The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-08-07
CARD OF EXPLANATIONS.


Editor Times:
After eizteen years epent in this city bat
Ting with poverty-a poverty s"perinduoed
by stalking lie, hope and wealth upon the
altar Of my country and human iibery-l
think it very hard that history sLould be
tortured to my hurt; and that. too, by
p,id wretch in the employ Of newspaper
claiming to be RspuSlicsD, q party brought
into existence by the few godlike men who,
self-sacr;fciDg to the death, baptized the in
FAINT party with their blood. Cursed life!
and breath preserved! if preserved only 10
have history fal-i6ed after such lapse of
time, in order to deprive me Of the good
opinion of my fellow-men, to me thousand
times more dear than life itself Il. e. he says
there is an indictment hanging over me
now Had those articles of stale falsehood
BY H. NJ. NJ. been published in any other
journal than Che claiming to be Republican,
I should certainly take no notice Of them,
and would have considered it ample punish
ment to On imprudsn,, or wanton journal to
be laughed TO scorn by an intelligent cotem-
porary for paying its money and inflicsing
upon its readers, as history, vulgar twaddle
with less foundation in truth than Gulliver's
Travels, but, unlike the latter, contempt.
bly, written; and even urged as l now am
to disabuse the mind of the public, / would
do nothing more than TO suggest the sketch
which II. NJ. NJ. gives of his own life in
his first article, and also short sketch Of his
private character; but Al that was claimed to
be too narrowing to the feeling, Of your
readers, 1 forbear and will not give it pub
LEGATION.
1s,. He Gays that he and rev.
erend saintly Starr joined society
in Missouri whose exclusive object
was TO extend slavery over the virgin
soil of Kan-as, and to extend the area of
rapine, lust and murder, but that they were
hypocri,es and traitors 10 that society which
they swore to support, and leaves you to
infer that they continued plotting against the
lives and property Of the vOtaries of free
dom till such time IS that society
rejected them, at a time not given.
But as his ISLANDERS OF Free State men, Oftheir
actions, measures. and of the times. have the
prestige of being published 10 4 newspaper
supposed, by its professions, to be journal
in clo-e sympathy with those who fell. or
suffered in the struggle against the encroach-
ments of slavery at the first settlement in
Kansas, and before the hosts Of the nation
were marshaled against that system Of horror,
it becomes necessary 10 review such few
statements AZ he makes from his pretended
memorandum, not exclusively confined
to the great | himself. Thus II. NJ NJ.
saye he saw the warrant made out by Gov.
A. Il. Ree,ler, ''upon which Sam Burges
was arrested for the murder OF Thompson
and Davidson" whereas the fact was
that Davidson stabbed Thompson while he
(Thompson) was engaged in fight with
Burgess, and was drawn into it ny conspir-
acy between Burges and the two Davidsons.
nephews of Sam Burgess. that they might get
his lThompson's) claim, and they succeeded.
He says that he was retained, together with
NJ. J. Pdrrott, to defend Free State men.
Bah, that's too ridiculous even for brag-
CART writing for idiots, Free State man re-
tain the villain who, in November, 1850,
". mt 20 invade Lawrence. burn the town and
murder the inhabitant-. -, or n.
j. PARROT taking the assistance Of dead.
weight of ignorance? He says that all the
new settlers delighted in military and judi
cial titles: let him with all his avidity for
transparent malice toward them, give the
name of one Free State man, who, either |
delighted, or even submitted to such titles!
But / will not dispute that such |
was the character of the slavery |
on the Missouri border. And
what was more remarkable than anything |
else, was the fact that the nearer our tor |
mentors approached the condition Of pan
pers the more jealous were they to have |
slavery established in Kansas. and of hese, the |
women believed the man sent by their good
angel, who would accept their virtue in ex-
change for a side-saddle, ami thus, save them
from the humiliation and shame of going on
foot like "a poor saryant gal, Tor a common
Niger" Thus had slavery perverted 20
ciety, and turned woman, mans guardian
angel from the path of honor into the road
Of shame, He refers the call sIffering"
readers of the Commercial 10 several Christian |
men who were suffered to live "a. {. "A yet |
not translated) in the days OF disturbing the
divine institution; characters, and a state Of
mind and purpose of which he is, no doubt,
as good Judge as he ia of the necessity Of
truth in history. Such as - and
But he fails to tell his sporting,
Christian readers where the latter was shot |
BY the reporter of the Missouri Denorat
when he, Judge Elmore), Jones and liar
rold attempted to murder Gov. Geary. 1t
is pity lie should 40 neglect the interest Of
fishing rcd. 1t could not be Harold that
10 f,e he
hen shot dead by the boy private Secre
not a little diverting to one who knows the
facts to think that company who had serse
enough to gather up the means to purchase
he material for printing office, should pay
10 ignorant wag for telling through their pa
per of his great speculations in lots in all
The towns in Kansas ard Nebraska, who had
fore they became of any considerable value,
10 order to pay his quota Of the towo survey
and not be cast out Of the company. II he
went to Omaha with the great-hearted L. ID.
Bird, it must have been as dead-head. He
touches truth for once when he says that
society was formed on the Salt creek, osten-
sib!y to regulate claims, but really to drive
Df Free Safe men. And true to the charac.
Ter which he carried into the Border Ruffian
secret circle, be does not attempt to furnish
any clue to the practical workings of that
Squatters' ciety. 1t was thus: Whenever
! Rufian wanted Free State mans claim.
be had nothing to do but mark his name
upon card. date it prior TO the Free State
mans settlement, complain to the
Secretary that there was Free
Stale man upon his claim. The
Free Stale man was then cited into court
and If he WA willing to lose twenty dollar
bill more, by depositing that amount in
court, he could, under the pretense of being
heard, keep his claim until the next court;
il not, he was Immediately notified to leave,
md il he was not of by next hangman's
day the Friday fol,owibg) he would be
rated on by Malcolm Clark and his pose,
Of Bill Martin, Whit Tunsral and
Sam Merchant, and forced to leave the Ter
ritory. Many did deposit their money,
confident of their right. not one of whom
,vsr succeeded in holding his claim. Many
, notice was served on me, TO all Of which
ny answer was the same, and that carried
n my belt, telling them they could take my
life and my claim, but that they could not
DOL me out of either. The last unfortunate
o deposit his money, in hope of finding jus
ice among thieves, was one William Bra
,an, an Irishman, and gentleman in every
ense of the word, il ever such suffered
q the defense of human liberty. He, with
highly educated wife and three beautiful
hildren, settled on q claim about two miles
outhvest of Kickapoo, and midway between