The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-07-15
Judge Cunningham.

! Hon. Thomas Cunningham, oil Beaver, has
written an able letter 10 VIM. H. Magil Esq,
editor of the Patriot, published at New Lis
bon, Ohio, in Relation 10 abolition lies about
himself and affairs 10 Kansas. The following
extract will be read with interest. Judge
Cunning ham says:
81 resignedahe Office of Judge Of the Su.
preme Court Of Kansas vclcsltarily, because
my personal and private affairs rendered j;
rconvenieai for. noe to hold ii longer. The
southern Judicial district of the Territory, to
which was assigned by the Territorial Leg
islalure, did not suil me. The population is
rather sparse and the legal business small
The district is difficult of access, and when
reached, not desirable or com Portable 10 live
in. could not, with any deg:ee of proprie-
iy, move my family 10 that remote and se-
cIuded portion Of the territory, and 20 remain
there myself in voluntary exile, and neglect
The welfare, comfort and haPpines of my
family resident here, would not only have
been improper with, and without any made.
quate counle-vailng inducemen. or reward
would have rendered me culpably amenable
al The domestic forum. In view of these
matters, | resigned on my own judgment,
uuinauenced by any one, or by other facts
and circumstances than those mentioned.
So far from being "murdercd" or in "dan.
ger Of being .mutdsred'. in Kansas by pro-
slavery men, OF byany body else, I most
checrfuIly and trulhfolIy state: in justice 10
the people of the Territory, that never have
been realed with more kindness and respect
anywhere, than was by men OF all parties
during the lime | remained there. | never
travel in disguise, nor slope from response
biy. | returned from, as went 10, The
Territory, openly and publicly, having moth
ing 10 fear on account OF my own, or from
conduct OF others.
the miserable and base less fabrication in
relation 10 myself, Itegard as parcel and
part OF that long, but now threadbare woll OF
political misrepresentation with which the
people were entertained and miserably de-
ceived by the black republican presses and
sump-and school.houss orators during the
last Presidential campaign.
Ia my view of the condition of things in
Kansas, tue oanductsof the aboli.ionists, or
so called free State men there is fractions
and nally absurd. Instead Of recognizing the
law authorizing and providing for a constilu.
lional convention which maniiesls fairness ia
its provisions and most stringent and potent
safeguards, they refuse 10 be registered and
refuse TO vote, although Boosting Of MAORI
ly, and consequent power to control and
mould the proceedings of that convention
For private purposes 10 aid Them in matters
Of speculation in paper towns and the like,
these same men repeatedly acknowledged
the legitimate existence and the power of the
Territorial Legislature, last winter, while
was al Lecomplon, by invoking special lesis.
allon to bestow upon them valuable corpo-
rate privi leees and rights; yet when egisIa-
ling generally Tor the Territory, this same leg
isa,ure is denominased bogus, and lis author
i,y denied aud cen,emned. Or in other words,
these lovers OF freedom ra,iiy and ropudia,e
legislative authority and action, with The same
breath
What construction or just Interpretation can
be given TO such course of conduct? Out
side of the Kansas excitement what had the
aboli,ioEists and 'shrekers 10 rest on during
the last campaign, and what have they now?
Emphalicaly nothing. Let that so, and the
last note of their one-slringed harp is forever
silenced. How then can their conflicting
professions and actions be understood, but
that they hope slavery may be established on
,ha, much abused soil, the democratic party
injured, and their own sinister, selfish, and
anti-Union parry gain place and power.
Let Kaasas be admitted as a free State, as
doubt not she will be, under democratic
administration, then will the shriekers and
their decomposed party of political scraps
and remnants, be heard from the hills and
valleys 10 Sexclaiw, with the man of old,
",hey have taken away our gods, and what
have we more?"