Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-03-12
The LccOmptOn Issue.

liant Dattte unUcr tue lOcOiUcO nag, anu
gone, in by gone days, as far as any that
ever "bowed the pregnan; hinges of the
knee to the dark spirit Of slavery" in its
last issue comes out nanful!y against the
Lecompton swindIe, and THUS de6ncs its
future position, denouncing the dictatorial
course of the South, and avOwiug its de-
termination to resist it, hence.orth and
for ever. Hear the manly language Of the
"RcpuJlic0n :"
"There is one good result seen through
the gloomy cloud which now oyerspreads
the political horizon. There is hencctorfh
to be rebellion IN the Norttern Democracy
against the imperious demands Of tie f5es
ofhis Union IN tie Southern Stutesi They
have pushed US to the wall ,and if we have
the spirit of manhood coursing in our veins
we will refuse longer to bow down and
become their menials. We have already,
in our honest efforts to frateruize with
them, gone too far. 7hcy groG insoieat
under our concessions, and there is nothing
left for us to do but 20 conquer them, and
when we do so We shall give power and
influence to the true patriots and Union
loving men of the South. The same i'm
perious despots, whose minions have been
the instruments of robbing the people Of
Kansas of their rights, keep under the
healthy sentiment OF the Southern people;
but we are rejoiced to see it boldly break
ing forth, like pent volcano, in the manly
voice Of Henry A. Wise. His perceptions
of right are keenly alive, and We thank
aud honor h;" far his hrave words con-
demna.ory of the giant wrong Of the age .
HONEST OPINIoN.-Mazwell Meas
lin, some four or FIVE years ago the Dem
ocratic Speaker Of the Senate of pennsyl-
vania, and now Indian Agent in Kansas,
(of course still a Democrat has written
to prominent member Of the Legisla-
ture, that he honestly believes the adop
ton Of the Lecompton Constitution would
be resisted by the people of that Terrific
ry, to an extent impossible for persons
here to appreciate, and that ten times the
number of United States troops now in the
territory would be unable to check the op-
position. He says the people there are
earnestly dcsirous of getting rid of the
troubles that are now upon them, but re-
gard even their present inharmonious
state of affairs as preferable to an enforce
ment of the Lecompton Constitution, and
he earnestly requests the gentlemen to
whom the letter is addressed, to spread
these facts before the members of the
Legislature, and endcavor to obtain the
passage of Anti-LecomptOn resolutions.
The Maysville (Ky.) Eag'e contains the
following pertinent paragraph:
WHAT TNonTHERNDoUGHFACEs DARN'T
SAy.-The Constitution that is now being
forced on the people of Kansas, is cheat
and swindle, and they have SO denounced
it by their voices, legally and fairly cz-
pressed at the pOlls-and if, therefore, any
man gives his support to the measure ad.
vocated by Buchanan's message, he does
SO with a full knowledge of the manner in
which the rascaly concern has been made
successful thus far.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 25.-Thc Leavenworth
Times says that the Judges and Clerks of
election in Shawnee District were arrested;
and, on being sworn before the Legisla-
live Investigating Committee, testified
hat the poll book of Shawnee was taken
10 Westport, No, and that 500 names
Sero added thereto, at that place. j. j.
the Postmaster at Leavenworth,
vas burned in efiigy on the night of the
18th, and threats were made to hang him, {
f he could be caught.
We sec in the Southern State Rights
,ress evidences of intended opposition to
he Kansas admission bill, if it shall be {
Imended SO as to aunul the clause in the
Constitution prohibiting the {
Iteration of the same til! after 1861, and {
specially if Gen. Calhoun is to certify the t
lection of the Free State Legislature. i
Southern State Rights members have tx .
'ressed the same views in private.
ANTI-LECoMrToN AT THE SOUTH- d
ye believe majority Of the voters of y
Tennessee, Maryland, and a n
considerable portion of those Of Virginia
I'D Missouri, together with many in all il
ther Southern States, were consistently +
pposed to the Nebraska act, and, under n
be circumstances, justify Senator Bell in h
he course he has seen fit to rursue.-Bul. II
more Patriot. u
SECTIONAL ToMfooLEET.-In the Lou |
lana House of Representatives bill has Il
cen introduced, one section Of which pro- s.
ides that no debt owing to a citizen of C
massachusetts, shall be recoverable in the "
,urts of Louisiana The in.roducer of
lch bill should be "taken under shed
nd talked to- /
Irish Catholic, German, and French pa 81
,rs in New York city, also that lndcpeu, |,
mt Democrat, the .Ncr York .Slm-all {;