The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-28
NUMBER 13
Kansas "B;eedlDg, Again!

One Of the mcst significant of the No
yember election results is that of Kansas.
-" bleeding Kansas, the sacred soil
on which John Brown, jim. Lane and the
Puritan brood Of hell, fought their free
soil battles, and which since 1854 has been
made the receptacle Of all the lsms afloat
in the country. Settled by swarms Of
New England maniacs, civilized by Sharp's
rifles, educated in the political faith Of
abolition disunionism, the yilest heresies
coined in the muddled brains Of fanatics
and fools have taken root and spread like
pestilential weeds throughout its whole
territory. The more deyilish the political
dogmas the more acceptable to the people
Of Kansas--the more bloodthirsty and
criminal the acts Of the ruling and domi-
nant party Of the north the more readily
they were endorsed by Kansas. The op-
position to radiealism in that territory has
been little stronger than that presented in
Vermont or Massachusetts, and year after
year Kansas has piled up prodigious ma
jorities for the disunion faction which
" cOnsecrated her to freedom" $50 cali
|ed).
So certain were the radical leader. IN
that state of their ability to shoulder any
load that might be placed upon the party
and carry it forward to successful issue
that at the last session Of the legislature
two amendments to the constitution were
adopted by an overwhelming majority, and
submitted to the people for ratification at
the November election, the one admitting
the women, the other the nisgers to the
ballot-box.
Strange as it may appear even in Kan
sas, strong opposition Immediately sprung
up to the propositions, and it was found
necessary to thoroughly canvass the state
in their behalf. Several Of the represent
ative men of the party prowled about tho
state arguing Justify in behalf Of the mig
ger, preaching the political gospel of rad
icalisrn, irculcatng the necessity of faith
in the niger as the one thing needful;
while gang Of unsexed fema les shrieked
into the ears of listening mascnlines the
| justice of their claims to the ballot-cack-
led in every village and sctcol district; ex-
hibiteG their unworthy natures on hun
dred rostrums and platforms-impressed
into their service that compound of gas,
brass, idocy and madness, George Francis
Train, and telegraphed all over the coun-
try the information that Kansas was sure
for female sufrage-that in that young
sovereignty the entering wedge was to be
driven home, aud the politics ofthe Amer-
lean republic revolutioLized.
The two leading trollopeS and veteran
female chn-waggers Of the country, Su-
san b. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton, champion horn-blowers Of the woman's
rights creed, were in Leayenworth on the
5th, visited the polls in each ward and
gave the voters public lectures IN favor OF
female suffrage, and to add insult TO injury,
impressed into their service those poultice-
eating, bran-breaders, and nasal-whining
vocaiists, with much shirt collar, little
brains, and long hair, the debris of that
ill-fated Hutchinson family which has os-
capped mad houses and suicide, who sang
female suffrage TO the unhappy voters
Never were electors so prosecuted, but
they failed to see it," Even the jay
hawking rapscallions Of Kansas could not
stomach the double dose. the one calcUla-
ted to degrade themselves, the other their
wives daughters, mothers, and sisters. and
exercised their freemen's will by quietly
burying both amendments under something
Ike IL, 900 majority.
Will the strong-minded old women of
both sexes in Wisconsin heed the lesson
Or are they desirous of a verdict from the
- Badger" state against the ridiculous
proposition There is something repul-
sive in the very idea Of clothing women
with the right of suffrage which all tho
galIantry natural to Americans in their IN
tercourse and treatment of tie sex, cannot
yercome-besides the women OF the coun-
try. as a class, do not wish the ballot.
In addition to the reputation of female
and niger suffrage, however, the tall fash
ions have extended.to Kansas, and demo-
cratic Gains are in order there, as we'll rs
everywhere else. The dispatches tell US
that all the returns received show heavy
democratic gains, although the state will
probably give small republican majori-
ty!" Atchinson county, the home of that
blatherskite senator Pomeroy, gives de-
cided Democratic majority, the first time
since the organization of Kansas as n ter
ritorv. OF nino representatives from
Leavenworth county seven are Demo
crat.
With Massachusetts, aud Kansas of
doubtful loyalty to the rump on what soy
ereignties can they certainly relyY Or
qanize. democrats, everywhere, for tho
Campaign of lS6S--God and the people
are with us-victory is ours if We will on
" stand steadfast to principle, and firmly
bv tho ricbt-Lq Crosse Democrat.