Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1856-09-03

have the pleasure Of presenting our readers
with another HITTER from this old and honest
Democrat. That he writes the truth needs no
Endorsement from US to those who knew him
while he was living here. he Was a reliable
DerIocrat aud always acted with that party. ,
but now he seems TO have his eyes opened TO
the wiekedness and corruption Of the pro sla-
very leaders In the North, and whether he has
a good feeling for his old political friends, we
will leave his letter 10 answer.
Mr.. Mewhinney, like every other LoEest man
who has exam ined the history Of Kansas. has
discovered The Infamous plans resortcd 10 in
order TO make 1t slave territory. and his free
spirit revolts ut IL. He has torn himself from
the shsmbles Of party dictaiion. aud now
thinks and writes as becomes freeman. he
recognizes no party higher than the dictates
Of his own honest judgement. Let every one
read this letter aud see how an honest old Dem.
oerat can talk ofthat party with which he has
30 long acted. when il becomes corrup, aud un-
worthy the furt her endorsement Of honest men
OTTAWA CEKkK, Kansas TERRiroEYl
July !, ls56.
My OLD FRiESp: feel rather surprised 10
see the course that the old line democratic
press is pursuing after the evidence that has
been brought TO light by the Congressional
Convention. and Of fraud that has been forced
on the free State settlers Of this Territory.
The Indiana State Sentinel. n Y. Day
Book, and other papers Of the same kind.
Il -, q -. 4. A l.
men, and all others are aboll,ionists and dis
unionists. What ere the facts in this case. are
uow, or shortly will be before the world, so
that every person that wish can see how things
started here. aud what party has used mob vi
lenee to usurp power not delegated 10 them by
the Constitution of this Union. Missonrians
have declared from the first settling Of this
territory. that slavery should be permanently
settled here, or they would dissolve this Union.
The free State party being largely ia the ma
jority in the Territory; Missouri, in the FIRST
place. sent in her hordes to gain their point.
by illegal voting. and when that point was
gained by passing such laws, that all the free
State party was disfranchised, and the laws
made legal by a corrupt administration. Then
the Territorial Governor calls "a the militia
to enforce the laws; aud where does the militia
come from? Missouri seeing that there would
! be blood she'd. they back down and leave the
country. The Governor goes to Washington
TO see his masters, 10 coucoct some way 10 car.
, ~ on the heilish work.
Missouri calls on the South fof help TO sub
= due Kansas. Shannon as soon as they came,
took them, with all that could be had from
Missouri, as posse, placing The U. 5. Mar
shall at their head. and knowing that the free
I State party would not resist at that time. an
officer of the United States. they 20 forth to
murder, rob and burn out unofEending ciii-
zens. and not one word do see in the old
line papers, condemning the acts, but they en-
courage these murderers, by polishing The
most bare faced lies these midnight assassins
c can fabricata. for one, will no. support any
man for any Office. that those ;sfs~ssl iisrs put
at the head Of their papers fer Office ] used
to sw allow, for truth. almost every thing put
forth by the democratic press, against the 9TH
: er parties of the day. The leading doctrines
Of democracy still hold TO, but the party has
left one Of the acts-ihe Nebraska bill, and
in It's place. hug to their bosoms. brute force
aud mob violence, and it is plain TO my Wis
ion that the party viii stoop 20 almost any
Thing for the sake of the spOils
say to my relations and friends. weigh
well every act Of this Presided, and see If the
papers that have upheld ii, go for Buchanan
or any other man---shun him a. you woald the
E most deadly poison. for it's in The party, soon
er or later, TO lead this government into n
: a slave oligarchy. If they can do it by their
, old trade of lying, they think well aud good
but IL they cant, they viii try mob force. as
they have commenced in Kansas. Despotism
is the same everywhere. and its main resort is
/, brute force aud mob violesce. The slave pow
er threatens TO drive OFT from Kansas, the
men that dare try to ma ntain their rights as
freemen. When they came rom the States TO
do the hellish work, and arr met by less force
than they have and forod to surrender As
they were when they commenced the work Of
piiage in our neighborhood, we are de-
|, nounced as outlaws add abolitionists by the
Shareholders. and the democratic press take il
up aud herald it through the length and
breadth Of the land as trph. but we hear no.
thing from that quarter about Gen Whitfield,
coming from Missouri at the head of a mob,
being met by Col. Sunner-he agreed 10 go
back and disband his party; bat be leaves
them in the country TO murder and pillAge.-
The. United States troops found SIX murdered
men near the camp whs it is supposed Whit
fields party occupied. Sumner has drove
Whitfield and Buford' parties out Of the Ter
ritoy, and he has biz cannon planted near
westpost to guard iheroad. This is the first
D thing like protection the settlers Of Kansas
J. has ever had. The stockholders Of Missouri
have petitions in PROCESS, TO have HIN renoy-
cd.
Z Ii Sumner had ben twelve hours later in
a getting in this neighoorhood. Whitfield would
have met with wase fate :had Capt. Pate
did. We were wellpreparcd 10 receive him ia
our camp, and thcrewas one hundred aad for
: ty men in his rea, ready 10 pitch Ia, as
soon as he appearei. He had got within two
miles Of Us. when S0mnes met him, aud tie
40 were within oie mile OF him, secre,ed ia
the timber. aud l. knev nothing OF them
We we're well leated to receive them. AID
would give thesna warm reception.
Nearly al The pro-slayery men Of this part
Of the country lave left, suppose to try aud