Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-11-18
From the N. Y. Tribune
G. w. BROWN VS.. KANSAS REPUB.
Lie ANS.
To the Editor of the N. Y. Tribune

LltANS.
To the Editor of the N. Y Tribune:
SIR: The charges preferred against sever
al prominent Kansas Kepahlicans bv G. w
: Br1wn, of tho Lawrence Herald of Freedonl
are as false and malignant as his ISLANDERS oi
the glorious old man now in Charlestowr
lnIl. notice them only hecanse the New
J York Times transfers them to it's columns
and edItoritlly assumes that thew are true
ne quiet and undOuhtng filth with whicl
MessrS. Phillips, Hut hinson. Conway, Hin
ton. Iha- cher. and Others, leaders Of tn,
IL voIutlonary faction = are designated by
the Ilnes, on such unworthy authority, =
party OF adventurers, rash and desperatt
men. who had nothing to lose'-'K tnsIS ul-
tri Free State fighting men who had rem
dered cd service in re listing the fnrages OF
the Border Ruff ms but who bad learn
10 fight flr the love Of it, and not merely
TO conquer II peace, and when themaSS Of the
peo pie were content with the victories they
had achi we'd, were Just ready to enter upon
| q prntrart'd war rather amusing tn one
who knows the true history Of these men,
and can 'ntrdst 1t with the life of their
/ Territorial accuSer.
For myself, rs | figure rrominent}v in
Trtrur Browns indictm, mt. and clnseo tent
/ " in Tie Times Iniors .mcnt Of it. frankly
/ c1nf.s, that. if to lave gone to Kansas, ms |
| did 20, not t. settle, or speculate. but solely
10 see the SJuth humiliated, and help t. do
it, is sufficient reas) N why should be called
an adventurer, am willing enough to have
my name enrolled IN the list Of taat class Of
persons. Bat protest against having the
names Of my friends in il.
WV. IlUTCHINSON-rhe Tines re ,uIar cor
md l,b ,,..., ,,.....
merchant in Lawrence, and one of the must
solid men in Kansas, when G. w. Brown
WAS 81 poor that he WAS constantly begging
and borrowing, and lvin. on II vegetable
diet. lie went to K nsdS to settle there: he
and his family live there yet, and, in all pro-
'ahilitv. will de there.
WM 4. PuILLIPs-rhe Iri5uae's resident
rre>pondent-author Of The Conquest of
Kansas was a man OF means when he went
there. and, instead of now amusing himse
with treas N and instruction, is building up
Il town up the Smoky Fork, with the bufia-
Ices and antelopes for his nearest neigh bors.
For evcrv dollar that G. w. Brown lis no.
nc>tly earned, Mr.. Philips, presume, can
put down ten or twenty.
MR IHATCutR i, the editor and pr lprietor
Of The La,Crcace RDpujhcan, irom W .Ich, hv !
hbelJuo slip of tire pen, the I'm editO- |
rally MISC otcS these charges. Mr.. thatcher
dill not ~ To- Kansas until the BJrde- fIrdvs |
had ceased 1r 1T least, until the Territorial |
question WIS practically settled. lie was never
IA a single fEht; never helped either t. con |
quer IA peace, or tried To probing the war 1"
II Mr.. g. w. Brown or Leut.-G " Ray
mond are adventurcrS, 50 is Mr. Thatcher;
for they helon. t, the same profession, and
the same class of proprietors.
Gen. LANE is Just ~ much Of an adventur-
er rs Gov. Btnks. or j f rson Davis, or Gen
: neldS, and no more he lawyer. has Il
Farm, and -pecuates in land and politics. H.
cert lnlr has given NJ intimition OF his arx-
iety to - probing the wAr - bat, on the con-
irary, announces his Intention to live and
die m Kansas
Mr. Conway is an able lawyer and holds i
responsible D ,ition IN Lawrence. lie IS tn,
"-r"' 90 IN "iSr,nt Aid C-..-r~''y just
I~ much Of an tdventurer therefore (lnd no
m ,re,l as Charles R ,binson, whom Brown
has lad metallic reasons not to sdndrr re-
Gently.
All these men holl higher social position
than 3 own.
Hinton Is not rich he is only small land
,wncr hu: he is large hraIu- ,wu,r, which
is u.rc than G. ". Brown boast. A.
rains. however. C uut for nothing IN the
TX list, De may be cLSStd. If AIr. Brown in
isis on it. ia thc party ot ad,enturcrs who
nothing t. llse.'
il is false that any secret ord r, OF whioh !
hcse gentlemen " r. members. was org All
zel to '.massacr'. IN "culd blood, the mem
'b.rs of the L.compJun government
hould think ;hat Mr.. kaymoI would have
zen through the top-transpareut mali -n'ty II q
he wuul. article t. have g.v n II So much
,pparent credit and eHdors ment. 1t Is Il
issue oi .i's from b ginning To end.
The r v,iution.ry plot oi which the Hsr-
I'D Of Freed0m - often speaks, was simply r
he ume-honlred policy of the Frre-State
,lriy ("iaSt 50 much and nothing mo-e. }
rhicn t1e Pittsburgh AMI Philadelphia y A. c
ion,l Conventions. and the Republican Prrss |
# the whole coua,ry-includiHg in the list :
he n y Times-endors and defended
md which n dozens of egot stical Cditori
lis, Mr. Brown claimed the credit of origna- t
.ng and ofwhich alS,, for two years, he ,
vas the n1isiest and most flnatical supporter. .
Il WIS. simply, non-recoglition of tue Ter :
itoral laws and resistance to them at ev- [
ry hazard. II this policy was revolutions il
y, why did the ~ Y Times approve it? h
This policy was abandoned at GraSShopper
Phillips, and myself alone
publicly sustaining it. OF course we were o
-oted down by an immense majority; but it d
; false that we carried our opposition to the =
lis We did not vote ourselves, but We
Urged no one to refrain. u
The next great issue on which the Fre- Il
Suite party split was with reference to th9 f
.eeompton Constitution. The Democrats
n the Free-State organization were in favor "
f accepting that iniquitous Constitution, T.
nd pnihng into operation, If it should have W
to have passed through Congress !,
he Old Guard were determined to resist it. ~
With them it was not IL matter of MN, but oi
rmGpie Conceived in sin and born in in 10
1uit,, as this Constitution had been, we n
ublicly declared our Determination to resist
"to bloody issue, IF necessary. In other -
rords, were cons Stent with our past history ST
nd the often declared principles of the Free NJ
tat party. This Constitution c,ntinued cl
lavery Tor a number of years we therefore,
5 Free-Slate men, would have and could !"
ave no hing to DO with it. Hence our op-
osition to it. But Brown had been offered kl
he public printing if he would advocate the :,
)emocratic policy. lie did so. We did +
OF. Ergo, he was a patriot; traitors, w IN
JAMES REDPATH. tn
From the N. Y. Independent.
JOHN BROWN AS 4 HERO. N