Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1857-08-13
" Bleeding Kansas.

1t is still fresh in the memory of everybody
but black republicans, how within the past year
the sympathes of an over taxed fanaticism run
to coarse shirts and other creature comforts for
the Suffering poor" in Kansas. This epidemic
prevailed in almost every village and town in
Vermont, and in order to render it the more
taking it was promulgated by the sweetest smiles
and most syren.voices that patent bencvolencc
could command Young ladies who had never
done one half as much for themselves, piled
their delicate fingers to provide their imaginary
brethren in Kansas with cotton barriers against
blasts, sharpcncd by cunning letter writer's and
bowie knives, ground upon the grit ola highly
excited, but misdrccted public sentiment. Wood
stock, il will be remembered, went through with
the shirt farce, and collected together package
that would have gone far towards warming and
comforting the poor within the limits of the five
religious societies in this village. But there
would be no glory in philanthropy that is no.
shaded with that colour which Banks and his
abolition co.workcrs, are inclined to believe will
ultimately prevail, and the labor of love for
suffering, to which distance lends enchantment"
was duly packed and sent adrift upon its UNI
certain crrand. This token of affection and
'shrick" for freedom, from the ladies of Wood
stock 1--WE beg pardon for only part of them
w,nt into the farce) has been traced as far as
Chicago. and whittier it then went or what then
become of it, is not known to the present day.
Things hare licked out however, which pretty
strongly indicate where the shirts have gone.
The New York Tribune has been forced to ad-
nit that the money which the black republican
wire-pullcrs wrung from the deluded fanatics has
been applied for the redemption Of scrip created
in the Kansas rebellion. The Tribune says:
THE second class was called "Protection
Fund Scrip" 1t was created and issued by
vote of the Free State citizens of Kansas to be
used to liquidate losses and expenses incurred
during the armed invasion of Kansas in Decem.
Der, 1865, and the subsequent winter. 1t was
during the time that tried mems souls
that $685. of "Protection Fund Scrip" was
issued to procure necessary of life.
n
Gov. Robinson and others managed TO obtain
donations to Massachusetts, to redeem SIC, 15S
of this "scrip." There remains outstanding at
present Sl3,59S of it. Those who hold it are
poorly able to sustain the LOGS"
Here then isa clue to the ate Of what the
misguided "shriekers' supposed was destined to
"cloth the naked and feed the hungry in Kansas"
Tho political jugglars who have managed things
from the beginning, will no doubt make good
thing of it, and old women of both sexes and
sentimental young ladies who have contributed
to this fund, can rcpose on the satisfaction of
having been cheaply sold whilst the suffering
poor in Kansas" have been left to get on very
much as poor people do everywhere, the best
way they can. Robinson, Lane e. Co., will
laugh in their sleeves long after Kansas is ad
mitted into the Union as free state, to think
what dupes they made Of class of people who
always to use slang phrase $50 it Nimd"
when political abolitionists and agtators lead
But the great trouble is, such people never learn
anything, and the very next humbug that is in
vented, no matter how monstrous its proportions,
they will be ready to swallow, to the great ANU
sement of Jeremy Diddlcr and the disgust of all
sensible people.