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nan.

w

as

xNot

namin

tne way oiyour

tneory,

that you striko at himso vigorously, asthouzh

you would hew him down ? You say homis*

took Canaan for Ham.~ Suppose ho did, the

prediction and tho curse rest somewhereon

some nation. The principle is the samein the

Divine administration.

Who

a rc t he

children

of Canaan ? Tradition and history unite in

tho belief that they inhabit the continent of

Africa.

Their

condition fulfils, with remarks-

Jble fidelity, the prophecy ofthaf'righteous man

(and preacher of righteousness, Noah.

A

servant of servants w as tho double curse

which

has

r e s ted on tha t

continentand

race fo r

tmany centuries. It is coveredwith a network

ofslaveryevery chief having his retinuo of

islaves, while he pays tribute to some higher

>t3hiof or petty king.

3 You seem to lay great stressupon the fact

.Tthat t ho Canaani te s we re not black. How do

1you know V Dr. Thompson, who has written,

qierbaps, the most thorough work on Syriaand

rPalcstine that has ever been

published^

says

Othe ancient inhabitants of that country came

ttfromAfrica. The great painting of Samson

grinding inthe millshows his Palestine dri

vers very dark, if not blaok. .

But

you miss

itthe point of the Scriptural precedent and ex

amplo for slavery. You prove, as you think,

t that tho Canaanites were not black, and then

{jumpat once to the conclusion that, if they

were not black, they must have been enslaved

tbecouso they were Idboririg men. This does

i .very well to stir up the prejudice at the

North;

nbut

i.s

this tho

truth

?

Th e

I sr ae li te s were

ipcrntitted to enslave tho Canaanites not bo-

icauso they were laboring men, bu t because they

wore heathens, and thereby so degraded that a

tran.slcr to tho Hebrew Commonwealth, whore

itho time God was worshipped, was a privilege

and a blessing.

I This furnishes theparel lel point on which

'American slaveholders rely with great confl-

tdence.

Th e Africans w er e ta ke n from th e

most degraded heathenism, and are here taught

to worship the t rue God ; and, in the opinion

of eveiy Bible man; more of them have been

[dtted for and gone to Heaven from the thou-

(Sands in

America than

from

th e

millions

in

Africa. Dr. Dwight said, afterlongexperienco

ijind

wide observation that ho never know

bu t

i>nc lar.y man converted. And as God had

tome chosen peoplein Afiica, it was necessary

that should be taught to

work

in order

to their conversion. But in the South they

ir e

not allowed to read tho Bible. Well, in

^Vfrica, they neither read it, hear of it,- nor

from it. Faith cometh by hearing ; and is it

aot bet ter to

hear

th e truth

than

to live entire

ly destiute of it ?

Youquotetheeighthcommandment as a pro

hibition of slavery. This is singular.Were

your ancestors thieves ? They brought, or

assented to the bringing of slaves to this coun

try. It is a singularfact, that whilewe boast

pfourPuritan ancestry, the lawsof the pre

sentday would hanghalfthomen that lived

a hundred years ago, as engaged in the slave

Iraflic, dircctcly or indirectly; and another

lawwouldimprisonall the menwholivedforty

years

since.

Tlio

eighth

.commandment

was

given onthe

way

outoftheHebrew nation.

All their other laws, wore cont ioi led by the

Decalogue.

Well,

now

what? Why, they

had slilvcS by

Divine ponnissioii

under this

charter. How could they, if the eighth com

mandment forbids it? But arp. the slaves

stolen? Certainlynot by Americans. They

buy

them,

pay for them,

transfer

them, and

provide

for

them

inthe

only

and most .benev

olent wanner in which it can bo done. As to

themetaphysical abstraction, that man cannot

have property inman, it has been contradicted

from the foundation of tho world to tho present

lime. Holding, use and transferare the ole

ments ofproperty;and this hasbeen

done

by

men to men in allages; and yet you say that

there is nowordin the old Hebrewtongue that

conveys tho

idea

of

property

in

man. When

a master inadvertently killed his slave, no

blood

was to be shod,for he was his

money.

Does not that moan property ?

It cannot be domedthat tho idea ofslavery

runs allthrough the Bible; it was

stamped

upon .the entire history of

the

Jewish nation

and

upon tho

history

of

every

vigorous

nation

upoii the,face pftho earth; indeed, I strongly

suspect;

tins

isUlio normal

condition

of largo

portions ofa depraved race, and I can readly

believe that a manniaysustain the relation of

slfliVcholdcr, in

all good

conscicncOj and with

the entire Divine approbation.

There

are

viaihU footprints

ofGod s disappi dbatim ofthe

alolUionism

of this country. Look attheflocks

of unclean beasts and birds that have

Mme

up out of

its

train. Infidels that curse God,

wt i i ch n e s aw . u i i c n a saeu wuui. it e n a nwu

ofit,he

replied,

to

buy

a

wife and have

pa-

chaninnics to sell. Is it any harm toyoke

up

such men,

and work tho laziness andbru

tality

outof

them

? .

Yes,

butyousay

there

is

a better way todoit. There may he, but it

wants th e evidence of a successful experiment.

The Moravians once kindled their

alters

of do

votion all around the African coast,

bu t

tho

waves ofbarbarism have extinguished them.

Jamaica, in spite ofdqvoted missionaries, Brit

ish

philanthropy,

and

American

sympathy is;;

fast receding through idleness to barbarism. j

Half ofmillion of.people there in twenty years ti

have not lifted as n;any spades of earth as i

twenty thousand

Yankees

in California in one

third of the

time.

I f

th is hal f

million

had t he

twenty thousand to

load

themandguidethem,

then

that

Island, which was once a fruitless

field, wouldnot be goingback toa wilderness.

Tho best thing that couldbodone for,Africa,

ifthey could

live

there,

would

beto send theme,

onehundred thousand

American

slaveholders | i

to work them up to some degree of civiliza-ii]

tion.

?

It

is

charged

that the

life

of the

slave

atii.

the Sou th is sometimes at tho mercy of theo.i

master. In Africa the immediate body scr-ijA

vant of every chiefat his death are at oncej>i(

beheaded and hurried forwaad to attend tbejl

now

wants oftheir old master. Is.it wickedi^

to buy tliesc devoted victims of heathenism>

and put tlietnunder the protectisn of

civilized,

'

an d often of Chris t ian masters

?

As to the influence of slavery on tho

charac

ter of the whites, that is qui te another ques

tionj but so.far as tho political history of our

.country is concerned,it is not easy,to see how

we could get along without the slaveholders.

See how their names shine along and adorn

the past history of our country: Washington,

Jefferson;'the Randolphs, Bayard, Pinckney,

Madison; Monroe, Crawford, Rutledge,

Jack

son, Calhoun, Clay, Bentonblot out these

names,

and a countless host of others, from

the Slave States, and what a blank is left in

our history. And do you not find men from

these States now in CfoDgress, fully the peers

of any you can namefromthe North instates

manship, honor, integrity, patiiotism, and

highmoraland religious character? Do you

not see some bright and shining lights around

you irom the South? I have no speeches

that

^ivO more

entire stitlMactibn than

those,

of the clear-hoadod, broad-minded, candid, fair,

patriotic Stephens, of

Georgia,

or his

associate

Jacksoit .

A

few

words as

to

th e motto at th o

head

your

Speech;

The

fanaticism

of.

the.

D

cratic party.

If

there couldbe found in tl

Democratic

party,or in its history, anyof

thi

element, certainly no one ought to be better

qualified to deal with it tlian a gentleman

from

thoRepublican ranks. They were bornof it

and nurtured by it ; it is their meatanddrink,

their nervine and anodyne; their zeal in con

flict and

their

consolationin defeat. .TheDem

ocratic party needs no defence; a simple-rei

cital

of its biography is its

highest

eulo^.

When the mdasuro of British insult was lull

whenfor twenty years they had insulted,our

flag,

embarrassed

and put

under

tribute our

commerce; whenthey had seized our sailors

and fltod into our ships, and hung innocent

men for being found on board an American

vessel, then Henry Clay, Felix Grundy, and

John

0.

Calhoun, and their associates, per

formed a lustration;then the Democracy of

America vindicated the national honor,.and

establ ished a how'name and a new flag over

the ocean; and fromitliat day to this ail the

progress and

expansion

at

liome

and

honor

abroad havebeen wonby measures of the Dem

ocratic party. ^

Tho

glory

will remain, in spite of all.that

enmity and mistaken zeal can do to mar or

destroy it. You

may

possibly succeed (but

may Heavenpreventyou) in the attempt you

are

making

to trampleunderyourfeet thecov

enant of our fathers, and exalt a sectional

partywith

sectional aims

to

places

of power

and trust; but the dayof yoursucce.ss would

be the hourof yourdissolution. Like thelast

day of the Arctic summer,

your

sun

would

only

risetogo

down.

Opposition

is your co

hesion-;-the onlycementofyour party. Your

party

can

construct

nothing

; they laydown

principles; adhere to

no

name.

Mr.

Banks

goes

for

the absorbtion of the colored races,

whileMr.Blairgoesfor theirexpulsion.

shall bo the policyof tho party ?

The Democratic party has carried^thocoun

try up

from

smidl

beginnings

to its

present

prosperity and happy condition; and, only oc

casionally being takenout to beaired and pu

rified,

is destined

under

thatname, and with

fOO

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parting

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odd

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the boys,

gi-nng

their parting

henedictions'^f

smiles

and tears,

tolling

them

to

be

braVe'Wnd^to

show their

blood

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the soldiers sing the,;John Brcivn song^'the

boat is rea.9l^^^d,p,nd;theaqâîî^^^^^^^

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BYWARREN

OHASB.

, >

Nearly

two

years nsfo

Ij hastily

read

Zollner s

work

onthissub-j

ject with umisunl interest and it opened tome anew baas for spir-j

itual

life but

I then, as now, regretted that

he

could not have staidj

in our world to write a sequel and more clearly and plainly explain

w h at h e merely outlined i n t h at w o rk .

I havegiven the subject much thought since reading that book,

and think I can slightly aid some thinkers whoseminds run in this:

channel,of thought.

If

I

g et t hq

idea from the professor,it is

that

ou r

spirit friends livein the four dimension of spaceand wein the three.:

Aslength, breadth and thicknessmake the threedimensions ofob--

jects and forms in oiirjsphere.or in o u r s tra tu m of matter , we can

hardly see how objectscan exist in theirs without these bounds

which are so essential in ours; and yet we have some facts in our.r

reach

that

may help to illustrate it.

Fo r

instanceeach of us has S

mind as well as a body, and yet no one would think of get ting its

length, breadth and thinkness to prove its existence.

Clairvoyants claim to see spirits with forma like

ours

with these ,

outlines, but are not these brought into the visionas the objects are

by an operatorin psychology to his subject who seesand describes :

as acurately as a clairvoyant what bas no real existence as an ob

jective existence,but is

wholly

subjective andput out fromthemind

and bythe will of the operator; and may not the spirit be the

oper^/

tor and by will power over the medium cause him, or her, to

sso-^

what is describ d and which may not resemble the spiri t as it is,

bu t may resemble the person as he or she was on ea rt h. .

Donot spirits

move

fromplaceto placewith nearly the rapidity

that our minds and thoughts do here? Are not objects by some;

lawas yet unknown to us, taken

often

out ofour sight and out of,

the reach of our senses, andmay they not stilibe in existence in an-,,

other

stratum c matter and inthe four dimedsipiis of space; and ^

may

not our

spirit friends, some

of

them, kfic^ôw

to

compress'

materials intoourstratum andthus

mnteriaUzb^lmm

tous? That|

matter

isby evoiution eliminated and lifted

into^t^Be

spiritual

realm:

or next stratum of discreted matter, seems to ihe A settled point,;

andthatit maybe pressed back sometimes, I have ho doubt, m;

view of th e facts of materialization. .

\

Under

this law I can see how

objects

not

vitalized,

can remmiii

j

permanent

as

garments

and articles often

do

in

the pretended

ex^j

posurea

of

mediums

by

the

fraud

hunters,

whose ignorance of the

j

science and

philosophy,

raises their prejudice to a high pitch in]

Horace On Beard. -- vl

Horace

Greeley, in a late lecture is re

ported

lo

have spoken thus on shaving;

We would say lo Young America in

covinling-houses and

work-shops, never

touch

your

beards

with

a

razordespise

the diclales of fashion, and

let

iho

hair

ofj

the face grow silken, and soft, trimmed only

by

the scissors.

Your health will

be

im-

Iproved;

your

teeth will be sounder:

your

Iliability to colds and bronchial lung affec-j

lions will be

sensibly

diminished;

your

con-j

venience will bedaily consulted: your man-j

ly

beautyrio

dispicable

thing,

as it is

Ihej

type of what

ought to

bo the

dowery

of

every man-^will

be

indefinitely increased,

and

tlie true and poetical

contrast lo feraalcj

loveliness be once more secured, which is ;

impossible undor

lê starved, scraped, wiry

i

caricatures

that

shavelings new present. ;

W. is Leta-gandSdate.take:êlHrfihis:fo^

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jliBib month

29,

1906.]

FRIEjN DS

INTELLIGEa OEK.

.ig last years of his life. In speaking of the number of years

lived there and the attachments formed, he said, Yes,

t

has been long,

but I am more than

willing

to leave it all.

Q]ie

son, two daughters and a step-daughter had the privilege

dt

ministering to him during those days when he was slowly

- slipping away.

was kind and unassuming in manner, and his sterling

irorth ^vas recognized by his many friends. In the going out

^j,js

undemonstrative life we realize how much he will be

oiirsed,

but are

cheered

by the thought, There is rest for the

children of

God.

2CICH0LS0N.At

he r home

in

Indianapoli s, Ind. , Ninth

jnonth 0th, 1906, at the advanced age of 100 years, 7 months

and S days,

Jane

F. Nicholson, oldest member of Miami

jlonthiy Meeting, 0. Buried in Miami Cemetery, near

ffavnesville, 0. She was

daughter

of

Isaac and Ruth

(tVelch) Wales, of near Harveysburg, 0. She possessed re

markable

mental

powers up to

almost

the close of her life. A

sister. Nancy {widow of

Henry

Thomas

Butterworth),

who is

54vears old, was able to

attend

the funeral.

Three

daughters

mourn

the loss of

this

aged

mother.

TAYLOR.At her la te residence in

Genoa,

Neb.,

Ninth

month lOt li , 1906, Rebecca J. Taylor, widow of th e late Jona

than Taylor, aged 65 yea rs and 3 months; a member of Genoa

Monthly

Meeting

of

Friends. She

was a native of Bucks

County, Pa., where she married her first husband, Barclay

Jones, who

afterwards

became

miller at th e Pawnee Indian

i seney under Agent Troth , and later filled the same posi tion

at

the

Santce Agency

under Agent Lightner.

UNDERWOOD.At

hi s late home, n ea r H ar ve ys bu rg , 0. ,

> lnth

month

lOtli , 1906,

Dav id W .

Underwood,

son

of

Charles

and

June

W.

Underwood, aged

nearly 65 years, a native of

Center Coun ty , Pa. A widow and

eight

children survive him,

also one

brother

and a

sister.

This dear one

was always ready

to niinistcr to o the rs , eve r

forge tful o f

self.

URNER.On Ninth

month 19th,

1900,

at the

Friends

Board

ing Hoim, . West Chester, Pa.. Ellen Urner. formerly Kendall,

in the SSth year of her age. Interment

a t

Phcenixville, Pa .

yOTES a:n d axxouxcehents.

The opening meeting of

West Nottingham

Y oung Friends

Association f or t lie

fall

and

winter

s ea so n w il l be held in Ris

ingSim First-day afternoon, Tenth month 7th; subject for dis

cussion. Wealth

an d

Religion.

A Fiiund in Now York sends us the following

extract

from

a l et te r f rom

John

Asliworth. of Manchester, England, who

Was so

acceptably

with us

at

th e

General

Conference

at i loun-

tain

Lake Pa rk :

On th e eve of

leaving

for th e old country, I write

to

ex

press my

appreciation

of th e

kindness of

all

Friends,

and

trust

a greater closeness will yet be brought

about amongst

Friends

of all sections, both in Canada and England, with those in

America.

Louis N.

Robinson,

graduateof

.Swurtlimore

Collegein

1005,

who

is the .losluia

H.

I.ippincott Fellow

for 19il6-07, is in

resldemte

at

Halle ander âale and will enter the university there for graduate

Work

in political and snraal science. During tlie recent vacation lie

ktok an extended

bicycle

trip southward, visitingEisenacli, Niirem-

terg, Munich and Berne.S :nrtl(iiiorean

Blue River Monthly Aleeting of Friends, at Highlands, near

SMem,

Ind.. have in the past month had the pleasure of a

^sit from R. Barclay Spieer. of Philadelphia, and Jesse H.

Holmes, of Swarthmnre. Pa., both of

which

Avere duly appre-

fiated. On Fifth-day, the 14th, a morning and evening meet-

ing wore hold, conducted by .Jesse Holmes. A renewed sense

strength and encouragement was felt by all from the mii^

^try of i;his Friend. The visits of these dear Friends, who

Avere

enabled

to meet

Avith

us in a social

Avay

in our homes, will

long be

remembered by this

neighborhood.

S i d n e y

Tki - ed lood .

. A subscriber who lives in Oricago

Avrites

us:

I

send The

TELligencer to TUA mother, who

lives

at Salem, la ., a nd is

Dearly

80 years

old.

She

Avas

brought up in the

Orthodox

ranch of Friends Society. In a recent let te r she expressed

Very

deep interes t in reading the paper, and her hope

that

th e t ime may come when all branches

who

really

believe

in

th e

guidance of

t he Inner

Light

may

be brought

onto

a

working

platform broad

enough

fo r

all.

A Friend in Fresno, Cal., thus describes the religious

unity

existing

in that city;

All

the

English-speaking Protestant

ministers

except the

Episcopalian

and

one

Japanese

have

united

and

organized themselves

as a

ministers

council,

and

work

together as one man in promoting morality and religion, and

for th e

suppression

of vice and

intemperance.

They are sus

tained by the press in their

work.

During the hot weather

th e

congregations and

o th er s meet in

th e

Cour t House

Park,

which

occupies

four

squares in

th e

heart of

th e

city. The

city supplies

benches

and speakers stands.

They

appoint

one

of their numbe r to

preach

every First-day evening from 6.30

to 8 o clock, and they have very large

audiences.

The min is

ters

are

very earne st and

advanced

in

their

religious views,

and

hold

Quakerism

in

high

e st imat ion. They

have invi ted

me

to

a tt en d t he ir ministerial

meetings.

THE

SOLEBURY CENTENNI .

Following is the program of the Solebury MeeQ^ cehjjn-

nial ceremonies, to be held Tenth month Cth, 19|M at Ie-

bury Meeting House, in Bucks County, Pa., at 10 aSS^ 10

{1)

Historical

Sketch of

Solebury

Meeting.

Eastburn Reeder,

(2) Poem

Florence

R.

Kenderdine,

Phi|^fctoh^sES

(3)

The Solebury First-day School.

Sarah

-J. Reeder,

(4) Poem Thadilens S. Kenderdine,

Adjournment

from 12

to 2 for lunch and

sociatr^(ionv^

(5) Recollections of

Solebury

Meeting and SchoSw-C^Cd^

Edwa r d H .

(6 ) Address Matilda E. Janney,

(7) Poem

El y

J. Smith,

(8)

Aword as to

the

future. O O ^ w

Hugh B. Eastburn,

l^Jlestaypiga.

(9) Five-minutes

speeches

by any

who

may

anything to say.

Adjournment a t 4

p.m.

Conveyances

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KANSAS

AFFAIRS.

hi Jlnii'ConslHutic7i Meeting at

Loverence.

According to previous notice, a meeting

as held at the Unitar ian C hurc h in Law-

2nce,Kansas, on the 19ih inst., for the

urpose

of considering the action of '.he late

lonslilulional

Convention. E. B. Whi tman

'as chosen Chairman, and Norman Allen

ecrctary, whem, after remarks by General

im Lane, Charles Robinson and others,

10 following resolutions were

unanimously

dopled.

We

copy

from

the Lawrence

Re-

ublican Extra^ of the 20lh:

Whereas, A body of men, claiming to

ct us a

Constitutional Convention, iiave

resumed to frame a State Constitution for

Cunsas, without submitting the same to a

otc of the people;

And whereas. They were elected by a

mall minority of the people ofthis Terri-,

my, and represent interests that were sig-

ally defeatedby an overwhelming vote in

he

recent October

election;

Andwhereas, They have framed a parti-

an Constitution,obnoxious to the people,

nd.hay.e.originated a vile swindle of prc-

SidBd^iibi&esipnl^^dpceiy. e

s and

ccomplish

iiieir

wicked purposes:

Therc-

ore

'Resolved, That, holding it not

loo

late,we

iiiccmore lender fralevnal relations to these

nisgiiided men, and to

secure such, urge

hem, by

every

sentiment

of

honor and

juS'

iceto desist from such dangerous and trea-

onablepractices.

2.

Resolved,

That, should tiiey persist in

heir course, vvc hereby declare them Irai-

ors to the legitimate government of tlie pco-

)leenemies to the public pence, and out-

aws to the

general

security they have

vio-

ated.

3.

Resolved,

That the Lecompton Con-

ititution is a gross violation o the expressed

vishes of the people of Kansas; that it is a

Irnud,

andbegotten of fraud,andwe

solemn-

y

pledge

ourselves to resist tothe last all

ittempts tothrust it uponus.

4. Resolved, That, while we rccognij:e

he riglit ofany respectable body of men to

wiginate steps lo secure an

organic

law

for

he future State, we repudiate the so-called

election proposed to be held onthe 21st of

December nex t, as a farce and a swind le .

5.

Resolvetl,

That the proposed assump-

iion of executive power by the creatures of

the Lecompton' Convention, without the

sanctionofthe people,and in violation of

federal authority, is dangerous to the inter

ests and peace of Kansas and the most ex

traordinary occasion that could demand tire

promptaction of the legislative and execu

tive department ofthe government.

6. Resolved,. That ive have no reason to

expectfrom the Territorial Executive an im

mediate call for a special session of the Ter

ritorial Legislature; but should the promises

given to us from that quarter fail, -no here

by respectfully suggest to Gov. Charles

Robinson the propriety of calling a special

session of the Slate Legislature at the ear

l iest moment .

it gives youthe liberty tosay by your vole

whether

there

hall

be

tnore

slaves in Kan

sa s

or not. Thus Kansas is a s la ve S la te

to-day, and forever, unless you contrive

some means to

defeat

this

Constitution,

made by these bloodhounds at Lecompton.

Your fa thers call upon you to rise and pre

serve the name of Liberty which they gave

to you. And if you vote for that Constitu

tion at all you vote for a slave Constitution,

for it is written all over with slavery. - 1

say here to-night,that these men who made

that Constitution, a blacker set you cannot

find out ol hell. You may commence at

John Calhoun, and go

down

toBatJones the

hero of Okford, and blacker v il lians cannot

be found.

Truth, they know not what it means.

Honesty, they don't know has an cxislimoc.

I say lo you us Americans, as country

men, and friends, you will be discharging a

holy duly to yourselves, and to the country

which you love and adore , even if you are

compelled lo crush out* the authors of that

Constitution. I say the President of that

Convention, John Ciillijmn, who is covered

all over with crime, upon whose tombstone

should be written (i f he-should ever die)

Felon

Felon Felon .i s th e diclalori.of

Stephen A. Douglass. I don't wish to say

tl\git..Douglass will,favor this Constitution,

hut i' f

never would believe him in anything else

I

should

be

constrained

to

be li eve h im

in

this, for I don't know whicli I would trust

first Calhoun or Douglass.

These men

who framed this

Constitution

have

separated themselves

from

all

honesty,

and fromall honor which existed in thai par

ty.

There nrc honest and.true Pro-slavery

men who left tiie parly in disgust,when they

saw the

poisonous

fruith

pftkat

Convention.

Calhoun

and

his

party

number lo-day

less

than two hundred menmen

did I

say? fiO

friends. We have villians-in that party who

understand howtomakeup electiou returns,

a nd is n ot C al ho un a bl e to

s'end

in

more

atro

cious frauds than was even perpetrated in

the last elections.

I told a member of t ha t C on ve nt io n l as t

night, llmtwc will head them orbe-head. I

amnot going toadvise war or bloodshed here

to-night, for perhaps there is nouse ofthat.

We have nowgot the goats soseparated from

the sheep thatwecan Ciisily kilt them with

out committingcrime. For I truly believe if

God should sliow his special Providence to

night, wc shouldsee in these starry .heavens

his hand coininauding us toexterminatelhe.se

damned villians. The. whole people o

civilized world would loudly applaud

wliilo the wonienof Kniisas utier praises to

Heaven that their

virtue

was again safe.

They went lo Lecompton and played cards,

drank whisky, and made this damned Con

stitulion. Why iho grocery keepers at Le

coinptonhave got rich by these devils, and

are now going

clown

toLawrence and invest

ing their money in city lots.

I do not wish to advise you what lo do,but

ere long we will have a Mass Convention

licre in Lcavenworlh City or Lawrence of

all the people pi Kansas. We willhaveUn

ion Democrats, Natjonal Democrat , conser

vative Pro-slavery men and all who are op

th e

u-s.

The renewing resoluUen wa, alee oITerad ^ u, la/t AoU S

and

passed

unanimously:

Mi i ii

-ru

i i

dL.. j t k

a - A ii.a.

damned outlaws. There are men who wi sh

. , 'p P

t ip?.

to trust this to Congress, or wish

to

head off

pointrnent

ofLocal Vigdance

CommiUce,

| ..,.L

o.h.r noncPnti

G L A S G O W

death for these acts, and they deserve a

thousand deaths forframing this constitution

If your convention which i.s to meet soon

decides upon going to the polls, gothere and

.see that no on e votes who is no t an honest

voter. Guard against the return which will

be sent to Calhoun: Mind they are not

similar lo the Kickapoo, McGeo and Ox

ford returns, and with a fair vote they will

notget one hundred votes, and I will for

feit myhat if they get a single vole south of

Kansas r iver .

We owe it to our se lves, and lo pur ances

tors, that we should drive these villians lo

the wall, and for

myscll

I should think ii

was a duty I oweto myselfand lomyGod,

if I forcedevery man of- them to leave the

Territory beforethe election, and so brand

them

that they may never

deceive

anyother

peopleon the civilized globe.

You may say, Lane you are excited.

I say; ought vvc not to be excited? Have

we not suffered enough to excite every

nerve in our body? Have we not labored

for three years to build up Kansas a free

and glorious-State forourselves and chil

dren?

and':

after

we

have

.

i t wi thin

-oUr.

reach, to bayethese usurper^ by frautl.and

violence ^to - institulp a .viI|ianous; .project

ruining bur best interestsl''Should vve not

feel

like taking

tliesC'villians

bythethroats

-rbnVr

tyir

VyiV

biil

, so, I

eahilot:

help^t; :'^po

to put their vote

down

as smallas you can,

and yet we may be defeated. For

myself

I

see no way toget .ridof . that constitution

but force.

Yes

apply

Ibrce lo'tliese usui-

pere, and only to'

tlib

/ men who bytheir'

voles heaped

this knavery uponus.

^You

who voted

against theconstitution I am reaj

dyto

rc.spect.

But the

other.?

ought tobe

put to death. If. there is any peaceful re

medy

to overthrow this oonstilulion, there

is no men iii the Territory more ready to

it yottf ^ 1 '

But I siili believe thereIf no

other

safe

way than by force. Take

these ine

give

them

a

fair

trial,

,butif

you

find them

guilty of

performing this fraud, they should

.suffer death.

Jack

Henderson and Easlin

grumble because I would put them to death.

Why

there is net a

moment

for the past2

years but what they

would gladly

have

heralded in their papers. Jim Lane is

dead.

Look ove r t he l is t

of

men who

voted f or

that Constitution, (and I have Il-hefe in my

poclvet)nd yoU

will find every inanofthem

mjurderers, thieves apd villians. Calhoun

although

he has lain

behind

the curtain is

perhaps

more

guilty

than any other inan

in

Kansas, --'iiot excepting Jack

Henderson,

Judge J'ohnsons, opinion is lo let them go,

and live, apd decrease the vole as small as

possible,

andlet the

finger

ofscorn

point

lo

them

always.

I would let Jack Henderson

and Easlin live alway if it was nol 'necessa

ry to put them to death, but if it is for the

peaceand prosperity ofKansas, to kill (hem,

I say cut their throats now, andl will not

ask to stayawaybut

will

gladly join in the

act. The lime has come for notion, and I

have always believed that we should never,

have, peace in Kansasuntil thesehellhounds

were driven from our midst. '. I haivb only

one objection to killing

tbem.'

They are

not prepared to die. VVould.'nt Jack Hen

dersonbe a pretty subject to be sent offfor

trial before a just and high tribunal, and I

1

ifsi

they

hi.

Glasgo\

ENTIR

embrac in

tablishme.^

circumstai

Eastern JM

Being

b'

long enga[^

nitiiro, thf

will suit t t

no t only

at

manship,

a.

'AiaigeSl

.'mostiapprpt

cdnstantly'.d

isbj.at shor^

w

.ever offeted

Jdvv'prices^

iiiitm pWt

i.

f..50

.Kf

3t

30 i

20

d us that ho was going to disponsc

ith the sheet, by informing you that

ich an abolition paper could not be

ransmilted' through his office. And

ome peoplehere are inclined to fear he

vill

keep his word. - s / ; *

The result of the Pres identi a l elec

tion has not discouraged the Free State .

men

here, so

much

as was at first

an-

ticipated^ Only two mentalk of re*

turning, in consequence of Buchanan's

election. One great proofthat the Free

Statepartyare seenringa firm foot-hold

in this-pari of the Territory,is found in

th e

fact

that

some s ix weeks siiice.

a

party

of-

Northern men, spme of them

from the State of Maine, came to Og-

den, thecountyseatof thiscounty;

and-

in a few weeks they put in operation,a'

steam-Saw. mill. Several persons'be-

longihg to

the

conipany hav^ token'

'Claims

that are all timber, noni^ fifty

miles up the river,

and

are now ptigajHod-

ill

down logs to saw into-lumper'

for fencing,* buiidnig,

&c.

They'Hve

found an abundance of choice timber,-

with plenty of cedar fof posts,' and 'are

preparing to fence and farm, the com

ing year, on a largo sCale. Most of

their pro-slavcry neighbors are ;well

pleased

with theenterprisingspirit and

gentlemanly conduct pf the company-

of whom Mr. Parsotis, a Presbyterian

minister, is the President. Not so,

however,with our dignified Judge Rey

nolds. Hi Exooileiicy considers'him

selfso insulted by the presence of these

Eastern paupers,- that he has swore, in

his wrath, that the

whole

town of Og-

,den-may sink to the dreary dominions

of Pluto, for all

him, and

has

refused

-to holdany more Courtsin the

place.

IfI had time to

inform 50U

what a farce

11)6 Courts a re ,

pver which he has at

tempted

lb preside for sometime past,.,

and underwhntpeculiar circumstances

some

of

th e

officials

of

th e

Courts

have

left for'purts unknown, you wouldsure

ly

commend

the sagacity ofHisHonor,

the assumed Judge. ' Were it not for-

the vengeance of his wralh, the little

town of

Ogden bids

fair tobeone ofthe

most fioui-ishing

ill this part oftheTer

ritory. Its proximity to Fort Riley,

pleasantly situated on the bank of tlio 1

Kansasiwitha

fertile countryallaroiindV

I

.are.but

a few of its many advantagcsid

The'.pbstr&r

sevierijV

I#?t,^\itili

j

secure

a better-markets for-prodttce thaa:

{ittV.fbthev

.nbiht

thb:TevritoTy>^tdpS5,i

' iWpsifci^abUpdan^^

ihgr?fenping*i&o.:-^TeU-ypurv^^

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in all iho elements of

progress,

energy

and power,Leavenworth is isimeasura

bly tlie superior. Besides, she is a

Kansas town, andevery dollar expended

there

isso

much

toward

building

up

all

t he int er es ts of Kansas.

Leavenworth

is doing far more business than Kansas

City, and

is by far the

preferable place

for trading.

Those

of

ou r Southern Kansas renders

who

are bet ter accommodated at some

point on the river aouth of Leavenworth

than at tluit city, we advise most ear

nestly to go to Wyandot. It is nearer

than Kansas City, is in the Territory,

and

oflers excellent inducements

to buy

ers and shippers.

The Struggle in Liim

Co.

Linn County is one of (.hose interest

ing points in Kansas that always has a

struggle in it. It was settled in 1864

by pro-slavery men from Missouri, fol

lowed ill 1866 by a large Free-Stale

emigration from

all

partsof thecountry.

In

1856,

the Southern

army,

led by the

uoforious

Gen.

Clarke, and aided by

Capt. Fox, of Paris, and Capt. Jesse

D.avis, of Big Sugar

Creek,

expelled

nearly every Free-Slate man from the

i count)', plundering and burning houses

and stores, robbing farmers of horses

and cattle, throwing down fences and

destroying crops, and

finally

carrying

ofl

the men as prisonersswearing that

noabolitionist, as they called all Free-

State men, should live in the Territory.

This army, while on ite way tojoin Gen.

Reed's army at South Middle Creek,

was met and defeated by the Potawato-

mie boys, near South Middle Creek.

The winter

which

followed was

un

commonly severe, and many families

who had returned suffered severely for

food

and clothing. The abolitionists

of the North who sympathised with the

suffering peojde of Kansas, sent provi

sions and clothing to sustain them

through the winter. Thaddeus Hyatt,

of

New York, President

of

the

National

Kansas Committee,-passed through this

county, and left much assistance and

made many friends. W. F. M. Arny,

Agent of the Kansas Committee, was

indefatigable in bis

labors

of

relief.

Au

gustus Wattles also

devoted

much of

his time to organizing the settlers, and

strengthening them

against

further ag

gressions from

(he Pro-Slavery,

National

Democratic party. At this time there

was but one town in Linn Countythat

was Paris, the bogus county seat and

head-quartersofBorder-Ruffianism. At

the

earnest

solicitation of most, we

may

safely

say all, the Free-State settlers of

the county, a

new town was

established

as a rival to Paris, in the hope that the

two principles of

Freedom

and Slavery

might expand and

develop

themselves

side by sideMoneka representing the

morning star of Freedom rising upon

KansJis, and Paris bearing the black flag

of

murde^ and

arson.' We regret that

the Free-State sct ilers did.not continue

united in making Moneka the centre of

their influence, as its central geographi

cal positionmust always render ita town

Pencillings by the Way.

.

Moneka,

Sept. 19, 1868.

Eds. Lawrence Repoblioan,It isa

pleasant morning, one ofthose still, calm

scenes

wbicli embody the idea

of

repose,

and filly rcp:esent8

the

Sabbath

ofphy--

sical rest

which

now falls upon busy

humanity. Around me are evidences

found refinement, culture and liiera/y

ability.

For

(he time

beiiig

your corres -

pondent

is enjoying a

short

space ofre

pose

in

one of

.the

happiest,

most

Refined

and lovcablo families in all ou/ Eden

garden.

All

who

know, howeverslight-

ly. the brothers, Augustus and

John

0.

Watdes, will agree

with me in the

above.

While interiorly the home life at this

place is so pleasant, exterior

Nature,

has

done no less to

make the surroundings

most bpautifu). I

have

traveled

'much

overKansas during

two

years residence

in it. have seen itsglorious prairies, and.

believe that It certainly bears the palm,

for natural beau:y, over all that 1 have

hitherto

witnessed

; but for the

quiet

repose,

and picturesque effectof

ma.sses

ot verdure,

swelling slopes, bold bluffs,

long stretching lines of low hills, dark

gretri massesof heavy timber, all ming

linginandniakingone

harnionioiis whole,

commend me to the valleyof the little Su

ga r Creek, in which Moneka is situa

ted .

But I will give you some details of

my journeyings since I left Lawrence,

which was

five

days ago. I reached

Osawatomie on Thursday noon, found

nearly every body had been or was suf-

fering

from theprevailing epidemic. Fi

nancially the business men had nomore lo

complain of, than their compeers else

where. The country around Osawatomie

is thickly settled, and the extensive ira*

provements going on in all directions,

prove that the sctlleis have the

organ

of

go-a-head-aliveness

largely

developed.

The Convention of Lyktns county had

just been held, and resulted in ibe nom

ination

of two gentlemen as Representa

tives, Dr . Ellis of Miami, and Mr. S. H..

Houser,

of Sianton. Thi s d id not suit

the viewsof the fag ends of Democracy

hunkc ri sm and Minneola harmoniums,

and consequently they bolted. At Pao-

la, which place I visited, I saw a pla

card calling a Convention to meet on

the I8ih inst-.-, (Saturday,) to nominate

opposition candidates. ^1 understood

that in the-meeting from which this call

was issuftd, there was some twenty-five

persons present, eighteen of whom were

Pro-slavery.

Paola is the country

seat

of Lykins eouhtyi so made by the first

Bogus Legislature, and kept there, by

the second.

.I t

is owned by Pro-slavery

men, or Nat iona l

Deindcraiic Free-Stale

men, as they now begin to call them

selves.' It is quiie a pretty site, but'in

all probability the vote of the people this

fall

will

remove it to Osawatomie;

.

t Osawatomie

I

met

a

true and

tried

friend of Freedom, Charles A.

Foster. He bad

been

suffering from

ague,

but-still 'was earnest in the

good cause, and expected to stump- bis

county in behalf of the regular nomi

nees.

Mr. Foster has a

fine

place,ad

joining

the

town,

and

will

eventually

reap Uie material reward wliicli his de

votion and services deserve.-

'

r d

' show

the value.of property in this section, he

staled

to

me that two

acres

of

his

claim

.aold a fe\y>days,before at

91 -per acre

he himself having sold t for 75 to

Eli Snyder, the blatdismilh who, it will

b e r em ember ed , defen ded himself

bravely against Hamilton and his gang

on the day of the massacre in Lane Co

l^oslioTalley at H.impden. and u.

nting at Emporia. Mr. J. Q. Wattles it,

le originator of the project, and in con-

jnclion with his brother, Mr. Arny,

fld a few othets , has pushed the work

irward tintUn survey has been comple-.

ui, the company incorporated, the right

f way secured through Kansas in a-

ordance with an act of Congress, pas-

,, , . . , ted in 1866, a co-operation secured with

la

even

in our pioneering life, can b ji iie Missouri company, the points nam-

ed, and a bill introduced into Congress,

(which has been approved'by commit

tees of

both

branches,) asking for a

giant of land. Thus it may be consid

ered a fixed fac t, one of the inst itutions

of Soulhern Kansas. By means of it

ihat portion of our Territory will be in

diiect

coinnmiiication with St. Louis,

and a most important link be added to

the chain

which is to bind the. Allai il ic

surges to IheP.acific surf.

At this

meeting

at Clinton, deputa

tions. were present from Paris, and the

Trading Post,who,not knowing how far

the

company

had proceeded, expected

to be

able

to i nd uc e t he M is sou ri

com

pany to cbatigo the point of junctionon

the Stale line, so that it would pass

through those towns in.slead of Moneka.

They were disnppoin ed.

There is an interesting history con

nected with the attempt of the Paris

people to deprive the original

projectors

of the.

road

of the benefit arising from it,

whicb

will n ot b e

the

hesl feature in

the

transactions of that delectable l.egisla-.

live body which met at Lawrence

last-

winter. The original corporaiors of the.

Kitiisas road were

as

follows : A. Wat

tles, G. W. Deiizler, G. W Brown, W.

A.

Ela.

S. B. Allen, W. F. M. Arny,

John

0.

Wattles, J. T. Cox, and P. .B.

Plumb. TheSecretary of thecompany I

was

authorized

to

draw

up a

Charter,

|

and getit presented to the Legislature.

The Bill was

introduced

and

passed

through.

Mr.

A.

Wattles accidentally

learned of

there being

something wrong

in

the

bill,

and

on examination it was

found that in place ol the projectors' of

the

movement,

the following

names

had

been subsStiiuted in the charier: J.

F.

Hollingsworlli, of Missouri,,M, J. Par-:

rott, R. B.

Mitchell,

(Rep. from

Linn

Co.,) Lyman Allen. C. W. Babcock, G.

W^Deiizler,

John

O. Watties,

W.

F. M.

Arny, A; Danfordi (Rep. from Linn

Co,,) John Hanna. J. P. Fox, John

Speer, James Blood, P. B. Plumb, Ei

P. Barcroft,

David

ribbett,

(Council-

mail

from Linn and Lykins.) H,'

Blake, and H. W.

Fick.

By

this

it

will ^

be

seen

that

all

he

naines

but

four,

of

^ ^

the

original projectors had been stricken 2 M

out,

and

those,fourteen

others, subsiliu- .0^ \

Oageo

ed, s ev en

of

whom we re

members of

tlie-Legislature. It was a

mean

attempt

to. wrong

men who had

been

public-

spirited enough to give: considerablf

lime and money lo a project of

eminent

pnllie value. Mr. Wattles went to Gov.

Denver,

and

laid before him a

statement

of the

case,

and procured hispromise to

veto the -bill. 'As it got otit,

however,

t ha t such

a s ta tement had been made,

the bill never was called up by the Rep

resentative, who

introduced

it, Mr. R. B.

Mitchell. It is reported.that the reason

of the change was, that on presentation

of. the. bill with theoriginal names, the

person piescnting it to,be introduced

.was told

that

with tlioee names , the bill

could not pass, and tberefoie others

must

be substituted, which was done as

seen

above.

..TIie..conjpnijy, liD>rever,.proceeded to;

orgaiiize under the General Railroad In

corporation Act, passed last wintei;, and

this summer have secured the right of

way and fixed the points through which

the road will pass in Kansas, as follows; ;

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now

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JKansas. ; Its enterprise also in learning

and in the progressive

movements

of the

day, render it a point of interest to.all

wlio value

human

improvement.

The

town ofMooeka isthe first, wo believe,

which has built a large academy, cost

ing $2,000, and keptup a

good school,

as hasbeen seen by

referring

toourad

vertising columns. They have also

chartered a university for souih-eastern

Kansas in tills town. The rai lroad is

also a

fi.\od

fact,

which,

we

are happy

to see, is secured, with a strong board

ofdirectors, Gov.

Denver being

among

the nnmber. An exciting election is

now coming off between Pro-Slavery

Democracy and sculltluggeryon the one

side, and fair play to the people's rights

on

th e other.

Wo

shall

await

th e result

wi th in teres t .

The belief

that

Paris is st il l Demo

^cratic,

and

sympathises with the Pro-

Slavery party, and that Mailock was set

c

free

with their consent, by the aid of

r money furnished by the Blue Lodge, is

'Inow making much against her. Also

jjthe fact that

the Pro-Slavery party are

^ largo

owners

in the town and adjoining

}i farms, is a great drawback. Capt.

Fox, the Border-JlulHan, is reputed to

own a

section

of land

joining

this

town,

^ the value of

which

would be

increased

3,several thousand dollars by the votes of

nithe Free-State party if he could get

5''them, to make his town the couniy seat.

'lle

wag a rueinber of the second bogus

j Legislature,

and

had

the

county lines

j-moved

to

make

his

town more nearly

u central. The town site

itself

ha s but

' \nbaut twenty acres of available land for

building purposes(ho

remainder

being

rocks or swamp.

Direct from

th e

Moimtains.

; During the past week there havebeen

) several nirivals in town from the gold

regions of

the Rocky

Mountains. From

[Mr.

Baker, who was

one of the

original

(.Lawrence company, we learn that that

,

company

have gone to the

Spanish

yPeaks instead of Clieriy Creek. The

5Spanish Peaks are in New

Mexico,

about

) six days journey south from Pike's

, Peak.

The

Lawrence company liave

,'been

encamped nearly

all

summer at

..Pike's

Peak,

and have sent

prospecting

.companies into all the country round

about. They

found

gold in all the

'streams, but not in

sufficient

quantities

I to

prove'

profitable mining with

their

jpresent facilities. Mr. Baker is.confi

dent that there are rich deposits ofgold

. in all that region, and that, with the

;proper facilities for mining, it could be

made to pay well,

li e

coufirms the ac

count tliat there is a Georgia company

;a t work on Cherry Creek. It is from

this Georgia company that the arrivals

of gold to Kansas City have been. The

Lawrence company have gone to Span

ish Peaks, and will probably winter in

New Mexico.

ihg it

impdssibleTor

hinfseir''and'^

to keep their

property or

live

in peace

at his old home on the. State line.

The dark and bloody deed was

com

mitted on his farm,'half a mile from

the

border,

and

within

sight of the

dwelling places

of

many who

aided and

abetted in that atrocious act. Since

then, Mr. Snyder

has

been annoyed

by

a

system

of pliindeiing, wlilch

slrippotl

him of everything movenblo round his

farm; chickens,

cattle, hogs,

&c., have

been

driven

away, until he is compelled

to^ leave.,

I had a

long

conversnlion

with Mr.

S,, in

wliicii

he

gave

me

avery

graphic

and

interesting

acooi nt of

the afiray. He

bears

in his body four

bullets, which Hamilion's gang

fired

at

him, and in

defending

himself it

appears

he wounded three of the gang, on^ 'of

them severely. Snyder is a tall, ^aunt

man, about 45 years ofage,

with sharp,

keen, nervous

features,

expressive

ofde

termination and

energy.

He

has

a

great

deal of.the

blood-hound

and

tiger in his

nature, and willyet make some of those

who confederated with Hatnilioh suffer

for

theiracts. Thenews

had

just

reach

ed

him,

of the

escape

of

Mattock' from

Paris, which

place

I afterwards visited.

The

following

statements

wi-re

made

by

different parlies, as to the manner of his

escape.

This

man was arrested

br

Snyder and his sen, in Missouri, as one

of the murderers. He was placed in

charge of

ten

men, a

portion

ofthe

com

pany commissioned by Gov.. Denver to

protect the border. These guards

were

plied

by liquor 6n the night of the es

cape, and he managed to evade one of

them whileeng.aged outside of the build

ing in

which he

was

kept.

The officer

in charge, Lieut. Colby, was suspected

of complicity, from the fact of his hay

ing been a Pro-slavery man, and an ac

tive participant in the troubles of 1856.

Mattock got his fetters off and darted in

to the timber, beforetheguard, whowas

searching for a bottleof whisky,

recov

ered

from his astonishment. He made

good his retreat, and by this lime is

probably in .Arkansas, where his father

owns a large plantation.

It is alsoslated, and generally

believ

ed in Linn county, thata regular system

of

bribery

was the means of

effecting

the murderer's escape. The people of

Paris, at which place he was confined^

are Pro-slavery, and their syrajiathies

were \yiih

him. The Blue Lodge fur

nished the means, and the restwaseasy

of accomplishment. This is another

evidence of the

impo-ssibility

of punish-

isliing criminals, while we remain in our

present condition. When we get rid of

Federal and Democratic

influences

by

becominga State, then, and nut tillthen,

will justice be meted out.

I left Osawatomie on Friday last, and

arrived

at thispoint

on Saturday mo^ni-

ing. I found liere W. F. M. Arny, of

Hyatt, who, with John

0.

Wattles, of

Moneka, had been attending a .Railroad

Convention at Clinton, Henry county,

Missouri.

It

was a meetingof the Mis

souri Directors of the

Jeft'ei-sou

City

nnd

Southern

Kansas

Railroad for the

purpose of transacting business, and

meeting a deputation from the Kansas

Directors. Mr. Arny is President, and

John Wattles Treasurer of t he Kan

sas line. This road taps the Pacific

road in Missouri, and runs through

Westward to the Slate line, and then in

tersects Southern Kansas, striking the

i

'i? at 'tue'juhctiOn

Moneka ^

Linii county.;

Watertown and,

Hyatt, Anderson county; Fountain, ;

Hampden'and Otiumwa, Coffey'county;;

Florence and

Con way Madison county;;

and

Empoi;ia

Breckonridge county. j

I have been thus lengthy in, regard tot

this

matter,

kiiowing

the iinport^mce of |

a thorough

knnwiedgo

of the aubjpcl,

to the

people

of

Kansas, and

that

your '

.readers, may

be

posted

-in

regard to d'

route,

which

a single glance at

the map;

will

show

to

be

of

great importance.,

i

The projected road

drains

the richest |

agricultural

portions

of

Missouri'and

j

Kansas, and

it

is

confidently

expected

that within five years the farmers

will

be witliin a short distance of market.

The

gentlemen

who originated the

pro

ject

have displayed great

energy ..in

pushing the matter.

They

have spent

over 2,000 in the preliminary arrange

ments, and have traveled several times

over the whole

route,

holding.meeiing.s,

.and di.sseminaling

informaiioii

relative to

their project. ' ' '

; ihe-political

affairs

of Linn couniy

seem lobe in the same condition as those

of Lykins.

A

Convention

held at

Paris

lately,

re-

nominated Messrs Mitchell and Danford.

There is a great deal of dissatisfaction

expressed by tlie people, at least by all

with whom I have come in contact.

liideueiident candidates

are to be run,

and Messrs

Curti.s

and Ewing. (the lat

ter was _a member of the Leavenworih

Convention,) are nominated.' The first

Convention wascalled under (he author

ity of the spurious County Coinmitiees.

appointed last winter by Brown's sub-

teiTaneans.

The

people

repudiate their

ac tion, and the above is the resul t.

.

The

.whole of the

returns

of the vote

on the Leavenworih Constitution has

been

smuggled in

this

couniy, by the

officers whose

duty it was to

forward

them.

There

were 120 votes in Paris

township, mostlyagainst the Constitu

tion, wiiich were not forwarded to the

proper parlies. In the other precincts

the vote was strongly in

favor

of that

instrument.

Crops are quite good in this section.

The

corn

is being cut on many

farms,

and the

yield

is

abundant;

the

'sugar

canei wasplanted quite extensively, and

promi.ses an abundant , return. A mill

for the purpose of making sugar and

sorgho

molasses

is in operation in this

vicinity, and will have plentyto do.

Farmers speak well of this crop, and if

its

resulta

should

be

as

well-as

anticipa

ted, it

will

make

a

revolution

in

regard

to dealings with our Southern hrclliren,

in the

matter

of

sugar, which they will

find

important, financially at least. '

The health of this community is no

better and ho worse than other.places in,

Kansas.

The prevailing

epideniic

lias

been

felt

here equally

with

other places.

Chills

and

fevers will, I think, be

scarce

as the country settles up and improve

ments are. made. Much of it is owing

to carelessness in diet, and exposure to

the nightly miasma, and if more pains

were taken in regard to these points,

there would be less sickness. Capt.

Montgomery has been and still is very

sick. From this point I shall-visit the

counties of Allen, Anderson and Coffey,

in which I sliall lake a few more pen

cilings by the way, and trouble your

readers thoicwilb, though notso length

ily as in this.

J

H. R.

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Gen.

BsnCT

coixBiawmij .

fWherrfore, agreed

that cotor

isa reason.)

muaioc,ovenwith Gen Bonks to back

it,

and

President

lincoln to

confirm

it,isa

tion foron ondnringState. ^

very worst

dUturber

of

the

public peace. Let us

dtdore lit

once, aii Garrott

Davis

woûld have us,

that

no

negro or

person whoso

mother

or

g^nd-

motberwasancgro, shall

bcacitizcnomo^^^^^^

Slates,

or

bo eligible to any civil

or

militMy offlco,

0

te any Pl^ca

profitunder

ttieUnited

Cos Or, let

us establish

no skin-deop

dis-

Snation mnengour

citizens-least

of aU one

not

only

not

reauired

to

mmntain the

principle, but

in direct contravention

f

^

education,

.

every voter must possess, so ^ . .

zen has

the opportunity te obtwn it. Gito

equal rights, under equal chances, and J^J^y is

ie. Would

that we

had

the power

and the elo-

nuence

to enforce

the

warnings

uitered by Dr

Tvng in his

speech

at

Mr.

Thompson's

roccp

lion,

in regard,

to the certain rewtion

upon

our

selves

of our injustice to J

low and delusive is emancipation unattraded

hyequalitybeforethelaw.

Thatrepublieanism is

a

lie which strips

aman

of aught that

belongs to

BanlM

oonsiateaily

admits none

of

them. .

TBE

BLACK

MAK IK THE

EEPtJBLIC.

0 Saturday, the fifth of March, the 20thU.S.

Regiment ofcolored troops, recruited inthis State,

marched down Broadway

amid the

waving

of

'handkorchtelb and the plaudits ofthe lookors-oi.

Manforman and

collectively,

these

soldiers

were

'the

peers

ofanywhioh

hod preceded-or may

yet

follow

thgm,ta.the seat of war.. Theycarried to

the

defense

of

their native land

,as brave ,

hearte'

as stalwart' forms, as. hardy muscles, as eorrept

.discipline,as any,'. Thby,will,contribnto,each.maa'

^.one, to. iha.

numerical

superiority of the'

federal

over the' rebel

armies;

inthewall ofliving broask--

uplifted-.betsreen: the republic

and

.its

foes,

they

^will; con8titpte;,on

mfrahgible,

intei^^

portion.?

.^Thus equal iff

every

essential partiouiar

toitheirl

white

'comrades

in anna,

they

go^d

.they'are:

,

aware

6f-'iti-to face far greater dangers'and tp':

reap a

far>

lesser'

reward.

If North Oarolina liei

their

destination, they

expectj

when

taken prison-

ers

by

Genf-Pickets,

to

be hung on' the spot'; if]

South

Carolina,

deathawaits

.them

iniyarions fonhs

of tor ture.j ' if th^ l

h im as

a

man.

He rOTrateA'-lliat whilethe

negroes'Were

roUcd>i

-onUottd Integrity,they were1

denied, all the rightsand.claimsof citizenship. JIf

ho colled upon,thoi

negroes

to helphimtofightJ

ithiw

werefit tovotefor him.

vHenoe

he

repndl-

ated whole pollri8. ttq'

'gratitude' Ofa'repuhlio-:-suoh the' justice' of

enlightened people; ' It wda reserved for a fmomr

herof

the Honsb from Kentucky,

in no spirit'' ojP

fnimdliness tothebiaeka, hutwitha eleahiesa oif

vision

which

pierced

the-flimsjr

reasohihlf'of hia

.political eppbnente, to.vindioate. the claims'of thi'

colored soldier ito the. ballot..

Mr.

Wadswoi^ ,

8Md,:a

fortnight igo:...^.* [''

. f 'Ho

protested against

the

whole

poHot;

pfi'ann^?

tog

negroea.

and

-btlnj^ng

them-into the contest):

.

jrcre;comman:dBd06jr.while

'ufBcera; anddei''

nlâllclalmw political'(mdsocialyeoognitiori/'

andyet were

required,

to fight toirfkct, It Was I

uiang^g

one state;of'rtaveiy for onemore

odlous.'

l l tfl i ?htlA

fKA

itA ww AB'Wjw*

. Itwiu'bo noticed that

this

KenôMaa ojês

the enlistment ofthe negro in.order,:

avoid

the

conclusion that he thereby

earns

the

right

to

he^,

citizen. The

nation,

on the contrary, adopts

lum

into the service as

an

indispensable ally, but

meanly

shirks

the logical conscquowf i ts own

oction, and

leaves him

nearly

as naked

of prot^

tion as

it

found him.

Needs

m^twc couflas ât

the

position

of the

slaveholder

is higher

f that

of

tee

chiefs of state. Cortamlyi

if

to have en-

deavorcd to

destroy the Union is'anoffense

worUiy,

as

it

is held

in

many

quarters,

fto J * ;

franqhisement, the right- of

sufi'rBgc.iB,

the least

return

for

having

helped to

preserve

the Union. :

But

suppose the colored qoldier

ith

this invsluahle right,

which

haa.heen

fte

of

his enlistment,and

will he

wm bytern

l j i5

serrice

with this

bounty ol , V

after

thewaras his

cross

of

honor.

to his countryhas been

must

bo hfa

reward,

.He

cannot bequeath

thebal-

lot

to

his ehildyen.

He

cannot share it

with

liis

brethren

who by

fete or

for

the beat of 'I

toie not

arms

like hiirf

for the suppression of the

rebellion. With no bettor

J '

xonship tbanthey-in

many

inferior^he finds himself

erected,

with 1 ^

ates,into a caste which isdangettms

bcrs,humiliftting to those

3tKoinBfrtêntifl^MIj^.Sit^6?>i'/V^

towioiiiiSii

Vconsistency j

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CEirSADE

AGADrST

COLOB.'

^ The public are already familiar with the

disaa-

trous upshot

of the

President's

attempt

to colonize

coloKd Americans

ina

foreign isle. Reduced

by

pestilence and famine

the

Zionists

return,

after

year

of untold

suffering, one-eighth fewer

than

they

went out. Viewed from

the

side

of

symna-

thy with these unhappy victims, the experiment

'

Û^thT

unsparing

te rms for

bUahtdîS

Jed-the fond

anticipations

lighted, the scanty fortunes consumed,

the

modes

.

f

industry

unsettled, the

useful

Hves

destroyed

An

outlay

by

the Government

of

thirty

thousand

oUais accomplishes the decimation

of

an

humble

i^ l de k

impoverishes

their orig-al destitution Nor has this resulted

from mis

management alone, but

from violation of

the en-

y

authorities with the de

uded emigrants.

If

here

is

not food

for

righteou^

indignation, then seldom

is

there.

Unon whom

-tion:;ofa?as i7cr

tcd to

the

trial of expatriating our fellow-coun

trymen 5 upon the Executivo chiefly, who o.m

ceived the idea, and who

took

the

lead

in urgin-

its execution. ' ^

We subscribe to

the

general opinion that

the

beginningand the

, ourselvesof tho colored

fnTom

\ Mr. Lincoln is

n

comprehending the logic of events, we

fa^

that he has at last

learned

alessen

from

the failurl

his chenshed undertaking, and that ho

will

Im rlh

kap-

fight.

If

he leaves us

itis

iJUt by:

dictated by personal oo / . choice,:

tarries,and coLtitmLrrfom -

be subject to the

whLh

^ =

must have a

shairS

T r m L ^ ^ T

With them that

labor

hia

thm

?+

^c will

work

;

to the general

intelligence

-an contribute

obey; and as aruLrr^îgvtr^^^^?

which

we mean to establial. ? ^berty

uame is competition, will

pro^de for

theT

mentof that

perfectibility which

b

/

wraent and

oppressjon j

and God,

in a

nuMMUUIIliLURQi

broad

sense,

ha s

attached

hi m

to

th o

soil,

from

wliich wo ca nno t driv e h im . In.tho reigi i of

slavery it wa s said

an d

the l i e s t il l eohoes about

Up, Tho two races cannot live side by aide on

conditionsof equality. To-day, wemust reconcile

our minds to the contrary; and th e problemsimply

is ho w to

make

th e

best

terms

with

the

future.

We may continue to deny the black

ma n

justice, to

icfuse him the protection of the ballot , to leave

h im , as between s lave ry and freedom, like one

stranded from shipwreck at the base of a preci

pice ; and all becBuse he is black. This is only

to postpone

th e

inevitable. On

th e

other hand

ii is easy to calculate h ow m u ch we gain by such

a course.

Th e

plainest deduction from

ou r

na

tional experience is, that the wrong which we in

flict upon

other-s

is retorted more heavily upon

ourselves, an d that th e master's fate is worse than.

th e

slave's.

From th e

line *of

impartial justice

an d

equal rights we

have

been

taught

to

ou r

cost,

n ot

t o d ev ia te .

W h a t

w h a v e taJcen

from

th e i

uegro ha s been so much

an d

more, subtracted

from o u rsel vesn o t ad d ed : s u c h is

th e divine

ma t h e ma t i c s .

W e

c e as e t o b e free

w n

w c e a s e

to

make

free,

a nd t he measure

of

ou r

self-enslavet-

ment is the measure of the negro's repression in

ou r

civil and political society.

Prejudice against color is- slayery's

last

legacy

to'ohr

afflicted,country,

and the most

baneful:

Not

th e

meek forgiveness of

th e

long-sufferingrace i

n o t t h ei r

devotion to

t h e c au se

of

th e U ni on ; n ot

their fiery valor at

Port

Hudson or Wagner;

no t

their simple pipty and trust in God amid the great

es t of soci

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