Squatter sovereign., 1856-08-05
Border Ruffianism at our own Doors
Not one Dollars worth Of Sympathy

Not one Dollars worth Of Sympathy
in Chicago!
The State of Illinois. it is pretty well
known, Is free State; it has not had an
African slave held in Londage within its
limits since 1S4S. For eight years ii has
reioiced in the freedom of all Its inhabi-
tants. [, is well known that the city OF
Chicago is in the State of Illinois. and that
here, next to real estate, the most market
able commodities are sympathy for slaves.
and material aid for the victims of "Border
Ruf1ians." So largely has the latter arti-
Gle entered into business pursuits of the
city, that more than one newspaper re-
joices in the Profits of the trade. A few
srarscalions were sent from here to Kan
sas; they were furnished with arms bought
on credit; those arms were taken away.
and now the question has arisen whether
any person is bound to pay for them. But
we do not propose to say anything about
the Kansas case; we intend merely to call
the attention Of our readers TO the fact that
victims OF the most brutal exhibition of
Rufianism presented themselves in Chica-
go on Wednesday, and were allowed TO,
starye,-not one of the followers Of Lane
and Reeder bestowing upon them as much
as crust of bread or a cup of cold water.
On Wednesday the steamer Buckeye,
came to our dock with some ninety persons
on board; these persons consisted of men,
women, Toys and girls. They were with
out an exception, American citizen, ands
Americans by birth. They had lived in
the State Of Michigan; most OF the females
and all the younger members Of the party
were born In that State. They had been
for years settled upon the soil of that Stale;
they and their fathers had bought the land,
and by hard labor had earned from il a
livelihood. There were buried fathers,
mothers. wives, sisters, brothers and chill
dren. 1t was their home. No man dis
puted their right to the soil; no man dis
puted their right to live upon and cultivate
it. For all offences they might commit,
they were amenable 10 the laws; and as
American citizens they claimed for them
selves and their children the protection of
those same laws. But, while their citi-
zenship, their Americanism might have ap-
pealed successfully for sympathy, they
were unfortunately for themselves unstench-
ed with negro blood, and stood before the
world as free WHITE men. =
In the State of Michigan one Kinsley
Bingham is Governor. He has for the
last two years and half been Delegate
in every Know Nothing and Republican
convention that has been held in Michigan,
or which las met elsewhere to nominate
candidates for the Presidency. He isl
Governor Of Michigan, and to his hands
has been entrusted the duty Of protecting
the inha bitants of the State.
Some week OF more ago, an armed body
of "free State men" intense believers for
''Free Speech, Free State, Free Kansas
and Fremont" invaded the Mormon settle |
ment, and, by fire and sword, drove off
the inta abitants. They robbed the houses,
burned the dwellings, destroyed The crops, |
shot down men. insulted and outraged Mo-
men, and threw helpless babes into the
streets. Oh, they were valorJus men.
those Border Ruffians'' of the free State
of Michigan; valorous men, those cham
pions of liberty in the State ''consecrated
forever to Freedom by the sacred ordin-
ance Of ST." The Captain OF the steam
er Buckeye State picked up from the Lake
shore four hundred of the unfortunate vic
Tins who thought that State sanctified by
the Ordinance of 81 would always prove
as safe an abiding place for free achife men
as for negroes.
The wonderful sympathy expressed for
the victims of "Borler Ruffianism," by the
people of Chicago, has been so widely ex-
tended, that large number of these out
casts came to Chicago. They thought to
find here hearts overfowing with love for
humanity, and hands impatient to relieve
human suffering. They landed in tho
morning, penniless, houseless, haif-clad,
they sat upon the dock, strangers among
their brethren. outcasts in their native land,
and starving for want of bread in city
that cannot find cover for its grain. We
looked upon that spectacle of human woe
with pain. There sat mother not over
seventeen years of age, mourning her
husband, shot down upon the land he had
bought and paid for. At her breast was
an infant thirteen days old, perishing for
that sustenance which exhausted nature
failed 10 supply. We thought of the men
who had at the Fusion Convention furnish |
ed the wife of the traitor Robinson with |
purse Of gold; and ventured to believe that