The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-11-20
uoxR.xs On noxaon's HEAD.


One woe doth tread upon another's heel.
80 fas, they follow. Did we not know that |
the editor Ct the Commercial is deacon, |
and therefore r good man. We shonld in,-
agine the tripod in that sdnc,um bestridden |
BY some demon, for some Of the expressions
lately appearing in the Commercials editor
ial columns, in hear,!ess cruelty do out -heroi
Herod.
Last Saturday night the good people Of
Leavenworih retired to their respective and
respectable couches as ususl, and wrapping
their blankets around them laid down 10
pleasant dreams; but ere the light Of another
day called the world from slumber, came an
incendiary-a solitary horseman with
bundle Of papers under his armand in the
holy hush Of the Sabbath morning, while the
unsuspecting people lay trustinely in the
arms of Morpheus, or ere the coming king
of day had sent the FIRST gray streaks to paint
the Orient, came this emisary from Deacon
Houston with the bundle under his arm, and
dropping his papers here and there, they fell
at the doors of the people, gently - the
snow flake and damp Is the dew; then when
the head of the family went to the front door
in very scanty apparel, a. is bis wont, to
bring in the morning papers. his blood was
frozen and his peace of mind destroyed, by
reading in the Commereiol the wicked and
inhuman declaration that 'the hearts Of the
american people Grob in tumultous sympathy
~ih The struggling Cabans." Aias, this was
the unkindest cut of all. 1t Was not enough
that the struggling rebels Of Cuba should be
hard pressed bv CASTELAR,, and their captured
allies shot down like beasts of prey BY
Buriel, but now comes . deacon, in vhoee
bosom We might expect to find come little
spark of humanity. and sets upon the track
of the struggling rebels forty millions Of
American people with forty millions OF
hearts throbing with tumuituous sympathy.
Is not this the refinement Of cruelty? Alas,
alas,
'sMan's inhumanity to man,
Makes countless thousands mourn
But the trouble does not end here; the Gaze
cited above is one that we are interested in
only through feelings Of common humanity;
but here is one that comes right home to us
all and calls for action. Emboldened by his
success with tie Cuban rebels the Deacon
turns his attention TO matters at home, and
swoops down upon the pres: 10 the issue
of his paper next after the one quoted from
above, in an article bearing unmistakable
marks of deaconly paternity, be threatens 10
take "the press Of Kansas as an indiees Of the
sentiment Of tie State" Can such thingsbe and
overcome u. like summers cloud? Shall
We sit quietly down and fold our impotent
hands in idleness, while this reckless raider
upon our mother tongue, like = he-siren,
transforms us into an indices! Forbid il,
shades of Lindley Murray! We know not
what others may choose, but for US,
give us liberty or give Us syntax! There is
danger ahead, ye men of the pencils. and il
you don't want to be turned into an ire
claimable induces let the warning We have
sounded from the watch tower be echoed all
along the line. Awake. brethren of the
press, put on your strength! To your tents,
Oh, Israel!