Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-01-09
THE CHRONICLE.
FRIDAY. JAN. 8, 1857.
Power of q Minority.

feared the prayers Of JOHN KNOX than
an army of thousand men," Moral
influence often conquers numbers. A
LUTHER, a BUNYAN, a WESLEY, and
other Patriots and Reformers, exerted
more influence in their day than thou
sands of their now forgotten oppos-
ers. In war, the smaller number is
often victorious, and is sometimes sue
cessful even in defeat. In questions
Of morals, the mass of men bow to the
reasonings of the few, and confess Gf
they do not practie") their prccepts.
The small band of Wings who in
the British Parliament manfully
denounced its efforts TO oppress these
then Colonies, exerted vast influence,
and are now honored in England as
well as in America.
EMERSON states in his recent work
that there are not 10000 Landowners
in England yet that 10000 dictate
the policy of the British Empire, just
as 100000 Shareholders control the
government of the United States. A
landed aristocracy on that side q the
water, and a slave oligarchy on this
each welded together in interest-by
a skilful combination of power, con-
trive to carry almost every measure
which they resolve upon.
In political strifes, the influence of
party out of Office is frequently
superior to thai of an administration
-harasSing the latter at its leisure.
and compelling it to DO that which it
does not desire to do.
The Presidential Election recently
closed. already affords a fresh proof
Of the weakness of mere majorities. A
year ago, the administration in power.
having first torn down the wall that
the Missouri Compromise opposed to
Slavery, and removed Gov. REEpER,
was openly sustaining Shannon, Le-
compte, Donaldson, Clark, and other
shameless villains in their black and
bloody efforts TO Crush out Freedom"
in Kansas. In the National Capital,
GREELEY and SUMNER were brutally
assaulted to compel them to silence
and those who did not resort to per-
sonal violence threatened I'VE WILL
sUBDUE YOU" who dare to resist the
aggressions Of the Slave power........
But Fremont was nominated. backed
up by One Million Three Hundred
Thirty-Seven Thousand votes! !.........
And the scene is changed. The same
Shannon, the same Donaldson the same
Lecompte, the same Clark-not a whit
worse men, now, than they were six
months ago-are disgraced and ejec-
ted by the selfsame Administration
The very Border Ruffians, then petted
and paid by Government while COM
mitting the most atrocious outrages,
are now scowled upon by Geary and
compelled to retreat before the down
trodden but unconquered Free State
settlers as they arise, reinforced, to
assert their rights. Douglass & Co.
no longer prate about subduing"-
but, turning a quick somerset, now
promise to carry out the Republican |
measure Of RESTORING FREEDOM TO
KANSAS" Every Free State but two
giving majority against the success
ful candidate for the Presidency, is a
warning to the dominant party that it
must change sides on the Kansas as it
has on every other political issuc-and
thus by its humiliation gives another
proof Of the POWER OF MINoRITIEs.
The Republican party, if minority
in voters merely, is not second in the
intellectual and moral catalogue of
citizens mental strength must tri-
umph in the end and these facts
should nerve every true heart to life
long efforts, not only to annul the
Infamous sham-laws to fasten Slavery
upon Kansas, but to resist that evil
wherever 1t may seek to acquire new
strength, or in whatever form il NAV
wage Its relentless and insidious war
against the best interests of humanity.
The Every Day Life of ,,6.
Noses ChamJeriin's Jomnal-concjuJed
Thur Get. 10. This day the Regulars
British heet came up and surrounded our
nee' by running up the contrary side of
an Island and engaged them; they engaged
i0r some hours; at length, our men sunk
4 Two OF their schooners, aud run through
'Ne@ and came to an anchor above them. ,
Lay all night; in the morning, they per-
ee'ed their feet increased and our man .