Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-20
From the Chicago Tribune, February
CHARCOAL SKETCH OF a LEC0MPT0N
DEMOCRAT.

To understand the point Of the following rich
sketch from the Cincinnati Commercial, it is ne
cessary to premise that the subject of it has been
the confidential Kansas correspondent of the st.
Louis Republican,, and an active 'Ruhlan,
and made the columns of that stupid sheet lively
with lies for TWO year, past. Pate is at present
postmaster at W~estport, Missouri, and is one of
Buchanan's spies for Kansas. He took an active
part in cooking up the Oxford and Shawnee frauds,
and is q democrat of the first water.
II. CLAY PATE IN HIS TRUE coLoRs.
Some years, four or FIVE, perhaps, ago, the
door of a~lodging room. in the third story of an OBJ,
scurs building OF this city, was labelled with
startling letters, (etters that an Irishman might
call very loud I'll. Clay Pate, Author!" Behind
this door we're the quarters Of . slight young man.
who had thrust distinction upon himself by pub
lishiug,at his own eIpersea book! The frontespiece
thereof was a wood cut Of the "author," with Z,
fac simiie of the autograph of that illustrious
individual. We weigh our words when we say that
we never saw a more luxuriously ridiculous thing
in Or out Of Punch. McLeans best designs of Doe
sticks and his friend Damphool would not compare
with it. The matter of the valuable volume, how.
ever, was not all what could have been inferred
from the fronticpieoe. 1t was made up of several
mournful attempts at tales" and a mass of essay
perpetrated at college, introduced by a prodigious
exhortstion to all young men of the country to gc
straightwayIand take a college course at the institu
ton Of the workmanship of which the "author" was
q blossuming specimen.
The next thing after his book, be became sorely
frightened about the Pope. He was convinced
that the Pope meoitated the conquest of the CONT
nent of North America, and preached in severa
of the rural districts q crusade against the "Scarle
oman. For a time he was abide camp of Pal
Taylor in the campaign conducted by that remark
able metaphysician against the Baylonish mon
s~trosities. which, like the saurians from the SLIM
of ages. we're about to crawl over this fair lane
and pestiferous, &c., &c. After gallivanting til,
and 10 b. turned up as the Kansas correspon
dent Of the Missouri Republican.
The next thing of especial moment Was th,
"author's" account of the immortal "battle 0
Black Jack" an action perhaps the most import
ant in the Kansas war. The point" was, tina
Pate, with a company of the chivalry, made al
attempt to take that pesky f~reesoiler, 'Old Brown
of Ossawattamie )" but Brown took them TIL,
history of this military operation is delicious
Pate, while raising his troops for the attack OF
Old Brown, was mounted on q fine horse, had
splendid sword girt upon his thigh, while hi
waist was bound in the martial folds of a scarle
sash, and he galloped about the streets Of West
, port, calling upon true-hearted patriots 10 tur
out. He went forth. lie met the enemy. He le
his men into a ravine where Old Brown had theI
, at his mercy, and after a few shots, be surrender
ed. And the heartless Old Brown took from hir
, his fine horse, his gay sash, his ver-mount
sword, and sent him back to Missouri, mounted o
: a poor lHle jdckass. lie is said, when riding int
, Westport upon this c~ongenial animal, to hav
= borne a striking resemblance to q Shanghai Roo
ter in a hard rain.