Squatter sovereign. [volume] (Atchison, Kan. Terr.) 1855-1858, 1856-07-22
From The Chicago Times.

From The Chicago Times.
{ Chicago .Freemen'' on their way.
The Springfield State Register. thus
notices the arrival in sllas city Of the Stree
men" with arms in their hands, who have
been sent from Chicagoto Kansas:
| ave were favored on Thursday with
sight at the class Of men the agitation
managers are sending 10 Kansas to battle
for .freedcm." Sesenty-ise drunken row.
dies from the Sands OF Chicago, PASSED
through our town, accompanied with o
quota of nynph du pare on their way to
Kansas. This gang Of bawdy-house bull
lies were uniformed like crew of pirates,
as the character is generally depicted on
the boards o. the city theatres. As these
fellows supposed they had engaged in
i pirarical campaign. they deemed it neeess.
airy 70 dress the character. a more ruff
fanly looking gang we have never seen
before. They favored Bloomington with.
their presence day or two, we are told,
being too much overcome rsith free rum TO
proceed further without resting. Such are
the men that niggerism, vflls5e assistance.
too, of men who disgrace the .5u!pit by CALI
ing themselves clergymen who are hired
BY the head, with per diem allowance, to
j '.shriek for freedom" Their shrieks here
). were of the shrillest character, such as
might be heard asa Five Points dance
Il house during high revel
| The gang actually was supposed by
some to be one Of the contributions which
Chicago makes TO Alton, under the conn
lnand of the Sheriff OF Cook, and which.
every two r,lree weeks, pass through our
town for the former place"
When this company left Chicago, we
were absent from the city, and do not know
who composed it. We copy the statement
Of the Register, aid have no doubt but the
) Chicago men illustrated their characters
by their conduct. We wish to ask Ike
clergymen of Chicago. if it was for this
that they preached treason. Did they des-
ecrate Tie temples Of their maker by treas
enable appeals 10 fanatical rage, to raise
money and equip rllfian DULLES and their
!, deprared mstresses, TO go out TO Kansas
and resist TIE laws. Are Sharp's rifles
and a mistress, better arguments than the
, Bible!
The 'sands" of Chicago, is that portion
OF the city wherein slavery" of the>most
terrible nature feeds upon It's victims and
carries them rapidly to The grave. There
in sight Of the princeiy mansions of the
contributors to freedom in Kansas, live In
horFid slavery the fair forms of once pure
and inifScent while persons. There resort
) TIE ruffians and desperadoes, and OCCASION
) ally some know-nothing policeman, and
crime in ali its horrors. from the violation
Of female purity to robbery, and from rob-
berv to murder, has full rule orer its den
!, izens There rattle and shake the chains
of moral nd social slavery, beside which
) the suflerings Of physical bondage sink
. into insignifcance. There is slavery on
the threshold of Chicago. There are
slaves there upon whose ears the sound Of
church bells fails, bringing lack to them
/ no lore for the religion of their maker
These slaves Of Chicago, when they hear
these belts, know that Christian men and
/ women are summoned by them not to hear
repentance preached to the sinner. but
treason 10 the government. They know
that the chains OF vice by which they are
. bound, and which wearing their lives arc
hurrying them into the grave, are not
. chains which enlist the sympathy of the
political clergymen of TIE churches Of
Chicago They have no sympathy for
white slaves, their hearts are never wrung
with anguish, except in contemplation OF
negro bondage. Let white men and white
women, and white boys and white girls
ike IN one promiscuous moral bondage, ut
the very mouth of this great commercial
harbor; let them plead in vain for some
one to lead them lack to freedom from vice
and brutality, and the christian preachers
of Chicago have no time to spare from
) Kansas affairs TO heed the voice of human
, ity expiring at their own doors.
But the Sands have at last attracted
the attention Of the Goodriches, the Lar
neds, the Arnoids, the Egans. and all those
other moral and exemplary individuals
whose sensibihties have become so wound
ed by the misfortunes of traitors in Kan
sas. But that attention has, we regret to
say, taken no very Christian shape No
ef1or; was made to emancipate the deni-
zens Of the Sands, but they were called
forth from their dens, and paraded men
; and women in all the horror of their loa,h-
some slavery. They had arms given
|, them: and they were sent down To Kansas