White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1869-08-05
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possibility that the public may tire OF it.
Bot we do not propose to q1iely submit
to censnre for what we have written, when
most of our charges are confessed to be
true, in the very articles containing the
cepsures. We made several charges
against Hoyt. The John Brown affair
is the only one that there has been any
great effort to defend him against. The
rest consists of defences against charges
we never made, or admits aud frames ex-
cuses for those we have made.
A recent number of the Atchison
Champion puts in a defence OF Hoyt
against the Chief, which is of the kind
above alluded to. We have no fault to
ind with the tone of the Champions
article. but it disproves nothing we have
said. We never expressed doubt Of
Hoyps courage ID fighting the rebels.
and we have never entertained nor ex
pressed doubt of his patriotism or 10y
atty. We hare said that he be the
reputation of having been guilty Of some
very bad things. during his army career.
The Champion admits this. We did
not say who led or Influenced him in
these acts-we simply charged their COM
mission. The Champion confesses it;
bat it goes step farther, and says that
he was led to do SO by evil Influences
by bad men in whom he he had faith.
That is not cur look. out, and it does not
weaken our charges.
We let the Champion speak for itself:
He has heen guilty of errors both in speech
and action, since he became a citizen of our
State, but they have never been on the side OF
oppression and extOrtion. He was very yoang
when he came TO Kansas; he was impetuous
and enthusiastic for Liberty and its defenders;
brave and generous. but inexperienced; and he
was associated with those whose example and
sentiments exerted most unfortunate inhu.
exec on such temperament as his. He was
led into grave errors, of wirich probably no
body IL now more heartily ashamed than hir-
self; he committed many acts that deserve
condemnation, and we feel certain that nobody
now condemns them more heartily than nm
SELF But il is mean and cruel for these who
have never been tried aud tempted as was this
young boy, to charge him now with folIies and
vices long since bitterly repented, and nobly
| re formed. 30 r.
Col. Hoyt's love for John Brown was as un.
selfish as it was revefential. He worshpped
the martyr of Harperis Ferry. And he is very
much given to hero worship. He has had sew
eral idols set up, some OF them most unworthy
and absurd. but in his eyes all noble and glo.
rious. John Brown was worthy Of such devot.
ed affection, but several Others only led him
into rash and ridiculous faults and foIies He
has grown older, wiser, and more discriminat-
ing in Judgment. He is much less given TO
hero worship than formerly, and when he does
put up idol, il is more likely to be worthy OF
( reverence and affection than some of those up
ON whom he wasted a wealth of devotion, oni '
to find, at last, how weak and worthless they
were. -s-s-4--
| He is an enthusiast for every cause he es-
pouses and for every friend he trusts. Age
and experience will tone and temper this ten
dency to extravaganza In opinion down to a
healthy and discriminating judgment, just as
increasing years and knowledge of the world
\have eradicated other faults of his tempera-
nent and follies in his conduct But his ma
tive generosity, manlness and earnestness; his
in5crD courage enii t-sth; his a-srsaess, con.
esy and kinduess-tllese Qualities, never Who'll
ly vitiatcd By evil associ ,uions. remain, and
never can be eradicated or wholly perverted.
We havebut little more to soy. Hoyt's
bad acts. in the Champions select Ian
guage, came Of his being an enthusiast
for friends whom he trusted. who were
rascals. We pnt il in different lsngnage,
but it means the same thing. 1t comes
Of his disposition TO be tool for some
body. His disgraceful army acts were
committed while he was the tool of Jen.
nison, the worst man thai ever dissraced
Kansas. But the wisdom that comes with
age and experience, and all that, we fail
to see in his. case. lie is now a tool for
Sid Clarke; and while on their recen,
pilgrimage to the Neutral Lands, he
made speech in perfect keeping with hi.
style for the last six or seven years, He
advised the settlers to plow corn by day,
and tear up railroad track by night. This
sounds like the discretion that comes oi
experience. Bat perhaps be is only on
enthusiast for his friend and defender,
Wendell Phillips. and feels it to be his
duty to give the same advice to the X an
sas insurgents that Phillips did to the
Indians of the plains.
A johnson County correspondent OF
the Leavenworth Conservative has also
contributed his mite in defence Of Hoyt.
Boiled down, the substance is this:-
"Hoyt, during the war. was terrible
fellow; and your correspondent was no
slouch, either. All who think other
wise. were snsaks or rebels during the
war"
If the papers cannot defend Hoyt. they
had better keep still 1t is vary poo.
backing to admit the charges and plead
the baby act.
Gg The Alabama Claims are now up
AGAIN FIR adinet mpnf and fha Rrit;sh gov.