The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-23
From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.]'
wanted--More Kansas Outrages.

The Fremont papers and politicians,
aware that the entire capital of the par
ty consists in the excitement of the pop
ular mind on " optragps" of the Kansas
and Sumner order, are fearful that peace
and order may be restored, and then
theis " occupations gone" Hence the
Tribune, and other papers of its class,
call on the House to reject all practical
Bile plans for the settlement Of the Kan
sas question, aud insist upon the imprac-
ticnble. Hence each outrage of the
81 border ruf6aps" is hailed With ~ill-con-
ceaIed delight. The friends of Kan
sas - are counse.ed to measures which
can have, and are designed to have, no
other effect than to exasperatc the pub
lie mind, and lead to civil war and blood
shed, that votes may be secured to the
Republican party. 1t is worthy of re:
mark that the leaders who talk and
write so valiantly, are careful never to
place their precious bodies in jeopardy.
The Reedcrs, the Laws, the Greeleys
and the Beechers are missing when their
principles are to be carried to conclu-
siops. The Tribune rejoices in a cor
respondent at St. Louis, who vas sent
from Worcester, Mass, to manufacture
" outrages" and public opinion" for
shat paper. lie is styled the Rev. T.
W. IIigginson-the same person, we
suppose, that figured in the Anthony
Burns rescue attempt at Boston. We
do not know what denomination OF the
gospel of peace claims him. In his let
ter of the I'd inst, speaking of a party
of Worcester emigrants, under the COM
mand of one Cutler, who had gone up
the Missouri river, he says:
CT almost hope to hear that some of
their lives have been sacrificed, for it
seems as if nothing but that would
arouse the Eastern States to act. This
seems a terrible thing to say, but these
are terrible times; times which ought
not to excite a man, but to make him
calm and r~esolute."
This /" calm and resolute shepherd,
who almost hopes to hear of the slaught-
err of his townsmen, and probably par
ishers has, it seems, some voice and au-
thority in directing the movements of
the "friends of Kansas" In the same
letter, he says, speaking of a second
Worcester party under the command of
Stowell:
DO you know that they came and
absolutely begged of me to let them 60
up the Missouri river, in the track of
Cutler, pledging themselves to die, if
need be, but to redeem the honor of
Massachusetts,. From the bottom of
my heart 1 felt with them one word,
from me would AVE done it, but 1 did
not feel authorized to speak that word,
and therefore sent them on by the other
route. Had they gone by the river I
should have gone with them, for I never
found anything harder than it would be
to quit this river, believing, as l do,
that there are plans practicable, by
which the passage might yet be opened
to free e~migrants."
Oh, Rev. Sir, why did you not speak
that "one word ?" Why did you not
send them on "by the other route p,
Above all, why did you not go with
them to counsel and advise the young
men who, far off among the hills of Mass.
achusetts, had listened to your sermons
been facinated with your eloquent prais-
es of the pleasures of dying tor free
DOM" and to launch into the unknown
sea of "border ruflanism y without a
pilot?
"But there must be some outrages
yet before even the North West is rea-
dy for those measures, much less the
East"
This tells the story. The spirit of
Republicanism blaze e even in the
North West" The East" is quite
hopeless until some new outrage " can
be i~mproyised. Will not Striugfellow
or Dave Atchinson help the Rev. Mr..
Higginson and Horace Greeley?
~Hon. Hannibal Hamiin has been
nominated by the Republican party of
No;,a nc; &c for Gnvernor of