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b>Quindaro Chindowan.
A Free-State Paper.
Vol. I. Quindaro, Kanzas, Saturday, October 10, 1857. No. 21
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HOTELS.
CARVEY HOUSE,
Corner Kanzas and Fifth Avenue,
Topeka, K. T.
C. C. Tuttle, - - - Proprietor.
Board:
Per Day, . . . . . . . $1,50
Per Week, . . . . . . . 6,00
Single Meals, . . . . . 50 cts.
PARRY’S HOTEL
Leavenworth City, Kanzas.
Corner of Shawnee and Fifth Streets.
The House lately kept by Mr. Adam Fisher,
having been enlarged by the addition of a spac-
ious dining room and kitchen, and twenty-one
sleeping apartments, and being furnished with
new beds, &c., is now open for the accomoda-
tion of the traveling public. The present pro-
praetor solicits the custom heretofore given to the
former proprietor, and of the public generally.
May 1, 1857. 12 – lt H. PARRY
WYANDOTT HOUSE,
No. 2, Kanzas Avenue, Quidnaro,
E. O. Zane, - - Proprietor.
The above House is now open for the accom-
modation of the traveling public.
May 4. 1tf.
QUINDARO HOUSE,
Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5, Kanzas Avenue,
Quindaro, Kanzas.
Colby & Parker, - - Proprietors.
A line of Hacks starts every morning for Law-
rence, connecting there with routes to every part
of the Territory.
May 4, 1857.
PHYSICIANS.
J. B. WELLBORN,
Physician and Surgeon,
Tenders his professional services to the citi-
zens of Quindaro and vicinity. The Doctor has
spent several years in practice in the West, and
flatters himself that he is thoroughly posted in
the modifications of disease in this climate.
Also, special attention paid to diseases of the
Eye.
Office, No. 38 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
DR. ANDERSON,
Who, for more than ten years has had an ex-
tensive practice in Chicago, and during the past
two years has been practicing as a Traveling
Physician in the principal cities of Mexico, and
having certificates of unrivalled success, feels
pleased to offer his services to the citizens of
Quindaro, and all others who may be so unfor-
tunate as to need a Physician.
He would further say to those who are Deaf,
or afflicted with Sore Eyes, that he has given
extra attention to curing said afflictions, and to
all who are thus afflicted he warrants to give re-
life if curable.
--Enquire at the Office of the QUINDARO
CHINDOWAN.
DR. R. M. AINSWORTH,
Office
No. 10 Kanzas Avenue.
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DR. GEO. E. BUDDINGTON,
Offers his
professional services to the citizens of Quindaro
and vicinity.
Boards at the Quindaro Hotel.
Office, No. 1 Kanzas Avenue. 1tf
LAND AGENTS.
Chas. Chadwick.
H. J. Bliss.
Chadwick & Bliss,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
Quindaro, Kanzas.
City and Town Lots, and all kinds of Real
Estate bought and sold.
Office – On Kanzas Avenue, near the Quin-
daro House. 1tf
R. P. Gray.
J. M. Walden.
R. P. GRAY & CO.,
Real Estate & Land Agents,
No. 76, Levee, Quindaro, Kanzas,
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
their care.
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Kanzas Land Agency.
BLOOD, BASSETT & BRACKETT,
General Land Agents,
Surveyors and Civil Engineers,
Quindaro & Lawrence, Kanzas.
Prompt attention given to all business en-
trusted to our care.
Information given concerning every im-
portant locality in the Territory.
Refer to
Henn, Williams & Co., Bankers, Fairfield, Iowa.
A. J. Stevens & Co., Bankers, Ft. DesMoines, Iowa.
Coolbaugh & Brooks, Bankers, Burlington, Iowa.
White, Cook & Co., Bankers, Burlington, Iowa.
Col. T. A. Walker, Ft. DesMoines, Iowa.
Col. C. Bassett, Kewanee, Ill.
Hon. G. S. Boutwell, Groton, Mass.
C. Gerrish, Groton, Mass.
L. F. Potter, Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 4th, 1857. 1tf
M. B. Newman.
R. M. Ainsworth.
Newman & Ainsworth,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Quindaro, K. T.,
Will attend Promptly to all Business in their line.
Office, No. 10, Kanzas Avenue.
References:
Hon. M. H. Nichols, M. C.- - - - - - - Lima, O.
Hon. Wm. Lawrence, C. P. Judge, Belfontaine, O.
Hon. Wm. White, C. P. Judge, Belfontaine, O.
Dunlevy, Drake & Co., Bankers, Cincinnati, O.
Henry Kip, Supt. U. S. Express, Buffalo, N. Y.
J. F. Ritcherdson, Mo. Express, St. Louis, Mo.
May 4, 1857. 1tf.
Quindaro Chin-do-wan.
J. M. WALDEN, . . . . . . EDITOR.
Saturday, October 10, 1857.
One by One.
BY CHARLES DICKENS.
One by one the sands are flowing,
One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going,
Do not strive to grasp them all.
One by one thy duties wait thee,
Let thy whole strength go to each;
Let no future dream elate thee,
Learn thou first what these can teach.
One by one (bright gifts from Heaven,)
Joys are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, to let them go.
One by one thy griefs shall meet thee,
Do not fear an armed band;
One will fade as others greet thee,
Shadows passing through the land.
Do not look at life’s long sorrow;
See how small each moment’s pain;
God will help thee for to-morrow,
Every day begin again.
Every hour that fleets so slowly,
Has its task to do or bear;
Luminous the crown, and holy,
If thou set each gem with care.
Do not linger with regretting,
Or for passing hours despond!
Nor thy daily toil forgetting,
Look too eagerly beyong,
Hours are golden links, God’s token,
Reaching Heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere thy pilgrimage be done.
HOPE.
Hope, of all passions, most befriends us here;
Passions of prouder name befriend us less.
Joy has her tears; and transport has her death;
Hope, like a cordial, innocent tho’ strong,
Man’s heart at once inspirits, and serenes;
Nor makes him pay his wisdom for his joys;
‘Tis all our present state can safely bear,
Health to the frame, and vigour to the mind!
A joy attemper’d! a chastis’d delight!
Like the fair summer ev’ning, mild and sweet!
‘Tis man’s full cup; his paradise below!
YOUNG.
And then, that hope, that fairy hope,
Oh! she awak’d such happy dreams,
And gave my soul such tempting scope,
For all its dearest, fondest schemes!
MOORE.
MEN ARE often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with hills of credit, and seldom draw to the full extent.
A GENTLEMAN. – It takes four things to make a thorough gentleman. You must be a gentleman in your principles a gentleman in your tastes, a gentleman in your manners, a gentleman in your person.
THOSE WHO, in consequence of superior capacity and attainments; disregard the common maxims of life, ought to be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, being continued, will make knowledge useless and genius contemptible.
“A. M.” and “P. M.” – At Polegate Railway station, (Brighton and South Coast,) as two countrymen were examining a time-table, the following conversation was overheard – “Bill, what is the meaning of A. M. and P. M. at the top?” The other replied, “Why, don’t you know, A. M means ‘alfpenny a mile, and P. M. means a penny mile.”
Ye Valorous Editor.
It will be seen that one of our contemporaries has been cutting up a strange “dido” for so discreet a man as he; if the following paragraph from a letter in the Missouri Democrat be true:
“An exciting incident occurred yesterday in our usually quiet town. A young gentleman named Brown, employed in the Republican office called on an acquaintance who works in the Herald of Freedom office to obtain some money, which the latter was owing him. The Herald of Freedom office is the upper story of a tall stone building and is reached by a flight of stairs on the outside. George Washington Brown, of the Herald of Freedom noticed the young man Brown of the Republican office ascending his steps, and immediately followed him up and ordered him to leave his house. The young man promised to do so as soon as his business with his friend was settled. G. W. Brown repeated his order to leave. The young man soon after taking his departure was encountered at the angle of the stairway by G. W. Brown, who unceremoniously pushed him down stairs, at the same time giving him a kick to accelerate his speed. The young man upon reaching terra firma gath!
ered a piece of wood, with which to defend himself. G. W. Brown then drew a revolver from his pocket and took aim upon the young man. The cap exploded but the pistol accidentally missed fire. The distance between the two parties was not more than fifteen feet. The community were very much exasperated at G. W. Brown for his cowardly attack. Mild counsel however prevailed, and quiet was soon restored.
From the New Haven Daily Palladium.
Reply to the President.
TO HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES BUCHANAN,
President of the United States.
In July last, a number of citizens of Connecticut addressed to you, as Chief Magistrate of this nation, a Memorial on the affairs of Kansas. To this you replied, under the date of Aug. 15, 1857, in a manner which shows that you misunderstood, to some extent, the ground taken by the Memorialists, for we would not impute to you the intention to misrepresent them. As you have though proper to lay the Memorial and Reply before the public, a large part of the Memorialists have conferred on the subject, and have felt themselves compelled again to address you. We would remark, then, that the main facts alleged in that Memorial are either passed over without denial, or are explicitly avowed in your reply.
These facts are two: First, “that the fundamental principle of the Constitution of the United States and of our political institutions is that the people shall make their own laws, and elect their own rulers.” Secondly, “that Gov. Walker of Kanzas openly represents and proclaims, that the President of the United States is employing through him (Walker) an army, one purpose of which is to force the people of Kanzas to obey laws which are not their own, nor of the United States; but laws which, it is notorious, and established upon evidence, they never made, and rulers they never elected.” As to thses two facts, the material facts alleged by your Memorialists, and which chiefly require vindication from you, they say that they find no denial of them in your reply. – They do not say that you have attempted no vindication of your acts and doings through Gov. Walker; but only, that they can find in your reply no plain or explicit denial of the facts ref!
erred to – not even what they consider the shadow of a denial. These facts stand in the Memorial then, uncontradicted, by what you evidently consider a triumphant Reply. Why is this? Are these assertions, on which the whole subject at issue depends, untrue – and yet no denial of them – not a word to prove them untrue? Without such denial, what can you expect your Memorialists and the country to believe and to say? What, but that the facts, which they allege, are notorious, and undeniable?
As to the allegation respecting the fundamental principle of the Constitution, your Memorialists hope that the time is remote when the enlightened citizens of this country will deny that principle; through party zeal, in its infatuation, may one day trample it in the dust, when, in sight of the ruin, Liberty and Religion in exile will together weep over the desecration.
Your FORMAL VINDICATION next demands notice.
Of this your Memorialists are compelled to say that, in their view, it is entirely groundless and unsatisfactory.
Resting it solely on what you call “the plainest and most palpable historical facts,” you say that, at the time of your inauguration, “you found, in fact, the Government of Kanzas as well established as that of any other Territory.” You then ask, was it not my duty to sustain this government – to prevent it from being overturned by force; in the language of the Constitution, “to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” You then add: “It was for this purpose that I ordered a military force to Kanzas to act as a posse comitatus in aiding the civil magistrates to carry the laws into execution.” Here, then, is the distinct admission and declaration on your part, that you ordered a military force to Kanzas for the purpose of sustaining its Territorial Government, and of enforcing its Territorial laws. So far, then, in respect to one matter of fact, you admit the assertion of your Memorialists.
Your vindication, therefore, rests upon the assertion that there was in fact, a Government in Kanzas – such a Government as it was your duty to sustain. The essential question, on which the whole controversy turns, is thus raised; it is simply this: Was there a Government, or were there laws, in Kanzas, in the just, proper, and authorized meaning of the language, “when you entered upon the duties of the Presidential office on the 4th of March last?”
If this can be proved to be true, your Memorialists will know something which they have yet to learn. If it can be proved not to be true, “it will present a memorable example of the truth, that political prejudice is blind even to the existence of the plainest and most palpable of historical facts.” Nor is this all. It will show that you ordered an army to Kanzas to sustain a so-called Government which is not a Government, and laws which are not laws.
Here your Memorialists take the position, that NOTHING CAN BE TRULY GOVERNMENT OR LAW WHICH HAS NOT AUTHORITY; and that NOTHING SHOULD BE TREATED AS GOVERNMENT OR LAW WHICH PRESENTS NO EVIDENCE OF AUTHORITY.
Can anything which tramples under foot all human rights, and is a known outrage upon our Constitution and our political institutions, whatever be its name or form, be justly regarded as government or law having authority under our Constitution? Can such an outrage be clothed with authority by a President, Senate, Congress, or a whole Congress of Presidents. Can usurpation beget a valid government or law, or impart that right to govern which implies an obligation to obey? Its might may make it a matter of prudence to avoid its wrath by submission, but can usurpation create an obligation to obey when none exist?
Suppose the Great Mogul, or any other tyrant, had established the same so-called government and laws of Kanzas by the same means by which, as all the world knows, they are established – by invasion and arms – would any citizen of the United States call them “government and laws,” except in derision and with loathing? Is a bogus government – government? Are bogus laws – laws? Is this “government established,” and are these “laws enacted” – and yet known to possess no other or higher authority than that derived from BORDER RUFFIANS? Are “We, the people of the United States” to be stultified into the belief of such a dogma? For that result, wait at least for the more absolute dominion of a tyrant.
Your Memorialists will now present what they consider the fundamental error of your reply. In their view, in recognizing the Territorial Government and laws of Kanzas as a genuine Government and valid laws, you have perverted the general principle upon which you rest your vindication, and have violated its essential spirit and meaning.
That general principle may be thus stated: When rules of action, claiming to be valid laws, present on the first aspect, evidence that they proceed from the rightful law-making power, it is the duty of the people and the executors of law to recognize them as authoritative. To this, as a general principle, your Memorialists subscribe. It is the only means of giving practical authority to law, and of preventing violence and anarchy; nor do they yield to any man or class of men a higher estimate of its importance, or a firmer determination to adopt and defend it, than themselves cherish. But to say that ALL governments and ALL laws, claiming to be valid, must be recognized, executed and obeyed as such, is as preposterous as to deny the general principle itself. To mistake the general rule for a universal rule, the conditional for an unconditional principle, must lead to false reasoning and to practical conclusions of the most dangerous character. This, in t!
he view of your Memorialists, who believe that none are too wise or good to err, is what you (they trust inadvertently) have done.
In recognizing the Territorial Government and laws as authoritative, have you not violated the whole spirit and meaning of the general principle laid down? Have you not wholly disregarded the essential condition, that the only government which it is your duty to sanction must present some evidence of rightful authority? You recognize the Territorial laws as valid. What is this, but to act upon the principle that, when the so-called government and laws come before you, without the shadow of evidence of their proceeding from a rightful law-making power, but with the most decisive and overwhelming proof that they have originated in a palpable and violent usurpation – that even then – even in a case so flagrant, it is your duty to sustain and execute them, even by the armies of the United States?
Your Memorialists are here anxious to call your attention to an important distinction, which you appear entirely to overlook. They readily concede that, in cases of no unfrequent occurrence, one government may properly recognize another as authoritative, or as a government de facto, on a very low degree of evidence, without rigidly investigating its authority, or even considering its origin. For example, the Government of Great Britain, when Louis Napoleon was enthroned in France by the army of the Empire, and with the acquiescence and consent of the people, had no right to interfere with a government thus “established.” The British as a foreign Government had no right of question or of control in the matter. But does it follow, because the Government of Great Britain had no right to interfere with what was an undeniable usurpation in a foreign kingdom, that the Government of the United States had no right, and were not bound to interpose and put !
down in one of their own Territories, a ruffian usurpation from Missouri? In respect to France, there was reason enough why other nations for purposes of national intercourse should recognize its present government as an “established government.” But is not the Constitution of the United States the supreme law of the land? Has not our Government the right to authorize and regulate the government of its own Territories? Can Congress or the President abandon this right, or the duty which arises from it? If this Government owes any duty whatever to the country, is it not most sacredly bound to protect both State and Territory against the imposition of a government and laws by a Ruffian and violent invasion from another State? Your Memorialists, then, strenuously insist that the only principle on which recognition can ever be justified, is that there is some evidence, be it more or less, that the government PROCEEDS FROM AN AUTHORIZED LAW-MAKING POWER. And they fur!
ther insist, that when such government is within our own borders, under the supervision and control of the Federal Government and claiming to derive all its sanction from a law of Congress, THE EVIDENCE OF ITS AUTHORITY MUST BE CLEAR AND DECISIVE. But how is it when there is no such evidence? – How is it when all the evidence is strong against its authority? How is it when there is the best evidence the case admits of, even decisive, unquestionable proof, that the so-called government had no other authority than ruffianism and outrage? Is such a “government” to be practically recognized and that too within the limits of our own republic? There surely may be cases in which it would be gross wrong to sustain a Territorial Government which has no authority. And now, we ask, what government could you refuse to sustain, if not one that had its origin SOLELY in a violent invasion of ruffians from another State. This fact in the present case can be denied; so can God, when h!
is sun shineth in the heavens.
This usurped Government cannot be sanctioned by the law of Congress authorizing the formation of a Territorial Government. The law declares that “the true intent and meaning of this act is to leave the people (of the Territory) perfectly free to regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.” TO THE PEOPLE, and them alone, it expressly gives the right to make their own government and laws. Here is no sanction, no authority, for a government not framed by the people, but founded solely on invasion. Can this law enthrone in rightful sovereignty bandits from a neighboring State? As well say that it authorized them to seize every acre of Kanzas, for their own use and behoof. It can as well deprive the people of one right as of another, of all rights as of one. It is said, “that Congress authorized the establishment of a government.” Yes; but by the people, not by marauders. It is further said, “that we must adhere to!
a general principle.” What principle? Why, as your whole argument implies, “that a government established” is a government to be recognized. We deny such a government in Kanzas. Beware how you stretch a general principle, and make it universal. Though one may safely pass the Niagara River at all other points and places, none but a madman would attempt the passage on the verge of the cataract!
Your Memorialists urge, therefore, that the so-called Government of Kanzas can claim no sanction from the act of Congress. The evidence was all against it – evidence known to the whole civilized world, apparent on the very face of the transaction, and which must have challenged your attention long before you had taken the oath of office. The very fact that the so-called Government required support from the Federal Executive was the strongest evidence that it did not come from the people, and had no lawful authority. This shows, at once, that this Government was not, in the lowest sense, what you call an “established Government;” for it shows that it was not and could not be established without a United States army; and, therefore, the army was sent, not, as you pretend, to sustain an “established Government,” but for the purpose of establishing what was not established – a Government of ruffian authority.
Nor could you have been ignorant that the House of Representatives had sent a special Committee of Investigation to the Territory and thus acknowledged and confirmed the propriety of a strict inquiry into this very case. On the report of that Committee the House of Representatives authoritatively declared that the Government of Kanzas was established by the terror of bowie knives and revolvers, and that it had been proved to have not a shadow of authority. And here your Memorialists ask, whether a plainer case or stronger evidence can well be imagined? When, if not in such a case, ought the President to denounce a government as spurious, and to refuse to aid or sustain it? The laws of Congress trampled in the dust – the invaders from Missouri proved, beyond a cavil, to be the only authors of this “government” – is it not an outrageous wrong to hold Kanzas subject to such usurpation by a United States army? The fires of ruffianism still burn there smothered in the drea!
riness of their own desolation, and ready to be rekindled in their fury by the slightest movement for Liberty and Right on the part of the people, while the echo of their sufferings ever rings in the ears of our National Executive.
Let it be remembered, that this Government comes to the people of Kanzas not with the sanction of gray antiquity, nor yet has it come from any law of Congress as its true and proper source, nor yet from the people of the Territory, nor yet from being even fully established. It is of recent origin and formation. It dates only from the imposition of it by the ruffianism from Missouri, upon the people who abhor and disown it. Every man who has, from the first, known its existence, has known its origin and its nature. Let it then be taken as it is; as it is, in its origin and its nature. And what is it? A code of laws oppressive, unjust, cruel, outrageous without a parallel, created, imposed, by the usurpation of ruffians from Missouri. And these laws, and this “Government,” without the least evidence to establish their authority, but with the most abundant proofs to the contrary, you are proposing to sustain and execute by the United States army! You speak of “num!
bers of lawless men,” &c., alluding evidently to the Topeka Constitution. Be it so, for the sake of the argument; but how does one “lawless attempt” to establish a government, justify or palliate another lawless attempt, for the same purpose?
Futher: In your reply you seem to your Memorialists to concede, in all its truth and force, the principle which they maintain. Thus you unequivocally and justly assert that “for a portion of the people of Connecticut to undertake to establish a separate Government, within its chartered limits for the purpose of redressing any grievance, real or imaginary,” would be usurpation, and add that “such a principle, carried into execution, would destroy all lawful authority, and produce universal anarchy.” Your Memorialists full subscribe to this doctrine. But what is the act which you call usurpation in the case supposed? What is it but setting up a Government claiming authority, and laws demanding execution, which, in the nature of the case, can claim no authority and are opposed to existing authority? If you would call this “usurpation” in Connecticut, if it would “destroy all legal authority and produce universal anarchy,” what is this but the very act which Missouri invaders ha!
ve perpetrated in Kanzas? There was Government in Kanzas – government under the Constitution of the United States Law was there also, a law for the organization of Government BY THE PEOPLE OF THE TERRITORY. Right, too, was there; the inviolable right of the people to make their own laws and elect their own rulers. In opposition to the existing Government, in violation of that existing law, trampling upon those inherent rights, Missouri invaders have set up a bloody tyranny, which has, in fact, produced anarchy and bloodshed. If you condemn the one, condemn the other also. Your Memorialists have nothing to ask of you in this matter but consistency of principle. – Condemn the same conduct in both cases; put down the usurpation in Kanzas, and the friends of truth, justice, and of the country, would rejoice.
Your Memorialists again ask, whether a case can well be imagined, to which the name of authoritative government could be applied with more palpable impropriety and untruth, than to the Territorial Government of Kanzas? Might not even political shamelessness blush to call it by such a name? Was not the true and only character of this Government known to you and the whole country before your inauguration, and during the Presidential canvass? Did you not, with the full knowledge of it, accept your nomination, which you were free to decline, and thus avoid the responsibility of executing these nefarious laws; or, did you suppose that the oath of office would exempt you from this responsibility? You admit the Constitutional duty of the President to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” And now, without holding you responsible for any acts of your predecessor, for which you are not fully sanctioned, your Memorialists would ask, was there no law to be taken care of, by !
preventing a well-known projected invasion of the political rights of the people of Kanzas? no law to be taken care of afterward by expelling the invaders from the Territory? no law to be taken care of in respect to the thefts, the robberies, the incendiarism and the murders that were perpetrated? no law to be taken care of in the mode of civil administration adopted by Federal officials? no law to be taken care of in not appointing officials whose hands were red with innocent blood, or in removing bribed and perjured judges? no law to be taken care of by securing to the people of the Territory that fundamental right of the Constitution – a right guarded by an express law of Congress – the right “to make their own laws, and elect their own rulers?” no law to be taken care of in giving to Congress information at least of the state of the Union, and especially in recommending necessary and expedient measures for the relief of the people of Kanzas from the injustice, the oppres!
sion and the barbarities to which they were subjected? Had then Great Britain any such laws to take care of in France; when the present Emperor was enthroned there by usurpation, as those which our Government – our President – was bound to take care of in our own Territory? – In utter neglect of these laws, have you not, with a full knowledge of the nature of this usurpation, its origin, its progress, its violation of Constitution and of fundamental rights, its violence, its rapine, its massacre, its conflagration, and its shame, sustained at every step its authors and abettors to this hour? Have you not sanctioned such conduct by placing, or retaining, prominent leaders therein in official stations?
Again, are the troubles and calamities of Kanzas the legitimate results of the wise administration – of the true and right working in such an exigency – of our national Government? the most perfect specimen of human government the world has seen – to our own admiration, the perfection of excellence. Surely, such results bespeak some derangement, some disturbing force in the evolutions of a machinery so fitted to do good, so powerful to is high design.
But if your example in administration, and that of your predecessor in office, are to be followed in future, whenever similar cases shall occur – if every usurpation of power, when it has gained a temporary success, is henceforth to be backed by the whole power of the Federal Government, and forced upon the indigent people on whom, by fraud or violence, it had imposed itself, where will the end be? How often will such crises actually occur, resulting from the very nature of our Government, with such a principle in its administration to originate and foster them? What a temptation to party-spirit, thus unrestrained, emboldened, upheld by the Government of the nation, would be furnished to carry out its schemes and its triumphs in violence and bloodshed! What shall hinder? Let the administration of the Government change hands and such changes may be frequent – how surely would the same contests be re-enacted by way of reprisals for past injuries and oppressions! How would such!
contests be repeated in Territories and in States, till to your own mind, would be revealed, in the very principle which you assume, a weakness in our Government foretelling its speedy dissolution.
Of the particular considerations which you have endeavored to support the fundamental principle of your reply, the first which demands notice is that, “when you entered upon your official duties, Congress had recognized the legislature (of Kanzas) in different forms, and by different enactments.” Had you informed your Memorialists what these “different enactments” were, they might have been made the subject of distinct examination. As it is, they can only say that they know of no “forms or enactments” of Congress which could be binding on you as authoritative, or which you had reason even to regard as evidence of the validity of that Legislature. Do you refer to the act by which the usual appropriations from the Treasury were made? Every one knows in what manner and for what reason that act was passed, and that many who voted for it regarded, and still regard, the Territorial Legislature as downright usurpation; nor had they any suspicion that they were recognizing its valid!
ity. How this bill can invest an act of usurpation with authority, your Memorialists are unable to discover. – What if the Legislature of Connecticut had, under the excitement of party strife, even by a formal act, recognized the usurpation which you have supposed, might not the Governor justly fall back upon his own official prerogative, call out the militia, and suppress the rebellion? If he would be bound to recognize such an usurpation as government having authority, when could he ever suppress it without himself becoming a rebel against the
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Saturday, Oct. 10, 1857.
News Item - Mr. Gratmeaf; clerk of the Polar Star (???) greatly obliged us by bringing us late St. Louis and New York daily papers.
News Item - Mr. A. Robinson jr., clerk of the Lightning Line streamer, New Lucy, will please accept our thanks for late papers in advance of the mails.
News Item - Mr. A. C. Carter, Messenger of the United States Express, has furnished us with a file of late St. Louis and New York papers.
Later.
We have just received intelligence assuring us that the Free state party certainly have nine members of the Council and a majority in the House, unless immense and fictitious majorities aside from the soldier vote be sent in from the unknown region towards the Rocky mountains.
The Election.
We receive the returns slowly. Marcus J. Parrott is elected beyond a doubt, and probably by from 4000 to 5000 majority. With the figures before us the character of the Legislature is still a matter of conjecture. The following are counties heard from:
Johnson, (???) Free-state 337 Slave-state
Douglass, 1093 " 183 "
Franklin, 24(???) 3 "
Andersos, 261 " 103 "
Jefferson ( not full)488" 2 "
Atchison, 57 Slave-state (???)
Shawnee, 600 Free-state "
Lykins, 275 " "
We think it certain that the Free-state party has carried the 7th, 10th, 11th and 18th Representative Districts making 18 members; the Pro-slavery, the 1st, 2nd and 17th with 13 members. The latest reports give the 3rd District with 5 members to the Free-state party, and it can hardly be doubted that they have carried the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15, and 16th with 3 members, as this section has been strongly Free-state, making in all 21 members-- a majority of three in the Assembly, even if the other districts should give a Pro-slavery majority. To the Senate the Pro-slavery party has elect 3 members from the 1st District and 1 from the 2nd and the 10th with 1 member has gone Free-state. Until the 3rd, 4th and 5th Districts are heard from the result will be in doubt. These may go Pro-slavery but from the character of the inhabitants the probabilities are on the side of the Free-state party. Hence we feel hopeful that our party has secured both branches of the Legislature, but !
if not we think one branch is ours beyond a doubt which will enable us to frustrate them in their designs upon the people. We understand that the returns which have already been sent to Lecompton, show a smaller vote than was polled by the Free-state men. How much the minions of the slave power may tamper with the returns, and what may be the result of their villainy is beyond conjecture.
THE RESULT AT HOME.
By the showing of the Poli books our county is lost. It is little more than we expected. The Slave-state party went into this election intent upon defeating the will of the majority. The distribution of the members of the Legislature to be chosen was made to conserve that end. The six months voting qualification was rigidly enforced to cut off that Free-state emigration which has so greatly augmented our population since the first of last April. And aside from this in Leavenworth county a more desperate because a more degrading and humiliating game was played to carry the day. The Slave-state party here had to swamp its true character; to abandon before the world the object to accomplish which it previously disregarded all (???) public opinion: to assume so far as may be the mantle of that party it had loathed, despised and persecuted, yea had to produce a piebald ticket upon which its veteran champions were associated with those who they (if their profession be true)!
one year ago would have been denounced as "d----d abolitionists." And with all this duplicity, all this abandonment of party dignity of the slave-state men had to turn to Kickapoo, that vilest hole which now disgraces our soil, as the place wherein to pile up a vote necessary to gain them a temporary triumph. It is meet and proper that this should be so, that this party which has actually stolen the livery of liberty to serve slavery in, should rely upon the haunt of the Kickapoo Rangers for that preponderating vote over which it is now chuckling. There is to us a pleasure in the thought that even under the six months regime every other point in the county save one is positively Free state. There is consolation in the reflection that our enemies were compelled to acknowledge the strength and weight of the Free-state sentiment by their nominations and their canvass, in order to poll the number of votes which now stand recorded in their favor. In this view of the matter!
it is a Free-state triumph--a triumph of the Free-state sentiment--an annihilation of a party that has persecuted our people and denied our territory. In regard to the vote at the Kickapoo there is something mysterious, something that will require as explanation to make it (???) to the People, and as Gov. Walker was there in person we shall hope to see the matter (???) in that dignified and satisfactory manner in which we discharges all his duties. We are anxious to know how it is that a Precinct which only contains about (???) hundred (???) hundred (???) less than (???) Kickapoo, a miserable village (???) and fanatical Slave-state sentiment rolled up more than two-thirds as many votes as the largest and most thrifty town in all Kanzas. Some explanation has already been given. A number of soldiers are known to have voted there, and a very respectable Pro-slavery man who was present at Kickapoo on the day of the election was advised by His Excellency to cast in a ballot,!
to help checkmate a similar game by the Yankees in other parts if they should play it. Other Missourians voted there. Murder will out.
THE BUCHANAN MYSTERY.
In his recent reply to the Connecticut Memorialists, Mr. Buchanan spoke as follows:
"Slavery existed at that period--when the Kanzas and Nebraska bill was passed-- and still exists in Kanzas under the Constitution of the United State. This point has at last been decided by the highest tribunal known to our laws. How it could ever have been seriously doubted is a mystery."
This occasioned much comment.-- It has been severely criticised and violently denounced by presses throughout the entire North, has been applauded by presses in the south and those Northern auxiliaries that are ever ready to set in so soon as the key-note is sounded. If, by this language, the President intends to signify that he has adopted the Calhoun Doctrine, as the South claims he has, we, with many of our countrymen, think that he not only merits unqualified condemnation now, but also an infamy in the future parallel with that which justly blackens the memory of Benedict Arnold. But if he intends this merely as the statement of an existing fact, there may be considerations which ought to remove to a greater or less extent, the grounds, both of Northern asperity and Southern exaltation. We do not say that such is the case, or that what exasperates the one party and gratifies the other can be modified, but the bearing which it has upon the future of Kanzas, prompts us !
to make an inquiry, which, if the true answer be in the affirmative it will relieve the above assertion by Mr. Buchanan of a portion of that, at least, apparent heiniousness, which has incensed multitudes of his countrymen. We ask if slavery existed in the Louisiana Purchase after it was ceded to the United States by France, by virtue of stipulations contained in the Purchase treaty of 1803? If the whole of that territory was slave soil, or only that portion of it on which slaves were actually held? We admit that we are not sufficiently versed in the history of this Purchase to answer these inquiries, but for reasons we shall presently state, it is important that the people of Kanzas should be fully informed upon the subject. We know that it has been held by some, that the whole Louisiana Purchase, by virtue of the treaty with France is slave soil, and from our partial knowledge of it, we may have been inclined to adopt this view, believing however at the same time that!
congress possessed the power to fortify any and all territories against the inroads of slaver, and that it was not only the province but also the duty of Congress to do so. We find an answer to the above inquiries in a speech made in Congress by Mr. Richardson of Illinois, upon the Compromise Measures of 1850 in the following words:
"The Missouri Compromise also abolished slavery north of 36 degrees and 30 minutes. That Compromise was passed, not to keep the territory free north of that latitude, but because the laws of Louisiana, when we acquired it, (???) recognized slavery, and carried it consequently, unless repealed, to all the territory."
If this be a correct statement of facts then since the repeal of the Compromise of 1820, slavery has existed in this territory as Mr. Buchanan has stated in his Reply. If Mr. Buchanan in saying that slavery "exists in Kanzas under the Constitution of the United States," simply means that it is so because the Constitution has been extended over a country whose social character was fixed at a previous period, it is a farce of words like that of Gov. Walker in saying "That not only under the act of the late Territorial Legislature but under the law of congress" the people who should vote, and is not only harmless but is as far from being becoming and dignified as it is from being manly and honorable. But if we are to understand that it exists here under and by virtue of the Constitution, then indeed will the American people have good cause to smite their breasts and go in sackcloth and ashes for having elevated to the Chief Magistracy of the land a man who has it not in his h!
eart to conceive of the noble spirit in which our system of self-government was instituted. Slavery is an (???) condition, local in its nature and sustained by positive law. The Constitution is an instrument specifying the powers delegated by the several states to the National government, among which there is neither a direct nor an implied power to fasten manacles upon an human being. It was ordained by our fathers to secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity and either vested the National government with the sufficient authority to (???) that end, or (???) and futile instrument. Holding that it was fully competent for the glorious purposes for which it was framed, we have never doubted that (??) to Territorial (???) where slavery (???) by (???) the Louisiana purchase. But on the other hand we have never, believed that any power was delegated to Congress to (???) the admission of new Slave states. Any person who either as a private citizen or p!
ublic man (???) that the Constitution makes Freedom the creature of law and Slavery the normal condition of American society, slanders the memory of our Fathers by the opinions he entertains of one of their noblest creations. If that person be James Buchanan clothed as he is in the highest authority in our land, and honored with the greatest distinction within the gift of the people, he should become a hissing and a by-word. And now to the practical results upon Kanzas, in which we are all directly interested. It matter very little so far as our Territory is concerned, whether slavery exists her under the Calhoun doctrine, or under the law of Louisiana. It does make a difference so far as a great principle is involved, and in regard to other territories in which we are as much interested as the people of the South. The time is fast approaching when a Constitution will be formed for Kanzas. The character of that instrument is a matter of varied conjecture. If it is si!
lent on the subject of slavery as it has been supposed it may be, under it slavery will exist here as much as though established by an express clause, if the law of Louisiana by virtue of the Purchase-treaty makes this slave soil. Upon this subject we wish our people to be awake. They have in the field against them an enemy that is ready to practice any species of guerilla warfare to defeat their will and circumvent their wishes. We cherish a confidence that the people of Kanzas will indignantly spurn from them any instrument that may emanate from the fraudulently elected Convention that is usurping the power to frame the organic law of our State, but if they are not disposed to consign any instrument to oblivion that the Bogus convention may make, we do hope they will vote down and crush out one that may be silent upon Slavery, if the above view of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise be correct.
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.
It would be a prolix and ungracious task to present anything like a detailed account of the results of that financial crash which is seen and felt in every portion of our country. It was inaugurated by bank failures, and to these institutions a Public despoiled by the suspension of business, and pinched by hard times, is ready to ascribe the (???) work. We doubt not there has been recklessness upon the part of Bank managers, as well as recklessness in other departments of business, and that this has precipitated a crisis which must sooner or later have come as the legitimate fruits of that system of political economy which has obtained in our government, in respect to our commercial interchange with other nations. For years our Imports have exceeded our Exports by several millions of dollars annually, and the deficit is made up by draughts upon the silver and gold currency and bullion in our country. -- The statistics show that within the last year there has been a balanc!
e against us in our foreign trade, amounting to more than fifty-six millions of dollars. The balance of trade has been largely against us for years. The gold and silver of our country has been shipped to other countries to make up that balance. To this depletion of our specie currency, more than anything and all things else may the present (???) State of business be attributed. It requires no elongated demonstration to show that had the $300,000,000, $400,000,000 or $500,000,000 thus carried from our business circles been retained here under the operation of a sensible Tariff, the coffers of our country, instead of being empty would be full whilst, instead of the disruption we now see Public Improvements would be advancing, Manufactures would be flourishing, Business men would be active and Agriculture would have a paying and cash market for her Products.
THE U.S. EXPRESS.
This Express Company recently completed arrangements to extend their line from St. Louis to Kanzas, and is now in operation by way of the Pacific Railroad and Lightning Line Steamers. At St. Louis they make direct communication with all the (???) they have running to different points in the Union. This arrangement will be a great accommodation to the people of Kanzas. It will be possible for them to receive articles through from the remotest acaboard city with dispatch. For the transmission of valuable packages, money, etc., this line will be found much more expeditious and safe than the mail. We bespeak for it a heavy patronage from business men and others in our Territory. The Messengers will be found to be obliging and courteous gentlemen and attentive to the interest and wishes of their patrons.
News Item - There will be preaching in the M. E. Church, tomorrow at 10. o’clock. There will also be prayer meeting in the evening.
(???) is built by an experienced (???) boat builder expressly for Quindaro and if any boat can navigate the Kanzas river she can. While the water in the Kanzas is less than eight inches on the bars, she will run between Quindaro and Parkville, and be used for ferrying purposes.
NEW Kanzas NEWSPAPERS.
The Young America by Geo. W. McLane, published at Leavenworth City has reached its fifth number. This is a paper the editor of which openly declared through its columns that he would support Hon. Marcus J. Parrott, only on personal grounds. If in a great struggle like that which has just ended when great principles are involved, an editor can find nothing beyond personal considerations to influence his course we apprehend that his journal will be wanting in that manly independence and prompt decision which the eventful present in Kanzas demands. Moreover, we understand that the Young America aspires to become the organ of the Whig party-- a party which however much we venerate its memory and admire the policy it once battled for, we hold to be beyond a resurrection, and a paper assuming such a pursuit is too impracticable for the utilitarian spirit of our people. We think that if the Young America would become practical and positive it would deserve a higher commendation!
and serve a nobler purpose. The Citizen, by E. Abbott, published at Wyandott, was commenced a fortnight ago as the organ of the Democratic wing of the Pro-slavery party, or in other words it is what the Leavenworth Journal would most probably denominate a "Law and Order" newspaper. The paper itself is got up in good style, which may be considered in some degree an emblematic fat, as we regard the matter, in this wise, that as its mechanical neatness represents the beauty of those Democratic principles about which it makes loud professions, so does the more than partizan vituperation in the last number represent the blackness of the Slave-state party for which it is zealously laboring. We must say this however that aside from the National Democrat is is by far the most respectable "Democratic" journal in the Territory, and if any of our friends wish to have the dark side of the picture set forth as favorable as possible they will do well to subscribe for the Citizen. A p!
ortion of the journal called the "Home Circle" is under the special charge of Mrs. Mary Abbott, a lady of experience as an editress. The Summer Gazette is published by the Conk Brothers, D. D. Cong Editor, in Sumner, a new and enterprising town on the Missouri, north of Atchison-- While as is to be expected this journal is an organ of the town in which it is located, it is also an excellent addition to the Free-state papers of Kanzas. We are well pleased to see the manly spirit with which it has taken a stand on the side of Freedom. Its readers are not left in doubt as to the sentiments and intentions of its Conductors. There is no section of the Territory more in need of an out-and out, fearless Free-state press than that within the range of Sumner. The people we believe to be right, but they have wanted an exponent of their views, a standard that would signal them as to the movements of their brother-in-(???) in other parts of the battle-field. The Gazette promises t!
o be that exponent and that signal, and as such merits cordial and liberal support. The (???) Journal is published by Lyman Allen at (???) , Coffey county. We have only seen one number of this paper, and from so brief an acquaintance do not propose to say much in regard to it. It is Free-state in its character, and the number before us is got up in a quite readable style. We wish the proprietor and Editor abundant success.
GOV. WALKER VS. QUINDARO.
A fortnight previous to the election, the citizens of Quindaro sent a respectful invitation to Gov. Walker, requesting him to visit our town and speak to them on the questions involved in the campaign. They desired to hear his views at that important time. He sent back word that he could not comply before the election but would be happy to come at some subsequent period. About eleven o’clock, Thursday forenoon, the Governor arrived in our town. A report of the extreme partizan character of his actions at Kickapoo during the election had preceded him and made its impression upon our citizens. As the Governor had not come at the time requested, they felt no longer bound by their invitation to extend to him any courtesies. We do not know that he came here to speak to our people-- it is very certain he did not speak. There was a general determination to treat him with a dignified reserve. Very few persons consented to an introduction; no committee waited upon him for an!
y purpose; he was permitted to enjoy the quiet of his room for the several hours be remained here, and took the first boat to Leavenworth which came along some time in the night.
News Item - (???) and Jefferson City, has become very difficult to cross.--Almost every boat is detained there some time. The consequence is the malls are very irregular. The (???) are more frequent now than they have been as any time previous this season.
(???) widely advertised that there would be a barbecue at Kickapoo on the day of election. Is it impossible for the "Democracy" to (???) without a franken rout (???) of Leavenworth (???).
News Item - P. Daswell, the contractor for grading Kanzas Avenue in Quindaro, has recently laid down a railway track over which to convey the excavated material in large cars. This will enable him to push the grading forward with greater rapidity than heretofore. We expect soon to see the Avenue cut through.
HORSE STOLEN.
A bay pony belonging to Samuel M. Davis, Superintendent of the Quindaro Steam Saw-mill, was stolen on yesterday morning. The pony is about six years old, with a roached mane, and a saddle-gall on the right side. It is supposed that he was taken by Edward McDowell, a light complexioned, thin visaged man, wearing a blue dress coat with brass buttons. Mr. Davis offers a reward of $20 for the return of the pony.
News Item - The Galignani Messenger says that Mr. Babinet, the astronomer, has just announced to the Institute, that in consequence of a favorable change in the currents of the ocean, a series of years of beat has been entered on, of which the present is the commencment.
News Item - The New Haven Register corrects the erroneous impressions that has obtained, that the whole forty -three signers of the notable memorial to President Buchanan are clergymen. Only five of them are clergymen, and the remainder lawyers, doctors, and other folks.
News Item - An exchange points out the following contrast:
"Great Britain is at war with nearly one half of the people of the globe. The United States are at peace with all of the world--save the people of Kanzas. The English war in China for satisfaction and indemnity-- in India to maintain their empire. The American Democrats war on Americans, to extend the curse of human slavery."
FRAUDS BY A DEMOCRATIC OFFICEHOLDER.
The Washington correspondent of the Pennsylvania Inquirer says:
"The Democratic papers have recently alluded to an investigation of a delicate nature going forward in one of the departments which will involve one of its officers in rather unpleasant circumstances. I am sorry to say that the rumor is gaining ground, and that there appears to be little doubt of the offence being a serious one. The facts, as I learn them from a responsible source, are that the party implicated has been in the habit of returning to the department quite a long list of female employees, at four dollars per day while he has paid them but half that amount, putting the remainder in his own pocket. It is alleged that many of the names on his pay-roll were entirely fictitious. The aggregate amount of his peculations is said to be quite large. I forbear mentioning the name of the party alluded to, as I hope he may be able to clear himself of the charge. If the facts as stated are true, some public notice will soon be made of it, if it consists of nothing more!
than the announcement of the removal of the official concerned."
Territorial LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT.
We publish below the apportionment as a matter of reference in determining the results of the election:
FOR THE COUNCIL. NO. MEMBERS
1st District, Leavenworth County,….. 3
2d "Atchison" ….. 1
3d "Douiphan"….
4th "Brown, Nemeha, Marshall, Pottawattomie,
and Riley, and all that part of the Territory of
Kanzas which lies west of Marshal, Riley, and
Davis Counties,… 2
5th "Jefferson and Calhoun, ….. 1
6th "Douglass and Johnson,….. 3
7th "Shawnee, Richardson, Davis, Wise,
Breckenridge, and
8th "Boubon, Godfrey, Wilson, Dorn, and
McGee, and
9th "Butler, Hunter, Greenwood, Madison,
Weller, Coffey, Woodson, and Allen Counties 2
10th "Anderson, Lykens, Linn and Franklie, and
All that part of the Territory of Kanzas which
Lies west of Wise, Butler and Hunter Counties,…… 1
Whole Number,……. 13
WM. G. Mathis, Speaker, of the House of Representatives at Session 1857. Thos. Johnson. President of the Council
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NO. MEMBERS.
1st District, Leavenworth County,…. 8
2d "Atchison",…. 3
3d "Doniphan",…. 5
4th "Brown and
5th "Nchema",…. 1
6th "Marshall",…. 1
7th "Jefferson",…. 2
8th "Calhoun",…. 1
9th "Pottawattomie and Riley (???) 2
10th "Douglas and Johnson counties and
All that part of the Territory of Kanzas
lying West of the counties of West, Butler
And Hunter 8
11th "Shawnee",…. 1
12th "Richardson, Davis, Wise, and
Breckenridge and
13th "Weller, Madison, Butler, Huns,
14th Bourbon, Godfrey, Wilson, Burn,
and (???) and
15th "Woodson, Coffey, and Allen &
16th "Anderson and Franklin (???) 3
17th "(???)"…., 2
18th " Lyken…. 2
Whole Number,…. 39
WM. G Mathias, Speaker of the House of Representatives of at Session of 1857. Thos. Johnson, President of the Council.
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very authority which he recognizes? Apply this illustration to the President of the United States, and you will see that the (???) And can a Territorial Government rank with an independent State Sovereignty? Can Border Buffianism, by any act of Congress, become entitled to respect and support, as a rightful law-making power from the President of the United States? This case is too flagrant. The facts are too notorious. No truly independent, self-relying President, who understood his official prerogative, and his duty under the Constitution, would have hesitated to disregard even a direct act of Congress so tyrannical and oppressive, and appeal so his country and the world for his vindication. But no such trying emergency was here presented. With the solemn decision of the House of Representatives after long investigation, that the Legislature of Kanzas had no authority, and that its laws were no laws--with that direct, positive and unimpeachable evidence before y!
ou, your Memorialists cannot but express their surprise that you have relied upon your construction of indirect, inconclusive acts of that same body as evidence of the authority of that Legislature. They know of no rule of law by which you can set up constructive, inferential evidence against direct and positive evidence from the same source. But this proof you pass over in utter silence. Alluding to the condition of the Territory, you speak of the course you adopted as "absolutely necessary," and ask whether "you would not have been justly condemned had you left," what you assume to be the government and its administration "impotent," and thus to have suffered it to become an object of contempt in the eyes of the people. Our first reply to this view of the case is, as before, there was no (Territorial) government in Kanzas to be executed, as you suppose. And again, we say the usurped government ought to have been rendered impotent, and to have become an object of conte!
mpt in the eyes of the people, as it has become. But further, Congress has passed a law for the establishment of a government in this Territory, with this formal and positive explanation that the people (in the Territory) he left perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way. Why, then, (???) a Governor of Kanzas have been appointed at any time, acting under your authority, and with an army under his control, who would have suppressed all internal violence and contention, and left the people free to form and regulate their domestic institutions," etc., as well as employ the army to act the absurd and (???) part of a poss. (???). To enforce, under your direction, territorial laws which had no pretense of authority. Without saying who were or who were not, the responsible originators of the troubles in Kanzas, can it be doubted that the President long before this time, by the course now suggested, or some other, might have put an end to t!
hese troubles? Has he not the power to "take care of the laws" -- and of course, that the law of Congress, respecting Kanzas-- "be faithfully executed?" You have introduced several topics into your reply, as that of slavery, the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott, with others, on which your Memorialists have said nothing in their Memorial, and on which they intend to say nothing now, except to express their dissent from your opinions. It is needless to prolong this discussion. Your whole vindication, if it has any ground, rests, in the view of your Memorialists, upon one palpably false assumption: That whatever claims to be a government de facto, without a pretense of its proceeding from any rightful lawmaking power, is entitled to your support. The world has not seen a usurpation which this principle would not sanction. If adopted in the administration of our Government it must involve, sooner or later, its destruction. Pardon, now, if need be,!
the plain and respectful earnestness of your Memorialists in unfolding what they consider false principles in your position on the present subject. They speak of no want of honesty in your opinions, nor of sincerity in your avowal of them--of no want of patriotism on your part, nor yet of that higher principle which God approves. They speak only of what they consider error in your reasoning, and, of its consequences in political evils. They judge not the heart. They have not (???) to you any violation of your oath of office, as you have though fit to charge. Their language shows the contrary. They said, "By the foregoing you are held up--as violating, "&c. The "foregoing" here spoken of is shown by the connection to be the (???) of Gov. Walker that "the President of the United States is employing through him (Walker) an army, one purpose of which is to force the people of Kanzas to obey laws not their own, nor of the United States; but laws which, it is notorious, a!
nd established upon evidence, they never made, and rulers they never elected." this claim of Gov. Walker, if (???) by you in its full extent, and admitted on the ground of making the general principle mentioned above a (???) one thus applying a mere rule of impractical law to the internal government of this country-- (???) in our view, involve the (???) upon any Chief (???) you had not at that time (???) are aware, given any public (???) to that claim, and the Memorial therefore, did not contain the imputation you proposed. The Memorialists have dwelt on the error referred to above, as they regard it, not merely on account of its fated presidency, and the calamities which (???) resulted from it, but, also, because they are confident that you, in common with many of your honest fellow citizens, have overlooked one essential principle in assuming that the ruffian usurpation in Kanzas is "an established government." Be assured that they intend to withhold no tribute due to y!
our intellectual eminence, or moral character. They believe, however, that many errors and misconceptions are compatible with the highest mental culture and intellectual ability. Your memorializes have spoken earnestly, because they deeply deplore the adoption of a principle which leads to the mal-administration of so perfect a system of government as that which our fathers, by their wisdom, their prayers, and their blood, have given to their posterity. They cannot believe in the unapproachable infallibility of their rulers, under this system of true liberty; and, while they would honor them in the fear of God, they are confident that neither they, nor even "kings, have the right to divine to govern wrong." They hope for the continuance of our national government, and for its wise and effective administration, in guarding the privileges and blessings it is so fitted to afford and perpetuate. They wait with hope for the emancipation of the nations, and of all men, by th!
e light and a power of the example of such a government. They trust that no unauthorized mode of its administration will cause it to fail of its design, and that you may yet see that in this respect one false principle, if adhered to, must prove a principle of weakness and decay--a sure prelude to the end of all our greatness, happiness and glory--a death-spot in the tree of Liberty, whose leaves, like those of the tree of life, are for the healing of the nations.
N. W. TAYLOR, S. G. HUBBARD,
(???) WOOLSEY, JOHN A. BLAKE,
HENRY DUPTON, WM. H. RUSSELL,
C. L. ENGLISH, A. N. SKINNER,
L. H. BROCKWAY, CHAS. ROBINSON,
F. L W BLAKE, JOEL HAWES,
B. SILLIMAN, G. A. CALHOUN,
T. A THACHER, LEON AND BACON,
J. A. DAVENPORT, H. C. KINGSLEY,
W HOOKER, B SILLIMAN, SEN.,
PHILOS BLAKE, CHARLES IVES,
A. TOWNSEND, JOSLAR W. GIBBS.
JAS BREWSTER, JAMES F. BABCOCK.
(???) ALFRED WALKER.
HAWLEY OLMSTED.
JAMES BUCHANAN IN 1848.
Having urged the adoption of the Missouri Compromise, the inference is irresistible that Congress in my opinion, possesses power to legislate upon the subject of Slavery in the Territories.--[Letter to Sandford
JAMES BUCHANAN IN 1856.
This legislation--the Kanzas and Nebraska bill-- is founded on principles as ancient as Free Government itself, and in accordance with them has simply declared that the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slaver shall or shall not exist within its limits."--[Acceptance of Nomination for the Presidency.
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN IN 1857.
"Slavery existed at that period--when the Kanzas and Nebraska bill was passed--and still exists in Kanzas under the Constitution of the United Sates. This point has at last been decided by the highest tribunal known to our laws.-- How it could ever have been seriously doubted is a mystery. If a confederation of sovereign States acquire a new Territory an the expense of their common blood and treasure, surely one set of the parties can have no right to exclude the other from its engagements, by prohibiting them from taking into it whatever is recognized to be property by a common constitution."--[Letter to Silliman.
DOUGLAS’ NEW PLATFORM.
At a recent county fair at which Senator Douglas was present the following resolution written on his own (???) was found, which shows that he is ready to abandon his "popular sovereignty" (???) and go beyond it to any and all lengths that the slave oligarchy of which he has been so willing a tool may require:
"Resolved: That we approve of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in determining that Negroes are not citizens, and are utterly opposed to placing Negroes on an equality with white men by allowing them to vote and hold office and serve on juries, and testify in the courts against white men, and marry white women, as advocated by those who claim that the Declaration of Independence declares that white men and Negroes were created equal by the Almighty."
A BLUNT CONCLUSION.
The New York Sun declares clearly, but with great calmness:
"We are becoming a nation of vain, extravagant fools. From January 1st to this date, we have imported foreign merchandise to the value of one hundred and seventy-five millions of dollars--about fourteen millions more than (???) amounted to for the same time last year. The value of exports since January 1st is about fifty millions of dollars, or four millions of dollars less than one exports for the same time last year. We have run into debt this year alone (???) one hundred and twenty-five millions of dollars, and by the end of the year our foreign debt (???) imported goods will be much larger."
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THE KOH-I-NOOR.
The most brilliant gem in the diadem which crowns the brown on Queen Victoria in the koh-i-noor diamond. In dollars, its value is reckoned by millions. If we recollect, aright, it was a present from one of her English prince-dependents. As a mere bauble, a toy, an ornament, it is as harmless as a finger-ring, an car-drop, a breast-pin, a Jersey pearl, or any other gem or jewel, which dazzles the eye, pleases the fancy , or adds beauty to its possesser. But there is a superstition connected with it which, in the present state of her Majesty’s Indian affairs, is of some significance. The Evening Post remarks:
It is the belief of millions in India that the Koh-i-noor diamond will always be fatal to its possessor, and that from the day it found a resting place in the diadem of Victoria, the fate of the English crown was sealed. So deeply and generally is this idea rooted in the Hindeo mind, that the Bombay print from which we quote actually combats the superstition, as if there were danger of its spreading among its English readers. It will be very easy for the more knowing ones to make capital of this superstition, and thereby greatly prolong the struggle between Great Britain and her Indian possession. "Who can tell," says the Post, "how many thousand Hindoos may be seduced into rebellion by this artfully-circulated story? Who can calculate the blood and money it may cost to undo the influence of this strange delusion? Thus the disastrous fruits of bigotry and ignorance are constantly stimulating nations, like individuals, to do what they can to enlighten and elevate those over whom they may providentially be placed in responsible relations, and punishing them if they neglect it."--Life Illustrated
THE FACILE PRESIDENT
The New York Courier and Inquirer contains an article on the recent letter of President Buchanan from which we take the following paragraphs:
"He [Buchanan] abandons the squatter sovereignty doctrine and adopts the Calhoun theory without qualification--and not only without qualification, but, with either an extraordinary forgetfulness or with a self-stultification even more extraordinary, he declares that it is a mystery how it could ever have been seriously doubted. Such a complete and yet apparent unconscious change of mind on the part of a statesman of Mr. Buchanan’s character and antecedents, is a most significant sign of the times. It shows the prodigious rapidity with which one is drawn or driven to the most ultra position in the direction of Slavery, when once sets loose from the old moorings of our fathers. And Mr. Buchanan’s experience in that respect is but an exponent of the transition his whole party is now undergoing. Once adrift, there has been no stopping until stranded helplessly high and dry upon the black (???) of the Carolina doctrine. But the fact that the Democratic party in its restless efforts to (???) win the slave power, has at last (???) self in the hard embrace of dogmas (???) it once shrunk from with unaffected horror, by no means fixes the fact that these dogmas are hereafter to rule the country. That is a matter yet to be settled. The contest upon it has but just begun. The earnestness with which Daniel Webster and Henry clay combated these identical theories of Mr. Calhoun as utterly repugnant to the letter and spirit of the Constitution, and as fearfully dangerous to its existence, though those great statesmen are dead, yet survives. It (???) in the understandings and the hearts of an immense majority of the intelligent freemen of these Northern States, and will animate every political battle that is to be fought this many a year. The Constitution of this free Republic was never intended to be a Slaver propagating instrument, and whatever President Buchanan and the party at his heels may do to make it such, there is yet a popular power that will resist to the last any such profanation. The Slavery extension organ may well exalt in the movement of this modern Democracy to the Calhoun ground, but the end is not yet."
THE PRESIDENT’S FIRST YEAR’S PROGRESS.
We were for some time at a loss to know President Buchanan’s motive in making his recent communication to the public in reply to the New Haven memorialists, for it seemed both an unnecessary and an undignified step for a Chief Magistrate to take, who had nothing more to say than appeared to be disclosed in that letter. A more careful perusal of the document has revealed to us what we presume to have been his purpose, viz., to change the position which be till that time occupied in reference to the nationality of slavery under the Constitution. In his letter accepting the nomination of the Cincinnati Convention, he took the ground that the territories had a right to determine for themselves whether slavery should be tolerated within their borders or not. We quote this language:
"This Legislature is founded upon principles as ancient as free government itself, and, in accordance with them, has simply declared that the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits.
"The Nebraska Kanzas act does no more than give the force of law to this elementary principle of self-government, declaring it (???) be ‘the true intent and (???) of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefore, (???) the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institution in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States. This principle will surely not be controverter by any individual of any party professing devotion to popular government. Besides how vain and illusory would say other principle prove the practice in regard to the (???) This is apparent from the fact admitted by all, that, after a territory shall have entered the Union and become a state, no constitutional power (???) then exist which could prevent (???) establishing sovereign will and (???)"
This was the language which Mr. Buchanan held one year ago. The people of the Territory must determine for themselves whether they would have slaves among them. He has since discovered reasons for changing that position and for holding that slavery exists under the constitution in the territories without any legislation, and of course in spite of any legislation. We quote his language to the New Haven memorialists upon this point:
"Slavery existed at that period and still exists in Kanzas, under the Constitution of the United States. This point has at last been finally decided by the highest tribunal known to our laws. How it could have ever been seriously doubted is a mystery. If a confederation of sovereign states acquire a new territory at the expense of their common blood and treasure, surely one act of the partners can have no right to exclude the other from its employment by prohibiting them from taking into it whatsoever is recognized to be property by the common Constitution. But when the people--(???) bone fide residents of such Territory--proceed to frame a State Constitution, then it is their right to decide the important question for themselves whether they will continue, modify of abolish slavery. To them, and to them alone, does this question belong, free from all foreign interference."
Last year Mr. Buchanan thought the people of territories could permit or exclude slaves at their pleasure. Now he thinks they have no power over slavery, until they are organized and admitted into the Union as a sovereign state. Slavery is in the territories by virtue of the Constitution, and there is no power to modify or abolish it except by first converting the Territory into a State. As Mr. Buchanan does not disdain to answer inquiries addressed to him by his humble constituents, we would thank him when he next breaks silence in reference to his political sentiments to inform us why, if slavery exists in Kanzas by virtue of the Constitution, it does not also exist in the states? Is there any clause in that instrument establishing slavery in a Territory not equally applicable to a State? On the contrary was not the Constitution made expressly for the states, and have not many of the wisest statesman doubted whether it applied at all to the territories? We would like to inquire farther, why, if slavery exists in Kanzas by virtue of the Constitution in Utah? for the Constitution is as distinct upon one point as the other; and if it does, why are troops sent to support slavery in the one Territory and to exterminate polygamy from the other?--Evening Post
News Item - We call attention to the advertisement of Henry P. Downs, who has opened a new Boot and Shoe Shop in Quindaro.
QUINDARO MARKET.
Saturday, Oct. 10, 1857.
Reported weekly for the Quindaro Chindowan, by Dr. Welborn, of the firm of A. C. Strock & Co.
Flour (???)…. $4.00
Corn Meal & bushel,…. 1.40
Beans, country cured (???),…. .15
(???),…. .16
Shoulders " " .12 ½
Lard " " .15
Butter .5
Sugar. Brown (???)
Crushed (???)
(???) .90
Coffee, Rio (???)
Tea, Young Hyson .10
(???) 40 @ 1.00
(???) .40
Raisins .30
(???) .40
(???) .40
(???) .50
(???) .50
(???) .10
(???) .10
Candles, Star. .5
Mould .20
Soap .10
Starch .15
Tar Tar (???) .75
Cream Tarter .50
(???) .10
Ginger 20@ .75
Pepper .20
Eggs by dozen .15
White Lead (???) Keg 3.00
Molasses by gallon 1.00
Linseed Oil by gallon 1.25
Sweet Oil 1.50
(???) (???)
Spirits Turpentine by gallon 1.50
Vinegar Cider .30
Alcohol 1.00
(???) (???)
Wine Port old 4.00
Wine Sweet Malaga 1.50
Wine Sherry 2.00
Bay Rum 3.00
Ruse Water 1.50
Lime Juice 1.50
Nails, assort’d by Keg 5.75
Glass 8----10 Box, 50 ft 3.00
" 10----12" " " " 3.25
" 10----14" " " " 3.50
" 12----16" " " " 3.50
" 21----30" " " " 7.50
R. P. GRAY. J. M. WALDEN.
R. P. GRAY & CO.,
REAL ESTATE & LAND AGENTS,
Chindowan Office, No. 7, South Kanzas Avenue,
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to their care. (???)
HALL, ENGLISH & HENDERSON
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
STORAGE AND FORWARDING,
QUINDARO, KANZAS.
References:-- Cushing, King & Degraw, (???) Warren St. New York. Simmons & Leadbeater, Forwarders. St. Louis
BREADSTUFFS AND GROCERIES.
300 SACKS FLOUR, Superfine, Extra and Double Extra. 50 Bbls. Flour, Superfine, Extra and Doubt Extra. (???) Bbls. Crackers.
60 Bushels Corn and Meal.
2000 Canvassed Hams.
10 Bbls. Sugar--Brown and Crushed.
10 " and Kegs Syrup and Molasses.
Old Hamburg Cheese, Figs , Dairy Salt
TEA, COFFEE, RICE, VINEGAR,
HOUSES.
Window and Door Frames, Lath, Sash, Nails and Glass, for sale by HALL, ENGLISH & HENDERSON.
Quindaro, July 25, 1857. (???)
TO RENT.
A store on Kanzas Avenue. Enquire of Dr. Budington.
JOB PRINTING.
Neatly (???) at the Chindowan Office
PIONEER STORE COLUMN.
EVERYBODY TAKE NOTICE.
NEW ARRANGEMENT!!
"No friends to Reward, No Enemies to Punish."
We expect to get in our New Building in two or three weeks, and after that time we will POSITIVELY SELL NO MORE GOODS ON CREDIT.
Quindaro, Oct. 1st, 1857. 21
FROM
J. E. DUDDRIDGE’S NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING AGENCY,
Corner Olive and Main Streets,…. ST. LOUIS, MO
W. M. LUCAS. C. L. THOMPSON. WM. S. GUNN.
FALL 1857.
LUCAS, THOMPSON, & CO.,
(Successors to C. M. McCLUNG & CO.,)
WILL HAVE IN STORE THIS FALL A VERY SUPERIOR
STOCK OF DRY GOODS,
Among which may be found a complete line of
PRINTS, DELANES, CASHMERES, MERINOES, ALPACAS, INDIANA CLOTHS, BOMBAZINES, CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, SATINETS, JEANS, TWEEDS, OVER COATINGS, BLANKETS, &c.
OUR STOCK OF FOREIGN GOODS
WILL EMBRACE ALL THE
LATEST AND NEWEST GOODS
Offered to the Trade.
Our White Goods Room will be filled with a Very Choice Selection of Everything under that Head. We will also keep a complete line of Notion Goods, which we will offer to the Trade upon good terms, as houses exclusively in that business. Our
STOCK OF STRICTLY STAPLES,
BROWN MUSLINS, TICKING,
Kerseys, Bleached Muslia, Negro Goods, Shirting Stripes, Osnaburgs, Drillings, Shirting Tweeds, Janseys, Apron Checks, Bagging, &c.,
Will be found as complete as any in this market. We are determined to offer these goods at very close profits, and desire to call the attention of all Cash Or Prompt Time Buyers to them.
LUCAS, THOMPSON & CO.
St. Louis, Mo., August 15, 1857. 14
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HENRY P. DOWNS,
BOOT AND SHOE
MANUFACTURER,
Next door to Shepherd & Henry’s Hardware Store,
MAIN STREET,
Quindaro,….Kanzas.
All work entrusted to the subscriber will be neatly and promptly executed. The best of French Calf and Kip used.
News Item - Repairing done with neatness and dispatch. Give him a call 21-6ms
TO RENT.
TWO ROOMS, suitable for a small family, will be rented low if applied for soon. Enquire at Chindowan office. 21
Quindaro, Kanzas Ter.,
Oct. 1st, 1857.
THE COPARTNERSHIP heretofore existing under the firm and name of W. J. M’COWN & CO., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Witness our hands and seals, this 1st day of October, 1857.
W. J. M’COWN.
H. J. BLISS.
C. L GORTON.
JAMES R. WHIPPLE
The business will be continued under the same name (W. J. M’COWN & CO.) at the old stand. We would thank this community for the favor shown us heretofore, and ask for a continuation of the same.
W. J. M’COWN & H. J. BLISS
Oct. 1st, 1857. 20
PIONEER STORE COLUMN.
Everybody take Notice!!!
NEW ARRANGEMENT!
"No Friends to Reward, no Enemies to Punish"
We expect to get in our new Building in two or three weeks and after that time we will Positively Sell no more Goods on Credit!
Mc’COWN & CO.
Oct. 1st, 1857. 20
W. J. M’COWN & CO.,
(Successor to M’Cown & Buck,)
Have a large Stock of well assorted
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
HARDWARE, CROCKERY,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Hats, Caps, Clothing, Yankee Notions
&c., &c.,
Which will be sold low for Cash, either a Wholesale or Retail
Please give us a call at
No. 4. North Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, July 11, 1857. 9---(???)
HARDWARE AND STOVES.
SHEPHERD & HENRY,
WHOLESALE
HARDWARE & STOVE DEALERS,
170 Main Street,
QUINDARO,….KANZAS
Have replenished their Stock, and are prepared to furnish Country Merchants and others with every variety of Hardware and Cuttery. They have on hand
CIRCULAR SAWS
>From 6 inches to 6 feet in diameter.
MULAY AND GANG SAWS,
Of all Sizes.
CROSSCUT SAWS,
A complete assortment of
CARPENTERS’ TOOLS,
HOUSE TRIMMINGS,
Cut and Wrought Nails; Butcher’s & Goodlad’s Files of all kinds. All kinds of Chains, and every other article necessary to fill all orders in their Line:
Also, Iron, Steel, Zine, and Glase,
SHOT GUNS, RIFLES, PISTOLS
AND
Bowie, Katres, Powder and Shot.
Copper, Sheet Iron, Japaned, and Tin Ware, Force, Cistern, and Chain Pumps.
PARLOR COOKING
AND OFFICE STOVES
Of the latest styles and patterns.
All of which they will furnish on more favorable terms than they can be bought at any other point. West of St. Louis, and at a less cost than a Retail Stock can be bought in St. Louis and shipped here:
Quindaro, Kanzas, Sept. 5, 1857. 17
JOB PRINTING,
Neatly and Promptly executed at the Office of the Chindowan.
ALFRED GRAY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND REAL ESTATE AGENT,
No. 179, East Main Street,
QUINDARO,….KANZAS
WILL give prompt attention to all Legal Business entrusted to him. 17
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
AT
Wholesale and Retail.
The Undersigned, having taken the Store House of SIMPSON & MACAULAY, with the intention of keeping constantly on band, and for sale, a general assortment of Groceries and Provisions, and such other articles as are wanted. He has now on sale,
50 Bbls. FLOUR
Superfine and Extra,
Thirty-five Boxes Soap,
No. 1, Premium and Erasive, (no Soft.)
THIRTY BOXES CANDLES,
Star and Extra Tallow,
10 Boxes Tobacco, Also Teas, Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, &c., &c., I have on they way
A general assortment of
LEATHER,
Genuine Hamburg Cheese, Prune New York
State Butter.
20 A. TUTTLE.
Watches, Clocks, Toys &c.,
JOHN BELLER.
Watchmaker, Silversmith, and Jeweller.
MAIN-STREET, PARKVILLE, MO.
Keeps constantly on hand for sale a superior assortment of Jewelry, Silverware, Watches, Clocks and various kinds of Toys.
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry carefully repaired. 19
MEAT MARKET
J. A. BARTLES has opened a DAILY MEAT MARKET corner of N (???) Seventh Street,
QUINDARO, KANZAS
And will keep upon hand a supply of Fresh Meats of the best quality. Also,
(???)
Of the season, at reasonable prices. 13
FOR SALE.
REAL ESTATE IN QUINDARO.
ONE WTORE HOUSE AND LOT, No. 36
Kanzas Avenue.
LOTS 13 and 15 S. Street
" 54 and 56 (???) "
" 136, 138, 140 N "
" 16 and 18 N "
The above will be sold cheap and upon good terms. Apply to
CLARDY & BARNEY.
3w---19 Parkville, Mo.
NOTICE!
THE COPARTNERSHIP heretofore existing between BLOOD, BASSETT & BRACKETT is this day dissolved by mutual consent, and hereafter the same business will be conducted by BASSETT & BRACKETT.
S. H. BLOOD.
O. A. BASSETT.
G. C. BRACKETT.
Quindaro, Sept 1. 1857. 17---1m
A CARD.
The undersigned are now ready to furnish Settlers with Land Warrants at the lowest rates and will assist (???) in obtaining their Claims on the most reasonable terms. Having acquired an accurate knowledge of the Territory from actual observation are prepared to give the Immigrant such information as will enable hit to ensure a good home. Persons desiring to invent capital in wild Lands, Improved Farmer City Property, will find it an advantage to confer with us.
G. A. BASSETT. Quindaro
G. C. BRACKETT. Lawrence Kanzas 17
CAUTION!
All persons are hereby cautioned against purchasing Certificates No. 122 and 430, (???) to (???) by the Quindaro Company for Shares, as the sold Certificates have been Lost or Stolen.
J. M. WINCHELL
Wyandott, Aug. 1, 15 (???)
TO LEASE.
SEVERAL ROOMS convenient to business that will accommodate several small families. These (???) to rent will do well to apply soon, or they may be compelled to take vastly inferior winter quarters to those now offered.
R. C. ANDERSON
House Lending and Land Agent
FOR SALE OR RENT.
The Building now occupied by us as a Store will be mild cheap or rented as dear as possible. The building is shelved for a Store and would make a good Grocery, Boot and Shoe Store, or any thing of the kind. Enquire on the premises.
W. J. McCown & CO.
Oct. 1st, 1857. (???)
ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS.
S. F. OTIS & C. R. CARPENTER.
PRACTICAL BUILDERS.
Are ready to contract for the Erection of Stores, Residences, etc. All work promptly executed, and in the best manner.
Gov. Chas. Robertson Stephen & Henry
A. Gray, O. H. Macallay, M. H. Price
Quindaro, Aug. 11, 1857. (???)
LAWRENCE ADVERTISEMENTS.
HUNT & CLELAND,
No. 17, Massachusetts St. Lawrence, Kanzas,
RECEIVING FORWARDING
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR, GRAIN AND PROVISION.
Consignments respectfully solicited.
Geo. W. Hunt. WM. Cleland.
July 25, 1857. 11-3m
ROB’T L. FRAZER,
PRACTICAL WATCH-MAKER
AND
JEWELLER!
Dealer in all kinds of
CLOCKS, WATCHES, & JEWELRY!
Watches and Jewelry
Thoroughly and Promptly Repaired.
No. 14 Main Street----Lawrence, Kanzas.
BOOKS, STATIONERY & C.
O. WILMARTH
Lawrence, K. T.,
Would inform his friends and the public generally, that he keeps on hand as good an assortment of articles in the above line as can be found in the Territory, consisting of
School, Childrens’ and Miscellaneous Books! Also Blank and Memorandum Books; Writing Books; Slates, Pencils, Musical Instruments, Musical Merchandise, &c. &c.
HIS CIRCULATING LIBRARY!
Is supplied with some of the most popular works published, and is constantly receiving additions from the East.
JAMES G. SANDS,
SADDLE, HARNESS & TRUNK
Always on hand, everything in my line.
Also Belting Leather, Whang Leather, Copper Rivets, &c.
Opposite Morrow House.
Lawrence, Kanzas, April 1, 1857. (???)
S. (???) & CO.,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
Lawrence, Kanzas,
Will invest money, and locate Land Warrants in all parts of Kanzas, and guarantee from 50 to 100 per cent, on investment.
Letters of inquiry promptly answered.
S. N. WOOD,
COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS FOR OHIO.
Office, No. 27 Mass. St. Lawrence, Kanzas.
E. D. LADD S. B. PRENTISS
LADD & PRENTISS,
REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND GENERAL
LAND AGENTS.
E. D. LADD,
Notary Public, Reg’r of Deeds, & Conveyancer,
Will take acknowledgements of deeds and other papers.
Office, No. 15 Massachusetts St.,
May 13, 1857. (???)
WHITNEY HOUSE,
NO. 5 NEW HAMPSHIRE STREET,
LAWRENCE, Kanzas.
T. L. WHITNEY …. Proprietor
May 13, 1857. (???)
B. P. STRONG…..DE WITT UPSON.
ARCHITECTURE! HOUSE-BUILDING!!
STRONG & UPSON,
QUINDARO, Kanzas,
PRACTICAL ARCHITECTS AND HOUSE-JOINERS,
WILL give prompt attention to all work entrusted to them. They will furnish plans and estimates on short notice, and take contracts at reasonable terms. They refer to the public to the work they have already done in Quindaro. 15
F. Johnson. Geo. W. Veale.
JOHNSON & VEALE,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALERS IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
QUINDARO, Kanzas
Agents for the sale of Pittsburg Salamander Safes and German Anchor Bolting Cloths.
Particular attention paid to putting up orders.
May 8th, 1857. (???)
JOHN S. M’CORKLE,
CARPENTER AND JOINER,
QUINDARO….Kanzas
IS PREPARED TO ATTEND TO
BUILDING in all its Branches
Contracts for Buildings taken, Stores fitted up and all work in their line promptly attended to.
May 4, 1857. (???)
S. H. MARCHANT,
CARPENTER AND JOINER,
QUINDARO, KANZAS.
WILL promptly attend to all work in his line, and respectfully solicits a share of public patronage, believing
that he can give general satisfaction to all who entrust their work to him. (???)
STONE CUTTING
AND
MASONRY.
FREDERICK KLAUS,
BAG OPENED A
STONE YARD IN QUINDARO,
And is prepared to furnish all kinds of
CUT STONE FOR BUILDING PURPOSES,
MADE OF
Material of a Superior Quality from a quarry which he has opened near this place. A sample of it may be seen in his residence, No. 13, O St. He will also contract for buildings at reasonable rates and is prepared to execute promptly and in good style, all work entrusted to him.
Quindaro, May 1st, 1857. (???)
FOR SALE
BY
JOHNSON & VEALE
10 bales brown sheetings
(???) of bleached sheetings and shirtings
12 cases of assorted prints
150 kegs of assorted nails
30 boxes assorted window glass
70 dozen door locks and latches
SCREWS ASSORTED
2 dozen Hatche’s counter scales.
(???) Tea
6 boxes assorted glass tumblers.
12 assorted glassware.
Log chains, (???) chains, shovels, spades, forks, neythes, and coffee mills, shot guns, rifles, revolvers, shot belts, and powder flasks; bread cloths, (???) (???) and (???); black silks, dress silks, lawns and (???), borages, hats and bonnets, boots and shoes. A large stock of
VARIETY GOODS
AND
YANKEE NOTIONS.
all of which are offered at UNUSUALLY LOW PRICES to CASH CUSTOMERS.
May 4th (???)
FOR SALE.
FARM FOR SALE.
ONE Hundred and Sixty Acres of Land, sit (???) on Seven Mile Creek, one mile west of Delaware, and three miles from Leavenworth, on the Military road--12 acres under cultivation. A Good double-hewed log House, an excellent Spring, and well timbered. Terms liberal.
Enquire of BASSETT & BRACKETT.
No. 3 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. (???)
FARM FOR SALE.
ONE Hundred and Sixty Acres, situated on the N. E. qr of Sec. 34, Town 9, R. 21 on the Del. T. Lands, seven miles from Delaware, and eight from Leavenworth. Eighty acres are under cultivation. On the premises there is a good Double-Hewed Log House, an excellent Spring, 400 Fruit Trees, and good timber in the neighborhood.
Terms liberal. Enquire of
BASSETT & BRACKETT.
No. 3 Kanzas Avenue
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. (???)
TIMBER LAND FOR SALE!
60 ACRES of fine Timber Land, situated on the Wyandot and Lawrence Stage road, three miles from Quindaro, six miles from Wyandot, and two and a half miles from Parkville. The above land borders on improvements, has a fine spring of water, and well covered with oak and walnut Timber. It is rolling land.
Price. $25 per acre. Enquire of
NEWMAN & AINSWORTH.
Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, June 30, 1857. (???)
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
RICE, BLAKE & EDDY,
REAL ESTATE
AND
LAW OFFICE
ROOM NO. 5, MASONIC TEMPLE, DEARBORN ST.,
(Opposite the Post Office.)
P. O. Box, 2532. CHICAGO, ILL.
R. A. RICE,
J. W. EDDY, Chicago. F. N. Blake, Kanzas Ter’y.
Lots, Lands and Farms for sale; Titles investigated; Taxes paid; Collections made and Loans negotiated;
Money invested for non-residents.
Agents for Quindaro Company, Kanzas Ter’y,
And prepared to invest money in all parts of the Territory upon chares or on commission.
Refer to Hon. C. Robinson, in the Territory.
BLAKE & EDDY,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.
May 4th. (???)
Kanzas CITY.
JAMES A. FRAME H. B. CONWELL.
FRAME & CONWELL’S
LARGE AND COMMODIOUS
POWDER MAGAZINE!
Being just completed, they are now ready to supply purchasers with the celebrated
MIAMI RIFLE & BLASTING POWDER,
Which is equal, if not superior, to any manufactured in the United States.
OBTAINING OUR POWDER FROM THE
MIAMI POWDER WORKS,
We can sell as low, adding transportation, as it can be purchased in St. Louis. And our facilities being such, we can supply all of Western and Southern Missouri, also, Kanzas Territory, with Powder enough to blow them to the
Other side of Jordan.
We will receive and store all the powder consigned to our care.
Office at the Furniture Store,
Where samples can be seen at any time
Kanzas City, July 14, 1857.
JOSEPH M’CARTY,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION
MERCHANT,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
OF EVERY KIND;
LIQUORS, CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
KANZAS CITY, MO.
SALESMEN:
JAS. A. HUTCHESON, JOHN H. CASWELL
J. (???) REESE, CLERK.
TO THE PEOPLE OF Kanzas!
The Undersigned have taken the Store-Room under the Quindaro Hotel, and offer at wholesale or retail, the
Largest and best assorted
STOCK OF MERCHANDIZE
ever offered for sale in Kanzas.
In our stock will be found almost everything suitable to the wants of the country, which we will sell as low, if not lower, than can be purchased elsewhere. We will duplicate St. Louis bills, adding expenses of transportation. We solicit a share of the public patronage, and will be pleased at all times to show our goods.
JOHNSON & VEALE.
May 4th, 1857. (???)
ADDITIONAL.
We have received, in addition to our former stock,
30 bbls, CEMENT, 10 doz. BROOMS, 10 doz. BUCKETS, 2 doz. WASH TUBS, 2000 Seamless BAGS, 20 Bundles SASH, 100 kegs assort’d NAILS, 100,000 asso’d CIGARS, 5 boxes TOBACCO.
All of which will be sold unusually low for cash.
June 1st, 1857 JOHNSON & VEALE.
THE PEOPLE’S
VARIETY STORE,
No. 38, Kanzas Avenue.
MESSRS. A. C. STROCK & CO.
Wish to call the attention of the citizens of Quindaro and vicinity to their Stock of Goods, consisting of a general assortment
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, READY MADE CLOTHING.
DRESS GOODS & BONNETS
together with all the variety of Domestic Goods usual to the Trade.
HARDWARE AND CUTLERY.
Also, Carpenters’ Tools, a general assortment of
DRUGS & MEDICINES,
Paints, Oils and Dye Stuffs, Glass Ware, Window Glass, Fine Tobacco and Sugars, together with the usual variety of articles usually found in that line of business.
Dr. WELBORN, who is a practical Physician, having special care of the Drug Department, hopes to give general satisfaction.
A. C. STROCK & CO.
Quindaro, May 4, 1857. (???)
BLACKSMITH & WAGON-MAKER
WANTED.
A Large Settlement in the vicinity of Robinson, are much in need of a Blacksmith and Wagon Maker. Liberal inducements will be offered by the Town Company, to any such who choose to go and supply the want.
Apply to C. B. Ellis, Quindaro House.
Quindaro, July 14, 1857. (???)
BOOT AND SHOE
MANUFACTORY.
No. 17,….O Street
Quindaro, K. T .
P. C. Muhlebach.
(???)
TICKNOR, ROBBINS & CO.,
Dealers
CLOTHING;
AND GENTS
FURNISHING GOODS,
NO. 170
North Main Street, a few doors South of the Virginia Hotel,
ST. LOUIS.
16
DOWDALL, MARKHAM & CO.,
WASHINGTON FOUNDRY,
ENGINE
AND
MACHINE SHOP,
Corner Second and Moran Str.,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Manufacturers of Steam Engines and Boilers, Saw and Grist Mill Machinery, Single and Double Circular Saw Mills, Tobacco Screws and Presses, Lard Kettles, Lard Screws and Cylinders, Wool Carding Machines, Building Castings, Young’s Improved Patent Smut Mill, &c.
(???)
ROBINSON, WALKER & CO’S
DAILY
Passenger & Express Line,
FROM
QUINDARO TO LAWRENCE.
FARE, - - - $2,50.
The nearest and cheapest route from the Missouri to the Interior of Kanzas.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. (???)
THE KANZAS
CLAIM AGENCY
AND
QUINDARO
HOUSE-LEASING AGENCY
Is now opened in Quindaro by Subscriber, who would desire to say to all having Claims to sell, that they will do well to write me, or come and see me, and give me an accurate description of your Claims, and where they are located, and the price, keeping in mind this fact that I am advertising extensively, and stand a hundred chances to your one to find you a purchaser. And those emigrating to Kanzas will find it greatly to their interest to land at Quindaro, and call upon me and get posted about the chances for Claims in Kanzas, as I have traveled much over the most desirable lands in Kanzas, and know where there can be obtained many very desirable Claims. And all desiring to Rent a Dwelling House, Store, or Lots in Quindaro, will do well to enquire of me before spending time and unnecessary labor in looking.
R. C. ANDERSON.
Claim and House-Leasing Agent.
News Item - N. B. -- All owners of Dwelling Houses, Stores, or Buildings of any kind, or Lots in Quindaro or vicinity, who desire to lease said described property, will find it greatly to your advantage to call upon me, and leave your terms and the description of your property, as I shall advertise promptly and extensively any and all such Houses, Lots, or Lands to Lease, and probably I shall have a hundred chances to the owner’s one of securing to him a good customer, as I am continually being inquired of by those desiring to Rent Dwelling Houses, Lots, &c. My commission for acting as Agent shall, in all cases, be made satisfactory to the parties for whom I may act.
Enquire at the Quindaro House for
14 R. C. ANDERSON, Agent.
RUSSELL’S
FIRE & WATER PROOF
PATENT
MASTIC ROOFING
ON CANVASS.
This Roofing is applicable to steep or flat Roofs, Steam Boat Decks, Rail Road Care, Foundries, &c. &c. it is Fire-Proof, will not crack or run, will wear under foot, and is adapted to Roofs of every description. It can be put on over old shingles, tin and metal, roofs without removing the same. This roofing is desirable on amount of its low cost, easy application, great durability, and exact adaptation to any climate, by its expansion and contraction through the influence of heat and cold. It will unquestionably by far excell any Roofing now in use, Tin and Slate not excepted. The undersigned have purchased the full and exclusive right of manufacturing and vending the above roofing for the Territory of Kanzas, and are now prepared to execute all orders with promptness and dispatch.
News Item - Town and County rights for sale.
For further particulars inquire of the subscribers.
SHEPHERD, HENRY & CO.,
Quindaro, K. T., May 28, 1857.
WYANDOTT!
DAVIS & POST,
COUNSELLORS AT LAW
Exchange Building,
Kanzas AVENUE, WYANDOT K. T
May 4, 1857. (???)
THE BEAUTIFUL & UNRIVALED REGULAR
PASSENGER STEAMER
MORNING STAR,
T. H. BRIERLY, Master.
(???) Blossom,…..Clerk,
LEAVES
ST. LOUIS for ST. JOSEPH,
Every alternate TUESDAY, at 4 o’clock, P. M.
LEAVES
ST. JOSEPH for ST. LOUIS,
Every alternate MONDAY, at 10 o’clock, A. M.
FOR SAINT LOUIS,
Leaves Leavenworth City, Parkville, Quindaro, Wyandotte, Kanzas, Independence, Liberty, Richfield, Sibley, Camden and Wellington, on TUESDAY, June 9th and 23d, July 7th and 21st, August 4th and 18th, Sept. 1st, 15th, and 29, October 13th and 27th, November 10th.
Passing Parkville at 7 o’clock, A. M.; Quindaro at 7 (???) A. M.; Wyandotte at (???) P. M.; Kanzas at 9 A.M.; Wayne City at 11, A.M.; Liberty at 12 M., Richfield at 2, P.M.; Sibley at 3 P. M.; Camden at 5 P.M.; Wellington at 6, P. M.; remaining at Lexington over night.
News Item - The MORNING STAR was built, without regard to cost, for a first class Missouri Rive Packee, and in point of speed, elegance and luxurious accommodations, is pre-eminently without a rival in the trade. Every effort will be made on the part of her officers, and their subordinates, to secure the completes comfort, safety, and convenience of passengers.
May 30, 1857.
H. M. Simpson. O. H. Macauly,
SIMPSON & MACAULY
FORWARDING & COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
QUINDARO,…..KANZAS
REFERENCES,
AMOS A. LAWRENCE, BOSTON, MASS
PROF. F. DANIELS, RIPON, WIS.
(???) W. (???) CINCINNATI, O.
May 4, 1857. (???)
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