White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-09-23
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OeIulautONu OHlOJ huepcnuSuh, auu
closely scan every column Of each num-
Der, as it reaches US. The number bear
ing date September 9th. is now before US.
There is a column headed Dayton Cos
SIP" and in that Gossip" is the follow
ing Ito us intensely interesting item:
"Messrs. Vallandigham, Moses B.
Walker. Mr.. Clegg. and several other
gentlemen Of Dayton. went to Fish Mic
below Middletown, on Monday evening.
By-the-by. our friend Walker is an out
and-out Vallandigham man.
| Reader, go back with us into the past,
and listen to a Renaissance.
In the year 1856. we were publishing
paper in the delightful village of Ger
mantown. and gave an enthusiastic and
undivided support to that great and good
statesman. patriot, Christian. honest man,
and Free State man, Millard Fillmore,
for the Presidency. In that town resided
man of some talent, and fine powers of
oratory, but no discretion. who had for
merly been devoted Wing. but who, at
the time Of which we write, was a red
hot Republican and Fremonter. He used
to declare that he sucked in hatred of
Slavery with lis mothers milk; and he
would not countenance man, politically,
who was not committed to the most
deadly hostility to Slavery. Against
Democracy of every species, he was par
ticularly venomous. He was also ex-
ceedingly violent against Willard Fill
more, and took every possible occasion
to abuse him; and many was the bitter
denunciation he heaped upon our head,
for supporting that great man. This
denunciation broke forth several times in
public speeches, but much oftener in street
corner hsrangues and once, with great
violence, in secret session of a Know
Nothing Council. The orator to whom
we allude, during the campaign of 1856,
would almost nightly mount goods box
in front of our Office, and recount the
wrongs of bleeding Kansas-how people
were murdered for expressing their honest
sentiments, and how printing Offices were
destroyed, to strangle the freedom of the
press. Yet, in his street corner harangues,
he proposed various plans to break us
down, because we differed with him; and
upon one of these occasions, when more
than usually excited, he expressed him
self in favor of reader, shut your eyes,
and stick your fingers in your ears i'm
favor Of carrying our printing materials
into the street, and burning them! His
argument was, that he had assisted in
starting us in business, and we should
not oppose him with his means. Because
he had once done US favor, he could
not bear that we should express thought
or perform an action, other than such as
he dictated. But the concentrated essen
tial oil of his venom, the fercest FIRE of
his wrath, and the NORWOOD and gall
of his denunciation, were all brought to
bear at once, whilst declaiming against
G. L. Vallandigham, then, as now, the
Democratic candidate for Congress in
that District. He challenged Vallandig-
ham to meet him in discussion, and tore
around as if he would use him up in every
conceivable way that human flesh is used
up. That man was Captain Moses B.
Walker
When we spoke of coming to Kansas,
the Captain sagely prophesied that, in
Kansas, we would side with the Border
Rufians, and that. before five years, we
would be full-blooded Locofoco. This
prophecy was taken up and repeated by
those who recognized the Captain as their
guiding star; and at length they regarded
it as fixed fact, that "before FIVE years,
Miller would be full -blooded Locofocol'
Yet, at the same time, they knew better,
and only repeated the prophecy to insult
us. We had learned our trade in Ger
mantown, and had been, in a manner,
raised there, in their midst, and they
knew we despised Locofocoism as we
despised the Devil and onions Some
persons were apparently so earnest in the
matter, that, in one of our last issues be-
fore leaving for Kansas, lin the paper of
January 90, 1857, we devoted an article
to the subject, in which we said:
1--WE have been asked, with apparent
sincerity, within several weeks past, whe-
Their we are not getting to be Locofoco?
And quite a number of our solicitous
friends have kindly prophesied that we
will be q full-blooded Locofoco before
FIVE years pass BY We entreat of them |
to rest easy. = When some
of them were Simon-pure Locofocos, we
were the opposite; and when many of
them. hereafter, are found wallowing in |
the slough Of Locofoeoism, we expect to
be found opposing them Stick a ten
penny nail therer'
Little did we think, at that time, that
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