The Kanzas news., 1857-11-21
From Lawrence.
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LAwREEcE, Kanzas, Nov. 10.
Mr.. EDIroR: have come, most en-
phaticalIy, to the conclusion that this Is a
wicked world. Common people. on an ave-
rage, have given themselves UP to sin and
money-making, and our leading men, to
offce-seeking. devilment. and diplomacy
generally. Indeed, Mr. Editor, do not
know sincerely what we are to do, as cou-
pie of great levers in this moral wilderness,
unless we turn preachers. / am aware that
the occupation I suggest is, under the cir
eumstances. forlorn one; not so much on
account of the fact that the agents referred
to would have to begin their sacredotal func-
ton by converting themselves, as from an
estimate of the small amount of apparent
good that those who have already devoted
themselves 10 that calling have been able to
produce. Besides, in operating upon the
human conscience, it would be necessary to
come across that article, and my recent ex-
ploratiens have ''non est'' returned on the
back of them.
You have heard, no doubt, of the Com
mittees, and We Governor, and ye called
session of the Territorial Legislature. The
Committees have been sitting in secret ses-
sions here for the past two weeks to deter
mine what was good for US poor souls, and
whether the wounds and bruises of s'bIeed-
ing Kanzas' must be patched up with 'sMc-
Leans Volcanic or ''Jew Dayid's Plaster. -
Perhaps you would like TO know who the
Committees are. was till found out, and
IN tell you. You see, in the first place,
FL, L. IL
which has been a kind of fixed institution
for two years, and yenefation for its antiqui-
ty would prevent me from going behind the
record to investigate their authority. There
is also something that calls itself t'Territo-
rial Central Committee" That the Free
State party should have needed two such
bodies in Kansas, is awfully indicative of a
split. The fact is, nobody ever did think
that this second body t0as needed, but the
delegates sent up to the Grasshopper Falls
Delegate Convention being peculiar peo
pie, jealous of good works. concluded
that they could not trust the State Central
Committee, and having their hands in, and
being very much afraid that they would
never get them In again, made up their minds
to originate something new, and so hatched
out this Territorial Committee. I have no.
thing particular to say against the Commit
tee itself. In accepting the appointments of
His Grace, Lieut.. Gov. w. Y. Roberts. they
merely did what nine-tenths of mankind,
besides them, would have done. There are
some very fine men amongst them, too, al
though candor compels me to admit that the
prominent features of the institution as an
aggregate are determined Hunkerism, anti
Topeka Constitutionism, and substitution
of Gov. Walker for the Virgin Mary in their
political devotions. Between you and I, Mr..
Editor, if we want Committees of that kind
at all, they ought to be chosen by the peo-
pie of the localities they represent. Not
being "latter-day" Democrat, l cannot
subscribe to this taking of all political DOW
er from the people. The Committee speak
of only proposed, when it created itself, to
continue its existence until after the October
election; otherwise there would have been a
muss in the camp. But having got into
power on that pretext, they continued it, ]
suppose, because they liked it, and at the
present writing the probabilities are that
they will hold on until some other Conven-
ton supersede them.
Well, these are the Committees that set
on the condition of the diseased body polite
They have done one good thing-call a new
Delegate Convention, to be held in this place
on the Cd of next month. At that Conven-
ton the Free State men of Kanzas have to
take position to meet the new difficulties
before them. In taking it, they viii have
to take their last position, for the struggle
upon which we are about to enter will last
until the struggle is over.
Mr.. What bis-name comes in at this
point and tells me that the STAGE like
E'time and tide" Will wait for no man-not
even Felix. So / must cut short before I
am well begun, and leave Gov. Walker drunk
at Leavenworth for want of time to get him
sober, and all other particulars for the week
unrecorded so will snap of, and just put
in TOBY CONTINUED.
And oblige, truly yours. FELIX.