Kansas weekly herald., 1855-06-08

a Blacksmith By Trade-H His true
Charhcter. SC, SC.

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In looking over our exchanges, a few
days since, we found the fslioying article
In the STATE JouRNAL, an Abolition sheet
published at Madison, the capitol of Wis
consin. We repubish it with the view Of Of
showing to the public the real character of
this despieable villain M'Crea. alias, Sc the
learned blacksmith, = and, Of falsifying
the declaration of the Kansas Tribune
la M 'Crea peacabis man State
Journal says: M'Crea is a lawyer by
profession, bnt blacksmith BY, Trade. -
His practice is said not to have been very
extensive only client being himself
He is said to be man of "a VIOLENT
PASSIONS, unbounded conceit, and OVER
BEARING and 1BsoLENT to the. last de-
gree.-@a We wish the Kansas Tribune
to mark this, and bear in mind its own
declaration /" W Cred peaca6le man.! Z! /. !! |!
1t seems that this same bastard was driven
off from mis- former residence. The State
Journal adds " His last public appearance
in Sheboygan county was as "a FuGI-
TWEEN with an 1nfur1ated crowd at his
4 heels, and shower of br1ck-bats whistling
about his head. n ~
Tha: time he escaped by running
through saw mill, leaping from it down
fifteen or twenty feet into the river, wa
ding and swimming across, and betaking
himself to the thick shelter of innumerable
sloughs in the adjacent tall timber!' 8.
This shows the metal of the dastardly
M'Crea. When he commits crimes, he
takes flight, and by mighty leaps plunges
into rivers. When he is captured, he bites
his tongue, spits blood, and declares he has
been shot. Then come letters from his
Abolition friends, declaring he shot IN self
defence that his teeth aUere shattered! his
collar bone broken &c., sc. This has
tbeen the programme in M'Crea's. case, but
we are confident that the efforts of his
friends to exculpate him, will in no wise
thwart the ends of justice: ..sss .es-s
'sWe suspect that M'Crea was former
/ ly resident of this State. A person
bearing his name resided in Sheboygan
county several years ago, where we had
occasion to know something of him. He
was a blacksmith by trade and a loaUyer bg
profession, and rejoiced in the soubriguet
of e the learned blacksmith He affect
ed to be g far seen in Greek" and studied
languages while blowing the bellows, in
imitation Of Burritt. In the practice of
the law, although he had considerable.
about his only client was himself. He had
a happy faculty of keeping in hot water.
Unlike his prototype of the peace of soci-
ETY. and ocean penny postage notoriety, he
aDas dtaDdys an a quarrel Assault and
battery bases filled his docket, in which &c.
M 'Crea," figured either as plaintiff or de-
fendant. He was man of considerable
natural ability; vioient passions, unbound
ed conceH and oOerbearing and insotent to
the last degree. The circumstances of the
case at Leavenworth are so characteristic
of the man as to leave little doubt of his
identity. HIS last public appearance an
Meboygar county scas as a fugitive sUlth an
intisriated croagd at his heels, and shower
of brick-bats Uhistling about has head
| That time he escaped by running through
a saw mill, leaping from it some fifteen or
twenty feet into the river, wading and
swimming across, and betaking himself to
the thick shelter OF numerous boughS"
in the adjacent tall timber.
The story of his being an aboiitionist is
mere bosh. No such explanation is re-
quired. He could involve himself In de
lemma without any such incitement. His
condition at the last accounts was the nat
/ Of o,,f
with such people as those of Kansas on
) ter sovereignty and Judge Lynch are reg
nant. He may have taken sides for ol
against slavery, In Kansas and he would
naturally have been a " fire -eater" in
either event, as he Uas born a fanatic An
unfortunate being, and a monomaniac as
we always regarded him, he will probably
fall victim to the wild whirlwind of pop
ular fury which his own rashnessoa and vio-
lence has brought upon him. Mob law
> seems to be woefully prevalent IN Kansas
and the inexpediency as well as injustice
: of allowing the class of persons, who
/ naturally form the preponderating element
In the earlier society of newly settled ter
ritories, to determine and fix nrevocably
the character of the institutions of the fu-
, ture state into which they will ultimately
resolved, is daily becomingsmore apparent
GREAT Hail SToRM.-On our way to
Grashopper Falls last Saturday, we passed
l where the great hail storm of the weel
previous had committed such destruction
The storm lasted for upwards of an hour,
followed by an immense fall of rain. The
hail fell in large quantities, many piece:
being much larger than the size Of an egg
and others some six inches Ia length