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QUINDARO CHINDOWAN
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VOL.I QUINDARO, KANZAS, JUNE 6,1857. NO. 4.
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HENRY KIP, Supt. U.S. Express, Buffalo, N.Y.
J.F. RITCHERDSON, MO. Express, St. Louis, MO.
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JNO. W. ELLIS, Cincinnati, O.
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Saturday, June 6, 1857.
"Thy ways are plain only in thine own light." FFSTUS.
It would be difficult to find a person whose course of conduct has not at some period of life been a subject of universal wonder and criticism in his own circle of acquaintance. "What motive could have actuated him?" "I can't account for such conduct!" are expressions familiar as household words, but few recognize the truth they express that "our ways are plain only in our own light."
As in the natural world no tree or flower, or blade of grass is exactly like another, so in the moral, each mind has a distinct individuality, and differs from every other. These minds so variously constituted most necessarily have different experiences; for the same circumstances will lead each to a different course of action, producing various results; and these results again become the cause of still greater diversity. According to the particular mental structure and experience of each individual, will be his appreciation of the relative importance of all truth; and this appreciation will be his guide in every action and his only available standard for judging the conduct of others. But since no two persons can have exactly the same standard, and it is impossible for one to see the processes going on in the mind of another, we must always be more or less ignorant of the motives of those around us, and liable to misjudge them.
If the reverse were true if the ways of each individual were as plain to all eyes as to his own, human institutions would not be what they now are. Each would be measured by his own standard of right; all his weaknesses and temptations known and considered and man would pity not condemn his brother man. The executioners block would be unknown; instead of prisons we would have schools; and all the reformatory power of the world would be concentrated upon the educational influences that surround the young and plastic mind and mould it for good or for evil.
Perhaps "in the good time coming" such a state of society may be realized, but now man walks in comparative darkness. The glimmering light of the lantern he carries serves only to illumine his own path and that faintly and for him to judge the lives of others by the same is like criticizing nature's seenery by torch light.
Society is filled with examples illustrating this truth, and perhaps none more striking than are found among reformers. One has been awakened to the evils of slavery ground into his very enfiberment, perhaps by a bitter experience, and he enters heart and soul into the work of reform. To him it is the reform and the only one worthy of his attention. His neighbor whose mind has been equally impressed with the wrongs of woman taunts him with holding his own wife in bondage and quotes to him the old adage "charity begins at home;" while he who has seen the family altar laid low and hearthstone made desolate by the Demon Intemparance, bares the strong arm of vengeance to exterminate this foe to the best interests of humanity. England exhorts America to free the suffering slave. Uncle Sam indignantly replies. "People that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," relieve your own starving poor ere you prench to me."
Thus, instead of harmoniously striving together for the common good allowing each to walk in the path illumined by his own light, till by its increasing brilliancy other paths shall be disclosed to his view each blames the other for not plunging into the darkness and following his guidance.
By diversity of character we are sub to different temptations. The vice which overcomes one may be extremely repugnant to another. Abstinence in the latter is no virtue yet the world receives it as such, while the unfortunate victim of temptation is despised and outlawed though he may be much the greater moral hero in having resisted the lure so long and had he remained firm to the end the world would have placed him on the same level with him who had suffered no temptotion: for it knows nothing of the fierce contests for self control daily fought in the secret chambers of the soul.
How little data we really have for judging our fellow beings, yet think in our ignorance we are enabled to form a just estimate of another's worth by a knowledge of his outward life; forgotting that its results the experience and growth of the spirit constitute the only true life! Should we not rather remember that our "ways are plain only in our own light." Cease to condemn and bend all our efforts to increase the light that each may see more plainly the path that leads up to the Great Fountain of Light.
B.
An Hour with the Mormons.
A few days ago a party of the Latter Day Saints a part of a fresh importation of eight hundred from the old world were encamped around about the Cleveland depot, waiting for Monday morning and the cars to pursue their journey to Salt Lake. Unlike most parties of western emigrants a large proportion of these was of the gentle sex. Generally the women were not what an American would call handsome or even good looking; but judging from the demonstrations of affection on the part of some of their male companions, they must have been perfect Dutch and English beauties. But there were some among them as pretty fair haired and blue eyed as any of our own Ohio girls. They were accompanied by fathers or brothers or may be lovers going through hardships and fatigues to prostitution and degradation quite sufficient to make heroes and heroines of themselves.
The men, for the most part sleepy, ignorant, mallet-headed looking wretches, with some oily-tongued priests or elders who had charge of the drove, lounging about the cars, squatting down on the rails, leaning against the sides of the houses, talking to strangers a little now and then, and always and every where and all over smelling horribly of Tobacco, sweat and beer; while the women, or some of them, were engaged in cooking provisions either in the shanties of the Irish, or out of doors on the hill side. There were not many children with them. One rather old man, an Englishman, was sitting on the platform of a car looking very doleful. Some one asked him what he was going to Salt Lake for. He said a quarter section of government land, and was advised to separate himself and family from the rest, when they got to Iowa, and settle there, thus preventing his girls from experiencing the practical part of that hideous "religion," whose first and chief prophet was a common bar-room loafer. He should like to do that, and his youngest girl and Bart. would like to do that, too. Who was Bart? some one asked.---Oh, he was going to marry his youngest girl when they got settled. He was going to please his family: he did'nt believe in the religion much, he said, but his family were almost half crazy on the subject, and he sold out his business----he was in the cutlery trade in a small way----and came with them, and here he was.---How much of a family had he got? Only two girls, between eighteen and thirty years of age. He had a wife once, and one wife was as much as a man could take care of; he didn't believe in the religion much himself, he repeated, he was going along because his family were determined to go anyhow. He had money enough to buy a quarter section there, (pointing toward the sundown,)---they should like to do that indeed, but his oldest daughter was stubborn and would go, and ruled the other one, and the other one ruled him, and here he was, and he expected to go through.
The old fellow let us into these little domestic confidences with an air of great seriousness, leaving the impression that his "family" consisted principally of a very self-willed, tolerably antiquated daughter. While this conversation was in progress, a little knot of by-standers are very apt to do, and some of them were preparing to put the man through another course of questions, when one of the smooth faced elders who were mousing around among the crowd, breaking up conversations with any of their people by one pretext and another, here slipped up the steps and invited our friend into the car. Presently the elder came and stood at the door, and looking down on the crowd, scraped his hand over his jaws very much as one would suppose Mr. Flintwitch would do, when meditating giving "Affery, my woman!" a dose of throttle. The counterpart of mistress Affrey in appearance, though certainly not in spirit, stood behind the elder looking over his shoulder. Somebody else in the crowd, asked him if he had ever been to Utah? Yes. Well, was it true that Brigham Young had forty wives? This the elder contemptuously refused to answer. How many did he have, then? --- Tell them its none of their business," said the woman behind him: but he did not tell them so: and when some one inquired how many wives he had, he turned round and went into the car---the woman saying to him again, in a shriller key than before, "Tell them its none of their business."
Gipsey hats, such as Italian street-or-gan-grinding girls wear were quite common with the Dutch girls and really fastened under the chin with a dirty ribbon and shading the swarthy cheeks spreading out umbrella like over the greasy, blue speckled dressed and fat weather tanned arms there needed only to have been a few trees, a small sprinkling of rain, thunder and lightning, and night of course to make one think one was in a gipsey camp. There was plenty among the older she proselytes to Mormonism in the crowd, who would have passed for natural Meg Merrilles.
Ashtabula Senlincl.
(From the Cincinnati Commercial.)
American National Charities.
The New York Herald, as a part of the intelligence of Anniversary Week gives a statement of the financial condition of the principal societies, exhibiting a comparative view of their receipts during the past three years.
The statement shows that the total receipts of the past three years were as follows:
1855...........................$1,595,780
1856............................1,756,672
1857............................1,971,808
Increase of 1856 over 1855..........$160,892
1857 1850 ..........215,137
1857 1855..........376,928
The Herald adds: "It will be perceived that during the last two years the receipts have increased nearly $400,000 the amount last year being about $2,000,000. A glance at the sums received by the different societies will show how little of this vast sum is applied to the relief of human wretchedness, and how large a portion is expended for more prosolytism." The remark is a harsh one, and yet perhaps there is some foundation of justice for the sentiment which it embodies. It has struck others besides the editor of the Herald that there may be less of substance under all this show than thousands of well meaning persons suppose. National societies headed by eminent names, magnificent machinery and unlimited means, carry with them in the minds of those who look only upon the surface, the appearance of an efficiency which it is very possible they may not actually possess. When one remembers how simple, under the appointments of a parental Providence, are the means of doing good, he cannot help wondering whether it is not possible that too much of the power of these vast instrumentalities is expended to keep themselves in motion. In sweeping the very ends of the earth with the hand of a lavish philanthropy, is there not danger that much of ignorance and misery and heathenism nearer home, and which, with a little less of the far-seeing and adventurous, might be sought out and cured, is overlooked? Is not a liberal expenditure of money sometimes mistaken for missionary efficiency: and is not this display, after all, but little more than an attempt on the part of the church to atone, by a showy material demonstration, for the absence of that spirituality which, if the Bible is true, is the only element that can be relied upon to evangelize the world?
The Rev. Joseph Wolf, in an eccentric letter recently published, says that a society in London has worked nearly fifty years, and spent nearly 500,000, and yet has converted "only two Jews and a half." Now the Rev. Joseph Wolf may not be strictly accurate in his statement within the fraction of a Jew, it would appear as if the utmost exactitude was intended; but his remarks unquestionably point to the place where a truth is to be found. The English Society for the conversion of the Jews still exists ; doubtless has its annual assemblages at Exoter Hall: maintains a splendid organization: publishes flattering reports, if not of what it has done, of what it is going to do: fulminates its annual enthusiasm: collects its annually increasing funds, and throws them away and although there is no setting a price upon the soul of men, yet it must be confessed that two prosolytes and a half for two millions and a half of dollors a million for each prosolytes is a rate calculated to suggest the question whether or not some other line of charity would not promise to be more productive in proportion to the investment. We confess that when benevolence grows into a society and expands into an institution, we are prone to suspect that there is danger of its becoming more showy than efficient. There was a magnificent procession of the elements the rain and the thunder and the wind passed before the shepherd in Hoeob, but it was not in the deep bass of the thunder nor in the solemn dispason of the whirlwind that the Deity was revealed. When they had all swept by a still small voice was heard and that was GOD. Happiness is a simple thing goodness is simple: and to make others happy and good, individual kindness of heart and gennine personal benevolence are indispensable and nearly all that is necessary. How simple a thing was the missionary society appointed by the Saviorr compared with the vast organizations of the present day. It is not necessary to inquire which did the work. We get glowing annual reports of what the latter are about to do, when their funds are sufficiently increased: eternity alone will suffice to estimate what was done by the former.
(From the Parkville Democrat.)
PARKVILLE, Mo., May 25,1857.
To the Executive Committee of the Parkville, Grand River and Burlington R. Road Company.
GENTLEMEN: In accordance with your request, I beg leave to present for your consideration, before the completion of the report and estimates, the following statement of what has been done under your instructions issued to me the 11th of March last, directing me to make a survey to Smithville, and under those of a later date requesting me to proceed with the surveys to the junction with the Hannibal and St. Joseph Rail Road.
The line of the survey leaves Parkville by the valley of White Aloe creek, and reaches the Prairie Ridge in a distance of 5 miles, overcoming a height of two hundred and seventy feet. Thence it follows down the valley pf Second Creek to the town of Smithville. The line crosses the creek several times but as it is a small stream will involve no heavy expense for masonry.
The crossing at Smithville is much the largest being 50 feet wide. The grade here requires abutments twenty-eight feet high. The ground over which the line passes on this division from Parkville to Smithville is generally level, and I think the estimate will prove it a cheap line. On this division of 16 1/2 miles, appearances show but one rock cut which cannot be avoided. This will be on entering Smithville, and the greater part of which will be needed for the bridges over Second Creek and Smith's Fork of Platte river. There are only 1822 cubic yards in it, estimating it as solid through. The grades on this division are not objectionable, and though the line has to be suited to the meanderings of the valley of the creek, the curves are easy.
On leaving Smithville, the line crosses Smith's Fork of Platte river on a bridge of 140 feet span, the abutments of which are twenty-three feet high: then it runs up the valley of Lost creek to its head on the dividing ridge four miles from Smithville. It remains on this divide for three miles, and then runs down a tributary of Cottonwood or Linn branch, crossing Linn branch, and then runs up another of its tributaries and again strikes the dividing ridge at a point nearly opposite Plattsburg. This district of 15 miles is about the same character as the first, with the exception of there being no appearance of rock whatever. The work is light and the grades and earves are no more objectionable. The line now keeps the dividing ridge for a distance of 14 miles to its junction with the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad at Buchlin. This part of the route is remarkably favorably to the enterprise, the ground being level, and as it is a dividing ridge, little masonry will be required.
On the whole I deem your line a very favorable one. There are no sidehill cuttings, but one rock cutting and that but 1822 yards, while the line lies all the way on good firm ground. As more than one-half the line is prairie the grubbing will be trifling. Besides as I have said before the grading is light, and the masonry much less than common on a line of the same length elsewhere. There are only two bridges both at Smithville the rest of the masonry is composed of small open arched or box culverts. There are other practicable routes which remain to be explored, but none which at present seems to me more feasible than this. One of them, which was partially examined, runs through Plattsburg, striking the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad east of Buchlin, but will cost more to construct. The citizens of Clinton county may however choose to make up the difference and thus make it an object to run your line near that point.
The above is respectfully submitted by Your obedient servant,
CHAS. B. ELLIS.
DEMOCRATIC POSTMASTERS. In a town in Illinois, a Postmaster has been appointed who is a notorious drunkard; who not long ago turned his family out of doors, smashed all of the furniture and burned his wife's clothes; who has had mania-a-potu, and who owes an appointment to Stephen A. Douglas. This worthy senator upon being told that the people of ---- would never sanction the appointment, remarked, "The people of ----- are nothing but a set of d-d Abolitionists, and they have got to stand it four years at any rate they may like it or lump it, as they please."
Jefferson's Opinions Of The Supreme Court
Extracts from his correspondence
TO MR. JARVIS,
MONTECELLO, SEPETEMBER 28, 1820.
You seem, in pages 84 and 148, to consider the Judges as the ultimate arbitrators of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and no more so. They have, with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is, "boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem," and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control.
The constitution has created no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves. If the Legislaturo fails to pass laws for a census, for paying the Judges and other officers of Government, for establishing a militia, for naturalization as prescribed by the Constitution, or if they fail to meet in Congress, the Judges cannot issue ther mandamus to them; if the President fails to supply the place of a judge, to appoint other civil or military officers; to issue requisite commissions, the Judges cannot force him. They can issue their mandamns or distringas to no executive or legislative officer to enforce the fulfillment of their official duties, any more than the President or Legislature may issue orders to the judges or their officers. Betrayed by English example, and unaware as it should seem of the control of our Constitution in this particular, they have at times overspread their limit by undertaking to command executive officers in the discharge of their official executive duties; but the constitution in keeping three departments distinet and independent, restrains the authority of judges to judiciary organs as it does the executive and legislative to executive and legislative organs. The judges certainly have more frequent occasion to act on constitutional questions, because the laws of mean and team and of criminal action, forming the great mass of system of law, constitute their particular department. When the legislative or executive functionaries act unconstitutionally, they are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the Judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to form their discretion by enducation. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
TO THOMAS RITCHIE.
MONTICELLO, December 25, 1820.
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corpse of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foaudation of our confederated fabric. They are construing our Constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to general and supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet, and they are too well versed in English law to gorger the maxim, "boni judis ampliare jurisdictionem." We shall see if they are bold enough to take the daring stride their five lawyers have lately taken. If they do, then with the editor of our book, in his address to the public, I will say, that against this every man should raise his voice, and more should uplift his arm. Having found from experience that impeachment is an impracticable thing, a mere scare-crow, they consider themselves secure for life: they skulk from responsibility to public opinion, the only remaining hold on them under a practice first introduced into England by Lord Mansfield. An opinion is huddled up in conclave, perhaps by a majority of one, delivered as if unanimous, and with the silent acquiescence of lazy or timid associates, by a crafty chief judge, who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning. A judiciary law was once reported by the Attorney General to Congress, requiring each judge to deliver his opinion seriatim and openly and then to give it in writing to the clerk to be entered in the record. A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing, but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism at least in a republican government.
Gratitude is the music of the heart when its chords are swept by the gentle breeze of kindness.
"THE FIRST BABY."
BY MRS. C. I. H. NICHOLS.
Maternity is the perfecting not only of we manhood, but of humanity. And to the
first baby has God given the sacred power to complete the circle of human sympathies to
waken the conscious solidarity of human interests. Every mother that is a mother
pictures the whole troop of human loves, joys and sorrows hovering around "the first baby." She lays every mother's baby in the cradle which held her own first baby, and listens to the songs that gush forth or are softly murmured in the mother-heart. To a mother's heart, every mother's baby is the representative of inestimable treasure; is an estate held "in fee simple;" a little suboiler that leaves no affections fallow no sympathies isolated from the claims of a common humanity.
The first baby! -why, it brings treasure with it! True its little hand is empty; but then it brings to light and activity unrevealed capacities, looses the sealed fountains, and assays the unwrought treasure of the human soul. It is not all joy-that baby gift: if it were it could not be a joy forever. It is not all sorrow: if it were the fountains of the heart it stars, could not grow pure to reflect the heaven above, would not flow down the stream of time, bearing rich freight for unknown and unborn posterity. But see it lays its timy hand on the heart, and it forgets to beat for self. It pillows its soft cheek on the bosom that hitherto had looked out upon the struggling world all unlinked to its wants all unmoved by its destiny and henceforth that bosom is the asylom of the orphan the refuge of the oppressed, the sanctuary which invites a world lying in wretchedness to the banquet of love, to the smiles of a common Father.
Any why? Ah, that baby is the medium through which the helplessness, the wants and the promise of humanity have appealed to the woman. In behalf of the race it has whispered mother, and looking into its trusting, worshiping eyes, she aaccepts the consecration, answers the appeal with a deep, an eternity-echo'd my child! Windham Co. Democrat.
A Poser for Judge Taney.
Mayor B.B. French, of Washington city, in the following letter, makes a very strong point against the Dred Scott decision from the records of the Convention which framed the Constitution:
To the Editor of the National Era:
APRIL 23, 1857.
I have not read the opinions of the Judges of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case at length yet, and do not know whether of them alluded to a certain portion of the proceedings in the Convention that formed the Constitution of the United States. If they did not, I wish you would respectfully ask Mr Chief Justice Taney what he supposes the statesmen of that day meant by the words, "OTHER FREE CITIZENS," when they adopted in committee of the whole, the following resolution
Resolved. That the right of suffrage in the first branch of the National Legislature ought not to be accorded to the rule established in the articles of confederation, but according to some equitable ration of representation: namely, in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens, and inhabitants of every age, sex, and condition, including persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not to paying taxes in each state.
1st. The whole number of white citizens is designated. That forms one class.
2d. Other free citizens are designated, forming another class.
3d. Inhabitants of every age, sex, and condition, including persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, forming another class.
Finally, Indians not paying taxes were excluded.
We have, then, all the white citizens. All the inhabitants, including slaves, without doubt, included, and we have the Indians not paying taxes excluded.
Then, who would have been meant by those "other free citizens!" For my part, I confess I cannot think of any other persons, except free negroes, who could possibly have formed that class denominated "other FREE CITIZENS."
AN INDIGNANT FILLIBUSTER. Wm. M. Brantly, lately an officer of Gen. Walker's Nicarauguan army, writes from Belma (Ala.) to the New Orleans Delta as follows:
"Lockbridge and Titus are two of the most miserable humbugs that accident ever placed into position. Conceited, selfish, vain, they know no more of war as a science than they do of Sancrit It is a sad reflection that so much has been expended to no purpose towards opening the San Juan river. A competent leader could have effected it at one time with the greatest case. But, as it is, time, money, ammunities, blood, and life have been thrown away to no purpose. I commanded a company from Alabama in that unfortunate expedition, was in the second battalion, and am intimately acquainted with the cause of failure, which was, I aver, to be the utter incompetency of Lockbridge and Titus. I shall not attempt an analysis of the campaign: that has become stale news: but to any one who has read with attention the transactions on that river from the first of January up to the time of the abandonment, my opinion will be truth. So the liberal and patriotic gentlemen of your city, who contributed so freely to equip that expedition can know where the responsibility rests of having trifled away their generous efforts and contributions towards siding the noble William and the cause of American progress in Central Amorica.
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Saturday, June 6, 1857.
If any readers will consider the enormous proportions of the Governor's Inaugural, they will see why our news matter is limited this week. The document was not received until after the first side of our paper had gone to press.
The papers on many of the steamers, and the Messengers of Richardson's Missouri Express, are very courteous to us, and place under obligations for late papers from the States. Through their kindness we receive the very latest news from the East that reaches Kanzas.
Mr. GREENLEAF, Clerk of the Lightning Line steamer Australia, furnished us on her last trip with a full file of St. Louis papers, and some late dates from New York.
A.C. CARTER. Messenger of Richardson's Express on the Lightning Line steamer Tropic, brought us late copies of all the St. Louis dailies and very late Cincinnati papers.
By Lightning Line steamer F.X. Aubry we received late St. Louis dailies.
The officers of the Omaha favored us with a late copy of the N.Y. Herald.
The Star of the West brought us late papers from St. Louis.
To the officers of the Lightning Line steamer Cataract we are under obligations for the latest file of St. Louis papers that have reached Quindaro.
Mr. A.D. RICHARDSON, who has been connected with the Cincinnati press for some years past, arrived at Quindaro this week. He comes to Kanzas in the capacity of correspondent of the Daily and Dollar Weekly Times of Cincinnati, the Daily and Weekly Capital City Fact of Columbus, Ohio, and the Boston Congregationalist. Mr. R. is a good writer and reliable on correspondent. We are glad to learn that he will be enabled to present his observations to the reader of influential and widely circulated journals in the States.
GOV. Walker's Inangural.
To the exclusion of much interesting matter we insert the "Pacificator's" manifesto remarkable at least for its sea-serpentine length, and, by so doing have not reserved the space we would like to occupy with comments upon this immortal document, the advent of which has been so anxiously anticipated by the people of our country, and especially by the people of Kanzas.
Those who may toil through its numerous an elaborate paragraphs, will find that it contains the programme of Mr. Walker's proposed policy for the settlement of the political affairs of the Territory, a protracted disquisition on schools and railroads, a lamentation over the sectional proclivities of some of the American people, a theory in regard to climatic limitation of slavery, a broadside of invective against those whom he styles political fanatics, and a thrust at the Free-State party of Kanzas and the Republican party of the Union through the Topeka Constitution, the whole being interlarded with the divers allusions to his own past acts an with copions appeals to the avarice, the apprehensions and the patriotism of those to whom it is addressed.
If others read it with the same care we have given to it, they will learn more of the character of its author than of his intentions, more of his professions than designs, more of his views as a Southern politician than as a Governor of a Territory where there are no national political organizations, more of his sentiments towards parties existing in the States than towards those within the confines of his present authority, more of his past career than is recorded in any other biography, or any history it has been our good fortune to peruse heretofore. Of course all this is invaluable to the prosperity Kanzas or its author would not have given it to the world or the President and his Cabinet pronounced it "good, even very good."
Mr. Walker assumes, as did Mr. Stanton before him, that the State Constitution of Kanzas must be framed by delegates chosen at the election provided for through the Territorial Legislature and only by the ballots of those who are qualified voters under the restrictions imposed by that body of usurpers, and he announces this assumption in almost the same breath in which he declares the adjustment of affairs must be made by "the people of Kanzas," and invokes a general participation in the election. The Inagural having been prepared at a remote home, its author perhaps did not know at the time, what we presume he will soon learn, that these propositions are wholly incompatible. For well known reasons, and reasons stronger than those which impelled our forefathers to refuse to pay a trivial tax to the mother country, the Free-State men have refused to go into the delegate election under the above conditions. It is almost certain the Governor will learn that his appeals to their fears and their pride, their avarice and their patriotism, will no more lead them to abandon their rights, than did the alternate smiles and frowns of the royal George win and coerce those noble souls whose example now animates the members of our party. They asked a represontation in the Government we ask a fair election of Representatives. When their petitions were spurned and an army sent to reduce them to submission they shrunk not from a defensive position the great lesson of this example will not be lost upon their children!
The Free State men having good and sufficient reasons to justify them for refusing to participate in the election, it follows at once that the Governor has announced a falacy in declaring that "those who substain from the exercise of the right af ariffrage, authorize those who do vote to not for them in that contingency, and the absentees are as much bound under the law and Constutution, where there is no fraud or violence, by the act of the majority of those who do vote, as although all had participated in the election."
The principle is correct one, but the application here made unfortunately reflects upon the political judgment of our new official. It is just to exact of every subject a tribute for the support of a government, but our countrymen in 1776 objected to the application of that general principle unless they could have a voice in the government. It was neither pride nor parsimony, neither obstinacy nor in subordination that impelled them, but a sacred regard for a principle that underlies free government. Those who have carefully studied the past history of Kanzas must see that to expect the Free State party to vote under the provisions of the Territorial Legislature, is to expect them to relinquish a principle that underlies a free representative government, by acknowledging a government in which they have had no voice. It is a high regard for this great principle that impols tho Free State men to stand aloof from the election, and will justify them in with holding a willing allegiance to any instrument the convention may construct. Nations have been enslaved our party may be subjugated, but this being accomplished by the civil or military agents of a nominally free government, will not render the act any the less and act of tyranny and oppression.
We are credulous enough to believe that the people who have lived in Kanzas and experienced the effects of an unsettled condition of affairs, have had heretofore a knowledge of all the concomitant disadvantages quite as adequate as they can entertain after reading this most florid Inauguaral, written by one who has passed through none of those trials and privations which were forced upon the Territory by the very party he now seems most inclined to justify and to favor.
We are credulous enough to believe that our party as an unit, nearly all of whose numbers came from States that have made most ample provisions for education, constructed the greatest lines of railways and prospered the most under the benign influence of peace, appreciate quite as highly as does the Governor, educational facilities, the means of trade and travel, and the blessings of a peace that is not purchased by the sacrifice of rights sacred to humanity, and principles vital to freedom.
If Mr. Walker cherishes a fraction of that fervent solicitude for peace which he declares he entertains, it will require but slight effort on his part to shower blessings upon the Territory let him require from our party no greater sacrifices than of any party, show to it no less and no more favor and he will gather laurels where his predecessors have incurred reproach and obloquy.
If Mr. Walker does not over estimate his regard for the political institutions of our country, we are by his professions authorized to expect that he will not imperil those institutions by subverting their fundamental principles through an endeavor to enforce upon the people, laws in the enactment of which they were denied a voice by fraud and violence.
The Free-State party regards Mr. Walker as a duly and legelly appointed official entitled to their respect so long as he shall impartially discharge the functions of his office. They feel that their claims upon him are co-equal with those of any other party. Not being chosen by any political organization in the Territory, his obligations are the same to each one that exists here, Our party will make of him no demands that will prejudice the rights of others it may be forced to submit to exactions which should be required of none.
Every member of that party desires to have a voice in the organization of the new State they feel it a duty no less than a right to be represented in the convention for that purpose and if the Governor who by his office stands in the same relation to every resident citizen will only make it possible for each and all upon legitimate conditions only, to go into an election of delegates there will be an universal exercise of that high prerogative the elective franchise.
If the Governor does not pursue some such equitable course we have good grounds for believing what we now suspect, that there is a design to inveigle the few Free-State men who are registered to vote, so as with a semblance of fairness to force upon the people through their delegates a Pro-Slavery Constitution, or a Constitution silent upon the subject of slavery, or perhaps for the purpose of saving the Democratic party to give sanctity to a Free-State Constitution they may choose to frame, or it may be only to lead the Free-State men to sanction the Territorial Legislature, prior to an attempt to collect taxes levied by that body.
To arouse the suspicious of an often betrayed party there is sufficient disparity between the assurance that Congress will not receive a constitution unless it be ratified by the people, and the plea that the Convention being the only authorized power to give an opportunity for ratification, non-participation in the coming election is rendered hazardous. For, if Congress will only receive a ratified Constitution , there is no hazard in staying from the polls in June; if there is a hazard in not voting there is imminent danger of the Free-State men giving sanction to a Pro-Slavery Constitution by voting. It would not be the first instance where public men had used words to conceal ideas.
The "Herald of Freedom" has three articles in its issue of May 30th , in reference to our humble sheet. One is entitled a "NEW PAPER," another "BETTER KEEP QUIET," and the third CALUMNY THE "STOCK IN TRADE."
The first exhibits the good taste and judgment of the editor of that accidentally fortunate sheet. He says our paper "is neat in mechanical execution gives evidence of being a live paper and is worthy of the go ahead town in which we are located." We are very much obliged to the Herald for this notice. We think such a notice will be of great value to us among that class of readers who in the same sheet are informed that we had "better keep quiet," and that "calumny is our stock in trade."
We do not wish to be calumniators, nor do we wish to need the advice to "keep quiet." The "Herald" says that we are not only calumniators, but "nonsensical." We beg its very worthy proprietor to inform us as soon as practicable, whether our paper is "live" with "nonsense and calumny." We never said that the editor of the "Herald" wrote a letter to Judge Cato; we acknowledge that we baited a hook for him, and as we expected, he was just wise enough to bite at it. We may be nonsensical; we trust we shall never display so much of that quality as to expend more than a column of our "live" paper in reply to a nonsensical article concerning us. Will the editor of the "Herald" inform us wherein we have slandered him? We said a certain "leader" wrote a letter to Judge Cato, asking to be excused from attending Court for fear of exposing the Court to an attack from the small-pox. This is acknowledged in the Herald to have been its editor. We also said that we learned that that person at the time referred to was in daily communion with his neighbors and fellow citizens, and asked if their lives were not almost as valuable as the lives of the persons infesting the Courts. To this no reply is given. We ask one. We are told that what has been courteously termed our nonsense "will never pay" and requested to "mark it." It has paid already. It has given us very much amusement ; that is all we expected, and for it we are ready to give our receipt in full.
As to the article under the head of "better keep quiet," we shall simply say that the editor of the "Herald" maliciously intends to mislead the public. Who are the persons who have repeatedly told you that freight from Quindaro to Lawrence cost $1.25 per hundred? Who beside yourself believes that you have shipped more freight than any excepting heavy mercantiledealers? Do you mean to be understood as saying that Leavenworth and Delaware are ten or fifteen miles nearer to Lawrence that Quindaro?
You say your paper will state facts. We should be happy to have it do so. If the article to which we are now referring contains facts, either we, or you are very ignorant of the meaning the word. You say possibly we state the truth; do you deny it? You would be most happy to learn that you had an interest in our town-would you? This is remarkable. Why should you wish an interest in a town ten or fifteen miles farther from Lawrence than Leavenworth or Delaware?
The Infamous Calumny.
Do not start, reader, at the above caption they are only words found in the last "Herald of Freedom" in reference to (as the Herald terms him) Chas. Robinson. The latter gentleman charged the editor of the "Herald" with a disposition to sell out the Free-State party in order to save his invaluable life, while in the hands of the Raffians at Lecompton and with being instrumental in causing his removal from Leavenworth to Lecompton in order to secure his co-operation for that object. When the charge was first made, the editor of the "Herald" to use its rofined and courteous language said that Gov. Robinson was an unmitigated liar. He now acknowledges that he did use his influence to have him removed from Leavenworth to Lecompton and that he did propose to acquiesce in the Bogus laws, in order to secure the control of the Territorial authority. The editor of the Herald charged Gov.ROBINSON with the intention of selling out the party because he asked Sec. Stanton to annul the Territorial laws and permit a fair and honest vote to be taken upon the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The proposition of the editor of the "Herald" while a prisoner was to submit to the Bogus Laws without any compromise whatever from the Bogus authority. If Gov.ROBINSON, by making a proposition to the acting Governor to disregard the Bogus Laws was guilty of a disposition to sell out the Free State party, what is a proposition where it is proposed to submit and acquiesce without any compromise or yielding on the part of the Bogus authority?
The editor of the "Herald" has kindly offered us advise; in return we suggest to him to be cautious how he mingles others intimately and delicately connected with him in this controversy.
Political Meeting in Quindaro
After the adjournment of the Railroad meeting on Tuesday evening, a meeting was organized which resolved in action relative to the Mass Convention to be held at Topeka on Tuesday next. June 9th. Capt. Otis Webb was appointed Chairman, and Samuel F. Tappan jr. Secretary.
Dr. Hall having declined the nomination as Chairman, stated that his readons for so doing were that he was a resident of Franklin county where no registration had been made and that as a patition to Gov.Walker asking authority to go into an election had been granted he intended to vote.
His remarks directed the attention of the meeting to the policy of the Free State party in the delegate election and speeches were made upon the subject by Dr. J. W. Morris, of Leavenworth, Alfred Gray, J.M.Walden and O.A.Bassett in which they each argued that the Free State party could not with a hope of fair-dealing and without a compromise of principle, participate in the election.
A committee consisting of J.M.Walden, F. Johnson and P.T. Colby, was appointed to report a delegation of ten to attend the Topeka Mass Meeting. The committee reported the names of R.P. Gray, Alfred Gray, Sam C. Smith, Dr.G.E. Budington, David Clarke, O.A. Bassett, Dr.R.M. Ainsworth, Charles Chadwick and Dr.J.B. Welborn. The report upon motion was amended by adding the names of the nomination committee, in which form it was adopted. The delegation was instructed by motion to add the names of as many persons more as would attend.
The meeting adjourned to meet on Friday evening to instruct the delegates.
OTIS WEBB, Chairman.
S.F. TAPPAN Sec.
Quindaro, June 2,1857.
Railroad Meeting in Clinton Co., MISSOURI.
On Monday last, June 1st, there was a large meeting of the citizens of Clinton County, to take into consideration the claims of the Quindaro, Parkville, and Grand River Railroad. The meeting was held in the Court-House in Plattsburg. We have received interesting details in regard to this spirited affair but have not space to publish them this week.
The officers chosen were Judge Johnson, Chairman, and Mr. McDonald, Secretary. Col Geo. W. Park was called upon and in clear and concise manner stated the claims of the road upon Clinton County. Dr. McGuire, Monroe Henderson of New York City, and other gentlemen in turn addressed the meeting. After the claims of the road had been fully presented by the speakers the meeting determined to take no final action until it could be ascertained more definitely what would be done at this terminus of the road towards its construction. The county is ready to subscribe in a corporate capacity $200,000 if the people here manifest a proper interest in the enterprise. The meeting adjourned to meet on the fourth of July, when it is expected more definite action will be taken.
MEETING IN QUINDARO-On Tuesday evening there was a meeting convened in Quindaro to hear a report from the Quindaro Delegation to the above meeting at Plattsburg. Capt. Otis Webb was chosen chaiman, Messrs. R.P. Gray, Alfred Gray and Dr. Hall, Vice Presidents, and Messrs. S.F. Tappan and Jesse Yarnell, Secretaries.
Messrs. Chas. B. Ellis, O.A. Bassett and Monroe Henderson were successively called upon to address the meeting. In their remarks they gave a detailed account of the interesting meeting at Plattsburg, and urged upon our citizens the necessity of immediate and efficient action. The meeting was full of interest. A Committee of thirty persons was appointed to attend the adjourned meeting as Plattsburg, on July 4th. The subscription books were opened in Quindaro on Wednesday morning, and during that day five hundred and eight shares were taken!
AT PARKVILLE, we have been informed, there was another meeting held on Wednesday evening, for the same purpose as that at Quindaro. We have not received a report of the proceedings.
LAWRENCE REPUBLICAN. We have received and examined the first number of a Free-State paper recently started in Lawrence under the above title, of which T. DWIGHT THACHER AND NORMAN ALLEN are announced as the Editors. Judging form the present number it will "supply the long felt need of a high-tone and reliable Free-State paper in Lawrence," a desire to do which the Publishers claim to have been actuated by. It is, we believe, somewhat larger in size than any other paper now published in Kanzas. The mechanical execution is excellent. The editorial department promises to be conducted with ability. So long as it continues to be what the copy before us warrants us to expect. Lawrence will have a newspaper worthy of a liberal support.
WARM WEATHER. We keep in our office one of those little instruments which by the new Governor's theory will hereafter be used to detect favorable localities for slavery. For three hours on Tuesday afternoon the mercury in it stood at ninety degrees Farenheit. It ranges about seventy degrees.
AUSTRALIA. With pleasure we inform our reader, that the officers of this boat assert that they have not in any instance, charged more than the usual fare for passengers from other points to Quindaro, and this being so, the stricture in last week's paper was unmerited.
RAIL ROAD SUBSCRIPTIONS. The books of the Quindaro, Parkville, and Grand River Railroad to connect with the Hannibal and St. Joseph Road, were opened in Quindaro on Wednesday morning last, and in one day five hundred and eight shares ($50 each) were subscribed. Quindaro is three months old.
MASS MEETING The Free-State party hold a Mass Meeting at Topeka, on Tuesday next, the 10th lust.
The Free-State Legislature is appointed to convene there on the same day.
POST OFFICE The mail key has been received by Mr. Parker,our daily appointed Post Master. Quindaro now has a Post Office.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
OF
R.J. WALKER,
Governor of Kanzas Territory,
DELIVERED IN LECOMPTON, K.T. May 27th, 1857.
Fellow-Citizens of Kanzas:
At the earnest request of the President of the United States, I have accepted the position of Governor of the Territory of Kanzas. The President, with the cordial concurrence of all his Cabinet, expressed to me the conviction, that the condition of Kanzas was fraught with imminent peril to the union, and asked me to undertake the settlement of that momentous question, which has introduced discord and civil war throughout your borders, and threatens to involve you and our country in the same common ruin. This was a duty thus presented, the performance of which I could not decline, consistently with my view of the sacred obligation which was every citizen owes to his country.
The mode of adjustment is provided in the act organizing your Territory, namely, by the people of Kanzas, who, by a majority of their own votes, must decide this question for themselves in forming their State Constitution.
Under practice the preliminary act of framing a State Constitution is uniformly performed through the instrumentality of a convention of delegates chosen by the people themselves. That Convention is now about to be electal by you under the call of the Territorial Legislature created and still recognized by the authority of Congress, and clothed by it, in the compreheusive language of the organic law, with full power to make such an enactment. The Territorial Legislature, then, in assembling this convention was fully sustained by the Convention is distinctly recognized in my instructions from the President of the United States. Those who oppose this course, cannot aver the alleged irregularity of the Territorial Legislature, whose laws in town and city elections, in our corporate franchise, and of all other subjects but slavery they acknowledge by their votes and acquiescence. If that legislature was invalid, then are we without law or order in Kanzas, without town, city, or county organization, all legal and judicial transactions are void, all titles null, and anarchy reigns throughout our borders.
It is my duty, in seeing that all constitutional laws are fairly executed, to take care, as far as practicable, that this election of delegates to the Convention shall be free from fraud or violence, and that they shall be protected in their deliberations.
The people of Kanzas then are invited by the highest authority known to the Constitution to participate freely and fairly in the election of delegates to frame a Constitution and State government. The law has performed its entire appropriate function, when it extends to the people the right of suffrage; but it cannot compel the performance of that duty. Throughout our whole Union, however, and wherever free government prevails, those who abstain from the exercise of the right of suffrage, authorize those who do vote to act for them in that contingency, and the absentees are as much bound under the law and constitution, where there is no fraud or violence, by the act of the majority of those who do vote, as although all had participated in the election. Otherwise, as voting must be voluntary, self-government would be impracticable, and monarchy or despotism would remain as the only alternative.
You should not console yourselves, my fellow citizens, with the re-election, that you may, by a subsequent vote, defen the ratilization of the Constitution. Although most anxious to secure to you the exercise of that great Constitutional right, and believing that the Convention is the servant, and not the master of the People, yet I have no power to dictate the proceedings of that body. I cannot doubt, however, the course they will adopt on this subject. But why incur the hazard of the preliminary formation of a Constitution by a minority, as alleged by you, when a majority, by their own votes, could control the forming of that instrument.
But it is said that the Convention is not legally called, and that the election will not be freely and fairly conducted. The Territorial Legislature is a power ordained for this purpose by the Congress of the United States; and in opposing it. You resist the authority of the Federal Government. That Legislature was called into being by the Congress of 1854, and is recognized in the very latest Congressional Legislature. It is recopnized by the present Chief Magistrate of the Union, just chosen by the American people, and many of its acts are now in operation here by universal assent. As the Governor of the Territory of Kanzas, I must supprt the laws and the Constitution: and I have no other alternative under my oath, but to see that all Constitutional laws are fully and fairly executed.
I see in this act, calling the Convention, no improper or unconstitutional restrictions upon the right of suffrage. I see in it no test-oath or other similar provisions objected to in relation to precious laws, but clearly repealed as repugnant to the provisions of this act, so far as regards the election of delegates to this Convention. It is said that a fair and full vote will not be taken. Who can safely predict such a result? Nor is it just for a majority, as they allege, to throw the power into the hands of a minority, from a mere apprehension (I trust entirely unfounded) that they will not be permitted to exercise the right of suffrage. If, by fraud or violence, a majority should not be permitted to vote, there is a remedy, it is hoped, in the wisdom and justice of the Convention itself, acting under the obligations of an oath, and a proper opinion. There is a remedy, also, if such facts can be demonstrated, in the refusal of Congress to admit a State into the Union under a Constitution imposed by a minority upon a majority by fraud or violence. Indeed I cannot doubt that the Convention, after having framed a State Constitution, will submit it for ratification or rejection, by a majority of the then actual bona fide resident settlers of Kanzas.
With these views, well known to the President and Cabinet, and approved by them, I accepted the appointment of Governor of Kanzas. My instruction form the President, through the Secretary of State under date of the 30th of March, last, sustain "the regular legislature of the Territory" in "assembling a Convention to form a Constioution," and they express the opinion of the President, that "when such a Constitution shall be submitted to the people of the Territory, they must be protected in the exercise of their right of voting for or against that instrument; and the fair expression of the popular will must not be interrupted by fraud or violence."
I repeat, then as my clear conviction, that unless the Convention submit the Constitution to the vote of all the actual resident settlers in Kanzas, and the election be fairly and justly conducted, the Constitution will be, and ought to be rejected by Congress.
There are other important reasons why you should participate in the election of delegates to this convention. Kanzas is to become a new State, created out of the public domain, and will designate her boundaries in the fundamental law. To most of the land within her limits, the Indian title, unfortunately, is not yet extinguished, and this land is exempt from settlement to the grievous injury of the people of the State. Having passed many years of my life in a new State, and represented it for a long period in the Senate of the United States, I know the serious encumbrance arising from large bodies of lands within a State to which the Indian title is not extinguished. Upon this subject the Convention may act by such just and constitutional provisions as will accelerate the extinguishments of Indian title.
There is furthermore the question of Railroad grants made by Congress to all the new States but one, (where the routes could not by agreed upon,) and, within a few months past, to the flourishing territory of Minnesota. This munificent grant of four millions and a half of acres, was made to Minnesota, even in advance of her becoming a State, and will enable our sister State of the North-west, under the auspices of her present distinguished Executive, speedily to unite her railroad system with ours.
Kanzas if undoubtedly entitled to grants similar to those just made to Minnesota, and upon this question the Convention may take important action.
These recollect, are grants by Congress, not to companies, but to States. Now if Kanzas like the State of Illinois, in granting hereafter these lands to companies to build these roads, should reserve, at least, the seven per cent, of their gross annual receipts, it is quite certain that so soon as these roads are constructed, such will be the large payments into the treasury of our State, that there will be no necessity to impose in Kanzas any State tax whatever, especially if the Constitution should contain wise provisions against the creation of State debts.
The grant to the State of Illinois for the Illinois Central Railroad, passed under the wise and patriotic auspices of her distinguished Senator was made before the pernicious system lately exposed in Washington had invaded the halls of Congress; and therefore that State, unlike most others which obtained recent grants, was enabled to make this great reservation for the benefit of the State. This constitutes of itself a conclusive reason why these railroad grants should be reserved in the ordinance accompanying our State Constitution, so that our State might have the whole benefit of the grant, instead of large portions being given to agents appointed to obtain these grants by companies substantially in many cases for their own benefit, although in the name of the State.
There is another reason why these railroad grants should thus be reserved in our ordinance.
It is to secure these lands to the State before large bodies of them are engrossed by speculators, especially along the contemplated lines of railroads. In no case should these reservations interfere with the pre-emption rights reserved to settlers, or with school sections.
These grants to States, as is proved by the official documents, have greatly augmented the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, increasing their value, accelerating their sale and settlement, and bringing enhanced prices to the government, whilst greatly benefiting the lands of the settler by furnishing him new markets and diminished cost of transportation. On this subject, Mr. Bachanan, always the friend of the New States, in his recent inangural, uses the following language:
"No nation in the tide of time has ever been blessed with so rich and noble and inheritance as we enjoy in the public lands. In administering this important trust, whilst it may be wise to grant portions of them for improvement of the remainder, yet we should never forget that it is our cardinal policy to reserve the lands as much as may be for actual settlers; and this at moderate prices. We shall thus not only promote the prosperity of the new States by furnishing them a hardy and independent race of honest and industrious citizens, but shall secure homes for our children and for our children's children, as well as those exiled from foreign shores, who may seek in this country to improve their condition and enjoy the blessings of civil and religious liberty."
Our American railroads, now exceeding twenty-four thousand miles completed, have greatly advanced the power, prosperity and progress of the country, whilst linking it together in bonds of ever increasing commerce and intercourse, and tending by these results to soften or extinguish sectional passions and prejudice and thus perpetuate the union of the States. This system, it is clearly the interest of the whole country shall progress, until the States west of the Mississippi shall be intersected, like those cast of the river, by a net-work of railroads, until the whole at various points shall reach the shores of the Pacific. The policy of such grants by Congress is clearly established; and whatever doubts may have prevailed in the minds of a few persons as to the constitutionality of such grants, when based only upon the transfer of a portion of the public domain, in the language of the inaugural of the President, "for the improvement of the remainder," yet when they are made, as now proposed in the ordinance accompanying our Constitution, in consideration of our relinquishing the right to tax the public lands, such grants become in fact, sales for ample equivalents, and their constitutionality is placed beyond all doubt or controversy. For this reason, also, and in order that those grants may be made for ample equivalents, upon grounds of clear, constitutional authority it is most wise that they should be included (???) , and take effect by (???) the State is admitted into the Union. If my will could have prevailed in (???) the public lands, as indicated in my public career, and especially in the bill presented by me, as Chairman of the Committee of Public Lands, to the Senate of of the United States, which passed that body, but failed in the House, I would authorize no sales of these lands except for settlement and cultivation, reserving not merely a pre-emption, but a homestead of a quarter section of land in favor of every actual settler, whither coming form other states, or emigrating from Europe. Great and populous states would thus rapidly be added to the confederacy, until we should soon have one unbroken line of states, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, giving immense additional power and security to the Union, and facilitating intercourse between all its parts. This would be alike beneficial to the old and to the new states. To the working men of the old states, as well as of the new, it would be of incalculable advantage, not merely by affording them a home in the West, but by maintaining the wages of labor, by enabling the working classes to emigrate and become cultivators of the soil, when the rewards of daily toil should sink below a fair remuneration. Every new state besides, adds to the customers of the old states, consuming their manufactures, employing their merchants, giving business to their vessels and canals their railroads and cities, and a powerful impulse to their industry and prosperity. Indeed, it is the growth of the mighty West which has added, more than all other causes combined, to the power and prosperity of the whole country, whilst at the same time, through the channels of business and commerce, it has been building up immense cities in the Eastern, Atlantic and Middle States, and replenishing the federal treasury with large payments from the settlers upon the public lands, rendered of real value only be their labor and thus form increased exports bringing back augmented imports, and soon largely increasing the revenue of the government form that source also.
Without asking anything new from Congress, if Kanzas can receive on coming into the Union, all the usual grants, and use them judiciously, she can not only speedily cover herself with a network of railroads, but by devoting all the rest to purposes of education, she will soon have a complete system of Common Schools with Normal Schools, free Acadamics, and a great University, in all of which tuition shall be free to all our people. In that University the mechanic arts, with model workshops, and all the sciences should be taught, and especially agriculture in connection with a model farm.
Although you ask nothing more in your ordinance than has been already granted in other new states, yet in view of the sacrifice of life an property incurred by the people of Kanzas, in establishing her great principles of state and popular sovereignty, and thus perpetuating the Union, Congress, doubtless, will regard with indulgent favor the new State of Kanzas, and will welcome her into the Union with joyful congratulations and a most liberal policy as to the public domain.
The full benefit of that great measure, the graduation and reduction of the price of
Public lands in favor only of settlers and cultivators, so often urges by me in the Senate, and in the Treasury department, and finally adopted by Congress, should also be secured in our ordinance. Having witnessed in new states the deep injury indicted upon them by large bodies of their most fertile lands being monopolized by spectators, I suggest, in accordance with the public policy ever advocated by me, that our entire land tax, under the Constitution, for the next twenty years, should be confined exclusively to unoccupied land whether owned by risidents or non residents as one of the best means of guarding against a monopoly of our choice lands by speculators. I desire in fact to see our Convention exercise the whole constitutional power of a State to guard our rights and interests, and cultivators against the monopoly of our public domain by speculators.
As regards the school lands of the new States, the following views will be found in my reports of the 8th of December, 1847, and 9th of December, 1848, as Secretary of the Treasury of the United States:
The recommendation contained in my last report for the establishment of ports of entry in Oregon, and the extension there of our revenue laws, is again respectfully presented to the consideration of Congress, together with donanations of farms to settlers and emigrants, and the grant of a school section in every quarter of a township, which would bring the school-house within a point not exceeding a mile and a half in distance fro the most remote inhabitant of any quarter township."
And again:
"My last report recommended the grant of one section of land for schools in every quarter township in Oregan.
Congress, to some extent, adopted this recommendation by granting two school sections in each township, instead of one, for education in Oregon; but it is respectfully suggested that even thus extended, the grant is still inadequate in amount, whilst the location is inconvenient, and too remote for a school which all can attend. This subject is again presented to the attention of Congress, with the recomendation that it shall be extended to California and New Mexico, and also to all the other new States and Territories containing the public domain.
Acting upon the first of these recommendations, but not carrying them fully into effect, Congress doubled the school section grants and advance upon the former system. But in my judgment, the benefits intended will never be fully realized until four school sections, instead of two, and granted in every township, locating the school section in the center of every quarter township: thus, by only doubling the school sections, causing every section of the public domain in the new States to adjoin a school section, which would add immensely to the value of the public lands, whilst at the same time affording an adequate fund not only for the establishment of common schools in every township , but of High Schools, Normal Schools, and free academic which, together with the five per cent, (continued on page 3 column 1).
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Had the University grant before referred to, would place Kanzas in a few years, in point of science and education, in the front ranks of the States of the American Union and of the world. This is a subject always regarded by me with intense interest, in as much as my highest hope of the perpetnity of the Union and the continued success of self-government, is based upon the progressive education and enlightenment of the people, enabling them fully to comprehend their own true interests, the incalculable advantages of our Union, the exemption from the power of demagogues, the control of sectional passions and prejudices, the progress of the arts and sciences, and the accumulation of knowledge, which is every day more and more becoming real power, and which will advance so much the great interests of our whole country.
These noble grants for schools and education in some of the new States, have not produced all the advantages designed for want of adequate checks and guards against improvident legislation; but I trust that the Convention, by a distinct constitutional provision, will surround these lands with such guarantees, legislative, executive, judicial and popular, as to require the combined action of the whole under the authority of the Legislature in the administration of a fund so sacred.
It will be observed that these school section and the five per cent. Fund, or their equivalent, have always been made good to the new States by Congress, whether the lands were sold in trust, for Indians, or otherwise.
Upon looking upon the location of Kanzas, equi-distant form north to south, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, I find that within reasonable boundaries, she would be the central State of the American Union. On the North lies the Nebraska Territory, soon to become a State; on the South and great and fertile South Western Indian Territory, soon, I hope to become a State also. To the boundary of Kanzas run nearly all the railroads of Missouri; whilst westward, northward and southward, these routes continued through Kansas, would connect her directly with Puget Sound, the mouth of the Oregon river and San Francisco. The southern boundary of Kanzas is but five hundred miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and the same railroad through the great South-Western Indian Territory and Texas, would connect her with New Orleans, with Galveston, with all the roads of Arkansas, and through Texas to San Francisco and other points on the Pacific. Northward and Eastward our lines would connect with the roads of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota and the Lakes of the North.
It is the people of Kanzas, who in forming their State Constitution, are to declare the terms on which they propose to enter the Union. Congress cannot compel the people of a Territory to enter the Union as a State or change without their consent the Constitution framed by their people. Congress, it is true, may for constitutional reasons refuse admission, but the State alone, in forming her constitution, can prescribe the terms on which she will enter the Union. This power of the people of a Territory in forming a State Constitution is one of vital importance, especially in the States carved out of the public domain. Nearly all the lands of Kanzas are public lands, and most of them are occupied by Indian tribes. These lands are the property of the Federal Government, but their right is exclusively that of a proprietor, carrying with it no political power.
Although the States cannot tax the constitutional functions of the federal government, they may assess its real estate within the limits of the State. Thus, although a State cannot tax the federal mint or custom houses, yet it may tax the ground on which they stand unless exempted by State authority. Such is the well settled doctrine of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1838 Judge McLean, of the Supreme Court of the United States, made the following decision:
"It is true the United States held the proprietory right under the act of cession, and also the right of sovereignty until the State government was established; but the mere proprietory right, if it exists, gives no right of sovereignty. The United States may own land within a State, but political jurisdiction does not follow this ownership. Where jurisdiction is necessary, as for forts and arsenals, a cession of it is obtained for the State. Even the lands of the United States, within the State are exempted from taxation by compact."
By the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, so justly favorable to the rights and interests of the new States especially those formed out of the new Territory acquired, like Kanzas, since the adoption of the Constitution, it is clear that the ownership of the public lands of such Territory is viewed by the Court exclusively as a proprietory right, carrying with it no political power or right of eminent domain, and affecting in no way the exercise of any of the sovereign attributes of State authority. When Kanzas becomes a State, with all the attributes of State sovereignty, coextensive with her limits, among these must be the taxing power, which is an inherent element of State authority. I do not dispute the title of the government to the public lands of Kanzas; but I do say, that this right is that of an owner only, and that when Kanzas becomes a State, the public lands are subject to taxation by State authority, like those of an individual proprietor, unless that power is relinquished by the State in the ordinance, assuming the form of a compact, by which the State is admitted into the Union.
This relinquishment of the taxing power as to the public lands, so important to the general government, and which has heretofore been exacted by Congress, on their own terms form all the new States, is deeply injurious to the State, depriving her almost entirely of the principal resource of a new State by taxation to support her government. Now, that this question is conclusively settled by the Supreme Court of the United States, as a consequence of their recent decision, it is proper for the State in making this reliaquishment of the right to tax the public lands to annex the conditions on which she consents to such exemption. This should be done in the Constitution, upon terms just to Kanzas and to the Federal Government.
Should Kanzas relinquish the right of taxing the public lands for equivalents, she should in my judgment, although sustained by irresistible conclusions from the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and sound constitutional views of State Rights, place the question in its strongest form, by asking nothing more than has been granted to the other now States, including the grants for Education, Railroads, &c. She will thus give the highest proof that she is not governed by sordid views, and that she means to exact nothing from Congress that is unjust or unusual.
I cannot too carnestly impress upon you the necessity of removing the slavery agitation from the halls of Congress and Presidential conflicts. It is conceded that Congress has no power to interfere with slavery in the States where it exists; and if it can now be established, as is clearly the doctrine of the Constitution, that Congress has no authority to interfere with the people of a Territory on this subject, in forming a State Constitution, the question must be removed from Congressional and Presidential elections.
This is the principle affirmed by Congress in the act organizing this Territory, ratified by the people of the United States in the recent election, and maintained by the late decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. If this principle can be carried into successful operation in Kanzas, that her people shall letermine what shall be her social institutions, the slavery question must be withdrawn from the halls of Congress, and from our Presidential conflicts, and the safety of the Union be placed beyond all peril whereas, if the principle should be defeated here, the slavery agitation must be renewed in all elections through out the country, with increasing bitterness, until it shall eventually overthrow the government.
It is this agitation which, to European powers, presents the only hope of subverting our free institutions, and as a consequence, destroying the principle of self government throughout the world.
It is this hope that has already inflicted deep injury upon our country, exciting mocarchical or despotic interference with our domestic as well as foreign affairs; and inducing their interposition, not only in our elections, but in diplomatic intercourse, to arrest our progress, to limit our influence and power, depriving us of great advantages in peaceful territorial expansion, as well as in trade with the nations of the world.
Indeed, when I reflect upon the hostile position of the European press during the recent election, and their exulting predictions of the dissolution of our Union as a consequence of the triumph of a sectional candidate, I cannot doubt that the peaceful and permanent establishment of these principles now being subjected to their final test in Kanzas, will terminate European opposition to all these measures, which must so much increase our commerce, furnish new markets for our products and fabrics, and by conservative peaceful progress, carry our flag and the empire of our Constitution into new and adjacent regions, indispensable as part of the Union to our welfare and secraity, adding coffee, sugar and other articles to our staple exports, whilst greatly reducing their price to the consumer.
Nor is it only in our foreign intercourse that peace will be preserved, and our prosperity advanced, by the accepted fact of the permanence of our Government, based upon the peaceful settlement of this question in Kanzas; but at home the same sentiment will awaken renewed confidence in the stability of our institutions, give a new impulse to all our industry, and carry us onward in a career of progress and prosperity, exceeding even our most sanguine expectations: a new movement of European capital will flow in upon us for permanent investment, and a new Exodus of the European masses, aided by the pre-emption principle carry westward the advancing column of American States in one unbroken phalanx to the Pacific.
And let me ask you, what possible good has been accomplished by agitating in Congress and in Presidential conflicts, the slavery question? Has it emancieated a single slave or improved their condition? Has it made a single State free, where slavery otherwise would have existed? Has it accelerated the disapperarance of slavery from the more northern of the slaveholding States, or accomplished any practical good whatever? No, my fellow citizens nothing but unmigrated evil has already ensued, with disasters still more fearful impending for the future, as a consequence of this agitation.
There is a law more powerful than the legislation of man, more potent than passion or prejudice, that most ultimately determine the location of slavery in this country; it is the isotermal line, it is the law of the thermometer of latitude or altitude, regulating climate, labor and productions, and as a consequence, profit and loss. Thus even upon the mountain heights of the tropics, slavery can no more exist than in Northern latitudes, because it is unprofitable, being unsuited to the constitution of that sable race transplanted here from the equatoral heats of Africa. Why is it that in the Union, slavery recedes from the North, and progresses South. It is this name great climate law now operating for or against slavery in Kanzas. If on the elevated plains of Kanzas, stretching to the base of our American Alps-the Rocky Mountains-and including their eastern crest crowned with perpetual snow, from which sweep over her open prairies those chilling blasts reducing the average range of the thermometer here to a temperature nearly as low as that of New England, should render slavery unprofitable here, because unsuited to the tropical constitution of the negro race, the law above referred to must ultimately determine that question here, and can no more be controlled by the legislation of man, than any other moral or physical law of the Almighty. Especially must this law operate with irresistible force in this country, where the number of slaves is limited, and can be increased by importation where many millions of increase of sugar and cotton lands are still uncultivated and from the ever augmenting demand exceeding the supply, the price of those great staples has nearly doubled demanding vastly more slave labor for their production.
If from the operation of these causes slavery should not exist here, I trust it by no means follows that Kanzas should become a State controlled by the treason and fanaticism of abolition. She has in any event certain constitutional duties to perform to her sister States, and especially to her immediate neighbor the slaveholding State of Missouri. Through that great State, by rivers and railroads, must flow to a great extent our trade and intercourse our imports and exports. Our entire eastern front is upon her border from Missouri come a great number of her citizens even the farms of the two States are cut by the line of State boundary part in Kanzas part in Missouri; hr citizens meet us in daily intercourse and that Kanzas should become hostile to Missouri an asylum for her fugitive slaves, or a propagandist of abolition treason, would be alike inexpedient and unjust and fatal to the continunnce of the American Union. In any event then, I trust that the Constitution of Kanzas will contain such clauses as will forever secure to the State of Missouri the faithful performance of all constitutional guarantees, not only by Federal, but by State authority and the supremacy within our limits of the authority of the Supreme Court of the United States on all constitutional questions be firmly established.
Upon the South, Kanzas is bounded by the great South western Indian Territory. This is one of the most salubrious and fertile portions of this continent. It is a great cotton growing region admirably adapted by soil and allruate for the products of the South, embracing the valleys of Arkansas and Red River adjoining Texas on the South and West, and Arkansas on the East, and it ought speedity to become a State of the American Union. The Indian treaties will constitute no obstacle any more than precisely similar treaties did in Kanzas for their lands valueless to them nor for sale,but which sold with their consent and for their benefit, like the Indian land of Kanzas, would make them a most wealthy and prosperous people, and their consent on these terms would be most cheerfully given. This Territory contains double the area of the State of Indians, and if necessary, an adequate portion of the Western and more elevated part could be set apart exclusively for these tribes, and the Eastern and larger portion be formed into a State and its lands sold for the benefit of these tribes, (like the Indian lands of Kanzas,) thus greatly promoting all their interests. To the Eastern boundary of this region on the State of Arkansas run the railroads of that State; to her Southern limits come the great railroads form Louisiana and Texas form New Orleans, and Galveston which will ultimately be joined by railroads form Kanzas, leading through this Indian Territory, connecting Kanzas with New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico, and with the Southern Pacific Railroad, leading through Texas to San Francisco.
It is essential to the true interests, not only of Kanzas, but of Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas, Iowa and Missouri, and the whole region west of the Mississippi, that this co-terminous South Western Indian Territory should speedily become a State, not only to supply us with cotton and receive our products in return, but as occupying the area over which that portion of our railroads should run, which connect us with New Orleans and Galveston and by the Southern route with the Pacific. Form her central position through our connected with Kanzas must run the Central, Northern and Southern routes to the Pacific, and with the latter, as will as with the Gulf, the connection can only be secured by this South Western Territory becoming a State and to this Kanzas should direct her earnest attention, as essential to her prosperity.
Our country and the world are regarding with profound interest the struggle now impending in Kanzas. Whether we are competent to self-government: whether we can decide this controvery peacefully for ourselves by our own votes, without fraud or violence: whether the great principles of self-government and state sovereignty can be carried here into successful operation are the questions now to be determined, and upon the plains of Kanzas may now be fought the last great and decisive battle involving the fate of the Union of State sovereignty of self government and the liberties of the worl. If, my fellow citizens, you could, even for a brief period soften or extinguish sectional passions or prejudice and lift yourselves to the full realization of the momentions issues entrusted to your decision, you would feel that no greater responsibility was ever devolved on any people. It is not merely shall slavery exist in or disappear in Kanzas, but shall the great principles of self government and State sovereignty be maintained or subverted. State sovereignty is mainly a practical principle, insofar as it is illustrated by the great sovereign right of the majority of the people in forming a State Government to adopt their own social institutions, and this principle is disregarded whenever such decision is subverted by Congress, or overthrown by external intrusion or by domestic fraud or violence. All these who oppose this principle are the enemies of State Rights, of Self-Government, of the Constitution and the Union. Do you love slavery so much or hate it so intensely that you would endeavor to establish or exclude it by fraud or violence against the will of a majority of the people? What is Kanzas with or without slavery, if she should destroy the rights and union of the States? Where would be her schools, her free academics, her colleges and universities, her towns, and cities, her railroads, farms, and villages, without the Union, and the principles of self-government? Where would be her peace and prosperity, and what the value of her lands and property? Who can decide this question for Kanzas, if not the people themselves? And if they cannot, nothing but the sword can become the arbiter.
On the one hand, if you can and will decide peacefully this question yourselves, I see for Kanzas an immediate career of power, progress and prosperity, unsurpassed in the history of the world. I see the peaceful establishment of our State Consitution its ratification by the people and our immediate admission into the Union the rapid extinguishments of Indian title, and the occupancy of those lands by settlers and cultivators the diffusion of universal education preemptions for the actual settlers: the State rapidly intersected by a net-work of railroads our churches, schools, colleges, and universities carrying westward the progress of law, religion, liberty and civilization: our towns cities and villages prosperous and progressing our farms teeming with abundant products, and greatly apperriated in value, and peace, happiness and trusperity smiling throughout out borders, With proper clauses in our Consitution and the peaceful arbitrament of this question. Kanzas may become the model State of the American Union. She may bring down upon us from north to south, form east to west, the praises and blessings of every patriotic American and of every friend of self government throughout the world she may reered her name on the proudest page of the history of our country and of the world, and as the youngest and last born child of the American Union, all will hail and regard her with respect and affection.
On the other hand, if you cannot thus peacefully decide this question, fraud, violence and injustice will reign supreme throughout our borders ,and we will have achieved the undying infatny of having destroyed the liberty of our country, and of the world. We will become by a word of reproach and obliquy and all history will record the fact, that Kanzas was the grave of the American Union. Nover was so momentous a question submitted to the decision of any people and we cannot avoid the alternatives now placed before us of glory or of shame.
May that over ruling Providence who brought our fore fathers in safety to Jamestown and Plymouth who watched over our colonial pupilage who couvened our ancestors in harmonious councils, on the birth day of American Independence who gave us Washington and carried us success fully through the struggles and perils of the Revolution who assembled, in 1787, that noble band of patriots and statesmen form North and South who framed the Federal Constitutions who has augmented our numbers form three millions to thirty millions: has carried us form the eastern slope of the Alleghanies, through the great vallies of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri, and now salutes our standard on the shores of the Pacific, rouse in our hearts a love of the whole Union and a patriotic devotion to the whole country may it extinguish or control all sectional passions and prejudices and enable us to conduct to a successful conclusion the great experiment of self government now being made within our boundaries.
Is it not infiniqely better that slavery should be abolished or established in Kanzas, rather than that we should become slaves and not permitted to govern ourselves? Is the absence or existence of slavery in Kanzas paramount to the great questions of state sovereignty of self-government and of the Union? Is the sable African alone entitled to your sympathy and consideration, even if he were happier as a freeman than a slave either here, or in St. Domingo, or the British West Indies, or Spanish America, where the emancipated slave has needed to barbarism, and approaches the lowest point in the descending scale of moral, physical and intellectual degradation. Have our white brethren of the great American and European race no claims upon our attention! Have they no rights or interest entitled to regard and protection? Shall the destiny of the African in Kanzas exclude all considerations connected with our own happiness of that race now in Kanzas, or that may be hereafter introduced, that we should subvert the Union, and the great principles of self-government and state sovereignty, and imbrue our hands in the blood of our countrymen? Important as this African question may be in Kanzas, and which it is your solemn right to determine, it sinks into insignificance compared with the perpetnity of the Union, and the final and successful establishment of the principles of state sovereignty and free government. If patriotism if devotion to the Constitution and love of the Union should not induce the minority to yield to the majority on this question, let them reflect that in no event can the minority successfully determine this question permanently, and that in no contingency will Congress adrait Kanzas as a slave or free State, unless a majority of the people of Kanzas shall first have fairly and freely decided this question for themselves by a direct vote on the adoption of the Constitution, excluding all fraud or violence. The majority, may involve Kanzas again in eivil war; they may bring upon her reproach and obloquy and destroy her progress and prosperity: they may keep her for years out of the Union, and in the whirlwind of agination, sweep away the Government itself: but Kanzas never can be brought into the Union with or without slavery except by a previous solemn decision, fully, freely, and fairly made by a majority of her people in voting for or against the adoption of her State Constitutions. Why then should this just, peaceful and constitutional mode of settlement meet with opposition from (???) quarter? Is Kanzas willing to destroy her own hopes of prosperity merely that she may afford political capital to (???) party, and perpetuate the agitation of slavery through out the Union? Is she to become a buero theme for agitators in other States, the theatre on which they shall perform the bloody drama of treason and disunion? Does she want to see the solemn acts of Congress, the decision of the people of the Union in the resent election, the legislative, executive, and judicial authorities of the country all overthrown, and revolution and civil war inaugurated throughout her limits? Does she want to be "bleeding Kanzas" for the benefit of political agitators within or out of her limits, or does she prefer the peaceful and quiet arbitrument of this question for herself? What benefit will the great body of the people of Kanzas derive from these agitations? They may for a brief period give consequence and power to political leaders and agitators but it is at the expense of the happiness and welfare of the great body of the people of the Territory.
These who oppose slavery in Kanzas do not base their opposition upon any philanthropie principles, or any sympathy for the African race. For in their so-called constitution, framed a t Topeka, they deem that entire race so inferior and degraded a s to exclude them all forever from Kanzas, whether they be bond or free, thus depriving them of all rights here, and denying even that they can be citizens of the United States, for if they are citizens they could not constitutionally be exiled or excluded form Kanzas. Yet such a clause inserted in the Topeka constitution was submitted by that convention for the vote of the people, and ratified here by an overwhelming majority of the anti-slavery party. This party here, therefore, has in the most positive manner affirmed the constitutionality of that portion of the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, declaring that Africans are not citizens of the United States.
This is the more important inasmuch as this Topeka Constitution was ratified, with this clause inserted, by the entire Republican party in Congress, thus distinctly affirming the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the Union, that Africans are not citizens of the United States, for if citizens they may be elected to all offices, state and national, including the Presidency itself; they must be placed upon a basis of perfect equality with the whites, serve with them in the militia, on the bench, the legislature, the jury box, vote, In all elections meet us in social intercourse, and intermarry freely with the whites. This doctrine of the perfect equality of the white with the black in all respects whatsoever, social and political, clearly follows from the position that Africans are citizens of the United States. Nor is the Supreme Court less clearly vindicated by the position now assumed here by the published creed of this party, that the people of Kanzas in forming their State Constitution, and not Congress.) must decide this question of slavery for themselves. Having thus sustained the Court on both the controverted points decided by that tribunal, it is hoped they will not approve the anarchical and revolutionary proceedings in other States, expunging the Supreme Court from our system by depriving it of the great power for which it was created, of expounding the Constitution. If that be done, we can have in fact no unity of government or fundamental law, but just as many ever varying Constitutions, as passion, prejudice, and local interests may form time to time prescribe in the thirty one States of the Union.
I have endeavored heretofore faintly to foreshadow the wonderful prosperity which would follow at once in Kanzas the peaceful and final settlement of this question. But if it should be in the power of agitators to prevent such a result, nothing bur ruin will pervade our Territory. Confidence will expire, and law and order will be subverted. Anarely and civil war will by inaugurated among us. All property will greatly depreciate in value. Even the best farms will become almost worthless. Our towns and cities will sink into decny, Emigration into our Territory will cease. A mournful train of returning settlers, with ruined hopes, and blasted fortunes will leave our borders. All who have purchased property at present prices will be sacrificed, and Kanzas will be marked by universal ruin and desolation.
Nor will the mischief be arrested here. It will extend into every other State. Despots will exalt over the failure here of the great principles of self-government, and the approaching downfall of our confederacy. The pillars of the Union will rock upon their bone, and we may close the next Presidential conflict, and the scattered fragments of the Consititution of our once happy and united people. The banner of the stars and stripes, the emblem of our country's glory, will be sent by contending factions. We shall no longer have a country. The friends of human liberty in other realms will shrink deparing from the conflict. Despitc power will resume its away throughout the world and man will have tried in vain, the last experiment of self government. The architects of our country's ruin the assassins of her enee and prosperity will share the same commen ruin of all our race. They will meet whilst living the bitter curses of a ruined people, whilst history will record as their only epitaph. These were the destroyers of the American Union, of the liberties of their country and of the world.
But I do not despair of the Republic. My hope is in the patriotism and intelligence of the people in their love of country of liberty and of the Union. Especially is my confidence unbounded in the hardy pioneers and settlers of the West. It was such settlers of a new State, devoted to the Constitution and the Union, whom long represented in the United States Senate and whose rights and interests it was my pride and pleasure there as well as in the Treasury Department to protect and advocate. It was men like these whose rifles drove back the invader from the plains of Orleans, and planted the stars and stripes upon the victorious fields of Mexico. These are the men whom gold cannot corrupt nor intimidate. From their towns and villages, from their farms and cottages spread over the beautiful prairies of Kanzas, they will come forward now in defence of the Constitution and the Union. These are the glorious legacy they received from our fathers, and they will transmit to their children the priceless heritage. Before the peaceful power of their suffrage this dangerous sectional agitation will disappear and peace and prosperity once more reign throughout our borders. In the hearts of this noble land of patriotic settlers, the love of their country and the Union is inextinguishable. It leaves them not in death, but follows them into that higher realm, where with Washington and Franklin and their noble compatriots, they look down with undying affection upon their country, and offer up their fervent prayers that the Union and the Constitution may be perpetual. For recollect, my fellow citizens that it is the Constitution that makes the Union; and unless that immortal instrument, hearing the name of the father of his country, shall be maintained entire in all its wise provisions and sacred guarantees, our free institutions must perish.
My reliance also is unshaken upon the same overruling Providence which has carried us triumphantly through so many perits and conflicts, which has lifted us to a heights of power and prosperity unexampled in history, and if we shall maintain the Constitution and the Union, points us to a future more glorious and sublime than mind can conceive or pen describe. The march of our country's destiny life that of His first chosen people, is marked by the foot-prints of the steps of God. The Constitution and the Union are "the aloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night," which will carry us safely under is guidance through the wilderness and bitter waters, into the promised and ever extending fields of our country's glory. It is His hand which beckons us onward in the pathway of peaceful progress and expansion, of power and renown, until our continent in the distant future shall be covered by the folds of the American banner and instructed by our example, all the nations of the world, through many trials and sacrifices, shall establish the great principles of our constitutional confedersey of free and sovereign States.
R.J. WALKER.
POLAR STAR. Can the Clerk of this boat assign a reason for his assuring a passenger on May 80th that they would not land at Ouindaro? The gentleman referred to just before they reached Kanzas City enquired particularly of said officer if they would stop here and was informed that they would not. The boat did stop here and landed passengers and freight. Some gentlemen on the Missouri river have strange method of accommodating travelers!
See advertisement of Steamboat machinery for sale.
Convention of Voters.
STIRRING TIMES AND BIG SPEECHES.
Resolutions and Champaigns.
On Wednesday morning there was a call for a Mass Convention of the "legal" voters in Quindaro under the registration. The whole number consists of P.T. Colby, E.D. Buck and James Todd. At nine o'clock the "sovereigns" began to assemble. It was understood that the Chairman would have to furnish the champaigne for the convention for being "legal" voters they must live up to the requirements of the Sons of the Blue Lodge.
At a quarter past nine two of the three voters had convened. Mr. Colby nominated Mr. Buck for the Chair and pulled from his pocket the proxy of Mr. Todd by which he scconded the motion. By his own vote and proxy he carried the motion and Mr. Buck was duly conducted to the Chair when he thanked the Convention for the distinguished honor conferred upon him.
A motion to go into an election by ballot for a delegate to the Constitutional Convention was made and carried. There being no regular ballet box prepared a cigar box was substituted which was duly guarded whilst the ballots were being deposited. Thomas Webb of Missouri, was put in nomination and strongly endorsed in speeches as being eminently qualified to represent the views of the Convention. Upon counting the votes polled it was ascertained that Mr. Webb was unanimously elected.
A committee consisting of Mr. Todd was chosen to draught resolutions expressive of the sentiments of the meeting. The following is among the most important resolutions prepared:
Reaoloed. That the President, by his appointments in this Territory, has merited the gratitude of the "National Democracy" and we would most coedially recommend for any vacaney which may occur in the Federal office of the Territory, the appointment of Charles Faget, who by his bravery in sealping a supposed rebel to our wholesome laws, contributed largely to the support and glory of the Administration, and consequent extension of slavery over our fair domain.
The Convention concluding that enough had been accomplished for one session, took a recess during which the chairman ordered the champaigne and the two legal voters present proceeded to refresh themselves with the sparkling beverage.
After disposing of this interesting portion of business before them, they adjourned sine die and both of them mounted one very small, very thin and very long-cared mule and dispersed in the direction of Lecompton.
A new paper called the "Sioux City Eagle" will soon be started by S.W. Swiggest, formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio. It will be the first paper published in North Western Iowa, and will be a desirable journal for those who wish information in regard to that section of country.
SAW MILL- The large Steam Saw Mill which has been in operation for the last two months in Quindaro, has been stopped to enable the builders to creat the heavy frame building that will enclose it. Capt. Oris Wann started to St. Louis yesterday, to bring on such machinery as is required for the operation of four additional saws, and one or more lathes.
RAIN.- We have frequently been informed by farmers recently that rain was much needed by the crops. On Wednesday night last there was a refreshing shower.
FRUIT.- The promise for fruit in this section of the country is very flattering at present.
NEW BUILDINGS.- From our office window we can see four substantial frame buildings, that have been raised during the past week.
STAGE AND EXPRESS LINE.- The line which connects Quindaro and Lawrence makes the quickest time from the Missouri River to Lawrence, and runs in connection with the lines from that town to other parts of the Teritory. The pond is in excellent condition, and a very easy ope to travel over.
NEW STOCK.- Under the head of "New Advertisements" our readers will see that Johnson & Veale have made an addition to their large supply of Goods.
See the card of Joseph McCarty, wholesale and retail dealer in Groceries and Provisions in Kanzas City.
A good rain-water cistern is one of the first wants in our new homes. We have a fine one constructed by Mr.Powell, whose advertisement will be found in another column. We particularly admire Mr.Powell's dispatch in business. N.
MOVEMENT IN LAWEWNCE.- On Monday, June 1st, the citizens of Lawrence held a meeting on the occasion of the appearance of a man named Fain, whose business there was to asses the property of the citizens. The meeting was spirited. The following resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, We understand that a person claiming to be Deputy Sheriff and Asscessor of Taxes under the authority of the Bogus Legislature is now in our midst; and whereas we utterly reupudiate the authority of all persons claiming to be officers of that Legislature; and whereas the monies so fraudunlenlty collected form our people have been, and may again be appropriated in part, to defrny the expenses insurred in burning hotes an d private dwelling, destroying printing presses, sacking towns and plundering the property, and outraging the dearest rights of our citizens, Therefore,
Resolved. That in the opinion of this meeting no good citizen will any manner furnish aid and comfort to the Assessor or Collector of Taxes, or render to him a list of the valuation of his property.
Resolved. That resogulaing the principle established by the blood of our fathers, thus "representation, ad taxation are inseperable," we will never violate that principle by the preseat Territorial Legislature.
Resolved. That a Committee of ave by appointed to present these resolutions to all citizens for their alguatures.
Resolved. That a Committee of five persons be appointed to present a copy of these resolutions to any person who may visit this community is the shape of an Assessor or Collector of Taxes, and that a copy be sent to his Excellency, Governor Walker.
Committees were appointed to carry out the third and fourth resolutions.
CIGARS. Persons who enjoy a good cigar will find at the Quindaro House some of the best we have seen in Kanzas. Mr. Colby laid in a large supply of superior brands recently at St. Louis. Whoever smokes them will be ready to say with post Spragus:
Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
In learned doctor's spite:
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel:
And lap me in delight.
[We had the following Proclamation in type last week, but an excess of newn matter crowded it out.]
PROCLAMATION,
To the Legal Vaters and Election Officers of Kanzas:
Whereas: The following returns of the Census taken undr the set of the Legislative Assembly, entitled "An act to provide for the taking of a Census and Election for Delegates to the Convention, passed the 19th of February, 1857, have been made to me, to wit:
Dist. County. Voters. Population.
1st Diat. Doniphan 1,086 4,120
2d " Brown, 200 no return
3d " Nemaha,} 440 512
3d " Atchison} 804 2,808
4th " Leavenwoth, 1,837 5,529
5th " Jefferson, 655 no return
6th " Calhous, 291 888
7th " Marshall, 206 415
8th " Riley, } 363 no return
8th " Pottowattomie, } 205 641
9th " Johnson, 496 898
10th " Douglas,} 1,318 3,729
10th " Shawnee, } 288
11th " Richerdsen,}
11th " Davis, }
12th " Lykins, 413 1,352
13th " Franklin, no return
14th " Four Counties "
15th " Two Counties "
16th " Linn, 413 1,821
17th " no return
18th " Bourbon & McGee} 645 2, 622
18th " Durn & Allen,}
19th " no return
Total, 9,251
Now, therefore, I, Fred. P. Stanton, Secretary and Acting Governor, do hereby proclaim that according to the provisions of sand act, and the census returns made in pursuance thereof, and upon a proper apportionment among the legal voters of the several districts a foresaid, they are respectively entitled to elect to the Convention, provided for in said law, the number of Delegates severally herein assigned to them that is to say.
To the 1st District, Doniphan County, 7 delegates: 2d dist. Brown and Nemaha, 2 delegates: 3d district, Atchison, 5 delegates: 4th dist. Leavenworth, 12 delegates: 5th dist. Jefferon, 4 del. 5th, Calhoun, 2 delegates: 7th district, Marshall 1 delegate: 8th district, Riley and Pottowottomie, 4 delegates, 9th district, Johnson, 3 delegates, 10th district, Douglas, 8 delegates: 11th district Shawnee, Richardson and Davis, 2 delegates: 12th district, Lykins 3 delegates, 16th district, Linus, 3 delegates: 18th district, Bourbon McGee, Dorn and Allen, 4 delegates.
The proper officers will hold the Election for delegates to said Convention on the 3rd Monday of June next, as directed by the law aforesaid, and in accordance with the appointment herein made and declared:
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
[S.S.] seal of the Territory at Lecompton, this, 20th day of May, 1856.
FRED P. STANTON.
QUINDARO MARKET.
Tuesday, May 12,1857.
Reported weekly for the Quindaro Chindowan, by E.D. Beck, of the firm of McCown & Buck.
Flour ewt..................$4.75
Potatoes bushel.............3.00
Green Apples bushel.......2.00
Dried " " ............3.00
Hams lb..................15
Butter " " ..................40
Cheese " " ..................20
Beef " "...............7 @ 8
Brown Sugar lb...............14
Rice " "....................8 1/2
Coffee, Rio, " "................15
Tea, Young Hysan, lb.......1.00
Saleratus lb.....................10
Tobacco " "...............40 @ 60
Raisins " " ......................45
Shot " " .........................10
Rope " "..........................20
Powder " "........................50
Star Candles "..........(???) @ 35
Soap " " ..........................10
Starch ............................15
Cream Tarter lb. .................50
Soda lb...........................15
Ginger ............................15
Molasses gallon.........90 @ 1.00
S.H. Syrup gallon...............1.20
Eggs dozen........................16
Bro. Sheeting per yd........10 @ 12 1/2
Fine " " .....................15@ 20
Prints. " "...........................12 1/2
Lawns........................25 @ 30
Denims, " " .................15 @ 20
Ticking, " "..................15 @ 20
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
JOSEPH M'CARTY,
FORWARDING AND COMMISION
MERCHANT,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
OF EVERY KIND:
Liquors, Cigars and Tabacco.
KANZAS CITY, MO.
SALESMEN:
JAN A. HUTCHESON, JOHN H. CASWELL.
JNO. T. REESE, CLERK.
FOR SALE.
THE MACHINERY in the Steamer Hartford consisting in part of two Boilers and two Engines, at St. Mary's Mission, on the Kanzas River Terms liberal. Enquire of
BLOOD, BASSETT & CO.
June 4. ti 4 At Quindaro or Lawrence.
PARKVILLE & GRAND RIVER
RAIL ROAD.
AN ELECTION for nine Directors of the Parkville and Grand River Rail Road Company, will be held at the office of the Company, in Parkville on
MONDAY, the 29th day of June, 1857.
According to the provisions of the charter, A full meeting of the Stockholders is requested
GEO. S. PARK, President
JAS M. ARNOLD, Secretary.
June 6, 1857. 3t4
ADDITIONAL.
WE have received in addition to our former stock.
30 bbls. CEMENT, 10 dos. BROOMS, 10 doz. BUCKETS, 2 dos. WASH TUBS, 2000 Seamless BAGS, 20 Bundles SASH, 106 kegs assort'd NAILS, 100,00 asso'd CIGARS, 5 boxes TOBACCO.
All of which will be sold unusually low for cash.
June 1st, 1857 4 JOHNSON & VEALE
WATER CISTERNS.
THE Subscriber, an experienced hand at the business, offers his services to persons wanting first-rate reservoirs for catching rain-water and keeping it pure. Drop him a line at Parkville, Mo. HENRY POWELL
June 1st, 1857. St4
J. GROVER S.O. SMITH
GROVER & SMITH,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
PARKVILLE, MO.
Will give prompt attentics to all business entrusted to their care.
PRODUCE and OUTFITS for Kanzas as low as any poist on the Missouri. Pleas give us a call.
REFERENCES:
SERMOXE & LEABBEATUS, St. Louis, Mo.
KAV & MARILL, Chicago, Ill.
S.P. ALLEN, Beshester, N.Y.
May 4, 1857. 1tf.
WM. J. McCOWN. LE. D BUCK
New Sites and New Goods.
McCOWN & BUCK
Would respectfully announce to the citizens of Quindaro and vienity that they have just opened a large and desirable stock of
Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockar, Hardware
Also
CLOTHING,
Which we will sell as low as any establishment west of St. Louis.
May 4, 1857.
10 TONS Rope for sale by
Mc. & B.
50 BARRELS Sugar for sale by
Mc. & B.
20 CHESTS Tea, of various brands for sale by
Mc. & B.
40 SACKS Coffee for sale by
Mc. & B.
20 BOXES Tobacco, best brands for sale by
Mc. & B.
10 BARRELS Molasses for sale by
Mc. & B.
30 CASES Boots and Shoes for sale by
Mc. & B.
25 DOZEN Hats for sale by
Mc. & B.
20 TONS Iron for sale by
Mc. & B.
100 KEGS Nails for sale by
Mc. & B.
1500 YARDS Brown Shirting for sale by
Mc. & B.
20,000 YARDS Prints, various styles, for sale by
Mc. & B.
2000 PIECES Clothing for sale by
Mc. & B.
THOUSANDS of notions too numerous to mention, all of which will be sold on very reasonable terms
COUNTY MERCHANTS supplied with leading articles at moderate rates.
McCOWN & BUCK
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 4th, 1857 1tf.
May 4th 3t.
FOR SALE
BY
JOHNSON & VEALE,
10 BALES brown sheetings
7 cases of bleached sheetings and shirtings.
12 cases of assorted prints
150 kegs assorted nails
50 boxes assorted window glass
70 dozen door locks and latches
SCREWS ASSORTED
2 DOZEN Hatche's counter scales.
1 " Tea
6 boxes assorted glass tumblers
12 assorted glassware
Log chains, trace chains, shovel, spades, forks, seythes, and coffee mills, shot guns, rifles, revolvers, shot-belts, and powder flasks: broad cloths, cassimers, tweeds, and satinetts: black silks, lawns, and challes : berages, 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.
Jon Printino neatly and promptly executed.
Sam F. Tappan, jr. of Lawrence, Kanzas is our authorized Agent to secure subscription and advertisements, and receipt for the same.
The Beautiful & Unrivated Regular
PASSENGER STEAMER
MORNING STAR,
T.H. BRIERLY, MASTER.
H.M. BLOSSOM,................CLERK
LEWIS
St. Louis for St. Joseph,
Every alternate TUESDAY, at 4 o'clock, P.M.
LEWIS
St. Joseph for St. Louis,
Every alternate MONDAY, at 10 o'clock, A.M.
FOR SAINT LOUIS,
Leaves Leavenworth City, Parkville, Quindaro, Wyandotts, Kanzas, Independence, Liberty, Richneld, Sibley, Camden and Wellington, on TUESDAYS. June 9th and 23d, July 7th and 21st, August 4th and 18th, Sept. 1st, 15th and 29th, October 13th and 27th, November 10th.
Passing Parkville at 7 o'clock A.M. Quindaro at 7 1/2 A.M. Wyandotte at 8 A.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.
The MORNIGN STAR was built, without regard to cost for a first class Missouri River Packet 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 completest comfort, safety and convenience of passengers.
May 30,1857.
RUSSELL'S
FIRE & WATER PROOF
PATENT
MASTIC ROOFING
ON CANVASS.
THIS Roofing is applicable to steep or flat Roofs, Steam Boat Decks, Rail Road Cars, Boundaries, dsc...dc. 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 account 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 excel 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.
Town and County rights for sale.
For further particulars inquire of the subscribers. SHEPHERD, HENRY & CO.
Quindaro, K.T. May 28, 1857
FARM FOR SALE,
ONE Hundred and Sixty Acres of Land situated 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-bowed log House an excellent Spring and well timbered. Terms liberal.
Enquire of BLOOD BASSETT & CO.
No. 3 Kanzas Avenue
Quindaro May 20, 1857.
FARM FOR SALE.
ONE Hundred and Sixty Acres, situated on the N.E. qr. Of (???) Town R> 21 as the Dal. T> Landa, seven miles from Delaware, and eight from Leavenworth. Eighty sacres are under cultivation. On the (???) there is a wood Double Howed Log house as excellent Spring. 400 Fruit Trees, and good timber in the neighborhood. Terms liberal. Require of
BLOOD, BASSETT & CO
No. 3 Kanzas Avenue
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 3tf
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Quindaro Chin-do-wan
Saturday, June 6, 1857.
Religion
Like snow that falls where waters glide,
Earth's pleasures melt away
And cold are, while they stay
But joys that from religion flow,
Like stars that gild the night,
Amid the darkest scenes of woe,
Shine forth with sweetest light.
Religion's ray no clouds obscure,
But o'er the Christian's soul
It sheds a radiance calm and pure,
Though tempests round him roll.
His heart may break with sorrow's stroke
But to its latest thrill.
Like Diamonds shining when they're broke
That ray will light it still
(From the Central Christian Advocate.)
The Bible.
Mr. Editor: How is it that some men profess to disbelieve the Bible? And what would become of this glorious republic if there were no Bible? By what authority could all officers arrive at their seats: from President down to the lowest constable, if it were not for the Bible It is the Bible by which we qualify all our Judges, Lawyers, and Jurors, to discharge the duties of the Law. The stone pillar of this fast Republic is the Bible, and without it, we may bid farewell to all law and order, and a final farewell to all our future prospects in the life to come.
Men's books like heaps of chaff are strewed.
God's book does golden grains afford
So quirt the chaff, and spend thy pains
In picking up the golden gains."
The Bible is the only book which God has ever sent, the only he ever will send into this world. All other books are freed and transtent as time, since they are only the writers of time: but the Bible is durable as eternity, for its pages contain the records of eternity all other books are weak and imperfect like their author, man but the Bible is a transcript of infinite power and perfection. Every other volume is limited in its usefulness and influence, but the Bible came forth conquering and to conquer rejoicing as a giant to run his course, and like the son, there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. The Bible only, of all the myriads of books the world has seen is equally important and interesting to all mankind. Its tidings, whether of peace or of wo, are the same to the poor, the ignorant and the weak, as to the rich, the wise an the powerful. Among the most remarkable of its attributes is justice, for it looks with impartial eyes on kings and on slaves, on the hero and the soldier, on philosophers and on peasants, on the eloquent and the dumb. Form all, it exacts the same obedience, to its commandments, and promises to the good the fruits of his labor, to the evil the reward of his hands. Nor are the pietr and holiness, the wisdom and benevolence of truth of the seriptures, less conspicuous than justice. In sublimity and beauty in the descriptive and pathetic, I dignity and simpliety of narrative, in power and comprehensiveness, depth and variety of the most enthusiastic admirers of the heathen classics have conceded their inferiority to the scriptures. The Bible, indeed is the only universal classic, of all mankind, of every age and country, of time and eternity, more humble and simple than the primer of the child, more grave and magnificent than the epic and the creation, the ode an the drama, when gonias, with his chariot of tire and his horses of tire ascends in the whirlwind into the heavens of his own invention. It is the best classic the world has ever seen the nobles that has ever honored and dignified the language of mortals.
If you boast that the Aristotles and the Platos, and the Tuliys of the classic ages, dipped their pens in intellect, the sacred authors dipped theirs in inspiration. If those were the secretaries of "nature" these were the secretaries of the Author of nature. If Greece and Rome, have gathered into their enbiact of curiosities, the pearls of heathen poetry and eloquence, the diamond of Pagan history and philosophy and history of sacred lawgivers, of prophets and apostles, of saints, evangelists and martyrs. In vain may you seek in the pure and simple light of universal truth in the Augustan ages of antiquity. In the Bible only is the poets wish fulfilled: the historian rejoices in its influence. The federal constitution the strong cord which binds together these United States, was written by its effulgent rays. Then who can claim that he is an American and yet deny the Bible, I say none, if honest and of a right heart.
IRVING'S LIFE OF WASHINGTON. The fourth and probably last volume of Irving's Life of Washington has just been issued by Putnam & Co. New York. It closes with Washington assuming the Presidential chair. The last paragraph of the book is as follows:
"So far our work is complete, comprehending the whole military life of Washington, and his agency in public affairs, up to the form of our constitution. How well we have executed it, we leave to the public to determine, hoping to find it, as heretoford, far more easily satisfied with the result of our labors than we are ourselves. Should the measure of health and good spirits, with which a kind Providence has blessed us beyond the usual term of literary labor, be still continued, we may go on, and in another volume, give the Presidential career and closing life of Washington. In the meantime, having found a resting place in our task, we stay on hands, lay by our pen and seek that relaxation and repose which gathering years require."
COL. FREMONT'S WHEREABOUTS. There has been a great deal of inquiry lately as to the whereabouts of Col. Fremont. Who has not lately appeared In public. Mr. Filmore, we perceive, is moving about from place to place, and several new aspirants for the Presidency are showing themselves to the public: but Col. Fremont is in retirary. He is not, however, idle. He is engaged in preparing a new edition of his works, comprising accounts of all his travels and expeditions, and containing much matter that has not heretofore been published. This work will shortly be issued by Childs & Co. of Philadelphia, the publishers of Dr. Kane's work of which seventy thousand copies have been sold, netting seventy thousand dollars for the family of the late Arctic explorer. We trust that the work of Colonel Fremont will be equally profitable. It has been stated that the Colonel is a millionaire, and that the Mariposa estate made him the possessor of immense wealth. Such, however, is not the fact. The Mariposa grant fell chiefly into the hands of stock jobbers in California, and Col. Fremont received very little profit from it. He depends chiefly upon his literary labors, which we trust will be as profitable to himself as they are vaisable and interesting to the world. N.Y. Herald.
The most mischievous liars are those who keep just on the verge of truth.
Spirit of the Southern Press.
IT is a source of extreme regret to notice the cold indifference manifested by the Southern people in regard to Kanzas. The reflection is only made the more painful by the striking contrast our present inaction offers to our past efforts In that quarter. One year ago, when the supplication for aid came to our ears, we promptly and eagerly contributed our donation of men and money to secure her to the South. No sacrifice than appeared too great, provided it accomplished our end. But now, how striking and painful the contrast. In a few weeks, at most, will be determined whether or not Kanzas will be secured to the South: and we in the meantime, stand supinely gazing on the issue with scarce an effort to promote our own cause. Appeals have been made, citing her importance to the slaveholding States, yet these appeals, in some parts of the South, have fallen stillborn, upon the community. The lofty zeal which was at one time manifested in regard to Kanzas seems to have waned into cool indifference.
The period is fast approaching which will determine whether or not Kanzas will go into the Union with a constitution favorable to slavery. Her importance to the SOUth makes it imperative on us to do all that a proud and high minded people can do to secure her for ourselves. It is not yet too late to compete for the prize. Our efforts, if well-timed and properly directed, will yet be of avail in the final struggle which is to determine freedom or slavery anarchy, or "the Constitution as our fathers gave it." Let us then be up and doing, and if we cannot make her a slave State, make her at least democratic. Charleston Mercury, May 11.
HOWLING FOR THE FUTURE
Clouds and darknes threatening clouds, ominous darkness, gather arounf our political future. A night gloom and terrible sets in upon us. We are drifting lowly, silently, into an ocean of storms, furious whirlwinds, quicksand, and fearful whirlpools. A solemn silence prevails tis the precursor of a horrible tempest. Hark! The low muttering rumbling of distant thunder breaks upon the stillness. Fitful flashes reveal the sullen gloom.. The lurid air is heavy and chill. The storm approaches nearer and nearer it comes, louder and more loud it howls. Man the sails all hands to their posts. The South expects every man to do his duty. Life and death, honor, and liberty, are involved. Let each heart be firm each nerve be steady. The conflict will be fierce as hate and malice can make it Stand firm. Hark! What crash was that? Kanzas is gone! List, a triumphant shout form the spirits of the storm! Missouri is yielding. How fierce the blasts, how lurid the lighting! How terrible the tempest sea and heaven are commingled! Howls, horrible yells terridic tear our cars! Virginia is assailed. Gloomy dark, terrible howls the tempest! Watchman, what of the night? All is dark! Dark! No dawn appears.
Newburn S.C. Rising Sun.
Municipal Misgovernment. The city of New York is in a singular prdicament. In the struggle for power, besween the police commissioners and Mayor Wood, it is probable that the city will be without any government. The following from the New York Post, is significant of the state of facts.
A Card. The District Attorney feels it due to the commercial community to say, from the recent disclosures made to him by an arrected defendant, which he regards reliable but not of a legal character as yet to authorize steps of prevention that attempts of an organized nature, encouraged by police insubordination, will soon be made to commit burglaries upon stores having valuable property within them. He, therefore, suggests that the private watch around stores and warehouses should be strengthened, if possible, lights be kept burning inside, with openings in shutters, so as to allow the watch to make inspection, and that porters or clerks be made keepers at night. Especially should all stores be carefully watched and visited through Sundays, and the roofs and cellars of houses adjoining to stores be examined.
May 19th 1857.
QUITE, A LITTLE ROMANCE. Several months since the highly educated daughter of a wealthy Connecticut gentleman, slipped quietly down to Brooklyn, and was privately married to a loving and very worthy ship carpenter living in the same town with herself. They kept the marriage a dead secret from the old folks, to prevent a household "row," and the husband frequently called on his bride until ordered off by the parents as an unacceptable lover. Soon after the parents observed a change in their daughter, and subsequent investigations caused the old man to visit the shipwright, and demand his marriage to the young woman, in order to save the family from disgrace, and after a flat refused at first, and a subsequent acquicsence on condition that $12,000 were placed in the bank (???) (the young man's) account, the old marriage certificate was produced and the loving couple are now enjoying their regular honeymoon, with the full consent of all concerned.
DR. THOMPSON IN ENGLAN. A friend speaking in favor of the superiority of his own country, said, "you have no coal, and it is this that gives England its manufacturing importance." The Docotor (???) whole of England, if you wait till we scoop some of it our, and then bring your island over we will drop it in and (???) "Ah, but you have no nobility," said John Bull. The Doctor replied, "we are a nation of Flags," Then, with all the (???) he made a bow and said, "you are now in company of one of the royal family of the United States of America." Here I thought I saw the Doctor trying to stretch himself into a six foot Yankee, and I broke out into a hearty laugh.
FREE STATE PLATFORM
We, Citizens of Kanzas, in Delegate Convention assembled at Topeka, March 10th, 1857. Resolve and Declary,
Whereas, a body of men recently assembled at Lecompton, and claiming to be the Legislative Assembly of Kanzas Territory, have adopted a regulation, (???) to be a law, for taking the census and electing delegates to Constitutional Convention, proposed to be held in that place in September next and
Whereas, The said Assembly was the creature of fraud, and its men is the (???) of a people foreign to the Territory, and
Whereas, The Organic Act then not authorize the territorial legislative powers, even when legitimately convened, to pass any enabling act to change the government of the same, and
Whereas, The act of this assembly is partisan in its character, clearly contemplates fraud, for the rembrence of which it offers inadequate security, while it deprives the Executive of the Territory of the power to prevent or remedy such fraud, leaves the control of the census and election in the lands of pretended officers, not chosen by the people of Kanzas who are of violent characters and hostle to the best interest of the Territory, and
Whereas, Said act purports to disfranchise certain bono fide settlers of Kanzas, who have filed their declaration of intention to become citizens, and are recognized as voters by the Organic Act, and
Whereas, There is no provision in the said regulation for submitting the Constitution so framed to the vote of the people of the Territory, therefore,
Resolved, That the people of Kanzas Territory cannot participate in any election under such regulation, without compromising their rights as American citizens, sacrificing the best interests of Kanzas and jeopardizing the public peace.
Resolved, That having suffered under this mis rule of persons, pretending to be the local officials of this Territory, we have lost all confidence in the integrity of the administration of the laws, however just these laws may appear to some on their face.
Resolved, That with the people of any Territory "alone," rests the right to change the form of their government subject to the approval of Congress, given before or after steps for the formation of a State government have been taken, and further that a Territorial government is extra constitutional and at best, under ordinances of Congress, purely temporary.
Resolved, That the Constitution framed at Topeka, by the representatives of the people of Kanzas, and ratified by popular vote, is still the choice of a majority of our citizens, as the form of a state government, and that we maintain and urge on Congress our immediate admission as a state under it.
Resolved, That the policy of the Free State party has always been averse to any movement at an aggressive character, and that violence has never been resorted to save in self defence.
Resolved, That we make not tests for membership in the Free State party save that of the exclusion of domestic slavery from Kanzas by subsequeut legistation.
Resolved, That we regard the presence of peaceful relations between our citizens as conductive to their best personal welfare as well as indispensable to the perfect development and expassion of the various economical interests of the Territory, to the end thereat that such relations may be obtained and permanently established amongst us, we earnestly appeal to all men of whatever party, to submit all differences of opinion growing out of the question of our future internal domestic institutions, to the test of sound, reason, and enlightened, though friendly discussion, and to the final arbitrament of the ballet box.
Provided, That any attempt to abridge or impair the freedom of speech, oral or written, or of the ballot box, or other constitutional rights, will be held as just cause of departure from this policy.
Resolved, That Congress having presented the principles of squatter sovereignty enunciated in the Kanzas bill as the basis of the political action of the people of Kanzas, we are inflexibly determined to abide by its faithful execution, and ever will while it remains on the (???)
Miscellaneous.
Whereas, Hen. James Buchauan, in a debate in the Senate of the United States, on the admission of Michigan into the Union with a Constitution formed in a similar manner to the State Constitution of Kanzas, declared the people "stood upon their rights, rights secured to them by the Constitution," that having formed a Constitution elected their officers, and the whole machinery of a State Government being perfected that having assumed this attitude they could demand their admission as a matter of right, and as "an act of justice," and that to repel a State under such circumstances is sufficient to induce fear of the consequences and cause (???) at an act of such injustices," and
Whereas, The present Democratic Administration, by virtue of the pledges made by its loader in the late Presidential campaign, is in all honer bound to use his intolerenc, and lead its aid to make Kanzas a Free State, and
Whereas, The Democratic party has in some of the States, made the admission of Kanzas as a Free State, the issue in the election of James Buchanan, and large numbers of Democrats were influenced to vote for him upon this issue, therefore.
1. Resolved. That the people of Kanzas have a right to look with confidence to the present Chief Executive of the nation for an approval of the their course, and for his assistance in proeming their admission in to the Union under the Topeka Constitution..
2. Resolved, That this Convention would urge upon the State Legislators, the importance of assembling in June according to adjournment, and take such action as may be necessary to secure the vitality of the State Government, and its recognition by Congress.
3. Resolved. That the Territorial laws (so called.) of Kanzas had their origin in fraud, were imposed upon the Territory by asturpation, and violence in bold delintice and subversion of the Constitution, the Organic Act and every principle of justice, and are therefore bull and void, and we respectfully request the Territorial Executive to refuse to caforce any of said fraudulent enactments till Congress shall provide for an election of a Territorial Legislature by the people of Kanzas, without interfrence from foreign States.
4. Resolved, That is a shameless hypocricy from political party to adopt for their principle the concerns of "popular sovernignty," while they justify the most patent and fagrant violation of it, and present in subjecting citizens of the United States to a foreign tyranny unparalleled in history.
5. Resolved, That the banking system chartered by the Territorial Legislature, (so called,) not only had its origin in hand, but is a fraud in it seld, and we caution all against receiving its nota and currency.
6. Resolved, That as good citizens we are ever willing to contribute to the support of a legitimate government, but we have no tribute voluntarly to offer to the tyranny that robs us of our constitutional and innhenable rights.
7. Resolved, That the act called the "rebellion act," is a relic of barbarism and more worthy to be qpproved and enforced by a Nero than a Geary.
8. Resolved, That the census act of the late Missouri Kanzas Legislature, is a cheat and a swindle, requiring in one section as a condition for voting registration without residence, and in another residence without registration the design of which is apparent to all who are familiar with the usurpation in Kanzas.
9. Resolved, That with the most infamous and unscrupulous men to execute the laws and issue certificates of election, past experience has shown that legal voters are not essential to the election of any man to office and until the people can choose their own election officers, or have them appointed by some respectable official, we request the people, the Governor of the Territory Congress and the President of the United States, to treat all elections under Territorial auspices as an infamous mockery, and half and void.
10. Resolved, That the bombarding and burning of hotels and private residences, the destruction of printing presses, the pillaging and plundering of towns, the stealing of horses and cattle and such other things by acting Governors, Marshalls and Sheriffs, or their mens, is to say the least disrepaitable business, and should these officials or any other person attempt a repetition of the nets of the spring and summer of 1856 it will be the duty of the people at once to constitute themselves a Vigilance Committie for self preservation.
IRELAND & M'CORKLE,
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS,
QUINDARO..........KANZAS,
(???)
BUILDING in all its Branchos.
Contracts for buildings taken, Stores fitted up, and all work in their line promptly attended to.
May 4,1857. 1tf
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CARBONDALE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the south half (1/2) of the south west quarter (1/4) of section number twenty three (23), and the south half (1/2) of the south-east quarter (1/4) of section number twenty two and the north half (1/2) of the north west quarter (1/4) of section number twenty six (26) all in township number fifteen (15) south and range number fourteen (14) east in Kanzas Territory, conataining three hundred and twenty (320) acres, are taken by the CARBONDALE TOWN COMPANY for a loton site according to the act of Congress authorizing the pre-emption of public lands for town sites. Notice is further given that the pint of the town of CARBONDALE has been duly recorded in the oillee of the register of public lands at Lecompton, Kanzas Territory.
ALSON DAVIS,} Trustees Carbondale
HORACE WHITE} Town Company,
Dated Carbondale, K.T. May 1,1857.
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CINCINNATI, OHIO.
The Eclectic
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE.
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
THE Winter Session of 1857-8 will commence on Monday the 12th of October, and continue sixteen weeks. A full and thorough course of Lecture will be given, occupying six or seven hours daily, with good opportunities for attention to practical Anatomy, and with ample Clinical facilities at the Commercial Hospital. The preliminary course of Lectures will commence on Monday, the 28th September, and continue daily until the commencement of the regular Lectures.
The arrangement of the chairs will be as follows:
T.E. Sr. JOHN, M.D., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.
C.D. LEWIS. M.D. Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy.
A.J. HOWE, M.D. Professor of Surgery.
C.H. CLEAVELAND. M.D. Professor of Materia Mediea and Therapeutics.
WM. SHERWOOD. M.D. Professor of Medical Practice and Pathology.
J.R. BUCHANAN. M.D. Emeritus Professor of Cerebral Physiology and lastitutes of Medicine.
JOHN KING, M.D. Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children
The terms for the Session will be the same as heretofore, viz: Matriculation, $5.00. Tuition, $20.00. Demonstrator's Ticket, $5.00. (Every Student is required to engage in dissection one session before Graduation.) Graduation, $25.00 Ticket to Commercial Hospital (optional) $5.00.
The Lecture Rooms are newly finished, neat and comfortable, and in a central locality (in College Hall. Walnut street.) whereas students will find it convenient to call on their arrival.
Tickets for the session my be obtained of the Dean of the Faculty, at his Office, No 118 Smith street, or of Prof. G.H. Cleaveland, Secretary of the Faculty, No. 139 Seventh street, near Elm.
JOHN KING, M.D., DEAN
THE
College Journal of Medical Science,
A Monthly Magazine of 48 pages, conducted by the Faculty of the Electic College of Medicrue, is published at One Dollar a Year payable in advance. Communications for subscription, or for specimen numbers, should be directed to
Dr. C.H. CLEAVELAND, Publisher.
139 Seventh Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
F. Johnson. Geo. W. Veale.
JOHNON & 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 4th, 1857. 1tf
May 4th. 3t
FOR SALE
BY
JOHNSON & VEALE.
10 BALES brown sheetings.
7 cases of bleached sheetings and shirtings
12 cases of assorted prints
150 kegs assorted nails.
50 boxes assorted window glass.
70 dozen door locks and latches.
SCREWS ASSORTED.
2 dozen Hatche's counter scales.
1 " Tea " "
6 boxes assorted glass tumblers.
12 assorted glassware.
Leg chains, trace chains, shovels, spades, forks, sevthes and coffee-mills: shot guns, rifles, revolvers, shot-belts and powder flasks: broad clodis, cassimers, tweeds, and satinetts: black silks, dress silks, lawns and challes: berages, lent, 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.
JOB PRINTING neatly and promptly executed.
SAM F. TAPPAN, jr, of Lawrence, Kanzas, is our authorized Agent to secure subscriptions and advertisements, and receipt for the same.
STONE CUTTING AND MASONRY!
FREDERICK KLAUS,
HAS 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. 1tf
WM. J. McCOWN Ed. D. BUCK.
New Store and New Goods.
McCown & BUCK
Would respectfully announce to the citizens of Quindaro and vicinity that they have just opened a large and desirable stock of
Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery,
Hardware
AND
CLOTHING.
Which we will sill as low as any establishment west of St. Louis.
May 4,1857. 1tf.
10 TONS Rope for sale by
Mc & B.
50 BARRELS Sugar for sale by
Mc. & B.
20 CHESTS Tea, of various brands, for sale by
Mc. & B.
40 SACKS Coffee for sale by
Mc. & B.
20 BOXES Tobacco, best brands for sale by
Mc. & B.
10 BARRELS Molasses for sale by
Mc. & B..
30 CASES Boots and Shoes for sale by
Mc.& B.
25 DOZEN Hats for sale by
Mc. & B.
20 TONS Iron for sale by
Mc. & B.
100 KEGS Nails for sale by
Mc. & B.
15000 YARDS Brown Shirting for sale by
Mc. & B.
20,000 YARDS Prints, various styles for sale by
Mc. & B.
2000 PIECES Clothing for sale by
Mc. & B.
THOUSANDS of notions too numerous to mention, all of which will be sold on very reasonable terms.
COUNTRY MERCHANTS, supplied with leading articles at moderate rates.
McCOWN & BUCK
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
The Beautiful & Unrivaled Regular
PASSENGER STEAMER
MORNING STAR.
T.R. BRIERLY, Master
G.M. 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 TUESDAYS, June 9th and 23d, July 7th and 21st, August 4th and 18th, Sept. 1st. 15th, and 29th, October 13th, and 27th, November 10th.
Passing Parkville at 7 o'clock, A.M Quindaro at 715 A.M. Wyandotte at 8 A.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.:Camdent at 5 P.M. Wellington at 6 P.M remaining at Lexington over night.
The MORNING STAR was built, without regard to cost, for a first class Missouri River Packet, and in point of speed, elegance and luxurious recommodations 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 completest comfort safety, and convenience of passengers.
May 30, 1857.
RUSSELL'S
FIRE & WATER PROOF
PATENT
MASTIC ROOFING
ON CANVASS.
THIS Roofing is applicable to steep or flat Roofs, Steam Boat Decks, Rail Road Cars Boundaries, dsc...dc. 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 account 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 excel 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.
Town and County rights for sale.
For further particulars inquire of the subscribers. SHEPHERD, HENRY & CO.
Quindaro, K.T. May 28, 1857
ROBINSON, WALKER & CO.'S
DAILY
Passenger & Express Line.
FROM
QUINDARO TO LAWRENCE.
FARE, ..............$3.00.
The nearest and cheapest route from the Missouri to the Interior of Kanzas.
Quindaro, May 28th, 1857. 2tf
KETCHUM'S
PATENT MOWER
WITH OR WITHOUT
REAPER ATTACHED.
THIS Machine took the FIRST PRIMIEM at the World's Fair held in New York in 1853, in competition with McCormick, Manny, Burrill, Bussy, and several other, also at State Fair in Ohio 1853, 4 in New York 1853, 4, 5, at the American Institute in the city of New York in 1852, 3,4,5, at the Fair held in Philadelphia in 1855, (???) many other State and County Fairs: also the $600 premium in Massachusetts in 1855.
This machine is warranted to cut from 10 to 15 acres of grass or grain per day, in as good a manner as it done with a Seythe or Cradle.
Price of Mower $110: Mower and Reaper combined $150.
FOR SALE BY
ALFRED GRAY. Quindaro, K.T.
May 20, 1857. 2tf.
FOR SALE.
Flouring Mills for Sale.
THE Subscriber has two Portable Flouring Mills (Burr Stone.) all ready and complete to be attached to power, for sale very low.
ALFRED GRAY,
148 Main Street Quindaro, K.T.
May 20, 1857. 2tf
FARM FOR SALE.
ONE Hundred and Sixty Acres of Land situated 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. Term leberal.
Enquire of BLOOD BASSETT & CO.
No. 3 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
FARM FOR SALE.
ONE Hundred and Sixty Acres situated on the N.E. or of Sect. 4, Town 9 R. 21 on the D. T. Lands seven miles from Delaware, and eight from Leavenworth. Eighty acres are under cultivation. On the premise there is a good Double Hewed Log House, an excellent Spring, 400 Fruit Trees, and good timber in the neighborhood. Terms liberal. Enquire of
BLOOD, BASSETT & CO.
No. 3 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857.
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. 1tf.
J. GROVER. S.C. SMITH
GROVER & SMITH.
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
PARKVILLE, MO.
Will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to their care.
PRODUCE and OUTFITS for Kanzas as low as any point on the Missouri. Please give us a call.
REFERENCES:
SIMMONS & LEARNATIE St. Louis, Mo.
RAY & MEDUL, Chicago, Ill.
S.P. ALLEN ROCHESTER, N.Y.
May 4, 1857. 1tf.
CHAS. B. ELLIS,
Civil Engineer & Surveyor,
Attends promptly to all descriptions of Engineering and Land Surveying on reasonable terms. Also attends to all lands of land business.
May be found at the Office of the Quindaro Company. Also at the Office of the Parkville Grand River, and the Burlington Railroad Company, Parkville Mo.
May 4th, 1857. 1tf.
HARDWARE!
SHEPHERD & HENRY
Having associated themselves together for the purpose of prosecuting the Hardware.
STOVE AND TIN BUSINESS
Have permanently located at this place and have now en route for this point a complete assortment of
CUTLERY, MECHANICS TOOLS.
Building and Furnishing Hardware Agricultural Implements Iron, Steel and Nails. Also a complete assortment of
STOVES:
To wish we would most respectfully invite the attention of all in want of such goods, being determined to furnish them at
Better Prices
Than they can be prosured elsewhere in the Territory.
SHEPERD & HENRY.
No. 140 Main Street.
N.B. All kinds of Job Work neatly and promptly executed.
Wm. Shepherd. D.D. Henry.
May 4th. 1857 1tf
THE PEOPLE'S
VARIEYT 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 of
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 Segars, 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 giver general satisfaction.
A.C. STROCK & CO.
Quindaro, May 4,1857 1tf
TO RENT.
A STORE on Kanzas Avenue. Enquire of Dr. Budington.
LAWRENCE ADVERTISEMENTS.
WHITNEY HOUSE.
No. 5 NEW HAMPSHIRE STREET.
LAWRENCE, KANZAS.
T. L. WHITNEY,.........Proprietor.
May 13, 1857. 1y
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.
E.D. Ladd, S.B. Prentiss.
LADD & PRENTISS.
REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND GENERAL
LAND AGENTS.
E.D. LADD,
Notary Public, Leg' of Deeds, & Conveyanver.
Will take acknowledgements of deeds and other papers.
Ofice, No. 15 Massachusetts, St.,
LAWRENCE. KANZAS
May 13, 1857. 1y
S.N. WOOD & CO.,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS.
Lawrence, Kanzas,
Will invest money, and locate Land Warrante in all parts of Kanzas, and guarantee from 50 to 100 per cent, on investment.
Letters of enquiry promptly answered.
S.N. WOOD.
COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS FOR OHIO.
Office, No 27 Mass, St. Lawrence Kanzas.
ROBT 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.
James G. Sands,
SADDLE HARNESS & TRUNK
MANUFACTORY.
Always on hand, everything in my line.
Also Belting Leather, Whang Leather, Copper Rivets, &c.
Opposite Morrow House.
Lawrence, Kanzas, April 1,1857. 1tf.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
RICE, BLAKE & EDDY
REAL ESTATE
AND
Law Office.
Room No. 5, MASONIC TEMPLE DEARBORN SR.
(Opposite the Post Office.)
P.O. Box, 2532 CHICAGO ILL.
R.A. RICE} {Kanzas
J.W. EDDY, } Chicago. F.N. BLAKE {Tory.
Lots, Lands and Farms for sale:Titles inrvestigated:Taxes paid: Collection made and Loans negotiated, Money invested for non residents.
AGENTS FOR QUINDARO COMPANY KANZAS TORY.
And prepared to invest money in all parts of the Territory upon shares or on commission.
Refer to Hon. C. Robinson, in the Territory.
BLAKE & EDDY.
Attorneys and Counsellors at Lane.
May 4th. Tf
WYANDOTT!
DAVIS & POST.
COUNSELLORS AT LAW
Exchange Building.
KANZAS AVENUE, WYANDOT, K.T.
May 4, 1857. 1tf.
(Transcribed by KELLIE DUNHAM, Fall, 2002)