RI II II 11 H I . • , • CHARLES F. READ 11: VRAZIER sll3-11-'OIIS. I tar A friend requests the to/Wk.:dim of the foi -1 lowinj lines as not only :containing a -gtiod . dear of '.keenslatire, but as also obi:slring ',the incompatibility I of the syBtem of American slavery:with the spirit _ of Christianity. It is called "The Pious Slaveholder's Pray • ' • t ,1 G re at4B-od ! who hest created all, _ The litaek to nerve, the White to actin,— Who indly giv'st ,its slaves to use, : • 1 TO hob our cotton, brush!sour • shoes,— And to all kinds of serrit. labor. , whiefildack men's hands alone were made.for; t thank.thee, gracious Lord of Heaven, 1 For op the blessnigs thou Last given,— • ! Nor 14ast of all do I adore thee, • • . - • ! 1 Devoilti v, on my knees before thee, ,- That tho - u hast made me whatl tun, - • I • And for my slave the colored m an , .-- , . For thou, 0 Lord, art - well aware , •'. '. .., That ftis a great "conveniente n here, That We have "servants so subtnissive,r ' • -.1 (Thatiks thet \ thou "such a boon" dost give . !) I So ever ready to fulfil • . .. ; • - The slightest token of our will, I - • • And now, 0 Lord incline thine ear , • Most kiticiously unto my prayer; . . ,Nor (Into notice each condition ; Thy .Servant acids to his - petition. . • '. l And here I beg thotett give attention 1 To otie thing which I have to Mention ; lltis it pOint I should have touched on / At fifst by way of introduction: . Lel I was even now a;feartng , , [ Tho would'stmot grant my prayer a hearing, 1* But aooinit, as thy power is able, . To li• . forever on the table ; 1 Oh, Spurn not thou thy servant's prayer, ', But ere thou (lost reject it, HEAR. -I Thori bast, 0 Lord; with lavish hand, . . 1 Besgoved thy blessings on this land,-- F AlvVas 'tis generally agreed on, ~ 1 The greatest boon we have is "FREEDOM: I 'I 1,. Esi4ncl, 0 Lclidii this boon to all J Of every nation, great and small ; Let Freidom's'batmer be unftirled j TriuMphant d'er a ransomed world,— • 1 Provided, always, none construe it, . Thai slaves shall be alloWed to view it. , ll The dark benighted heathen; Lord, Are l peiishing without thy Word:— .011,imav it be thy will tie's pleasure h To Semi them ROOM this heavenly trestsuro, 1 Butlet our slaves' morel tender eye-balls , Be ile'er annoyed by sight of Blntss ; 1 An 4 fill our laud with twitch and fair', 1 Rather than send a 1111IONARY. 1, A liVii)g world redeem 'and save, • . lialfshut thy gospel frOin; the SLAVE,— .! Forl in this rice and cotton region, • . 1 Saves have not time t 9 seek religion.— i - fles.ide., (" there's no mistake about it,") . Th4y're " suite content" to live without it And if they choose the" - dOwnward road," I Ana trample on a SaviOr's blood, And, sink into--a " dreadful hell." Tit not our fault, WE i'REAT THEY WELL. 1 : Make knowledge in duf world advance, i Bin keep our slaves iniignorance,-- - • I: F 61 -,nothing tends like mental action To E hreed "revolts'' and "insurrection." Lord, give " o's" rich and costly dinneri, 7 - 1 But let our AfareB,--:TRE:UNWORTRY SINNERS,— &it in thy goodness learn to trust,— • ' . I And be content to get a crust, • - I' 14d give " Us" beds of " down", to; test on, Mit teach our slave, t make theirne.st on - N. I . Tlie ".ground,"—if th re they rest-with ease,— 3 Orlon a " BOARD," or here They please..' 1. irirti i ;make our slave' content to labor. And ne'er repine that 'tis not paid for; -- ---; • 1, • Aiid, if their legs tow a " freedom" , fetch 'em, ad Assist our excellent '" l dogs to catch 'em." . 1 - .t4selieme has started pof late i hi almost every north 6 State,---- . , .. 1 Ilk men of evil disposition,—,- .' ; i T4at takes the name of " Anot.rrtos." ', . 1 . Cnfound them, Lord,l with , all their schemes,— '1 Spoil all their " abolition" dreams ; - • .itad let them knoir their vile aliuse on p liar inlstitution," • " Il o l not ur‘ a ‘ Carl il to loshla fetter,— ' f o r make our slaves' condition better. • "J - And if they step a sin le inch on 1 • Oar Southern soil tee' - I catch. and lynch 'eel ; I • four'out upon thecli ill our. fury, I* A'ud hang them " without judge or jury."- 1 And let them cease their vilepetition • - - For " territorial" abUlitioti; . • -: 1 , naritis decreed, if ever that comes, - . * 1 We'll blow the'" Utqost"l4l to atoms; , ' Then dance triumph nt o'er its - grave,--- ''rge stronger fette for the slave, . ~ And bind him down . ith chains forever, . { W hich time shall not have power to sever: hese blessings grent, good Lord, and then Will praise thee evermore,—estme. LI:- 1 _ - • - • , . t LETTER FE. X REV. J. L. LYONS. TRISLI, Syria, June REAR SIFTER 1-I sent twenty or ,thirty pages of letters - /View•days ago, which 1 hope reach you in 'due time. All' my letters iolfrietids in America have had, I believe, a -stir passage, unless it be that two letters plfich I neveiteitrd from were lost on board the missing steaMer, Pacific. Pince the date of My last,. ;we.have had q u ite extraordinaryram. - -At rained - ten 'Mors not powerfully but incessantly.. This • would hello unWonted thiterica, but rain-storm here in the month; of May, is an filltnost unheard sifif phenomenon, a phenome- Lam told , which has not occurred before within the 11; hirty-five years. The rain r (Ild great , daMfge to the' silk-growers' inter . iests. More t half the . silk ,vrtirms, they iliaving already begun to - feed upon the ',mut berry leaves, were destroyed. The river al so, which runs titrough.the eastern end of the city, , rose to a great height, and carried off 'considerable property. A girl and a boy were washed down into the sea aud drown ed. .1 This is the month of Ramadan, the great Mohammedan fast. The Mohamme.den months are all latter, that is, they begin with k. the new moon, consequently the beginnings T -2 of their ma:butt:li sidvaate eleven days each year. FOr instance, Remedial began this 1 year with the new moon, the 4th of May year the new moon willba elev - en days . earlier `find thief'ore Ramadan will com mence about the Zid. of April.-- Thus in the apace of thirty-three , ye!trs,' their months pass 'through the: whole circle of the seasons. Du the month of fiisting, th MoliamMedans ire iCtrkly forbidden by 'the Koran-to eat,l 4.lrink, or smoke between the hours of sunrise and, sunset. rather severe on the la boring classes, especially when Ramadan 0e,.; curs in the long hot days of Summer: Those litho e s a afford it sleep and lounge the day away and the 'moment the • sun-set gun is 'h ear d, 9,11 Gal t e fe as t* / add melling„to the full :eitetrt."of their capacity. The people are nitout iQ th t lipvetimg and the sisisps and stores are briliian y lighted. :..-.......... : .-:::..-: f .; • - ' .: 2. ,-;..:• ....,..... ..-..', . . ~.. . • • ' , - -.-- - - -- -------- -----....- -._ ~ ~ _ . .... ~...., ~ , ~ .. , .....„. . _ ..• - , ..-- , .... , ~... .. ___ ....... .. ,;_ . ._:• ... .... -: ' . . . .. •4. • • , -. .• . .•. ,- - „.,. . - • •.... . ..., . • .. .••4.-'.. - . .„ ' . .... ',. - 4_ . -. , ~,. , - •.. . ..- . ~ . . - I• . 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' ` l.:' ' ' ' -IRIEEOKI A[iNcl:.Rllam. .T-..,anag:rifida7 oLaviu2s.. -amp . wra0wa......... ..-. ~......,..... • ,.,. _... . ... •.,... • ...:._..... ,..._.., .._.. . , . •._, __ ._____._ , A few nightk ago our friend, "Howadji Yanne, the Aineriesa vice consul, invited us to accompany him it a stroll through the bazaars to 'Witness ibe illuminations. We assented, and on arriving at his house, found , to our surprise, quite a large party assembled. - About eight.o'clock the procession began' to form, and soon aftei we set forward 'in - oi' following order : • Ist. A man bearing a huge paper lantern, about the size of a n a afi keg. • 21:r KowwasseS (guards) with swords and staves. ' , .3d. ' ..Twiz4servants. With glass lanterns. 4th.. The two veiled ladies (C. and . Ma, donna . Yatine.) •, -.'sth.. - The twi3llowOjis .and the Consul: 6th.- Friends - and attendants. ';' •• . TO nirmber•of attendants increased as we advanced.. ile paiped through several of the .streets and Witnessqd some novel and inter esting exhibitions. oforientat magnificenee and fundneis for displayl - I could not help think ing hoWever all the awhile that We were pre .senting to. the gaze; Of the people, _Trite as great a l spectacle as:they were furnishing: to ,us. The bazaars Were thronged - with•• men and boys, :but the Crowds gave way as we approacheck some staring upon us with•utter astonishment, and others betraying unmistak able evidences of awe and fear. : On one side We heaid the exclarnation, " 0 holy. prophet, deliver us," and presently we - saw , a little -Arab dui. -- -Miming at the top of his speed to sa' v . s life. Of course we had no wish to leave other thanifaVorable impressions ,as to our peaceable intentions, and did not at . .all anticipate that Howadji Yanne was going to make such a fortnidable display. on our be half. But, ; this isjcharaeteristie of all Arab dignitaries.', • They are fond of making a show.of authority, rind. li.•doubt . not our perform ance of the'other evening w;,111nld somewhat \ ' - our consular. friend's i nifidence and re fr 4 own. ' ~i, •-•,' . - . . . . • , 1 . . We are grOual!y 'extending our acquaint ! ante' among l ihe tteopli.. r There am' some twenty. or ; more young men in our vicinity who fa_ us witliffrequent calk They are • sadiy ignorant, bursomeof them have good natural -powers, mid . are shrewd in arguthent. I often set into dikussion, with them not on Iy on religiOtts topics, but on points connect, ed with Geograp4• and mitural-scienee. The fact of the Catth's!revolution on its axis is to . . . f. , simile of them an inexplicable -mystery.— Said one til 4,114;.• 3.y, - 1,, If tli'. trArl.l turns over, why &nil We know - ivwhetr we are on the under side. with our heads -down and feet up V I told hiss we were hke; flies crawling round an Oringe,ithat knew not whether their • heads - were down or up. This satisfied him • = , for-the time s but?; a day or two after lie came in with an entirely new argument. . • , • " ',lnn say; the - ; world turns round ?7 • " Yes I haVe iio doubt Of, it." i.,‘ But thatis - Contrary to the Bible." , • " No, I think not. 7 : • , ' . .. , u "Yes, it iti, it says - in . the - .104th - Psalm, "lie laid the Oundations of the earth that it should pot be removed forever." l , "But the Psalmist does not say that - the i• „ wortd•ooes not turn over. • . ' "He says it :shall not be. removed." _ " But. there 'is - a' difference between:being removed and turning over.•'- I then entered • . . i into a full explanation of the whole a rem, which I trust was intelligible and.satisfiretory - , for I have - heard tici more from my . young friend. on the Object-. • • : 4, - , . Among our Iregutar ivisitots are three for ' four who in years past have given some at tention . to targiish. ,A day or; two ago, a young man brOught ina.letter which he had just writtena iti English to, an English mer chant in Beirtit. 'lt commenced thus: " I begg _leaf to conform you that I 118%4 recipt your.favor of the 6 Aprel." 'lt is some cOn solation to knit* that the Arabs make as bad work with the! . .English • as' we do with the Arabic - . The! great obstacle \ in • the ~.way ,of foreigners acaidiring the English is the spel ling. In the Arabic the grand,.difficult - : is the 'Tironimeiation.-.; The first two or three, years of the• imissionary's life are peculiarly trying, because while thiheart'is burning to speak forth the great and mighty . truths of God's word; he can only stammer forth hia thoughts - in feeble broken 'Sentences. 0 how I Icing for 6eirey 'in this hard language,: that I may be entailed 'to: bringthe -truth to .bear upon 'the Itarts and 'consciences of -men in all-rits power.; I But God is teaching Inc - les sons of patience, and in Him is all my hope . ; and:trust. - • • - - . • • How it has 'rejoiced me . to hear that Grid has been pclifing out his spirit upon the &welt: - es in Montrose. ~• 1 1lay. He carry. on the, glo rious work until many of those dear friends Whom 1 lea t impenitent may beeome Caithful. disciples of Christ. Pray that the Spirit of God ,uctaylAeseentl inpOn • us also„ . and upon tho - siarota us, antil , ittatthe thick darkness:: 'and error `which' hive so. long - dist:wed:the hearts 'of these perishing thousands, may flee away; before the light of God's .. own blessed ,_:.. truth. ....:.; ‘• .• ; - . , ~•,; . . . . ~ . t~ Afar 17.gborsd ay last we experience a d ock of an ea4httlak e . it blated but for s moment, but tbe le w, cr u mbling found andtle; shaking Of the webs wan Calol t liated to inapire with awe, an.di with a seise of our utter Weakness and dependence oil God. The shPok un! , Ma crack. in tone of the walla in Br. Jessup's tpl,m some 5 Or 6 feet in length. , No ; houses fell in firippli, bnt the , neighboring. town-of Batroon •7:.0k 8 miles or it is said several wilts Were thrown down, • Juse34.—We have just received the sad and uzieireted tidings of our dear Si" ter Aikin'S death at Ho s. She t)lned only six months ago. Sh•,,and hery btisban came with us to Tripoli, stayed aieWlys I our house; and then'Went on to' heir : station' at Horns. She has gon 2to her Heavenly rest:. We knoW not wh of us may follow her - fi rst.' We are all - w [now. Much love to you all: 1 Afrectioiifeiy.. {our Brother. , , igi,seek • Bound to hay DAV . ID R. Aieutsos . propagandists, have issm "appeal to the; South,". means to subdue Kansa. very. VOL. Bi t .roug, wh Carolina ruffians th 4„ re sas, has been appointed 'this Association; e. has po the followin g bold .ad ern States. L l et the. : F read and heed it., acid rt. .BUCLIANAN is t,iedgi!d t Slave State if OtfF0111:1 'designs, the elect& ti of F *is to Freedom ! TO4IIE:PENILE O.F THE SOUTH: . -2' Herewith yea wiR finl the appeal Of your friends in Kansas, koget i her with a' letter fie crediting inc as their agent io in maintaining Aat peasible breakiO4.or tß.the angry tide of AhdlitioAism.- .ANT‘ine.of time forbids me callini,lon mary et yon,ner. socially. 'Read, that addres's thoroughly i_con sider that if Kansas, out itataral boundary to the North-WeSt„ is losti, that, then Misiourt • and all West of the MihSissippi f nay, too, all East of it, ran:it soon follow,, while, if 'we maintain it, die Territories- west of Arkansas and Texas are all safe t r o trs- . -iiay, - the future is safe. .. Ask ; yoursel -es - ; whether:you 'tire .prepared ' to surrender white - supremacy tin the South, to debase y ur blood, to degrade your social and politica status. to the level of an inferior race, by submitting to Abolition's mandate to fraternize with it. . . . Reittember, that I; and all who knOw the country will tell you hat . Stares thriv? and do well in.; Kansas, ai d that there . and in Western Missouri , their labor pays .better than- in any cotton" Sidle in. the- Union. Ro fleet that s we have ever 'thing to ericourage us in the struggle—toe - still control the govern ment, of the Territorg, our immigration is daily increasiiiy, whito that from the North has greatly dialinished. ln Illinois, as 'if in disgust, they have lat(ily applied to election eering purposes the ful i nds they Ipitd.ralsed for emigrants. Rt•tnenll)cr that ; instead of en dangering the Union, cn' winning Kansas makes it permanent, hiv enabling uslo'defend .nir rigliu. li 1... r. r‘, .... _ 7: -__,,,.„- E i na n liteaking down -the ci f i i &dors. -,- Think of the e magnitude of the quet i ion, at issue; think of the imminence 'of ouriperil, andyou will not need personal solieita ion, hut each one of his own Volition ivilLwm his contribution Amcor -ding to his means. "buss wlar.carinot alone send their fifties, bun reds or thousands, can • , unite with fifty Or an hundred others and do so. ;Where there's a•w ill there's a way. - . Remit in crafts on New York, payable or endorsed to bur Cha"rman, the Hen. -D. R. -Atchison—if Iconveni , nt, get duplicate drafts" —enclose thJ origins. or the duplicate to the 'Treasurer, Al. G. Boone, :, at WestpOrt, Missouri : and the other to our: Chairman; at , Atchison, Kansas Tlritory. `Take the ost mister's receipt an then you have t rev - , juaratitees that your eontribution will tot s, miscarry. ._ Be assi+l it .will' not be misap plied: our treasurer ' and, chairman are..both gentlemen of Avealthl, as well as of the highest character. - And it Is better to .send in this way than by the hands of a collecting agent, fur then both his athoritv and his responsi bility mem - pc questtons Of indifferenee.- .. ' If the co.ntributiobs justify it,. I propose to take out one hundr4l emigrantS.'-to form the Central colony allacii to in the addresz. .1 want only men wh4), AS LONG AS REQIMtEP, Will abstain'.from liquor, and WILL IMPLI6ITLIC I / 4 OBEY . ORDERS. To knell a eripany, if the finds are raised, .1 141111 girt , one town site, of - three hundred acres-faith the privilege of their . • getting pre temptior i i ,' and I will trattspcirt . , ?hem to Kansas an iiiid thetrovisions to, - the middle !of ..4pri/ next. T e . ..town site is .central to One of the best counties in the Ter ritory, and will most probably "become its, county unit . • 1 . ~ J.Ta..TFonn... ; From the Phil I clphia "Tara American. Letter from Kansas. Subjoined is a I tier from asettler in Kan sas..: Names, of urse, we suppress, but for the authentjeity of the letter, and the respect ability of the family of the writer, we can vouch. It was not written for publication, but is the simple statement If a son to his mother. He has no motive for exaggeration, but a strong desire to calm her• fears, while at the , same time he presents the causes which compel him to ab4andon. the enterprise he had undertaken. It ill be remembered that an account of the saTage outrage which he re lates as perpetrati r d by one of the border rut** . flans,. bad alread reached'us through the newspaper correspondence. It seemed al. most incredible; but this letter confirms the statement. % , It, Is no vrondelr that the writer is "mad. dened" by what he sees and hears and"suf fers. It is with no other sensation that we, at this distance, and living in a quiet and or derly city, can rad the relation of these out rages. it is notlmerely for the seffetings of the settlers in Kansas, dreadful as they are, but for the infitiliy of - our common country that we feel. It is indeed "maddening" that a.majority of the, Senate of the United States c i could be ,so ti by - the servile .- and selfish bonds of party forinally to approve these," Villainous pr dings. - That body has done no less than exp icitly sanction all the Kansas l outrages. As , the ,senile cant which has ;dribbled Out of ,some of - the speeches of the; affirmers of the doctrine of Mob law - and' squatter sovereignty; that is all rendered .linu gatory by shell t ,a4te 4:)f the Senate. Party is triumphant, d, nothipg * but the resolute and dermine action of th _N eorth at the pending eleetio s can save theßepublic. If the sectional rti : &of the South ii to be estab lished, all neer niteries 'ail they are sums. sively organ:iz will be the scenes of blood. shed and viol ellosiMilarte die proceeding" in gansiii. TI i evil - iftiiiili met;- and nut now.;must and poliical partisans must - I:ik-.taught that their cartitituencies vital:66e cattle '1 '", —'' ' " ' ' : - 4-: ' -. ..,,,, ..i _, ,_ UM NT-ROSE . P-113:4,5P:A.T. .SEPTi:II,. 1,-,8,4q-,.. . . . . • s or slaves, to be driven - a s the ambition or the d interest of their masters dictates. • • Weare t, perfectly - aware that many 'or the Northern ,men, whose iotes'ttrli sound hritheimpport of e.measeres of _Southern_ aggression, will venture to say, if no Southern man is in-hear ing, that' clavery, ," in the abstract," is wrong. But ire are tired of.stch ledking One way and rowing another. !_-• - ' ; ' '• . , "Slavery in the abstract," - if Witing,;does no harm:. We do not ccntilid with.abstrac. ; .tions:,••- We do _not even gd.beyond Mason and,Pixe ' line to eholie.tha viper ht . the bo som o ft - se who ling it - Onice. But we Pro -1 test, i e mune othenianiky; in the name of petriotism,ligninSt'Sueb a spreitd of the evil as shall make this greatnation, in4llaits pub-. lie acts,- but the defender of .human chattels. We protest against a shivery 'preponderance in onr natioeat counell We will not have onr character as anation tainted with slavery as a national.sin, and our tteaties„our,policy, our geverninental relations:domestieand fur: eign; forever impeded an disturbed' With it. The Kansas struggle has .o,eneti the eyes of the slowly awaking Ncirth,land the determi nation. is fixed that,. ,whilejAhe present. slave States may keep their Owlt, Slavery •shall.not be fastened upon us as la national institution. There is no better test Of the character of a thing than the measureiiihich are taken to supportit,.and the •repntationAtid conduct of f , its abettors. - Look then.at the. Kansas ini- quity. ',- It beg,an in congress .witlva fraud_ and alie,*and has been maintained there. by bro;11-beating ' and 6utiage. it i'as fastened on kansas - by "violenc*,3 and usurpation, as grosi'and as' 'abominable' as if Pennsylvania should. to-day-colonize: Jersey, and not only driveler: voters from the polls, but prevent any. assistance from reaching -the State, by waylaying 'and plunderin g travellers whOse flteed might be turned thitherward., The-sim- ; • ple sketch which we subjoin below, - written and.;with in evident haste , and. ,with the sentiment', oc, humiliation andaiinger, in its very style car ries the evidence of truth. Men do not stop I to cull words ender such circumstances- 7 ' I That - a drUnken ' villanf,should parade a scalp; tho Ugh it. wore even, like Falstaffs tro phy,,; taken from , i ; i man 'already dead, is 'an atrocity at which hinnanity -revolts. But that a premeditated nuirder of ;the 'kind. al; leged, could be committed, and the murder er still go unheng and unquestioned, is ail il lustration of the humanizing effects of slavery - .propagandism. It may be 'answered that these ruffians are not the gentlemen of the South. Neithel...are bloodhounds slavery ex tensionigs ; but the ;cause 'which employs such 'agents need not' complain if the princi pals are judged by their subordinates. 'qui 'fiteit per album tacit 'per se. If to the origi nators of the Kansas iniquity, as to the nid Th ht- Vision of the tyrant, come "the simils of all that-they have murdered," we envy not their dreatn4. . • , '.' • . .The effort teplantelavery in Kansas stands. h..fltro the world self-conslenified. The Kan sas code itself, were tipiate no wrong and no violence in the mode in which the pretended , Legislature which enacted it was elected, would stamp the'authurs of it as unfit to live_ ' in :I - free country, much less - to govern it.- - And if, as ~ defence of the code it has been . alleged,, the Kansas 'laws are only a transcript Of-the laws of-.lold slave States, that-only: shows.tis that in filmic States the constitution of the-Union is violatedond the organic laws o t the Republic set at. nought._ The defend... ers of the Kansas outrages may learn, befere they have done, that there, is such . a mistake made, sometimes, as proving too much.— The -Constitution -of the United States de clares that. excessive bail shall net be re - piked, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and tintisnal punishments be inflicted."' If Strict constructionists make this to apply on ly to,Cangressionnl enactments and the pro ceedings of. the Federal. courts, there is an other provision that " the United States shall° .guarantee to, every State in this Union a Re- ~. publican form otgovernment.". If the slave holding minority in ; the `slave States push matters - to extremities, thereay be'agitatod An unexpected test of the po wers of the , Con.. stitution. It-may- be inquired. whfAller , the ' guarantee , ; Above.. mentioned - is i preserved, while ,free' men are sute,ect; to the penalties copied into the Kansas code from thelawS of ; certain - States 'in , the-Union. - In all kindness'', we ,votin the aggressors.to forbear, le*, -in grasping nt.the shadowy visions -of the; Cal- houn school of politicians,. theyiose thesub stantial protection which is now their sfety. The North can endure'inuch, for the sake 'of, peade and brotherhood, but: it will not not en dure complicity iu the. evils.of slavery erten sioi LOREJIZO. LeOtits. Xansas i d . five other slavery r an inflammatory ailing for men_ and jx)" rObly, into Slit headed the South t'ntly invaded Kan- General Agent" of )lished attlichniond, ress.: to the South. . nisi: of .the North 'Member. that. while admit Katisai as a ICo".'sueceed in their Emma . secures Kan. bears.date Aug use ,asons•we omit the name of the , place from .which it *as .writ 7 ten : • , -- _ .MY. DEAR liorusa.:—Hearing of a pri vate opportunity of sent a letter part wfy to you, I embraced it to 41 ysu a few lines.. to ease your mind withregard to me. I fear, that you may not hive received any of my letters through the post office, as I am pretty 8 well convinced that all letters fur the Bast are burned, or disposed of in some unlaw I manner. It is too outrageous conduct to .. perpetrated in a republican government. have always been very guarded in expressing my views epon • the agitating questions amongst us;_for fear-of my letters being • in tercepted and_read, and, consequently, rpm= promising me with the pro-slavery men ljere, who have so far treated me passably well ; but as I haie now alt` oppor nity of sending by private hand, I will sta some truths that should be known to the North. I This.Territori is now-in , a perfect state of rebellion against all law and order. Compa nies of 'praslavery men are forming every day, to invade: the territory, and are now camped about four miles from the city ; and every night they come into town, and steal (or press) all the horses belongtng•to free State meOJ They pretend that their object is to ge to Lawrence, to fight Lane's men, .who they nay are there 2000 strong. If this is true,•they will get the best whipping theY ever had, and !think they are afraidof it, for they have been a week or more getting fOur miles from the city. If things do not take a turn next week,i wilt leave my claiM and-the territory; for l a pt not going to risk my life for the best elatitt in the country. The men of the. North area perfect set of doUgh-, and I believe will let all their brethren' in Kum% be murdered. On Monday evening last one df the soldiers was in town, and got drunk, ilia before leaving town, bet some fel .low a pair' of boots he would bring in's fite soil scalp, when he came , backfront canap.--.7. Whilst going out. about two miles frowtown r r ti he :met a man, a perfeet stranger, from 1111- nab, inn buggy, unarmed. He stopped Min and sot him through the head, killing him instantlyiand, Indian, like, scalped him: and left: him. The fellow , that perpetrated this - deed lis still in the camp, 'and nothing will be doneitxtth him for it. New this isa true, un vanshed tale. ' •;--'' ~ ' * . They say now that they are going to aw- • renci, and w.he.they come back they a ;go ing tO. clear all the territory ,of.all free ,tate men.! Their - object; is to get all free State menut of tho,territory".beftkethe election; so they cat) carry everything their own way. It is Outrageous, but the North deserveest for its "AuPineness, I etltihk. .if' , NOrthern men couldsee Kansautts it is, they would arouse frog their lethargy, and make 'a bold-Stroke, ov dAna-m:olkt he. erulnah _ to: fibtaiil3,.w,u4.7 out t i e dimetuty is, that ,the people will not believe what they hear from Kansas; they ,will9cnoW the , truth when it is perhaps tot:) - . . lat 6 . v• ' • . .. . .• : 141 leave, I will. go- to St. Louis, • where I will; write 'ycin.'•. Lean 'Make; • nothing here 1 now'', and 1 see. no use.of staying . I hare a shade ip seventy tons of hay, which I will•try ' andidispose of at any : price , if I can ; but it is ' dou'l it ful', it I can get au y till ag . for it. Claips canibe bought.'here fora mere song—iii fact theta are plenty deserted, and.nobody to take theth. *Such is the state of affairs here. - . . • tlease give my love to all. . I ion pretty wet!: maddened, 'and rid will please excuse bad writing, fbr l'eannotlhold 7 my pen Steady. .1 liave,pot 7 had a letter . frotri any of you, ex cept ,th& one . from , -- 7 -..---,for two months; bUt no free State men 44,anyletters now, soll am not an exceptiOn, ' Don't feel unea sytabout me. . . From your affed,tionate son, &q. Idring -DoCuments 'We clip the followili extract from the Lebanon (kiwi r;' }'-,bat is said in reglad b to Lebanon county is equally true as regards sAsquehanha, \as we findralargerninither of documents franked by Senator Bigler through out the county , •hey WiliVaTO Bigler, theanith Who pirdoneda kidnapper from the peitentiary, who - had a I to Jesuit appointed to . President Pieree'.4 Cabi net, who was rejected by, the people of Penn- P." l sylvania by the unprecedented majority of nthe?' thirty-eight thousand • honest citizens of . the Keystone • State, who.crept hcs present position of U. S. Senator through a venal - Leg- ess jointure, as a slimy adjimetef James 13uchin- I an, and who belon g s to the same class of cor- jthe 'rupt . politicians - with which his brother wag so intimately disgracefully connected in Cal- si"i 'forma, seems to have :taken the .political olitieni in struction- of the people of Lebanon, county tal under • his especial charge.. 11,e is flooding _ cit OUT county :with- a series of _vile eleetioneer dint - , ina stuff, wanting eveti . the semblance of truth to c' recomilt6nd 'it, that any decent- man who Te friends and associates men abwe the grade fb }l.,rke" man. would be. -ashamed to. have his name connected with.— TheSe tissues of fidschOodsand forgeries - come through the United :States mails,-at the ex pense of the reopie,- with the frank of .Wm.. Bigler for their vilenesS. If Bigler ha I a grain of the decent regard for .propriety which every gentleman - feels, he would be loath to force himself _Rid his stuff upon the. attention 'of an -honest,_ people who have spurned him by their •overwhelming votes, and who look upen his character as anything but a.. fit. one .to holdup for the, emulation of their children.. Could this man see the bitter scorn pictured in, thelfapes of holiest men who 11;ive received his dOeuments reeking in foul calumnies; 110 . - falsehoods,. he would shrink frOm yutting further': infliction upon them.---- Lebanon eountrwants no such political teach er as-Mr .i Senator Bigler, the man who,'when: .Goverilml o .of our. State, permitted her Slave; • rcignt.y tO be insulted lly, and her Executive to be a• mere -_nose Of Wax In the_ hands of - a 'Maryland slave-driVeK''' Wile can east his of forts on 'no waters that _ will bring back to him a: better return than -.Lebanon county, he might as well save his troutilo.?" - The following_is a copy of a handbill, in. circulation 'in our streets, got up under the supervision of a couple of prominent Buchan an men of the city,- and printed at the Demo crat Ogee: . • - • - • PARTICULAR NOTiCE! N • 'The work of saving sottls wig be suspend ed hi the Methodist - end-Baptist Churches, until- after .election,a.s . our worthy Pastors will during. that time . . be engaged in PQL11 ; 1- VAL SERBIONS, and therefore will-, be unable to attend . to. the Minor- duties, such as ,pre, ,paring 'for death Sic, until that time. The' '-frustees take- pleasure.' in "announcing that they have - madearratigiiiients with our neigli bOring Churches, 04, never preach Political Sermons; to receive all , those who seek Sal- nation. By order of Trustees Methodist and Bap tist Churches. = • It speaks for itself,' and needs little com ment. No man or, party engaged in what ha or their conscientiously believe to be a good cause, ever object:to have that.cause spoken of in the pulpit or elsewhere. It is a convic tion of a bad muse, a moral delinquency, on their part, which makes them so sensitive, and leads them to these attacks. upon free speech in the puiPit. These, things are the faint "shadows of com ing events it these men should prove success. tut. They feel that"they occupy a position of natural antatinisin to the: pulpit, the schools, and the press, and as it_is now at the South, in these respects, so it must be at the North, when the Southern principle; becOme successful. The:men who issued this hand bill, only need the power, to take these min- , lsterstont of the pulpit and tar and feather thetathem and this power they will have, after the , has again triumphed, and_ thus vin dicated its penna ,seal ascemdency. .We have just: read of an instance of shocking abuse of a Methodist 'minister in Missouri, for the same offence, which' the Buebanan men re- cite in this handbill, and , we Can imagine noth ing except the. mere .want 'of the necessary brute strength, which should prevent the pro slaveryites here., from doing, precisely what their -brethren do in Missouri. No doubt they liVe hi happy antieipition` of ibe time; when, under-repeated and undisputed Demo cratic aseepdinOy, , the tar-pot - shall be kept simmering before every church door- en she . Sabbath- 7 -4 Ort 9V-baptismal font fur the heretica in the Pulpit, who doiibt.tliedivinity and sanctity of4he fp Peculiar Institution," : - 7 - I . lCenOsha (Wis) Tribune. i \ FRAZIER & SMITH,;PUBLISHERS----VIA .NP..-:43154 SPEECH OP HON; 0..'41..":0E0W, or. Pit. • .. , o THE SENATE KANSAS 13114;.. ..,'...., .. . - DELIVERS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ~. . AUGOST 70856. : - - - 4,:." J. . The I Ouse being in Committee . , . Whole o the state of the _Union,:and'in ing unde consideration -the Senate bill 'for the admi sign of Kansas, Mr..GROW •,- Mr.. ; GROW ... said-, . : . Mr. C '..itnltAN: I do fiQt. pro pose -to -tres.... pass lo upon. the patience of - ,commit-.1 tee. ' Ha, Ing been unwell for :Some' ''weeks,' my strenkth is not sufficient t0...a110w, me to consume ehour to which I am-entitled nil-. der the r lei, even if I were:inclined:to': do, so. But it will not be - necessary . upon this. Not lo ;since this bill was. senV to: the. - House fr m the Senate,and has been herald , - ed - over ,the country as a bill fig .- the Pact. • fication f the 'troubles in KansaS. - ....kshohld bevel), announced as a bill. to Make Kan. ; sas a- sla -e State, and thus to Consummate the origi al design . of the real of. Ole Mia. I souri - " co prornise.. The eal.7 \i'lie; . from its.incep ion, a 'conspiracy against freedom. 1 And thil bill, kliown.as the Douglas-Toombs bil.sectireOirectually, by its provisions,the or' inal esign: . • to ides,,in. the first place,, for the . sp..' pointnie t by • the . President ..01-the - United .; States 9 five commissioners, who are to take "an'ennmeration of.the inabitants . author ' ized to fote,", and to appertion "..the. 'mem bers oft. convention to, form a constitution fir Kai sae . ' - . ~. ' The ninth section of the hill'4eelares 4g that the sai commissioners shall halve,power,and it shall[be their dirty,. t.O• • make all needful rules and regulations for .the • condUct, 'of - the said elqction and: the returns thereof. They shalt appoint thrA suitablerions to be judges f the election mode each pa eof voting, and pr crib.e the mode *of- supplying vacan cies."ln addition, they are empowered to ' appoin '4a secretary to the•board and, such 11.5.3 OTHER ERSONS as shill be' necessary to. aid ---1 ist them in taking the enumeration *in rovided fOr.l.' ..,, . - • -- , il l ! a conuTkisasniosag, takeners thus a usse nspeepeiunste o f d: appointed p e pul tion of theTerritorv, regulate the elec d atricts,.apportion tile members among se eral districts, and appoint all electiOn .rd and such assistants as they deem tret, tn. . . no person can vote at the. eleetion so . idid regulated, unless his name' is on cosnslist, prepared by , these commis acre and their. . . assistants. 4 . -. 14 'of no little consequence, then,tolw io. re the Men into whose hands - ,such vi -1 in crests are to be . intrusted. - „To them to t be committed Prot only the rights and tter . sta of. the present inhabitants, :of the Perri ory, but_ theAaracter of its institution's. Ind t le re destiny •of the .futu.. State. Are 1 , they i o be men anxious to "secure_ to the cal r.ens 10. that Telfritory the. iighte guaranteed I to thin by the Constitution of their country 1. Or ate they to he, like all the appointees sett. by' this administration into - that Territory; save the first, who were removed_ :on false . pretnees ; men whose whole energieS are to be d voted to enslaving Kansas, and laying 'it b 1 nd and manacled at the feet of the slave power that rules the - republic. ft [h -a& been rumored in outsideeireles that the President has promised, that the commis sionirs under this bill shall be melt of knoWn integrity and undoubted fairness. - Is it - not now the 'bounden duty' of the President to. send.snch men' to Kansas to administer the teriltoriterial - government in accordance with the lei' of Congress? ~ Has he not failed to do so in every instance? Ought, .his _word _to betaken, then, for the . future,. When .. We, hav ;* his acts for le past ? ,It was the judg meof ode of e country's noblest patriots tha the: experience of the past Was the best gni e for the future. . - -: nth° 4th of March, 1853, the 'rancor en= 41, gendered in the public mind .by past section al conflicts; had lost in its bitterness, and a spnln, yr 1-----„..... A 4.tarn ni . poneord nre - vai edthioughout the Union. ' , - • IL ~ m the steps of yonderportieo the Pres ident, on that day, proclainied that the exist ing peace and harmony' of the ITnioir; should : not be 'disturbed.. during his'_ continuance, in offs e. ' In hid, annual, message, eight . months aft r; he reiterated the same declaration.—.l - Ye in less than two months thereafter, he. yi 'dell himself and the political power and 1 pa ronage of his . administration - to break do in a great - landmark - orfreedom that had gu rded e half ef a continent-for more than - a thi ; d of a century against the - inroads of slivery. In flagrant violation of the pledge Palle democratic; party, made in good, faith,. to iresist "all attempts to agitate the . saVery.. qu i estion' in Congress or. out of it,” he' cast l i upon the country One of the most bitter and inimse slavery agitatiotts known to our his to y, and which has covered the Union with a tormy ; sea of.contentien and strife. d. nt i . r .,4 ,..i i s u .i ta t eNip n e sv eted so . o tta n t eo 'ti n l ft e d . .i e l't i e:d t s ho .o . f pro ffe m e - : , is .of a man false to the tesehlogs Of hie child.. h , and the convictiotis of his riper years;::. ti se to th4lighted faith of his. party ; false ; o l d lie6 m inny ul pN.Yrroe th i e tltea pe inin ice deeCd a lar- n to d :' : . o. hi ni - o o ;rrfdais4te pl lt ed soeF , ir es umh p ia : nso b ity l 'w 11-being of his country ? Shall we long . er ,enttilst_to.such a.tnan, i?r.hisaminionsfthe nv. to rests of American citizens whose appeals for jtatico he has disregarded,andWhose: dearest rlghts be has - permitted ruthlessly to be vi olated ; their houses. burned, their' property 1 '4O, and ..buildings destroyed, , by. ose whom he rovacds with place and with , Wer, while he turns a deaf ear:. to 'the. rip... a ofimenin irons undera charge of trca- 1 "ft thr peaceably assembling to: petition their overnmerit.for a redress of grievances?' , : , ' This - bill; heralded - to' the conaty: . as - s, ' ill,to restoreto the citizens of . Kaltatts the. rip ' a .wrestedffroni them - by grcisi frand,and open 'and notxtrinuaViolenec, is. :'Critt'uSted - 4, ts; execution wholly to_the executive iOtll his - Ilppoititeea: -After the paitrecordbf its acts d breken pledges shouldlbetriends,of free . ansas trusttit longer? -, . __.. .. - ' . . ' .: • :-..N0 bit f3r the. redrew :of , the: wrong& of new should receive., the approval' -of. any 1 over of justice, that places the: means of v 6., - 'lit , the -- handa of this4d*inhityl Aluder this , bill: no'Onei - eiol iotCiroletri'llie elie.iipenlbeeensnii roll; . p . - s =l}y. . ... _ . ur eorninissienert'aire tbelt ts.N.::. tsil What pledge Ws tbe: o=ll7, what:Peal: have the .bows fide citizens ofKansakthat census ma 7, not be fixed and.amnfed by the ..•.,....... ... .. -2 • ..... Fia.ll IG;,. .-. isa NM same - men who have inflicteduPen, Kansas all its woes 1 - ... _ . ~ • . . - .. _ May not Doneloon, . Stringfellow,. Jones, and others of that chosen pOsse t - be ainistante of the commissioners, and place on this_ cm- sus roll such names as they thinkProPer. these men who have violated-all rights guar- . ranteed and secured to .the.- citizens; of the country, by its organic law ; *lb have trim' pled down in that territory the inalienable rights of man, and every , principle or civil liberty ;- would they hesitate , in the conanne; matiOn of their darling project by putting up: on, the census roll such names as vvould efl -- fecteidly•secure their Object ? - • , Bet- to pass the portion of the bill that Pro. vides-,for an enunteratiouipt voters, _another ~ Of its provisions is that the eommissioners ti il l ialo"PtirokupWaahgt i g - 4 4 , 10 . 1-411 respective districts, instead of the' mhabe' tants. Why is this 1 -.in order. to give to' tholie districts, where the soldiers of fortune. who - come from the south for the - sole purpose: of' making-Kansas a slave State have made their domicil during the summer, a Majority of - delegates to theoonvention. Districts con taining only bona fide settlers, with their fain. Ales around them, though they might have five times the - population of other districts ; ,yet their i number cif ,delegates under this ar rangement might , .-be moat. less. 'For in ' stance, there , might, )oe two hundred, voters • at Leavenworth, and one hundred at opeka, < ' "' while : the : inhabitants of Topeka might •be five times-as many as at -Leavenworth yet . Leaven Worth would have twice as many- dele- . - gates in the conVention. , • ; ,- Stu,diously, aediarefully concealed under all the protisios of this bill is the great ob ject and design-of securing Kansas ,to slave ry, which, from tho-first, has . brought tirn• the country its present troubles, and on Nan.", sas all its wrongs. It Is - to be accoraplhimiV first, by placing ;iv the hands of the adiniiii,- tration the moulOg of that Territory into a State—an - administration whiCh .has shalom - its devotion to the interests of slavery in ev ery Movemetkin,Kansm, and in everything elsewhere, since it-first turned, its eye to a prolongation; of existence for another four years. Neit,L by the apportintment of the members of the convention by the. number' ' of voters,insteed of inhabitants, , and taking „ the.eensus after many of the ftee . ;;State men - beve,been exiled from their honies, aid o ers compelled to leave, and remain outof the • , , Territory, or drag • oat these . long summer days in chains on a:charge-of treason, await ' ing a trial by . a jury •packed--I* a marshal, ' • and before a judge who convicts in adveniss. But even if the census was 4 fair one,wliat 1 security . have the -men of the country, who - Wive a just appreciation of these Wrqreei,tliat the bona fide settlers may notbe again tram pled down at the ballotAxot, as . . they havec, been at every electicin held heretofore in - the _Territory ,/ What security have they that 5,000 men will not be again marched into that Territory witharms =4 amen, and the implements °river, and . drive frem the polls the bona fide citizens who have sought . a home in Kansas—to drive from the ~polls such men as those Mentioned by the gentle- - man from Ohio [Mr. SHERMAS} in his speech a few -days since. A grephaired veteran, who had: fought the battles of his country in • two wars, who had lived on the frontier for half a century, and who had 'gone out with his family seeking a last-earthly homebn the plains of Kansas, , and When he came to exer-, , scise the right of an American freeman, Was thrust from. the ballotebox • by' invading strangers'. What security; 1 ask, can you give that all rights will not be . trampled . - down . again at the ballot-box , ? One more in, vasion, one more forcible overthrow of the rights of freemen in that Territory under this bill, secures:her forever :to slavery -- ; and is not that. an, inducement strong enough . to, send „ forth again these 5,000 invaders ftom Missouri ? , - - ..._ .Wien they went, before it- was with no other object in view and no ether object to be secured, save theOlection of a territorial hislature : I - No* tliertarOuld go •• to secure ... wouldinake her ilal'iifit t "e'ree - Wakito ' the political strength of the slave -power- _of - the country. In this ease the stake'would be of vast magnitude. In the., other it was but a trifle.-If' they luutfailea in electing _ the'territorial legislature, another trial was open_ to them. . _ But, if this case, the list the drama that grand act in has been inset-. ing for. two year§ would be consummated.— The original design •of the repeal . of the Mis souri coreptomise would be attained in this - act, should it become -a . law. It would only be necessary for slavery tb carry ~ One elec tion and the Work• would : he complete,' for the : constitution to be formed by the dele gates elected is not to bosubruitted to avote . of the people for ratification. .Theßemit:lm in the bill for illegal voting are of no COnSe quence,if the invasion should be conducted as. it was before. • Men go over from Missouri .and vote and then return; and are .leyend • the reach or your penalties. , : But whi is it not provided - that this con. stitution should - he submitted-:to A-yobs-et the, peeple for ' adoption?: -The - election fur - delegates, by the bill, is to be .or t.lie: first Monday of November; and thetlelegater are 'to meet fbr a formation of a constitution 1311 the first 'Monday in Detember, i It would be i possible the convention: t o Ornplete its tbors and sulanit the constitution to a vote the people - before January.- If submitted to a vote then, it - would be 'neeessarr. - that those who.voted fin delegates,in order to se cure a provision in the constitution. protect. ing slavery; should remain in the 'Territory till the ratification : ` i the constitution.: The -delegate election conies just as winter is-set ting in, and thotadventurers that - have gone -to the - Territory with no purpose-`of' setde ment but merely to contml4.heclaracter of its present and future institution*,: iiiid. -hav ing no houses to' &Aber them against the in clemency of winter, would be- compelled . ° to seek-their former twines in a warmer clime, hence' there is no . provision for submitting 'this constitution toe vote. of the people.-- Nor is it required to -be *Omitted to Con reek with r en application for - admission into the 'Union. %mild 'the - delegates be be ele ed underthltobill :farm a:- consdfutionohe moment that laden% Kansas is' a- State "la thc:Utilen:iiminettsriviim may bc the irro skiens isf.tlie-tu :., ,- ionlyiniiiiinalleil Fyebilesti in form: ::;I6' - ay , _, - Isliwat, yiorty; orsny other ; utid'it 'As ed h .the reach of Congress,",:or.thia - bill declares tlist a until he _mat Clicninowdotal apportionna - erit . ...,".. 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