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III I , --' m '9 Ml "I ; I m -:t ' A I 4' ' ii I fs 3 ' -3 O. W. BROW1T, Editor. Lawrence, Saturday, Sept. 22, 1855. Kansas Operations In New York. The N. Y. Kansas League have sent to the new Territory r.boat 3,000 in the past eleven months, and Lave many more prepariug to go this year. They calcu late on some thousands, in case political affairs there take the favorable direction eipeeted, wliicb the hair-brained oppo- sersoi freedom are believed to be now serving by their violent measures. The American Settlement Company have founded a very prosperous town in a most advantageous locality Council City where there are Paid to be about fifteen hundred inhabitants, busily en gaged among their abundant crops on the rolling pi airie. lhey bare long baa publie and social worship established, a free library founded, provision made for Jj.bio schools, a steam saw-mill in opera nun, several stores, ana a surprising amount of goods pasMng in large and frequent wagon trains on the iiiuta Fe ro:id. All the above results have been e;urjd by the efforts of a few individ oa!, without public support or notice, and under great personal sacrifices. An appeal Lis been circulated in New Eng land, to raise 1 53,000 for , the Boston Kansas Company, who long since ac knowledged the receipt of 82,000. It seems proper that the efforts and success f the New York friends of Kansas should not be entirely passed over with out any, notice whatever. They are daily in active operation at No. 110 Broadway, doing a uoble public service without means, aid or maintenance-, and will never give it p till accomplished. The Council City Banner is announced to bo published in about a month. Inde pendent. . "We confess that we reiux-tantly state the facts in regard to this great imposition which somebody ii practicing upon the public ; but it is a duly we owe our read era to place the facts before them, and we shall do it, leaving our columns open at all times to any member of the Ameri can Settlement Company U oorrect us who- chooso to de- soi How many pioneers have came to Kansas under the auspices of that Com pany, we have not the means of knowmi; or how maiy they will be able fc send this fall we cauuot say ; but we do know that titer hart not winded a -prosperous town, as is represented, in tin Territory ; neither are there 1,500 orny othernum ber of inhabitants within the limits of the city. There is a settlement of pio neers on claims around Council City, but nothing- like the number represented as being within, the city limits. We be lieve that religious worship and perhaps a Sabbath school have been established in the neighborhood ; but there is no saw mill ; no stores and no good's within miles of there save flour and pork, and probably a few' articles of groceries, which are sold at a sort of boarding Louse, full half a mile from the city site. The large and frequent wagon teams, loaded with goods, passing to Santa Fe are of but little or no account to any place, as they are supplied with their own necessaries, and will be until the country is better qualified for supplying their wants, than is Kansas at the pres ent time. We believe that some men nave made great pecuniary sacrifices to build up this Company, aud arc sorry that the purposes they had in view have not been fulfilled. We plead guilty to the trifling sacri fice of twenty dollars for the purpose of aiding it; but Ave look upon the Compa ny as it has been managed, as a gross auirage upon every sJockhol Jer who has invested inoners in the enterprise. If the agents desire. the particulars we will furnish, them, undev oath, if they wish, and instead of a single witness, we will "bring scores, some of whom shall be high officials of the Company who are worthy of the fullest confidence of the public. There is no doubt that a heavy busi ness is being carried on in New York, selling lots at 95 a piece, but it is not true that the activity there is doing any thing towards building up a great and populous city, or even prosperous inland town in Kansas; fur we are firm ia the belief that no man who is acquainted with the facts would invest a dollar in improvements at the seat of this unfortu nate enterprise. We are assured by a gentleman wor thy of full credence who sets at our shoulder while we write, who was in Council City ou the 2d day of August last, that there was not a log or stuiie, neither had there been a day's labor ex pended on the city ske towards building tenements of any description up to that date, and that it was with great difficulty be was enabled to rtiid the location of the city, though he repeated inquired of per sons in its immediitle viesuity. We are assured by others that no improvements have been made since that period. We ask the eastern press, which is dis posed to do justice to Kansas, to lay these facts before their readers. . We hold our self personally responsible for the facts iere published." People come here to Kansas under the rau-fciken impression in regard to facts, and on finding out the truth, return in digu State the facts as they are, then emigrants will not be deceived, and will, not go back cursing the country because of the falso repre-; mentations of certain speculators. -. "'ZT Chicago, September lst 1855. Judge Elmore lias written a letter to Hon. Caleb Cushing, - dated, Shawnee Mission, August 23J, in which he states he has not violated a single law of Con gress or order of the ; Department, and that he is satisfied his case is prejudiced, and that his removal is decidedly on the grounds of policy, lie also says that by the 27th section of the Kansas-Nebraska act, lie holds or.e for four years, and gives notice that he will resist tho action of the President through the Cutirts. - Getting Eloquent. , A correspondent of the Galesburg Free Democrat gets eloquent over Kan sas matters, and the state of the coun try. Hear him: " Who wonders that 'your blood boils,' that language is powerless to express the burning lavatide of thought within. The only wonder is, that every editorial chair in the Laud does not tremble be neath the throbs of a swelling heart; that every sheet struck off by the Press, is not converted into a Fiery Cross, speeding with lightning wing over hill and heathy moor, arousing the inmates of hut and hamlet, till, - from every spot where beats a manly heart, the simul taneous shout should go up like 4 the voice of many waters' Libert? or Death!' "Did ever beacon-fires shoot heaven ward with redder glare than those which have burned in our 'own, our native land V Scarcely has the deep glow of that gigantic blaze, kindled by the hand of Douglas, died away; and now ten thousand lights send up their tongues of name from the "lades of Kansas. Shall they stiil be unheeded ? Will true man hood still slumber, will the fire-scathed siirnal speed past us? Do we not snuff the life-blood of our countrymen on every gale? Shall we not arouso and drive back the enemy ere he ravage our homes with fire and sword " How can men be calm when every day develops some dark and fiendish plot which rival all the bloody machinations of Richard" HI., or the artful deep laid stratagem of the black-hearted lago" Heaven only knows how many Glousters sit in high places ! Alas J. that there are those who can slumber on amid trumpet-peal and clarion-shouts ; now and tiien perchance rubbing their drowsy eyes, wondering what all that noise is about, o er in Kan sas ; and then with a yawn sinking back to tho fatal sleep, to awake and end, perchance, their birth-right gone ! Who now can have the heart to bear aloft the boasted 'stars and stripes?' no now can snir ot me no:no ot tne free, when gory fingers are placed upon our lips, with tho injunction ' Silence or death ! " "Must more human victims belaid upon the altar ; must more noble hearts Beating lor the wrongs of humanity," be outraged, trampled upon by black and bloody tyrants, or immured in dungeon walls lor giving vent to their bursting hearts ? If so. Heaven knows thev are ready! Hut, U, uod of justice, how long? How long must this fair and blood-bought beritago be but the parade ground of patrolling bands of ruthless tyrents ? How long shall our banner float over a nation of slaves, ' base, igno ble slaves ?' " Could gazing nations see all the heart-sickniug details of wickedness in high places ; what a farcical scene would our great and glorious Republic preseut? "The Chief Magistrate, he who occu pies that post which no proud monarch of tho Old World coiLl spurn, a mere servile tool of - men Viose "hearts are black as midnight ! -Durimr this whole administration he has but played the part of a certain domestic animal that j we send to drive intruders from our jrar- dens. The Missouri Ruffians send I Ido to sacrifice Reeder, the feat satisfacto rily accomplished, he comes fawnin' back, and, as he gnaws the bone, they nave tnrown him, loots meekly, grate tuny up wiin a giauce wincu seems to say ' Any thing more I can do for you, fjcuvicuicu : vuukciuuuuiu Wi lue OC- cupants of the White House may seem, in the eyes of men ; how must hiirh Heaven regard their treachery ? " The present aspect of our country would seem enough to wnntr tears from angels' eyes. The great car of Jujrtrer- naut which for these two hundred years has been desolating the fair savannahs of our Southern States, still rolls on, unchecked crushing beneath its ponder ous wheels four millions of bleeding; mangled victims. Their bloody sweat their tears and groans have, like the blood of Abel, cried from the grouud, and will not the great Revenger ere long send forth the Destroying Angel to ex? ecute venge ince upon all whose lintels are unmarked by the propitiatory sacri lice : And yet this massive enirine of death rolls on even by our very fire sides. Atchison and his long train of coadjutors are dagging it onward to ward the rich prairies of the far West ; while Pierce and his Cabinet push be- n in j. nai a spectacle 2 " Is there not some mute inglorious' Washington who shall lead forth the lov - c 1 . a t .i vm ui ireeuom is mere not some Patrick Henry whose burning philippics wui innu every nearti tven now we seeme to see his shade arise from the grave, called up by the wrongs of the country he loved. Again we hear that stentorian voice thunder forth ' There is no retreat but ia submission and slave ry. Uur chains aie forged. Their clanking may be heard urjon the plains of Kansas. i - -. - .... rpi . , , a ut; msr is meviiaoie ana let it come !" C. T. The Pro-Slavery Candidate and Gov. Shannon. Gov. Shannon is advocating the elec tion of Geo. Whitfield as Delegate to Congress. Whitfield in his speech at the Shawnee Mission, in accepting the nomination, among other things Ve: marked: "We can recognize but two parties in the Territory the pro-slavery and the anti-slavery parties. If the citizens of KJinsas want to. live in this community in peace, and feel at home they must be come pro-slavery men ; but if they want to live with gangs of thieves and robbers they must go with the abolition party. There can be no third party no more than two issues slavery and no slavery in Kansas Territory. Gov. Shannon, desirous of living "in this community in peace, and feelin at home" concluded, of course, to "be come pro-slavery" as Mr. Whitfield sug gested. Hon. John Wentworth, a late Democratic member of Congress, and the editor of the Chicago Democrat, shows that these sentiments were not bad for the Governor to swallow.- He says : ' Those who know Wilson Shannon know that he is a Southerner in all his notions. As much as any of the firm of Douglas, Atchison, Stringfellow & Co. He goes to Kansas to make Kansas a slave State. His antecedents must be known to r .Gen Pierce. , He was an old Tyler man. V Although elected to the office of Governor of Qhihy the Dem ocrats, be came out with & letter endors ing John Tyler, and by the same John rr I . - r ' r vier ix9 was given a ioreigu mission. By a strange combination of cir- cumstances he was elected to Congress for one terra, and for one only. During his Congressional career he was a South erner in all his notions and all his votes. His record ia right, and, what is better, his heart is right for Douglas and Slave ry. He goes to Kansas to inflict a dead ly blight upon its rising hopes, and to curse its people with bondage. It re mains to be seen who has the bright fu ture, Reeder or Shannon, the patriot or traitor ! "Let Shannon recognize this mob of Douglasites that now professes to be the Legislature of Kansas, and the next House' of Representatives will pin a clause to the next appcopriation bill that will declare all such infamy void. There is hope in the next Congress 1"T The Consequence of Lawlessness. It seems probable tays the N. Y. Spec tator, that the ultra pro-slavery men who have been guilty of such outrages in Kansas, will yet have to reap the con sequences of their lawless proceedings. The St. Louis Intelligencer, a pro-slavery paper, thus describes the effect of those outrages, showing that they are already returning upon their perpetrators : "We are assured by two gentlemen of high position in Western Missouri, but totally differing in political sentiments one upholding the oligarchy that con trols the affairs and tramples upon the people's sovereignty of Kansas, the oth er deploring the accursed madness of the day that Blatters are gloomy enough in Western Missouri. Business is dull. Commerce is stagnant. Mon ey is exceedingly scarce, and a panic pervades the people. The fifty thous and emigrants that ought this season to have poured over into Kansas are not there. The prairie sod remains unbro-. ken. The sound of the axe and. the whoop of the husbandman are not heard. Western Missouri towns are not thronged with settlers buying their outfits and their equipments of husbandry. The farmers find no market for their horses, mules, oxen, and cows. There is no new and large trade springing up in Kansas. The much vaunted Kansas towns lie neglected, a mockery to their owners and a laughing stock for all men. 'Dead dead dead,' may be written on all the country so deep and disastrous has been the tall from the high and fond hopes of the past year. "In May last the editor of the Intel ligencer was in Kentucky, aud he met numerous of the most respectable and wealthy farmers of that Suite, such as form to large a portiou of the population of Missouri, who inquired earnestly about the condition of things in Kansas aud Western Missouri. They spoke of the intention they had of removing to Kansas or Western Missouri, but said they had abandoned it utterly, for the reason that they would never think of taking their families to a region where law was set aside, presses, mobbed, and men driven from the country by irres ponsible and unknown bands of regula tors. They prefered the rule of law to anarchy. In a recent trip through sev eral southwestern States we found that the same circumstances were most in dustriously and fatally used to divert emigrants to those States, and to preju dice Missouri and Kansas with every lass of people, lhe most aggravating stories of insults and outrages commit ted by Missourians on the persons of emigrants .from the Uld World or free States, who are found ascending the Missouri river, are circulated in the uewspapers all through the free States ; and it is impossible to conceive of the deep hatred thus generated toward our whole State in the northern part of our Union. "Between these fires Missouri is lead ing on her languid existence. St. Louis is reiaraea in a mosi woeiui way. uur railroads creep at a snail's pace. We build ten miles while Western States build one hundred. In every depart ment-of life we feel the paralysis. In stead of bouncing forward, buovant, strong and rejoicing, we sit with dull eyes, aud heavy spirits, and listeuiug to the tick of a death-watch. "Certainly continues ;he Spectator; such was sure to be the result of the high-handed lawlessness perpetrated by Atchison, Stringfellow fc Co., and to this day un rebuked by the National Ad i ministration. It could not be otherwise, and none but men as unbridled in pas sion as they are deficient in judgment, would have expected any different con sequeuccs. Southern men, as well as Northern, who probably hick the cour age openly to oppose their fellow slave holders, do. nevertheless, retain pru dence enough not to remove their fam ilies and properties within the reach of such law-defymg violence. They know that the law which was successfully set at defiance, is but a feeble restraint in all time thereafter. Its moral power is henceforth weakened if not destroyed, and reflecting men will not nsk the con sequences.' And if any portion of the population of the United States have any interest in the maiutennuce of the su premecy of law and; of the authority of Government, it is surwly that portion living South of Mason and Dixon's line. This' they naturally and intuitively feel, and hence they shrink from going where such supremacy and authority are un impaired, even though their own friends may be wielding for tho time an irresisti ble but illeg-.d authority. "Far the wiser course for citizens of the staveholdtn-r S ates to nursue. if they desire to make Kansas a slave State, would have been by conciliatory course. and by setting the example of obedi ence to the laws, and to popular sov ereignity. Had they come into the Ter ritory on equal terms with immigrants from the free States, showing themselves equally law-abiding and fraternal in spirit, emulating their fellow-citizens of the North in earnest efforts to improve the Territory, and resolved "to bring slavery into only a fair and manly con test with free labor, permitting as well as claiming all latitude of speech and thought upon the subject, none of the effects which the St, Louis Intelligencer so justly deplores would have followed, and Kansas would have been ere this a thriving Territory, oa the high road of becoming a prosperous State. - As it is, the friends of slavery being witnesses, the 'peculiar institution, in the hands of demagogues, threatens to prevent its ever Decerning eitner. , "The Intelligencer is right too in the following, uttered , with , some warmth apparently, but showing that there are some men at the South who both disarj-! prove and deplore the repeal of the Mis souri Compromise, and trace that mea- j sure, as tioy. Hunt does to 1 the action cf politieal desiajojues, with JPrcsidenl ' Pierce's administration for their aiders and abettors : "These are the bitter fruits of the re peal of the Missouri Compromise -a wicked, and wrongful deed that will yet bring a hell of bitter self-reproaches to its authors. Missouri did not de mand that repeal. The South never asked it. Atchison solicited it and in a moment of political insanity the South consented to the Jrrong, and made the wrong her own. ; This was the suicide of slavery. "Every step since taken has deepened the wrong and enhanced the danger. The free States organized Aid Societies, and sent their men into Kansas free. It had been Free Soil by solemn com pact for thirty-five years, and they nat urally were inceused to see its character changed. The South would have been far more if a slave territory had been thus, by an unexpected act of Congress, couverted into Free Soil. - "The fieo States had a right to be indignant that a long life compromise had been repealed and they had a right to keep Kansas free as it had been, by a peaceful colonization. They at tempted nothing else. But a portion of the . citizens of Missouri, headed by Atchison and Stringfellow, denounced the northern emigrants as 'paupers and hirelings, because they were seut West with the mon-jy of a society ; and so they had county meetings in Missouri and raised money and sent Missourians to Kansas to make Kansas a slave Terri tory! Were these Missourians ' hire lings' too? And did these two wrongs make one l ight t" Squatter Soveeign vs. Tribune. The Squatter Sovereign is down like a brick on the N. Y. Tribune, and the presumption is that that paper will close up as soon as the article shall be spread before the publi. We make the follow ing pointed extracts : We ca.n tell the impertinent scoundrels of the Tribune, thnt they may exhaust an ocean of ink, their Emigrant Aid So cieties spend their millions and billions, their Representatives in Congress, spout their heretical theories till doomsday, and his Excellency Franklin Pierce appoiut Abolitionist after Freesoiler as our Gov ernor ; yet will we continue to tar and fealter, drown, lynch and hang, every white-livered Abolitionist, who dares to pollute our soil. And though our fair Territory may be refused admittance into the Union as a slaveholdiug Slate, by the political dem agogues of the North, we care as little lor iheir decision, as for the continued and futile attacks which have been made upon our rights, by the indecisive Cabi net who now admiuister the affairs of our nation. For we confidently hope that the last national Congress may meet in Washington on tho first Monday in De cember next; and we prophecy, with the firm conviction that time will verify our words, that never again will the southern S:ates of the Republic, suffer dictation from a set of negro-slealers and rascals, who stand pledged to war upon their lights until toleration ceases to.be a virtue. : We ask the- slaveholding community, what object they had in view, when as free, independent, and sovereign States, they consented to baud themselves to gether under tho Federal Constitution ? Now if this Federal compact should at any time prove insufficient for protection and a portion of the States should seek for their own aggrandizement, to force or impose measures upon the remainder, in direct opposition to their interests and wishes ; what interest have those wliose rights are trampled on, in the further ob servance of a compact which daily less ens their strength, and serves to strip them of their few remaining means of defence ? 4 For what are laws enacted, if not for the protection of person and property ? This same constitution recognizes our slaves as property, and if it is to be ob served by us, must protect the rights of the slaveholder, in whatever portion of the Union he may be. But when an in dividual State, such as Massachusetts or Ohio, sees fit to annul her Federal obli gation, and refuses to respect the rights of our citizens, are not the States whose rights are jeopardized thereby, freed from their compact as clearly as if it were a mere civil contract between individuals ? If this be true and we scarcely think it can be denied even by the most preju diced then has the South had sufficient cause .to secede during every twelve months, for the past ten years. Her in alienable right to do so, individually or collectively, we do not intend to argue, for we consider it as clear a mathematical axiom, which none but fools and fanatics will attempt to dispute. If the southern States have it not, what claim have they to their proud and boasted right of inde pendence and sovereignty ? If it be not guaranteed by the Consti tution, then thev possess it by the right of revolution, and lei "the right make the might" be their motto. . OUR Representative. While the election law, which we copy elsewhere, was pending before the "Bar rons," Mr. Whitlock, who was elected by Missouri mob to disgrace this district, is reported to have said : , "The town of Lawrence is my home, though I confess I am ashamed to hail from such a dirty hole, and will be, as the bill reads, the precinct of my county. The Abolitionists can outnumber us in the town ; and it is such a rugged place that many, if a fight should occur, will dodge behind the bushes, and, when all is over, swear that they had been fight ing like a Bengal tiger. He wanted the precinct located one mile from town, on a certain beautiful level plain, where every one would be compelled to fight the rogues face to face, or back square out ; lie knew no spot better suited for border warfare. Besides a fine fellow lived on the place, always with plenty of ice and good whisky on hand to keep up pluck and spirit. ' There was also a large old house on the spot, where they could rally and fortify in case of expected defeat. But come what may, he was ready for the contest, fair if possible ; if not, he intended to conquer their rebel spirits by force. .. His patience was get ting ihreadbare with their resolutions and expressed intentions to resist the laws of the Legislature, denying the le gality of such body. He knew them to be great warriors at a distance, ; but could not face the enemy." Have sufficient courage to speak to a poor friend, even in the street, and when a rich one is nigh. The effort u ROt Cfl ft 3 fvnnw nnAtTii ma-m ? iae, anS the aet is worth y yf a kia h" For the JJeraM rf FrteJvM. - State Constitution. . Lawrexce, Sept. 1, 1055. Mr. Editor : Will you allow me the privilege of expressing, through the col umns of your paper, my utter dissent from the proposition now before the "Free State" Party of this Territory, to form a State Constitution ? ' ' While I honor the motives that actu ate the majority of those concerned in this "movement, yet believing as I do, that it is fraught with lasting injury to the cause that lies nearer to my heart at present than any other, viz : the making of Kansas a free State, I must unquali fiedly condemn this movement. This I do hesitatingly, for my experience here has convinced me that no man can obey the "light within," and act as his con science directs, in all things, without meeting with tho common lot of all re formers, viz : ridicule and hatred. But I have learned, I trust, like my divine Master, to lightly esteem the reproach of men when God is on my side ; and He always is on tho side of every one who acts from no other motive than to pro mote the highest iuterests of the human family. I was opposed tothis movement almost as soon as 1 heard of it ; and some Weeks before the Mass Meeting I wrote to an eminent anti-slavery lawyer of my ac quaintance, in Boston, requesting him to consult other legal gentlemen of note, and write me, in seasou for the meeting, his opinion upon the point under consid eration." A few days after the meeting was over I received a letter from him, a portiou of which I wish to preseut to the public: . Boston, Aug. 3d, 1C55. Dear Feiesd : Owing " to absence from the cil) I received your letter too late to have my answer of any use to you. I regrot this the less because I see your own discretion has always, so far as 1 can judge at this distance, led you right. 1 think all your course judicious; success is another thing, xouandl know that tho utmost sagacity and discretion are of little avail, at the moment, against un scrupulous wickedness, armed with pow er. On the side of the wicked there is power, in your region as elsewhere, too often, and that makes ail your tactics useless, except a most important excep tionto guide and arouse the Northern feeling. A Convention based on the idea of repudiating entirely your present Godless Legislature, and aiming to arrange a Provincial or Territorial Government, and demand. recognition from the United States, as the legal Territorial Govern ment, is the sound course ; just what the crisis requires. Treat your present Legislature as a nullity, and organize as if it did not ex ist, iguore it utterly. I think a State Government, without a basis of sufficient population, would be a mistaken course. That defect would be held by all the na tion, a sufficient, though it might be only the pretended reason, for rejecting you ; and this would give the enemy the best side of the argument. By ignoring the Legislature, and organizing Territonally, you keep all the principles of right, law, aud statesmanship on your side. Wheth er you fail or succeed in your immediate purpose, this keeping right legally, as well as morally, is a great thing, if possi ble. ' Yours truly, . ' I suppress the name of this gentleman because I do not know that he would like to have me give it to the public ; but it is at the service of an v gentleman who wish es particularly to know the author. i am aware 'that for me, without mon ey, and of course almost without influ ence, to attempt to frustrate this scheme, is utterly useless. But I trust that the good sense ot the last remark of the very distinguished author of the letter, will commend itself to the serious considera tion of every lover of Kansas. It is great thing to keep right legally as well as morally. It is also a still greater thing always to adopt our mcaus to the end we desire to accomplish. Politicians are proverbially the shortest sighted men in the country ; almost always making the most absurd political blunders. Even the "trod-hke ' Webster erred most egregiously in this matter. I believe that the reason is the same as is the cause of nearly all the error in the world, viz : A want of perfect honesty in those who attempt to reason upon a given subject Even in the exact sciences it is nearly im possible for a man to perceive the truth. as long as some peculiar theory hangs about his brain, to which theory he is strongly attached ; and it is peculiarly so in all questions pertaining to moral set ence. Said a noted English Reformer to a di vine, with whom he had been for a long time ariruing : "Can you not see the truth of this proposition ?" "No," re plied the divine, "I cannot" The Re former took his watch-key from his pock et, and holding it up before his friend 3ked him if he could see that. "Yes," he replied. The Reformer then placed a guinea between the key and the man's lace, aud asked him if he could now see the key. "No," he replied. "And why not?" queried his friend. "Because," replied the clergyman, "the guinea pre vents me." "Exactly," said his' friend, "and that is the reason why you cannot see the 'truth of my proposition. It is not always guineas that prevent men from seeing the truth, but sometimes it is the American's other ruliog passion, viz : love of office. " ! I trust that your readers will not con sider my remarks personal, when I sav that in my opinion, if fewer persons here were seeking for office, we s-hould hear less about a S:ate Constitution than we now do. If any person takes offense 'at this remark he will prove himself the identical office-seeker in question. . ,.,Now, at the risk of being . considered an egotist, I wish to say that wonder that wise men should, for a moment, har bor the thought of forming a State Con stitution at this crisis. ; In the first place, there is no necessity for such a step; In the second place it is eitremely foolish to talk of forming a State Constitution, as we would write a newspaper article, - or : make a ; stump speech., I question whether a year would be time enough to form such a Constitu tion as the wants of the age would require. We must go about such a measure free from all excitement, and with the utmost deliberation. The. very short time left for us between the first of October, and the session of Congress," would hardly suffice to elect delegates. ' J ' "f Again : if we form a Constitution now we run the risk of having the ' Black Law" engrafted upon it. If this is done, farewell to all our hopes of admission in to the Union. Foul as is that Union, slaveholders and all, have always rejec ted such Constitutions as contrary to that of the United States. , Henry Clay suc cessfully opposed the admission of Mis souri for that reason. Sumuer, Hale, Giddings, all radical anti-slavery men, would oppose such a bill to the death. And then, however, much we may la ment that such a state of things exists, yet it is useless to conceal the fact tlial the next Congress will not forego the op position now presented to the Whig Par ty to place itself in power, under a new name, for the sake of pleasing the Kan sas squatters. Not that they love us less, but they love the Whig party under its new name with its new allies more. If Kansas is admitted by this Congress, the platform for '5G will be "no whar;" and much as the members might indi vidually desire the admission of Kansas, :he wire-pullers will prevent them from 'Oting for such a measure. Much stress is laid upon the fact that the pro-slavery party are opposed to our adopting a State Constitution. I do not know that they are generally, for String fellow is certainly endeavoring to per suade his party to do the same thing ; but if they are, it proves to me that their usual sagacity has not forsaken them, but they can see farther ahead than some of us can, and hope by seeming to oppose this project to blind oureyes, aud induce us to advocate it still more strenuously. At any rate we must have penetration enough to ascertain the bearing of our projects upon our destiny, without being obliged to ak our opponents what they think of those projects. If we pursue the opposite course of always question ing the pro-slavery party as to their opinions upon our measures, they will certainly know enough to appear angry at a step which they are glad to see us taking. Again : the pro-slavery party are not gods in intellect; by any means ; as wit ness their Nero-like legislation, which bears the palm of stupidity as well as that of baseness. They are no better judges of what will harm them, and help us, than we ourselves are. It is said that even if Congress refuses to admit us into the Union, we still can maintain our State organization, as Cali fornia did, independent of Congress. But let it be borne in mind that to be thrown upon our own resources after having assumed an hostile attitude to our Legislature, will be certain destruc tion to us. Let not folly or blind confi dence in those assuming to lead us, in fluence us in this matter. : The moment we organize as a State, and fail of admiss ion into the Union, that moment we shall fall a certain prey to our euemies. We miirhtas well act with caution in this matter, and follow the advice of sterling anti-slavery men here and at the East, as t 'ii i .. -i r to rush madly on under the guidance of interested politicians The course that I would recommend is this: On the day of election of Dele gate to Congress, let copies of a petition to Congress be offered to every voter for him to sign. Let tins petition state for mally that the present Legislature of the Territory wjts elected by voters from Mis souri, and lyid trampled under foot the authority of the United States, in refus ing seats to men declared elected by the uovernor in receiving members with out their presenting the Governor's certificates,-and in adjourning from the place appointed by the Governor, to a part of the territory not formally under the ju risdiction of the United States. That said Legislature had ''abridged the free dom of speech and of the press ;" and has enacted odious laws to which wo nev er can submit. We are therefore left without any legal protection as a people, and our dearest rights are wholly unguar ded, and we, not knowing what more proper steps to fcik, do humbly ask the General Jovernment to interfere in our behalf, either by enforcing the principles of the Nebraska-Kansas bill, or by some direct legislation suited to our case. If the facts, accompanied with proof of the same, are formally presented to Congress, and it is left to them to decide what to do for us, the burden of legis lation will thus be thrown upon them, and they will bo obliged to do something for us, iu order to redeem their "anti-Nebraska" character. On the other hand, as I have already stated, if we demand admittance as a State, the politicians will make the radi cal character of the measure, an excuse for doing nothifrg, and we shall be left to sure and certaiu ruin. Yours for the supremacy of rea?on. C. STEARNS. For th lit raid ff Freedom Reply to Mr. Thomas. Lawbexce, Sept. 0, 1855. Mr. Editor : As I met some friends in J your streets this morning I was asked what it meant by Mr. Thomas" returnin to Massachue;ts,and writing such a mess of lies about Kansas. My reply was that I did not know of his having written anvthinir. The "Lynn News," of Au. 3d, was then handed me, containing a letter from North Prescott, Mass., signed E. A. Thomas. In this letter are stated many things which are not true, and, indeed, which I know are not. Having been told by him (Mr. T.,) while here, that the Lynn News would not publish anything in op position to his statements, I wish to reply to him through your paper, as it has a considerable circulation in Massachusetts. He wiys: "I challenge the man who has been there, i. e. in Kansas, or is there now, to find a spring of water in the Territory, of which an Eastern man may drink freely, when thirsty, without en dangering his life." Bein myself a resident of this Territory, Kom his own State, and personally acquainted with him, I accept his challenge. In regard to the water which he says has the seeds of death so extensively dis tributed in it, a to cause death in the houses, I disbelieve ; unless a man drinks enough to burst him except he be hoop ed."' Men mav be such fools as to drink enough of anv water to kill them. Mr. Mendenhall, a Quaker, who has , been Teacher and Superintendent at the Qua ker Mission (to whom Mr. T., particular ly refers,) for the last six years, told Mr. Lincoln, from fiiassachusetts.in the pres ence of Mr. Lowry, from Pennsylvania, that the Mission tamily had constantly used water from this spring, to which Mr. T.N refers, during all this time, and that they had suffered no inconvenience therefrom. And further: he stated that he knew of no such" circumstances or death as Ur. T., alludes to. By the way, it wasinPitlsfield, Mass., that Mr. Thomas himself " drank water which made him suddenly ill, as he told me, and for which I administered to him some of "Blunt's Compound,", which removed his illness. - j- . Again : Mr. T. fays, that "pure water cannot be found in Kansas." I say it can. Further, he says that he neither saw or heard of any spring water which New England people would call good. But he did heir at least of one, as can ; be proven, which proof are not only, from Bostou aud other places in Massachusetts, and from other New England Slates, but also good judges from all parts f tlie country do call good ; and which I will compare with any spring water in Lynn or North Prescott, for purity, clearness, or good taste. Of this water Mr. T. has himself drank, as I carried it from the spring to his bed while he was ill at this place. Friend Thomas says that in traveling fifty-two miles, (which should be forty five) he found but two springs. I went the same route with him, andean show him at least twelve good springs within forty miles. . Again he says, "in its Kansas waters are found the germs of diseaso which cripples the settler if not destroy life." Now, sir, I conclude that my friend has been long enough in Massachusetts, on Prescott lulls, to recover from the "crip pling" which the waters of the Territo ry gave him, and now weighs as usual two hundred and twelve pounds. Now, sir, if he has, I invite him to come out here, or at least half way, and some of the "cripples" will meet him to walk with him from one mile to one thousand if he wishes; those "cripples," too. who have been using his "crippling" water for four months. I said walk, but if he chooses to run, die "cripples" arc ready to meet him on that ground, or on any other, un less it be using the rocking-chair or sofa. On that score I think he would tucker them out. Two of us cripples have, since the 5th of June, traveled from five to six hundred miles. Some of it by ox and some by horse teams, some on horse back ; and yesterday we returned from a trip of two hundred miles, which we made on foot. Now, as my friend knows, I could not have had much money for ex penses during these trips, as on the 5th of June I had only the large sum of 33 cents in my pocket. During the first two weeks of our journey, our living was cold meat, bread, teaaud "crippling" water; for the few succeeding days it was bread and "crippling" water, with only occasionally a little tea, as we wished it to hold out. We slept upon the beauti ful green carpet which our Heavenly Father has spread over these fertile prairies; and this has been our lodging place for more than half the time of our residence in the Territory. Still with all this exposure to the winds, wet weather, and unhealthy clima-e, with "cripplin water to drink in abundance, we are ready - e .1. ...I 'IM for a trial of strength with friend Thomas either at walking, running, or anything which he may name, save J.he the rock ing chair or sofa. With regard to the climate, which he seems to consi Jer as very unhealthy, hot, cold and undesirable. From his long residence in the Territory of four or five weeks, nearly all of which was spent idly at this place, let me say a few words : 1 came into Kansas on tho 15th of May; have been here ever since. I never suf fered less with heat than this hummer. I hnve suffered more from the beat at the East with their summer clothes on, than I have this season with woolen clothes as I have done throughout tlie summers. He speaks of Mr. Cattle, of Boston, who died at the Shawnee Baptist Mission, conveying the false impression that it was the climate of the .territory that killed him. The facts are these : Mr. Cattle was sick while in the boat, on the Mis souri river, and there took medicine for his diarrhea. He was told I think by Mr. Thomas that he ought not to walk out to the Mission, as he was unwell; yet he did walk from Kansas, Mo., ehrht miles to the Mission and back. He then bathed his feet in cold spi iug water, as I was told, and in a few hours was a corpse. Now, sir, just see what an effect the climate of the Territory has upon an eastern man who walks into the Territo ry four miles and back. For the Mission is only, four miles in the Territory from the Missouri line. The health and the climate of the Ter ritory are good ; weie people, of the East subject to half the exposure which those here are, disease and death would be far more prevalent than here. Mr. Cattle's, and nearly all the deaths here, are from imprudence, either of hard la bor or exposure. 1 only wonder that more do not die than do, so regardless of health and life do their worldly desires make them. And this truth is frequently remarked by observing men throughout the Territory. I hope that l aukees who wish to know i the truth of these things, will come and : see for themselves, not by stopping at Lawrence or any one place during their stay, but travel through the Territory and we have no fears but they 'will be perfectly well satisfied that friend Thom as new but little more of xhe Teriitorv than though he had never been here. Perhaps it would be well ' home to put a riijht smart EriTl.uirl wsfpr in thpir nrw-t . .. . ... crippling water siiouu nave a Dad el- rei'i utou uiera. 0 my eastern friends I would fay, the country can hardly be surp ial by any iu which I have yet traveled, for cli mate, foil, timber, and water. - There arc not to extensive forests as iu tonus parts of the country, bm this is consideieJ rather a blesing than a curse from, the greater ease of cultivation, fclill, there is enough for present use, and as the tires are kept out of it, it will greatly in crease. ' ....... r ; Corce and fee. for yourselves; take "no one's word, for men look through differ ent eyes, and what will suit one may not another. Lull and see us. Itespectfully, , C. FAY. ... . T The Lansing State Journal, pub lished jn Michigan as a Democratic pa per and edited by George W." Peek, member of. Congress elect as an Admin istration Democrat, denounces the con duct of the Adminitiatiou towards Gov. 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