The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-12-09
HOPES DISAPPOINTED.

ration of our Independence, the Bishop of St
Asaph wrote and published a discourse, in
which he saidl
taken root and acquired strength, but seem has
tenipg with an accelerated progress to such a
powerful state as may introduce q new and i'm
portant change in human affairs"
After going on and asking if they might not
expect such and such great improvements and
discoveries in science, philosophy, govern
mcnt, &C., from us, he says:
"But must they rest here as in the utmost eff.
forts of human genius3 Can chance and time,
the wisdom and experience OF public men, sug-
gest no new remedy against the evils which vices
and ambition are perpetaaly apt to cause4
"May they not possibly be more successful
than their mother country has been in preserving
that reverence and authority which is due to TIE
La,cs? TO those pho make and those scho execute
Memi ~
The eminent statesmen and patriots who
bequeathed to us the legacy Of a constitutional
government, and profound respect and rev.
erent submission to the laws, had fondly
hoped that they had done all that lay in
the power of man to do, aided by gracious
Providence, to insure that preference which is
due to the, ldtos," and to remedy "the evils
which pice and ambition are perpetually apt
to cause" But were they to return once
more to the active Scenes of life, and behold
those evils in full bloom and qualification in
demagoguism, and see how little reverence"
is paid to the laws by very numerous body
of the people, would they not exclaim, Our
sons have become degenerate; liberty, un-
protected by law, hath taken refuge in heaven !;
RIGHTEOUSNESS performs her orgies amidst out
rage and blood, and her midnight yells disturb
the sleep Of men, women, and children. This
is no longer our country; let us once more
rest in the graye?"
The Independence, (Mo.) Messenger says:
"For three years we have had continual din
and turmoil Of opposing factions in that distracted
Territory, (Kansas,) which has extended to the
border counties. Time and again zoe haze been
called upon to furnish MEN and MONEY TO
carry on political campaign in Kansas, and the
heated blood of factions has been infused among
the masses until the whole country seemed inocu.
lated with rancor which has led to numerous
outbreaks and crimes which in ordinary times
would have been deemed too barbarous for any
but the most savage tribes to have been guilty Of
This feeling has been carefully nurtured and famed
by willy damagogues, who have no other purpose
to accomplish than political advancement"
The Messenger goes on to speak of the
hopes it had entertained Of this state of things
being put an end to "by the full, free, and
fair expression Of opinion in the formation Of
State government by the people Of the Ter.
ritory." But in this it has been disappointed,
"as the late Constitutional Convention in
Kansas have refused to submit the constitution
they have made TO the vote of the actual in
habitants Of the Territory"
1t further goes on to show tb 1t by the terms
Of the submission Of the slavery clause TO a
vote, anybody who may, by accident or de.
sign, be in the Territory ut the time, may vote;
thus inviting a general rush TO the Territory,
to vote--of Missourians, Iowans, Illinoians,
Indianians, and all others who choose to 20
therel What farce is such submission Of
constitution to popular yotei
Died, in Northampton, Mass, Thursday
November IL, Mrs Huldah Butler, aged nearly
eighty five. She was the widow of William
Butler who founded the present Hampshire
Gazette in 1885, and conducted it nearly thirty
years, and died in 1881. She was the da,oh.
ter Of John Brown, Of PittsAeld, distinguished
in the Revolutionary war, who fell in battle on
the Mohawk in 1880.