Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-10-03
For the Lewisburg Chronicle.
Letter from Pittsburg.

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For the Lewisburg Chronicle.
Letter from Pittsburg.
PIrTsBURa, Sept. II, 1856.
This has been most glorious day for
the cause of Liberty and the Constitution.
If our hearts were lately thrilled and con.
vulsed with horror and Indignation At the
butcheries and diaboiical outrages against
the Free State people in Kansas, they have
been relieved and cheered by the news
from Maine, and this days wonderful out
pouring Of the people. Iexpected good
time of it, but did not dream of such an
avalanche of Eremnnters. A. has pnn.ed
into the city to-day, from this and the
neighboring counties.
The stores were nearly all closed, and
the streets wess lined aud crossed in all
directions with flags and streamers and
notices, ready for the occasion. Seating
myself after breakfast ON the balcony Of
the Monongahela House, the delegations
from the South side began to swarm on
the bridge, on foot and orse-back, in wa
gons, carriages, buggies, and ox-carts, .
steady stream for more than an hour, until
the spectators began to wonder if all crea-
ton was coming. West, around to the
Allegheny tIid6eo, ..a Other avenues .P
preaching the city and found it everywhere
the same, until the Marsbals scarcely
knew where to put them all.
About 10 o'clock the procession got un-
der way; and it was literally an "army
with banners" l sat at the Monongahela
House two hours and half by the watch,
from the moment the first man went by
tilt the last man had passed; and when
the head Of the procession had reached
the Common over in Allegheny City,where
the meeting was to be held, the tail end
had yet seven miles to travel to get there.
Many delegations got tired waiting for
their place in the procession, and crossed
over to the Common in advance by them
selves and whole car loads arrived by
rail after the speaking had commenced.
The day was excessively hot and dusty,
thousands kept out of the ranks on that
account.
But the mere numbers, great IS they
we're, were not as significant as the un.
bounded enthusiasm that animated these
masses, and the wide awake fxedness of
principle and purposes indicated in their
notices and banners. The great bulk Of
the crowd we're farmers from the country
and mechanics and workmen from this and
neighboring towns. They thoroughly un-
derstood the great issue of the campaign
as involved in the fate in Kansas, and the
odious competition Of pauper labor and
slave labor, with the free laborers Of the
north.
Workshops on wheels were there of
every description, boys there with border
rufian camps, and the pauper shops Of Eu-
rope, and every possible device and inscrip-
ton that could give point and force to the
Kansas feeling, and the free labor ideas Of
the time. l can not pretend to give de-
tailed account of these, nor have you room
to print it if 1 did. A white muslin obe-
lisk was marked "sacred to the memory Of
the murdered martyrs Of Kansas" and on
the reverse "Dow, Barber, Hops" &c.
Other labels were, "The Man for the Hour,
J. G. Fremont =" "Shrieks for Freedom
Iowa, Vermont, Maine" ""There is North"
''Tbe Right of the States and the Union
Of the States )" ave are not to be subdu-
ID )" ''The only men who threaten disuni-
ou, call themselves Democrats; )" "Down
With the bloody laws Of Kansas" "That
country prosPers where labor is respected
md remunerated )" ave keep our powder
Try for Disunionists )" "Free labor is the
Natural Capital Of the country )" "Keep
FOUR Niggers at home" "Kansas free vs..
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