Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-11-05
Chapman ar AboIitionist.

placed to his credit, along with other deeds
equally meritorious and p~raiseworthy, that
raise him high in the eyes and esteem OF
men lost to all principle and honor, and
as corrupt and polluted as himself. That
he is resolved on becoming a hero, we are
convinced, and past records and present
indications bears us out fully in this con
%clusion, and that it is his great aim and
ambition TO write his name on the scroll of
infarny, held by the stern hand Of unfor-
giving Minos, amongst the traitors and
vile Of earth. That he will succeed, we
have not a deubt; indeed, he has been so
industrious in the exercise Of his inlqui-
tous genius, that he might retire upon his
i!l-golten ~plundered wealth, aud drag out
a loathsoIne existence, and then be mark
ed at IA high figure among the hoofed min
ions of the Internal regions.
But the portion of his life that is tier
esting TO US noW, does not take us to Uber-
lin, ubcrc they dye en- in The pool, but TO
Washington, where he was a Puriotntag
clerk in the House of Representatives,,
under Gen. Campbell, the Clerk OF the
House. This was in 1919, we believe,
when Congress was Abolition. General
Campbell was elected by a strong Adolf
ton majority, and through Glddlngs and
other Abolilionists from Ohio, Chapman
secured a subordinate situation. Chap
man paid his obligations and Indebtedness
to Giddings for his influence, in various
ways, but more particularly, in franking
large quantities of abolition and dlsunlon
documents IL Giddlngs' own constituents,
aud all over the Uuiied States, especially
the North.
About this time he became aflectioDate-
~ interested in n negro girl, a slave be-
longing to Mr.. i. IThe names will be
given in full, with some interesting mln-
utiu, if desired. The friendship increas-
ed, and the renown of his kind and fos-
tering care broughttwo more negroes from
the same family to his phIIanthropIc abode.
On {. ST.. Just back of the National Ho-
tel, known now as the Exchange"
Time wore away, and the winter months
passed. In the early spring, there was,
as there ever is, a general dlsmember-
ment of all floating society, and breaking
up Of the. hordes Of office and pleasure
seekers. Many of the travellers, both
from the North and the South had their
own servants, and as it appeared a good
time, and as Chapman saw no improprie-
ty in abducting another mans properly,
the frail Philippians listened 10 his en-
treaties to emigrdfe to Ohio, and made
their arrangements secretely 10 follow in-
instructions. They were, however, ar
rested, before they succeeded in making
their escape, and very fooiishIy, in their
innocent explanations, implicated Chap
man, us their alder and abettor, and he
too, was waited upon in a legal way, to
answer the charge of nigger-stealing.-
Chapman, however, persuaded Mr.. p,
the owner of the negroes, 10 settle 1t and
not prosecute the suit, which at length he
consented to do, by Chapman's paying a
round sun of smart money and he left
the city in disgrace, with the name; truly
of a practical AboliiioniSt.
These are the plain; unvarnished fact:
in the case, and the subject would warran.
a more extended notice. That Chapman
has represented the people Of this Terri
tory at Washington, in the capacity Of
Delegate, where he is looked upon by
those who know him and his contemplate
life, with contempt, is Illuminating indeed
i That he should palm himself upon us as I;
h democrat, is equally absurd. He is hot
, democrat,-he never has been one, ant
: are can prove Il. He is not even a BIaci
Il Republican; but an Abollionist, and thos,
Democrats that have and do uphold hin
Y because they believed his insincere pro
,estatlons, and deceived, and do not know
him,
8 When party lines are drawn in this Ter
ritory, and the nominations Of the Demo
cratic party are made by honest Conven
nj tons, it will be seen where he stands
- And now bear in pInd what we say; whel
that day arrives, Chapinan-if we ar,
IL compelled to tolerate him SO long-will b
l. found in the ranks Of any and whateve
Is opposition there is to the Democracy.
\. That he received his paltry situation un
der Gen. Campbell, through the influence
=, Of Abolitionists (and they would not b.
very apt 10 aid a Democrat that upon tn
l. death of Gen. Campbell, aud the election
Of Judge Young to the ClerkShip of III
House, he was removed although Gliding
* Co. urged his retention,-all knoS
" that know anything of his past history.
e. But this is not the finale of his Adolf
at tionism, by any means. We have waite,
until we could procure the FACTS, and no,
we have them, the public shall have I ii
benefit Of lhen.-Omaha Times.
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al Thanksgiving Proclamation.
n. Thursday, the Goth day Of November