The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-11-19
For tie Herald Of ~ 'eefons i.
n. T. Conway Again.
LAHRENcR. Nov. 15. lSE,!

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n. F. Conway Again.
LAwRENcE, Nov. 15, 1853.
G. W. Brown, Eso.:-Iregret hat you
did not see proper to publish Mr.. Con-
ways letter, in reply to mine Of th g 1st
inst, as I presume there are Others fyour
readers, be sides myself, who woule have
been glad to see it, without the ne cessity
of seeking the columns of your co tempo
rary for it. It seemed necessary, howev-
or, that you should adopt the course you
did to preserve the dignity OF yo.r paper.
l am glad Mr.. CONWAY has seen proper
to make tie denial he has, and / only
wish he had bsen somewhat n lore specific
on other charges involved in, and grow
ing out of that Harper's Ferry transaction
Every doubt of completely on his part in
that affair must be ,cholly removed, else
he shall not have my vote for Reprssen-
tative in Congress, and believe I speak
the feelings and sentiments of thousands
of other Republicans when / say such will
be their action. Though I may not be
able to vote for his competitor, Mr.. HAL
DERMAN, yet I shall erase Mr.. Conveys
name from MY ticket, and leave it blank
when l go to the polls in December next
While MI. Conway denies receiving 9
visit at his residence from Old John Brown,
he Acknowledges that he was in Lawrence
in the fail of 1856, saw and conversed
with him, and the old man deposited
some papers with him in his safe.
1t seems, then, that though my state
msnt was not true as to time, yet it was
substantially true as regards the facts up
on which I dwell with particular earnest
uess-that these parties were in consulta-
ton one with the other, and so far did
Conway enter into the plans of Old John
Brown, he all, ,wed his safe to become the
depository of the old mans valuable pa
pers.
By your Staten nents made in an edlto-
rial in March last and, subsequently,. in a
late leader, it appears that "the whole
plan of an insured ton was developed to
you in the summer of 1856, while you
were held at Lacon,pton for treason."-
Your extract fr ON Redpath's "Roving
Editor" shows tn at you were better post
ed than your enen aies gave you credit for;
and the late dev, slopments at Harper's
Ferry has rsveale, I that portion of the
plot before in Doubt. You have shown
that Conway, Cook, Realf, Redpath, and
that whole class of politicians acted with
and seemed to indorse, each other.
And, then, in regard to those boxes
The facts in relation 10 them have come
into my possession in su ch way that /
cannot be as explicit as / desire, but the
time may not be distant, when 1 can be-.
There certainly is someth ing pertaining to
them which the public have right to
have explained.
Now l undertake to say that Mr. Con-
way has been in cores pondence with Old
John Brown since he has been in the
East; yea, more, that he has sent him
money within the pa st few months, and
that in all probability the money thus ad-
vanced has been us ed to pay for those
pixies bought to arm the negroes with, and
to get up that servile insurrection. Mr.,
Conway intimates that those "notes," left
by "Old John Brown" and which he was
SO kind as to deposit in his safe, were the
property of the Kansas Relief Committee.
OF course, then, Old John Brown, on the
Kennedy farm in Virginia, had nothing tc
do with that fund; and though Mr.. Con-
way had collected payment on those
notes, Brown would have been the last
person to whom the money would have
been sent.
There are other matters which shal
reserve for future letter, unless Mr.. C.'i
next answer is fully satisfactory, which
sincerely hope wiH be the case; in the
the mean time, wish him to come for
ward like frank, open gentleman, as
have always understood him to be, and
tell the wlole truth. There is no neces-
sity for evasion, or concealment. Either
he is or he is not in any way implicated
in that affair. If implicated, he cannot
ask any favor of those of us who are
friends to the American Union, or who ia.
vor States Rights, and are opposed to any
interference in the affairs of neighborine
State, and who believe we should IRE.
move the beam from our own eyes 'oe
fore we attempt to remove mote from
neighbor's." II, on the contrary, Mr.. C
has no completely with Old John Brown,
let him explain how he CHANGED to be in
the couusels of the disunionists of Kan
sas, a member of their 'secret oath-bound
society,"" of which Redpsth states he was
one; why he Joined hands with those
who were in favor Of keeping alive our
Kansas contest, and throughout our pro-
tracted struggle has always been on the
wrong side of the question.
Since you, Mr.. Brown, have more than
half yielded the point to Mr.. CONWAY
perhaps you can help him ont of the di.
lemma, and. if SO, you will oblige an Ac-
tive Kansas Republican, and place un del
many obligation, your friend,
1 ARGUS.