DUE B3LLAR PER AM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWAXDA :
gtpreiian fUornmn, ociobcr 0, ISolj.
political Song.
FREMONT AND VICTORY.
THE I'KIZE SONG.
BY CHARLES S. WEYMA>*.
ViR '* Suoni la J foniou- — Pcritam.
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of tl:c. North, who remember
The deeds oi your MI CM, ever glorioua,
Joia in our pa'an victorious,
The jin-nn of Liberty !
Hark ! on t>. <re.lcs of November
Millions of voices are ringing,
Glorious the song they are siugiug—
Freuiout and victory!
Hurrah !
Join the great chorus they're siugiug,
Fremont and victory!
it
C-'ire from your f >ret-clai3 mountains,
One from tiie fields of your tillage,
Come forth from city ami village,
juin the great host of the free !
As fr> their cavernous fountains
Roll the dee]) floods to the ocean,
J,. :i the great army in motion,
Marching to victory!
Hurrah !
K, ho. from ocean to ocean,
Fremont and victory !
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Far in tho Wot rolls the thunder,
Th. luniuit "t battle is raging.
Whore bleeding Kansas is waging
Warfare with Slavery !
Struggling with foes a lio surround lier,
1..' -he imploreM you to stay her !
Wal \ 11 to Slavery betray hi r?
Never—she shall lie free !
Hurrah !
Stte.tr that you'll never betray her ;
Kansas shall yet be free !
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JUrrh ! we have FWorn to support her ;
The prayers of the righteous shall speed us ;
A chief in • r conquered shall lead us—
Kreni' nt shall lead the free !
Then from those fields, rtd with .-laughter,
Slavery's h- rue-, shall he driven,
Frc i in to Kansas be given,
Fremont shall mako her free 1
Hurrah !
To Kan-s* shall Freed >tu be given;
Fremont shall make her free 1
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Men of the North, who reiucmlier.
Trie deeds of your sires, ever glorious,
Joia in our piean victorious,
The pa-au of Liberty 1
Ifs-k. on the g'tks of November,
Millions of voices are ringing.
Glorious the song they are siugiug—
Fremont and victory 1
Hurrah !
J .in the grevt chorus they're singing,
Frcm .nt und victory 1
Another Old-Line Democrat for Fremont.
Letter from a Member of C*en. Jackson's Cabinet.
At the very large and enthusiastic Republi
can meeting in Philadelphia on Mondsy, the
lion. Charles Gibuovs stated to the meeting
that the Hon. Saml ej. D. Ingham, formerly u
member ol Gen. Jackson's Cabinet, who had
Inn invited to address them, had replied to
tst invitation in a letter, repudiating the falee
Democracy of the day, and sustaining the prin
ciples and candidates of the Republican partv.
The sou of Mr. Ingham read the letter, as fo!-
iuws -
Trksto*. Sept. 22,185 C.
Cam** GisnoKs, Esq., Chairman of Republican State
tommitue :
Dear Sir ; I have duly received yours of
lw IT'.h inst., inviting my attendance at a
R"pa' bean meeting in Philadelphia on Monday
fi ning next, or if I cannot be present, to send
vou a few words of encouragement, to those
are laboring to promote the return of the
Federal Government to the principles of Wash
:r -dtOTi and JiflVrjpn. The infirmities of age
R iu prevent my compliance with tiie former
part of tiie request, and no doubt weaken the
rf f of an attempt to comply with the latter.
Llkmgh I haw long ceased to take any active
pvt in political affairs, yet, in the momentous
now presented, I should be unfaithful to
r| -dictates of my judgment, and the conscieu
• Jls convictions of a solemn duty, if I with
'A any hul that might be thought useful iu
b" trial of the great cause now before the
•iairican people. Our ancestors formed and
Admitted to us one of the best governments
*'' ownw n to the world, and it has pleased Almigli
j! hoi to bless this nation apparently more
-A" any other ; we are therefore bound by
most solemn obligations to preserve ourin
• "tions as they have been handed down to
"b and resist on the threshold every attempt
on the settled Constitution of
r Dolitiral charter false or corrupting doc
and principles.
t 11 one side of the great issue hefore us the
to hold slaves in all the Territories of the
| state* is claimed by virtue of the Con
j K'-ion of the I'nited States. This claim
1 a constructive power of a new order ;
•(j a j | no ' )ns is as an incidental power, nor in
1 fo" necessary and proper for
1 fo vi XeC,,tif,n f ' ,e P ranf, 'd power, nor have
3 ng, VOra,es persisted in an attempt to derive
: |„' f ex pressod or implied term or incan-
I hat k °" st ' tu tion. They saw clearly
!*. ' wonkl be impossible, aud have now
I krf r < U ' IUK on il " higher law," endea
| t0 prove that " Slavery is the natural
1' n °j"iaal condition of the laboring rutin, whe
f! or >" and as a necessary rorol
. '"tn this problem, they deduce " that the
evil of the Northern States will yet
4c to introduce it their theory of free
ls , that it is burdened with a serril*.
and iu borers, unfit for sclf
<Pr 'tEieut ; master and slave is their re
i •' :r - :Ockty, as ueeesvary at that of pa-
"rent and child, and the Northern sclf-govcrn
" mcnt is a delusion." Such are the doctrines
and principles now at work undermining the
very foundation of a political system devised
by soine of the best and wisest men the world
has ever seoi, to promote and secure the hap
piness of nil within its dominion.
1 will not innlt your understanding by in
timating the other side of the argument in this
great cuuse ; it is familiar to all. The whole
doctrine of Freedom, as defined in the political
institutions of Free States, is founded on a
sentiment that requires no argument to support
it ; hut there arc other incidental issues which
are of not less practical importance than the
abstract doctrine above referred to. Before
the election'of President Pierce, the great ques
tion which had so often threatened to disturb
the harmony of the American people was set
tled satisfactorily to a iarge majority of them,
North and South. National Conventions of
both the great political divisions, convened be
fore that election, had solemnly pledged their
constituency against all future agitation of the
Slavery question. The Presidential election
of 1552 was placed on this foundation by both
parties, and the present Chief Magistrate was
specially chosen under the influence of this im
posing compact, and in accordance therewith,
when about-to make his appeal to (#od as a
witness to the sincerity of this oath of fidelity
to his trust, he pledged himself to tlie whole
American people that his power would lie ex
erted to prevent all further agitation of this
distracting and dangerous question. Can any
oue conceive of a pledge more solemn, or that
could have been made more irrevocably bind
ing than this, voluntarily agreed upon by all
parties, and universally approved us a great
measure of public good and great national bles
sing ?
The promise of Charles I. to maintain the
right of petition, the violation of winch cost
iiir.i his head, could not compare in imposing
solemnity with that which President Pierce
made on the 4th of March, lbC-2.
Can the history be credited which will re
cord the fact, that, in less than months
from thai time, he had engaged in a conspira
cy to accomplish, in its most obnoxious form,
what he had thus promised to resist 'I That
lie not only a-ed his official power to efn et the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and carry
Slavery in to the Territory of Kansas by law
less violence, but that he enteral in a conspi
racy for that purpose, is susceptible of incon
trovertible proof.
David Atchison was President of the Pen
ate ; S. A. Douglas was Chairman of the Com
mittee on Territories. The first biii reported
for the organization of Nebraska was silent as
to the Missouri Compromise. The conspiracy
was not then organized. The second bill con
tained a declaratory clause that the Mis>onri
Compromise had, by means of some previous
legislation, become inoperative. This frivolous
disguise was, no doubt, the suggestion of some
timid member member of the conspiracy—pro
bably General Pierce. " Conscience makes
cowards of us all." But it was soon exposed,
and the acting manager, Douglas, was obliged
to give the offspring a uew dress.
Then, for the first time, the doctrine of
Squatter Sovereignty was introduced, und a
new clause repealing the Missouri Compromise
was clothed in a mincing phraseology, full of
affectation of great regard for the right of the
inhabitants of Territories to make their own
institutions.
The plan* of the conspirators seem now to
have been settled, and they threw off the mask.
Atchison, having left his seat in the Senate,
was busily completing iiis organization of Blue
Lodges of Brigands in Missouri, to force Sla
very upon Kansas by violence.
The Fre.-ident of the I'nited States was ex
erting all his powers to aid Douglas and liis
associates in repealing the Missouri Compro
mise, with a professed desire to establish Squat
ter Sovereignty in ail the Territories. The
movements of Atchison, so far as the truth
could be drawn out of reluctant witnesses, are
fully detailed iu the report of the Congression
al Committee to Kansas.
It may be well to notice some of the con
necting links between the movements in Mis
souri and those in "Washington. The Governor
of Kansas, true to his trust, denounced the in
vasion of Kansas by A'ciiisou and his banditti,
driving off by violence the Judges of election,
taking possession of the polls, making new
franchise laws to suit lion residents, and bring
ing voters from a foreign State to choose leg
islators for Kansas.
Atchison in turn denounced the Governor to
the Fres'dent, and demanded his removal. The
President, perhaps still trembling tinder the
burden of his pledge, or alarmed by Atchison's
practical illustration of the Senatorial panacea,
" Squatter Sovereignty," hesitated, and sought
to avoid the responsibility of an act so bold,
by getting clear of the Governor by other
means. lie flattered, coaxed, tried to intimi
date. and finally to bay him off with a better
office ; but all iu vain—his integrity was in
flexible. But Atchisou must be obeyed, aud
a frivolous pretense was seized upon to carry
out the plan of the grand conspirator. The
direct co-operation between Washington and
Missouri—President Fierce and "Vice-President
Atchison—did not stop here. Work hud been
prepared in Kansas lor tho courts. Ihe Lea - -
ritorial Judge was suspected of being too high
minded and independent for the business Atchi
son required, nnd was also removed and anoth
er appointed, who fully answered the purpose
for which he was chosen, aud whose name will
fill a niche in American history similar to that
occupied by the notorious Jeffreys in English
history.
Laws had been passed, which, l:kc those of
Draco, might he said to have been written in
blood. To beguile public opinion, the hue and
cry of law and order was raised by the same
bands who had taken possession ot the ballot
boxes of Kansas, driving off the officers and
legal voters with revolvers and bowie-knives.
Encompassed by these Outrages, the settlers,
in pursuance of a general notice, assembled to
gether to devise the best mode of relief. ThffiV
proposed to form a government in conformity
with a usage adopted by the people of mnc
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MKAKA GOODRICH.
" REBAItDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FftOM ANT QUARTER."
Territories now organized as States. Presi
dent Pierce, in the face of these precedents
and the Constitution of the United States, de
nounced this assemblage, convened for a re
dress, of grievances, as treasonable. His Jef
freysian Judge now caught the sound, charged
his Grand Jury accordingly, and had a number
of the respectable inhabitants of Kansas in
dicted for treason, most of whom were arrested
and have been imprisoned under a military
guard for months, but now relosnr.l on bail—
thus acknowledging the falsity of the charge,
as treason is not a bailable offense.
Are more facts wanting to prove the con
certed action between the President and his
co-conspirator '! Look at tire official proclama
tion from Washington ; their thinly disguised
but palpable design to detc-r the people of
Kansas from the assertion of their right ; the
authority given to Gov. Shannon to direct the
military force of the United States at his dis
cretion ; their employment to make arbitrary
arrests after the manner of those which once
filled the Basrile of Paris ; the employment of
foreign brigands, umler the mask title of the
enrolled militia, to blockade the great highway
of the West against the .transit of emigrants
seeking a home on United States lands ; in
addition to these things, the indictment of a
printing office and hotel by Grand Jury, and
summary punishment of both by burning with
out a trial. Would you not like to see a copy
of these indictments ? This act must also have
been done in imitation of Draco, who senten
ced a statue to be banished for having fallen
upon a man.
At the same time that these indictments
wire executed, the town of Lawrence was
sacked, and the people robbed by these famous
police executioners. Not content with" these
outrages, prowling brigands from the Blue
Lodges and from distant states were indulge nt
ly encouraged to range through tiie territory,
rubbing, banishing and murdering in cold blood,
its peaceable inhabitants, avowedly to extermi
nate them froiu the land, under the hue and
cry of obedience of "law and order," that is,
the law and order of Missouri invaders admin
istered by Judge Lccompte and executed by
Atchison. Appeals to the President were an
swered by reference to the protection of these
sacred laws, as coolly aud gravely referred to
as if they were the Justinian code. When un
der th*nienace of the hut invasion from Mis
souri. the people of Kansas sent a special de
putation to the President of the United States,
iie not only peremptorily refused them any re
lief, but insulted them by reproach, for having
meddled t>o much with their institutions, in
stead of minding their own business ; meaning,
evidently, that he had provided for their in
stitutions, through ids confidential friend, Gen.
Atchison, and it was a grave offence for them
to interfere with him, and grossly presumptu
ous for men " who do their own drudgerv," to
attempt to form institutions for regulating so
ciety according to its "natural and normal
condition."
"When the President made this reply to the
Kansas deputies, lie must have been so absorb
ed in the uo'.ngs of the conspiracy as to have
lost all compunctious reminiscences. He was
so determined upon the execution of their laws,
that he preferred to jeopardize the whole mili
tary appropriation for the year, rather than
forego the employment of the army to establish
this Atchison code.
The facts I have thus adverted to constitute
but a small part of the indisputable evidence
that might be adduced to establish the charge
of the conspiracy among certain high functiona
ries of our national government, to interpolate
a new and false construction of the federal con
stitution, upon a point of fearful and vital iu
tcrcst ; to accomplish which solemn pledges
have been violated, and means employed in
which tiie great principles of democratic go
vcrunient have been wholly contemned and dis
regarded, and an a< tual coup d' ctut attempted,
more abhorrent to freemen than anything we
have been from infancy taught to condemn in
the achievements of tiie old world.
To those who have been trained, as I have
been from youth, in a devot'6ll to democratic
principles, tho measures 1 have thus cursorily
presented to view must cause additional pain,
as well as alarm, from being the exclusive de
vices of high public fnnctionnr'e* placed in
power by, and reputed to represent, the de
mocracy of the United States. We have
cherished with ardent devotion the benevolent
sentiment embodied in the term that designates
a government made by the people for their Own
good ; but how revolting to every sincere, ai # -
dent, patriotic democrat, to be compelled to
see Ids time-honored patronymic prostituted,
not only to the destruction of sacred chartered
rights, but to the establishment of doctrines
subversive of a democratic charter ilself.
There are many examples of corrupt men,
who, relying on tiie prestige of an imposing
popular name, have used it ms a mantle to pro
tect them in the perpetration of diabolical
crimes ; but who could have imagined that the
name of Democracy could be thus effectively
abused, before iu model republic, abounding
with everything necessary to hu map happiness,
was eighty years old !
But all is not yet lost. If high officials nave
prostituted our name, ai d by vile machinations
bet rayed us, we have onr principles to stand
uj on, from wliieh we can make battle at the
ballot box, and rebuke back the conspirators
to a harmless retirement. Of the candidates
before the people, I have little to say. The
great question to be decided is one of principle
only.
Mr. I n 'hanarv stands upon the same plat
form with .Franklin Fierce, and is so pledged
by iiis supporters to carry out his measures,
and especially the plot of the conspirators, to
use the Constitution of the United States to
carry slavery into and drive settlers out of all
their territories, that wiles* he possess tiie he
roic nature of a Ilegnlus, he cannot respond to
the demands of a free democracy.
Mr. Fillmore is, probably, a well-disposed
gentleman ; I know nothing against him, cx
cent his recognition of the right of certain
states to revolt if they aboard be defeated at
| the polls, or if he d'd not mean rcvob, as. he
did not net the words, h< must hare ighf-
of a coup d' ctat. as has Rinco been suggested by
Chevalier Brooks, of South Carolina. Some
of his friends seem to have a vague idea of his
powers of compromise, but, has any one ven
tured to suggest the terms ! Will they give
part of Kansas up for a slave pasture, and re
serve the rest for freedom '/ Neither side will
couce one inch to such terms. It is a settled
point that Kansas must be given np either to
slavery or freedom, and who pretends to guess
what Mr. Fillmore would do on such a ques
tion ?
Of Col. Fremont I have stiil less to say. It
is asserted that lie is too young and inexperi
enced. As to the first objection, lie is even
beyond the age when the ablest and most-suc
cessful men the world has ever seen begun
their achievements. As to the second, he will
require only a clear head, a disciplined mind,
a steady hand, and honest and stout heart, to
do all the work the nation can demand of htm.
All these qualities have been accorded to him
by impartial opponents. We have the fnl!e=t
assurance his history of their reality. Thus
armed, and standing on a platform of simple
construction, founded on a rock, unencumbered
by any delusive architectural abstractions, and
supported by an unflinching phalanx of free
Democracy aud staunch R. publicans, if I have
any judgment of the causes that most effective
ly operate ou the uiinds of Americans, he will
be triuLTphantly elected, and as triumphantly
lead this Republic onward to its glorious des
tiny.
With great considerations, I am yours,
S. D. INGHAM.
The reading of Mr. Ingham's letter was fre
quently interrupted by applause ; and at its
close, three enthusiastic cheers were given for
the writer.
Bcchaniers.
The following are among the prominent
members of the democratic or Buchanan party.
We do not say that they are a fair specimen
of the party ; but it is evident tii&t the party,
from some cause, attracts such specimens to its
support :
David R. Achisonnnd General Stringfellow,
who have been straining every nerve for near
ly two years to carry slavery into Kansas, and
why have hesitated at no rascality aud degree
of mean:; -s to accomplish that cud—are warm
supporters of James Buchanan.
Governor Shannon, Marshal DoneTson and
Sheriff Jones, and every member of the Bor
der-Ruffian lea-Fiaturc. all who assisted in the
sacking of Lawrence, and aided iu destroying
tiie free papers in Kausas —arc active iai>orers
for James Buchanan !
Jefferson Davis and every other noted dis
unionist of the South, are now plotting and
conniving for the election of James Buchanan !
Frestou S. Brooks, Keilt and Kdinuiidson,
the first of whom committed, and the others
encouraged, the most villainous assault that
was ever perpetrated npon a public man—are
open advocates for James Buchanan 1
FhiJeinou T. Herbert, who followed a high
handed life in California with the murder of a
waiter at Washington—wasat the Cincinnati
Convention, and endorsed the selection of James
Buchanan !
Ned M'Gowan. the king of the "stuffers,"
is a full blooded democrat, and says, if his late
letter is -.ermine, that- ho voted lor Buchanan
in Fciinsylvuuia years ago, and v ill do so again
if he can get a chance.
The ballot-stuffers of California are all ac
tive democrats, and, if allowed to vote, will do
as Yankee Sullivan would, if he had not gone
" to tho laud of the hereafter," that is, cast
their ballots for Jauies Buchanan.
MANUFACTURE OF LETTER ENVELOPES. —It
is estimated that the number of envelopes made
in the city of New-York alone, in one week,
is at least 4,000,000.
Tiie process of manufacture may be briefly
described. A ream of paper, or about live
hundred sheet.-,, is placed under a kuii'e of a
shape corresponding with an envelope when
entirely opened, which is forced down by a
powerful screw-press; worked by a. hand lever.
The pieces cut out, slightly adhering at the ed
ges, from the action of the knife, resemble a
solid block of wood until broken up. The flap
is afterwards stamped by a -mull ir process, a
hov being able to pr 'pare 50,000 per day in
this manner, taking one, two or three envel
opes at each movement of the huiul. They
are then taken by one hundred girls, seated at
long tables, by whom they a re. folded and guui
ir.e l. A single girl will apply the gum to CO,
Ofti) or 70,000 in a day, from 5000 to 7000
may be folded in the same time. In these
processes, the girls acquire great celerity and
skill, being stimulated by the. wages offered,
which vary from twelve to thirty emits for each
1000. The envelopes are next counted, band
ed and packed. Some varieties are embused
or otherwise decorated, requiring additional
labor. The establishment of which we are now
speaking consumes not far from twelve tons of
paper per mouth, in the single article of enve
lope*. This quantity of paper, at ten rent*
per pound would fust, $2,500. Tiie machines
em ployed to make envelopes arc very curious
ly constructed. Each pn'ceof paper, upon be
ing cut into the proper shape, is placed on a
kind of artificial hand, which 'convey* it over
an np< rtnre of the *ire of an ordinary letter,
when a plunger drives it t'nrongh, camming
and folding it iu the process. It then talis in
to a box, which by revolving at intervals, is
gradually filled up with packages of twenty
live, ready for n*e.' These machines average
twenty thousand envelopes per day, and are
capable of tnrning out eighteen |>er minute.—
Tiie business is in soma danger of being over
done For some time past it has doubled, al
- every twelve months, until a very large
capital is embarked in it, and has
reduced the profits to a very low figure.
A'-L'orciirrg to Th: }ficJiencnl ITU*, the
Democratic majority which has existed in Vir
ginia has always come from the 8,000 Ger
| marsp beyond the Ridge, who aro ROW" infect
ed nith f';f German £e< ?i for Fremont..'
GoYeraar Geary's stiscs-is in Paoifioatioa.
One of the Washington papers is talking of
the " pacification of Kansas." with the remark
that the restoration of quiet Rtul order to that
territory has deprived the freesoil party of
their principal topic in the contest fur the
Presidency. We wish with all onr hearts that
we could say that there was a real, substantial
pacification of Kansas, that its peoplu were
put in possession of their rights, and that the
tyrannical code to which tiie federal adminis
tration has declared its determination tomak j
them submit—a code which is now, after ten
months from its enactment, admitted by the
friends of the administration to be i.he worst
in the world—were set aside as the fruit of a
lawless usurpation. If that code were out of
the way, there would be an actual pacification
of Kansas : but while it continues to be en
forced the agents of the general government,
there is, and there can be, no pacir. 'ation. A
code which allows nobody but a bordcr-ruffiin
to vote, and nobody but a bordor-ruffian to sit
on a jury, which sends every man tc the peni
tentiary who speaks his mind on the question
of slavery, mrtst, if enforced, lead to a state
of tiling* tor which pacification is o false name.
Our telegraphic despatch of this morning,
in the first sentence, speaks of the territory us
" tolerably quiet." Just at the time—on the
20th of .September—flmre were no warlike
movements. Yet the despatch goes on to say
that the frontier of M'-souri was closed against
the free-state men. No man of that class can
piss in or out ; i:o man from Lawrence, orar.y
of the free-state settlements, can send to Mis
souri to procure provisions, of which they are
reported to be in great need. The pro-slavery
party meantime go and (gene freely, whatever
their errand. Is 'his paciucktion '? a state of
things which shuts up the inhabitants within
the lines of their territory unless they pass bv
distant and circuitous routes through aw ilder
ness ? Is it pacification when, to them, ali
Missouri is a ho ;tile country, in which their
lives are not safe ? Then is a seigc a pacifica
tion ; then was the heleagm ring of Sebnstopol
a pacification. In the midst of all this quiet,
Captain Harvey, of the Chicago company, law
captured the flag of the South * Carolina ad
venturers. and sent it to Chicago as a trophy.
They call the territory " tolerably quicd," it
seems, when a few days pass without anvbodv
being shot, and w hen only a flag is captured.
General Lane, it appears, has retired to Ne
braska Ci'.y. beyond Governor Geary's juris
diction, but if there should be occasion for his
presence in the territory, he will undoubtedly
be back again.
Meantime what is Governor Geary doing ?
In a letter from the Rev. Mr. Bvrd, which .we
publish elsewhere, written at Lawrence on the
17th of last month—he gives the narrative of
the barbarous murder of David Buffum almost
iu Governors Geary's presence. Governor
Geary went and looked at the murdered man,
but he could do nothing ; the assassins went
on tl.cir way unmolested ; the murder was
followed by robberies, to prevent which Gov.
Geary was v.hol'y powerless. And this, we
are told, is pacification—homicide and pillage,
and troop. of ruffians ddfying the civil author
ity, constitute a pacification.
No doubt Governor Geary, as Mr. Bvrd
writps iu his letter, is doing ids beot to keep
the territory qu'et for the present. Those who
gave him his commission, sent him but on tlmf.
errand : the cry which rose from the people of
Kansas, trodden down and oppressed as no
men ever wcro on this continent before, had
penetrated the hearts of their brethren in the
Atlantic .States, and the party which supports
Mr. Buchanan felt the necessity of doing some
thing to counteract its effect. Governor Gea
ry was directed, therefore, to do liis best to
prevent the commission of new disorders iu
Kansas until after the election, and the admin
istration journals were to stand ready to pro
claim that he had effected a pacification. ITe
was to concede nothing ; he was to not to d.s
turb the order 'if things which Mr. Fierce, co
operating with Atchison and Stringfellow. had
established ; h.- was to maintain the spurious
laws of Kansas iu their fail force, lie was to
tell the inhabitants that he hhuuld iusist ou
their obedience to those laws tili they are re
gularly repealed, but lie was, if possible, to
stop the murders, bnrmngs and robberies til!
after the Ith of November.
Who does not see that this is not putting
an end to the atrocities of which Kansas is the
victim ; it only adjourns them. Tiie frightful
misgovermncnt ofnhat territory, f.r which,
with ail its attendant curses, the party support
pig Mr. Buchanan are responsible, is ouiy sus
pended for a few weeks. If Mr. Buchanan
should be elected, there will he a plausible pro
text for Raying that the people approve of it,
and it will be revived. All the machinery of
spurious, laws aud usurped officials is kept in
its full vigor, to be employed again as soon as
the election is oyer. Nothing but the election
of a Fresident who sympathizes fully with the
friends of Kansas can save that territory from
even darker horrors thau it has yet seen.—
Ecer.ivg Pes.'.
IvTrnrvTrvr; Tvqfnjres.—Tn view of M•.
Buchanan's poKfiekl character nnd hi-torv, iq
what Pennsylvania county should he r s de '<
Answer : Somerset ; or, in view of his horns,
UUCAS ; or, as he blows his own horn, Qj-'/ian;
or, a* his political career is almost run, ITunt
ilte-acne ,* or, a* he is being hanlr-d over the
lis, Carbon. ; or, as he proclaimed Folk a
better tar.tl man thfcn Clay, Lie-ccmins ; or,
as his prosp 'cls are S'miy, J'ike ; or, as i;e is
going, to pot., Po'ter ; or, a- his chancc-s are
declining, TUr'Vic. Will Mr. Buchanan with
draw ?
The foliowinq is from the IhsJir.wv4 Fn
quirer, oatc ot tho chief orgaus oKtho " nation
d" party, yghich 13 supporting Air. Buchan
an -
" humqer and r-<imn*r r s ft tends mnstberan
fhed and rib-need. Government which rfrmot
suppress Sfrh crimre a their* has failed of its
purpose Hither snch wretches must ho hang
lor put :n 'he penitentiary, or the South should
prepare at on * to unit the Unioa.'
VOL. XVII. —XO. 18.
Tho Poacs and Qniet of Desolation.
We ad: attention to the accounts from Kan
sas, which we publish this moruiug. They are
ft'l from Border Ruffian sources, and therefore
whatever tney say cannot bo considered as er
ring on tho side of free soil. The Squatter
loovercign, Atchison's own organ, states that
the Missouri army, under General It-id, to the
number of 2700 men, had refused to obey the
proclamation of the Governor, by disbanding
as required to, do. On their appron hto Law
r- ice they were met by the Governor, who in
- tend of employing toe United States troops
to put them down, made a compr >.nise with
ih< m. by which Ave hundred Rb flans or.or
H"iu Were tnkeu i; to th C. £. RcJffoe, "to
assist tTie -17aftetf States in expo.ling Lara's
troops, and getting as many of them us
b'e urisoners, to be tried by martial law."—
This was bone in the face of the statement
made by the Governor in hia proclamation,that
ho had enough regular troops for all purposes,
and did not require the aid of militV Finding
themselves thus abandoned once more to tho
mercy of a Radian amy, bearing all the au
thority of the government to sanction their
doings, and not wishing to combat even the
mime of the government thus misused, tha
whole Free State force under Lane, numbering
1500 men, abandoned the town, and the Ruf
fians, headed by Raid, marched into it, with
the Govtrnor and U. S. troops, triumphantly.
They I'oiu-i the place almost entirely deser
ted, of course. J
Having succeeded in effecting this feat,Gov.
Geary sent off two hundred United States
troops to capture the fugitive Free Suilers.—-
It seems to bo considered treason for them
even to Ace from their homes, A body of
these unfortunates was encountered at a cross
ing of the Kaw river, and finding themselves
thus pur ned, they, iu a At of desperation, arc
said to have fired UJKMI their pursueis, killing
a cousin of the Governor, and wounding sever
al others. Tuis Arc was returned, and forty
of the Free Soil' rs arc said to have been kill
ed, and ninety-Are captured. The long threat
ened general expulsion of the free-state settlers
is thus actually undertaken and commenced
under tnc* patronage, protection, direction,
counsel and authority of the national govern
ment. 1..e force officially denominated inva
ders and insurgents, and called by the Border-
Rnffians " Fine's men," consisted of three
fourths of the able bodied northern settlers.—
They had gathered from their farms, shops and
ollices, all over the territory, to repel an army
of .Mis- ouri invaders, who "threatened the de
struction of I.uwrence. Tne Missouri assail
ants have been aided by the Governor and the
L nitcd States troops in accomplishing a pur
pose which, singly, they wonld have utterly
failed in. Not content with this, the Gover
nor has under' ken to expel the whole bodv
of tho Free Se.lcrs from the Territory, To
this end he has already employed the troops
against them. Leavenworth City, the largest
settlement iu Tvausas, has been entirely depopu
lated by the same efficient aid. Geo. Smith
prevented flic Free Soil majority of the citizens
ironi defending themselves, refused to repel the
bands of robbers who kept the town in awe,
and threw several companies of troops into tho
place to prevent the Frec-Soilers from Law
rence helping their brethren to protect their
own lives and property. He drove the
families who sought protection at the fort, and
the AF.-'sourintvs drove them away from tho
town. Thus Leavenworth is ruined and de
serted. for when the Free Soilers left, thero
was no population or business remaining. Os
sawattomie is burnt to the ground, and its citi
zens arc killed or imprisoned. Lawrence is
purged of nearly ail its population, and an ar
my of U. S. troops seat to expel them from
tin* territory. Thus the three most Aourishing
towns in Kansas are ruined, the bulk of tho
population forced to seek safety in flight, and
a standing army of Missourians tuken into tho
service of the government.
Splendidly impartial Governor Geary has
proved himself ! Tie ha? deceived his north
ern countrymen with promises, and has ended
by betraying them into the hands of the Bor
der llufti-.ius. The worst aims of the latter,
hois now effectually accomplishing. Su:h s
, the peace .Mr. Buchanan's regime rr.uni.se-> to
Kansas and the Union. This wretched fannti ,
who disgraces the name of Pennsylvania, jj
his representative. Tim policy he is pursuing,
war counselled by, the Democratic candidate
for the Presidency. Let our citizens think of
that when they vote. Those who believe that
Mr. Fillmore would, if elected, favor the fr-'*-
doiu of Kansas, have but to look at his news
paper organs in the present canvass, to satisfy
themselves of tin: delusive character of such
expectations. They all defend the administra
tion policy in Kansas, and even now, when
every mad brings accounts of fresh outrages,
which lire thy northern heart with indignation,
they are busily engaged in representing that
Gov. Geary lias settled the Kansas troubles,
—PhttatTa X.rtk Amerian.
P iTTi'vT " XoN-Sf.quiTF.r.s."—olr. Sumner
lie? the mark of Cane on Ids brow, but it
do t. foiiow that he was Abel to defend him
self.
Dr. Kane stirred us up with his North IVl*
Expedition, but it don't follow that we are to
he knock'd down hv South poles.
Toe M ssoarian bullies nrc verv in c <"dont 'n cf
now in Kansas; but it don't follow th\v can
sass ns with impnnify.
O.ie might have been safe in the company
of the quiet Poole, but it dou't follow t a' tin?
proximity of hlu.-tering Brooks is equally
■irreoable.
Mr. Brooks may I ke to cut people Apiece*
; wi'h his cane, but it don't follow that they
i ought not to make iiiin cut his stick out of
[ CpUgri ps.
Mr Brooks may be very fond of " Uncle
1 B ifler," but it don't follow* "Unit Mr. Sumner
may not be equally fornl of Aunty Slavery.
Mr. Buchanan may bn nominate! by the
Cincinnati Convention, but it don't follow that
jic v!l fee c-l-vu-'K—aot by a jug full.—J'A-'.r