The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-11-26
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From Kansas 20 Cleveland in thirty-six
hoursi This is the exact time necessary
80 accomplish The Journey from Atchison,
Kansas, to this place. yias the Hannibal &
St.sJoe,s Chicago & Quincy and Mich igan
Southern Railroads 8. IL is something worth.
men tioning, and is of much importance TO
western. emigrants, whether for Nebraska,
Kansas or The Rocky Mountaip. gold mines;
combining rapidity andscheapness of. trans
portation in an astonishing degtee. And
it is gratifying to see the numbers of emil
grants that are. daily shipped over these
routes. EmigratiDg to the West is no long
era work of months, pregnant with dis.
ease and discomfort generally; and with
this wonderful increase of facilities comes
a proporlionate increase of emigration,
The crowded East4is sending its surplus
farmers and mechanics to The West by
thousands, and of these Kansas will get her
full share. - - 49, 80
!. found Cleveland the same beautiful city
it ever has been, though with, its 7bounda-
ries considerably enlarged since my previ-i
ouslvisit.. tits undoubtedly che most beau
tifuf city in the West. while it is. second to
none on the Lake as commercial point.
There is very little political excitement
ov;stin or4aharo OF ppasaot 4 IKE Rar1oz,ratS
have settled into a deep melancholy and the
Republicans have become so accustomed to
victories that they can afford to refrain from
making any noisy demonstrations over the
recent ones in New Jersey, Massachusetts,
New York, Wisconsin, and Kansas If
they only keep what they have already got.
they will certainly elect the President next
year--and the chance is good as they have
not only notlost nothing since 1856, but
have constantly gained. This being the
state of affairs the candidacy of the party
is of some importance. Should the Ohio
Legislature elect Gov. Chase to the Senate
AS Itdoubt not they s0M de--his chances
for the nomination will, think, be rather
better than those. of any candidate farther
East-7there being a growing determination
on the part of western Republicans to de-
Inand that the Candidate be taken from the
Mississippi Valley. But speculations at
this time are useless. The campaign viii
be upon US in few menths, when hope
that Kansas will be enabled to make her.
self heard in defence of the right. -
Since the trial and sentence of Old Brown,
the 'Harper's Ferry riot ;. has ceased to at
tract much attention. True, here and there
a Democratic editor hammers away tit to
prove that the Black Republicans were i'm
plicated in it, and that they are plotting
against the Union, and so on. ad li5itum--z
but{the majority of them have dropped it as
thoughit were hot potato, all their efforts
to make political capital out of it having
most signalIy failed, while the inhuman man
ner in which Brown was hurried to his ex-
ecution,i and the verdict of the jurys in di-
rect violation of the law and the evidence
has begun to produce a reaction in public
opinion. Fair and candid men of all par
ties see in this emeute the Legitimate result of
the attempts of the Southern and Northern
Democracy to nationalize sldoery-to force
it upon unwilling people. Col. Forney, of
the Philadelphia Press, who. it win be re-
membered, did more than any other man 10
secure the election of James Buchanan to
the Presidency, now says:
sMr. Buchanan himself is more guilty,
in a ln oral sense, for the work at Harper's
Ferry, than poor old Brown" And again:
..His (Buchahan's) attempt to carry slave
ry into the midst of hostile local opinion
| is of the same character as that of John
Brown to secure freedom to people who
would have none Of it. iii was right in
James Buchanan to force slavery upon a
people, it was right in John Brown to force
freedom upon the South. Then, authority
outside the law was precisely the same: 1t
| is unfortunate that Mr.. Buchan had not pos
sessed tie honesty Of purpose of poor old
Brown. It would have saved the credit Of
the Administrator and probably the life Of
that crazy and deluded agitator. ...,s-
= Col ,Forney is undoubtedly right. The
blood of the murdered at ,Harper's Ferry,
as we'll as tliatlof the brave Bfoderick, is
upon the shahds.5of Mr. Buchanan, and the
slavery propagandists generally. ~ fssns..-
A few days spent in the northeastern
| part of the State, among the farmers of thi''
region. copvinees me that the young men
are fast Leaving for, the West. In, fact 50
many have gone. that there are 2 scarcity
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here. and the old folks aare seriously talk
ing about following them. The only bad
feature about this exodus OF, tue young men
is. that they leave the girls behind J! They
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