Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-06-18


course, nearly unknown and the water
runs off the rolling prairies so rapidly that
stream which three-year old child might
ford at night will be running water enough
to float steamboat before morning. OF
course, there can be no ferries maintained
on such, and, until bridges can be erected
those whose way lies across them have no
further alternative when they are in food
than either to swim or wait. But to swim
an angry, turbid, rushing torrent, perhaps
dozen rods across, and running driftwood
in perfectly reckless manner, is O. job re-
quiring nerve and skill so the greater
number have simply to stay at home or
camp on the bank and wait till the food
runs out, which it will in twelve to thirty
six hours, according to the size of the
stream, unless the rain or thaw continues.
But it had rained nearly half the time for
week prior and up to the 18th, 80 that few
even Of those who supposed the Convention
will be held could reach it. Yet there
gathered on the afternoon of that day near
ly thousand pioneers, mainly of the i'm
mediate neighbOr, to whom, in an interlude
of the Conventions discussions concerning
their organization and platform, / had the
satisfaction of setting forth the Republican
faith as l understand it, and by whom it
was heartily received.
The twin curses of Kansas, now that the
Border Ruffians have stopped ravaging her,
are Land Speculation (whereof the manu-.
facture of paper cities, bogus cornerlots,
though more amusingly absurd, is not hall
so mischievous as the grasping of whole
townships by means Of fraudulent preemp-
tions and other devices familiar to the craft
and One-Horse Politicians Many of these
latter were driven into the Free-State move
meut by the enormity of the Border-R Ruff
fan outrages, by their own terror or indigna-
tion, and by the overwhelming force of pub
lie sentiment {; but, being essentially dema-
gogues, they gravitate irresistaby toward
the Sham Democracy, in whose embraces
the whole tribe will bring up, sooner or la
ter Their prototype is Mr. H. Miles
Moore of this city, who, after having been
one of the noisiest and most conspic-
uous Frce-State men in 1855, after hav.
ing been driven down the river by the Bor-
der Ruffians, who gave him his choice be-
tween leaving Kansas and 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 fig.
: uring in Conventions and on Committees
with those who didn't quite hang him, as
fellow Democrats His case reminds nc
strongly by contrast OF that of the man
who observed that, for the first month af-
ter marriage he loved bis wife so that he
wanted to eat her, while ever since he had
wished he had
The controlling dea of the One Horse
politicians is that the Republicans must not
let their advers aries have chance to raise
the cry of Niger" against them-tbat
hence they must be as harsh, and cruel, and
tyrannicaI, toward the unfortunate blacks
as possible in order to prove themselves
''the White Mans party" or else all the
mean, low, ignorant, drunken british whites
will go against them from horror of NEGRO
Equality" To which l reply that this
sort of cattle are against the Republicans
anyhow. and never can be permanently
/ otherwise They may be driven by circum-
stances to vote once or twice with US, but
the virus of Sham Democracy is in their
blood, and must come out. The Democra-
cy, from long practice and can experience
that it pays, can dive deeper, stay under
longer, and come up naStier in this busi-
ness of negro-hating, than any other party
that ever was or can be invented. There
is nothing that more strikingly exposes the
radical baseness of slaveholding than the
! fact that its votarS so hate those whom
they have long injured that, beaten in their
desperate struggle to force negroes into
Kansas as slaves, they now turn short
corner and insist that, if they cannot come
in as slaves, they shall be shut out, and
even driven out altogether.
l apprehended that it will be necessary
for the Republicans of Kansas, in view of
the inveterate Western prejudces of large
portion of her population, to concede, for
the present, that the Right of Suffrage
shall be exercised only by white males, or
men of European lineage, excluding, on ac-
count of their imperfect moral and intel
lectual developments, Indians, Negroes, and
their descendants. Further than this,
would not go, no matter how great the in
ducement. Leave the Democrats alone in
their glory, when they come to propose and
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stions that negroes shall be expelled and
excluded from Kansas-shall be excluded
from testifying against white man-shall
be debarred from attending schools fire.
quented by white children, Sc, &c. Let
any city or district that sees fit make ade
quate provision for the education of color
ed children by themselves but in default
OF this, let the schools be open to all who
need their ministrations. Such, 1 hope
will be the determination of Republicans
generally and, if Kansas has to be LOST
in consequence, then let her go
left Osawatamie on the morning of the
18th, in the Lawrence stage, crossing the
Marais des Cygnes at Bundy's Ferry
(where we crossed the day before), and
finding the water considerably lower, though
still over its regular northern bank, and
the access on either side most detestable
Passing Stanton, we kept still west of north
into the Ottawa Reserve, so as to leave Q
mail at Ottawa Jones's, when we STRUCK
due north to Prairie City, leaving Peoria
either upon or near the Marais des Cygnes
Ut takes three log houses to make city il
Kansas, but they begin calling it city 81
soon as they have staked out the lots
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