Posted on 06/07/2020 6:28:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Letters from Col. LANDER, of the 18th May, report him as being in Sacramento, organizing his wagon-road party, and state that he will push forward with his work, Indians or no Indians. A trader from among the Shoshones came to him and reported that the Indians had determined to continue war for "ten snows," (years,) or until the white men quit coming there, and that they had grass seed and other provender laid in for that time.
The dispatches received by Quarter-Master General JESSUP this morning, from Lieutenant-Colonel SWORDS, dated May 18, confirms the reports of the breaking out of hostilities on the part of the Shoshones and other Indians in Carson Valley. Col. SWORDS says that on the night of May 7, the inmates of the house at Williams Station, on Carson River, 35 miles from Virginia City, were all murdered. On the following day a party of 105 whites started in pursuit, but on coming up with about 500 Indians, near Pyramid Lake, immediately fled, and were pursued by the Indians.
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I went a little overboard on page 8 stories, but I had fun reading them so I included most of the last page of todays issue. It begins on image #3 with The Turf.
Statistics of Mortality in the Army 2
Pittsburg and the Tariff Bill 2
The Lander Wagon-Road Enterprise Threatened Opposition from the Indians 2
Clerk Appointed to House Committee 2
Military Changes General Military News 2
Associated Press Washington News 2
Outrages by the Indians in Arizona Territory 2
The Terrible Tornado 2-3
Editorial: The Rejection of Kansas 3
The Turf: Great Trot Between Flora Temple and Geo. M. Patchen 3
Cricket: Philadelphia vs. St. George 3-4
Canine Matters: The New Dog Pound 4
Unsafe Building 4
Dying Swans 4
The Peoples Party 4
Twelfth Ward Republican Association 4
Rail Splitters Battalion 4
The Second Annual Target Excursion 4
Obstructions in the Harbor 4
The Superior Court Removed to Tammany Hall 4-5
New-York Military Abroad 5
The Captured Africans 5
Regatta of the New-York Yacht Club 5
For Europe 5
Found Drowned 5
Excise Licenses 5
Fires 5
Police Reports 5
Coroners Inquests 5
June 7, 1860. East Saginaw Courier, East Saginaw, Michigan. English and American Slavery Columns 4 and 5. Republican Platform Declarations Columns 6 and 7. Lincoln history in Kentucky and Illinois - Column 7.
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"Editorial: The Rejection of Kansas 3"
"The rejection of the bill for the admission of Kansas by the Senate affords a striking instance of this abuse of power.
For four years now the people of Kansas have been struggling for the recognition of their rights.
The resistance they have encountered has cast a lasting reproach upon our institutions.
The slaveholding interest[Democrats] determined at the outset to force Slavery upon them, regardless of existing law as well as of the will of the people themselves.
The whole country has been convulsed with the struggle to which this attempt gave rise.
It was prosecuted with ceaseless industry, so long as there was a possibility of its success.
No means were left untried to accomplish it.
Fraud, violence, perjury, forgery -- every conceivable crime found ready agents, so long as there remained the faintest hope that by their lavish use Slavery might be planted upon Kansas soil.
The Lecompton Constitution seemed to have done the work.
Notoriously the product of the basest and most barbarous crimes -- in open and shameless disregard of the public will -- it had, nevertheless, the saving virtue of recognizing Slavery as a social institution, and a political power, in the new State.
This single fact hushed all murmurs, and quenched every impulse of remorse.
I rendered the immediate admission of the State not only desirable, but a matter of the highest necessity.
[Democrat President] Mr. Buchanan recommended it in a special message.
The Senate voted for it -- every Pro-Slavery [Democrat] Sentor being eager to record his suffrage in its behalf.
The public welfare would brook no delay.
The measure was needed to quiet agitation, to calm the aroused sensibilities of the nation -- to remove this dangerous question.
The effort failed -- not from any misgiving on the part of the Pro-Slavery [Democrat] party, by which it was sustained -- but because there were a few Democrats not quite ready or willing to be dragooned into so flagrant an outrage upon democratic principles and the will of the people most directly concerned.
"Two years have passed, and the scene has changed..."
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