White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21
Corresponding.
p,ruvoSD, Va, December 81 1901

R,cHxoSD, Va, December 81 1871
crr.-After twenty days of toll
DrAt I'd and mire, water, frost, snow and
througu r the Old Dominion in safety
.iee'' 1T me give you piece of advice and you
Nov ~ ne world at largo if you impart it to
will ~ 80. and readers, and would do very
your o,ct to give it even to your enemies
nan .Ir;ce i. this, never while time lasts take
Line of stages from ST. Joseph to HANNIBAL
w -. Missouri. If mean, low, drunken drivers
ae'U NJ roads, coaches without wheels, COW
'n'0, ...,. or springs. accommodating proprie-
' e 5irtv, filthy, lousy hotels could deter DE-
Vs. U.s., ,-,yeller from any route, then avoid TINS
,bs Missouri, wade, work your passage
49,. nil round the world and come up on the
,h.- side, 20 to purgatOry and spend a month";
81, the devil and stay fortnight even 60 70
Go and mass the night, but do not take his
r,s Of stages for the East. The weather vas
hiring most of the time, bitter cold rendering
n ont door scenery unattractive to the last de-
rree. Apart from the unfavOrableness OF ihe
.,son the cars are no fit place for artistic draw
-. on..half of the scenery you pass IN the
.;oh, This much of course is a dead loss
ooo.b,lr of the remaining half is lost from the
&C., ,b,, not being arsus-eyed, you can make
observations from only one side of the train
The remaining fourth is set down to the account
If dust. ashes and smoke, always blowing into
the ewes of the would5e-curious. Thus you 60
18th no relief TO the monotony, except when
the train stops" passengers change cars
mat Ionp enough for some kind soul TO relieve
ron Of YOUR trunk, which has before annoyed
yOu so much.
Arri, ed in Washington just one day after the
Little Giant had blown the Lecompton and To-
mex, Constitutions to thin air. The Democracy,
IN Kansas, are in dreadful strait. Douglas
and the President, both champions Of the same
marty. are as far apart as the poles, and agree
en- but one solitary political principle; and that
is, that they are both on the Cincinnati Platform
The IMPRESSION seemed to be, that the Admin
istration would be sustained in its policy, by
Congress. | think otherwise-Douglas is un-
doubtedly on the popular side, and most conser-
vstiye men will come to think that he is in the
main right If there is anything in State SOW
ercignty or State rights, in favor Of which 50
much has been spoken and written for the last
half century, why not extend that great popular
privilege to the people Of Kansas7 They are
not outside barblrians or Indians, that they
should be denied the highest prerogative of a
free peo1le-that of voting upon the constitu'
tional government, which is to control their des
tinv and that of their children for generation:
to come; wisdom dictates this course, stern jus
tee demands it, and our national constitution
requires it. Besides, why submit one clause o.
this proposed Constitution to the people? Con
gross has the same power and right to pass upor
the whole, that it has TO pass upon part. The
people are as well qualified, and as much emit
tied to vote upon the whole in1rument as upor
single clause. But it is waste of words t
argue such an obvious proposition. The voic,
Of the people has been heard, and that voict
which is omnipOtent in republics, and terribl,
even to dcsPotism, will ultimately triumph.
The Capitol, at Washington, when completed
will be the most imposing and magnificent bull
ding this side the Atlantic. Its architecture i
much admired, and there can be but one oIjec
ton to this edifce-there seems to-be too mucl
of it. In looking down from the gallery, yo
soon miss the master spirits which controlled 70
many years the destiny Of our young republic
Clay, Webster and Calhoun,--long years befor
their seats will be filed.
have written more already than designed
and so wishing the Chief bright, happy an
prosperous New Year, must say adieu.
KANSAS.