Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-09-29

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i ENGLISH IDEAS OF THE KAN
SAS DIFFICULTIES.
! All travellers who have told us anything about
the Americans agree in describing TIC impulses
| to locomotion as very strong in them. W meth
/ er We ascribe this to the fact of their country
being new, SO that place is Oh them without
( those associations which give it hold on the
affections in old countries-des ofmemory, tanll-
tly, race, aud tradition-cr that the extraordin-
any activity of the American mind simply takes
this form among others this characteristic OF the
! American is a very CONSPICUOUS one. Whenever
Won see him he is going over the ground as fast
t as he can. And whatever the motive be. wteth-
1 pleasure or profit, il is the same In Europe he
is pale and breathess sghtseer, always in rapid
! transition. as if ghost were pursuing him, in
satiabiy accommodating stages, as if his life de-
pended on the sum total ut the end of the week.
/ He carries the fever of business into the tonr,
and reckoning up grand sights per score IN his
| meutci ledger, he becomes capa!lst IN arches,
| waterfalls, glaciers old columns Roman arnPhi-
| theatres, feudal castles, Komanist relics, lakes,
.
f! In his own country he thinks nothing of pack
ing up all his furniture, goods, chattles, and
household goods and children, and setting of
! Tomorrow morning for some swnmP, 2,oUO miles
off on the Missouri or Mississippi, where every
thing whatever, even the rising of the sun, you
would think from the look of the scene, has to
take place for the first time. If we to believe
accounts even that which more than anything
else binds the human mind and creates the sta
tiOnarv tic--the sight of your own creation,
your lAbors and their succeSS-does not bind the
American settlers; he stays till he has converted
the swamp or the forest into fruitful field, and
then. leaving his eldest boy as his bailiE, sets
loft with mis- wagon load again to some place as
distant from his last home as his last home was
from his!prcceding, to renew the battle with ma
ture to cut down and build up, and create fresh
world of culture.
1t is not wonderful, then, if revolution in A
merica takes its form from the dominant spirit
of the people, and derives color from their Pc
cuiiar characteristics and turn of mind. Revo-
lutiors have taken place in some countries by
plotting simply-in others by fighting simply;
in America they take place, primarily and as the
first step of all, by immigration. Kansas has
been the field on which the great political con-
fiict which is now tearing the United States as
snnler was nurtured and attained its growth.
We were corrected at the time by some of our
American contemporaries for taking so much no.
tice of aud attaching SO much importance to the
conflict in Kansas; but have not events proved
that we were right and that a most serious ma
tional contest was brewing in that local storm?
How, then, has the struggle in Kansas been con-
Quoted and what is the instrument which has
been employed by both sides, the Free-State
and the SlaVe.Statc party alike, to attain their
respective ends? Immigration. Bands after
hands of partisans on both sides have left their
homes in the neighboriug States, and in more
distant States too, to become settlers in Kansas,
in order that as settler in the territory they
might exert an influence over its destiny, and
give their vote and interest either TO that side
(which was for making it Slave State or that
lside which was for making it Free State
/ Nor has this been done by individual impulse
only, but by system. immigration has been
Regularly organized; throughout II great part oil
the Union subscription lists have been open for
the purpose OF assisting settlers to go to Kansas,
and these subscriptions have been advertised in
the papers, and the work has been conducted
with all the publicity aud all the machinery OF
an eIectionecring contest In some States even
the Legislatures themselves have voted grants
of money.
Now, in this country there would have been
the greatest difficulty in carrying on contest by
such machinery as this, because the temper Of
our population isstationary, and even the village
laborer sticks obstinately to his parish; change
OF place is odious to him, and in nine cases out
of ten he would not be persuaded TO suffer a
translation from Upper Wick TO Lower, or from
Great Thorpe to Little Thorpe, though the fate
of nations depend upon it But in America,
where half the population seem to be Indifferent
whether they sleep next week n thousand miles
west ora thousand miles east of the Ohio such
q machinery of party war seems to succeed, and
numbers respond to the invitation. In this way
the American restleSsneSs is turned to account
by the leaders of the great parties in the Repub-
Il lie; the Yankees Indifference 10 the ties OF
place is enlisted as all auxiliary in the struggle
and converted into political weapon. Nature,
saws the poet, has given horns to oxen and hoofs
to horses; to the Yankee she has given he i'm.
pulse of locomotion. Houses this natural weap-
on, as he would rifle, to fight his party con-
tests with. Shall Kansas be free or slave
State? That is the question, and it will be de-
cided by the fact which party fills it most
Both sides, then, Immediately appeal to the
emiSrating spirit of the population, which they
use exactly as a military commander would the
peculiar bodily gifts Of population, or the
popular skill in the use of any particular weap-
on.
Immigrate-immigratc is the word. Placards,
advertisements, subscription lists invite the set
tier and promise him lift. "Free-State settlers
for Kansas, SaVe.State settlers for Kansas, here
lare your tickets; apply TO such an office" Both
sides marshal their settlers as electioneerS do
their voters. 1t is true the Kansas settler has
something else to do besides tiling his land
when he gets there; he has to handle his rife,
for his vote will not be worth much without this
iargument to back it up. But the settler comes
first MS the instrument in the contest and pre-
ccdes the soldier. Such machinery for con-
Quoting great political and religious contest
may be called awkward and cuuberous. 1t re-
minds one rather of the nursery series of means
which soothes the childish mind by its lengthy
and protracted conSecutiveness, and which at
last ends in the house that Jack Built. But, if
lit is awkward, it is at the same time primitive,
and deserves the credit of originality. Itbrings
undoubtedly the genuine characteristics Of the
American mind into tho arena, and il the Euro
pean politician will DO disposed to feel at first
some surprise at such very rude method of
party warfare, and to exclain with Dugald Dali