The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-02-04
THE TRUTH OF HISTORY.

the papers Of the State upop the course the Leaven
worth Times toward me- that the slightest indication OF
fair dealing part Of an editor awakenes warm s
tu and aruss the alm, hope that the Press has
yet left dormant aynanimt that will suffer injus-
tice and outrage always tn ,ynmph while your article
falls ucb short Of n ias,ice It evinces spirit
from which may well ..prt iu-tce upon full under
staudiup of fin. facts Ttes, have been shamefuly
p.rvert.d and so stuouy substituted by nschievous
ui,r,urr.ptstion. ,b,, should be over fastidOus in
comnsipp Of pr ack of ri-htful appreciation Of my
self tbpk entertain too correct estimate of the al,
n, b mad. for impressions deeply formed to fall
,to n .r.v. an .rrr as to wage a controversy against
Ir,rtIr x,r..sed oyiuions however erroneous know
| them 10 II.
II ba, eeu the great misfortune of life by no means
,mu, in smaller measure that accepted the position
of Chief Justice Of the Territory of Kansas soon after It's
catiop mot that the Insition was in itself de-
srle nat that failed TO apprchcnd its duties and its
RESPONSIBILITIES not that In ansht did not bring to the
discharge Of IL. duties as fair and impartial spirit
flll an ex.mption from partialty prejudice favotisn
paTzauship as ever entered with Judge. upon his seat
not that when retired did not possess a conscience
free from ccnsure as ever possessed BOSOM
that to-day increasing snlicitre excited by the
nearer approach bourne to all human aspirations
and fears have regret for one solitary Of my judi
cia life Its misfortune was this-tls only: that my
service filled peria scarcely pIr-ed in the history
this country the violence Of the political aninostes
aroused in2athcf1ng that
inany were vicious and crsvel, the feiIiti+.
that exi,e the xleh they ere seized
charge every violence and every homicide To political
accounts the already excited hostility with which emi-
grants from the North and un the South gathered here
not as Heretofore In friendly rivalry ta extort its riches
of the earth by dligent toll but nolens
rons by right or by wrong TO force and To resist the rec
ognition Of slavery Ms an institution of the future State
and upon all these the utter that
those holding official position could escape cslumny
The Bill gay. L, every resident ON the
day Of tn. frs, election right to yot. Tn. aacaury
of Nissop,i .,ara,d in the north onv bv tb. river Ia
,bo sr,b rI Ia, an i,,uar, line ,,,y. IN the ri,iz.,.
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cer,io, rr,urpny They ,arri,d TN. .Icc,io,. Rs,r.
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