The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-07-13

.0OiISot4OA Ok OOOLI e400 4cdulyS as LIE
supposed war-cry for the placid Pennsyl-
vanians Booty. forsoothl In the words
of the Richmond Wing, "There is more
rich spoil within square mile of New York
and Philadelphia than can be found in the
whole of the poverty stricken State of Vir-
GINA: :" and the imaginary war-cry sug-
gesls Wilkes's joke about the immense
plumber carried off by some freebooter from
the complete pillage of seven Scotch isles
he re-embarked with three-a -sixpence.
1t might not be wise to claim that the
probable lease of life for eur soldiers is any
longer than for the Secessionists, bat it GER
tainly looks as if ours would have the credit
of dying more modestly. Indeed, the men
of the Free States, as was the wont of their
ancestors, have made up heir minds to this
fight with a SLOW reluctaHce which would
have been almost provoking but for the as
tonishing promptness which marked their
action when once begun. It is interesting
to notice how clearly the future is some
times foreseen by foreigners, while still
yelled from the persons most concerned.
Thus, twelve years before the battle of Bun
ker's Hill, the Due de Choiseul predicted
and prepared for the separation of the Amer
lean colonies from England. One month
after that, the Continental Congress still
chung to the belief that they should escape
a division. And so, some seven years ago,
the veteran French advocate Guepin, in a
most able essay suggested by the Burns af-
fair" IN Boston. prophesied civil war in
America within ten years. ''Une grande
lutte s'apprete donc." he wrote ga great
contest is at hand.''
Thus things looked to foreigners, both in
1775 and in 1854, while in both cases the
people were only yielding step by step to the
inevitable current which swept events along.
1t is the penalty of caution, that it some
times appears, even to itself, like irresolution
or timidity. Not foolish charge has been
brought against Northern energy i'll this
contest, that was not urged equally in the
time of the Revolution. The royal troops
thought Massachusetts as easy to subdue as
the South Carolinians affect to think, and
expressed it in almost the same language :
Whenever it comes to blows, he that can
run the fastest will think himself best off. -
The revolutionists admitted that "the people
abroad have too generally got the idea that
the Americans are all towards and pol
troons." A single regiment, it was gerer-
ally asserted, could march triumphantly
through New England. The people took no
Po'uS " ueny IL. Ahe guard IN DoSIon
captured fifteen thousand cartridges at a
stroke. The people did not prevent it. A
citizen was tarred in the streets by the royal
soldiery. while the band played yankee
Doodle" The people did not interfere.
''John Adams writes, there is great spirit
in the Congress, and that w must furnish
munition, but avoid war-if possible" At
Loo Jax 1Lasa da1;boroto In
made up their minds that it was time to rise
and achen they rose. everything else fell
In less than year afterwards, Boston be-
iug finally evacuated, one of General Howe s
mortified officers wrote home to England,
in words which might form a Complete
Letter-Writer for every army officer who
has turned traitor, from Beauregard down
ward: bad times, my dear friend. The
displeasure I feel in the small share have
in our present insigni6cancy is SO great
that do not know the thing so desperate
would not undertake, in order to change ouI
situation
1t is fortunate that the impending general
contest has also been recently preceded by
a local one, which, though waged under
North, yet afforded important hints by its
| IOSulio' IL WAC WOIIu Tile COSG Vi 1Atu
sas to have the lesson she taught, in passing
through her ordeal. It was not the Emf
grant Aid Society which gave peace at las
TO her borders, nor was it her shifting pan.
Drama of evanescent Governors it was tn,
sheer physical superiority of her Free State
emigrants, after they had taken up aims
Kansas afforded the important discovery, a.
some Southern officers once naively owned
oF 7 fIok C III
Patient to the verge of humiliation, the set
tiers rose at last only to achieve victor,
so absurdly rapid that it was almost new
disappointment; the contest was not s,
much series of battles as a succession o
steeple- chases. of efforts to get within sho
Missouri, Virginia and South CAROLYN
disappearing over one prairie-swemI., pre-
cisely as the Sharp's rifles of me emigrant
. appeared on the verge of the next. Tn
shareholders had immense advantages
may of the settlers were in league wit
: them to drive out the remainder; they ha
) the General Government always adm
them, more or less openly, with money
I arms, provisions, horses, men, and leaders
they had always the Missouri border to re
treat upon, and tie Missouri river to block
: ade. Yet they failed so miserably, tia
every Kansas boy at last mad his story
tell of the company of rufians whom he ba
set scampering by the casual hint ths
e Brown or Lane was lurking in the bushe:
2 The terror became such superstition, ths
: the largest army which ever entered Kan
f sas-three thousand men, by the admissio
: of both Substituted back before redout
at Lawrence garrisoned by only two hun
: dred, and retreated over the border withou
: riskiDg an engagement.
Z 1t is idle to say that these were not fa
3 specimens of Southern companies. The
were composed of precisely the same mate
] rial as the flower of the Secession army
5 flower It have. They were members of th
] first families, planters sons and embry
WigfalIs. South Carolina sent them forth
' like the present troops. with toasts an
. boasts, and everything but money. The
: had officers of some repute; and they ha
f enthusiasm with no limit except the suppl
a of whisky. Slavery was divine. and Colon
e Buford was its prophet The city of A
9 Gibson was before the close of 1857 to +
5 made the capital of 8 Southern republi.
! Kansas was to be conquered 1--WE wi
e make her Slave State, or form a chain ,
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