledge.
expressed in his Inaugural Address, that
the lands should remain open to the pre-
emptor for at least fifteen years after their
survey! y financial depression has pros
trated the energies of the country, for two
years past last year, the rust blighted q
large portion of the Kansas wheat crop
and this season, several paintings of corn
have been swept from the ground by
heavy rains. For all this, the Republican
party of Kansas are responsible, and
President Buchanan does wise and hui
name act, in forcing the land of the set
tiers to public sale Il! If the President,
at this late day, should open his heart,
and again postpone the sales, we presume
that the Herald would denounce the act,
as an encouragement of laziness and spec
ulation, unthankfulness for the bounties
of nature, and encouragement of the Re-
publican party of Kansas
Since the election, the Herald has been
busy in endeavoring to figure up Dem
ocratic triumph. Its hopes are based
upon the election of several persons who.
it claims, are not Republicans, but straight
Free State men. If its influence and
Establishments have any weight with these
men, they viii work to the hands of the
Democratic party. The Herald is like
wise vociferous in its declarations, that il
the two Democratic Delegates from Wy
andotte County are not admitted to seats
in the Convention, contrary to the pro-
visions Of the act providing for the Con.
vention, and if, upon investigation. fraud
ulently elected Democrats are denied
their seats, such outrqges will give the
Territory to the Democrats by an over
whelming majority
Such is the course of the Herald oil
Freedom, in proof of which. we refer to
its columns. If its energies are not de-
voted to aiding the Democracy, we are
ignorant of the term. The editor of the
Herald is one of those who take greater
delight in exclaiming. 81 knew it !" OF
Il told You so p than in recording the
triumph of right. if the triumph be
achieved by other means than those he
proposed.
/ MORE CoRN.-The d. A. January, on
Sunday, brought down and landed at our
Levee, $500 sacks of corn, for Govern