Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-10-14
From the Northwestern Christian
From the Old Chief


kindness, by my long silence, but it is nei-
ther. | have been SO constantly employ
ed since partook Of your hospita.i,ies,
In your growing city, tina, have not had
the time 10 deliberately address a letter to
you.
MY Journey, for eight weeks after we
parted, through your State, Iowa and Mis-
souri,, was ia many respects, one of the
most pleasant of my life. / met with
hundreds, and | may say thousands, of
old friends, acquaintance and fellow p.!-
grims 10 Mount Zion; many with whom
have sat in heavenly places In Christ
Jesus" wears gone by, and with the chill
,:se,4 Of former friends, who had gone to
iheig come in heaven; and l realized the
same Christ, the same religion, and the
same spirit of love, faith and zeal that l
had felt for, hfty-slx years III my own
Ono Thanks be to God for the COM
,uinion of saints. But when | reached
the southwestern part Of Iowa was made
10 feel deeply IN my spirit when | con-
gersed with those who had fled before
the murderers, mohs and thieves of the
slaveocracy OF Missouri ruffians, their
I.otIses burned, horses stolen, and oxen
killed d, and thelnsv Ives stripped ana driven
homeless AMI houseless into a strange
Land. In all ages of the world, liberty,
Christianity, and the morals taught in the
Bible, have been brought into contact with
some potent enemy, and IN this age, and
at this time our own country and its free
institutions have been brought IN contact
with the vile. unjust and unchrIstian sys-
,em of slavery-lf a system it may be
rallied. This enemy to liberty and to all
the preceptS of Christianity, which tries
10 crush human fellow beings into brutes,
and 10 deprive him OF all that is heaven-
horn of a man, and appropriates to itself
lis lator, his own offspring, and all the
social relations that God has conferred on
our nature. This great enemy to all lit-
.r,v and Gighieousness-the slave power
has been permitted to exhibit itself on
y large scale III our land of glorious lib
crtv. We have seen 1t at the fountain
head-the seat of goyernInent--lnvested
with great power, and it may still be seen
there. 1t has there contended for its en-
iazoncd vices before the whole Arneri-
can people. 1t has made great aggres-
slons on the dearest liberties of our once
happy country, tie freedom OF speech and
the press, and would gag the mouth of
Every free man in the world and now In
this country aims at universal empire. lis
track is marked by the most horrld desol-
ations- its blood-thirsty course In
Kansas. 1t spesks great, swelling, rapor-
ing words with It's bowie-knife IN one
hand and lis revolver In the other. But
when compelled to face the music, as In
The case OF Bully Brooks, it is weak
and lowering. 1t can burn private hous-
es, steal horses, mob the traveller, and
murder the unoliending, unarmed man,
or step UP behind him and shoot him dead.
IT pursues its course and purposes with
fraud and force, and has betrayed our
most sacred national interests by treach-
cry and bribery. This wickedness will
be punished with lis own consequences,
If there be God of justice and mercy IL
heaven. /. 5 Righteousness that exalteth
nation with durable prosperity. The
moral strength is Only the political strength
of any nation, and whatever strength po.
litical parties may gain III disobeying, de-
flying and tranpling under foot the prin-
ciples of Justice. mercy and human rights
is edifice is reared Oh the sand, which
must bury It's own lu.lders beneath Its
ruins.
No one WHO has any regard to the facts
stated before the American PEOPLE but
must see as clear as sunbeam that one
Of three things must be done. They must
change the administration, fight for their
Liberty, or be made slaves of. | hope all
will see the propriety of the first, Tor the
spirit of tyranny not only exists In the
South hut IN the free states, with its MUIR
derous spirit.
have been sixty-eight years in the
West sixty of them in Ohio, forty-nine
OF them an Inherent minister of the NJ
l.. Cnurch, and 1t is known everywhere
that am an advocate for free grace, free
seats, free speech, free press and free
territory, and opposed from my youth up
against the unjust, unholy, and ,yranical
practice of slavery. Last week went tc
meet, and hear ali address from our rep.
resentatiye in congress, Hon. l.. ID. Camp.
bell, at.which meeting | took no part bat
the attitude OF hearer; and having to with
draw for a short time, | passed the crowd
few steps, when slaveocrat followed
and with bludgeon, behind my back
struck me on the head and left me sense.
less and hfeless, as he hoped. How long
! was lii this condition | cannot tell, but
was found thus lifeless, and cared for by
my friends From this attempted assas-
sInailon. BY the help of God, | have re-
covered all bat sore head. state this
TO show that Missouri ruffianism is 40;
confined TO Kansas, Int exists here It's
spirit is that of the nidnigh. assassin
bloody, mean, cowardly. | hope vet 10
see TINS bloody. cowardly administration
changed, and the eagle Of liberty once
more perched on the banners OF Ameri.
can liberty. | hope to live to vote for
free speech, free press, free territory,
and for Fremont, unless am assassinated
by some cowardiy slaveocrat, Stones,
tludgeons, bowie-kniyes and revolvers
cannot change my love of liberty. | will
say with the patriotic Henry, give me
liberty, or give me DEATH and let all the
people say amen. As ever yours IN the