The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-06-03
TIE LOGIC OF SHARP'S RIFLES
KICKING BACKWARDS.

KICKING BACKWARDS.
The beating of Charles Sumner in the
Senete chamber is the natural consequence
Of the powder and ball gasconade and rant
with which the fanatics of the North have
been making the land ring for several years
past.
Not long ago an aged citizen of Mary
! land, pursuing a fugitive slave across the
! line of Mason and Dixon, under the author
! ity of the laws and Constitution of the
Union, was waylaid on his journey by
bandits in league with Sumner, and shot
down by unseen and cowardly assassins.-
The venerable Gorsuch was not the first or
last citizen of the South, by very many,
who has been thus murdered in cold blood
by the Sumner confraternity whilst lawfully
exercising a privilege guaranteed by the
Constitution.
Not long after that brutal murder, citi-
zen of Virginia went to Boston, Summers
immediate vicinage, i'll pursuit of negro
man, Anthony Burns, whom some emissary
of the Sumner fraternity had stealthily
spirited away from Richmond. The valiant
fanatics of the town of Boston, character
istically courageous on their own muck
heap, roee Up to the number of many thou
sands, for the purpose of preventing single
unarmed citizen of the South from reclaim
ing his negro man. A few patriotic soldiers
were called out to protect the single citizen
against the multitude of angry assailants,
and succeeded in awing the ferocious mob
into discreet avoidance of an open assault
upon the Virgnian. Nevertheless, an Irish
lad, who had volunteered to enforce respect
to the laws, whilst accidentally isolated in
a crowd of these Boston Thugs, was marked
as victim and murdered by an assassin
who was never discovered, and who proved
himself as expert in the art of secret murder.
as any pick-pocket ever did in the leger-
demain of secret theft.
Emboldened by impunity in many like
secret murders and acts Of unprecedented
outrage, this Thug fraternity proceeded to
make arrangements for carrying on such
transactions by the wholesale; and accor- |
dinghy obtained acts of incorporation for
the purpose, under the name of Emigrant |
Aid Societies. What acts Of rapine, muir
der and brutality have we not heard their |
speakers defend and extoll during the pro-
gress of this Aid movement and during the
heyday of Sharp's rife fanaticism at the
North! Ward Beecher sermonises from the
pulpit in the name of God and the Prince
Of Peace in defence of numbering Southern
people in Kansas by means of Sharp's rifles.
An octagenarian professor in New Haven
boasts that he burns with desire to shoot
| ''border ruffian" with rifle of Sharp's
manufacture, and has publicly exhorted
pupils yet in their teens. to unite with the
Nillems who figured noisily in the congre-
cation in contributing the deadly instru-
nents to the aid of abolition emigrants in
Kansas.
The telegraph is bringing US accounts of
he inevitable results in Kansas of all this
Aillem logic and gasconade of the Sumner
paternity. Southern men and government ;
Ulcers have taken the Beechers, Sillimans t
nd Summers of the North at their word, r
nd meet their minions as insurrectionists s
18th Sharp's rifles in their hands deserve E
} be met. Let US await the result quietly, 7
II there is no probability of but one issue. s
Who felt any surprise at hearing of the
murder of Sheriff Jones, while
ling in his tent at night, by secret assas-
IN shielded by the cover of darkness? This
as but link in the chain of secret and
owardly murders of which that of Gorsuch y
as one, and that of the Irish lad in Boston
as another Richmond Examiner