Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-23
Kansas.

gush of indignation when he takes up one
Of our Buchanan papers OF morning and
fixes his eve upon the rufhan sneers at
bleeding Kansas" and "shrieks for Free
DOM" Have reason and humanity fed
from the hearts of these menl Has mad
ness seized upon theml Has the insanity
of party spirit like the mysterious ointment
in the Arabian tale, blinded their eyes to
the TRUTH Is there some insane root which
every dweller in Kansas has partaken of
that renders it impossible Cor him TO know,
appreciate or tell the truth! All We read
of that oppressed and unhappy land cannot
have been made up for political effect, for
behold her fair plains are, as it were, a
democratic" Potter's Field. Scarcely
man can be pointed to in all the republic
who has gone to the Territory Dem ocrat
who has not returned with mis- tale of wrong
and with his Who'll. energies bent upon de-
f-ating the wicked administration which the
enemies of liberty are endeavoring to fasten
upon Us. What were Reeder, Roberts,
Holiday, Delahey, Currier, what were Lane
and others too numerous to mention but
Democrats of the strictest sectl And now
from end to end of the land we hear their
tale OF wrong and it is ringing like the kne!l
of death in the ears Of our oppressors.
But we need not 60 out of our own circle
of acquaintance. One young, hopeful, en-
ergetic man. who walked with us the rounds
of College life, who ate at the same board,
read with US from the same authors, sat
with US in the same circle of friendship and
looked forward to future of usefulness for
which by nature he was fitted and by edu
cation prepared, is now a wanderer from the
land where he had marked out home for
himself, is now beggared of all he had won
by stern industry and unfnching integrity,
ami tor what! Simply because he would
not cry to the internal Moloch whose min
ions run riot over that land OF blood--Great
is Diana of the Ephesians!
There are dozens Of men who have lived
in our midst for years, whose reputation
bears no bemish, who stand forth day afte
day to tell us of whstth vile tools of Pierce
and Buchanan, Of Atchison and String fellow
are doing every day to crush in Kansas our
own friends and former neighbors. There
is Jeffries, robbed of all except the clothes
in which he stood, and robbed too by men
in whose hands Pierce had placed muskets
which you, men of Pennsylvania, elped to
pay for! There is G. w. Smith of Butler,
who has lain prisoner for morths on the
prairies, with nothing to shelter him from
wind, sun and rain but a tent-canvas--and
for what! For the same thing that every
free man does every day; for speaking
against the wrongs he suffered and against
their perpetrators! There is Elicit now in
this city! Why was he stripped of his pro-
perty and his press and type destroyed! Be-
cause type and press that dare to say one
word against open and most fendish wrongs
are declared by Pierce anc Buchanan Judges
in Kansas, nuisances that must be abated.
A city contemporary, the Dispatch, on yes
terday morning spread before its readers the
letter of a man we'll known in this city as
Democrat. How will these Pro-SIavery
cringers, these men who cowardly bend be-
fore the frown of master at the South, like
slaves that work under the lash, how will
they get over or around the letter of Mr.
Heastings, for many years our County Sur
vey and at one time City Regulator! How
will they explain the fact that he and his
children, guiltless as they were, were made
the prey of hellish mob armed as he ex-
pressly declares with United States mus
kets! Will they attempt to make the letter
out forgery!
His signature was shown to many of his
friends, and they all recognized it. The
original manuscript is in the hands of Thos
M. Marshall, Esq, of this city. Such
dodge as that of denying the authenticity
of the document will not win. The Buch-
anan sheets here will ignore the letter for
few days until they think people have FOL-
COTTON it, and then leader about "Kansas
lies' will grace their columns again as il
nothing had happened. Shame, shame upon
such attempts to cover up The abyss of crime
into which this pseudo democracy are hur-
rying US headlong. Were it not tina. party
ends demand defence on the part of its
friends of the cause of the administration,
and universal shout of Indignation would 60
up from one end TO the other Gf this broad
land against crimes that make one shudder
as they read: Snail the behests of party
close the mouths of sons, brothers, wives
and neighbors upon; whose hear,hstone have
settled the blight of blasted hopes! Will
not indignation kindle in every breast at the
recital of wrongs and suffering that cover
page in our history which the tears of
angels could not blot out! Men of Pennsyl-
vania! have you left in your hearts one sem
iment of manhood. one throb of sympathy
with truth and justice, one longing hope or
wish tosee the blood Of the guiltless avenged!
then rise up in your might and settle at the
ballot box once for all the black account
which you have with power which, like the
eyeless giant of old, is topping down upon
your heads the temple ofyour liberties, and
turning to scoff at while it wrongs you.
Will you come to the polls and sweep away
every refuge of lies which they have made!