The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-09-17
The slsu.h-h.und. Loo.. Again.

The sleuth-hSunds Loose Again.
The Republican press of Kansas, seem
ingly conscious of its own weakness, en-
deavors to keep individuals and journals
in party traces by fear of personal abuse
Whenever an individual or a press gives
indications of hesitation to sustain the
widest of partisan measures, or the basest
of men, if nominated for Office, they lei
loose their stock of invective and billings.
gate, hoping thereby to frighten other mer
from following the example of the reeu.
SAINT member. While connected with the
Free State party, the same course of &C.
ton was pursued by them. The result
was, that euery prominent member of the
party who had been connected with it,
early history, was under ban, and theil
influence in the party was gone. DR.
Robinson, W. Y. ROBERTS, Gen. PoME.
ROY, P. C. SCHUYLER, Col. HoLL1DAY, O.
c. Brown, DR.. DAVIS, ]. K. GooDIN-iu
short, all the old leaders of the party were
stricken down, and as the HERALD OF
FREEDOM was the Oldest Free State news
paper in the Territory, the only one that
retained its name and editor during every
period of our Kansas history, and the
most widely circulated and influential
withal, it came in for full share of that
abuse. When assaults upon its political
policy failed, then commenced the as
saults upon the private character of the
editor, and no mean thing was too base for
those partisan madmen to enunciate and
give currency to. Even the domestic
hearth Of the editor was visited, and by
falsehoods the most foul and unparalleled,
he was made to appear before the public
as lacking every virtue, and wholly des-
titute of morals.
Such are the men who have the Re-
publican party of Kansas in its keeping
men destitute of every ennobling senti-
mont, and whose only prospect of Heaven
rests in the hope of being able to go up
thither from the back of PROSTATE and
crushed political opponents.
Our remarks above have been suggested
after reading the various attacks in the
Republican papers upon Mr.. CUMMINGS,
OF the Topeka Tribune, because it had in
dependence of character sufficient to re-
fuse to support a man for Delegate to
Congress, whose whole action for the past
two years in that body has amounted to
just nothing Whoever will take the
pains to turn over the Congressional
Globe and Appendix during those two
sessions, will find that Mr.. Parrott has
done no more than marble statue would.
if 1t had occupied his place. Other Ter
'ftories have land grants, and appropria-
tions for roads and public buildings. They
have post routes, and thousand favors,
which amount to large sums in the aid of
new Territory just struggling into be-
ing; but, as the I'I5aRe well said, none
of these favors are secured to us by Mr..
Parrott. No Indian titles are extinguish-
ed through his influence. Mr.. CUMMINGS
tells this, and concludes, as he desires to
see the material interests of Kansas in a
prosperous condition, to try Judge JOHN
sToS, and see if his influence will not
amount to something tangible for Kansas.
The Palermo Lender seems to lead of
in the attack upon Mr.. CUMMINGs. Every
whiffet, and pointer, and bloodhound of
the press will catch the contagion, and
unless Mr.. c. has independence of charac-
ter to survive the attack, he win be crush
ed under the load of abuse and falsehood
which win be heaped upon him. We
copy from the Leader of the 10th inst. as
aspecimen of what is to follow:
The Topeka Tribune has ignominiously
gone over to the Democracy-been bought |
up; and has proclaimed its independence, |
When its masters choose to put their col |
lar on the cur, something they are prob |
ably ashamed to do now, it will no longer |
wander about with its tail between its |
legs, asserting Independence. Judas was |
one of these independent fellows, and all |
traitors are usually independent. The |
name which gave the Tribune position for
ability was that of l.. Dow, ESQ.,, who, of |
course, was in no such bargain, and with
drew before the declaration of indepen-
dence." When wesee any editor relying
solely upon the key that may be given
him by another journal, without daring to
offer suggestion for his course, we set
him down as good man to operate upon
for independency.
Such is the policy of shameless and
polluted public press against one who has
dared to assume his native independence
and sustain such men and such measures
Is he deems Just. "IgnOminously gonsi