Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-11-28

seems to suffer all the ills that Republics
can bo subject to. The latest news from
shis unfortunate locality are indeed heart
rending and deplorabls. II lis well known
that great drought pervaded the whole
Territory during the months Of July, Au.
gust and September, which caused a total
failure of the crops; and the result now
is that starvtion is carrying off It's scores
of individuals, and the universal cr,
from that long distracted and'now fam
ishing country is for Bread Bread r
We are pleased to see that an abun.
dance Of provision is furnished TO them
from the surrounding States; but how
meagre and slow, and how different the
process Of furnishing money and provi-
sions to this people now, to what it was
in 1856. Then public meetings were held
everywhere in the North. "Eniigrant
Aid Societies" were formed in several
Northern States. Henry Ward Beecher,
and number of semi-Infidel preachers,
took up collections in their respective
churches on the Sabbath day, pieache d
sermon after sermon, and exhibited zeal
worthy Of my cause and thereby suce
ceeded in collecting tens Of thousands OF
dollars, and what for' TO buy bread and
provisions? No; to buy Marp's Rifes,
to kill and destroy their fellow creatures
The people, no doubt, we'll remember the
Kansas scenes of -"Bleeding Kan
sas !" Gerrett Smith volunteered to give
SIC, 900 month TO assist the Mnssacku.
sets Emigrunt AID Society in driving out
and killing Border Rufiians," and the
Northern pulpits rang day ard night for
bleeding Kansas" Yale College was
well nigh revolutionized; agents travelling
under the especial endorsement Of North.
ern clergymen, were everywhere met So
lciting money for Kansas and for what
purpose we blush TO say it.: to commit
murder and Arson. -
Where is Beecher, Chaplin, Smith, Gree.
ley, the Browns and their allies? Where
is the Massachusetts, Aid Society, Yale
College, and the fre eedom shriekers gen.
orally. Now when the people of Kansas
staEd in need of aid and succor, these
disgraceful hypocrites remain as silent as
the grave.
For our part We canEot see how such
blasphemers and hypocrites can ever
escape 1.-The damnation CT hell" IL is
truly humliating to know that this class
Of men above named, created all the
troubles Kansas had to suffer during the
formation Of h er Territorial government,
and instead of being satisfied with the
blood they caused to be shed upon the
plains OF Kansas, they have ever since
been plotting treason against the whole
country. 1t seems that they wi!l.no. stop
until they accomplish the object of their
design, which seems 10 us 10 be nothing
less than bloody revolution.
We ask our readers to compare the
conduct Of these meu for the last ten
years, with that Of the Red Republican lea.
ders IN Europe, whose constant ory is
that of all demagogues, Freedom and
Equality" and are without exception the
most daring profigates and insidious
hypocrites that ever disgraced this earth.
Since writing the above we learn that
the notorious Montgomery, who commit.
ted numerous outrages in 1867, is again
at work, numbering and robbing the citi-
liens of the Territory. ~ r.rr
He is at the head of 500 armed men.
spreading dismay throughout the country.
The following letter from Judge Williams
to the Governor of Missouri conveys an
idea in reference to the present state of
things there /:
CLINTON, No, Nov 81 1860. |
SIR-I am here to inform the citizens
Of this State of the following facts, and
have been reques ted TO present them to
you as Governor of the State. The abo-
itionists under command of Montgomery
and director TenDysou, 10 the number of
300 to 500, armed with Sharpc's rifles,
dragons sabres, navy revolvers and bowie
knives, have suddenly commenced war
oi extreme ferocity on the law abiding
citizens Of Southern Kansas, in the coun.
ties of Lima and Bourbon. These arriy- |
ed by the wagon load, at or near Mound
City, about one month since in boxes |
marked as donations for Kansas suffer
ers. Montgomery has been in Boston du
ring great part Of the summer. ard re
turned with plenty Of money, to enlist
recruits Many of his h,en are newly i'm
ported. He has taken po session of Fort
Scott, and other towns on the border. near
the Missouri line. Ho has murdered Mr.. !
Moore, grand juror, Mr.. Harrison, Mr..
Samuel Scott, Mr.. Kinds, and obliged all
the United States officers, including my
self, to fly for our lives. His own express
sed design made in public speech, as