Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-04-01
An Extract from a Letter Received
from an Old Line Democrat, res
ident of Kansas 7 er4tGy, by a
Relative in KirkwooG township.

from an Uld Line Democrat, res
idept of Kansas 7 erIlGy, by a
Relative in KirkwooG township.
That Kansas will be a Free State is a
fixed fact. This viii occur one of three
ways. Either the Lecomptou Constitution
will be d. defeated, and the Constitution here
after 10 formed by the people deceived; or,
if forced upon us, it will be changed imme-
diately, regardless Of any OF its provisions;
or it will be trGmp!ed beneath the feet OF
an outraged people, they substituting an
other in its stead. The latter Will be its
fate most probably. will give you a few
facts, as indicative OF the future. Eight
months ago this Territory WIS Hooded by a
new Fopulation-a majority Of them being
Administration men-Buchanan men-
warm in their first love, and flushed with
victory-with lEer and Slsnton at their
heads, they iabUred most setulously to d.
vide the Free State ranks. The party was
shaken, but now nihety-nine out of every
one hundred OF ihcm are Bucks bitteresl
denunciators, and the party is nov better
united than al any former period.
Then the citizens who had been so out
ragged were in the minority, and persons
newly coming into the country. with their
former political Prejudices, could not be
lieve and symDathize with those already
here, and their interest beirg peace, they
were loud in Genuuciaiions of the aritatues,
OF late they have felt The iron in theil
own souls, and now they eagerly drink il
the tale of suffering in ting past. Then III,
majority OF the citizens of the Territory
we're mere o ,kers on, Telling that the con.
test was between the hired miscreants q
the Southern interest, and a party Of i'm
polite abslractionists. But now, since tn.
Lccomption swindle is about to be furcet
upon Us, against the know wish of five
sixths of the people, all classes have ,aker
alarm, and that alarm has been must sue
cessiully sounded in the manner by which
this is to be done-torce, fraud and perjurt
The machinery OF a Democratic party i
here believed TO be more corrupt than tn.
f5llowcrs r.. HehavsYsken alarm
If President Buchanan forces the Lecump
ton Constitution upon US, he dues it at III,
desolalion of every home, and the puurin.
out of the best blood Of the Territory. |
is no longer the freedom or slavery of tn,
poor Air cunt is for orr own and on
childreus' freedom-ihe freedom of th
lreest people God ever made, that we bat
tie. And we cauno but regard the Nor
tiern man who will throw his weight i,
the balance against us, a traitor to Ia,
cause of human lib .rty. A Southern maj
who may do this, we can respect. but sue
an one from the NOrih we d~e<pise. W
could scarcely credit the loathins and exc
Grafton that is used with the names @
Hughes, Pug', ard other.
freedom here. ] repeat, is a fixed fact
the how, and at what cost, are the onl
guesiionS. ! may further add, we are read
Tor any emergency. If the Constitution
goes through, and the frauds perperrated u
the elections held under it are not allow ed
then u large m%sjurity Of Free State officer
and delegates are elected, ard so soon u
they can provide for tho formation OF a new
constitution the thing will fall, still dow
to the grave. II Calhoun, the Rnbespierr
of Kansas, sanctions those frauds, the
every officer elected by fraud under it vii
be compelled to resign or leave the country
This is not the bravado of a few excitabl
enthusiasts, but the fixed determination q
an outraged people, whose wrongs hav
become too intolerable to be borne. Tw
years ago | was called upon to peril m,
lie Tor the salvation of the lives and pro
perty of my Free State fellow. citizens, st
upon by a luwless banditti, led on by tn
creatures of Pierce's Administration. No,