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White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30
Msteualrtuus.
Carl Schurz on Douglas.

One Of the ablest and most eloquen
defenders of Republican doctrines. in
the West, is Carl Schurz. Esq. Of Mil
waukse, a German naturalized Citizen
10 recent speech this gentleman review
ed the Popular Sovereignty doctrine o.
Douglas With mastery skill and effect
We give one or two extracts, showing
the spirit in which this work is executed,
though failing, of course, to do justice to
1t as whole
But what does Mr.. Douglas say p
Slavery" so be tells US in his Harper
Magazine article. slavery being the Gre
AZURE Of local legislation, and not of the
Constitution Of the United States, it fol-
lows that the Constitution does not es-
tablish slavery in the Territories, beyond
the power of the people to control it by
law" What? The Constitution does
not establish slavery in the Territories
beyond certain something. What does
that mean ? If slavery is the creature oil
local law. how can the Constitution by
rs own force permit slavery to go into a
Territory at all?
Here is dark mystery. a pitfall. and
We may well take care not to fall into
the trap Of such sophistry. Why does
ne not speak Of the admission Of slavery
oy positive snactments? Why not even
Of the power Of the people to exclude it
6y law! We look in vain for light in
harper's Magazine-(a1d it is indeed
true what Judge Black iutimates, that
that article is one Of the obscurest docu-
ments by which ever a politician sttemp-
ted to befog his fOlloWss;) but We may
gather Mr.. Douglas real opinion from
another manifesto preceding this. In his
New Orleans speech, delivered after his
recent success in Illinois. he defined his
position in substance as follows: 1.-THE
democracy Of Illinois hold that q slave
holder has the same right to take his
slave property into a Territory as any
"her man has to take his horse or his
merchandise"
What? Slavery is the creature oil
'ocai law, and yet STAKEHOLDER has the
1lgnt to take his slave property into q
IIstritory before any local law has given
nlm that right? A slave does not be-
Tome free. when voluntarily brought by
Us owner upon the soil Of q territory,
Saere no positive local law establishing
Ts'ery exists How is this possible
nov can even the elastic mind Of Dem
SaAtlc candidate for the Presidency unite
Use e contradictory assumptions. Zap,
p p.use' And yet there it stands, anG
~ S'nlng that Mr.. Douglas ever said car
more unequivocal in Its meaning. AnC
S' .s again we may claim the privilege o
NJ s~lng few logical deductions from
Ho n, Douglas own premises. If, as Mr.
douglas distinctly and emphatically tell
u. - slave holder has a right to take hi
I.IS s as property into q territory, and t.
Is" .o nlm there as property, before an,
CESSATION on that point is had. from
so H source does that right arise? No
'~ the law Of nsturs-for the right t
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

NATURAL CURIosITIEs AT THE CHICAGO
CoNvENTIoY.-The Chicago correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Times, thus describes
two Cincinnati ward politicians
Among the natural curiosities now pre-
sent, may be mentioned Brother Jeemes
and Mullet. both ardent friends of Sal
mon P. The one is low, slick and sleek
to remarkable degree, embo1ying the
qualities of the far famed Oily Cannon
and Smith. He speaks of and for Sal
mon P, claiming that no man living in
Ohio should be nominated but Salmon
P, for that would postpone his claim
for the Presidency beyond the year 1864;
and what right has any man living in
Ohio to ask a position which Salmon P.
claims, even if he can't get it! Jeemes,
early and late, presses this consideration
on the unenlightened delegates.
He has a way of his own to election
eer. He exalts Salmon P. Chase, speaks
of his strength among the Ketucky dele
gates, and states that that circumstance
should give him the united vote of the
Ohio delegation. He speaks with en-
phasis, has a sardonic grin, and wears
goggles-green at that-and goes for
Seward to defeat Wade. He and Mullet
made 9 great clamor when they were ex-
cluded from the sessions of the Ohio del
egation. Mullet, understand, held an
indignation meeting in the rotunda of
the fremont House, at which he and
Brother Jsemes were the principal spea-
kers. Mullet holds that the man of Ohio
who votes against Chase, ais dead for .
ducst," and he really means it. His
voice, of the John Randolph order, is
raised to the highest key, and around him
flock the curious. The more they come
the 6ercer he gets, until he loses himself
and his audience by the very tempest and
whirlwind of his passion. Ala for Null
let !! A few more Conventions ct which
Chase is to be nominated, will use him
up and crack that fragile voice. Chase
has gone up. and Brother Jsemss and
Mullet have gone under.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30
A Taunt Replied to.

Hon. Henry s. Lane, Republican can.
didate for Governor of Indiana, in a re-
cent speech said
Gentlemen say that we cannot go to
the South and make our speeches. A
voice-There are some men that can.
Not without being subjected to mob vi
olence. If Thomas Jefferson should
burst from the cerements of the grave
an proclaim the same principles oftruth
an justice which warmed the Declare
ton Of Independence, he would soon in
herit the martyrs crown and glory on
that fair soil which gave him birth. and
which his great name has rendered i'm
mortal. We may not go to the South
and proclaim our opinions. Gentlemen
say to me, "You could not go to the land
which gave you birth and there proclaim
the doctrines of the Republican party"
To-day, gentlemen, the humble followers
of the Savior cannot go to Jerusalem,
Nazareth and Calvary, and proclaim the
truth of the Gospel. Does that prove
that Christianity is lie? The truth is,
it is only an enduring witness against
those who reject the truth of our holy
religion. Great applause.] We may
not go to Kentucky and proclaim the
Gods truth as Henry Clay proclaimed
it. That is simply an evidence that vio-
lence overcomes the intelligence of the
people. Men are driven out for the ex-
preston of their opinions as a result
n
see that mournful procession of exiles-
men. women and children. having to
pass beneath the very shadow Of that
monument erected to the memory Of Hen
ry Clay. Go, men, with your pick-axes,
tear down that monument, and scatter its
fragments to the four winds Of heaven. or
stand up for the truth Of the principles
proclaimed by the man in whose honor
the lofty pile was erected.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30
A South Carolina Estimate.

The Charleston rs. O. News thus
estimates the prospects of the Presiden.
tial canvass
Our readers may desire to have our
opinion upon the probable results Of the
Presidential struggle. OF course, no
one can absolutely fortell what the Amer
lean people, at this fearful crisis, may de-
termine through the ballot box. Ifthey
were fully aware of its new and momen.
tous character, and that the peace of the
country and the Union itself hung upon
it, we would unhesitatingly say that
Breckenridge and Lane would be elected.
But the spirit of section and party rule
them still, and prejudice and passion IT.
resiEtably pervade the contest. Under
their influence, our conviction is appre-
hensive that Lincoln, the Black Republi-
can candidate, will be elected. If the
votes of the fifteen Southern States, and
of California and Oregon. be claimed for
Breckenridge and Lane, and they will
most probably obtain them, they only
amount to 127 in the Electoral College
consisting of 303 votes. The other (176)
votes. to be cast by the Northern States,
must, under present calculations, be con-
coded to Lincoln. In those States there
will be four electoral tickets, headed by
Douglas, Bell, Breckenridge and Lincoln.
The entire of position to the Black Repub.
licans, already in large majority in most
of them, will be divided among the par
ties Of the first three candidates, and leave
Lincoln with a plurality in every North.
ern State. 1t would be doubtful, wheth.
er in single contest between him and
any one of them, he would not carry the
whole. 1t is great mistake to suppose
that in a single contest Douglas could
carry Pennsylvania against him-that
was conceded on all sides at Washington.
Breckenridge might do it. But as it is,
Lincoln must carry it.
Our present impression is, that Doug
las will not obtain a single electoral vote.
His only chance is for Missouri-and
but chance. Bell and Everett may car
ry Virginia, Maryland and Tennessee,
under certain contingencies, and the d.
vision of the Democracy into two par
ties. But the popularity Of Breckenridge
and Lane, and the disposition of the De-
mocracy of each State to maintain its
unity, will, no doubt, sweep those States.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30
Gone Back Again |!

The Louisville Journal says an emf
grant family passed through Bowling
Green, Ky, last week, having painted or
their wagon-"All over Iowa, and back
at last" Yes, we heard of that family
as they passed through the Northern part
OF our county. It consisted of a small
man in butternut breeches and bare feet,
bat not altogether in q shirt-a scrawny
ysller- haired woman, about six feet high,
with half an ounce of snuff in one side
of her mouth and a corn-cob pipe in the
other-seven children, the Oldest eight
and half years, generally dressed in
straw hats and skinny shirts on mild
days-eleven dogs, including q litter Of
i've pups-a ricketty, creaky old wagon,
with cover composed of a coanterpane
and old calico dress, and containing the
aforesaid litter of pups, with barrel Of
red eye, side of bacon and some corn
dodgers as provisions, all drawn by lit
tie steer and an immense horse frame
work very poorly filled in. The woman
sat in the front of the wagon, q long
paw-paw CAD in hand with which she al
tsrnately banged the "team," larruped
her husband and coaxed the children into
sense. of grateful obligations for her
maternal care. dad" generally walked
about fourteen feet from the wagon to es-
cape the afsctionate attentions of his
wife, and heaved chunks and mud at the
quadrupeds and short-shirted bipeds, ex-
cept when he stopped in tho rear to have
ga shake" or wandered off to some
house to beg cold victuals. We are in
formed that when last seen hereabouts,
last fall. the family were making tracks
to Old Kaintuck, dad" vowing he
wouldn't live in no country where they
didn't raise their own whiskey and mig
gers, and declaring that all be wanted was
to get back home before the next Presi-
Dental election. which might be coming
along any day while he was mt thar. He
gist wanted to vote once more for Gin
eral Jackson, and then gin up the ghost.
We are glad to learn that he has at last
got inside of Kentucky's borders. We
understand be intends exhibiting himself
and fascinating family, as the only band
of emigrants from Kentucky who after
seeing our State actually returned to live
in the land of the "corn-crackeIs. p
Davenport Gazette.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

A Douglas paper in this city keeps
the following falsehood. as the Douglas
creed, standing at the head of its col
umns:
LET THE PEOPLE OF TIE
TERRITORIES DETERMINE
THE OUEST7ON"-DougIas.
In speech made by Douglas Febru,
sry last in the Senate-cslled his great
speech-and which was deemed his plat
form in view Of the Charleston Con
vention, he used just these words, to wit;
"I hold that no such thing as soveT
eign pOwer attaches to a EerritOry.-
C7eueldnd Herald.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

HUMoRs OF THE CANPAIGN.-The Bos.
ton Post has discovered the reason why
Hamlin was put upon the ticket nomins.
ted at Chicago. It seems that it is i'm.
possible to have Abra( ham Lin )coln or
ticket without Hsmlin being there also!
The Courier has g conundrum about the
election Why cannot Abe be elected
President &? Because be lacks one lsttsl
of being abe! The Springfield Repub.
lican thinks that the more letters be lack.
of being q Bell the nearer be will come
to an election.
The Atlas and Bee says the Republi.
cans are going to funeral. Wejudged &C
by the mourning Weed so conspicuous
in New York.-BoStos Post.
Our good neighbors forget to state thai
the funeral which the Republicans are go.
ing to is that Of the Democratic party
1t has an odd way of leaving out our i'm.
portsnt points.-Aads.
A President TO LOOK Up To-When
tall Judge Kelly of Pennsylvania was
presented by Mr.. Ashmun to Mr.. Lincoln,
as they shook hands each eyed the Others
ample proportions with genuine admira-
tion-Lincoln, for once, standing straight
Is an Indian. and showing his tall form
in its foil dignity.
whats your height ?" inquired Lin
coin.
"Six feet three: what is yours. Mr..
Lincoln 2" said Judge Kelly, in hii
round. deliberate tone.
"six feet four" replied Lincoln. r
Then" said Judge Kelly. "Pennsyl.
vania bows to Illinois. Ny dear man.
for years my heart has been aching for q
President that / could look up 70. and ]
have found him at last in the land where
we thought there were none bat lille gi-
ants"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

DID LINCOLN TEND BAR THE Men
ard County Axis, a Democratic paper
published at the place where Lincoln was
said to have blended bar" says:
Mr.. Lincoln came to this county with
Mr.. Offut, and was engaged with him
as clerk in store, and afterwards became
the purchaser Of the establishment, in
company with a man named William
Berry, who is now dead. w. G. Greene,
Esq, at present 9 citizen of this county,
was their indorser for the purchase Of the
goods. Berry was q man of dissolute
habits, and caused an early failure Of the
village concern.
The story of Mr.. Lincoln's "clerking
in common dramshop" is not altogether
correct, as we are informed by old inhabi-
tants, now residing in this place and ao-
quainted with the facts. As was custom
airy in those days, however. the "mer-
chants" besides the usual supply of no.
tions. calico, groceries, tobacco, de-,
kept "always on hand" barrel or two
of Monongahela or Old Rye. ''to be sold
in quantities to suit the purchaser.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

TEE Two CLASSES OF DENocRArs.-
Charles Lambs two orders Of men, thu
borrowers and the lenders, find . coun'
terpart in the Democratic party. Al
least we infer as much from the following
paragraph taken from the Boston Post
ga Douglas paper, in allusion to Mr.
Buchanan. questions and replies thus
"Where are his friends We are al.
most ashamed to answer that he has none
save those be has bought"
1--WE will ask q question. and answer
it. also. Who are his enemies? TAos'
he refused to bay"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

A MEDICAL MsTApHoR.-It has been
said that . man il known by his meta
phou. We need hardly remind our
readers that Senator Fitch is q physician,
when we make the following extract from
one of his late speeches. He said
"If falsehood was csnthrides, every
(Douglss) tongue would be blistersd SO
that it could never find distinct utter
ance."
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

The Liberator. edited BY VIM. Lloyd
Garrison, and the organ Of Wendell
Phillips and his associates, devotss 9
large majority Of its time and space, to
the most virulent attacks upon Mr.. Lin
coin.
We desire to commend the above par
agraph to the especial attention Of those
brainless politicians, whose mouths are
prolific with shouts OF abolitionism, in
connection with the Republican party.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30
WIDE AWAKE RAIIY1Na SONG.
BY s. NJ. WILSON.


Arr Hsuv RIv.B
Wide awake, wide awake,
This is no time for sI.ep,
Let every friend Of Freedom now,
TIL.
nj, oonD.;I f,., 81.
Thar I'll. ..,I..,k
Toh,,,I. ,-;,b ~. r.
"us s~a
= %, 'O.' .'
anu '"o" 'ne 'Oe, OF rreeuom' boys
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

A correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing from Louisville. says:
Talking of Prentice, l called on him
the other day, and found that quarter
of a century had dealt gently with him
probably because he eschewed all hot
and rebellious liquors in bis youth ]
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30
LINCOLN GRERN.

LINCOLN GRERN.
Just As the miastTels sounds were stayed,
A stranger climbed the sleepy glade;
His martial step, his stately mien,
His hunting suit Of LINCOLN GREEN,
His eagle glance, remembrance clsims-
lis Showdown knight; ris JANIS FIrz JANIS
ILIdV Of Tia Lake caato 4, S.aa.a Is.
The sounds increase, and now are seen
-Four mounted Squires in LINCOLN CRIES;
Two bear lance, and two who lead,
By lOosened rein, saddled steed.
[CaatO S, StaH.a IL.
He stood In simple LINCOLN GREEN,
The centre Of the glitteing rns-
And Snowdoun's knight is Seotland's King.
lCdato 9, StaA:a o.
Patriots noun insulted laws,
And curse the DoUGLAs for the cause
(CaAto 5, StaH;a 10.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

The census takers find great difficulty
in ascertsining the ages of girls, large
majority of them being only sixteen. In
ons family in a neighboring State there
were found to be twelve girls between ten
and sixteen years Of age
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

The only way to cool the brains Of
scne hot-hesded people is to scalp them.
Lou. Journal.
Then we suppose you would recon-
mend the cracking Of skulls to aseer-
tain whether some hot-headed people have
brains p OreH County journal.
That you have none is discoyerable
without cracking your skull.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

Hannibal Hamlin commenced life q
farmer, then worked as printer, and final
ly studied law, and was admitted to the
bar in 1882.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

At recent Douglas demonstration at
Detroit, the name Of the Little Giant,
made BY strips Of luster cloth, was pas
ted mp at one end of the ball. This was
the first real IHstsr We ever heard Of hang
ing about his name.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

Maple sugar enough was made in Yer.
mont during the last Spring. to sweeten
the coffes. once, Of every coffee dIinker on
the globe.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30
GBoitt 4oetrp.
THE LITTLE GIANT AND BIS
SHORT LEGS.
A BALLAD-Nor BY TOM MOORE.

A BALLAD-NOT BY TOM MOORE.
There was q Giant small,
Further through than he was tall,
a,d he said unto his coVies, let try, try try,
Hps cannot succeed,
Though we are of doubtful breed,)
ia F.tting the White House fore die de- die
In getting to the White House fore die.
No sooner said than done,
All the coVieI, one by one,
Amended to determine what to do, do, do;
Some for love and some for hire,
In secret did eOnspire,
To to pu, their little fellow through through, through
To Try to put their little fellow through.
Al ChsrlsIion, the accused!
All tbeis eOvies gathered first,
And for fourteen days they abOred with will, WILL viii
There they fought with might and main,
But alas! twas all in vain,
The path their Giant led them was up hiI hill. hill,
The path their Giant led them was pP hill.
So they piled them to their work, [sound
Bui while they worked heard ghOly sound, sound
"Youfe on a fools Grand bent,
lie cannot be President
His cOattas sir too the ground ground, ground
His eoattails are too near, sirs, the ground"
Then in wonder and surprise,
Stopped they all and turned their ewes,
From whence the voice proceeded to find out, out, out;
Whose the weird. prophetic tongue,
That thus III their withers wTung,
By eloudnR their desires with doubt doubt, doubt,
by couding their desires with doubt.
VI.
Then, behold! a shape of air
Twas Old Benton with a square
And his look had less of anger than of fun, fun, fun.
"See his legs" said be; "loOk here,
They're but Just one foot in clear;
Don't you know that such object rum run, ruui
Don't you know that sHek an object cannot run,"
Then the leaders OF the host,
Cured the swim receding ghost,
Fer the damage their Giant he had DONE done done;
But still the ghost replied,
A 70 spectre land he hied: Crun. runl
"DOnt yOS know that SbOCtegged monsters cannot
DOHt yea know that shOrt-Iegged monsters cannot
runi"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

About the age of thirty-six, the lean
man generally becomes fatter. and the fat
man leaner.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30
POLITICS AND LADY OF THE LAKE. ["

The "Wide-AWakes" of Auburn, n. Y, havi NJ adop.
ted greer uniform, the Union, OF that place. gives the
reason therefor The editor says that very likely it came
10 the boys by the 'Lady ofIhe Laks.rI
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-30

Msssrs. a. L. Pierce. and others, DC.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-01-27
MARRIED.

On tie 9TH inst, by Rev. Mr.. Gardiner, Mr.. W.
T. BOYD of Cheatham County, Tenn, and Miss
SARAH GERTRUDE, daughter of DR.. W. II. Kidd, of
Exchange, Ky.
nsn.. Athens Post copy.
On the 10Th inst, at Memphis, by Rev r. c..
Gundy, D. D.. II, d. TRABUE, Esq. of Louisville,
KY. to Miss MATTE H., oldest daughter Of A. d,
Witherspoon, formerly resident of this city.
In this city on Tuesday the cath inst at the res
idence of John f. House, Esq., by the Rev. W. d.
f. Sawrie, Mr. EDWARD II. GREEN, of Henderson,
Ky, to Mrs. MARTHA House. of this place.
May no distmcting thoughts destroy
The holy calm of sacred love;
May all the hours be winged with joy
That hover faithful hearts above
On the cath inst, at Graysville, KY, by the Rev.
T. D. Wardlow, Mr.. WM. T, SHAoKLEFoRp, of this
city, to Miss SALlIE t., daughter of DIR. G. L. Viii
cox.
Williaml kind friend--'to whose truth,
The fair one has entrusted her hopes, her youth,
Her very lite--Ohl guard and cherish,
Feelings, which once neglcced-perish!
Keep her fair form, and spotess mind,
Within thy heart OF hearts enshrined
BE thou the Oak, round which may Irvine,
The graceful foliage of the vine,
And ask To bless thee from above,
The precious boon of wOmnns love-
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-01-27

pe3- Al who feel an interest in the proposed
Agricultural Society should be in attendance To-
morrow Saturday, ct the Court House, where a
meeting is to be held TO- the purpose of organizing,
and electing permanent officers We understand
that nearly, if not quite, all the stock has been taken
and we see no reason why the important movement
should not at once be consummated. The town and
county arc equally interested in project so well
calculated 70 devoope the agricultural resources OF
the one, and increase the growth ofthe other. Then
let all manifest IN earnest zeal for the movement,
and resolve not only to organize the Society but to
make it as efficient as good management industry,
and ample means can make it..
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-01-27
Farm For Sale.

A splendid chance for man TO locate himself
convenient to city business, Schools Colleges, ste
This farm lays Just out Of the corporation ofClarks
vile and Providence contains geo acres fst quality
land BEGINNING at the ford above the lower Red
River Bridge, and extending up Red River TO the
West Fork of same. The most part Of Il bslhg
splendid bottom land. Eighty acres open and seed
ed 10 clover, balance In heavy timber. Good judges
saw ii win cut from 90 10 so cords to the acre.
Wood is worth from three 10 four dollars per cord =
These bottoms well set ia glass pfCduce isom two
10 three tons ,of hay % the acre Hay is worth
from $50 to sac per TN. This shows whether the
investment viii pay OF not a market farm, II has
few n any equals in the country. A comfortable
new double log house, frat rate stable. barn, or
chard and good springs, etc. The land joins my
own, and can show II at any time.
Price 20 dollars an acre-one-third cash, balance
In one and two years, with interest.
7. D. LEONARD,
Jsn a. 1880 Rsal Rststs Agent