'THE lITJNTIAGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AID GENERAL NEWS, &C.
JIE GLOB
Circulation—tie largest in the county
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Wednesday, June 25, 1856.
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FOIL PRESIDENT,
JAMES BUCHANAN, of Pennsylvania
• FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, of Ky
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
0-EORGE SCOTT, of • Columbia county
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery co
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL,
TIMOTHY IVES, of Potter county
OUR NEW DRMSS, &c
Oun readers, and our patrons in particular,
will observe a striking change in the appear
ance of The Globe this week. How do you
like its new dress? We think we hear every
man and woman answer--"it is neat—beau
tiful—and its subscription list should be in
creased in every township in the county."—
just the conclusion we came to, and will not
be displeased if we should receive immediate
evidences from our num---....c0u5i14, , ,nds that our
labors and expense for their gratifiestam-and,
good, are appreciated, and deserving of their
favorable consideration.
This number of TIZEt GLOBE commences a
new volume. Ten years ago we took charge
of its columns, and by strict attention to busi
ness, haVe built upon a firm basis, a Dem
ocratic press in Huntingdon, which we, at
least, are not ashamed of. It willbd our en
deavor hereafter to make it an interesting and
useful family as well as political paper. Due
attention will be paid to all the local occur
rences of our town and county. The inter
ests of the farmer and mechanic will be con
sulted, and as far as our space will admit of
it, valuable information will be gleaned from
the farming and scientific periodicals of the
country for their benefit. A small space will
also each week be devoted to Education, Do
mestic Economy, &c., &c.
We cannot let the present opportunity pass
without extending to those who have been I
our fast friends, in the Opposition as well as our
own party—those who have encouraged usby
their "material aid," and their influence and
exertions in extending the circulation of our
paper—our most sincere acknowledgements
—our heartfelt thanks. To many such are
we indebted for the past, and for the future
will endeavor to deserve a continuance._ of
that friendship.
RECEPTION or• PILLMORE.--Mr. I'll/more,
the Know-Nothing candidate for the Presi
dency arrived at New York on the 11. S.
Mail Steamer on Sunday night last. Ile was
enthusiatically received by a Committee of
Common Councils and his . political friends
generally. Salutes of several hundred guns
were fired which continued until morning.—
The general opinion of the knowing ones of
his friends is that he won't be swallowed up
by the. Abolitionists, but will continue to be
a prominent candidate in the opposition ranks
up to the day which will most certainly de
clare in favor of Mr. Buchanan.
MONSTER MASS MEETING. An immense .
meeting of the friends of BCCIIA7 , .:AN and
BR.ECKINEIDGE was held at Independen.ce
Square, Phila., on Tuesday eveningl th inst.,
to ratify the nominations of the Cincinnati
Convention. It is estimated that at least
20,000 persons were present. Mayor VAUX
presided, and, on taking the Chair, address
ed the assemblage in an appropriate and
eloquent manner, in which he paid warm
and glowing tributes of praise to the candi
dates-of the Democratic party. A series of
strong and patriotic resolutions were unani
mously passed.
The meeting was addressed by Gen LEW
IS CASS, Hon. STEPUEN A. DOUGLASS, Hon.
HOWELL COED, Hon Wm. B. REED, (old line
whig) HENRY M. PHILIPS, Esq., Hon. Rion-
AND BRODHEAD, Hon. A.SA BIGGS, and others.
The greatest enthusiasm prevailed, and
the shouts for BUCHANAN and BRECRINRIDGE
were almost deafening. The nomination of
"OLD BUCK." secures the city of Philadelphia
by an immense majority in November next.
In our paper to-day will be found the
speech of the veteran Cess on that occasion.
He spoke with energy and enthusiasm while
proclaiming to the thousands surrounding
him his admiration of Pennsylvania's great
statesman. Next week we will give our read
ers the speech of the Hon. WM. B. REED on
the same occasion.
CAN THE "JOURNAL" SUPPORT FREMONT ?
The Philadelphia Daily Hews, an old Whig
organ, but now supporting Fillmore, asks—
"ls Fremont a Catholic?"—and goes on to say:
"Col. Fremont, at a very early age, when
but five or six years old, was taken charge of
by a • society or association of ladies of the
Catholic denomination, in the City of Charles
ton, and under their care and patronage was
reared and educated in a Catholic Institution
in that City. And he was married by a.
CatholiC Priest, Father Van Horseigh, .in
Tktshington, though his wife was then and
now is a Protestant."
IVe.a.sk, how can Gabe, after denouncing
every body in any way connected with, or un
der the influence of the Catholic religion,
support Fremont?
VEIDELADING MATTER ON LYERY
Nationality of the Democratic Party.
The constant dropping of a little • we
ter will eventually wear away a stone hard
as adamant. The uninterrupted action of
the elements would destroy the strongest
chain that could be forged. So, too, in the
political world, a steady and long-continued
persistence in - tl e p:•onutlgation of any doc
trine, or the persevering effort to enforce any
measure, no matter how unjust, absurd, or
suicidal, if it be not met by a powerful coun
teracting influence, will eventually exercise
a strong effect upon the public mind. Ex
perience, remarks the Pennsylvanian, has
shown this to be the case even with what
should have been sacred from the touch of
oirery American citizen—the Union of these
States. That foul word which should never
have found a place in our political dictionary,
and never-have been thought of during the
day, or dreamed of during the night—ms-
UNlON—now dances frequently and flippant
ly upon traitorous tongues. One by one,
many of the old ties which formerly bound
us together as a nation, have been broken.—
Even religious organizations, once national,
are now sectional.. The old line Whig par
ty, which once held a national 'creed and
adopted a national platform, is dead. The
Know Nothing order was shivered into frag
ments, by the mere effort to assume an out
side show of nationality. A Black Republican
party, confessedly founded upon a sectional
issue, claiming only a sectional support, hold
ing sectional conventions, is about entering
the political lists with sectional
_nominees and
a sectional platform. The warnings of
Washington against the formation of geo
graphical parties are every day becoming
more openly and flagrantly disregarded.—
There are, at this moment, thousands of
scheming brains recklessly engaged, with all
the energies they can command, in the ne
farious work of irritating public feeling, fos
tering sectional prejudices, goading on the
American people to a phrenzied state of sec
tional excitement, and in sapping the foun
dations upon which the Union rests. •
In the midst of this whirlpool of danger,
is there no quarter to which the true patriot
can turn with hope and confidence ? Is there
no ark left in which we can escape the con
sequences of the flood of danger which
threatens to overwhelm us? Is there no na
tional party—no national platform—no
na
tional nominees—no national organization,
with equal claims upon the confidence and'
support of every section and every State of
the confederacy? Thank heaven, tho' there
is but one, there is one. And it is the Demo
cratic party. It is a peculiarly gratifying
elretunstanee; too, - that - though this party was
always noted for the national tone and spir
it which pervaded it, while all other organi-
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zations have been growing weaker in the na
tional sentiment which animated them, it has
been growing stronger and stronger 'in that
respect. The withered branches of the par
ty, in whose diseased limbs, the old vitality
and sap of devotion to the Union, and the
Constitution had dried up, have been lopped
off, and have fallen one by one, from. the
trees to which they had clung only as useless
appendages ; but their place has been more
than supplied by new and vigorous shoots,
sound to the core and beaming with health.
The true lovers of the country and the Uni
on, mindful of the exigencies of the times,
sickened and disgusted with the demagogue
, ism of Black Republicanism, appealed by
the perils it invokes, anxious to thwart the
traitorous design of disunion which it is its
real mission •to accomplish, have turned with
joy to the Democratic party, whatever may
have been their former political affinities,
because it now forms the last refuge for the
truly patriotic, the grand army which alone
can successfully beat back the foes who
menace all that is dear to the American
people, and alone can preserve the perpetu
ity of the existing national compact. They
behold it alone animated by the true spirit
of nationality. They behold its orators
' speaking the same sentiments, its presses
printing
,the same articles, its conventions
and candidates promulgatirig the same prin
ciples North, South, East and West. By it,
alone do they see speakers from the North
welcomed and cheered in the South. By it
alone do they see appeals made to the pub
lic for support, founded upon broad national
issues, and it alone breathes forth those sen
timents which should animate brethren of a
common country.
Of all the duties which an American citi
zen owes to the nation, none is of such vital
and paramount importance as the earnest ef
fort to preserve unimpaired the Union. It
is by the Union we have grov'n great and
prosperous as a people, and it is only by its
preservation that our greatness and pros
perity can be preserved. No evil greater
than its dissolution can befall us--no great
er danger than its destruction can threaten
us. Any internal difficulties, small, or great,
we may have among us, will eventually be
adjusted wisely and properly hereafter, as
they have always been heretofore. But let
us always, and under all circumstances keep
steadfastly in view these two great ob
jects—the maintenance of the Constitution
and the preservation of the Union, and then
arrange all minor matters as best we may.
No more striking proof of the nationality
of the Democratic party could be given than
its present attitude as compared with its
oppoilents. When the wise King SOLOMON
was called upon to decide between the con
flicting pretentious of two women who both
claimed to be the mother of the came child,
he said, let it be cut in twain and each take
half. The passion of the false claimant led
her to acquiesce in the proposal, but the in
stincts of the true mother urged her to cry
out in tones of anguish, no, save the child,
and give it to my antagonist rather than
destroy its life. This is the spirit of the
Democratic party. All may see that it is
animated by the true ' sentiment of 'nation
ality, and that it is the true defender of the
Union and the Constitution, because it
makes their preservation its master-passion,
and regards the mere gratification of section
al passions and sectional prejudices as sub
ordinate considerations, while its antagonists
cry out cut the child in twain—let the Union be
dissevered, rather than our views be thwart
ed.
MR. FILLMORE WILL NOT DECLINE.—The
New York Express has the authority o let
ter from Mr. Fillmore for saying that under
no circumstances will he decline the nomina
tion tendered him. The following is the ex
tract alluded to:
"In reference to the efforts which have
been used to drive me from my course, they
wholly mistake my character. It is true, I
did not desire the nomination; but my name
has been placed before the public by my
'friends, and there it will remain, regardless
of all consequences, unless they shall desire
its withdrawal."
Senator Sumner's Illness.
We do not, of course, justify the assault
upon Senator Sumner,' happening where it
did, but the dow game now being played by
that distinguished Abolitionist, must dissi
pate all further sympathy for him and his
exaggerated sickness. - If he did not deserve
chastisement for his coarse assault upon an
absent Senator, he certainly deserves the
lash of ridicule for permitting himself to be
used as a standing subject for falsehood.—
Like the "outrages in Kansas," his condition ,
has been magnified by lying, Abolition re
ports
in the newspapers, when at - no period,
since his caning, has he been in the slightest
danger. It may have suited Mr. Sumner's
purpose, after being whipped, to pretend that
he was much worse thanhe really was. - Had
he not done so, he would have been expected
to make himself even by challenging his as
sailant, or cudgeling him in return; but
there is no possible excuse for his lying in
bed such weather as this is, when he could
be in the Senate attending to his-public du
ties. But the "outrages in Kansas" having
grown stale, flat and unprofitable, his bruises
were the only material available for Aboli
tion thunder. And it has been made the
most of; we have no recollection of so 17reaf a
business having been done, in any similar
case, on so small a capital. In order to
prove this, we must direct attention to the
following statement of Mr. Sumner'sphysi
cian, given under oath, before the House
committee of investigation:
"1 have - seen no medicalman with him but
myself: Thefe hat; been none there. There
arc a great many friends present, 'and they
make Mr. Sumner out a great deal worse
than he is. They say he hae afever. I have
never discovered any. I have been his con
stant
attendant, and I have never known his
pulse at any moment higher than eighty-two.
I yesterday corrected an article in the Intel
ligeneer stating that he had a fever, and the
correction appears in to-day's paper. He
has no fever to my knowledge. I have visit
ed him twice a day. His brother said he
ought not to come out, and cited a - great ina
ny eases that had come under his observation
in Paris, where death had taken place in six
weeks from blows on the head. His brother
is not a medical man. Senator Sumner, of
Course, took the advice of his brother and his
friends, and I, of course, allowed them to do
as they thought proper. Perhaps I ought to
state my reason for objecting to his coming,
out on Friday. There was a good deal of ex
citement at that time, and I thought that, if
Mr. Sumner did not go into the Senate for a
day or two, the excitement might wear off."
Again:
"I think this: that Mr. Suranermighthave
taken a carriage and driven as far as Balti
more on the next day without any injury."
A party that resorts to such contemptible
tricks as this to make partizan capital, must
' be in a pitiful condition indeed; but what
can be thought of him who permitS himself
to be used for so base and contemptible a
purpose.
We cannot but admire Mr. Sumner's self
sacrificing spirit in the cause of "freedom."
Lying up in bed, during the present state of
the mercury, is no small sacrifice, and shows
him.to be an Abolitionist of considerable en
durance and patience. Taking the caning
which he received with remarkable meek
ness, in connection with his month's lying in
the blankets, it is the most extraordinary Ab
olition performance of which we have any
recollection, and should be the means of se
curing him the nomination of his piebald
party for - Vice President at least.
Falstaff counterfeited death in order that
he might Ihte, and Mr. Sumner, taking his
cue from the knight in buckram, counter
feits sickness in the hope of infusing a little
life into his miserable party. 'But the fat
knight, after playing the braggart and cow
ard, was kicked to one side, instead of re
ceiving his expected promotion, and so will
Mr. Sumner be despised for his cowardice
and laughed at for his baseness in allowing
himself to be used for the vilest of partizan
purposes.
There is one great relief, however, in this
ruse of the valiant son of Massachusetts—it
will sooth the savage temper of our neighbor
of the Gazette, who we feared had some idea
of going to Washington to attend to some of
the "Southern bullies" himself. Now, that
the testimony of Sumner's physician is clear
that his patient was at no tune in the slight
est danger, we expect to see our neighbor
withdraw his recommendation of sending
prize fighters to Congress. And, above all,
we hope that the editor will not think of vis
iting the national capitol himself; or if he
does, we trust his visit will be only to sympa
thize with Sumner and "the cause of free
dom."
" LITTLE MONARCII," your production is a
gross plagiarism, and you deserve credit for
nothing but withholding your name. You
should go to school and study Cobb's Spell
ing Book. Your orthography is too bad to
come from an Author.
Mum—Gabe, on the `peljurer' question—
guilty, eh?
From the Pittsburg Union
SPEECH OP GEN. CASS,-
Delivered at the Democratic Ratification Meet
ing in Philadelphia on the Nth, inst.
Fellow Citizens.—l dm here among you to
night to bear my testimony to the importance
of the question, about to be submitted to this
confederated Republic. The peaceable elec
tion of a Chief Magistrate by twenty-five
millions of people is always a trying duty
for them, and interesting spectacle for the oth
er nations of Christendom. It is a glorious
power, this power to choose a national ruler,
and glorious has been its operation, as well
for the prosperity of our country and the sta
bility of our institutions as for the encourage
ment of struggling freedom through the
world. But circumstances give to the ap
proaching quadrennial exercise of this power,
a character of grave, I had almost said fear
faresponsibility, which it has never before
assumed. We have fallen upon evil times.
In the expressive language of the Scripture,
we have waxed fat, and prosperity is bring
ing its tribute of presumption,and dissatis
faction, and• arrogant dictation.• Since the
memorable day, in this very Square, when
that great deed of independence was done
which will make this spot immortal, there .
has been no day fraught with more serious
consequences to the destiny of our country,
than will be that fixed day of popular deci
sion in November • next, for which we are
now preparing. The integrity of the Union,
the' freedom of religion, the right of man to
govern himself—these are each assailed with a
tenacity and activity of purpose, and a boldness
of action, which call for the powerful inter
position of every true-hearted - American
whose patriotism has not fallen a victim to
the strange hallucinations of this period of
strange things. Little could the men of Sev
enty-Six—little could the men, who consecra s
ted in the Hall, 'under whose shadow we are
assembled, by words and deeds - the
right of
conscience—little could they have thought,
that before all the generation'that witnessed
and approved and participated in their world
renowned labors, should have passed away,
another would have arisen to repudiate their
work, and to cast reproach upon their mem
ory. But so it is—the Catholic must not
worship his Creator, agreeably to his own
faith, nor must an American, Evince in a
Territory, be 'suffered, with his fellow-citi
zens there, to administer the government, for
the common benefit, and by the common
action. And you, •my fellow-Democrats,
who are now around me, and who have
come to this convocation of freemen, know
ing your rights, and always determined to
maintain them, you participate in the gov
ernment of this good old Keystone State.—
Keystone now and ever may it be, and no
man dare say you nay. Your intimate do
mestic relations, those who pass the doorsill.
and reach the hearthstone, upon the enjoy
ment of which, so much of the happiness of
life depend, the relations of husband and
wife, of parent and child, and of master and
servant ; these family conditions are control
led by yourselves, and the power is of the
very essence of freedom. And think you, if
you should remove to Kansas, that they
would be less dear to you, or you less com
petent to manage them ? And yet, .if you
were there, it is claimed by the opponents of
Democracy, by all of them I believe, that
this power to re g ulate your domestic relations
would belong to Congress not to you. But
that a foreign legislature, foreign to the Ter
ritories, because they have no representation
in it, has the right to dictate on the-subject
of these relations, and. that it is its duty to
control one of them at least, that of master
and that the right of self government does not
belong to the people. Do you think,
.if you
were there, you would approve such a mon
strous usurpation ? He, who would do so is
as unfit to enjoy the privileges of a freeman,
as he is incapable of appreciating their val
ue. It is a pretension better suited to the
banks of the Danube or the Neva, than those
of the Delaware or Kansas. Do you not
think, that here or in a Territory you are
capable of judging and acting for yourselves
without the aid or interference of meddling
politicians, either in Massachusetts or wher
ever else abolitionism has led captive the
head and hearts of men; or political ambi
tion directs it against the Constitution. And
the great doctrine of the revolution, the great
doctrine of human nature, that man has
right to govern him self, is the Kansas Act,
the whole Kansas Act, and. nothing but the
Kansas Act, so far as respects the principle
involved in it. And in its preparation and
in the - powerful and enlightened support he
lent to it, and to which its final success is
greatly indebted, my friend, who sits beside
me, Mr. Douglas kept steadily in view this
great controlling element of our institutions,
and made it the very corner stone of the Kan
sas government. And he would be a rash
man, not merely a bold one, who upon this,
holy ground of freedom, made-holy by its as
sociations should deny the principle or con
demn its practical application.
If every portion of our country would limit
its interference to its own concerns and leave
each political community, whether State or
Territorial to govern itself, subject only to
the Constitution,
we should be the happiest
and most united, as we are the freest nation
the world has ever seen. But this eternal
propensity to pass beyond the circle of our
own rights and duties, and to Undertake to
direct the conduct of others, has aleady
worked incalculable mischief to our_ Union,
and if not checked will work its ruin. And
how is it to he checked, but by the action,
• prompt and fearless, and energetic of the
Democratic party. That party alone stands
erect between the Constitution and its perils.
Its rival, and sometimes in moments of ex
treme danger to the country, its co-laborer,
the Whig party, the old fashioned Whig par
ty is prostrated, broken up, severed into frag
ments, each disjointed portion seeking new
combinations. Our party has a mighty trust
committed to it, the trust of defending and.
maintaining the heritage of freedom which
we received from our fathers, and which our
children have a right to demand at our
hands unimpared, as their birthright. And
magnificent indeed will be its destiny if it
is not marred by the wickedness and follies
of our day. The Union has brought us lib
erty, prosperity, power,. glory, whatever po
litical benefit the heart of man can conceive
or desire, and it is- yet in the infancy of its
existence. • Hold on to it, my friends, as I
said sometime since in the Senate, hold on
to it as the shipwrecked mariner clings to the
last plank, when night and the tempest close
-around. him,
I have told you that I came here to bear
my testimony to the importance of this great
electoral question at the present time, and in
all truth and sincerity 1 have done so. The
Democratic party have nominated as its can
didate for the Presidency, your well known
and universally esteemed fellow citizen,
James Buchanan, and for Vice President, a
citizen of Kentucky, John C. Breckinridge,
worthy, by his talents, and services, and char
acter, of the confidence indicated by his se
lection. And their election will he at once
the test of the strength of our party and the
pledge of its Union, and also of its stability.
Well then, may I say, that the election is a .
momentous one. So momentous, indeed,'
that the personal claims of the candidates al
most fade from view. And yet I neednot
tell a Pennsylvanian audience, an American
audience indeed, that James Buchanan is
among the ablest and purest, and most expe
rienced of the statesmen of our country, fit
ted by his qualifications to fill and adorn its
highest station. The Executive Government
will be safe in his hands. Abroad -he will
maintain our rights and our honor_ with de
cision and firmness ; and at the same time,
in a proper spirit of national courtesy ; and
at home, his guide will be the Constitution,
and he will jealously guard within the limits
of his duty, the rights of every section of the
Republic. The name of an American out of
his country will be a passport of honor, and
within it will be a guarantee of constitution
al rights, so far as regards the general gov
ernment, which no man will touch with im
punity. And he will find the colleague we
shall give him, (Mr. Breckinridge) a faithful
co-adjutor in the same great cause. I say
the colleague we shall give hill', for they will
both be elected. The decree has gone forth,
and it may be read in all the signs around
us. In the favor with which the nomina
tions are received, 'in the confidence indi
cated in the result, in the reports that reach
us, and in what we have done and, can do—
and that also, we will do. And these consi
derations, while flaky furniSh_ confidence for
hope, furnish also motives for energetic ac
tion. We Shall, enter the contest, not for
victory, that as we see unerring indications
promises 'us, 'but for the extent of that victo
ry, not for a majority, but for the numbers
beyond it. What we want is a most deci
sive result, that to the power of the Constitu
tion, the new administration' may add that
moral power, which depends on the convic
tion of public support and co-operation.—
And all of this is within our reach, if we
carry to the work - but a small portion of the
zeal and energy which our revolutionary pa
triarchs carried to theirs, when in yonder
building they mutually pledged to each oth
er their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor. And nobly did they redeem the
pledge. Go ye all and follow their example.
While hailing the bright dawn of the ri
sing sun, let us not neglect the steady light
of the departing one. Let us do justice to
the performance of General Pierce, while
wo do justice to the promise of Mr. Buchan
an. The retiring administration has been a
a truly Democratic and American one. It
will live, and honorable too, in the pages of
our political history. Its great measures of
external policy meet my warm approbation.
They have been just, firm, national. And in
relation to its internal policy applied to the
affairs in Kansas, and their kindred difficul
ties, which have been 4 great source of em
barrassment, it commends itself also to my
judgement and support. May the retiring
Chief Magistrate find, when he returns to
private life, in the consciousness of a faith
ful discharge of his duties, and in the re
spect and regard of his countrymen, the re
ward of his labors and anxieties and trials.
And his noble address the , other evening, to
the Democracy of Washington, in fact, to the
Democracy of the Union, at a mass meeting
of ratification, which called upon him, and
the sincerity and earnestness with which he
acquiesced in the selection of his competitor,
and announced his continued adhesion to our
party and its principles, are entitled to uni
versal commendation. I listened with deep
interest to his eloquent words, and I trust
they will be conveyed by the press and the
post to every corner of the Union, to the re
motest log cabin upon the very verge of civ
ilization. They will show to the American
people, that disappointment in the high_pla
ces is not always followed by ingratitude, and
that there are Presidents, who under no cir
cumstances forget what they owe to the Dem
ocratic party. May peace and happiness at
tend him in his retirement.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Junto 2.
The Occupation of Lawrence---A Truth
ful Narrative of Occurrences There,
We have obtained, from a gentleman who
arrived in our city yesterday, a full narra
tion of everything that occured at Lawrence,
which we believe will be found to be faithful
and truthful in every particular.• It pre
sents a version of that affair, the very re
verse of that given to the world by the .I.‘w
York Tribune. Our authority is Mr. A. J.
Weisscnger, formerly . of Kentucky; brother
of the former proprietor of the Louisville
Journal, a gentleman known to everybody in
Mississippi, and respected. for his honesty,
hi? , mildness and his high moral standing.
Mr. Weissenger is a settler in Kansas, and
has returned with a view of removing his
family to that country. He was at Lawrence,
and constituted one of the posse ordered out
by the United States Marshal to aid in the
execution of the writs against certain parties
there. Mr. Weissenger states that before
the entrance by the Marshal into the town,
and while the posse called out by the U. S.
Marshal were asssembled at Franklin, near
Lawrence, several armed parties rode out
from Lawrence, and fired upon individual
and smaller numbers of persons connected
with th Marshal's party. One body of five
rode toward a sentinel stationed at a
bridge near town and fired their rifles
at him. Two men of the Marshal's
party, named Cosgrove and Branton, were
met by five men, armed with Sharp's - rifles,
near town, and were asked what party they
belonged to. They answered the Pro-slavery
side. "Then, Sharp's rifles is the word. for
you, boys, "
was the reply, and forthwith the
whole party began to fire upon Cosg:rove and
Branton, who narrowly escaped with their
lives, the balls passing through their clothes
and hats. Cosgrove and Branton quickly re
turned the fire, and one of the party fell dead
from his horse and the other galloped back
into Lawrence.
Those and other occurrences, indicating a
settled purpose of hostility and determined
resistence,produced no little excitement in
the camp ofthe United States Marshal. The
posse was composed exclusively of settlers in
the Territory. There were no Missourians
there, except as spectators. General Atch
ison was there, but his missson was to urge
peace and order, and he addressed each com
pany, urging them to behave toward the
people of Lawrence with the greatest kind
ness, and a respect for their property, per
son and feelings. They must win them back
to brotherly feelings and intercourse, and
remove from tir.lir minds the unfounded hos
tilities and prejudices which base demagogues
had instilled into them.
General Atchinson's speeches had excel
lent effect in allaying the excitement produ
ced by the incidents of firing upon the Mar
shal's men, to which we have referred. On
the 21st of May, the United States Marshal,
accompanied by eight or ten men, entered
Lawrence and acquainting the people Whom
he met with his business, proceeded in a quiet
and decorous manner to arrest several parties
against whom he had warrants. He then
returned to the camp outside of town, where.
the posse was assembled, and discharged
them, stating that he had no difficulty in ex
ecuting his writs.
Sheriff Jones then, as an officer of the
Territorial Government, called on the posse
to aid him, and with sixteen men proceeded in
a quiet and decorous mq.nner counselling them
to obey and respect the - law, and intimating
his determination to do his duty though he
might be killed in his tracks. After making
some arrests he preceeded, to the hotel kept
by Mr. Eldridge and held an interview with
General Pomeroy, demanding of thatperson
age the pUblic arms ; which the people had
openly employed therein resisting the lawful
authorities it was his right as a peace officer
to take possession of Pomeroy, as represented
by our correspondent, conducted himself in
the whole transaction in a most craven and
abject manner, thereby giving the life to all
the pictures of his heroism and prowess.
Having obtained possession of the cannon,
Jones, under the instruction, it is said, of the
Ju which presented the Free State
Hotel and ,the press of the Herald of Free
dom aspublic nuisances, proceeded to des
troy the 'hotel, after removing all furniture
out of it. The cannon was planted in front,
and several volleys were fired into the house.
It finally caught fire and was consuthed. Na
other house was burnt. The press of the ob
noxious journal was also destroyed arid type
removed.
During these occurrences most of the peo
ple remained in town, and they were not mo
lested. The only' display of feeling was on
the part of the people of Lawrence against.
their dastardly leaders,, who, after leading
them into their midst,' cowardly ab:•ndoned
them. They declare that neither Reeder,
Robinson or Lane will ever he permitted to
come into the Territory. Two of the men of
the Sheriff's party were killed by accident,
one by the falling of bricks and another by
an accidental shot. Not a single individual
in the town was killed or wounded. The
most rigid discipline was enforced among the
Sheriff's posse, and the severest penalties de-.
flounced against any one who should appro
priate at of the property of the peopte.—
Nothin[ , was stolen. Robinson's house was.
burnt. It was the only one destroyed besides
the hotel, and. Mr. Weissenger declares the
universal belief that the torchwas applied to
it by the citizens of Lawrence, who were
greatly outraged by his cowardly abandor.
ment of the town after he had betrayed it in
to rebellion. When our informant. left all
was peace and quiet in the town of Lawrence
and throughout the country. The people
were returning to their homes, and if the
miserable demagogues and agitators could be.
kept away all would be well.
Such is the narrative of an eye-witness of
all the transactions that have been exaggera
ted into such a terrible picture of outrage and
oppression by the Black Republican press :.
an eye-witness who, too, is an honest man ;
whose very countenance,. even if it - were 'not
backed up by the highest testimonials any
man could present, attracts the confidence
and secures the belief of all good men in the
truth and honesty of his evidence.
It will be remembered by our readers that
this town of Lawrence, at the instigation of
Reeder, Robinson and Lane, had assumed an
attitude of open . , avowed, .flagrantresistancn
to the officers of the United States and of the
Territorial government. The people had been
prompted to this by the counsel of reeklesS
agitators in the States, who sent them arms
and amunition, and words of incitement _and
delusion. They had promised before, when,
the militia were near town, to make no fdr-'
ther resistance but violated their prornise,,
and, for some time past, the town has bris 7
tied with arms, and several overt acts 'of re-.
sistence have been committed, and a great
deal more threatened.
Now, as long as we have a Government;
its authority must be maintained and the
laws enforced. This must be done though a
hundred Lawrences perish.
The Territorial - Government of Kariras
may be a very bad one—its laws very oppfes
sive—but these must be corrected; not by
Sharp's rifles and rebellion, but by.the usual
peaceful remedies, whiCh•exist in Kangas, as
everywhere else. We rejoice that the legal,
authority has been vindicated'; and s piirticu- .
larly that it has been done, considering the.
circumstances, with so little violence. We
do not approve the destruction of the hofel,,
nor that of the printing press, and doubt the
authority of a grand jury to order such acts.'
But these, after all are of small consequence.
compared with the great benefit of restoring
the reign of- law and• order, and impressing
upon these victims• of the wiles of the most
shameless demagogues that ever infested any
country, the duty of peaceful obedience to'
the constituted authorities.
Keep these pests out of the country and NVC,
have no fears for Kansas. Leave the Terri
tory to the • operation of the wise and juai.
cioils provisions of the bill now before the
United States Senate, which gives to the reg
ular and bona fide settlers of the country the
full determination of all questions relative to
its government, and the conditions of its fu
ture admission into the Union. Let the peo
ple shut their ears and turn their backs upon
the outside agitators and demagogues who,
having no interest in the country, desire to
make it the arena in which to fight their
party battles, Let the people go to work and
turn up the rich virgin soil of the country,
exchange their Sharp's rifles for hoes and •
harrows, and their powder and ball for saws
and axes and all theimpleinents of agricultu
ral and mechanical industry ; and in",a taw'
months the ridiculous and criminal attempt at
rebellion will be forgotten, and peace, pros
perity and industry will reign over this beau-,
tiful region.
OUR RELATIONS WITU GREAT
The latest' news from Europe give a much
more peaceful aspect to our relations with the
British .Government. The tone of all the En
glish' journals is essentially moderated. It,
is clear that the people of Great Britain do
not desire war with America. There *as no
particular thought in England that Mr. Dal
las would be dismissed.. Things' will all get.
smooth again before very long.
Coming—The 4th of July—but we don't
hear of any arrangements outside of the Sun
day sehoolts, for any appropriate demonstra
tion.