Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-02-11
The Process Of Purgation.

From this Slave Rebellion, springs the
work and the duty Of casting out OF power
the men who, for the last dozen or fifteen
wears, have been aiding the Slave Oligar-
chy 10 its work of usurpation and violence,
culminatiug in perjury, theft, treason and
the blooisbed of civil war. The Kansas
Struggle is re-euac.ed, on broader scale,
aud the People begin to open their eyes
fully to secret and domestic as we'll as to
open and armed enemies. The apostacy
Of Breckenridge under such circumstances
of base ingratiiude and peTfiy, makes
men suspicious of all his former fol-
lowers-for, although very many, We are
happy to say and believe, have "renonnced
the Devil and all his woIks'-yct there
are many others who continues he'did
to cavii about Coercion aud the Ad
minis,ration, and contend, practically, tha;
our armed foe ia Rebellion should be "let
alone" or so "compromised'' with that
they can extend their thraldom OScr the
North as they have over the South. For
nearly Il years has Jesse d. BriJH, "a
renegade Northsrner) while owing slaves
in Kentucky, represented the Free State
of IGdiana in the Senate Of the Unian be
filed the Vice Presidents chair after the
death Of VIM. r. King and from the FIRST
tc the las, be proved the devoted ally of
Slavery in all its invasions of Liberty. His
thoro' disloyalty to our free institutions,
has long been undOubted-yet, TO prore
him such, has been the trouble. At length,
upon the person Of an arpreheuded Rebel,
was found the following clear and explicit
acknowledgment Of the Rebel Power, and
Of cordial "aid and comfort" to its Chief,
in his Capital" with what they most
needed, Improvement in fire arms" This
rroyideutial discovery-like the papers
found upon Andre from Arnold-c!inchcd
the evidence. The following is copy Of
the letter, in Bright's own hand:
WASHINGTON. March l, 1861.
"My Dear Sir-Allow me 10 introduce 10
your acquaintance nv friend, Thomas B.
Lincoln, of Texas. He visits your CaP!Ial
mainly to dispose of what he regards great
improvement In firearms. | recommend him
10 your favorable consideration as a gentle
man Of the first Iespectabllily, and reliable in
every respect.
Very truly yours.
IrS-E n ppIEuT
"To his Exce,lency, JtrFtRsoN DAVIS,
President of the Confederate States"
Think of that, from a Z. S. Senator-a
participant in It's secret sessions y!
Mr.. Wilkinson, the ardent, uhfiucbing
Senator from Minnesota, early in the ses-
sion, moved BrigLt's expulsion for this
overt act and proof of his personal and
substantial friendship to the Head of the
Rebellion. Bright had every chance to
defend and explain. Three Republican,
and fye Democratic, Senators from the !
North did net regard the Letter (haviug
been written under Buebanan's mal-ad-
ministraiion) as proof enough to convict,
although it would have been if written
since Pres Lincoln had commenced lis
execution Of the laws. Alter a long
debate, the question was taken on Wed.
nesday, and resulted as follows:
For Br.ghfs Erpulsioa-S2.
Fessenien and MorrI, Of Maine.
Glars and Hale, OF New Hampshire.
Sumner and Wilson, Of Massachusetts.
Coiiamer and Foole, Of Vermont.
Anthony and summons, OF Rhode Island.
Dixon and Foster, OF Connecticut.
King, oi New York.
Nllmoi, OF Pennsylvania.
Sherman and WADE, of Ohio.
Lane, of Indiana Bright not voting)
Chandler and Howard, OF Michigan.
Uoohtlle and Howe. Of Wisconsin.
williamson, of Minnesota.
Browning and Trumbui Of Illinois.
Grimes and Harlan, OF Iowa.
Pomeroy, Of Kansas-(Lane absenL)
Davis, Of Kentucky.
johnson, OF Tennessee.
Henderson and Wilson, Of Missouri.
M'Dougai, of California.
-Four from Slave Sates)
against Eypulsjon-l4.
Harris, Of New York.
Thompson and Ten Eyck, OF New Jersey. /
CoWan. of Pennsylvania.
Bayart and salisbury, OF Delaware.
Kennedy and Pierce, Of Maryland.
Carlisle aud Willy. of Virginia.
Mice, Of Minnesota.
Powell, OF Kentucky.
Latham, OF California.
NesmiIh. Of Oregon Zone vacancy9
(Segen from Slave SIales)
The traitor had foreseen bis doom,
drawn bis pay up to the last far'hing, and
made away from the Hall before the vote
was taken. No longer will be sneak into
that Senate Chamber spy of "My dear
Sir" "His Ezcelleuey, jefferson Davis,
President, "&c-tO be,ray (xhils acting ct
the same time as confidential adviser to
President Lincolu) all our plans, hopes
and fears, into the hands Of our deadly
foes One "leak," let US hope, is now
stopped-tbanks to Senator Wilkinson and
bis fellow patriots!
Among the most effective speeches .
against the masked traitor, we're those of