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The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08
rha Negro Enfranchized.

The Leayenworth Constitution is ex-
tremely liberal in all its provisions touch
ing the black race -
LIST. 1t clothes him with the elective
frachise.
End. 1t qualities him to hold any Office
under it, from Governor down to the most
inferior Office.
Sd. 1t opens the common school, and
makes it Stree to every child (Query: Is the
negro ever child p in the State, between
the ages of FIVE and twenty-one years"
4th. 1t compels him to bear arms in
the defence of the State.
9th. It places the black man every
where on an equality with the white man.
9th. 1t gives him position infinitely
preferable to white ,Oonsen.
The reader viii understand as as taking
issue with the last position; for somehow
we can't help believing our wife. mother,
and sisters are as good as negroes, and we
presume large number of other persons
entertain the same opinion in regard to
their friends. Whether they viii act
upon that opinion, and defeat the instru-
ment, by voting Against the Constitu-
ton" on the 18th inst, is matter of no
concern with us.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08
Proud Day for Kansas.

We have heard but one regret in regard
to the nominations at Topeka, and that
because linton was no. made a candidate
for Supreme Judge, in place Of Judge
M'Kay. Associate Justice 'ISToS and
Chief Justice PHILLIPS would have re-
Elected credit upon the Supreme Bench Of
the State of Kansas. As it is, the people
have cause to rejoice in consideration Of
the fact that they have secured so much
real talent to adorn that position. Chief
Justice PHILLIPS, the Brougham like
Sootchman," expounding the law. and
making decisions which are to stand a.
precedents through all time, and "deter-
mine the rights Of generations jet IN
born" Ha ha /! hall
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08
Coma East

D. b. WEIR, Esq, of this city, started last
week on visit to his friends in Indiana,
accompanied by his lady. Any person in
that quarter wishing to subscribe for q
Kansas newspaper, can furnish Mr.. Wen
with his address, and pay him for sub
scriptien for the Herald Of Freedom. Last
autumn, during his brief absence, he pro-
cured for US some fifty subscribers. We
hope to receive as many more from him
during his present trip east.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08
Did ciadings snile ?

The 10th of April was great day in
Washington. The question arose wheth-
Mr.. GIDDIyGs smiled when Gilman voted
with the Republicans against Lecompton.
Shaw said Giddings did smile, and de-
nounced his colleague. as consequence.
Giddings, sustained by Mr. Campbell, de-
clared emphatically that he did not smile.
Whether Shaw viii challenge Mr.. 6. re-
mains to be seen. A day was spent in
Congress investigating the subject, and
while it was yet pending, the House ad-
journed-
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08

that platform. His non-voting and dis
union policy shows that he entertains
same views in common with Wm. Lloyd
Garrison. 1t is also true that all the
Garrisonian Abolitionists in Kansas are
particular admirers of the General, and
he is emphatically their leader.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08
s,.amboa. Arrival.

The Ainnis Bel arrived again at our
port on Saturday last, with fifty tons of
freight consigned to our merchants. She
returned to Wysndott on Monday, and
is expected here again in a few days. The
Kansas river is in fine navigable condition.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08

or Leayenworth City, with pOpula-
ton of 5000, has one Aandgea lawyers,
or 1215 per cent. of the entire population
protesting to be Attorneys at Law. We
pity the people of Leavenworth if
these men are sustained BY their pEofes-
sion. a hundred lawyers in any COM
munity would keep che elements constant
" agitated.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08

GA bill was introduced into the
Assembly of the New York Legislature,
few days ago. making provision for
healing The last soosEad IN Needing Kansas.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08

OF We have received rather a graph
ic account of the method to which
the radicals resort to carry their ends in
getting delegates to attend county and
State conventions. The idea was illus
trated at Prairie City the other day by the
importation of large number of persons
from an adjoining district in order 10 vote
down the real citizens Of the district
These fellows are adopts in their way'
aEd the various lessons taught by the
Border Rufians have been remembered
and are practiced with great zeal uPOn
CONSTANT Free State men. A day Of
retribution will follow.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08

New CLERK of he weather.

Whether the change in the weather
during the last month is owing to our rev
CLERK having taken charge Of the mete-
geological observations, or whether it Is
owing to some other cause we shall not
undertake to say; but it is fact that
more rain has fallen during the month Of
April last than during any other month
for the last four years.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08
somsthins Practical.

"What if the parent bird should sit,
nervous and futtering, npon the bough,
when the young ones were Matching, and
mourn because its beautiful egg shells
were being broken?'
But yet this was but the action of those
who opposed the voting policy in October
and January last, and who now, instead
of looking to some practical method of
relieving Kansas from her troubles, are
again wasting their efforts On the Leaven-
worth Constitutional movement, as they
did upon the Topeka movement,
Away with distractions, and let Us have
something PRACTICAL. Let the bird return
tots nest, and protect its eggs from harm.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08

9Extra copies of the Herald Of FREE
dem, IN wrappers. for mailing, can be bad
in any number, for FIVE cents copy, 2!
calling on Miss HE1rH at the Office.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08
rha Destination obriou.

In every storm the lighter bodies fst
rise TO the surface, and are drifted to shore.
The weightier substances follow. So in
the political world. Kansas politics very
itly illustrates this principle. To see .
floating body on the water, and know the
direction of the wind, is to know the final
destination of the substance.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08

GA Southern editor has purchased q
race horse at an expense of $1,000 for the
purpose Of catching bis runaway snbscri-
bers.-Ezehange.
The devil always catches ours.-Ledv-
essaaortA Herald.
And viii catch you in due time.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08

6TFlour is quoted at$2 75a hundred
at Wyandott.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-08
PER ANNUM. IN ADvAScE

Here shall the Press the Peoples rights naintain
Cnaw'd by party, and aRbribed By gain,
Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty and Law,
No Favor sways us. and no Fear shall awe.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02
what DOcs Mr.. EdmistOn Think
About III

Mr.. w. L. Edmiston, the Republican
candidate for Representative, has declared
his hostility to any more slave States. he
and other Republicans stumped this county
in 1856, charging that the Democracy, be-
cause they were willing to give the people
Of new States the same rights possessed BY
themselves, ia adopting their State govern
ments. were in favor OF the rrtensiOa o.
slauery! Tom Corwin, the Republican can
didate lor Congress in the Warren District
is in favor of admitting new States with
constitutions toenting the peculiar insIi-
tuition" He occupies ground on that ques-
tiun with the Democracy. Will Mr. Ed
mistOn tell the people this fall that he was
wrong-that the whole Republican party
was wrong, two years ago? or will he tell
them that he and the party were right ther
and wrong now7 According to Mr.. Edmis,
ton, two years ago, Tom COrwin, Caleb B
Smith, and every Republican member Of
Congress, are "slarery extensionists." We
want Mr.. E. to read these fellows out Of the
party, or declare that he himself is no Re-
publican.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02
What the Statesman Thinks of
Van Worries,

In noticing the nomination of Van
Yorhes by the Republicans, the Ohio
Statesman says:
Mr.. Van Worries is nominated by
the Republicans. lie is a man of very
moderate capacity. and an inve:erate
ofice-seeker. He has been three times
in the Legislature from the strong
Republican County Of Athens; and
was made speaker of the greatest set
of fools that ever met in the city OF
Columbus. We mean the House of
Representatives of the Black Repub-
lican Legislature that elected Wade to
the Senate. Mr.. Van Vorhes ran
once for Secretary of State and was
badly beaten. When not in office he
is editor of dull, very dull, county
newspaper.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02
Is Van Vorhes a Mormon!

The Book of Mormon, it is said,
contains the following:
"Blcssed is he that bloweth his own
horn, for whose bloweth not his own
horn the same shall not be blowed!"
The last and preceding numbers of
the Athens Messenger, edited by Van
Worries, the Black Republican canGi-
dale for Congress. contain much mat
ter putting the said Van Voorhees,
According to his account of himself,
he is a most wonderful mana great
statesman--a giant in intellect-a
Washington in patriotism-a whole
community in inhuence-an amiable,
courteous, afable, gentlemanly, virtu-
GUS, eminent, distinguished, illuStri-
Gus, whole. .soled fellow, whose merits,
he is afraid, nobody will be able to
discover, unless he himself tell the
people about them. He "bloeth his
own horn" lest "the same shall not be
bowed"
Van, however, blows his own horn
as a matter of habit. He used to write
letters to his paper, while member
of the Legislature, we are informed,
putting himself into notice. We ad-
wise him to remember that other ad-
age, which declares that-"Whoso
bloeth his own horn the same shall be
blowed with q vengeancel"
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02

Horace Greeley In Favor Of The
Admission OF Slave States into
the Union.
Even HoRAcE GREELEY, of the New
York Tribune, the most ultra Repub.
lican editor in the Union, "backs
down" from the old position, and
adopts the Democratic doctrine on the
subject of the admission Of slave
States. Nothing shows the utter de-
moralization of the Republicans and
theirabandonment of the most distinct.
i've article of their creed better than
the following extract from the late
speech Of their great champion, Gree
ley, at the Ulster County meeting, N.
Y. lie said:
"Whatever might be said OF the
policy of excluding a slave State, he
thought that they would never be able
to exclude slave State on the ground
of its being q slave State. When a
community is formed, and with slavery
and says, we propose to come into the
Union as a State, they would not be
able to 60 behind her own action, or
interfere with her sovereignty, so far
as to prevent her from coming into the
Union with slavery, SO as she was re-
publican in form. He stated this, NOS
as his opinion, but as q deduction
from history. For instance, suppose
Cuba should come into the Union,
| (and he did not desire that she should;
he desired that she should net, and
Lad formed q state government, they
never would be able to keep her out
because she was slave State. "An-
other point. He thought that expe-
rience had settled the matter, whatev-
er we nigh! say Unpopular sovereignty
or Of the rights Of the people, that the
principle obliquely laid down in the
,, Cincinnati Platform, and more delib-
crafty expressed in the Presidents
Message, that the Appropriate time for
State to decide for herself when she
will have or when she will not have
slavery is when she comes to ask ad-
mission into the Union, was practic-
ally settled. He did not say he would
not like to have it otherwise, but it
was so very difficult to determine
when Territories should decide this
question for themselves, that he saw
no other course of action than to say
that when they come to frame a State
government they shall decide for
themselves whether they will have q
slave State or free State"
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02
"sOckdOIOger" from an Old
WhigI

The Gallipolis Dispatch relates the
following conversation between an
Old Wing and Republican,
Says the Republican to his Whig
friend, "You see, your old political
friend, Tom Corwin, has CONS over
to us, and is now running for Con-
gress in the Warren district. Our
party has taken him up, and lie agrees
to run as the candidate ofour party
Can't yon find as good reasons fol
joining us as he hast We should like
to see you in our ranks, and help to
defeat these id locofocUs |" 81
have no doubt Of that" replied the old
line Wing, "and l don't know but
am occupying just the same grounds
that Tom Corwin is. The Republic
an party, l believe, don't consider the
Kansas question settled by vote or
the English bill, and hold to the avow-
ed sentiment of no more Stare States.
Is not that the casel Well, then,
am just such Republican as Tom
Corwin is. Tom COrwin regards the
Kansas question as settled. So do |.
He repudiates the Republican doctrine
of no more slave States. So do L.
On these two points Mr.. Corwin does
not differ with the Democratic party.
Neither do |. Mr.. Corwin will lei
your party send him to Congress, but
he distinctly informs the party he will
not 60 as a Republican. Do you sup
pose | would aid to elevate to powel
a party whose principles are as change
able as the winds! Whose only ain
is spoils and powerl and if they can
succeed by an open, plain avowal o
principles and an adherence to mel
who are known to advocate their prin
ciples, will take up some one out o
their party, holding in q manner, op
posite views, to deceive the voters il
the true sentiments of the otherc candi
dates and by this means Of deception
seek to obtain that power, which if at
tanned, will tend to the destruction o
the Union9 No, sir; lneyer can sane
ton a party pursuing such a course
Since my party has left me, | shal
vote and act with that party which
holds sentiments nearest my own
That party is the Democratic party.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02
Beginning to Appreciate their Con-
diIiOn,

Within the last few months there
has been a tremendous reaction
against the Republicans in all the free
States, for reasons that have been fire.
quently stated in our columns. They
begin to perceive the i'll fate which
fortune has in store for them, and ex-
press it in whispers through the col.
umns of their leading journals. Hear
the Boston correspondent of the New
York Tribune, writing under date Of
August Z. He says:
ut does not seem quite so certain
as it diG q few months ago, that the
Republicans are going to nave ma
iority in the next House OF Rcpresen.
tatives. We begin to think that it
does not look as if there was to be a
"clean sweep"in New York, Pennsyl
vania and Ohio, and the contest looks
each day more and more doubtful in
Illinois and Indiana. New England
cannot be expected to do any better
in the next Congress than in the last.
Ofcourse you expect no gains, numer-
ically, in Massachusetts,, for the whole
eleven members are now of the Re-
publican household, but it is not to be
disguised that we may lose two mem.
bers, and even more. Things are look
ing badly In the two Boston districts"
He almost comedies the defeat of
that political charlatan, Mr.. "Clifton
House" Burlingame, the worthy ally
and confederate Of the extinct Blair,
Of st. Louis.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02
The Vote.

1t is gratifying to announce that
over five hundred votes were cast by
the Democrats at the primary election
on Saturday last. When such an in
terest is taken at this kind of an cleo,
tion, it augurs we'll for the success o.
the nominees. What a contrast be-
tween the Democrats and Republi'
cans in this respect. The former, bold
and manly in their operations; the lat,
ter, sneaking, secret and governed by
a little junto of men assembled in a
close room late of a dark night!
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02
C. ID. Martin, ESQ.

Our talented candidate for Congress
G. D. Martin, Esq, is thus noticed in
that able Democratic organ, the Ohio
Statesman:
In the Fairfield District the De-
mocracy after an exciting and pro-
tracted contest selected Mr.. Martin
Among his competitors for the nomi-
nation were some Of the ablest men in
the State, and this proves that the
Democracy are bound to redeem it.
Mr.. Martin is a gentleman of great
talents and excellent antecedents.-
He enjoys the confidence Of the peo.
pie, and his election will be, as his
nomination has been, a great honor
conferred upon a capable and worthy
man.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02

PN. II. Van Vorhes, a very
amiable and courteous partisan, has
been nominated for Congress by the
Republicans in the Eleventh District.
This leaves a vacancy in the Legisla,
ture from Athens county; and we hope
Van will not be sent to Congress-
State Capital Fact.
You can rest perfectly easy on that
score, Mr.. Fact. There is not the least
probability Of his being sent to Con
gress. The Democracy in this dis.
trict have also nominated a very ami,
able and courteous partisan
"And with him we'll beat little VAN"
[AMenS appeal.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02


P 1t is tact significant Of the
progress of American manufacturing
skill that the Birmingham (English)
manufacturers initiate the trade marks
Of American manufactured cutlery,
and sell it as imported from the United
States. The London Times of the
first instant has report Of a trial of
the Collins Company Us. Reeves, in
which it was proved that the latter
initiated all the trade marks Of the for.
mer, an American company, even to
the fac Simile offs. W. Collins sig.
nature, which is stamped on the cut.
,lery.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02
The County Ticket,

The ticket formed by the Democ.
racy of this county is an excellent one.
There is not a vulnerable candidate
upon it. In fact, all the candidates
for nomination were good men, fully
competent to fill creditably the offices
to which they aspired, and we are
pleased to see that the defeated parties
yield their claims to the victors grace
fully and with the greatest good hu-
NOR. OF course a ticket cannot be
formed that will suit every one. Men
have their preferences, and the only
way to keep up the Democratic Or
ganization is to allow these preieren-
ces to be expressed in a primary ca
pacity, leaving the largest number to
decide who the candidates shall be-
This having been done, the best course
for every Democrat to pursue is to
give the ticket so formed a cordial
support. If Democratic principles
are to be sustained and Democratic
measures carried out, this is the only
safe plan. We long since came to
the conclusion when a candidate was
presented to whom we had personal
objections, that the candidate was
short-lived and Democracy eternal!-
Let us vote and act with the good,
old national, Democratic party, for the
common welfare of the country.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02

A LINGERING DEATa.-On the 18th
inst. negro named Simon, who is
the slave of Mrs. Barnett, of Enfaula,
Ala, was engaged in cleaning out q
well and had almost finished his opper-
|ations, when the curb, which was an
old one and much docayed, caved in,
completely covering him up. Assist
ance was promptly obtained, and
would probably been efectual but for
a sudden and rapid flow into the low
er part Of the well, which soon occa.
stoned his death by drowning. While
in this condition, concealed from view
he conversed with those who were
vainly endeavoring to aid him, until
the rise of the water choked his utter
ance.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02

The London Times says that the
message of Queen Victoria to Presi-
dent Buchanan, which contained nine
ty-nine words, was sent over the ocean
cable in Sixty-seven minutes. The
message from the directors in England
to those in America, which contained
thirty-one words, was sent in thirty
five minutes. The latter message was
sent first, and both were repeated for
accuracy. The Queens message was
not published in England.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02
The County Convention.

The delegates from the townships
met at the Court House on Monday
last, as per call Of the Democratic
Central Committee. Poll hooks from
the following named townships, in
which primary elections were held on
Saturday last, were presented: Swan,
Elk, Madison, Vinton, Clinton,
Wilkesville and Knox. On motion
it was agreed to postpone declaring
the result until all the other town
ships, which had voted, should send
in their poll books.
On motion, the same Central Com.
mittee was appointed for the ensuing
year, to wit: A. Pearce, Geo. Lantz
E. F. Bingham, II. Reynolds and B
2. Hewitt.
On motion, the nomination Of ]
D. James as the Democratic candi.
date for Representative to fill the un.
expired term Of r. B. Stevenson, was
confirmed.
The convention then adjourned un-
til Tuesday, first authorizing those
who should be present on that day tc
act for the whole.
There was no formal meeting on
Tuesday. Poll books from the town
ships of Jackson, Brown and Harri
son We're handed to the Chairman o.
the Democratic Central Committee
The reported vote of Richland, ha'
come to hand. The poll book may
arrive before we go to press. In Eagle
no election was held. Taking the re
ported vote of Richland as correct, tho
result is as follows:
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02
The independents"

Our Republican opponents have
had quite serious time in "fxing
up" county ticket. They have been
greatly troubled about the sheriff and
auditor, but have finally got ont their
men, as will be seen by reference to
the announcements. Last fall they
called their ticket "The Peoples Tick
eta misnomer, for the people dis
carded every "P copies Ticket" man
This year it is the "Independent'
ticket. "There's nothing in name ,
The opposition to the Democracy
have tried scores of names and have
been defeated under all Of them. Blu
how about Commissioned Is Mr.
Swain to be crowded of the tract
like Mr.. Shockeyl
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02

We have heard, but do not vouch
for the truth of the report, that a far
mer in the northwestern part OF this
county, lost one hundred and ninety.
two out of two hundred head of hogs
which had been turned into a field of
oats, which he did not think would
pay the expense ofcutting, but as he
did not wish to lose it all, put in his
hogs, and it poisoned hem.-DsIa-
,Care Standard. ..a t.I'
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02
Has Van Backed Out!

We understand that Mr.. Van Vor-
hes refuses to meet Mr.. Martin.on the
stump until a few days before the Oc-
tober election, and not then, unless he
can fix things just to suit him! We
regard This as O "back OUT