Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-09-19

OAlCASo, sept. 10Th, 1856.
This morning as I sat reading in the gentle
mems parlor at the Briggs House in this great
city of Chicago, made remark to one opposite
in relation to some article was disguised with in
adehoeratc paper. His reply was, they are liars
despotism. "'ie
Let any one taste of my experience and they
would say amen. Sir, am here to-day an exilc
driven by rutfians from Kanzas city, (Io) he
cause would not join them in deeds more hor-
rlhie than were evercommitted on American son
even by the ruthless savage
Il have lived IN the South for twelve years. |
have been pro-slavery man to their fullest de-
SIRE was one of the first border RufFians m
der Atchison, and entered Kanzas with deter
mination TO put down the free state men. but
their action was so revolving. left them and re-
turned to my business where | have been pe,
united to remain, witnessing free-slate men rob-
pea ana murdered As l passed the streets the
hnger would be pointed, and l would hear said.
there goes a spy, damned abolitionist. till it
came to that, every man that was not with them
was against them, they robbed me NV property
and threatened my life. Under these crcumstan-
ces left; was pursued and overtaken at Indepen.
dence; there l made my eScape BY giving them
all the money had saving only enough to reach
TINS place, and here | am an American exile no
government to protect me. no laws where can
seek redress The administration can hear the
cries OF poor Hungarian, and send her navy for
his rescue, but outraged citizen of Missouri or
hanzas may appeal to her protection, and she is
pOwerlesr.''
For two hours he related his experience to a
crowded room, he told Of many incidents which
emphatically prove that the heart sick eniIYg ac-
counts we hear IN the East are no exageration.
As he closed, merchant from St Louis said
there had many such instances come to his per-
sonsl knowledge, and some of his friends had
lost large amounts of money by these lawless
desperados. For the assistance be rendered and
SVmOathV q ne Ttp had bpeu : nod
Border rutianism hangs like an incubus over St.
Louis, the impetus that free-state emigration
gave to trade has all been sacrificed to It.
large portion of the merchants know this and
deprecate it, yet dare not express their opinion,
for the enemy is in their midst with a watchfui
eye. The conservatives of Missouri are overrid.
den and ANONYMOUSLY reaping the legitimate
fruits of their proud Institutions
There are now at this house several prominent
hanzaS men, on their way to Lawrence Colonel
Eldridge, who left that city three weeks ago, i'm.
mediately after the treaty with Governor Shan
non, which he says was one of the proudest mo.
mentS of his life for he stood there before the as.
sembly pressing him with parliamentary questions
in regard to his iniquity in the sacking of Law
renee and the destruction of his hotel, for the
protection of which he had interceded with him
time and again the wicked man Cringed and bow
ed himself IN shame, made free State speech,
and left the territory speedily as possible for
his course had rendered him obnoxious to all, and
his safety demanded his exit from his pro-slayery
friends who now his blood thirsty enemies.
Col. Eldridge leaves tomorrow for Nebraska
City, where he has about eight hundred emf.
grants concentrating ready to enter the territories
with supplies for the besieged OF Lawrence. He
hopes to go without molestation, but as the Mis-
sourians are on the northern pass, with large
force, he has every man ready to present his ar
gument, and such one as will convince the out
laws that the northerners have rights and are
prepared to defend them.
: Col Eidridge seems to be man Of firm resolve,
dauntless spirit, and Of long endurance-iust the
man for the place we want thousand such to-
day, and the story would soon be told He says
the North must pour in her emigrants and her
money without stint, to equal the South, whichis
filling the territory with men, worse than fiends,
all Of whom they are ready to meet two to one
The news comes here, tonight that Wisconsin
will, in legislative capacity, appropriate one
hundred thousand dollars to the protection other
citizens in Kanzas
Wherever have been they all seem to be for
Fremont. In passing over the New York Central
Railroad, vote was taken, and it stood-7S for
Fremont, Il for Fillmore, and 80 for Buchanan.
Judge Douglas delivered political harangue
to the citizens of Chicago, last week. and his au-
dience wound up with three cheers for Fremont
T. K, E.,