The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-09-29


to those who succeed US, to bear its burthens
and its evils, or rid themselves of them by
bloody revolution.
THE WAY OF 1T.
One OF tho editors of the st. Louis Repub.
lican has been to the western frontier of that
State, and to Kansas, and, in that paper Of
the 18th inst, he sketches some of his OBJ
servatlons OF the state Of affairs in that vi
cinity. We clip the following from the ar
ticle
"rhe short time we were on the frontier al
lowed US to Judge of some of the peculiar no.
items tie people of that country. The
settlement OF Kansas, and the "ways and
means" to Gust the Abolitionists, is the all.
sorbing topic. Niger sympath zers had bet
ter choose some other locality, for in all the
frontier counties the people are wide awaks
and n o mistake. A stranger going into the
country is "spotted" Immediately, and unless
he is as secret as an oyster "whar" he came
from, and what's the object of his visit, is
soon known. This system of surveillance is
part of their police regulations, that every
man in the country feels himself particularly
u
from the "iniected district" they quarantine
him immediately. This remedy is varied ac-
| cording to the violence of the disease. Tar
aud feathers, or moonlight ride across log
on the Missouri river, is sometimes used, but
if the case is very bad, they suppress the cir
culation by means of rope. The laws reg
uIating the disease termed Abolitionisn,, are
very strict, and are faithfully executed
"rhe small supply of old corn on hand land
the increased demand occasioned by the set.
tement OF Kansas territory, has furnished
cash market for this kind of grain. They
choose their purch asers however, and Yam
kee as they term them, can't get grain at
any price. Its part of their system of star
wing them out, and we would advise the New
York and Massachusetts leagues, that in SEN
ding on their emigrants, they had better take
the precaution Of stocking them well with
provisions, otherwise when they return home
they will look so guant and Jean their best
friends won't know them
We need make no comments on the above.
That freeman Should be lynched for express
sing the sentments of man in free coun-
try; in country which had been solsmnly
devoted to freedom only, by legislative oom-
pact, and taken away from freedom, but by
the vilest OF demagogism and bribery is al
most too horrible to contemplate. We pre-
sumo the ones who pursue this course expect
that the north will meekly submit to law
that requires northern gentleman, who does
not believe slavery right, to apprshend q
slave and return it to his master, when a sou.
thern gentleman, who believes it right would
do no such thing. There is a madness
, growing out of the success of the late slave
movement, in the fugitive slave law and Ne.
braska bill that has never before been man.
fest, and is premoniton of terrible fall
GrThe mails continue to furnish cold
comfort for the famine makers, either as re-
CARDS .hs crops at home or abroad. The
crops in England and throughout Europe
generally prove tc be unusually abundant
The London Times, in leader on this sub.
ject, says:
"From this harvest to the next there car
be no doubt that the difference in the price
OF wheat compared with that in the previous
twelve months will be at least 2Os a quarter
in favor Of the public, which, on the whole
consumption, will amount to a boon of TWEEN.
ty-fve billions OF pounds to that body on
wheat alone, besides corresponding reliefin
other grain. Even the cost of the war sinks
to a triile comp ared with this bounty from
the skies; and notwithstanding all the lavish
expenditure incurred we now stand better
prepared for war, by some twenty millions
than twclvemonth ago."
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