" THE BEBFfIP S\ZETTE.
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il<-<lioi<L Jan. I. *•>•
B. F. Mews & G. W. Bedford.. Editors.
Mere AboSition RaffianiSß-
A few days aSO, the Abolitiaii .'or Biack Re
publican) newspapers tee, Jl'H nr. ft) ncc o'tnts c, who.
they were pleased to style ' another outrage on the
rights of the people ot Kans :,*. I Mp s f >r) 'o
that Gen. Clark ha I ajteinpted to •"< ' >rc* the collec
tion of taxes in Bourbon county, by lean! process.
and that in corsotjumco fayreofa vlarhan 1
ken place in which a Free State man ''
(Of course. The Abolitionist* nev 1 talk about
"the Free State Men without Telling a • iiL-tic yarn j
about one, or more, efthem hen * !.!.,•■ . " v....
Ed, for, you see, Abolition purposes reqn.re that .
KatiXas rrmtt bleed.'*) As ns'uaf, the Abohtidn "em
tors did not stop to inquire whether the ta: > was
true, or not, but pub!.shed it i .tauter, coiumen.in.
upon it as truth. It was enouuh lor them to know
that such a story, if believed. wou:;l tan 'be !iume>
•of fanaticism and re-k: !e 'dyi.ed embers o. Abo
lition Black Republicani-m. But scarcely _,hau they
printed the tie, when they were don m i to see it con
tradicted and exposed. Judge \> tllia/ns the c,,.et
justice of Kan-a., in a letter to the Washington .
Union pronounce- the who!.' statement a ialsehood.
On the contrary he j;vr- an account oioutrages per
petrated by dim Lane and ht> Abolition So!;ower
whice make one's !>!ood boil With imlfgnatioii at Toe
recital. He says that last summer a party of men
from the neighborhood ot Lawrence (a nest 01 Aboli
tion malcontents) appeared in the vicinity of ioi t
tJcott ami ininie liatelv before the iai; tier, on others
arrived, "l ues men all acted 111 concert with eat
other and one of their tirstacts vvas bv tbreais, with
force and arms, to drive from his cabin and claim an
aged man of the name ofSouthvvood and his family.
They then appropriated to their own u.e his claim
house crops ice.
A short time a-ter this outrage, a man whose name
is Curry and a reputed leader of this gang, met a
Mr. Lettuman who was peaceably ruling ori the
road to his home, and demanded to know whether \
tie was a "free State, men," or a "pro-slavery tnan ?"
Lettuman declined giving hira an answer, when
Curry swore ho would shoot him. an ! forthwith <!i--
charged his pistol at him, the hall entering the head
of Lettuman, near the cheek bone and passing
through, arid out of the back part of his head. Cur
ry was arrested, released on bail, but fled the coun
try and forfeited his recognizance, on which suit
was brought. The property of Curry—consisting of
oxen, cows, corn in the ground, ice.—was attached
and all order ot sale was issued to the Marshal. A
few days previous to the time fixed for the sals, a
company of Curry's confederates cams in the night
time and drove the whole of Curry's cattle elf.—
They were pursued by the Marshal who succeeded
in recovering the cattle, but not in arresting the
thieves who had driven them off. Threats in writ
ing were made that if the cattle were sold, Fort
Scott would be hurried. Notices Mr
lory .were W vtf r s^- hers were' witnesses' to
fftese proceedings. To-day, (Dec. 16th.,) authen
tic information was received bv Gov. Stanton, that a
body of men fully armed and equipped with Sharpe's
rifles and revolvers, to tbe rumber of one hundred,
libd appeared near Fort Scott, under the command of
one Montgomery, who v.• ■■ a of ■' -
Abolition. "Free State" Con-rut This company
proceeded to the hou es of Mr. W Mr. Gburly .
and M. -Southwool, violently seized their owners
and took them away, since which nothing h ti been
heard ol them. Complaint ir> lie form ot law Liv
ing been made of those art. before a justice ot the
peace, the proper process was put iu the Marshal's )
bahds to arrest the offender*, fie proceeded to their
rendezvous in Mr. Sotit! od's house, found it 1 rti
licd, and as he approached it, fifty armed maa under I
oj .Montgomery, came forth from the
house and demanded what he wanted there. He told
them that he was the marshal arid had come to arrest
them, whereupon they informed birn that I hey had ■
received a despatch from James 11. Lane, that the
Legislature now in session had repealed all the law,
of the Territory, and that they were iheir own law
makers and executors ; therefore they could permit'
no arrests to be made. The Maj bal, finding • >
ncteymiued to resist him an 1 knowing that ; ■ „j. , e
could Jo nothing wit , them, felt them and returned
to Fort Scott.
Now, these men openly profess to be organized i
and sent to tort Scott and vicinity, by Jim Lane,
the Abolition agitator. They boldly swear that they
Will burn Fort Scott, and the citizens of that place j
ere virtually in a -t,te 0 f siege, and obliged to be 0:1
duty day and night; while in the country around, the
people, by families, are flying from their homes. :
leaving ihetr property exposed to the depredations o:
thes* lawifci; men.
This is the narrative, i„ substance, of Judge Wil
liams'letter. We blush for our country a," w re
cord these instances of villainy practised 111 the sa
cred name officedom. The cgedrfriven from house
and home—the unoffending citizen shot down on the
highway—defenceless umilie, pillaged— peaceful
towns threatened with the dames— anr | a |j this at the
bidding of tbe men who snout and hurrah for Free- ,
dom in Kansas! Veriiy, the sJavery of the negro is '
preferable, a thousand times, to the Freedom grant
ed their fellow-citizens, by the Abolition leaders,
Lane, Robinson and shew minions!
OPPOSITION < oxsisTi-:.\tv.
The Abolitionists, when the Nebraska Bill
•was before Congress, contended most fiercely
against the principle of Popular Sovereignly
<tißgp the theory that Congress had power
to legislate for the Territories HI all things per
taining to their "domestic instituti \ow
they complain bitterly because in their estima
tion the broadest exercise of that principle is
not allowed to the people of Kansas. A o w
they oppose their former dogma that Con-ress
has power to legislate for the Territories,
tnsist that if Mr. Buchanan does not (bv some
magical process we suppose) cause the whoh
of the Kansas Constitution to he submitted to
ih.e people of that Territory, he will be doin
a great wrong to that people. They aW
turned the Mississippi „p stream, with the
storm, of their wrath, when the Missouri Com
promise was repealed, and yet if that were still
in existence, the people of Kansas would be to
tally debarred from the privilege of votin
-fo the question of .slavery. So, i„ the
f oufsvi y were U precluding tue people of
'he ierritorie* from making their oust it m- ; ■
their own way. They curstd the Act of
ogres* that gave th. m the right to do so, and
burned its author ,n effiry.—
suggestions lately maile' by Tts author in the C. ]
S. %nate, are the great salvo which is to heal ;
the wounds of "Bleeding Kansas!" Con sis- j
tencv, thou art a jewel, but we have yet to see •
;h-e"pen.tent from the ear of the Ethiop, Ahoji
t ion ism !
A Pleasant Job.
The kte Abolition Know Nothing Congress]
contracted debts to such an enormous extent
that the Government is compelled to make a j
. loan fin tli" 0< Treasury notes) to pavj
them. It " "-t he a pleasant job, indeed, for;
the present Congress, to right the wrongs p.-,-
•jetrated bv the Abolitionists when in p.,w-
ISL* ■
Sccfftan uflhe fnnmioiiwcallb
! We learn from the Philadelphia I'rets that
Gov. Packer lias tendered the post of Secretary
of the Commonwealth to HON. WM. M. IIIE>-
tp.k, of Berks county, and that that gentleman
has accepted the appointment. The Press thinks
that the Governor has made a good selection in
choosing Mr. Hiester tor this important position,
and that it auguts well for his administraliori.
Spew!} of an Abolition Leader in Kansas
; The notorious Jim Lane, who is one of the
| principal oracles of the Abolition party in Kan
sas, and who has always been among the loudest
mouthed and most rabid agitators in that unhap
py Territory, lias lately again "taken the
stump," ranting and blustering worse than ever.
We annex a part of a discourse delivered by
him, a few days ago, before a public meeting
in Leavenworth, as given in the Pittsburg Ga
zette, a rampant Abolition sheet, and ask the
law-abiding, peace loving, conservative reader,
: to ponder carefully its tone and language:
"Gentlemen of Leavenworth City, we have
come to the la*t move on the chess-board of
i Xansas polities' his Me last move, am! the
greatest move on this great political board. This
! last act of the Pro-Siavvry party is consistent
with all their former acts, only it is altogether
the most desperate. It stirs up ail our blood,
and we hardly know what to do in this trying
j time. I have stood here, gentlemen,on Kansas
soil, and seen a fraudulent Legislature forced
upon us by a neighboring State! I have seen
invasion come pouring in upon us—l have seen
crimes in every shape committed upon the set
tlers of Kansas soil, but this last act crowns
the.m all in villainy arid fraud ! And I say it
here, and am personally responsible for what 1
say, t fiat these villains for jelled their lives to
au injured people ! (The applause here vvas
deafening, and it was some minutes before it
stfosided sufficient Jor proceed.)
, j ~,M . ■" ■ of tbe Convention last night
tnat we would head them or bt-hcad ! (A Laugh.'
I am not a going to advise war or bloodshed
I here to-night, for perhaps there is no need of
that. We have now got the goats so separated
from the sheep, that vve can easily kill them
without committing crime! (Renewed laughter.)
I I' cr 1 truly believe that if Cod should show his
special providence here 10-night, we should see
;n iliese starry heavens lis hand, commanding
us to exterminate these villains ! (Cries of :
Good . good ! Snow us the hand in the skies i
Jim, arid vve ;! go it (Laughter.)
"An honest man said to me to-day he sffi'iul! j
; not be surprised if, on any morning he should j
wake up and see these men dangling from the !
limb of some tree—hung by an outraged peu- j
{ P 1 '** • this point some one cried "Let's do i
;it to-night, and lor some tune the excitement ;
was so great as to prohibit the speaker from !
proceeding."
THE K.tSSAS ELECT'OIV.
Ihe vote en if, constitution of Kansas or. I
m ire properly, on the single point of the exis- i
U nee of MI very in to - new ..tate, was fixet! for
yesteiday, and we presume ! hat the vote uasj
taken accorui.g lothe arrangements perfected
>y he pre : lent tbe jute constitutional con
vention. Information b.v. not reached us as to j
1 act, 'j :) • ! ' %'> Gfure at its special session j
and we do not know whether another vole upon
! ie con. istution, under the h gehitive authority,
oasbeen dirtc!el3ur not. At t , ,-nd of a week
: r ten days rdia Je inlbrs-.tiou vv ill doubths,s '
reach tis of the result.
According to present app. ura.-io -. the Kansas !
question is a:. >ut to receive 1 s s b.tiori : delinite I
: information vv i.'l >,• ham:, ami a state- 1
mentol farts bepr.-nh !, tf.aj.v-ill relieve it I
; of all real difficulty. Cp , . th - p r .,,mt time i
(here has been no pracfu-.f question be|:.re)Con
p'' •' j 1 •ifh'i't uhi i;i ibis i oanexionj nor
Know -••'!-• •••! ah.iiis jn that Territory 1
' ' ' UII ,lli,i CUi, b • r <* as to justify opinions |
•l! ' s t"' " ' 4l u '*y !, -'t he materially mod
by subsequent information. When the
c .n>tirt.o -hall i.-ii.dem..,,, an(J t!u . aiin , i(i .
Mon Kansas , a5.,,,, und- rit is demanded,:
thesunjectw.il t„. fully b , f.re Congress f,r its
tonsnleration and pravticai action. Then let !
its merits be candidly ami fairly discussed, a 3 it I
Should oe, and theacimn ot Congr-ss be taken !
upon clue deliberation, VV'e anticipate an end 1
tetter that shall disp vseof it forever, and I
, m a manner satisfactory to the whole countrv,
I' 1 ! > those M in) s.-ek to array one section
01 the country against the other in strife and
uiscord.
rte will add here, ihr the information of the;
country at large, that no excitement exists in
mgress concerning this matter. An interest
H certainly felt in it, but we believe that a
le-riera. disposition prevails to await the action |
o! Aansas and a development of lucts which
will enable Congress to take such action as
I Shall tnereafter exclude this question from its
halls. —Washington Union.
Who is lie J |
Who is that Calhoun who figures so consnifji
uously in the Kansas Convention, and is W
nouneed so furiously bv the Abolition pres> *>'
such unmeasured terms. The St. Louis Letter '
says:—
_ "Mr. Calhoun was a citizen of Illinois b**&'<' |
he v\ is appointed to office in Kansas; he went
into the I erritory a Free State man in opinions: 1
was elected as such to the Convention ■ acted
as such in it; was made its President as s <h •
was entrusted, with a full knowledge of his ,
opinions, with the powers of which these tin ... s
so loudly complain, and will V' ~nlv
to exclude Slav,-,y from Kansas. These huts
we are autli-.nz d to state, a, i rh v ;
enough to discredit everything ehta'naf ill.'
from ti.e Black K.publican Tie s on th
subject."
The celebrated Gaines case is now before
the U. S. Circuit court, in New Orleans, Judge
iVJcOaJeb
Brevities.
We I earn from some of the Methodist
journals (hat largo and influential Conferences
ha-'e determined to license and ordain no can
; didste for the ministry who is not willing to
't retro the tsseof tobacco in every form. A new
University has been endowed also in one of the j
Western States, with the proviso in its by-laws
that no Professor shall be entitled to any of the
avails of the endowment who is addicted to the
i use of tobacco.
! —One hundred and seventy-four reblntior.ary
i soldiers and seven hundred and eigfity-eight wi
' dows of revolutionary soldiers have died during
i the yea . Total ntiniber of deaths of classes of
I pensioners 1451. The whole number of pen
<ioe.ers nu ib" rolls June 30, !Sf>7, is as follows
34b revolutionary Miers, yearly amount,
; $ -". 501 85; 4,702 widows of ditto, $385,282
tib: 2.8.".; half pay widows and orphans, $270,-
003 If . ">.20*6 invalids, <§>468,017 57: 18 priva
te,-, c, 8 i ,252. Total, * 1,136,386 50
—'Pile Washington Era —a strong anti-sla
| verv newspaper—says that the revulsion has
| reduced its patronage one-iffird in amount.
j We believe that all the anti-slavery journals at
! the North are reduced even more than that figure
I by the hard times.
—The best cure for dyspepsia is to collect
bills for a newspaper. If that don't give you an
appetite, you might as well sell your stomach for
tripe, and have done with it.
A voting larlv, fond of dancing, travels, in
the course of a singleseason, about four hundred
miles. Yet no lad v would think of walking that
distance in sis months.
—'l'he worst features in a man's fuCe is his
! nose—when stuck into other people's business.
. Remember that—you who are in the hahil of
bobbing around.
| —The Clinton Democrat says that the Lock
Haven Bank is prepared to resume specie pay
ments at any time that the other banks of the
I State do.
Editorial abuse of Caleb Gushing, lately
i Attorney General of the United States, may bdg
found in the columns of the. Y. I • Tribune iwi
• or three ttrnes a week.
j —The following is on a tombstone in jreiati
"Here lie*, the body of John Mound. *
Lost at sea, and never found. m
—A wag says of a certain congregations'
they pray on their knees Sundays, arid p*# 11
j their neighbors the rest of the week. $•
—The new proposed Territory o'jf i n . a
embraces about 27,000 square mi®'
1 bounded by New AUxico on the dp ' anc *
the Mexican States of Sonata and ClF nua
the south, and extends westward to o ' o, ' a '-°
[ —After the first of January, of
residents of Alaitie, solemnized -JM '' Jt>
with the intent to evade the nt ,aU N
will fie void, if the parties retu Maine ami
reside. U
1 imre was quite a sew re jfji - storm in i .. -
ginia on Christmas dav. It# > die neighbor
hood of Richmond fo"the d>M or fif
j teen inches.
Hon. Henry Potter,/>**'* Fi-'rict
| Court of the United Stat'/n *t>r<h Carolina,
i died at his residecrice, nJ: ilU, on t!;e
; 20th instant. f S; A
| —ln Cambridge, Patlen u ' a !
| put on trial for stealing a >,Tut the evidence
I showed that the fou I was Ofiteter, and the ac
! cused was discharged. M
—The governor elect'j® ar .vland has len
! dered the post of secret y,7 >; ' Stale to James
A. Patri-vUe, esq., ofBa" iof ' * who has accept
!, J. ' |
| —The democratic S vent ion of Indiana
will meet at Indianap" the Bth of January
j next.
—Socrates, when u kat was the best
mode of gainin a i .dhjfeputation, replied —to
be what von anpea " r 1 '*
—Three 1,-ishn; n>w Judges on the
■ English benrh y j lib. o! Belfast : IV i lies, of
Cork : and # !df> c oll *' ll .'' 01 Limerick.
j -In some pa * f Ce*itral Africa, ivory is so
! abundant that If LU* ir gslon saw seventy eb
-Iph .ntU tusk®#t/" rffnrie chiefs grave.
—lt c: is 11/- Vf.' York Central Railroad
Company one'ir ''<° r; three hundred and fifty
: fhnr.sand dollar 1 Y" 3r Inr u'oaci
—The deep 4 shift in California is 215 feet
in depth,and' ;a; ' !, vk !ak**n out pays S2OO per
ton.
—The Bi-ns* ick, A!* ~ Telegraph sivs that
November t as the coldest daw'-.T November
in that vie 'V for tin* past fifty-two years.
r fh,. isip does Dot appear to oppress the
Brazilian? 1S Bank of Brazil had raised the
safari ; '1 its employers.
Ui! ,llf * of "Broken English," a
Paris pu 'ffplaces such Londoners as get smashed
op bv vilroad collision, or financially busted. !
—'f,<tjC!:icagf> Time, states the value of pro
perty '*i on the Lakes during the year 1,857 at !
$1,9 I >SIS. There have been lost also 221
lives J \
Pope's private income is said not to e\-
| ce. $-'OOO
- paper is about being started in AN
; m.if, called the State Military Tribune.
4- ' he Rev. Dr. Duncan Macfariand, princi
;/°! lile ni versify of Glasgow, Scotland, who
iJjPn it) that city on the Ist instant, was 89 v*ars
jf a ? p j and the oldes clergyman in the Church
m Scotland, ha\ ing survived nearly two genera
fi 'tis ol the ministers of the church.
I here will beat leas! seven editors in the
next Pennsylvania .Legislature.
_ —The offiicial majority for Sibley, dern., for
Governor of Minnesota, is 1200.
The last survivor of the Wyoming massa
cre (Jeremiah Spencer) is living in Torriuglord,
Connecticut.
—On the Bth of January next there will be
three conventions of the soldiers of the war of
ISl2—nil- in Washington, i.ne in Philadelphia
and one in New York.
John Alitchel i-- to deliver an address in
Jacks ,n, Mississippi, -arly in January, upon the
su'.ject of the "English in India."
The Baton Rouge (La.) Jldvocate estimates
tile d image done to the sugar crop by the late
irests at 100,000 hogsheads.
1 here are now residing in Clearfield
county, Pa., L. Snyder, 11 I years old and
his wile, 107 years old, both in good health
and quite active.
Gov. WaJkd's Letter.
j From an able article in Ihe Washington Inm
on Gov. Walker's letterjl Afe. extract the if
lowing :
A Constitution which in < urn !' ail j# r
clause could secure the approval of a : v ' 'W
ol voters would he an anomaly ; and !>'• * j!l
! be no Constitution whichjin each sevei Jp ,drl
' and parcel can be said to have grew lh'
sanction of the sovereignty of any '** '
j subniit all the parts of a complicated *
ito a popular v..te is not to oUaiii •• '''
} pression of (fie popular will on a A'* | ! man--.
I A Constitution with ninety-nip ' l f®'' "
visions on of Iter subject S, andj OimJF®.'* >
might be accepted, notw ittisiai-ht t#" *'"*
clause, by a majority of \ot- s 'l|r r " ,u
: very, but anxious to securer'!--' 0 "f P* OVIH
; while it might be voted a-' l,! Jj? V
i in favor of slavery but of I,s * W> f ' or ["
l of its provisions : and ht < * M'-p 011 " > - 1
I occur that a pro-slavery •om.tf'i-*" u.-g
put upon a Territory hv' n j/'' . N ' I''" ''
i slavery, although ',t /" **Y •>
I majority in favor ofsi-'V /Every n ! v ili
- perceive tiiat to iln ( "
I a bundle of propo#it" ls jfpopular vote, m not
to obtain the p.'pul " !1 an y orr ' :
nay, is often to ta " / v, ' rdiCt on ,h * !l!)Ct
propositions in-t !it : f iU "PP>sti'>n to the
I sentiment of " to exto.t
' actual voles on l ">* f positions at war with
the sentiments' ~le 7 r * v voters ca-'ing them.
The mere str aent / (ase the
1 beautiful the * ttlker m favor of the
popular ra a! '" n / : constitutions. Fopu! r
ir a t.ficaticßt :o, P/ v ' l ' il enough with tie
i theori-s©t K!u 'aI (L'mocracy ; but yet in prac
' ticai eiffe,""' v,i vo'tag upon entire bu; -
i dies O iT/ inslt "-" ,s in the lump can be little
. ; more l! a ~,uct' '
'Hif : m °d*' Setting at the precise sen
: tj. B^r I Fie people on any distinct prupe ition
| e Jpd in a Constitution, is to single it out,
| JSpmit that atone to the vote. The only
imt and sincere mode of getting at the seiiti- '
of a people on a proposed Constitution, is
jj eave details to the representative Convention
wining it, and to single out one or two leading
Revisions for direct vote. We submit to tin
eople of the whole country if this only honest
ind candid course has not been pursued in
r Kansas.
We submit il the great question of national
I concern and controversy, which the whole na
j tion are demanding should be settled fair: v and
freely by the people of Kansas themselves, iias
j not been suhmitled in the only manner in which
. it could'obtain a direct and positive decision ac
cording to the will of the people of that Tn
; ritory. I'o have bundled up the question -4
slavery with a hundred others embraced in the
Kansas Constitution, and to have submitted the
entire gross of questions in the lump to the pop
ular vute ) would not have allowed the people
of Kansas a free ami uulrait meijed decision on
the slavery question —the great question of
sectional controversy which the people of tin;
1 nion had delegated fur their unbiassed adjudica
tion. fo have submitted this question as a part
of an entire Constitution would have been a
compliance with the letter of the national ex
pectation, but not with the spirit and essence
ul it. Ihe iui in ol compliance would have been
eluded.
It is in vain (or Gov. Walker to oppose his
sublimated theories and wild vagaries m the
straightforward honesty arid stubborn firiie>..
and justice oi this distinct submission of the >b
i . . [ j
very question. It is in vain lor him to contend
that tiie slavery question is not the gr* :rt absorb
ing suhjVct ot interest, overriding ail others, in
Kansas and the I nion at large, fat? whole his
tory ol Kansas refutes his allegation, the hist TV
ol the politics of'die whole i nion. for years t -
gt ihei, falsifies Ins assertion, iis in vim tAi
tum to lugubriously parade fifteen or IIIIIH -en,
or ninety-and-inne "disfranchised'' counties in
Kansas net represented in Ihe Lecmnpdoti ('■
vention, fhe paramounl question otsi.ivr iy i;
submitted to the voice of the pieopde •-t >ti the
counties, with jvower to vote -for or against :t,
wiiicii they can do with infiuitely i <*. r _
rassmenl th ati it that question fiad been submit
ted in conjunction with a hundred others em
braced in the Constitution. Belter than a Con
vention, though represent tug but a single coun
ty, should submit the leading quest! m to an
isolated, untrammelled vote of all the people
of the counties, than that a Convention repre
senting every county should submit a bundle ot
propositions in a manner that would f.ui to elicit
a majority vote on any .-ingle one oftliem, how- ,
ever vital and iinpiortant.
And this is our answer to all the complaints
of the Governor, in behalf of his fifteen or nine- .
teen counties. ( : 11 the siavei v question every
man of every county can vote hi- direct senti- ~
meats, i'he other |,rov;sions ot the (J msl,!ii
t:on may or may nut be approved by a rraj ! my £
ol tire preople of all ttu* counties. W h-tber \
they are or not could not be ascertained by at
submission ol the instrument in the lump : for ~
in that form not one man in the whole jVrrito- i ~
ry could vote his direct sentiments on itssevi r- ,
al provisions. If the Constitution thus ordained |
shall prove obnoxious in practice, then the peo
pU of the State can change it hereafter at vvii', (
for the.instrument expressly declares: r
"All political power is inherent in the peopie, \
and all tree government are framed on their ,
authority, and instituted for their benefit, and x
therefore they have at. a/I times an inalienable . t
and indejeasible righi to alter, rcjorm, or abol-
is/i their Jorm oj government as they may thinu *
proper. j i
Thus are all the ends of substantial justice ac- i j
comp dished by the action of the Lecompton Con- \
vention. The slavery question is submitted in j
such a manner that each inhabitant may freely . .
express his direct sentiments upon it at the
polls. The Constitution goes into operation (
With or without a slavery clause, as the people i j
shall determine : and if the remaining provisions ,
of the instrument prove injurious or obnoxious ,
in practice, they may he substituted with others t
by the people at any time they may choos-. j ,
We cannot sympathize with Gov. Walker's j
apprehensions of civil war. If there be rebel-!
Bon or insurrection in the Territory, it will be ! I
wanton, causeless, unprovoked, and incendiary. ; i
It will be such upon which every good citizen
'of tlie whole country, North and South, will j *
invoke a severe and summary punishment from it
the Constitutional authorities. It will he in ,
resistance of measures under which the broad i
endsof substantial justice are sought and cannot ; i
fail to be secured ; and tiiose who make it, it
they escape the bullet and the bayonet, will
deserve the halter and the gibbet. The honest
sentiment of the whole country approves of
the mode now opened for the settlement of !
the troubles in Kansas. The heart of the nation
oeats lor peace; and woe to the misguided men
who shall presume to prolong the strifes uf years
by defeating the honest, wise and just measures
iwhich have at last byen dev i- d for their fail
[final and peaceful settlem-nt.
HEX, CASS Hfli'l/t i• i (th:. V,.*<Lh
I )iisHA KT % r t-e ST AT K .
Washing tori, l)--t nhei 18, ]Sf.7,
Sift :On VVeiln, >mv n-t J r-'Ceit'ed yon
comrhunicatioii, : th" l.'th i::>t. 1 nderimg ~u
resignation as gov, i :mr <4 Kansas. Thi-- resu
nation is ,rron ga ;d r-y a l-mg argnmeut ol
: t!ie afhiirs ol that IVnitory gem-raily t-.-u iiic
you are well aware, it would 1,- improper f
the department to ugh . If' ,-vi •, "eg-'e"r ;
the government who feels hio mii cm-Miaine.
to refuse o' edi-mce t r the ifsvm li ms of ;...
president should puisne this unmuai <<■
and thus place Oil the files tile appropiial,
iej art.-! ent a critii i-in on the v,4 the ad
ministration, no person knows t!:ar, \ ur
seit to what .Conseipi. iSfes Jh!; ~■>!; j
I'hedepartment must either <•.> ( oinges ; ,r< t
atgi.merds against tin* IV t he #;.
among t! ■ pu: iir ; .chive,- of.'J.e.ctiunti v with
out cuntiadiction as.} ply, ~r,it u-, sn:ui
' tini" whirl! o> to be devoli •; ; . the peO.:,
service, in controversies wnfi so <;ii,atei-fii, .r
--who may disapprove the Fjeii,;--nt' : . ; li,.*. v .
W!.slst duly, thereC-re, f-rb.'s a,e to
into a c nttos ersi.il ihsctisse-a w:! h \ uon !!;<
V a riot st, | i-s em ~: a d !>y y j.r ;.r g .iiH-iit, it ,
prop, r IT, ,t I ,ho rfd make a in; a,! a mii
gle j* int.
u state that the Pr-si.J idi..- cha ge.i -
j-dirv in regard to Ix.in-a . i. why ,d
--h-gatlon 1 Stftiplv n.-auvtit cofi*. Atm::
Kat is having, tit- , .v-rci* oft he right be
longing t ) tll--ii . ,le< i, <(i t' i bey would riot
submit tin V.J je lOfistnu:! 1 to the o ,)i
all hough tin y sve s-nnnut d the all-imporhmi
and danger,.-, * questiun ot ..Um-n, toco
i threaten., d t<. (Onvulse the I ion, amj was
alone prominent in the mil d ft!.<* people
throngfmut , v ;y .State, l.e Im,j, < t treated i;
subn,is?;o:t of t:. is in-mieiilotp qu<,!iou .... a
mere riullitv.
Utidr r tin s - iicun vane, s, i; was his imp, -
* a ! tins uj , ,--<t c r.l..nnity w.'j.
' previous i;>!r ti to mke t -e that a i'.,:r
| e|. r' ion si; -; i .* 1. -id mi ti;i c \ if;,] questi a,
! ami thus give p-. are to the Iniop, fi.ei h
acted in any ti • . manner rm r< iv because he
preferred th Mibm; snn of r.,- constitution
generally to ie j op|, . his r< ..p/■, dlity would
have been of t .!•* giar .- ; ,t chata*--!'. II - n- v.-r
entt-i tainr-d | express'il {.be ( n that the
cinvention v re bound I >uf i,i any jr.rtum of
the const it ufa to lie p-ople, , ;c. pt the ques
| tion of slavAy, much jess tm.t t| • ~t:,.-r poitmns
of the c -tist i tit i-.u would t-e j. valid without
>ucli a sUtlllii*-e'.'l
11 -id. ie* em-stained uch an opiitiotL (hi
'■ •'•>'<: ■ -ve • ninr j ; a.sition t the numerous
pr- cedent's vt.ic;, have currerij mcetheadop
ti ,not tie- ' -riiljC -list it id; ti i|.- the riuiei-nt
Stair*. :lr (jUwoion , i >i;nervjiv as. the alia -
m; it.g qui ■;. oil, ami you were ut to Kansas
witii ti.,- . confidence of fid President to
carry (,-*.• tee princijij-s <d the
act. With :iie que. tinu u-hethdt Kansas w- v
to e a (fee- ■ slave .Stateyou w.£e n• to inter
fere, i ,i. were to secure to he people <>l
Katisa- a I e*> and fair election t decide tin
qu -tiuri tj r tberm elvea. Pie- |r, wdent was,
ther-foie, hippy to learn (torn yt-nr- despatch ti>
I hi- d. j a-bie-nt , I the Ififi, Of July |..st, W
ill -!i Vim . - cut- \ ott f .'! ; Ift n hied f'r.m,
e>;u: er.dii j t.ny opmi ,n as l„ wf-ther K, ns..>
slle-.ild he Ve or ati • t*.Stall*.
lam ifi-itu!.*to info m'you Lit vour re.'g
naii.-.n oft je ..dice g-,vn m.-r A Kansas I.as
: e,*n n c> if i.
I am, sit yo .rob' I.r-nt s.-rv,-m{
LErV to CASS.
If;::;. Rjr.f.t.T J. H'±iilf)gU/ti.
'1 ?5E N'L VC Tillßi.
past,
pet's :• s>. .. : . I;•ii Jyr ■ ,■• I, t ; L). i iK) -
' ' p.-' :- •I - I- -si 1 -v, US advor ~c\
l, y a "• ■ ' I I ' l "j- • s : a \> • pi--, ; .1
" VlUli t!: S.urj- t. <(!•-. i'f V , |ie p tt>: "
d t . asseii ..! i. ;m p'n'.e i;,i, ;-e p it; ( )
!'j Oil tf.e Ult r, Ju- lie 1-r.it i- • 1 leg has leaked
nbf, in . to turn tins \on e'r.i >-uti
m nt.d > > nm li a. th- measure d-pi *-
.
rerpon-. -iiit r tn r- f'-i'. The su-.'-.-ntv eftiieu
npj -Slte.m to tie- Uieiisl. e, is f tide; -d ! itlie.
uiiest: -ualile, w hen it is s en to wh it a
...
li. Th- Intel, sis 'i! i■*• - h race i h
a- tuny, ar-- ;i .* t ail con-a l,*r.;iion, i.< 'bey t an
nul ■ mam' th ant - rre a j J htir;.i anu p~; -
tisane. j.
Jii ; suih-r-qf i.hi* studied system, a terrible
outerv was ma.e by tie* fiorlh.eru opp.-siliuu j
press, in r i |te;ii'<- ol .1 ! ' o- el 1 in ,
Camnfitteeof tip* South Carol in# Legislatine, j
advoc itoig t!ie pevir il nl •••'-, n>osi rvoreh* nst-.
b!e'species of Irtiffic. I'hat there is a certain
class of men in Ihe South, w high cesirt's the re
vival of the si.we trade, is as i.jik,,.. sllrillabie as ;
that there is a Fiesta! Ie hau l of Abolitionists .
and "Union-si d*-;>" in the .North : but there is
as little to tea: from the ialiors of the one us tie
Other. But wUib* our consci. ntirris and cluis
tian fi'i-'ncs love taken special pains for then ;
own selfish eufs to parade the acti.in of this
Committee th t ugh their columns! they will as i
religiously wilt hold from a like | lace, the fate,
that the proportion of the Committee nut with •
in the S-nat< of that State. It was treated I
with so little ptention, that it di-.jn-it even re
ceive the conftehAnce and encod agernent of a |
debate, but without discussion, tffit body dis
posed of this L-port ami resohitioth in favor of j
re-opening t.6 slave trade by ifiilefiuite p : >t- ;
ponetnent . IV ill our opponents manifest some j
hltle sense rf justice by noticing tins caval
ier treatmi .t of this very offtoxious pro
position ?) f
But wiietl j-r they do so or not,- ,-t them re
member thai these attempts to js phi
lanthropy a- d humanity, to hasei nliticbl pur
p -s* 111 mc 4 instances, as in this, ail to accom
plish anything but the excitement of the con
tempt of every huuorahle readrt.— Pittsburg
Union.
|
I)ax<"i\i; ■ —The Alabama Metfodi.-t Protes
tant Annual! Conference has adopted the follow
ing resoiutitri :
"That a:y parents or guardijrs belonging
to our chutth, who shall patronii> that school
of sin, the liancing school, by lending their
children onwards, shall he suhjecj to trial and
re proof j siLf>ension or expulsiori as the case
may demald.
GAJU;li|u IN SOUTH CAROLINA.?-A hill is he
fore the Siuth Carolina Legislatife which pro
vides ttiatflirofessinnal gamblers, vho are tiajnd
guilty of gambling, shall receiv* thirty-nine
lashes :n a It! it ion to the punishment now pro
vided |>y tue law. If this bill, when passed,
, does not suppress gambling n that State, no
1 law can.
r,~.
, Powf.a OF TII r. Pkovu: OF .c.
Iririii, (' •RIJ.-RFII.XI.OV- —Tt..- i. .'•'••• Ov f.R
" ..y.* the \Y\v h ' { --
• fry I; 2 Ut'cin-.tf H },I- ■ 7.- tii j.\, - a "
rii l. ntJv i -u'l want lim -j ij >'
is i-.w !>)- ir ( nrtj ai *?:„• | • 'a* tt
32 , .' , i**s in Iv i'maj ivbo pr-funi . ■it - •
jafi *■; ror t ithi itsn V n i'i-v to i. !, , ,v " I -r
eons! itutiy.ji vrsfeirh ?U 1 jm! , r ' ! '''
, anjihihc sßoiv in j;. '""! - T
t! > ir trans;aivnt an'! -'-air ..
ilmj ■! (n rt like tie r '>n>-fttnfiu; K ' v j r> / jf] V'
• Tinw'flf .'iff-'-,- -;r"t tetii'cm i.'ciSf <r .'
J / 1 I '""ty t" o *'" it
' A lij .• • ! .If us works .
pi'rh of itsr ~nt hfari' a s>- i "
P r, ; ' 1! Sir in: lit v VS flwt r- • a!'.'
j'lacp i it i'sa. 7/..5,
• 1 "'' ! m <\
'' ' / .' ' .v/.;/... A, pr'-rcnt the pro;,/, of,, Sif.fag\
i • ftiiutiem OS inty thai!
f /'■' ■ 'f. itff.tr Ir the mode pointr,J oof
■ 'in: A;:r, oi- •> eppositiou
A-'o ji tii.. r p!
! is !■ *. ti'ti! y ; thute is f.f
coir'ry t! at <:m cali.i Stale lo act- : ,i f.. r
' ! , fh" }'<-op|Hof Louisiana *,
' V 'ivinsr iirxlT a ron,!ili.ti m fortm-d m a
" ; ftly 'ontrarv to the mandatory ian*„2'-
- 'niter c"n<tjfition. T.i.i? iastruiif>-(>t
<' • iiat arrr<-n shoulit b- profri-d
' " ' isl-i?ur" and su!;naiftodbt° tVo 1 p>" 'f
t '■* Nl f'-'jolar ion : ami, ift/.-n*.;i,!v rat- :
' 9V sfi ul:! 1,., fkdaiv.t parts fll.e fanen
'■■■■ ' ta_j lav. .1 Km Statu. Tim !e,houvver
vvTf disatisfitJ with this, in con- risnrf of the
" :,tl fti:ni '.vi.ich wouf-i nt'cwarily elapse
i rt* the constitution coul I bu Ifi-rrd arcorH
! -to tt-,- pr -I'litu'il modu. 7Vi-y tiisi-rfire
( ■' it. (o a const it ttion.i! convent ion
'ii<l' r•I in this city : and in toicl <lkrt<rar,l f
"J { f e? i.-'fin* organic new
vvhirh u-as unanimously ratified by air
'' <i i'y, and is now the consti
tu!: n ol the State. J
, r f H - -
!:.t{*u{ if (Mil Kansas. Je
Sr. I.t i.is, D- r , 23. The /)' .**£*:"*
' 1 ic- •• !:• mi i.t><vii.ji!ort, giving the
'•"i Hi' I iliif.'. An act has *—•-?
* submitting the Calhoun GoftslHution to a
v " ! pe| r !')•■ Territory. on the sth
of lanunry,in three forms : First, The ( onstito
'' u tl 'ivcry. Second, The Constitution
f . nil >,avert. Trird, Against the Constitu
tion.
indent measures have b-en adopted for
-it' hiog tile polls on the 21st, committers
having; been appointed f.,r each precinct !>
tiiKe t e names <>f all the voters, so as to detect
the false returns. tm**m
!he report of Gen. Lane's death proves to L§ /
false.
A tto A o iiitll s tSuut s .
\ { tj itr n L l l> i. t
lit r > | £ | Iji 3ic
1 he su •sci'iners u di sell at private sab', their
well known farm on which they at present
! ► sale, containii 250 • arm of laud, and hav
ing thereon erected a good ilvvt lling-house phis
fell : within and without, with a kifrheii at
tit d therel , a double log barn and u irgoti
, v, i . of her shed.,, good hog-house and ais >
: good gi wary house. 1 here is a never tailing
spring of good' fresh water at the house aiso a
• ii.e o;, hard of bearing fruit trees, and young
■ IT hard hearing tor two years past, ;'>out \of
a J;.lie from llle dwelling. Tiler, is. iigew.ise,
mother g mi dw- iiing house, 0!)( . m.le froin the
me just mentioned, which is at pr > tit occupied '
v a tenant, and has near it a g id orchard of
apples, ;in i s and cheirie<,and a ring of g
cid w iter that never 'hi 1 -, at the ifoi>* A
>:reu(u of uatef fl .v, tit oug<> th • whole far.;•,
the distance of one tilth, whch i- sufficient to
drive ,-n.i i six in m!' s in a our : a. saw
i! i' I site was i v-1 don it hist spiiitg. Tiieie
g ■ ; ti.i et on the j, ace tor sawing, tint will
la-: f.r m ars to i• i n-. (Pie huudi. ! acr.-s ate
<■ .O '.d; U\tM\ fc. ., ai'e i;t ntea .\v and .i grs u
: 'tlx o can i>f n-.a-.lf. Tfietaru IKS 2
l: h-S VV ■it 1 ' I'l Ms'i g and { imfo f: >m 'he
tmiij ike :• a ;to pii;> i,:g. adj >;iurg lands Ot
d din iu.s-i an i Hairy Ego An, in Napier
I'mvmh.p, Bedford countV, i'a.
.iOH \ll M 1
A \ Diild v: MO WRY.
Jan., 1, ! N.iS.
AOTICH.
\LL ne:- M> are hereby no!died not to meddle
.th the i .; iwing described property which
bei -rigs to me, th- subsetner, and which was
•'eft, in my II VII d -cretfon. I > the care of Sin;- I
;el L geimcker, in Middle VYoodberrv tp.,
viz: one ~y mare, one black horse, one sort el.
!'• > ays and .one black colt, three cows.two
r .1 ami ;ie white spotted)one heifer, two year
ling tahes, ( ne white and one red.) two red
< alv. >, twelve sheep, (7 ewes and 5 lamPs from
last >pfit:g) six fat hogs, four slioats, orie car
tiige for double and single us-, one tw o horse
w agon, three setis ot liorse geatSjOne >eit !iar
ttess, cirte saddle and bri tie, one windifiiii, two
jduMgiis, v.ne harrow, three shovel p|, ugiis, (two
sing 1- and one double) one bureau, one tn
board, one cooking and one ten-plate stew. 1 1
bushels of corn in the ear, 150 bushels©! wheat, .
200 Inishels of oats, 175 bushels of rve, 7 bush- \
els of cloveis-et!, ti tons of hav, also ail the
grath m the ground on tile larin on which S. C.
1. ittgem cker resides, containing about 17 acres,
and divided in three fields.
SIMON HEARD.
Woodberry, Jan. 1, 1858.
LAST NOTICE !
THE subscribers now have their hooks
tor settlement, and call upon all person*- doi"s
business with them, to come for warn and set
tle up their accounts immediately- 1 hey hope
: this notice will hot be passed unheeded, as I his
| has been the first time fir years ofbusiness that
| a similar call has been made. One of th* firm
being now engaged in ofhei business, 'he bu>i-.
ness of the firm imperatively demands setth"
ment. Ail kinds of Hides will betaken <" pay- .
ment ot accounts due. .......
TAYLOR -N MOYYRA.
Jan. 1, 1858.
ST HAY '' ()NV -
C \ME trespassing on premises of the sub
scriber residing in township, Bedloru
com#v, sometime f>out the first ot November
last, a large white sow supposed to have had
pirns not lomr before she came to the premises;
with a litfk cut out of the left ear, a sift in the
iGht ear and the under piece cut oil. fheown
er" is re,-|nested to come forward, prove prop, r
lv, p|y charges and take her away, or else she
XV i'l I ie diseased of as the law duects'.
Ja;t J, *SB. GEO. W. SHAFFER.