New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-07
4 SIGHT FOR BCCHANANITES.

We a. scene in the Union Depot yesterday morn
ing that We think preached more powerful reinIon
than all the ooquence Of the stump or me S" a
vet produced Seated along the wall on Oehoh' "us
family of thrtoen-the father, mother and eleven Gun,
dren. weary dirty destitute and wTetched peyOhl az
parallel in tnis prosperous city Al one end wa ni'-
grown boy Of sixteen without shf', hls nm =,
with cold exposed, except where scanty garments vi
thin and coarse linen covered II. lie had been flick.
and was wrapped in coarse coyerlet: near MN ra'
a youpr woman q sister, with her husband nHc ""5
not touched water appart nty since they were mace
psle aud puny baby lay Iii her arms lhree OF ioui
little boys eat next wan-loOhing creatures a. Fhr as
their little wool hats except where me all gave an up
pearance of health TO the tiesh.
They were ragged and shyering win coiu' pu' ~
didn't fpeak nor cry utterly unlike Inc checriu-
ntss and viyacy boys were their silence ana qac'-
tude that il made one. Heart ache to see item. onc
az ,bcrn once passed his hand caressngly over tue
face Of the little baby which lay motonless IN lts
mothers ap but there no smile or GUNNER o al
f ton in his pale face. The mother was bare-cea1ed
ubwaslcd and pale, were all the family. She' IKE
her daughter nursed little sicky child 'nat LAY NOISE
less but staring with its round eyes at the crowd oil
ptying spectators. A son, dressed, or rather I'M
dressed ike all the rest sat in the middle, shivenng
with chill He writhed from side to side and groaneh
sometimes, but never spoke; Inc ia'her' tn'n 'P
rarcrtly torty-fiye years had wTapt small quilt
about lis shoulders, and either under the cheering
influence Of 20 much greater warmth than uie
rest ,rioyod or becsuse he iet 1t incumbent
BIN the hthu ol lbc lhibuyJ S'-
only one that spoke while We were within hearing.
He had L.cn drircH from Kansas, he sad, by TIC
Buchanan men, many other poor settlers had been,
and robbed of every dollar be had IN the world hls
cattle had been stolen by Buford thieves and he eK.
PEELED from the Territory because he would not take
arms against the traitor Lane, as The Senf'nd calls
him. He moved from near Lexington, Kentucky, and
bis name was Richie. They had no property, no
MONEY, no pro, isions medcinos though several OF
them woe sick, almost clothes. ~ fororn and
wre.ched family never saw, and they were made
70 by the infamous scoundrels whom the Admlnlstra-
ton hired az Kansas Militia, TO execute the kanra-
law-. They were one Of The productions OF Demo-
crate policy.
Tie spectators contributed literally 70 help them on
their road to Lexington. Mr.. David Hayes Of the City
Police ex,,;ed himself mort efficiently on their behalf,
and raised some ten or Twelve dollars. Nearly every
man or boy who approached left some contribution for
them. We cav sturdy railroad engineers and hrcmen
,mptying II cir pockebooks, newsboys gathering their
coppcrs into convenient heap, kindheerted citizens
uniclling bills Everybody seemed touched by their
silent uncomp lainng dstross. Now aud then We
could tear men saying There 10 something for an
'old line 10 look atp' One little gentleman of the
Buchanan striIe paraded up and down the depot with
an indignant stTut grumbling and cursmg bitterly, as
he would hear some sturdy Fremonter 7ay. - Come up
here and see Whist your party in Kansas have done
Ii was quite a scene-al altogether.
- Indianapolis Journal Sept. -.