Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-04-29
How Kansas receives the News Q
the defeat of Lecompton.

SntCdgO iIW fHt > IL ho" uo'eiinS u
sas, and sends home to his paper the fol-
GRAPHIC and stirring account of the
reception in that State of the tidings of the
defeat of Lecompton in the House:
specia Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.
WYANDoT, K. T., April 7, 1858.
The glorious news of the defeat of the
swindle was received IL Law
renee a few minutes before | took passage
for this place, on Tuesday morning. the
9th install. The gladstone intelligence was
brought up the river from St. Lonis on the
Platte Valley steamer, and was first COM
municated to the people of Kansas at this
point, about A P. NJ, on Monday. An
express started for Lawrence during the
night, and reached there about u, A. M
The announcement came upon the people
like q clap Of thunder from a clear sky, as
they had generally despaired of its defeat.
A crowd came rushing to the Morrow
House 10 learn the particulars, as the news
quickly spread through the place. Five
hundred excited men were soon collected;
cheer upon cheer went up TO the vault Of
Heaven. Soon Col. Eidridge and a squad
OF the ''boys'' started for the Armory and
brought out the twelve FOUNDER, called the
'Kickapoo babv," which the Leavenworth
boys rescued last fall from the %ruffians of
that den.
The stars and stripes next fioated from
the flagstaff on the Commercial House, and
as the stage left the great Abolition head
quarters of Kansas. the twelve pound Kick
apoo baby was proclaiming to the people
of Douglas and adj Joining counties that Lee
compton was dead! The '.baby's" voice
first announced it to Gov. Denver, at Le-
compton, twelve miles up the Kansas river.
About noon we met the WyaLdot stage
going to Lawrence. The drivers cheered
then the passengers exchanged shouts and
congratulations. When ! reached Wyan-
dot at dark, the people had not yet got over
the excitement of the afternoon ana night
before. The Platte Valley free a gun as
TIE boat neared the landing. The people
we're on the alert, and pushed down the
hill to tine river. As she approached, a
passenger s outed out from the hurricane
deck al the top of his voice, 'The Lecomp-
ton bill is killed." HuzzaI huzza! rang
out loud, clear, and spontaneous in res
punse. As the news went over the town,
every Free State man took up the shout
and yelled till he could yell no more from
sheer exhaustion! Alter the people had
exchanged congratulations, the brass six-
FOUNDER was brought out and sent the
echoes over the surrounding hills and far
into Missouri, and along the valley of the
river.
At nightfull the people assembled in
mass meeting. Large bonfres were built;
speeches of a patriotic character were made
by Messrs. Roberts, Chestnut and others;
the crowd sang the "Star Splngled Ban
ner," and the band played "Hail Colum-
bi :" There were also deep, se2ulchral
groans for old Buck, and his "naked' Lee
compton deformity, which he promised to
put through in ninety days! Next follow.
ed a torchlight procession, in which CLEAN.
ing Hambeaux were swung and brandished
by every Free State male over six years OF
age in Wyandot. Fire balls and rockets
were thrown blazing through the air, snd
it was not until midnight that the jubila-
tions ceased, and the people retired to rest.
] forgot to say that ''lager" suffered some
considering the staid, temperate character
Of the people.
| have seen a gentleman from Leaven.
worth City who describes to me the scene
when the news reached there, about 9, P.
M, on Monday night. Similar tutburst
were manifested there as here, but on
scale of greater magnitude, as it is a place
of six thousand inhabitants. The people
shouted themselves hoarse, speeches were
delivered by John c. Vaughan, formerly o.
the Chicago Tribune, by Mayor Adams
Thos. Ewing, jr., and others. The BAND
played, cannon were fired, bonfires built
fireballs thrown, and, when the crowd ad.
journcd, it was resolved to have the great.
est and longest torch-light procession :he
next night ever seen in Kansas. One hun
ired and twenty guns We're to be fired il
honor of the one hundred and twenty mem.
bers who kllle1 L%ecompton, and three ex-
tra-one for Crittenden, one for Douglas,
and one for Seward, the three leaders OF
the Coalition against the doughfaces and
nigger-breeders. A magnificent supper
was to be given at the Planters House, at
which champagne and %toasts, lager and pa
triotism, would mingle and effervesce.-
CThe German element is strong at Leav.
enworth) A good time generally is an.
ticipated.
Couriers were dispatched from Wyando,
~Leavenworlh. and Lawrence, to spread the
glad tidings over the whole inhabitable
portions of the Territory. No man who
has not been in Kansas and mixed freely
with the people can imagine or realize the
depth and bitterness of feeling in the heart:
of the people against the odious and tylan'
nical Lecompton swindle-a bitterness ant
loathing which rests also upon its supper
tiers in the White House and the nails O
Congress. In the present state of feeling
it will not be healthy for John Calhoun OIL
the other refugees" in Buchanan's bosom
at the capital to return here. If they sci
foot on Kansas soil, they will probably be
welcomed with a greeting such as was ex.
tended to the cowboys ard tories of the
Revolution. after the close of that war.
In a few weeks the Leavenworth Con-
st;tution will be ratified by twelve to fifteen
thousand majority, and a State Govern
ment elected under it. A special messen.
ger will lay it before Congress, on or be-
fore the LIST Of June, and ask admission into
the Union under it. Gen. Lane and Gov.
Robinson will most likely be the first U.
S Senators, and NAV have their credentials