The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-11-22

/ informed was Cne of the most respect
able merchants in Weston" Mr.. GLAD
STONE gives the following description
of this respectable merchant y
.'7He Border Ru6fan telling Uhat he IS :
This respectable merchant was sur
rounded, as he stood in the cabin of the
boat, by circle, whom joined. Out
of side pocket protruded the head OF
a pistol in his hand he brandished
another. loaded, as he told us, and ready
for action. With threatening aspect
and attitude, he vented himself, amid
many oat hs, of the following language
addressed to us all:
/ am bound to bring down some one
before Pm done tell you by G-I
am. I'll teach these internal niger
stealing Freesoilers lesson right pert
ly, that's fact If there's s dog-gaun-
ed Abolitionist aboard / should like to
see him, that 1 should. Pm the man
to put chunk of lead into his woolly
head right off, that's what Pll do
Then, looking round at each of us, l
reckon / can raise the top off the head
of ere one of you with this here tool.
/ Speak the word, AID by G., Pm your
man. That's so. / should like to see
the first Freesoiler that opens his mouth;
that should. I'd send him to hell
pretty quick, afore he know'd what he
was about: that's what I'd do. I'm a
mighty ce-urious customer, I am"
And SO thought. probably, one of his
hearers, for he said to the curious GUS
toner, "Come old hoss, won't you have
some breakfast? The old horse was not
to be so easily diverted, however.
| Breakfast think I'd be after break
fast when I've got my duty before me !?
Exercise is the thing for me, not eating.
l tell you I'm bound to bring down
some one afore I'm done-hat | am,
I've got to fight for the liberty of my
country, and rid the place of these cow
ardly blue-bellied Ymkees-that's S
what I've got to do. l should like to
know what they've to do in this here
place, with their snarling, sneaking
ways l tell you there's not man
amongst them as knows how to fight.
| should like to see the first one as will
open his mouth here-that's what /
should like to see. I tell you Pm ce-
urious customer-my dog knows that,
pointing to large dog which seemed
prepared to stand by its master for bet
ter or worse. Then, / should like to
see the man that would touch that dog
of mine. I'd lay him dead in a moment,
thut / would just sea me-
None of us felt inclined to touch the
dog, and the respectable merchant re-
turned to his politics and patriotism.
"No Northern niggerstealers here.
I'll fix 'em up mighty smart, | will.
| amt here for nothing, and that you'll
see, just as soon as anything. l only want
to see the first Freesoiier here. I'll
drop the first one of you that opens his
mouth for abolition cusses /; be dog
gauned if don't
Il should like to see the first one
that opens his mouth. | reckon he'd
have to take the change mighty smart.
Leads the best argument for these in
fernal white e-livered Yankees. Let me
alone for tanning them down; let me
alone for that, | say. | reckon they
won't be tryin' on this game again a
little while. That's just about what l
think"
| In its leading article on this letter of
Mr.. Gladstone, the London Times, after
noticing the different kinds of rage
the rage of Titans and Centaurs, Glass
ical and Oriental rage, the rage of the
Norseman, the rage of the Irishman
with his shillelagh, the rage of the Hy-
dra, and the RACES of Achilles, the RACES
of Xerxes and Alexander the Great, the
rage of the Frenchman, the Spaniard,
the German, and the Englishman-thus
speaks of the
"Rage Of the Border Ru6fan IF
any one wishes to know what the rage
of Southern slaveowner is, he must
read letter in our columns to-day. 1t
is indeed picture. The wars of Titans
and Centaurs, of Goths, Fandals, Tar
tars, Turks, have produced their strik-
ing and appalling forms of the insp;ra-
ton of rage, but we should be surprised
if, taking all the features of the exhibi-
ton, any of them much surpassed the
form portrayed in that letter. Here is
indeed a specimen of humanity under
this questionable kind of inspiration.
Look at it see if the Southener of
Kansas is not a model of Front de
Boef in Iuaakoe, OF any picture of giant
with his bearskin and club. 1t is the
modern form of this picture. Every
feature is modern, indeed, and we
have to translate all along as we go
through the details, but we see the same
fundamental exhibition. To call it
| horrible, or revolving, or disgusting,
or any such epithets would feebiy de-
scribe 1t, because you see that there is
a Wilderness about it, which can only
be given in some general work which
! has not yet been discovered-there is
such a grotesque mixture of savage and
| low features of the wild man and the
gindrinker. the desperate blackguard,
bravo highwayman, blackleg, and
Thug. all mingled together in chaotic
confusion. Pindar gives the language
of gods, and Dante the language Of de-
mons but what language is it that We
have here, which is neither the Ian
guage of gods nor demons, nor men,
| but the slang of the Yankee slavehoid-
lere What horrible grim language,
lif language it may be called, has gath