Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1859-02-04
Tit fur Tat. Conservatism.

icau UuiOu lave utCn IOr some year
braying themselves hoarse in proclaimin:
what they call the Monroe doctrine,
viz: that no Earopeon Ricer shall hercat
ter oJtaA day more Ltnd IN Amcrica. Wei
argued-but then suppose the "Europeal
( Powers" also adop, the "Monroe doctrine
aud say that hereafter The United STATE
shdH oJtuta no more land in America
What, then, will become Of the thieyisl
plan TO "abs0rb Cuba"-to steal Mexic,
inch by inch-to let loose robbers and
marauders upon Central America? Yes
adopt the "Nonroe dcctriue" all around
let Cuba, Mexico and Central America
alone-abstain from "al entangling ALI
ances," as Washington adyisel-developc
aud elevate our own land, aud we shall
have enough to do. "Mind your own
business, and check wholesale pundering
and throat cutting, by Fillibusters, and
all will be right and prosperous.
"0pprc>sion viii make even Wise Man, mad ;"
Some Of the Free State citizens Of Kan
sas give it as their opinion that Captains
BRowN and MONTGOMERY are mononla.
njocS on the subject of their wrongs. They
are sensible, reasonable men on any other
topic-good neighbors, kind fathers, law
abiding men; but the losses they have en-
dured, aud the indignities they have suf-
fered, from the Border Rutians-all ag-
gravated by the fact that the latter have
been protected and applauded by the Cen
cral Government-lave infused into the
breasts of Brown and Montgomery an ir-
rcconclable, morbid hate of their oppres-
sors, and they have firmly resolved-and
think they are doing God servi"o---'o --
talate rhcncycr and lrhererer they can.
"Od Brown" had darling son ru;hlessly
mugdered-cLOpped to pieces, by inches;
he has himself been reduced to extreme
poverty he has seen the murderers and
thieves rewarded by Pierce aud Buchanan,
and price set upon his own head for de-
Tending his neighbors and his own hearth
stone. What wonder if his overburdened
brain has become one-sided, and fierce re-
venge has taken exclusive possession?
Capt. Montgomery, also, has been wrong
ed and insuIted beyond endurance; his
neighbors-men, women, AID children
fled to him as their leader; be has risked
everything, even to life itself, in their be-
half; be has been waylaid and harassed
for years by internal human beings clothed
with Territorial and Federal authority;
and can poor outraged nature wonder that
he, too, should sternly swear that he would
strike down Border Rutiian-as an Irish
man would snake-wherever be could hit
him? When he is tortured, and hunted
to the death, under color of law, Gas the
Wings were by the Tories in the Revolu.
tion) is it to be expected that he can rev.
erence law? Or when agreements of
peace are broken by his opponents, will it
be insisted that he should regard them?
ALI past history is read in vain, if
such characters Go not spring up from the
blood stained soil of Kansas. Hannibal
like, many youth will be trained to utter
and undying hatred of every
ruthless minion of the Slave Power in
that dark struggle. The thirst for re-
venge is, uDhappily, too natural-the in
stiuct Of retaliation too uniyersal-for the
thoughtful observer not to forsee that some
If the relatives, descendants, and sympa-
hizers of the Martyrs to Liberty in Kan
;as will keep their indignation up to fever
lcat these very many years. ...Peruse the
ierce contests of TIE M'Gregors, the Cam
rons, the Douglases of Scotland-the
,rMahaus and the O'Briens of Ireland
he border warfares of South America and
f our own early history-and learn how
ard it is TO permit robbers and assassinS
even though shielded by Governmental
anctity-to escape the sleepless, ,vindictive
ury Of people or clan in whose bOsoms
ankle thousand urrcdressed family and
ldiyidual wrongs. Capt. SAM. BRADY,
nd scores Of others similarly bereaved and
mbit,ered, to their last hour would slay
nv Indian whom they could tind,or whom
,ey met. not for any evil the Indian
imsclf had done, but to atone for the foul
cts of others of his racc-Gn contests,too,
here perhaps they were as much the IN
lred party as their opponents The
lood Of the murdered Freemen of Kansas
iii, in ike manner, call from the ground
II vengeauce-agains: the actors at least
, those damnable deeds-for years TO
,me The attempt to extend Slavery
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
y Douglas, as enforced by Pierce and
uclanan, opened hoodgaie Of woe and
rnage which may iucaruadinc the stream
iiuo for generations yet to be