ZETTE. WALK G m .__.._._...__. .__,j———-—-T». Cm PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING BY ..____m_ A______ _ it ,1llIlIIii1] ibimijiuiiir---ilhnutit in Total Mimi mill Solicits, (ll? A. H. BYINGTON, AT TWO DOLLARS PER IN ADVANCE. wmil fintilliguiri, iiiteruture, fpnlitiw, tlgrimlturi, Ziltrtuuirio its 5iIifi,_ tltimrulinu, to. lo.---cltituhlithiii in ' lflflfl. NUMBER 457 --N EW SERIES. N ORWALK, CONN. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1856. VOLUME XXXIX.---NUMBER 40. m©mwAaR__@/szsrms. A. Ii. BYINGTON Editor &Propri'etor. Subscription Rates : Village Subscribers by Carrier,pei-year, $2,00 8 Mail, Post Riders and Wagoners, 2.00 '1: iose living out of any Cari'ier’s District, 1.50 B 01‘ f'l‘3-I-;li_I0iial parts ol'_a year, at the rate of 2.00 A‘ Single copies 0 cents, in wrapper, 6 Advertising Rates : Sasfllable I DRY GOODS . HE Subscriber would return his thanks for the very liberal patronage with which his Store has been favored the year past, and hopes by a constant attention to the wants of the trading public and by a system of fair and hon- orable dealing, to retain his share of trade for the year ensuing. His Stock comprises at all times a choice and varied selection ofl'ashiona- ble and scasonable Dry Goods, ofevery quality One Square, one insertion sum and price. He is confident that piii-chaser-s do do two do 1_25 will find every article purchased at his store, do do three do 1_50 equal in quality, and as cheap in-price. as can do do one month, 1,75 be obtained elsewhere. Particular attention do do two months, 3,00 devoted to the selection of Cloths, Vestings, do do three months, 400 &c., &c., for Gentlemens wear, which will be do do six months, 7.00 sold at the lowest market prices. do do one year, 13.00 L. H. RANDLE. Two do do 20.00 _ Each additional square, per year, 8.00 Lime. 0'19 °°l“m"» one year. 75.00 100 Bbls. of Lime f'or sale by T. L. PECK. Advertisers occupying two or more squares, are entitled to the paper free of charge. Fifteen lines of Brevier or 100 words make a square. Fractional parts ofa square,charged for as a whole. Yearly advertisers have the privilege of chang- lug their advertisements once per month.- Advertisemeuts changed of'tener charged as transient. - Transient advertisements payable on the first insertion. Yearly advertisers payable at expiratith of three months. Yearlv adver- tisers restricted to their regular business. Cards,’ Resolutions, &c., inserted as Special Notices, 25 per cent addition to the above rates. fl‘ These terms will be inflexibly adhered to_ _—-... W BUSINESS DIRECTORY. A/x/x/\ ,-\r~..\/\,\ ,\,\_.\,\,\_,\,\,\/\ JACKSON &. QUINTA RDS AMBROTYPE ROOMS, Over D. 8:. N. Depot. NORWALK. L i k e n c s s e s Warranled to plea_-se all Good Judges Dentistry. Doctors HILL &. FITCH, Surgical & Mechanical D E N T I S T S, Ofiioo over the Store of C. .l‘.Gruman, NORWALK, CONN. CiiARLEs FITCH. A. HILL. J. I‘. POOTE, Attorney and Counselor at Law, OFFICE OVER M./1LLORY’S STORE N oi-walk, Conn. AMOS HUNT, General Pension & Patent Agent And Prosecutor of Claims before the several Departments and the Court of Clairns. Washington, D. C. H. G. RANDLE, Hats, Caji-$3-LlEV]IeiiiIs & Boy's STRAW GOODS, &c., Ladies Furs, Gents Gloves, Canes, 'U':n:|.1ore11a.s, 11:90., No. 2 Skiddv’s Block. C. J. GRUIVIAN, Dealer in Foreign and Domestic DRY GOODS, CARPETINGS Carriage -Trimmings, Clot/is, Cassi- meres, Satz'netts,, Vcslings, and Tail- or’s Trzminings, by the Yard, Piece or Package. itinarmcs, SHIRTINGS, JEANS, BATTS AND WARP A the lowest possible prices. NORWALK. CONN. O. &. E. K. LOCKWOOD, & C0. NORWALK. CONN., MANUFACTURERS OF Tin, Sheet Iron & Copper Wares, AND DEALERS IN Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces, Cutlery, Briton-m'a. Porcelain and Wooden Ware, and Kitchen Furniture in general, Pumps, Sheet Lead 4- Lead Pipe, Croc/cery, Glass and C-/ulna Ware. E. V. A. CHICHESTER, Iiardvvare D E A L E R, NORWALK, CONN. A. H. CAMP, SUCCESSOR T0 , JAMES SHERWOOD, Bookseller, Stationer 8:. Binder, 17 Main Street, Norwalk. P. H. NASH, Wnoi.EsALi-: AND RETAIL DEALER IN S T O V E S , I MAivUEAcrURE:: or Tin, Sheet Iron & Copper Wares: Has cgnszamlg on hand a. large a.:s.so'rl- ment of general House-keeping Furniture, at so. Norwalk, Conn. N orwalk Post Ofiice. Mail C'lose.9.—WEs'r. 7.30 A. M.. 3.00, I’..\l. do do EAs'r, 8.30 A. l\[., 4.30 r. M. do do D. An N. R. 8.4Ei. do do New York L-ity, 4.30. T da do Saturday at 2.00 r.M. J|IailVES.D(lll=,.—-ll1)(iB& N R. R. 8.00 A. M. do do WEST, 9.30 A. M., 0.00 P. M. - EAsT 8.30 A. M. 4.45 P M. ‘i° do R. A. WILLIAMS P. M. s. L‘. onmsrnan, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Groceries, . _. . c_ _N',,_ 14 and I6 .Main—st. Prgvg,-1:::}:;ei’ved an entirely new and ex- H tensivl will sell on _ trade. The public c- ll. &Norwalk, March 5.tl1: 1355' j_j_O_T_ASH, NT1, at OLMS'I‘EAD'S. Alkaline Dcntifrice R. BARBOUR manufactures and 150??“ con tautly on hand (‘he €tb0Ve plepimfiloig (1 me best prepara- upposes indicated for preserving and cleangiqg the teeth unhesitatiugly pronounce - tion in the inarket, for the ‘D t‘ oods which he e a5ff_%:$;';%l,1,E 1:2,;-ifs as any in the as are respectfully invited to Timber and Laths, AT SOUTH NORWALK. 350,000 Plastering Laths. 50,000 Feet Pine and Spruce Timber. 10,000 Pine Pickets just received and for sale by THOS. L. PECK. LUMBER ! LUMBER ! ILL A: HUBBELL have recently com- menced the Lumber Business at the old stand lately occupied by Mr. Charles Thomas, and intend to keep on sale Timber, Lath and Lime, together with everyvaricty of Lumber sold in this market. We shall be happy to accommo- date customers with any thingiin our line at liberal prices. . 15 J, C. HUBBELL, « N v N ORWALK EIVIPORIUIVI - vs...-atom?-é“‘;E":I Iséfifl PROVISIONS, FRUITS. Vegetables, Fish of All Kinds, Clams. Oysters, &c., As good as the market affords, constantly to be found at the well known establishment of MEEKER «lb OLMSTEAD. E Goods of the above descriptionreceived daily, and for sale at wholesale and retail on he most favorable terms. Cheaper than Ever .-it the South J\"orwalk GROCERY STORE. HE Subscriber has on hand by far the lar' gcst and best selection of Family Groce' ries and Provisions, to be found in South Nor- walk, which he offers to his customers and the public, at greatly reduced prices. His facili- ties are such that he will be constantly receiv- ing new and fresh supplies of goods, as the wants of his Customers may require, which will always be of the best quality and sold at the very lowest possible price, and he would re- spectfully solicit an examination and trial of the same. GEO. W. SMITH. § Land For Sale. ABOUT eight acres of good Land, near Main-st., one mile north of the Bridge, is offer- ed for sale upon very reasonable terms. It is admirably adapted for building _lots, or for gardening purposes,having a quick and rich soil, and a large bed of vegetable mould or compost manure, thereon; or it is well calcu- lated for a first rate meadow. Itis well fenced and in a very eligible location. For further particulars enquire at this Ofiice. tf3 Cabinet Ware Rooms at WESTPORT ! THE Subscriber would respectfully inform his friends and the public generally, that he is still located a few doors north of the turnpike, opposite the Store of Alva Gray, where may be found a general assortment of CABINET FURNITURE. Undg2rtaIuTng in allits departments attended to at the shortest notice and upon reasonable terms. 3 ALLEN RENOUD. New Styles. 2 'mNew Goods &. low prices. HARLES FIELDS has now on hand as large and varied an assortment of Gentle- men and Ladies’ Gaiters, Boots. and Slippers, as has ever been presented to the public in this market. The styles are new ; the workmanship neat and beautiful; while the material ‘is of the finest texture and most durable quality.- He has some very elegant, plain and fancy colored, Ladies Gaiters; also, Gents Patent Leather Boots and Shoes, with an endless as- sortment of Boys and Misses Shoes, all of which will be sold very low for cash. The public are are invited to call and examine his stock for themselves. “21 Norwalk Iron Foundry. EVERY description of CASTING done at the shortest notice and in the best manner, as cheap as can be obtained at any other_ es- tablishment in the State. Galvanized Chains, Chain Pumps,Iron Fencc,Posts,Railings, &c., furnished to order. Patterns executed at short notice and upon reasonable terms. lyl ALEXANDER AUSTIN. Building Moving, 3!’ CHARLES TUBES. LL orders for building raising and moving. lel't with the subscriber, will receive prompt attention and be executed in the safest and most expeditious manner. JOSEPH SHEPHERD, Carriae Maker, Agent. 1y4l Watches, Jewelry and Fancy Goods. NEW SPRING STOCK! THE Subscriber has just returned from New York with a new Stock of Fash- ionable Jewelry, Watches, Plated Ware -.ind‘Fancy Goods, which he ofi‘ers to his customers very cheap. Clocks and Watches repaired. Accordeoiis tuned and repaired. Collin Plates, Spoons, Rings, &c., neatly en- graved. O S. CLARK, BUILDING MATERIALS. Pressed &. Common Brick Lime Cement, Calcined Plaster. Hair and .Marble Dust. HE Subscriber havingdissolved hisconnec- T tion with W. C. STREET, Esq. in the above business. will continue it on his own account, and willlkeep a good assortment of the above n,,me,1 al-fic1es.co[(!Jsta.ll1l-ly on hand which will I. if; 5°” cheap for asCHAS. T. LEONARD. Office at the Store of W. C. STREET- Something New- WNERS of Horses will find a new and val uable invention in the way of Horse Col lars, known as Briggs’ Patent Horse Collars. In their construction they correspond exactly to the anatomy of the llorse’s neck, and will neither scald, bi-uise,or gall the animal. They give f'ull scope and action to the shoulder- blade and joints, and altogether are the most perfect application ever applied to the neck of the Horse. They have been l'iilly tested al- r_aa,dy,and are so constructed that they coir,- inend themselves to the judgment of every sensible and humane man. _ _ _ Also, every variety, quality and quantity of Harness, Saddles and Horse Eqiiipments in general, may be found at the Store of the Subgcl-j])c1-. Westport, (East side the Bridge.) Keep Cool. UR stockof Refrigerators and Ice Cream freezers for the Summer, are now ready. by all who have ever used i.‘- at all the principal stores in Tl-fWn- Try ‘'5' , It may be _had 0. & E. K. Locxwoon & Co. —AND— HE Subscriber would announce that in connection with his House and Sign Point- P./IPER HANGING BUSIJVESS, and will keep constantly on hand a complete side walls. ceilings, halls, &c. His establish- ment is one door north of Skiddy’s Block, in House and Sign Painting, and Paper Hung- ing. Paints and Oils for sale, and Paints GEORGE MARVIN. TOJIIIISOII MANUFACTURERS 01-‘ SPRINGS & AxLi:s, Of all kinds and sizes, Cannon-st., opposite ’l‘omlinson’s Carriage Manufuctorya It is acknowledged that the above Establish ment manufactures the best articles in their by Mail or otherwise promptly responded to, RUSSEL TOMLINSON, Pres., S. B. FERGUSON, J B-9 0 A S H PAID for Soap Grease, rancid Lard or But For Sale, A superior quality of Soft Soap, for Cash or terms, 100 bushels of Leached Ashes for sale |, I. HENRIETTA, Gentlemen’s Hats. SPRING STYLES. ces of Spring Fashions. of Gentlemens Hats, which for beauty of design and elegance ingenious improvement in their_ manufacture, the Silk I-lat of the Spring Fashion is as easy and Boys’ Gaps in endless variety ; Umbrellas, Canes, &c., with an immense assortment of ity, all for sale cheap f0l'HCl-1.-iél.,fiiANDLE,S. berg Co.’s Celebrated Medicines. Further Notice. T ness is now not only prepared to repair but is also prepared to make the same to Or- der. Tasteful Carriages or heavy Wagons at prices to suit thetimes. EDSON BEERS. Charles Isaacs. Norwalk Dye Works, JOHN PICKENS, practical Dyer and Re finisher. of Silk, Cotton, and Woolen return his sincere thanks to his friends and the public for the many favors bestowed on pauk, and he would now inform that he has removed as above, and fitted up a Dye House manner, with all the latest improvements in the art of Dyeing; and having given up now be enabled to do his work in a manner that cannot be surpassed by any other estab- Oflices for reception and delivery of goods. At the Dye Works, foot of Mill Hill, in the Main street, Norwalk, Conn, J1 GENTS. Brother, Winnipauk ; Mrs. Mallet, Danbury ; Horace Lockwood, No.1 Summer-st., Stam- Bristol at D. Chapman’s, Coleman’s Block, Pittsfield, Mass. Paper Hanging Establishment. ing, he now carries on a general assortment of plain and ornamental Papers for where he will be happy to execute all orders mixed ready for use. SPRING Go AXLE GO... BOTH COMMON 8!. PATENT; BRIDGEPORT, CONN. line, to be found in the market. All orders 'l‘reas’r, WM. G. Lixseniion, Scc’y. tf34 ter, tainted Pork, (to. exchange for Soap Grease ; Also, on the same 2n17 at the Norwalk Soap Factory. THE Subscriber is now receiving his invoi- of finish, have never been surpassed. By an upon the head as the Soft Hat. Also, Men’s Soft Hats of every price, size, color and qual- P. S. Also, Agent for the sale of th Grafen- HE undersigned having extended his busi- and re-paint Carriages and Wagons as usual, made in every style to suit the purchaser, and At the establishmentformerly occupied by Foot of Mill Hill, Norwalk, Conn. Goods, Of every description, begs leave to him since he commenced business at Winni- and Finishing Room in the most complete Coloring for the Winnipaiik Company’. he will lishmeut in the Country. rearof the old Bakery, and at his Residence, Shepherd-‘s Bakery, Norwalk, G. H. Randle 65 ford; David Selleck, West Norwalk ; G. B. Orders sent by Adam’s Express, or by Something New. GREAT DISCOVERY ! ! Science and Art Triumphant! l Ythe introduction of the Beautiful and which Photographs the Life Tints of the Hu- man Face and the Most Delzcate Shades of tifnl and life-like pictures ever produced can now be obtained at the JVORWJILK IIMBROTYPE G.-ILLERY Over the Depot of the Danbury do Norwalk Railroad. The public are invited to call and examine specimens now being taken by this new process and satisfy themselves that the crowning point in the photographic art has been reached, and that a PERFECT likeness can now be obtained. Trial pictures will be cheer- fully taken without charge whenever the ope- rator is not otherwise engaged. _ _ Special attention paid to the taking of like- nesses of‘ children, and deceased persons, and in copying old pictures. In short if you de- sire an unsurpassedlikeness, beautiful, truth- fiil and cheap, repair at once to the NoRwAi.x AMBROTYPE GALLERY. 29 Nonwann Horse Shoeing and General B1aoks1n.1th1n8. I-IE subscribers continue their general Blacksmithing, Wagon Ironing, Repair- iug, Forging, &c., as heretofore, at their old stand, where they will attend promptly to the calls of their customers. They also conduct the Shoeing establishment in the rear _of the old Bakery, where they have the services of Mr. J. Deady, who is admitted to be equal as a Shoer to any Smith in the country. P_ar- ticuiar attention will be devoted to shoeing Horses and Oxen in such a manner as to se— cure their comfort and soundness. Thankful l'or the very liberal patronage already con- ferred, they would solicit its continuance. _ WATERBURY & DUNCAN. ‘,3 For Sale. 4 TON, Second-hand, Coal_or Hay Scale ; nearlyas good as New. Price 50 Dollars. MALLORY & CURTISt._2 t 5 A Enquire of Norwalk, June, 1356- Norwalk Saddle, Harness and TRUNK EMPORIUM! HE subscriber would extend his thanks to the public for their liberal patronage _dn- ring the last fifteen years and at the same time express his conviction that the business expe- rience he has acquired during so ionga period has peculiarly qualified him for judging_ of the tastes and requirements of those having occasion to patronize an extensive Saddlery establishineut. He is constantly manufactur- ing aiid keeps on hand a full assortment of Harness, of all desrciiptions, comprising all kinds of L’-uggy, Gig. Express. C_.a_i-t, Coach. p,,,~m Mi} Wagon Harness ; also, a great vari- ety of Ladies and gentlcmen’s Riding Saddles Bi'i<lles_. ill-artingales, &c. also Collars in great variety and every style of pattern, Fly Nets, Horseclotlis, Stable Furniture, Saddler’s hard- ware, Whips in endless variety, Trunks of all sizes and descriptions, _VaIices, Carpet Bags, Satchels, 820. line. All in want of any _ of the above named articles will do well to give uso. call, as we are bound to sell our wares at sat- isfactory prices... Orders for any kind of work promptly executed. Repairing done neatly and cheaply. WM. B. SWAN. NORWALK PAINTING " POETRY. '\/~‘.'.‘;’\'\‘-/\'\'\/‘s’\/‘—'\f_'\I‘. -. u'v»\ -\‘v.'»x*»'~ --\~.--r.r.'.- —x s . vv\\-V9» For the Norwalk Gazelle. I Long for thy Return. When evening air wsfts ’i-ound me, The cool refreshing breeze, When wintry winds are sighing And rustling through the trees, When in the winter evenings, The crackling fires burn, These all make inc think of thee, And I long for thy return. g.-.-..-.-..—.---\ . Ah I well do I remember When I parted from you last, When you left your home and parents, To wonder where thou hast ; When I am sad and sorrowful My thoughts to thee I turn And always do I think of thee And long for thy return. The many happy hours That I, in life have passed, Are all connected with thee—, When I was with you last, The wild roses that you gathered And the sweetly scented fern, They all make nae think of thee, And I long for thy return. Your parents still are living Your fathei-’s hlir is grey- Your sisters still do love you, Then why, oh, why do you stay; But if you still will linger, My heart with love still will burn, And I will ever think of thee, And long for thy return. New York, Sept. 10, 1856. Iniscsttaar. \'*.r\rw'v\/\J\/\‘\/\¢\I\I S. E. P. Awhetter on the approaching Elec- tion of President. and the condi- dates. NEw Yonx Crrv, Sept. 18, 1856.‘ To the Editors of the Evening Post .- GENTLEMEN :—The letter- of your correspondent H., and your editorial comments upon it of the 16th inst.. _ seem in common courtesy to demand a reply. Your correspondent does not err in saying that I desire the success of me Republican party and the election of their candidate, and that I am ready to contribute any honorable effort to bring it about. This is not the result of any preference as to men, but in spite of it. With Colonel Fremont, I am unac- quainted. I have never seen him, nor had any communication with him, di- rect or indirect, verbal or written. On the other hand, my feelings of friend- ship and admiration for Mr. Buchanan, as a man, are of no ordinary character, and are strengthened by years of friend- ly intimacy and reciprocal acts of kind- ness. uninterrupted to this time by a single misunderstanding or unpleasant feeling; and I would at any time de- fend him promptly and indignantly against personal attacks; upon his repu- tation. I believe him to be a man of distinguished ability, of high integrity and valuable experience. He is sur- rounded, too, in Pennsylvania, by many political friends, whom personally I love and esteem, and to whom I am united by ties of long cherished political and social intimacy, and the loss of whose friendship I should regard asa great on- lamity. For more than a quarter of a century I have steadily labored with the Waggoners, will receive prompt attention. 25 Democratic party, and never doubted peak which they send their brethren of that I should do so during my life. For years I have exerted myself to bring 1848 and 1852 I was one of those who Wonderful Invention of Dr. Langdel, carried for him the delegates of our ,dis- ing it with pcrversions, misrepresenta- trict, and was his zealous and ardent Color in the Dress, the most exquisitely beau- SUPPOI’ W15 0“ 93°“ °°°35l°" I ‘V39 in openly the side of the opprsssors; but the National Convention as one of his delegates. These ties are exceedingly strong and hard to sever, especially with one who is naturally of a conservative ‘cast, and slow tochonge old habits of thought and action; and I have resisted for months the convictions thAt'were urging me to my present declaration. I have dili- gently sought reasons and arguments to save myself the pain of breaking up old associations and slienjating myself from my old friends, but all in vain. My love of country and hatred of oppression would not allow my feelings and incli- nations either to delude my judgment or still my conscience, and I am com- pelled to forfeit my self respect by com- mitting what I believe to be palpably wrong, or else eiirol_ myself in opposi- tion to the Democratic party. I see no reasonable hope of justice and sympathy for the people of Kansas in the success of the democracy. In its ranks, and with the power to contyol its action, , are found the Border Ruffians of Missouri and their accomplices of the South, who have trampled upon the Constitution and all the essential prin- ciples of our Government, robbed Kan- sas of its civil liberty and right of out‘- frage, laid waste its territory with fire and sword, and repudiated even civiliza- tion itself. . In its platform I find the enunciation of principles which would put the rope about the necks of men for exer sing the constitutional right of petitioning Congress for a State Government, or a redress of grievances far worse than those which led to the war of the Rev- olution, and a declaration sligmatizing as “armed resistance to law" the mode- rate and jiisliifiable self-defense of men shamefully and inlainously oppressed by ruflian violence and outrage, beyond all human endurance. I find the whole party of the nation assembled in National Convention, with but one individual dissent, expressing its "unqualified admiration” of an Admin- about Mr, Buchanan's nomination. In “me Sp“-;;__,,ome of them ;g,,o,-ing the istration which has lent itself as the tool and accomplice of all the wrongs inflict- ed upon Kansas, and by its venolity and imbecility brought this country to on in- testine war. I find all its Representatives in Con- gress, with three individual exceptions, laboring in earnest zeal, by speech and vote, to cover up the iniquities of this Administration and the Border Ruflions of Missouri, and to suppress a fair in- vestigation of outrages which shock both humanity and republicanism, and defy the Constitution and the laws. I find these same representatives, after the truth was elicited in spite of their efforts, still refusing to relieve the peo- ple from a code of laws imposed upon them by a foreign army, and still refu- sing to admit them into the Union, only for reasons which, in the cases of nine existing States, had been declared un- tenable and of no account. I find them disregarding a Free Con- stitution adoptsd in a legal, constitution- al and time-sanctioned manner, (and which no man can doubt to have reflec- ted the will of the people.) and suppor- ting a law to produce a substitute, which it is easy to show would have perpetua- ted in the State Government, the usurp- ation which had by force already seized upon the Government of the Territory. I find them refusing to make appro- priations for the army, unless that army is to be used to enforce a code of laws violative on their face, of the Constitu- tion, enacted by a Legislature in viola- tion of the laws of the United States, and imposed by foreign force upon con- quered and subjugnled American citi- zens. I find them, in a. word, steadily aiding by all their Congressional action,to make a Slave State in northern latitudes, and that, too, against the will of its inhabi- tants. I find that one Member, who more than any other stood out against the eu- slavement of his white fellow citizens, is refused a i-enominstion by the Demo- cratic party of his district.‘ I find in the canvass now going on thatthe whole tone of their party press is in the same direction. When the first startling intelligence of the outrages in Kansas reached the States, their editors denounced the foul wrong in terms of fitting indignation. It was but a spas- modic effort, however, and in deference to the South and the prevailing senti- ment of the party, they have dropped off one after the other, until now, so for as I have been able to ascertain, there is not a Democratic paper which dares boldly to justify and defend the Free State par- ty, and denounce their invaders. In place of encouragement and sympathy for their outraged fellow citizens from the North, there is little else than jeers and ridicule for their oppressed and suf- fering condit.ion—misrepresentation of their motives and conduct, and a preten- ded incredulity of the statements and ap- the States. I find their speakers exhibiting the qu'estion entirely, others of them treat- tions and false issues; and others taking no one of them advocating the cause of Kansas, or favoring her admission under the Free State Constitution adopted by her people. ' In the public demonstrations and pro- cessions of the party, I find banners and devices containing brutal insults, in tea- ponse to the appeals of that people for protection against unparallelled wrongs, calculated, as no doubt they must be intended, to prepare the masses for a continued refusal of justice and protec- tion, and a relentless persistence in out- rage and oppression. I find all the Democrats South, and a portion of the Democracy of the North, boldly repudiating the Kansas Nebraska bill, by insisting that Slavery hasa right to go intothe Territories, in spite of Congress, or the people; and that the inhabitants of the Territory have no right to pass Territorial laws to forbid it or exclude it. Democratic Represents- tives from Pennsylvania‘ even, in the Senate and the House, hold and pro- claim these opinions; while other Rep- resentatives from Pennsylvania, with Democratic leaders from other States, declare themselves publicly to be non committal on this heresy; the inevita- ble tendency of which, it is easy to show, will be to prevent almost entirely the formation of any more Free States. Having originated a movement myself to aid our people by sending them men and money, and having prosecuted it with.the strictest avoidance of party character and a studied neutrality as to the political canvass, and having ear- nestly asked the co-operation of men of all parties, I have failed to enlist in it, to my knowledge, a single Democrat.- In the Conventions of Cleveland and Buffalo, called without distinction of party, in furtherance of this enterprise, there "was no Democrat piesent but my- self, This cannot huve been from any wai_:_t of generosity or of means, but only. in deference to the prevailing tone and sentiment of the party which is enlisted And not only have they abstained from aiding themovement, but in their pres- ses and by their private influence they have endeavored to cripple and retard it by meeting at it, warning the commu- nity against it as treasonable, and de- claring that the money would be misap- pliod, thus endeavoring to prevent con- tributions even from friends of the measure. I might go on with this catalogue and enumerate other indications,if necessary showing thatthe prevailing tone of the party is hostile to Kansas; but I con- sider it only necessary to add that what Ihave said relates but to the North.— The South, where the great mass of the party is to be found, makes no pretension as a whole, to the advocacy of anything but pure Border Ruffianism. What, then, have the Free State men of Kansas to expect from a Democratic Administration, even if presided ovei by Mr. Buchanan’! If he could be left to act upon his own impulses, unaffected by external influences, and free from all pledges and obligations, -express and implied, the case would be very differ- ent. But unfortunately, this is not so. His election would rightfully be consid- ered a decision against us, whatever may be his own private feelings. His offices at Washington, in Kansas and elsewhere, would necessarily, to a large extent, be filled with our enemies.- His information would come through a distorted medium ; and lastly, he could not aid us without having first made up his mind to be abandoned and waned upon by his own party. The South would charge him with violating his pledges, and turn upon him with the bitterest hostility, and at least a portion of the Northern Democracy would fol- low their example He would thus be left without a party to support his Ad- ministration, unless he should csst him- self into the arms of the Republicans. We cannot, it seems to me, either ask or expect him to do this upon a question where party lines are so plainly drawn before his election. Like all other men in the some situation, he must obey the party sentiment on which he is elected That there are Democrats in Pennsyl- vania who are full of indignation against the conduct of the South in regard to Kansas I am well aware, and that they would use their influence to redress her wrongs I am well satisfied; but they are too few in proportion to the whole party of the Union to sustain his Ad- ministration in a war with his party.- They have as yet been unable to make their good intentions, but I cannot be- lieve in their power. I repeat that I have been forced to these conclusions after no slight struggle with my feelings and inclinations.- Should Mr. Buchanan be elected, and his administration be different from what my judgement compels me to believe, I shall give it my cordial approbation, and my feeble though willing support. As I believe now, I must regard the Dem- ocratic party as fully committed to Southern Sectionalism, toward which, for some time past, it has been rapidly tending, and I quit it, well assured that my duty to my country demands at my hands this sacrifice of personal feeling. Very truly yours, A. H. REEDER. The Missouri Kansas Legislature and its Spurious Laws--Who Are the Traitors ‘I The administration at Washington, the Buchanan democracy, the spurious civil authorities of Kansas, the United States army, and Mr. Pierce's border ruflians, have now openly and avowedly entered upon a war of extermination against the free State settlers of Kansas, upon the ,terrible chart? that they are traitors and in_a state :6 armed insur- rection against the laws and the regu- larly constituted authorities of the Te" ritory. Follow us, reader, through a brief and dispassionate examination of ihis matter, and you will soon see who are the traitors and where this crime of treason belongs. The federal constitution is the supreme law. All laws, Congressional, State or Territoral violative of this constitution, are null and void. This supreme law, therefore, over all the States and Terri- tories—over New York and over Kan- sas establishes the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, "the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for the redress of their grievances ;” and it ordains, too, that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” and that "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, aguinst unreasonable search- es and seizures, shall not be violated,” 850. And it further provides, that no person shall "be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of low nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation; " and it also declares that “excessive bail shall not be required, excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusal punish- ments inflicted,”&c This is the su- prenie law of all the States and "Pem- tories—the federal constitution. And here we stick 3 pin, and proceed to on- upon the other side of the question.- ,"‘-N‘?-£?§'34i?~:“‘ ‘ I. other branch of our subject. D ted to about 550, while the illegal votes were 1,700 and upwards. est seems to have been taken by the residents at this time in the slavery question. personal interests, and engaged in the engrossing occupations necessarily at- tending : first settlement. census presented no larger number of legal voters than the previous one, the votes of the pro-slavery party had risen to 5,427, and the free State vote to only 791. The illegal vote was, therefore, Tee Kansas Nebraska law—the or- ganic Territorial law of Kansas—was framed in pursuance of this constitution ; and the saving feature of the act, which Col. Benton calls " the stump speech in the belly of the bill,” distinctly declares that “it is not the intention of this act to legislate slavery into the Ter- ritory, or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave it to the people thereof, to be set- tled in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States.” This is the organic Territorial law of Kansas. The settlers of the Teritory are left perfectly free to settle their do- mastic institutions "in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States.” Here, then, are the landmarks of the constitution and of the popular sovereignty of the act of Con- gress known as the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Now forthe traitors; and we shall find them without the aid of a telescope. On the day of his inauguration, the President of the United States took a solemn oath of fidelity to the constitu- tion—the whole of it, to all the specifi- cations we have given, including the special injunction that "he shall see the laws faithfully executed." Upon this last injunction hangs our main question of the Kansas treason and the Kansas traitors, and we shall see presently who, what, and where they are. We are close upon their trail. With an eye to the constitutional rights of the people of Kansas, the or- ganic Territorial low provides that none but bona jide settlers in the Territory shall have the right to vote, and ; this safeguard is hedged and fenced about with the necessary means for enforcing this just restriction of the elective fran- chise. Mark, too, the President had sworn to maintain the constitution and to see this law “faithfully executed.”—- But let us enquire now what he has done; because, as the supreme execu- tive gnurdian over the Territories, he is responsible for all those civil and milita- ry proceedings in Kansas, under cover of the law, which are among the most atrocious, ferocious and infaiiious viola- tions ol law, In the first place, President Pierce has adopted the Missouri Kansas Legis- lature and officials as the legitimale government of the Territory. But Governor Reader had informed him otherwise, and had disclosed to him ful- ly and specifically all the outrageously illegal means and instruments through which the said Missouri authorities were placed over the people of Kansas, Subsequently, a special Congressional committee, detailed to Kansas for the purpose, entered into a careful and me- thodicol inquiry, and from the sworn testimony of hundreds of credible wit- nesses, tho following facts were estab- lished : By the census of November, 1854, and that of January and February,1855 it was ascertained that the number of legal voters in the Territory was 2,905. At the election of a delegate to Con- trress, the legal votes cast only amoun- Little inter- They were thinking of their At the next election. while another 3,183, if the whole number of legiti- mate votes, 905 had been taken at this election. The report of the committee estimated the illegal vote to be 4,908. In addition to the frauds thus com- mitted in voting. was witnessed a pre- medicated invasion of the Territory by armed borderers, who came some of them hundreds of miles, armed, as al- ready stated, and in companies, under the command of officers, with baggage trains and all the appointments of an army, for the avowed purpose of carry- ing the election at all hazards. There being eighteen districts, or places where the polls were held, reserves of the in- vaders were held at different convenient points, from which were despatched, as were wanted, men enough to turn the elections at all the doubtful precincts.-— When the judges appointed by the Gov- ernor refused to receive votes, they were driven from their posts, or intimidated into acquiescence by loaded pistols pre- sented at their breasts. _ Many of the anti-slavery electors were not permitted to come near the polls, and, in some instances, the ballots were found (ballot stuffiug) to exceed the tally lists in large quantities. Wlieu a free Slate voter was willing to be sworn as to his qualifications, be was driven off, with the cry of "shoot him," "rip him up ” In every district but two or three, the greatest violence and disorder prevailed, and after the election was over the borderers would strike their tents, do a |mi-- pliindeniig. and cross the Missouri to incur own Home-. This is the way the rulfian "law and _ _-.- T Territorial Legislature, and in this way began the troubles and the bloodshed in Kansas. These are facts, and this is history. established by the sworn testi- mony of a crowd of witnesses. In his infamous and truckling. policy,’ then. of recognizing this spurious Mis- souri Legislature as the lawful govern- ment of Kansas, we are brought within short range of the first, most conspicu- ous and most criminal Kansas traitor, and it is no less a personage than Frank- lin Pierce, President of the United States. Here was his first overt act of infidelity to his constitutional oath "to see the law”—the Kansas organic law —“faithfully executed." Apprised of this ruthless armed invasion of spurious cry, insult and contempt which they had thrown upon the bona. jide settlers of Kansas, and their rights under the law and the constitution, it was the first duty of the President to repudiate that bogus Missouri Legislature, and to lay the facts before Congress. But the party neces- sities of Mr. Pierce were more impera- tive than his oath; and so, in adopting that Missouri Kansas Legislature, he became a traitor, in the vain delusion of thus securing, through Southern nigger driving sympathy, the Cincinnati demo- cratic nomination. "The tree is known by its fruit.”- The bloody laws passed by the Missouri border rufiian Legislature of Kansas are on a par with the instruments employed to elect that Legislature. They are unconstitutional. illegal, atrocious, sov- age, and infamous, and we use but the words of Gen. Cass, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Weller and other democratic Senators, in so declaring them, while they still sustain the iraitorous administration, and the demoralized and utterly rotten and abandoned democratic party that would enforce the bloody code, even to the slaughter of every free white settler in Kansas. These democratic Senators, who are now electioneering through the country for Mr. Buchanan as the anointed lega- tee of Mr. Pierce and his'policy of rolli- an sovereignty, denounce the treason, yet support the traitors. Illustrious democratic Senators, and artful dod- gers! No one cares whether they are willing to repeal this or that section of the laws of Kansas; no one thanks them for saying in the Senate that the Mis- souri Kansas ball and chain were cruel- ties, at that it was very wrong to chain and imprison a man because he had opinions of his own on slavery; or that. it was unjust to reject a man as a juror because he had said he was opposed to slavery ; or that it is very unpleasant to be obliged to hang a man because he had whispered that if he were a slave he would run away. No one——ws re- peat it—cai-es whether these humane- Senators uttered these very liberal opin-- ions. or voted for them in one bill, de- signed to upset another, which went further, and cut oil‘ all these oppressive enactments at a blow, by compelling the President to sheath the sword.-— This is not the point. If they had been in earnest in their humanity and sincere in their horror, they would not have confined their action to the repeal of sections or parts of the Missouri Kansas Territorial laws: they would havegone. manfully in for the repeal of the whole. They knew that the whole code was illegally adopted—the whole election which gave vitality to it was a fraud; they knew that its test oaths, its jury qualifications, its suppression of the free- dom of speech and of the press, and its violation of the rights of conscience, were unconstitutional and illegal, with-. out their tardy admission of the fact.-— It was therefore, a brazen mockery, a political fraud, and an insult to the peo- ple of this country, to propose a repeat merely of certain sections of a code, which partial repeal carried with its. confirmation, an aflirmanco, and on in- dorsement of that illegal legislation itself. The Kansas traitors, the border ruffl- an Legislature of Kansas and their in- famous laws, with all their atrocities, the administration at Washington up-- holds at the] point of the bayonet, and! the rotten and demoralized democratic party which upholds the administration, is pledged io its policy. In every way, and at every point, the free State sei- tlers of Kansas are the aggrieved and outraged party. The constitution and the Kansas Nebraska bill are on their side. They are traitors in resisting the bloody code of Kansas as the offspring of unlawful authority. They are clear- ly right in this resistance. They are simply standing upon their lawful and constitutional rights as American citi- zens, in a common Territory of the U1). ion; and everv man of them who has suffered, in person or property, from the- bloodv rnfiian policy of the administra- tion, in Kansas, has a rightful claim upon the government for indemnity. On the other hand, the first proceed- ing at the renssemhling of C0|]g[es§ should be a resolution. in the Home of Representatives for the impeachment of the President of the United States as a, traitoi-—falsc to his oath to suppopt the constitution, and false to his sworn duty ofseeiug the "laws faithfully executed-."' The rest. we presume, will be attendadl to by the American people in November for the whole demoralized democratic party, and their policy and their candi. order potty” succeeded in carrying the ._.Jn...--.._....-—--—-.-. ...-o .; . dots, are involved in this Kali.-as treason, . 4-- —-- voters from Missouri, and of the mock. '
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