Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-05-10
For the Belmont Chrvnicle.

W. bniIOhs--tldNlHp pTOHllscu yOl, tnht
If met with any thing IN my jouineyngs of
general interest to your readers, that would
communicate 1t for your paper, ! have con-
cluded, now th,t have located myself amid
the beautiful prairies of the far West, thut
stretch out upon every hand, earpeting the
Earth with green. aud presenting n most in
viting prospect to the eye, whilst it exhiler-
ates the dropping spirits, that would endca-
vor to comply with my promise. Not howev-
er because feel sny degree of confidence,
that " ill be able to interest them in the
least, but because know that Editors of
newspapers are generally desirous of spread
ing before the public variety of matter and
it may be relief to the reader to surn from
your Editorials, laden with sound sehse and
sound logic, or from the beautiful rhetoric {
your other more gifted correspondents, to the
trivial matter and incuhcrent style of your
humble servant
/, in company with your intelligent and re.
spected fellow citizen William Warren, left
Wheeling for this Western county ou the
ste amer Swallow, bound for st. Louis, with
goodly number of passengers. The num-
Der was greatly increased however at Gin.
cinnati. Indeed the boat from that port to
ST Louis seemed to be crowded to its utmost
capacity. Nearly oil were emigrsnts for the
West. A ma Irity Of whom seemed to be
oound Tor Kanzas and Nebraska. Mt only
was this boat crowded, but every Other West.
ward bound boat seemed equally as much SO.
And judging from the number Of steamers ly.
ing at the St. Louis wharf, destined for the
upper Missouri aud its tributaries, with the
great crowds of emigrants upon them, have
no doubt that for the greater proportion Of
the vast flood Of emigration which passes
through this channel is sweeping onward to
these countries. And am equally certain,
from my own observation, and from the in
formation which | get through other and re-
liable sources, that the great body Of this EN-
igraton is from the North and opposed to
the Introduction of Slavery. And yet it
would seem from the Unprecedented outrages
OF the Mssourans, committed at the polls, -
from the utter disregard which the Slavery
propagandists evince for the sacred righ. Of
sufirage--that unless the most determined
front is presented by the friends of freedom
in the territory OF Kanzas, backed up it may
perhaps be Lecessary, by the power aud the
Influence of the North, its fertile, virgin soil,
once dedicated by solemn ordinance to Free
dom will be overwhelmed and buried beneath
the dark curse of Slavery. Shall this thing
be! How much longer are we to submit 10
these outragesl Shall it be until the yoke II
servitude is fastened upon cur necks and we
become powerless in the hands OF Slavery!-
until this blighting curse rests like deadly
incubus upon ali the land! Rather shall not
the country and the world yet learn that there
| is Nurth--that she da-es and WW assert her
rights! trust that those Northern men by
whose aid the barriers to oppression were
broken down, and by which its dark tide was
permitted to sweep over this broad territory
! and thereafter to cngulph it forever beneath
its turbid waves, Will vet learp to trrmbe
more and more at the handwriting upon the
wall in which is traced their doom.
We had several Shareholders on board the
boat, some of whom had their human chattels
.th them. They were at first bound in their
deuunciation of those who could not see the
beauties OF the "peculiar institution" which
the; spared no pains TO portray in its mos,
witching colors. 1t affol ded me no little
|
current o the Ohio, to point out the great
contrast in the Improvements and appearance
of the country along the Northern and South
ern shores OF the river, which strike every
observer so iorciby, and to ask the cause OF
the difference. II was, fancied, an argu-
mentum ud hominem There is but one rea.
son for it, which is equally apparent to ALL
| Upon the one side Freedom resigns. The
laborer is remunerated for his services. 1t
| is not looked upon as disreputable to earn
ones, Tread by the "s~eat Of the brow."-
Hands SCARED by honest toll are honorable
Upon the other side the aborer is driven to
his unwilling task under the lash. Homes,
toll is looked down upon by those who drive
abou, in their gildcd carriages, spending
their lives in riot and dissipation at the ex.
pense of the unrequited labor o' human beings
degraded to the condition Of brutes. Shall
such curse as this with all its attendant
evils be extended farther over our fertile and
beautiful country But have permitted my
ideas to run Of in channel that did not
intend.
After looking about good deal with a
view to finding a location, | have at last
con cludsd to fix down my stakes in this
place. Sa | may be found new seated in
my office, waiting with all the patience |
can command for clients to call and entrust
me witt their suits. And W list am wait
ing which may be long enough indeed, sup
pose occupy few moments in giving you
description Of the place.
The city of Morris, (for i, has city char
ter, in view doubtless myre of what the place
is destined to be than what it now is,)--ths
city of Morris then il situated upon ,heNorth
bank Of the Illinois river, on the Illinois ca
nal and on the Chicago g. Rock Island
Railroad; 60 miles BY railroad from Chica.
go, and numbers now about 1000 inhab-
itants. The most of the town is built upon
high prairie, whilst portion OF its neat
white frame houses peer ont from beauti-
tul scattering grove OF natural forest trees on
the North East. 1t is regularly laid off into
wide aud commodious streets alright angles
to each other. The houses are nearly all