The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-12-10
EDITORIAL CONSEQUENCE.
CLEVELAND, O., Nov. %, 1859.


in the Forest City, Scarce night pass
es without lecture of some kind. either of
the independent order. or under the pat
-ronage of the Young Mems Christian As
sociation, or the Cleveland Library Asso-
citation, and enough more are already an
nounced to carry us through the winter sea-
son at the same rate. Well, quarters and
evenings may be worse spent than in pay
ing for and listening to these lectures. But
/ believe there is growing impression in
the minds cf sensible persons that there is
a good deal of Aunabug in them after ALL
The amount of real practical information
disseminated by these means is infnitessi-
mally small. The lectures are generally
but bosh of stale and proftless stuff. OF
course there are exceptions. But for the
most part fearithat FIFTY dollars night
and expenses paid is uppermost in the
minds of those persons who are lecturing
through the country. n -.
The ''colored population" of this city is
tolerably numerous, and comprises some
persons of decided talent and ability. Some
of the readers Of The News, at least, will
recollect the eloquent speech made in the
u. S. District Court in this cit: by C. H.
Langston, negro then under Indictment
for participation in the celebrated ''Oberlin
rescue 1t was acknowledged on all hands
to have been the best speech made to the
Court throughout the whole trial, which
lasted several weeks. Langston belongs to
idarkey upper tendon but there are hun
dreds of others mere who are by no means
"slow." One day last week Immediately
after dinner. gray headed pro-slavery per-
son mounted the steps of the Court House
in the Park, and commenced loud har-
abolitionists, etc. He spoke for about an
hour to crowd of perhaps four or FIVE hun
dred persons attracted by the curiosity and
novelty of the performance, in which he
proved as conclusively as possible for any
man to do, the pro 'slayery character of the
Bible, and the consequent saeredness of the
peculiar institution As soon as the old
man had concluded. a large negro. dark as
Erebus, bricklayer by trade, mounted the
steps to reply to the parson. | think if ev-
er man "wished it wasn't him." IL was
that same pro-siavery parson. For nearly
an hour the darkey poured hot-shot into
him and his edible argument" completely
Kidding and destroying every vestige of it,
and turning the old mans guns upon him
with demollshing effect. l haven't seen the
cheat in long while. The crowd applaud
ed heartily at every chit, H." and parson stood
it about half way through, and then shiEked
away utterly discounted, and I venture to
say that he will not deliver any more pro-
slavery harrangues unless be is quite certain
that there are none of the 'tcussed Canaan
ites'' around.
For several days past the telegraph has
been busy with the details of an immense
excitement prevailing at Charlestown, Har-
per's Ferry and all that part of the 'tOld
Dominion caused by fears of an attempt
to rescue Old Brown from the authorities
Under the influence of this excitement the
people of Virginia have been fairly beside
themselves with fear for over week. Col.
Davis, tie .'.son of Mars commanding at
Cbarlestown, has telegraphed halfa-dozen
times to GOV. Wise for artillery, cavalry and
infantry. A hay stack was burned one
night near Charlestown, creating horrible
uproar and terror. Of course it was be-
lieved to be the work of Abolitionists who
had come to rescue Old Brown. a planter
living near Harper's Ferry woke up one
night and heard noise, which to his dis
sturbed Imagination seemed to be screams
and groans of persons outraged and dying.
He Immediately reused his family and start
ed for the town, reporting when he gotthere
that the Abolitionists were numbering his
neighbors. A company of troops was at
once dispatched to the. scene of the supposed
massacre, aud found the persons sup
posed to be killed quietly sleeping in their
beds, and ''nary" Abolition sign" livery
much doubt whether there has been sin
gle sound nights sleep enjoyed by a Virgin
ian since the Harper's Ferry enaeute, If
Brown had pushed his advantage instead of
shutting himself up in tie arsenal at Har-
per's Ferry. he would have captured the
whole State with his seventeen white men
and FIVE negroes. "ChivairY" is a POO
excuses" when there is any music to faee'
Brown is to be hung on the Cd of De-
cember. and Cook. Coppie and Copeland
on the 10Th Their execution is a fixed
fact. No earthly power can save them
The moral of it will not be lost upon the
country.