THE ' P'EOPLE'S JOURNAL wigs : s. m-4.-re-r; 122112 vOIIIDERSPORT, PA. : : • TIII'RSDAY_ MORNING, JUNE 12,12,56 . Oil Charles Sumner's is slowly re covering from his wounds, which -phoned faeinere dangerous than was -at ifirA'suppoSed. He' lias 'net - been . ttl4 to leave his - room'since the brutal at`fi4k, but his'Physician'bopes to get ii•carrage by the !At. - of this 'veal.' • ' f..„.V' There are several interesting ;mg articles on the first page, - one Yin i elation to tire of Mr. 'Keating by, the .I'hilajelphia• North American. .oite in relation to the tear in Kansas, .11th] une 4n relation to the belt cure for the priisent bitterness of party politics. It costs us sixteen dollars every week 'publishthe J o urnal.iftrt s is rut receiicd from subscription or .A.(1.- Tel tising patronage, we have to :pay it (Com our own pocket, as - ,the printers aro entitied' to their pay, and they get. it, or the Journal will stop. Vben: our friends neglect us, the Journal Lauds 'heavy on our hands, but when : eVery niail brings a pleasant 1t iter culitainiug sUbscriptio'n fur the aper, we feel as if tivu could never "tire. It is about half - and half at this BM Si'. /fatly rnau doubts the spirit. of , thv Buctanyn paFtyr of Penusyirania, let him look . at the press of the state ni Its service .• . . - The following from the Lycomin l=a - ze - tie ii . l ielatiun to the at tack,Sumner . is a fair Sample of the whole, so • . . br us we have seen them. 4he Llackguard in eithet house is proliA3ted iii the of sp - eecli, i . niattef how niudh he abuses bra p,.iyiii%e;-aud'au•man-ever more out ittgei,..usly abused_ it, than did Senator Suin:.,Cr to the speech for which the email:4- was actininistera Though nut violation ofthe laws of the laud lsis ccbdnet Was nota whit less repre hensible than tlict of his assailant.— lle is untitledto no snore considera tion or umpathy than any other black paid whose foul mouth and abusive tonguo has got him into a dirty row, from which he comes out with a bro ken head. Who ever. reads the unequaled epeech of Senator Surrnel, knows there is no approach to truth in the al , 4ve.characteristic dirt eating of the ay.vttc!. The improvements at, germa lthl in Abbott Township, aro going un I;iltely, Mr. Rees has got the Stea.n Sawmill in operation, which is Lioiug a fine business. Lapd, clearing and road making is going on, briskieY, and there is,a•dne prospect for that sectiom _cif the Country.'- • Cam" The last Highland . Patriot con tallied a pretty full account of late burnings, filling and other outrages in Kansas, with an editotial condemn ing them in good honest terms. If all the Blichanon presses, would speak out in the same manly way, peace Le would restored to Kansas in a month LE? I?. W. C. James, has retired from the Editorial charge of the Pat ] jut.'` If all the issues of his pappt, been of the spirit of the last • one, . . . A%.e •thould much regret his retirement; but in view of his whole pQurse since eunip here, we 4t) !jot known that it makes any difference who edits the ~r gan;—the music is ever the . 5p0r1e.. 7 ., I : ;certhe last . number, every honest real tietti.icr; t will thank him, and as to the pa ulessiuhal office seekers, who haye 16 ways controled the Finny here, and throughout the free states; if he. is a trtte Man, it will make no diffe.roce Mho.. Pley bay of it. t:7 l "Ercry where; except in Potter, *onibient administration men are breaking lose froth their party and uui lingwith the mass of the people to protelit.alainst the outrages in Kansas. tcw days ago a great 'public meet- ILI E , was held iu Honc.nlate, Pa. in ref ;et-4race toThe tiggressnifis of the slave power: The ,)resitJent of the meeting ras the Hoh.!W. H. - pinimick, 'as' protni berit h autiker Pen:tuataras there is in tlietncoufityf among the speakers were F. Crane, Samuel E,Dimmick; and Ft vela Ptakefrom the Administration side... • .• - In this county, the prominent n - ministration mon are ail Aumb can the aa'airs Otliausaa, but we- Ajoico •to know that the jmiip4 are almost. un_ani mous in demantling (modem andiutice toF,W.ausq.s. I Doctor "Bairett will deliver it discourse on the 'death or Miss Knapp, at tii9 New Court House on Sunday a4ernotin next at two o'-eloalt All the associates and acquaintances'.of 'Miss ii .nape are requested to attend. CIPThe Country is ;41 alive with in diguation attliet.yranny which is crush ing, out freedom in Kansas. The peo ple' ofChicago have raised fifteen thou tp.nd.doltdrs to aid the free State cause, Dscroit ten thousand, Boston ha's an able Cornmittee at work. The . New York Kansas Committee has appealed to the people of the t rnpire State for aid, and in all directions the people are waking up for work. Ct Alrefi4Y four - printing: offices ,lave been destroyed, because they stood in Lhe way offorcing slavery in to Kansas. , A vp.st amount of proper ty, and a large number of preciouS lives nave been destroyed for the same ignoble . purpose, and yet 'the people of the North' are divided. There are doughfaccs in every town ship of the free states, who yet sub mit to the yoke of slavery and sustain the pai ty that has committed all their crimes. Shame upon such a. party! Shame upon those who sustain such a party! BUCHANAN NOMINATED The Slave power by its Convention at Cincinnati which assembled on the 2nd of this month, placed in domination as its 'candidate for the Presidency the Hon. James Buchanan of Pennsylvania. To an intelligent man, honestly in favor of preserving Kansas from the curse of Slavery, it would not make the slightest difference who was nom inated at this convention s as the ncmi nee had a platform made for _him• in advance, and it was a *Slavery plat form. So far 'as freedom in Kansas and the other Territories are concern ed it is all one whether Pierce, or Douglas, or Buchanan is the instru ment for carrying it out. But to those men, who desire an ex cuse fur betraying the cause of free dom still further, this nomination is acceptable because, Buchanan,' having been out of the way while the last out rages were enacted, is not so odi- • oils as the. immediate actors, but the platform.noto adopted, is more intense ly pro-slavery, than the one adopted four years ago for Franklin Pierce to stand on, and Mr. Buchanan if elect ed will do all that the Slave power *re quires of him, - just as his predecessor has done. 119 tannet escape from these. even if he. would,,-because he_ and. his fiends have placed themselves completely at the service of the South in order to secure the nomination. The-Pennsylvania State Convention, which choose Buchanan_ delegates, en dorsed the Administration of Franklin _Pierce, and thereby.pledged Buchan an to carry out the same work. of ty ranny if elected. liouF.e we say, no man who desires to prevent the subjugation 3 f Kaqs as ta the slave power will think .of voting fur James Buchanan, who says he s' re gards the present. state of the slavery question as a finality,": which a friend suggestS is truly a blessed finality— a. state of Cipil .T far. PROGRESS OF THE WAR. St. Louts, Tune 5, 1856 A letter to The Democrat from Leavenworth, May 31, says a company of Pro-Slavery men, some days pre vious, had waited on the Free State Settlers, and commanded them to leave K.S.usis within a specified time, or suf fer the consequences. Mr. Philips, the corresporiAent of, 'lire TRIBUNE, being conwelled to leave, went to Law rence. Judge Conway who, was arrested on the 23th, was confined that day and night, with guars seatfoned over hiin, but on the folloWing Morn: ing was releaseli, and commanded to leave the Territory. Not obeying, he .was that evening conducted by a C0n 4 . .. mitten abc&d the steamer, and sent down the river. Mr. Latta, rrnother Judge was ordered to leave, -aud sa. Robert Riddle had also left. Seveial otters have beeti - cOnfrearided to leave. Mr. Shoemaker, a lartd,re, *c . eiver . ; and the Government officer in "Kansas known to be a Free-State than is to. be notified' o leave. .LcidY Le'av :enWorth has ago beer. ady . ised to move away to avoid' - difficiqhlr. The 'writer says the Free-State:Men do :not•mani fest suffidierit nerve for the crisis, but thinks that if the reports are true that the Free State settlers in the to - uthi -eft! part of t'he Territory-arein arms, and compelling the Ero,Slavery men to retreat to Missouri, the effect'; will be good in the northern pa . q." It 4 is reported`that :five hendred men "are marching from "Wisconsin to 'Kansas, bit it is probably' without foundation.. The Kansas City E . nterpvise (Pro- , Sl . avery,) issued ap extract. on the 3d fristent, which is republished to-Jay in The Evening Area's. This extra says that J. M. Baynafti left . St: Bernard for Westport on Friday last, and as fie bas not been heard from since, it is supposed that he has been murdered by the Abolitionists. John W. Farman, H. Harhilton' and John Luk went out" in seareh of Baynard, were taken by the Abolitionists and threatened with hanging. The" extra further says : Marshal Donaldson and seven men, on Friday pight last, were fired upon from Walford's house, near Lawrence, by a party ofso Abolitionists. A short conflict ensued, which resulted in the woundingof several of the Marshal's posse. H. H. Carty, just • from the Territory, states that some men be longing to the same company with himself were attacked and all serious ly injured by the Abolitionists. He came for men and horses, and twenty five of Buforo party will immediate- 1 ly start to the respqe. Cap. Pattis's company, numbering 45, men went to Hickory Poirit to suppress the out rages in that vicinity;: but were attack ed-by 150 Abolitionists, and• two of his men killed. Another fight between the same parties occured near Black .Tack, in which 9 A;bolitionists and 13 Pro-Slavery men were killed, among whom were Capt. •Pattii and James' McGee. Cap. Long's company of Wyandotte Indians were united to Cap. Pattis's command. The above facts were well known at Cincinnati before the adoption of the platform, and yet no allusion was made by the . Conventipo, to the civil war raging in Kansas. The trouble in Kan sas could 4.11 he disposed of immedi ately, if ,Tames Buchanan only desires it, and had back-bone enough to say the word. , But he expects the vole of eyery slave holding,state, and this he deems of more importance than the lives of the, people of Kansas,. and so the war, will go on, for the 'free, state men will not leave the Territory, no matterlthw Many times they are order ed to de so, by those who now , think themselves masters. TEE NOMINATIQN OF . 3113. lIITCHALNAN. In thinly-settled parts of our coun-. try, where - the banks of the rivers are covered with forests of large trees, the woodmen drag the trunks to the water, that they maybe floated dowri towards the market by. the spring floods. If any of these people, in com mitting 4 particular lug to the stream, were to say, ." There, now, is a log that will not swim with the current; you will see this fellow floating up stream ;" his companions would - either suppose that he was joking, or else that he had lost his wits. A new log has been - dragged to the river at Cin cinnati, and it would be the dream of a madman to suppqse that it will take aey otho 4 . direction than those which ' have goat) over the rapids . before it;. -It is a log, after all ; it is launched up on a current which is sweeping along with it like'its predecessors. Buchanan, whom the. Cincinnati Con vention have proposed - as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, is not a man in whose charac ter the element of conscientious - re, sistance forms a part. He is one who has over floated passively on the.patty current, careful only to steep some where near the middle of the stream, as the place of the greatest personal safety. Of himself he is wholly unen terprising, but he has capacities which makes it worth while to employ him as an instrunient. It wets a curious spectacle presented at the Conven tion when, as soon as the struggle for the nomination of either Pierce or Douglas was, seen to be absolutely hopeless, the different personal fac , tions represented in that body. rushed to take united possession of Buchantm, and placed him upon their platform— t.fie raft they had constructed—and on which he. must-float to where Pierce has floated before him. In an examination of the political character of Mr. Buchanan which we made some months since, and in which we showed the superiority of his chances foe a nomination; we alluded to the character of his associates and confederates. No public man of our day is surrounded by so profligate a. set of foliowers and adMirers. He is the centre of a circle of unprincipled and restless adventurers, whom men of higher degree or self-respect avoid. Thftre is pqmething.--we suppose it consists iu the ease with . which he is managed—which attracts to him that class of persons, and he seems to be ' perfectly content associations thus acquired. •A - o . tv completely he-is in their EIQW• er is . shown in those remarkable acts. of his life, the Ostend confer:fence and the Ostend Afariifeste: The object of the ConferenCe—a meeting_ of the envoys and diplon ii atiii agents of our country in Eurp . pe 7 ,was to prescrihe th . ahr goveinment the line of foreign policy it ought : to pursue ; and the do sigh of the Manifesto wai`to persuade it to seize upon the island of Cuba, wresting it from 'Spain by force,' for the reason that its possession . is rieces . say to the security and permanence . of our great national institution ; slave ry. In that document the same gi ohnd was taken in regard to the seizure of Cuba that has since been taken in re gard to the seizure-of Kansas by the Missourians, and in regard tq ing . our members of regard by knocking them down. The interests of slavery require violent measures— measures in Whieli all regard .to.the rights of otherS is to be thrown aside. That was the prieciple" of the Os tend Manifesto as it has been the prin ciple ofthe atrocities which have since been perpetrated here at home. We 'do not attribute the Ostend Con,: ference and Manifesto to Mr. Buchan an's instigation. It was both a wicked and a foOlfsh affair in which he engag ed, and.well deserved the rebuke it mot from. our Secretary of the State. If the advicn yyhich ?4r. Buchanan was then persuiled to give had been, taken, a war would have ensued--a - war . Of unjust riggression, the Ares of which might be 'blazing • yet, rind in which . our commerce would have, been con sumed. let nobody' believes that the scheme was Mr. Buchanan's biven tion, though he adopted it. and made himself responsible for it: He was pushed into it by those who had poi session of him, and by whose Sugaes tionS he allowed his conduct to be Qu enced; he - was floated into that enormi: ty by the current in which lie lay, as he will yet be into others of a like chacar ter it he should succeed in the compe tition for Presidency. If Mr. Buchanan could see no harm in seizing upon Cuba for the protec tion atslayery, it is not likely. that he will entertainany scruples concerning the seizure of Kansas by the slave, holders and their myrmidons, for the same purpose. Rely upon it, that..b.at, tie is to go on as. it has begun, unless stopped by the defeat ofthe Cincinnati candidate; there . is to be no compro mise with the - residents ofthe territory ; no slackening of the persecution by which they are to be driven out that their places may be supplied by the slavedrivers and their gangs. If Mr. Buchanan is elected, the seal of ap proval will he set by the people of the nited :States on all the fraud, all the Aiolence, all the usurpation, all the hurningi, robberies and murders,• the news of which, for so many months, has been the melancholy burden of the mails from the West. _ lie will be as easily purseaded 'into a co-operation with these atrocities as he was into the folly of the Ostend 1 1 .4aniresto.—Eve. Post. For the Journal. BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALLIENOW.THEN The beauties of popular sovereignty are being illustrated with a yengeance in Kansas. We cannot imagine how any man with common souse could ex pect any other result thaq the one which now Shucks the feelings and arouses the indignation of every per son not absolutely in favor of ex tending human bondage over all our fair country. ;The rule or principle , which govern the slaveholder is, of course, that might makes right ; that because he• can, he will enslave his fellow being. And we may always expect with mural certainty, that. wher ever possible the same rule will be put in force, •• _4ll he asks is power; and it matters not whether the victim be the black man whom he wishes to reduce to ser vitude or a white Senator or Free State - settler in KansaS; or any other person who stands in his way, the same rule of brute force is invariably ap plied. The slaveholders demanded the right:to enslaye Kansas if brute force would do it, arid.our Northern pretended Democrats • immediately Conceded it. Then the slaveholder, true to his instincts of , making other people 4o his dirty work for him, - calls .on the President of the United States to assist him to execute laws which deny the rights of nature to the black. The rightoffreeepeech and a free press, the right of suffrage and the right to sit as a juror -to the free white settlers who differs with him in political opinion and ttelieye with . Jefferson that .slavery iv a sin agaihst God: Strange and horrible as it may seem to the impartial mind, the President responds to the call and is now using all the vast power at his comtattrid to enforce laws which would disgrace the barbarians of the Feegee Is}►ds. • •, • I Kenr to the laws of the - bogus -legislature of Kansas. The doctrine of John C.'Calitoun which he boldly advocated in the halls of Cungrci that "The capitalist ought always to own the laborer whether black or white" and that this was the normal condition of society, has nor as yet been-incor porated into the Democratic creed, btit how long at the pr3sent rate, of progress towards despotism by. that misnamed party (the name should s be despotic party) before it Will be, is cer tainly but a few years at the longest. And Mr. Editor we sometimes wish if Kansas is ever euslavud that the former of slavery -which Calhoun ad vocated may prevail and that some your northern apologists of Pierce & co., who Imre already bargained away their so - als fora mess of pottage" may have the delectable privilege of being owned both soul and body by the Rußan Aristoeracy they are now in love with. [Kansas corresp.on4ente.) LAWRE:NH';E, May 26, 1756. EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL You will have heard before this time from the Tribune and other sources, of the destruction of the Free State Hotel and the two Free State presses, the plundering of the private property, of "our citizens, and the outrages on the lives of several unarmed men. I will state the principal facts as few words as possible,_ . After the attempted arrest of Gov. Reeder here, the Marshal of the. Ter ritory issued a proclamation calling upon every citizen to come to Le compton, enroll himself in the possie fur the purpose of enforcing the law and arresting Reeder (who is proably now in . Washing-ton) and other men who had resisted the laws. To this call the Platte County Rifle company, the Kickapoo Rangers, and Major Buford's Soutbernors responded, to the number of FIVE lUNDRED AND TWENTY SEVEN MEN. Of these, three hundred and nine were horsemen all drilled and trained sol diers. As suer. as the people of Law rence heard of the - assembling of this force under the U. S, Marshal, a Meet ing; was called - *and a Committee of Safety was appointed to take the mat ter into consideration. Gen. Porrte., roy was its chairman and after debate it Was finally concluded not to resist the U.S. Marshal and posse as it would -be treason so to do, but to let thein make all arrests peaceably land quietly. A correspondence was open ed with the Marshal and he assured them that no private property would . be destroyed if they. adhered to the policy they had, adopted of non-resis tance to the U. S. Laws. On the Morning of the 2.lst inst. the force above named, armed with shot. guns Knives, Sharps Rifles, and U. S. Uoverriment Rifles,. Revolvers, broad Swords, cutlasses* and other Iveap. ops marched into Lawrence and placed their cannons se as to cover the fiee State lintel. : Flgs of various kinds floated over their heads; One with a blood red ground and a single white star in the center over which was inscribed the words " Southern Rights" and on the reverse "South Carolina" is worthy of notice as be ing the one which was placed on the reef of the Herald of Freedom office when the mob threw the press and types in the river, Another had black and white stripes, and over the can nons .w.hich the same day laid . onr City in ruins ; floated that glerions escutcheonr, significant everywhere of freedom, the stars and stripes—L.Ltho star Spangled banner. About noon the Marshal arrested Col.G.sius Jenkins; and Judge Smith, who had just returned from the East G. W. Detzler, Gov. Rubinson's .pri- Gate Secretary all charged with Trea son. (Col. Jenkins, was arrested twice, before within two weeks and discharg ed: These men together with G. W. Brown and Gov. Robbinson are now impriconed at Tiecompten, and guar ded by U. S. dragoons.) The - Mar shal then disbanded, the posse in our streets and Sheriff Jones (who was vi.fonirded a few weeks ago here, and murdered by the Border Ruffians, newspapers and was buried by them with - great military honors) immedi ately summoned them as his posse, and demanded our arms which were given up, on condition : that if they were allerwards fbund to be private - property they would be returned,—.- This was all, very well so far; as the people supposei that Jones was act ing as Deputy Marshal, and as they knew nothing about the charge •of command, supposed him to be Depu ty and used him as such. • What was the surpise of - the stated that he was going to destrby the hotel and- printing presses, can be more easily' imagined than described. 1 stood beside Jones, vhen he stated that the building kticiivtrai the, Free State Ho:el and the - city newspapers were presented . by theCirand•Jury of Douglas County as public nuisances and that Judge Lecompie' ordered thernto hedestroyed and . that as.SherifF of D.ouglas County. he would execute the orders. He gave the people one hour to get out of the hotel; The rest of the story is soon told.—. The presses were tkken by the mob. to the river, broken, and sunk there; types and books destroyed; the hotel which' cost its - - proprietors I nearly sfii) 000 after being. .cannonaded for an hour was finally burnt down; houses broken. into, pillaged and . Ohba - a . ; women insulted and driven with their children into the woods and ravines for safety. What, were the. men of . Lawrence doing . 3.11 this tirnel Some of their taking care of their- wives and little ones; some looking on the tie, tions of the mob, apparently amazed.. at their. audacity, some- pitching-in . with their tongues an.dfists, all afraid, of being called traitors if they resisted, in any way whatever the actions of those men over whom that glorious American flag waved so triumphantly lest they should be called traitors! At dark the mob went buck to their, camps, on. their way they set-fire to.. Gov. 'Robinson's -house whicti - was burned to the greund-. Since that time nine different murders and - tempted murders have • been com mitted by guerillor bands of these Southern ruffians, upon unarmed fro., . State men generally when at worlJon, their claims - . United States dragoons: are now stationed over the Territory. to prevent the free. State men from organizing, by special orders from Shannon. But they will organize. nevertheless, - and in case the dragoons . interfere, I think, (and it is . only private opinion) the people will declare themselves an ludepeudent. Republic and sustain their Declara tion of Independence by the force of arms against the U. S. TrocipS and the U, S. Mobs combined, or die In the attempt. This is. a sad alternative, but it is the alternative .of desperation. . Goo .IPOII,BID that this should' ever take place—that-- it should ever seem,: necessary to take this step—but I be lieve the very. next outrage ofthis kind will be the signal - for this step,. and . free State men, wi)l be on the •clefen .7 sive no longer. [Kansas Cortesp:7lldence.] ALTON. ILLINOIS, June 34,.185G. Eb. of TzE—JounNAL: I arrived in this city'yesterday on my way „East.; This is the home of Judge Trumball the U. S, Senator, who looks after S.. A. Douglas so sharp. The city. is, situated on the - East bank of the ls.tis sippi *it two or three 'miles above the mouth of.the Missouri, and is one of the most beautifully located. cities of the West. Ei g hteen years ago this city witnessed the murdet of Lovejoy,. a martyr to the Freedam of speech, and the destruction of his press. Well what was the result ? What did it effect for the slmie power? Why to day, and for the last four yearS theie has been an anti-Slavery Daily paper published here; and it pays. Yes sir: The Allan Daily Cogrier is one of the institutions of Illinois; and success to it. I presented G. W. Browri's cade to the people here, and they subscrib ed between $4OO and E5OO, for a new _Herald of Freedom. The people bare determined to show that they are ashamed of the disgrace which attach es to them in the case of the - martyr Lovejoy and desire to place them selves right on the record befoie the world. It is somewhat remarkable that such a man as Trumbull should come from the borders of Missouri, from a place where Border Ruffians triumphed Ei g hteen years ago. But it is cheering to the friends of Free. dom to know that such changes aro continually • going on. And though Border Ruffianism may 'triumph in Kansas fii a dai or a few months she will redeem 49rtielf in the end as' Al on has dope. TRUTH cannot be "crushed out." Thank God • for that • Y..