Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-10-17
Correspondence Of the Lewi-burg Chronicle
GREENsBURG, Westmoreland Co.,
Oct. s. 1856.

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This has been another great day in the
calender Of glorious day, for the cause Of
the people and the constitution as against
the cause Of notification aud slavery pro,
pagandism, with its demoniac attributes Of
fire and sword, and rape and robbery and
murder on the plains Of Kansas; with vio,
lence and outrage in one-half the States,
and threatened piracy in the future-an-
other evidence that God reisns, and the
people are not struck with judicial blind
ness, when all the constitutional and hu-
man rights are at stake, in the dread and
solemn issue of the present hour when
men who love their country and their race,
pray while they cork, aud will vote as they
pray; men who will follow the dictates Of
their judgment and their consciences, and
not the behests of party, or insulting sp-
peals to their uumauly fears but working,
praying, voting, will march forward to
such victory for the right, and such an
overthrow of the wrong, as will send the
hounds of notification bowling to their
kennels, and seal the doom of all such for
all time.
But l only sat down to make . brief
statement of facts, that friends east may
know what friends west are doing, and
gather fresh energy for the mighty strug-
gle. Yesterday the Shamocracy tried a
mass meeting here in this their ancient
stronghold. 1t was as strong as they could
make it; but not strong enough for their
purposes. To-day, the friends Of freedom
and Fremont came together, 5000 in num-
ber; and as write the wild huzzas of an
excited and resolutc people are ringing in
my ears, like the tbauksgiviugs of political
redemption, already achieved.
Speaker Banks was introduced amidst
such stormy shout Of welcome, as made
the old forest trees around him, ring with
it's echoing thunders. He occupied an
hour and half with clear, strong, COM
pact argument, worthy Of his keen intel
lect and iron will, that carried conviction
to every mind-welded and knit together
with caustic satire, and side splitting jokes
tina. fell upon the Buehaniers like point
blank volleys of canister and grape, and
left no loop hole of escape from the merci-
less force of his logic and illustrations.
He was followed by Judge George W.
Smith, just arrived yesterday from Kan
sas, where for three months and twenty
days, be was imprisoned in tents on the
open prairie, under the dews and drench-
ing rains, and the scorching sun Of the
dog days, sometimes shaking with ague,
or burning with fever, and guarded by the
dragons of the American people, al! on
the false and perjured charge of treason! !
And as the people looked on his venerable
countenance marked with lines of suffer
ing, and heard his plain, straight forward
testimony as to the past in Kansas, and to
the fact that peace and security and right
do not now exist there, but that the peo-
pie are subjugated and oppressed, and
that, too, by Bushanan's boasted Gov.
Geary, who is not as drunken, but fully
as tyrannical and partial as was the vile
and infamous Shannon-old men wept,
and young men listened with swelling
hearts, as their blazing eyes and stern
countenances, spoke Of new and stronger
VOWS to be discharged at the ballot box.
But l can not trust myself to dwell on
these things. They 60 down too deep into
the hearts core. The enemy die hard,
and fight with the energy Of despair. But
be assured the voters of old Westmoreland
are awake and working for the right prin-
ciples and the right candidates, and will
do their ghole duty in the hour Of trial.
am sure little Union will gloriously back
up our efforts here. God speed the rig ght.
Yours, TREASON.
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