Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-03-17
EVENING STAR.
New England Emigrant Aid Societies.

We have heard New Englanders complain
bitterly of the bad effect upon the reputation
of Eastern men, in the Southern and Western
States, produced by the conceited meddls-
somensss of the stupid negro worshippers, in
their attempted abolition colonization of Kan
sas. The people at the South and the West
are accustomed to see Mormonism, Millerism,
Know Nothingism, Niggerism, and all the
rest OF the brood Of crotchety isns coming to
them from the Eastern States, like the Yam
kee pedlers, some Of whom are notorious for
sharp bargains and thus dsepseated pre-
judice against Yankees is propagated through
the South and the Southwest. OF this we see
an amusing example in the following extract
frsm the Kansas correspondent of the St.
Louis Democrat:
In walking from Independence towards
Lexington, entered house where enter
tainment was to be had. While the negro
was preparing dinner, had q conversation
with the lady Of the house-an elderly, rather
stout, matronly looking person, with mildly
Iesoiute, light gray eyes-a perfect ideal of
I" fat, fair, and forty'' femininity. She vo,
sitting by the freside before "reeI," en-
gagged in repairing clothing.
How far have you come, sir ?" abe asked.
"From Kansas"
looking steadily, mildly, suspiciously at me
through her light silver spectscle. L saw
that she expected me to say ne; if she had
been ayounger lady gallantry would have
prompted me to dc SO; but her two hundred
and fifty pounds avordupois and forty years,
kept me in the path Of veracity.
Yes, man." answered
Sha lnnRa1
1 presume? Going East ?" she said.
:" No, madam, m not Yankee I'm 60
ing home-to st. Iouisn
ANY news from there 2" she continued.
i" They were expecting a fight there" re-
joined, "about week since, but it blowed
over"
Her light gray eyes kindled suddenly.
" We got will of my own, and I'm grit
straight through" those eyes said for the Fat,
fair and forty lady.
"Well, L expect they'll get /. too, and
more on it than they like" she said, rsthey'u
get 1t hot and heavy before long-the niger
thieving, wooden nutmeg makers
"Whew-w;" l said under my breath, "Ill
bet on you, old girl"
" Do they think we're going toilet them stay
there % she asked-there was no mildness In
the light gray eyes now" and get up under
ground drailroadsto run awaywith our property9
hat do the Abolitionists want with our ter
ritory? They've no right to it. We don't
want them here Why don't they stay in
their own States ?''
L ventured to suggest that their own States
were over populated.
So are we," she responded.
GLOW much land have you here, madam ?m
/ asked.
"a mile along the river and two mile back. ="
"That's large farm,"-I'm ashamed to
say made this profound remark
No, sir," said the lady, "not in this |
country. had a son married and we gin
him farm and he sold it. We've neighbors
within three-quarters of a mile, and 1 don't |
like to be crowded that way, like to have
room to turn my elbows in and to let my cat /
tie have good range
thought she had an enlarged idea of elbow /
room, and remarked:
"People in Europe would be surprised to /
hear any one talking Of crowded here"
Well, but we're not under England now
We fowt out of her once and that's the reason. /
of all this trouble. It's Britain. She wants /
to get us under her again. That's the reason |
she sends them Yankees out. Thevre all /
Tories, every one of them She sent out /
the Mormons before. But we fowt them out. /
And we fowt the Ingins and whipt them
Well fight the Yankees next. May be we /
can't whip them, (ironically.) don't know,
very iTonicallyl But We'll try, (proudly )''
III
bors ?" l asked
eyes, bad as the Yankees intend TO be /
their impudenco was insuferable Why,
when they were only three hundred strong
they marched upon Independence to take it.
Their apostles told them that the Lord would /
turn the powder Of the Missourians into ashes
that would mt 60 off Bur He DIDN'T"
The last sentence was spoken in an emphatic /
tone.
4" But He did d'nt," she repeated
"Guess not" l rejoined
The light, gray eyes looked mild again, and |
the fat, fair and forty matron laughed lazily /
"But the Yankees are no better" she re-
sumed, thsy arc all Mormons, erery one oil
then''
1 thought Of the Lawrence boys, and re-
membered their complaints Of the lack of
ladies there, and said,
Indeed, madam! Why, now, L thought
the Mormons had several wives each, and in
Lawrence the boys complain they can't get
one ahead"
They're Mormons every one of them"
said the lady again, without condescending
to notice my remark.
Wan rNcps-Tha avisfipy NOV bae /