Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1857 — Page 2

JASPER BANm J. M’CARTHY.E°*°»- . RENSBELAER.ISD. Wednesday, july 22,1857.

‘ LABORERS WANTED. The subscriber will pay liberal wages to laborers by the month, to work on a farm, if application is made soon. Five or six are wanted. SAMUEL FULLINWIDER. Rensselaer 15, 1857.

Gov. Walker’s Proclamation.

In this week’s paper will be found the Proclamation of Gov. Walker. We bespeak for it & careful perusal. It is a patriotic, manly and forcible appeal to the citizens of Lawrence —based upon justice and sound arguments—and, if not heeded, will be followed by results of a fearful character. Above all things else we should deprecate civil war. The administration has, however, done everything that could be done, consistent with duty and justice, to avert it; and if the citizens of Lawrence obstinately persist in their treasonable designs, the sin of rebellion, with all the fearful consequences it may involve, must rest upon them. It has been the wish of every Democrat, and, we believe, of every good citizen, that the Kansas difficulties might be amicably adjusted, but it is clearly manifest that there is a design and a determination on the part of at least a portion of the opposition to plunge the country into civil war, with the hopes of reaping some political advantage., DC 7* The Gazette of last week informed its readers that a communication would appear in the Banner , and to which it invited their attention. It may be interesting to our readers to know how Mr .Davieß obtain:cd this information. His article states that it was received by the “.underground telegraph.” We were aware that the Republican party were largely interested in underground railroads ; but this is the first we have heard of an underground telegraph.’ We presume it is an arrangement expressly for Mr. Davies accommodation. The night before the publication or our paper, and after our proof had been taken, the employees of the Gazette were noticed hanging around our office, a thing unusual, and we have every reason to believe clandestinely obtained the information so much desired and so readily appropriated by Mr. Davies to his own use.

We do not complain of this because there was any desire on our part to withhold the information until our paper should appear. We have always obliged Mr. Davies when it was in our power so to do. We have leaned him ink, paper and type when he desired it, and are still disposed to do so; and had he, like a gentleman, expressed a wish for our proof sheet we would have accommodated him without any hesitancy ; but it strikes us as a thing extremely mean and dishonest for Mr. Davies to avail himself of in. formation which he knew to be dishonestly obtained, for the purpose of securing a temporary advantage over ns. It is precisely such an act as he, himself, but a few days since denounced as the “ quint essence of meanness.” Had Mr. Davies entered our office ar.d in our absence stolen -our copy or proof sheet we should have regarded the act as no worse than what he has perpetrated. “The partaker is equally as guilty as the thief.” This transaction, in connection with other acts which we .have already, noted, utterly precludes -the possibility of onr e ntertaining for him that respect which is due to a gentleman occupying the responsible station which he does. We should be caught robbing a henroost as proouring information from a printing office by such means. We oongratul at e the Republicans of in having made *o valuable to their party. *ot a long time since, when these same Republicans were Know Wfefcfnfs,- thought Inexpedient I to importune Nevil to play the bully

and do the dirty work of their party generally. This proved an unhappy move. Nevil became unmanageable, and the result was that he bullied quite a number of the Know Nothings (now Republicans) to their hearts’ content, and they found it necessary to make some extraordinary efforts to get rid of him. Mr. Davies is their second importation, and although he has shown himself an adept in the business for which he has been employed, we do not believe his services will avail the party more than did Nevil’s. He has played the game too strong, and his influence will be felt, to use his own expressive language, “ in a horn." The Republican party will derive about as much benefit from his services as they did from NeviPs. His tactics, we are awarp, are of a different kind, but they as clearly identify the character as did the well known qualities of Nevil.

Are the Black Republicans Abolitionists.

The Washington National Era, the leading Black Republican paper, thus indicates the proper relations which the Black Republicans susstain to the old Abolitionists. The Era, itfhich has always been an abolition journal, says: We do not intend that these facts shall be lost sight of. The early Abolitionist, so far as our influence can go, shall not be discredited through ignorance and prejudice. There are Republicans, so called, who would separate their movements entirely from that which those most abused men originated. They cannot do it; the mdveme&ts are one; the early abolitionists were the only pioneers. They were stigmatized as incendiaries, fanatics; amalgamationists, traitors; so are Republicans now. What is the difference? They counted only by thousands; Republicans counted by hundreds of thousands; their voices were overwhelmed by the universal uproar against them; Republicans, commanding a majority ofthe leading journals ofthe Union, in possession of nearly all the free States, and with more than a million of voters, can hurl back the charges, and make themselves not only heard, but felt. And yet some of them are pusillanimous enough to disclaim any connection or sympathy with those brave pioneers whose self-sac-rificing labors have enabled them to proclaim, without fear of proscription doctrines, whose promulgation in 1836 imposed polittical and social degradation, and the pains and penof Lynch Law.

What Brings Mormons to America?—A correspondent of the Episcopal Recorder , writing from Des Moines, lowa, fell in with a large company of Mormons. “They comprised representatives from England, Wales, Ireland, France, Germany, and Denmark. The majority of them were women. Among them were to be found men evidently of respectability, who brought their families with them. Among the women the characters were various ; some whose appearance was anything but reputable. There were others who, from their sober demeanor, their neat peasant-like attire, their ingenuos countenance, their accent and conversation, 1 could at once determine to be respectable English and Welsh belonging to the humbler classes, it is true, but at the same time instinct with that homely honesty and straightforwardness by which the English agricultural interests are so often distinguished. What the temptation was which drew them to this country was soon determined. The Mormon missionaries, who are scattered over the continent of Europe,, sink the religious in the economical. It is not ‘ What a divine faith!’ but ‘What a splendid home!’ The charms of western life are unfolded to the toil-worn resident of the cramped manufacturing town. The cheapness of prarie farms is expatiated on to the impoverished tenant of a rack-rent field. Free institutions are dwelt upon to the Chartist, a pure religion to those who are faint at heart with the corruptions, or the supposed corruptions, of the church to which they belong. Out of the thousands who come over, 1 believe that there are very few who do not believe that they are coming to a Christian Agricultural community, in which the disciples and purity of the early church is to be united with the soil and climate of the -most fertile regions of the globe.” DZr* An Exchange say*, “ the young man who would rob a henroost would steal the lasses candy from a sick nigger baby, take the acorns from a blind pig and steal a paper from a printing-office in which to lie them up.”

"■" r n ~, :; IIT —— - - _ _ A QoMtion for Clmrchcf—Bh*U Democrats to ■ Admitted to the Church, or to Permitted to Remain in ltl Having aucceeded in dividing the Baptist, Methodist, New School Presbyterian and Unitarian denominations into northern and Southern parts, the next effective work of abolitionism would seem to be division among the northern churches of these denominations on political issues. Our readers haVe been apprised of the excommunication of Deacon G. Pt Stebbins, by the Baptist Church of the towns ot Alpine and Sparta, Kent county, this State, for the sole “offense” of having voted for Mr. Buchanan, and doubtless many of them have thought it an isolated case which would not constitute an example to be imitated elsewhere. In this, we apprehend, they will find themselves mistaken. So far is it from remaining an isolated case, that it is likely to have recurrence in*thotisands of instances ! This will strike the reader with astonishment at first view, but on flection he will not marvel at it. Since abolitionism hks separated denominations on the slavery question, why should it not separate churches ? Since abolitionism has refused to associate with slaveholders, why should it not refuse association with men who maintain the constitution and laws which recognise the political rights of slaveholders, and who recognise slaveholders as equals, politically, religiously and socially ? Since abolitionism holds slaveholding to be a mortal sin, and since President Buchanan countenances this mortal sin by regarding slaveholders as his fellow-citizens and by appointing them to all sorts of offices, why should it not hold the northern supporters of President Buchanan to be equally guilty with the slaveholders themselves, on the score that “ the partaker is as bad as the thief! ” These are precisely the questions that abolitionism has begun to ask. Does any body doubt it ? If so let him read the subjoined paragraph which we take from a letter in the N. Y. Evangelist ; dated at Concord> N. H., June 2, 1857: “In New-England it will soon become a question for the churches to decide whether a Democrat shall be received into the church or be allowed to remain in it, without discipline. According to the common interpretation of the late decision of the

Supreme Court, those who endorse it by their votes or their political influence are doing all in their power to rivet the chains of the slave, to make servitude —involuntary, oppressive servitude the 1 corner stone ’ of our national government, and, at the same tfme, to secure -the moral assassination of a race.’ The Apostle Paul seemed to indicate that those who ‘ approve ’ of such things are more guilty than those who do them. Our .churches cannot fellowship slaveholders; indeed, some clergymen think their souls in peril by associating with or corresponding with those who consent to meet with them as equals. If Christians at the North cannot sit peaceably with a delegate from the South, how can they tolerate north-, ern brethern w%o approve of the prin-, 1 ciples of those delegates, and vote as they vote, on the great and absorbing question of the day ? This aspect of the question is rising in this State. Some pastors have already been unsettled by the withdrawing of Democrattc supporters, and the Democratic papers in the State bitterly assail those ministers of the gospel Who dare to apply the gospel boldly to the subject of slavery.” Northern Christians belonging to the Democratic party, behold the rod in pickle for you ! It will soon become a question for New England churches—it has already become a question for a Michigan church —whether a Democrat shall be received into a church or be allowed to remain in it. The alternative is presented to you, turn black republican, or be turned out of the church. Hereafter no church that is not purely black republican can be considered within the fold. The gate of the true Qhorch and of Paradise is the black republican party. Walk ye therein. —Detroit Free Press. OCTThe very latest novelty in dress in Paris, is crinoline sleeves.

To the People of Lawrence.

PROCLAMATION.

Leavenworth, July 16,1867. I have learned that a considerable number of the citizens of Lawrence, in this Territory, have adopted, as they claim, by a popular vote, a ‘ charter for their local Government. A copy of that charter has been placed in my hands ; upon compar- , ing which with that granted by the Territorial Legislature, last winter, 1 find that they differ intentionally in man}' essential particulars. The new charter, then, is set up, not only without any authority of law, but in direct and open defiance of an act of the Territorial Legislature on the same subject. On this point your Committee, whose views have been adopted by you, make the following statement: “ Under ordinary circumstances the more regular method of proceeding would be to obtain a charter from the Territorial authorities. As the Territorial Government, however, in no sense represents the people of Kansas, was nbt elected by them, and can have no right to legislate for them, we cannot accept of a charter at its hands. And, as the State Government has not, as yet. deemed it advisable to proceed to the organization of local and municipal governmeifls, we cannot obtain a charter from it. There is, therefore, left us only the alternative of a charter springing directly from the people, or a continuance in our present unorganized condition. “ Under these circumstances, you have seen fit to instruct us to present a charter, having discussed its provisions in a preliminary assemblage, and now propose to submit it to a full vote of the people for approval or rejection.” It is perceived that the authority of the Territorial Gpvernment is here distinctly denied, and whilst that of the so-called State government is acknowledged, it is conceded that no charter has been granted by them. Indeed, it is a fact that, although this so-called State government has in itself, no legal existence or authority, yet you asked and failed to receive a charter from them. Under these circumstances you have proceeded to establish a government for the city of Lawrence, in direct defiance of the Territorial Government, and denying its existence or authority. You have granted to this city government the authority to elect a Mayor and Board of Aldermen, City Assessors, Treasurer, Justices of the Peace, City Marshal, etc.; you have granted to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen most extensive powers, including the right to levy and collect taxes upon real and personal property within the limits of the city, whether belonging to residents or non-residents, and all the other powers usually incident to a city government. You have imposed upon all these officers the duty of taking an oath to support this so-called State constitution, thus distinctly superceding so far as in your power, the Territorial Government created by the Congress of the United States. You have caused these proceedings to be printed in handbill form, and have distributed them, as I am informed, throughout the Territory, with the view to incite the other cities, towns and counties of Kansas to establish insurrectionary governments, thereby placing the people of this Territory, so far as in your power, m open conflict with, the Government of the United States.

The more conservative portion of your own party having induced your Topeka Legislature to reject the laws urged by you, creating municipal governments, you have even in defiance of their authority, which you profess to acknowledge, proceeded to oreate such a government for Lawrence, and are now urging other localities to pursue a similar course. Your evident purpose is to involve the whole Territory in insurrection, and to renew scenes of bloodshed and civil war. Upon you, then, must rest all the guilt and responsibility of this contemplated revolution. You will be justly chargeable in law and in conscience, with all the blood that may be shed in thip contest, and upon you must fall the punishment. You have elected yonr officers under this charter, and instructed them to enter upon the immediate discharge of their duties, including the adoption of ordinances and the execution thereof, under an authority having in itself no legal existence and establishment in direct defiance of the Government of the United States. From all these facts, ft is obvious iPyou are permitted to proceed, and especially if your ,example should be followed as urged by you in other places, that for all practical purposes in many important particulars

the Territorial government will be overthrown. The chart*;#* granted by that government for similar purposes will he disregarded and the Justice of the Peace Land Other offi cers acting under their authority, will be brought necessarily in conflict and collision with the so-called officers claiming to act under different authority. The Territory will thus bo involved in inextricable confusion and litigation ; the value of your property be greatly depreciated; your tides, transfers, transactions and contracts will be subjected to endless and costly disputes and all will suffer from this insurrection, except the lawyers who have stiinula- ' ted this movement. A government founded on insurrection and usurpation will be substituted for that established by the authority of Congress, and civil war will be renewed throughout our limits. If your authority to act in this manner for the' city ot Lawrence is permitted, a similar authority must be acknowledged in every other town, city or county, and resuli in inevitable and most disastrous conflict; and if successful, the Territorial government be overthrown in detail, as is your . present purpose. You were distinctly informed in my Inaugural Address of May last, 1 that the validity of the Territorial 1 laws was acknowledged by the government of the United States, and that they must and would be car--1 ried into execution under my oath of office and the instructions of the President of the United States. The same information was repeated in various addresses made by me throughout the Territory. At the same time, every assurance was given you that the right of the people of this Territory, under the forms prescribed by the government of your country, to establish their own State government and frame their own social institutions, would be acknowledged and protected. If laws have been enacted by the Territorial Legislature which are disapproved of by a majority of the people of the Terriiory, the mode in which they could elect a new Territorial Legislature and repeal those laws, was also designated. If there are any grievances of which you have a right to complain, the lawful, peaceful manner in which you could remove them in subordination to the government of your country, was also pointed out. You have, however, chosen to disregard the laws of Congress and of the Territorial government created by it, and while professing to acknowledge a State government rejected by Congress, and which can, therefore, now exist only by a successful rebellion, and exacting from all your officers the perilous and saeriligious oath to support the so-called State Constitution; yet you have even in defiance of the so-called State Legislature, which refused to grant you a charter, proceeded to create a local government of your own, based only upon insurrection and revolution. The very oath which you require from all your officers to support your so-called Topeka State Constitution, is violated in the very act of putting in operation a charter rejected even by them. A rebellion so iniquitous and necessarily involving such awful consequences has never before disgraced any age or country. Permit me to call your attention as still claiming to be citizens of the United States, to the results of your proceedings. You are inaugurating rebellion and revolution ; you are disgregarding the laws of Congress and of the Territorial Government, and defying their authority; you are conspiring to overthrow the Government of the United States in this Territory.

Your purpose if carried into effect in the mode designated by you, by putting your laws forcibly into execution, would involve you in the guilt and crime of treason. You stand now, fellow-citizens, upon the brink of an awful preeipice, and it becomes my duty to warn you ere you take the fatal leap into the gulf below. Jf your proceedings are not arrested you will necessarily destroy the peace of this Territory and involve it in all the horrors of a civil war. I warn you, then, before it is too late, to recede trom the perilous position in which you novy stand. I appeal once more to your reason and patriotism. I ask you in the name of our common country, in the name of the Constitution and of the Union, to desist from this Rebellion. I appeal, once more, to your love of country, to your regard for its peace, prosperity and reputation, to yoiir affection far your wives and children, and all those patriotic motives which ought to influence American citizens, to abandon this contemplated revolution. If you have wrbnga redress them through the peaceful instrumentality of the

ballot-box, in the mode prescribed by the laws of your country. As aH arguments heretofore so of' ten addressed by me to you, have failed yet to produce any effect upon you, 1 have deemed it necessary for youc own safety, and that of the Territory, and to save you from the perilous consequences of ..your own act*, under the arithofrity' vested in me by the President of the United States, to order an adequate force of troops of the United States into your immediate vicinage, to perform tbe painful duty of arresting your revolutionary prdceedings. Let me implore you not to compel me to appeal to that military power which is required in the last resort, to protect the government of your country. You cannot carry your rebellious purposes into effect without coming into unavoidable and open conflict with the troops and government of the United State*. Let me adjure you, then, once more, to abatfdon these proceedings before you involve yourselves in the crime of treason, and subject the people of the city of Lawrentfe to all the horrors aud calamities of insurrection and civil war. If. you will now desist from this projected revolution the past will be forgotten as far as practicable ; but if you persist in passing laws and carrying them into execution, thus defying and superceding the government of your country, the deplorable consequences must be upon your heads and those of your associates. It will be my purpose, if you still persist, to spare all bloodshed as far as practicable, and subject the leaders and projectors of this revolutionary movement to the punishment prescribed by the law. I will accompany the troops to Lawrence with a view to prevent, if possible, any conflict, and in the sincere hope that the revolutionary movement contemplated by you, and now so nearly accomplished, will, ere it is too late, be abandoned by you. If you can be influenced by no other motives, the evident fact that the power of the government is adequate to prevent the accomplishment of your purpose, should induce you to desist from these proceedings. That the same overruling Providence who holds in his hands the destiny of our beloved country may now incline your hearts to peace, and influence you to abandon this fatal enterprise, is the sincere wish of your'fellow-citizen.

R. J. WALKER,

Governor of Kansas Territory.

JC3TA sentimental young gentleman learning that one of his lady acquaintances was about to ascend in a balioon with an arronaut, addressed her as follows: "Forbear sweet girl! the task forego. And thus our anxious troubles end; That you will mount full well we know, But greatly fear you’ll ne’tir descend. When angels see a mortal rise, t So mild, so beautiful and fair; They’ll woo her spirit to the skies ; And keep their angel sister there.’’ These lines fell under the eye of another gentleman friend of the young lady, who at once put the finishing touch upon them, thus: "That graceless chap with whom you fly. Dispite of all you do or say, When sailing in the upper sky Will get you in the ‘ ‘milky way.”

Cincinnati Jnly 23.—Twenty children on Buckeye street in adensely populated German neighborhood were poisoned last evening by eating lozengers which had been scattered along the street by a man and two boys, names unknown. Two children are dead and many others Are not expected to live. The man was seen to offer small packages of lozengers to persons in the street but being suspicious of something wrong they were not taken. —The lozengers were found to contain equal parts of arsnio, sugar, and flour. The cause for perpetrating this act is unknown. No persons arrested yftt.

July 241 h man who scattered poisoned lozengers along Buckeye street, turns out to be a drunken German who pursues the vocation of selling poisoned lozengers fer the rats. Only one child died, the reel have eutirely recovered. , t -- - qgp, ... —< |o*What a sagacious dog the editor Of the Gazette is. It seems that he conceives himself the only person capable of detecting a hoax. Some one ought to give him a sugarplum. How under the sun Mr. Davies did you discover tb*d I* O. S. read backwards would spell sold} When we come-across another hoax* we will send it to the “smut mahine” so that its readers may be informed of the fact, and instructed how to detect it?