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Show 84 York (made at Chicopee). By a deed of s~ccessful daring and ·cunning, it was brought through the country m~ested by the enemy, a distance of fifty miles, from Kansas C1ty, by an unfrequented route boxed up as merchandise. "Sunday Morning, Dec. 9.- The Governor has pledge~ himself to do all he can to make peace; and we are told that the m \·aders are beginning to retreat: but we know not what to believe. Our men are to be kept under arms for twenty-four hours longer, at least. No religious meetings for the last three weeks. No work done, of course. Some of the logs to be sawed for our church were pressed into service to build a fort, of which we have no less than five, and of no mean dimensions or strength. For a time, it seemed probable that the foundation-stones for the church would be wet by the blood of the martyrs for Liberty. They were piled up on the ground, and, with the earth thrown out of the excavation, made quite a fort on the hillside just outside of the line of intrenchments." That is the report of a Unitarian missionary. You know what the Trinitarians have done: the conduct of that valiant man, Henry Ward Beecher,- the most powerful and popular minister in the United States,- and his "Plymouth Church,'' and other "religious bodies" at New Haven and elsewhere, need not be spoken of. One effect of this warlike spirit is curious: "pious" newspapers are very much troubled at the talk of rifles, pistols, and cannon. In 1847, they rated me roundly for preaching against the Mexican war,- a war for plundering a feeble nation, that we might blacken her soil with slavery: it was "desecrating the Sabbath." They liked the Sims brigade, the Burns division; they did homage to the cannon which men-stealers loaded in Boston, therewith to shoot the friends of humanity on the graves of Hancock and Adams! Now, the m'ean men and the base men are brought over to "peace principles:" a rifle is "not of the Lord ; " a cannon is " a carnal weapon ; " a sword is " of the Devil." All the South thinks gunpowder is " unchris- 85 tian." Such a "change of heart'' has not been heard of since the con version of St. Ananias and Sapphira. I have no fondness for fighting; not the average "instinct of destruction." I should suffer a great while before I struck a blow. But there are times when I would take down the dreadful weapon of war: this is one of them for the men in Kansas. It is not easy for the border ruffians alone to put down Kansas; not possible for them to break up the popqlar organization, destroy the new Constitution, and hang the officers. Will the President send the United-States soldiers to do this? No doubt his heart is good enough for that work. We remember what he did with United-States soldiers at Boston, in 1854: the only service they ever rendered in that town for more than forty years was to kidnap Anthony Burns. But the President falters : there is a North; all last Winter there \Vas a North,- Northern ice in the Mississippi; Banks, of the North, at Washington, in the Speaker's chair. Kansas and Nebraska are "the Children in the Wood." They had a fair inheritance; but the parents, dying, left them to a guardian uncle, - the President. I heard the Northern mother say to him,- "You must be father and mother both, And uncle, all in one." "You are the man must bring our babes To wealth or misery. And, if you keep them carefully, Then God will you reward ; But, if you otherwise should deal, God wilt your deeds 1·egard." It is still the old story: the Executive uncle promises well enough; yet- |