Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-24
EROM KANSAS.
Irregular Correspondence q the Intslllgeneer.l

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last few mails, that bystandeTs lpok astouIshed
when the Post Master hands them out They
must either think that aul most liberal pa
iron OF the press, or else that am some chap
whom eastern editors think proper 10 keep post
ed upon things commercial, religious ana Poilu,
cal. BY the why, Of for nothing but order) III
divide my letter into the aforesaid three-heaos;
Money, the vital principal OF commerce, Is awinl
scarce in this country; besides, the people have
eat up, near about, all the produce they rHlsed
last year, leaving hardly enough for seed ana
bread with the aid of a little Imported Hour; all
however, are determined that such shall NOT De
the case another year, the sattlers are putting
in heavy crops of corn, sand the wheat ooth
spring and fall, gives excellent promise OF an
abundant harvest. The river towns, notw1th-
standing the scarcity Of money, are improving
RAPIDLY the merchants bringingo on heavy STOCKS
Of goods, which prove that the people OF nan
sas are not only willing to buy but are able to
Western folks can hardly comprehend the
exciting cause of the great awakening movement
which seems to have taken possession ol tne
entire Orient, but presume 1t IS the irnit
of the past season of insolvency, which mas
brought men down from that exalted height OF
prosperity. where, Nebuchadnezzarlik like, with
unqualified pride they scanned the magnitude
of their works TO the common level Of hu-
manity. and if / may use the language Of
an honorable man, the "mud sills" oil society
Believing that the age ofmiracles Is past seeing
that. the idols have fallen in the temple of mann
mon, they require no other sign TO establish the
truth ofthe wise mans proverb, that riches take
TO themselves wings and hy away Thus all,
capitoIs domes, aud Mud sills, high and low,
convinced that the pleasures OF sins are out LOT
n season, and in gratitude for the good tunes
that have come, by common consent, nave ue
termined to quit the service of the World, the
Flesh and the Devil, turn a new Leaf IN the log
book of life set their course by the Star oil the
East depending upon the accuracy Of the great
chart of Inspiration to avoid the scyNas ana
cbarybdcs scattered over the sun OF human eX-
istence, and which impeTil the Trail bark oi the
sonl in its voyage to that bourne whence no
traveller returns. AS the tendency Of every
thing that spreads is Westward, perhaps the
great revival may come TO us on the wings OF
the GOOD times which We Kansas folks are eX-
pecting, when money will be plenty, and we
shall have secured our rights natural and pciIt-
ical 1t would have been an national blessing
jf the religious excitement could have seized
upon that nucleus of deSpotism in the White
House, or made timely invasion OF ooth
Houses of Congress, and by any means nave
opened their eyes to a clear perception OF their
duty on the Kansas question. Passing strange
what latuity seized upon the brain, blinded the
ewes. and so begrimed the understanding oil
such honorable men with the foul slime OF stu
pidity, that deprived them of thatintuitive sense
which Americans have ofwhat Americans Will
submit to. -
The people of Kansas are not deceived Iney
look unOn the whole contest as carried on IN
Congress as an elaborate farce--a contemplate
hip91inr about useless forms, much ado about
nothing, parodOxIcal submission OF the Le-
cOnlDton Consultation yet not submitting itj all
ending in. the ridiculous downward climax Called
the .English Bill" II seems that several OF the
R0hOra6les claim the paternity OF thus Idioue
,,fsDrins, bat the time will come when they VIII
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will be glad to say: mo PART OF. IT Is NINE
TINS SHANE DERIYRs ITSELF FROM UNKNOWN LoiNs.
Western people are too well posted as to the
accustomed dowry which Uncle Sam Is wont to
settle upon each of his republican daughters TO
he iupeied into the belief that this iH-fainOus
Enrlish bill with all its pretensiOn and show,
contains anything but bastard hbeTality. More
than one-half of its liberal land bride already
belongs to the Territory, and does any 0ouy tnlnk
that we will lose as a State what we have as Ter
lrito-y? Members of Congress get three tnons-
and a wear and perform admirably the post OF
that lannon's English Count that Dickens speaks
of where they studded to do nothinS-but get
their pay. Congress knows and always knew
that thousand laundering eannOns could not
give the Lecompton swindle Il living snostanu-
ally and the people of Kansas know that none
dare TO prostitute the Federal army to its en-
forcement The English land bill rs an honoTa.
BILE gift would be moderate affair; as brine IL
is so paltry that the uneonul savage OF the
mountain Wild would spurn 1t as the price of
his fnvorite horse. Who thinks that the citi
Gems OF Kansas for the miserable pittance of
three millions acres of land, every sixteenth
and thirty-sixth section Of which already be-
longs to them, viii sacrifice the principles
which they have 80 long and so ardently main
tained, and accept a constitution which they de-
test Begotten by fraud, gestated in violence,
acouched by villiany. it came forth thing so
vile. that the party which backed its birth, as
the crowning of their hopes, turned like the
mother of the defoTmed, with horror from the
unsightly monster. None but hopelesSly inlatu-
a1ed adherents Of James Buchanan could for
moment think and as forthe threat of TeI1itori-
al probation, the people look upon it as the last
link in the chain Of weak and desperate contri-
vance they smile in derision Mt the idea Of forty
thousand inhabitants for slave states but nine
ty thousand for a glorious free state. They will
make constitution free the air for all citis
Gems. and send it up to Washington and they
will have friends enough there to put 1t through
and they will get all the land they want for
school purposes, let who will, dare to say nay.
That Is the sentiment of the people Of Kansas,
on the question and they will cleverly demon
strate the same TO any who may have curiosity
enough to take an ariel search for IeeomPton,
after they have duly stamped upon it aaatheT7a
,n,yo,,aihG and sent it up. Hoping that some