Butte record., 1856-08-09
Ea,,saS Warfare.

To slow the honesty q of the Free SOL
ers in Kansas, it is only necessary to expos
their mode of warfare. The following Whlcl
we copy from the Ohio Statesman, Will iur
nish some insight into the natter
To show the baseness, wickedness and fal
sity of the Kansas reports, We have only t.
state that Mr. Whitfield, the delegate iron
Kansas, instead of leading u company Q
BORDER Rufians, and getting into dltflcul
| ty with Col. Sumner and the U. ). troops
was vending his way to Washington anT
when lying telegraph reports got there o
his doings in Kansas, he was quietly sitting
in his seat on he floor of Congress, The
Washington Star, in alludiBg to this affair
says:
Col Whitfield, the delegate from Kansas
has returned to Washington, and appeared
in his seat in the house -dey. While there
he was electrified by learning that he, in
command Of the Border Ruffians, had, day
or two since, had great battle with the
troops of the T. S under Col Sumner -
Such a dispatch reached Washington to-day
at l | 4 NJ
The reception here of this important news
on the wings of lightning, after Gen. W had
returned to Washington on horseback, Per
steamboat and rail car from the frontier, IL
Illustrates most forcibly the character OF Free
State stories of current events in Kansas,
What falsehood will next be got up to
keep up public excitement and cheat block
heads out of their money; 1t will be ter
rible death stroke to Black Repubhca nism If
Col. Sumner should restore order in Kansas
as the President has instructed him to do.
HAPPY ILLUsTRATIoN.-ln one of the
comic prints, (says the San Francisco Her
aid, } there is an illustration representing
the Presidential candidates as minstrel
troupe, engaged each in a separate song
The Republican candidate, in the height of
his extraordinary feelings of delight, jumps
from the stool on which he has been setting,
but comes down upon it again with such
force that its legs are broken; yet he re-
bounds, so that when he next attempts to
be seated he must inevitably squat upon
the floor.
This is happy Interpretation of that
boisterous creed which old abolitonism be-
got, and which anarchy in Kansas has
reared to restless and reckless STR pling.
The new party nervously jumps from any
acknowledgment of ultra abolition princi-
pies, but in its bounding it breaks the rot
ten legs of its platform, and should it obtain
the power sought, it viii squat fat upon
ultra anti-slavery doctrines, and sprawl it.
self out toward the destruction of the Union
which the patriot of all sections would cling
to forever,
There never vas party which possessed
the ability to ju1sp about. twist itself into
all shapes, turn itself inside out and make
such incoherent noises, and manufacture
such needless turmoil as this new combina-
ton which assumes to be strong enough to
knock down and drag out" the old and well
tried Democracy. Every little fellow. never
before noticed by any party; every thin
featured abolition malconteut; every foun
dered politician, in contempt, for question
able department. in other parties are swing.
ing their hands and wildly shouting for
something they think may put them in some
official feed store. They are hungry Be-
fore they get through they will probably be
too exhausted to enjoy anticipated donors,
aud then how the country will mourn over
the loss of all that effort, and energy, and
wasted patriotism