Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-31
FROM KANSAS.
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BRowE Co., K. T., Aug Is. '5s.
-HessrS. Editors:-I have Just been makinga
pilgrimage motto the tomb of Mohammed,1 but
TO Kickapoo, sweet Kickapoo, that conta1ueth.
that golden institution the Land office, where all
who anvil themselves ofthe benefcent provisions
of Uncle Sam, for securing homes, must 60 at
least once. cannot afford to give you a detail
ed account of my trip, as about one half my
route lay across the prairie very we'll set with
grass, but not specially productive of items f;,.
newspaper or thrilling incidents, upon which
to suspend the imagination of their readers.
travelled about thirty miles on the military or
as it is called, the Larimie road; over this road
has been transported the great bulk of ,Jeemes
BAchGnGnS equipments for the Mormon war;
and surely destruction has marked the way
/ All along was made unpleasantly sensible of
the devastating influence of grim war through
| all its sramifications. The road is literally
strewed with the carcasses of cattle that have
Per1shed in the service of the government at
short intervals the olfactorieS ars greeted with
horrible charnel house stencil, sufficient to
create considerable sicknessifnot absolute pesti-
Hence. Carbon Crows and filthy BuzZardS hover
! about the course of this expensive military
demonstration of Uncle Jeemes as evil spirits
haunt the paths of the wicked Along this
route may be found the sum total Of life lost in
the Bigany war. Such was the character of
4 the latter part of my route to Kickapoo, via.
Leavenworth city; but you needn't think that
! I'm going to tell you that enteredmy land and
took receipt from old Uncle Samuel. Leaven.
worth city.s still extending its borders and with
the usual promptness and energy of Western
people, is now rapidly repairing the injuries of
theIecsnt severe fire.
The great engrossing topic there and every.
where else, is the election and its returns: the
latter are sufficiently fill to warrant the Free
Estate party in bringing out all the big guns.
and laundering the result of the only fair cleo.
tionever enjoyed by the people of this Territory.
The people nave nobly maintained their right.
they have shown to the world that they are
above the fear of threats or the influence of br.
berry; they have hurled the accursed progeny of
oppression into the faces of its villianous abet-
tors, and Kansas IS FREE. The administration
with all the effort it has made to sustain itself
is routed, horse foot and dragons, and no doubt
will look upon the course of the people of Kan.
sas as a slight rc6uke of it's past course on the
Kansas question
In my last said / would venture an
opinion on the fate of Lecompton after the
lelectlon-that is, as to the height it had been
sent The Louisville Journal said Of Bill
English, that the people of Indiana would send
him so high that he would not be known from
one of the Dog Stars pups, and sure. if thew
have done So he has the LecomptOn Constitn-
| ton swindle and all in his breeches pocket
The recent election will show a tremendous dis
tcrepancy In the votes cast at this time and pre-
ViouS elections. The provisions for he fair
conduct of this last election couldgnot be sur
passed by the ingenuity of man in the strict
ness of its forms; nothing but the most fragrant
perjury ever recorded in the annals of any coun
try could alter in the least its rules The re-
suits will fully sustain me in this assertion
Oxford, celebrated for the most gigantic fraud
ever peTpetratcd in the Territory, cast, all told
| only twenty votes and gave only n pitiful
pro slavery majority Of three votes, where once
she gave fifteen hundred, and lIickapoo, which,
in other days cast its thousands, only gave one
hundred and forty three votes, afiording miser-
able minority of thirty seven for the Proposition.
Who is there left with so little common sense,
to say nothing of moral principles, to stand up,
even before the most benighted backwoods
community in the United States, and plead the
Justice or the fairness of the Pro Slavery party
| in Kansas? The recent election has shown up
the leaders of the Pro Slavery party in all their
hideous detormlty, has shown them to be as
destitute of every virtue that eno6les man, as
is their father the Devil, whom theyso dlligcnt-
| ~ serve. The last returns have seen show q
Free State majority of nearly nine thousand, and
there were seventeen counties to hear from. So
that ten Thousand may be set down as the very
least majority which Kansas has given against
the Lecompton fraud and its branch swindle,
in the hour of her glorious triumph. When
the people get fairly the season of rejoicing
they will probably cast about for plans to firm
| ~ establish what they have so heroicaly insti-
tuted; until which time, Iremuin yours truly.
Gus.