The Kanzas news., 1858-03-13
Astronomical Observations.

martyrIzed foF giving his theory OF the mo
tons of the heavenly bodies,-and had no
that pippin, in falling, barked Newton:
nose. thus leading him to the grave consid
Grafton of the subject of graYitation anC
!, had DR.. Dick never written, nor Hersche
turned heayenward his telescope optic-tb'
Ignorant and supersticious of our time nigh
leasily have been led to believe that the Earth
rested upon some huge colored giant. who
carries it whithersoever he chooses. For
, in these times, no question arises in the po
litical, moral, social or religious world, but
that springs directly or remotely from oul
love or hatred of the interests of the eolorec
race. There is always ''a niger in the
fence" and although we may not be able tc
see him, we can rely upon it he as there
He is not only the center of our political
system, about which revolves the executive
the Legislative and the judicial moons and
planets of this nation, but he is also the
centrifugal and centripetal forces that propel
them onward and hold them in their orbits
Were he blotted out of existence, or his re-
lations to Us changed in any way, numerous
littler orbs and satellites, that now revolve
around him as their common center and re-
fleet his dingy light, would fly off in a tan
gent into illimitable space, to wander forever
beyond the ken of mortal vision. Astrono-
mers tell US that the planet Mercury, in con-
sequence of his proximity to the Sun, sus-
tains much higher degree of heat than the
Earth. and were an inbabitant of the Earth
transferred to that planet he could hot exist
and so, on the other hand, when man ap-
proaches the center of our political system
| (which is supposed to be in the vicinity of
I Wach1n bai &c
like tallow candle before an old-fashioned
| hickory fire ;! the marrow runs out of his
bones, the spinal column gives way, and he
becomes helpless pulp. of the consistency
of dough-! This ubiquitous presence, like
the stripe over the donkey's rump, is always
visible and, hydra-lke, as often as one
head is chopped off there spring out hun
dred more in its place. 1t is ghost that
has been respectfully solicited to ''doaOn'
at the bidding of many eminent statesmen,
but like the Irishman's emetic 1t aCont stay
dOacni Poor Pierce fondly imagined that
| he had exercised it, but it haunted him night
and day, planting thorns in his pillow and
briars in his pathway, and filling the White
House with ominous voices.
Every Democratic National Convention
| that has met since the days of Jackson
every Presidents inaugural address and an
nual message, have congratulated the coun-
| try upon the final settlement of this vexa-
tious question, but the announcement is
| scarcely made before it whispers in their
ears ''Lo, am here !'' It sits at the gate
of the Presidential mansion, as stood the
| redmouthed, three-headed Cerebus, to guard
the entrance to the Internal regions, and none
but those to whom it gives the pass word
can enter. 1t makes Presidents, elects
Senators, enacts laws, appoints foreign min
| listers, declares war, makes peace, and en-
slaves its friends. There is no ignominy too
gigantic for it to assume, no sin too colossal
for it to perpetrate, and no wrong too great
for 1t to espouse. Turning to the religious
world, we behold it like the blind Sampson
feeling for the pillars of the church and
from the strife and chickering's and dissen-
sions that are continually kept up, one might
imag inc that every meeting house in the
land was under-pinned with niggers- 1t
has run its dark line of division through The
Methodist Church, and has been Industrious
ly at work with the foundations of the Pres
byterian also. The Rev Dr. Ross and his
coadjutors can see no beauty in the golden
rule unless it have a dark back ground, and
unless accompanied by ten slaves as collat-
eral. It determines the fervor of their
hymns, the JUNCTION of their prayers and the
ardoF of their exhortations.
But the most amusing phase that this
colorphobia has assumed lately is in the case
of the contested seat of Campbell, of Ohio
His opponent, Vallandigham. depends main
ly on the fact that certain colored persons
voted for the aforesaid Campbell, and hopes
that Congress has respect enough for the
Dred Scott decision to give him the seat
When Campbell discovered this dark design,
he Immediately departed for Ohio and
procured the most irrefragible proof that
there were those among Mr.. VS. supporters
number of shades blacker than any of
those who voted for himself. Thinking it
poor rule that won't work both ways, he
has fortified himself on this point by secu-
ring the likenesses of two individuals who
voted for Mr. v, who are blacker than the
ace of spades in deep cellar on a rainy
midnight. As this question, like nine
tenths of all matters that claim the atten
ton of Congress, is simply one of color, we
respectfully suggest to these Congressional
contestants that they procure portraits of
all their Buckeye constituency, in order
that the committee which has their case in
hand, and which was appointed chiefly on
account OF its ability to distinguish coLors,
may decide the matter fairly and impartially
In the meantime, if any modern Archi-
medes Is ambitious to move the world with
his lever, and is looking about for some
thing upon which to rest it, we say to him,
unhesitatingly. take a Niger = Wis. Free
Democrat