Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-10
Chips of the Old Block.

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ports the proceedings ofa very enthusiastic
Kansas Relief Meeting lately held in the City
of Elms, at the North Church-a very appro-
pirate name, most assuredly, for,,a..piace of
meeting o! Freemen to sounse together Cor
the purpose Of calculating the question. Have
we Northl
A colony is about starting from New Ha-
ven for the purpose Of founding a Free City
! in Kansas, and IN glorious imitation of those
who landed from the MaWaower on bleak New
| England shore, this colony proposes to take
clergyman along. 1t is somewhat signiti-
cant of the growth of religious liberty since
the days of ROGER WILLIAMS, that the emf
grating clergyman is a Baptist, wh,le the
| President of the Colony, CHARLES B. LINES,
is Presbyterian Deacon. A brother Dea-
con of thus same North Church, HARVEY
HALL, also goes out in the company. A COM
mittee has also preceded the movement OF
the colony and is now in Kansas FOR the pur-
pose of selecting the spot, and to take immc-
date measures for the erection of church !,
school house, &c.
| The object of the meeting above alluded to,
was to provide arms, ammunition. and other
articles of uertu to defend the party against
wolves and other wild beasts of the praries.
The President, NJ. LINES, stated the origin
and object Of the movement, and presented the
necessity of every man being provided with
trusty Sharpe's rifle The colony has its
clergyman and its school master, bu, needed
fifty rifles, those which had previously been
secured having already been forwarded OF for
the use oe Gen. PoMERoY. Mr.. l.. said:
We mean to lay the foundations of town.
to build church and a school house, to es-
tabish ourselves as free men on free soil,
and to attend TO our own Legitimate and pro-
per business. We wish to go and take our
position there, and then to maintain it.
We have no desire TO use our rifles, but we
want them with US in case time shall come
when they must be useI The weapons also
will be serviceablo for asany ordinary pur-
poses, if an extra ordinary occasion should
never demand their exercise. They will kill
wolves, turkeys, buffaloes, and the like.
lie stated that every man in the company
had been actuateh from the first with such an
enthusiasmsf sfor the enterprise, as made him
look with j ~ even upon the hardships and
priyations of this new and rugged life, which
an unsettled country would necessarily pre-
sent at first TO the settler. Every passing
} day served only to increase the desire Of the
company to be on their journey.
!, HENRY WARD BEEcHER made a most stir
ring speech. He said;.
There are wrapped up in the folds of the
Constitution two oppugnant elements which,
while they are undeveloped, DO not show
themselves, but which, when they begin to
: grow--on one side the Upas Tree, and on
the other the Tree of Life-to interlock their
branches, to prove that there is oppugnation.
The veins of the land are large, but they can
: not hold the double blood Of Liberty and Sla-
7 very! The story has been told of fellow
= who wished to take drink of alkali and acid
: who took down first the one and then the
n other, instead of mixing them beforehand, and
l thus experienced the effervesence internally!
Now, if some one had said, "Drink first the
| acid and then the alkali, and don't foam"
| the prescription would have been just about
e the same as saying, Swallow down the one
: element of Liberty in the Constitution, and
]; then the other of Slavery, and don't get ex-
It cited nor effervesce!" We have been told to
n take dow both without feeling it aad TO-
S show no efferyesence whatever! 1t may be
in the power of some to undergo such fer
mentation, but il is not in the capacity of my
u stomach!
v = y
d We have had compromises in the past bu
e | think the days of compromising two utterly
X irreconci liable elements are now over. Com
e promises have been made by the most ingeni
ID Gus and learned statesmen which the country
ID could afford, but having been found useless
they will not be attempted again.
D. | never knew but one compromise which
- thought was good one, and that was this-
is Governor Shannon went over to Lawrenc
and demanded of Robinson three things
to first, that he and his companions should give
ne up their Shorpe's rifles; secondly, that h
e; should deliver over al persons for whom wal
SO rants had been issued; third, that he should
a respect the Jaws of the Territory Withou
ar stopping at the replies to the last two PTopo