New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-02
AN OVERLAND JOURNEY.
III.
MORE NOTES ON KANSAS.
LEAyESwORT.Y, MAY ~ ]


counties for whose benefit that place 81 meeting
had been selected. Those who did come 81 there
BY swimming many dangerous creeks; Las from
meet localities attendance WAS physical iE5soss-
bilits. Ferry-boats are scarce in Kansas, brdees,
Of course, nearly unknown: and the water runs
| of these rolling prsiries so rapidly that stream
which three-year old child might ford at nigAt
will be running water enough to doat . steamocst
before morfing. Of course, there can be no fer
ries maintained such, and, until br idges can Dc
erected those whose way lies seross Il EN- have no
| further alternative when they are in Hood than
| either to swim or wait. But to swiu an angry,
| turbid, rushing torreit. perhaps dcs en- roas
across, and running dr.ftwood in perfect reck-
less manner is job requiring nerve and 81 III; :"
the greater number have sinply 10 sAy "
home or camp on the bank aud wait unh 'hc
food runs out, whica it will in twelve !"
thirtysx hours sccordnxto the size Of the str 'm'
unless the rain thaw confines. Bat 1t had rssi ed
nearly half the time for week PRIOR and up 70
the 18th, SO that few evea Of those who sspposed
the Convention would be held could reach IL Yet
there gathered on the afternoon Of ths< day nearly
a thousand of the pioneers, manly Of the insnedh
ate neghborhood, to whom, in an inteAude q the
Conventions discussions concerning THAR orgasssz-
alton and platform had the satisiachcs of setting
forth the Republican faith as l understand it, and
by whom it was heartily received 1t wa labor
of love so TO speak, but rather tax to write tho
speech out, even impertectly, as was oAsiged to
do during the next two days in the intwvals OF
riding and speaking, in order that sh thos, people
of Kansas who care to do 30 may eonsi, Ter my
notions of "Free- State Denoe-s -scs' >rd Syaat-
" ter Sovereignty
Il The twin curses Of Kansas new thss tas i,sess,
Rufians have stopped ravagiug her, @e i..ss
Speculation whereof the manufacture Of pspsr
cities and bogus corner-ots, though mora amusing
y absurd, is not half so mischeyous "a the grasp
ing of whole townships by means Of fraudulent pro
emptions and other devices familiar to the crafty
and One Horse Politicians. Many of these latter
were driven into the Free-State movement BY tAe
enormity of the Border-Rutiian outrsges, by their
/ own terror or indignation, and by the o'erwhelm-
ing force Of public sentiment but being essentially
demagogues they gravitate irresistibly toward the
| Sham Democracy, in whose embraces the whsls
tribe will bring up, sooner or later. Their pFc>e-
type is Mr.. II. Miles Moore of this city, who. sflsr
having been one of the noisest and most copspiss-
Qua Free-State men in 1856, alter having be0
driven down the river by the Border Rufisns. wAs-
gave hns his choice between leaving Kansas aaA
instant death, and after having been once strung
up by the neck by them and choked till nearly
dead, is now hard at work trying to put Kansas
once more into their hands, and figuring in COa-
yentons and on Committees with those who dida't
quite hang him, as fellow Democrats! His caso
reminds me strongly BY contrast of that Of tho msa
Who observed that, for the first month after meg
risge, he loved his wife that he waited 10 cet
her, while ever since be had wished he had.
The controlling idea OF tho One Horse poltioisss
is that the Republicans must not let their adverss
ries have chance to raise the cry of "Niggsr'
again st them-that hence they must be as hsrsA
and cruel, and tyranncs toward the unfortuasls-
blacks as possible, in order to prove themselves
"the White Mans party" or else all ths n,ssa.
low, ignorant, drunken, british whites viii -
against them from horror Of Negro EquAlisy."
To which reply that this sort Of cattle arc sgsisst
the Republicans any how, and never can be psrmA-
nently otherwise They may be driven by ciroun--
stances to vote once or twice with "a but To
virus of Sham Democracy 10 in their blood. saA
must come out. The Democracy, from lensprss-
tice and experience that itpays, can diva deep
er, stay under longer, and come up nastsr, in this
business of negrobating, than any other pasy thst
ever was or ever can be invented. TheGe 10 saoth.
ing that more strkDgly exposes the radi nj bssv--
meas Of savehOIding than the fact that itsvotsnss
so bate those whom they have long. injured THAI
beaten in their desperate struggle to fcuo negroes
into Kansas as slaves they now turn short oos
and insist that, if they cannot como iaas slass
they shall be shut out, and even driven ovt, ~ O.
gesher. I'D. ...s
Iapprehend that it win be neces cary fer ~ 70
pnblicans Of Kansas in view Of the insetsr sts
Western preudices Of large por ton Of h.r 70 pu
lation to concede, for the present. that tho .ght
of Suffrage shall be exercised only by whs NJ .les.
or men Of European lineage, excluding, on aos cunt
of their imperfect moral and intellectual dos elop-
ments, Indians, Negroes, and their desss,R iants
Further than this, would not go, no m,ttu how
| great the inducement. Leave tie Democrea alone
in their glory when they come to propose I'd sup
port as they are certain to 90, proposiis as that
negroes shall be expelled and excluded 81 I'M Kan
sas-shaIl be excluded from tsstifying /, against a
white man-shall be debarrsd from attending
schools frequented by white children. &c, &c.
Let any city or district that ht mss adsqusts
provision for the education Of colore@s hildren by
themselves; but IN default Of this ~ the schools
be omen 20 all who need their mnistxss ons Such.
hone. will be the determination Of Republicans
generally; and, il Kansas has to - lost in sonse-