White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-12-15
Extraordinary Developments |!
A New Manifesto from Avenue Demo-
crats-AIarming Documents!

Esd crats-AIarming Documents!
The following copy of the Manifesto
of Fifth Avenue Democrats was found by
our Reporter '1ying around loose" in the
neighborhood of the Fifth Avenue Hotel
1t appears to be intended, Judging from
some memoranda in pencil on the back,
for circulation privately among the faith
ful-and is little more strongly drawn
then the manifesto published in the morn
ing papers, We submit the document
for the edifcation of the public: o
MANIFESTO OF THE FIFTH AVENUE AssocIA-
TON OF vIGILANT AND HIGHLY RESPECT
ABLE DEMOCRATS.
Fellow-citizens At meeting of this
association, held at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, on the 18th inst. the following
resolution was unanimously adopted:
RESOLVED. That, inasmuch as the great
majority of the Democratic party are I'M
able to read the newspapers. and utterly
destitute ofintellect sufficient to enable
them to form an opinion on subjects of
vital political moment; and iaasmuch as
the late terrible instruction at Harper's
Ferry affords the most delightful stock of
political capital to which the Democratic
party has fallen heir for many years past,
it is deemed advisable to appoint a COM
mittee of highly respectable Democrats
to collect the facts Tor all that can. by
any possibility, be made to rebound to
the glory of our beloved but decaying
organization J in relation to the late dread
full revolution in Virginia, and to lay the
same before the public at the earliest pos
sible moment.
In pursuance of the above resolutions,
beloved, your committee have procured a
copy of the New York Herald, and have
made copious extracts from the same; we
having the most implicit confidence in
the integrity and uprightness of that
guardian of the Democratic party.
Your committee have also made per-
sonal examinations of Old Brown an l sew
eral colored gentlemen engaged in this
terrible attempt to overthrow the govern
ment of the United States. We have
procured Through the politeness ofPresi-
dent Buchanan) one of Browns carpet
bags containing large quantities of trea-
sonable correspondence. going to show
the completely Of the leaders of the Re-
publican party in this nefarious and
shocking attempt to blow up the confed-
eracy of the States.
We subioin a few Of these letters, by
which it may be perceived that the or
ganization for the destruction of the gov
eminent embraced millions of northern
men. and was only prevented from car
rying out its devastating designs by a
fortunate mistake of Mr.. Browns.
EGYPT, 1859.
Dear Brown will try and he home
in time for our little affair in Virginia.
purpose bringing a company of Zouaves
to assist us. Go on in your glorious
work. send 80.
Yours. w. Fl. Seward.
CLEvELAND, 1859.
Dear Sir: will be at Harper's Ferry
with $1,000 Republicans in time to car
nv out our plan. Senator Wade viii
shoot the President, and Grow will blow
up the Capitol. It's all right. NUNS
the word.
Yours, ]. r. G.
Dear Brown 1 will be on hand with
Governor Banks and the Massachusetts |
militia. Don't be frightened. 1 enclose
50. Horace G., says he won't fight,
but sends copy of the Tribune" gratis.
On to victory aT -. -
Yours, Wilson.
We do not deem it necessary to pre-
sent any more letters to show the tr atsor-
Gus designs of the Republican party.
Il is a party of Blackhearted reasonable
fanatics, and it must be crushed ere it be
10 late and the gloomy shades of slavery's
night settle upon the hopes and aspira-
lions of our glorious fraternity. But
.hese acts are the natural offspring
Of the principles of that arbitrator.
II. Seward. Allow US to call
vour attention to little affair which has
not been noticed sufficiently. We allude
10 the diabolical principles enunciated by
hat Beelzebub in human form, the afore-
,aid Seward, in his speech at Rochester,
wherein he declared that there was an
conflict" between the North
and South; that it must go on forever
and ever, or until one or the other sucsum-
bed. That the North must wage eternal
war upon the South-pillags, burn, shoot,
levastate and utterly exterminate South
arm homes and families and that slavery
must be extinguished in seas of Southern
blood r.'s7
We refer you also to the outpouring Of
hat man of blood, Horace Greeley, who
in his paper the most afro