White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-02-04
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- gran Warns SALT Rival
January g. 1858.
c,r,.-IIvine rs I am, high up the va
= s,I, River, and been living here ever
'.s 500. defeat, watching william an1iOns
y. 100 eve, the political msvemests Of Die
sDo - he.ring the runbling Of Distant Amer
a-.' ,Luod.r-watching the calm preientions Of
y coming storm-keeping under my special
-. r.t;Go the hosts Of American settlements
81, Riyer-seeing the old War Horse of
.io...nd battles preparing fer the fight in 1852
.ubtiDs up their armor, which for years hereto
-. rs, been invincible, who are now eager Tor
4, frs,, and impatient to be led to battle for
q. cause Of our country, and achieve giori-
AZ. victory. II we only prove true. We will car
18th us the conservative element Of simon
nm. Democrats. Old Line Wings. and Union
having Republicans, and all the national men Of
*. Union. Il needs but glance at the pOliti-
al heavens, to see that the Democratic party
!. sectional, and its influence antagonistical to
the peace Of the country.
The Republican none dare deny is sectional
and fanatieal. Let rs pause and examine the
-. Of the aforesaid Republican party. They
,.nudis.e the Fugitive Slave Law, and denounce
de sOIsua compact Of the Declaration OF hide
,endenee As a contract Of He'll; and the Consti-
.yt;oo ., +. bargain with the Devil. Nv obser-
rstions from the pinnacle of Union City, on salt
River, are, that the Wondering ramparts OF
modern Democracy, 90 long invincible, are
crumbline to ruin. That Stephen A. Douglas
has .blexed the rams horn, and its kneil Is
knoIied. They may succeed in carrying out
the Buchanan principle, while be rsigns' out
their fate Is sealed.
: The Republican party is gone from whence no
traveller returns twas born in strife, blOomed
IN corruption, fraught with malice, and engen-
dered in fsuaticism. Il was born in the Nebras-
Ia act, and lived upon Bleeding Kansas IL
rroaned in sectionaIism, and died in disgrace.
r was known and hailed the Hydra Headed
WoolIy Horse-it was tended with a master
hand BY Fred. Douglass, and his equalsin talent
II not IN color. Such partjEs have an evil ten
dency, and will ultimately bring dissolution and
all it's attendant consequences.
The conservative element Of the aforesaid
party are now seeing that such actions as have
disgraced our hallowed land, consecrated by the
blood Of our glorious ancestors, whose bosems
glowed with the eternal fires Of patriotism, and
sealed with the life long labors Of Washington,
Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun, Clay, Web
ster, and host Of patriots who gave their vol
ces, their arms and their blood will be annihi-
lated and destroyed, and our glorious institu-
tons but mockery, unless the axe Is removed
from the Tree or Liberty, and the fre-brand ia
ken from the magazine, ere some ruthless hand
should apply the match.
Let US ask who Is prepared for dissolved
Unioni Who is empowered to say the bounds
Of Mason and Dixon's Line, are the Rubicon Of
American Libertiesl We pause for reply
Hence the necessity of conservative party,
where the elements can gather upon platform
IS broad as the Eternal Heavens, and as lasting
as the Rock Of Ages. We say, therefore, SOW
sreigns Of this mighty Republic, awaken from
sleep-take the power into your hands, and let
not the rattling Of an empty Treasury bind the
chains any tighter upon you-allOw not the iron
heel of sectionalism 10 run away with the calm
Judgment Ofyour minds ;Iet the work commence,
and never stop until hungry office seekers have
heard their doom, and We again have the same
kind of Government We had in the days of
Washington, and let not the flat-nose, thick-Iip,
kinky head Of Africa, interfere in our beloved
country, but be united upon the Constitution of
our Union. Then come to the great Tree of
American Liberties-we all have an interest
there. Come auseride upon the Car of Free
dOm-yOu all are proprietOrs, and do away with
this family quarrel.
The boys on Salt River are eager for the fght.
They have had 10 say in our National Council.
Their voices have been deadened by the cry of
Niger, Free State, Slavery, Dissolved Union,
and listened to the dilgraceful doings of ia
natical, fratricidal people. Then expect such
feet from the niOOrings of Salt Bay, as will take
with master hand the Ship of our Union, and
run her clear Of the breakers of Disunion, and
anchor safe in the mornings of Eternal Peace,
where all will join in the songs, +" Union For
ever" (Disunion Never and hang higher than
Haman the slavery agitation, which is always
fraught with danger, and never with peace.
Yours, most respectfully,
SLEDGE HAMMER.