Sweet Chariot from Dunlap, Kansas • 2

SWEET CHARIOT. DUNLAP, KANSAS, DEC. 31st, 1SS7. are to learn, after our arrival home, of the recent trouble over the election, which resulted in the murder of B. Stone by E.

C. Bondinot. Both were editors of newspapers, representing rival factions. G. A.

S. OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. LOVELINESS. "Beautiful thoughts make a beautiful soul, and a beautiful soul makes a beautiful face." Once I knew a little girl. Very plain You might try her hair to curl, All in vain On her cheek no tint of rose Paled and blushed, or sought repose She was plain.

But the thoughts that through her brain Came and went, As a recompense for pain Angels sent; So full many a beauteous thing. In the young soul blossoming, Gave content. Every thought was full of grace, Pure and true And in time the homely face Lovelier grew; With a heavenly radience bright, From the soul's reflected light Shining through. Shall I tell you, little child, Plain or poor, If your thoughts are undefiled, You are sure Of the loveliness of worth And this beauty, not of earth, Will endure St. cholas.

years on his father's farm, he found that he had almost lost his hearing by hard labor and exposure, and his capital consisted chiefly of practical virtues and habits of reading and study." With this preparation, he bade farewell to home and all the scenes of his childhood. Turning his steps westward, he trudged across the mountains to the Ohio valley and settled at Wheeling, which was then the eastern and northern gate to the new slave territory of the Southwest. Here he learned the trade of harness-making, and thus taught his hands how to support him during the remainder of his life, while his mind was to be constantly engaged in the great es of liberty and charity. This accomplished, he removed to St. Clairsville, Ohio, where in four years his trade brought him three thousand dollars.

The years spent in Wheeling bore upon this young farmer's mind a fruitful influence. Here he was a frequent witness of the grossest evil of the age negro "slavery. On account of its position on the Olno river. Wheeling' Wits a very important slave-trading post. To have seen men, women and children exposed for sale among a crowd of drunken buyers, was enough to show this young man the key of life, duty.

He had received the baptism ot universal love to his fellow-man at the hands of his Quaker parents, and now he saw and. must soon be about his Heavenly Father's business. In 1S15, when he was twenty-six years old, Air. Lundy organized an Anti-Slavery Association, known as the 'Union Humane Society." On his twent) -seventh biithda, January 4, 1 1 6, he published an appeal to patriots and Christians on tlie subject of sla ery. This tract was short and simple, but it contained the gei of the invincible opposition to slavery, which followed it faster ami faster.

About tiiis time he chose a wife in Alt. Pleasant, Onio, anil 0.1 his visits to her home he became acquainted with Chas. Osburn, a kindred spirit, who started a paper called the I'hilanthropisi and employed Lundy as a writer and later. took him as a partner. I nis was important in his tiaining ami probably murks a crisis in his life.

made the press the help-meet of his tongue in later yea 1 s. In 1817. he took a quantity of saddles and harness bv fl it-boat to St. Louis. By accident he lost all the proceeds ot this effort at speculation.

But this was during the time of the gieat excitement about the admission of Alissouri as a State, which involved the extension of slavery, and Louis was the best place, outside of the National Congress, to observe the pro-slayejy spirit and policy. He returned, in 1819, to Mt. Pleasant and started a monthly piper, called tered here and there over the country were log houses, (will not say huts, for most of them are built carefully and ceiled, inside and few are ceiled on the outside.) On arriving at our destination we were received cordially. After resting a few minutes we began to examine the surroundings and found, much to our sorrow, that we were two miles from any neighbor. The climate of the Territory is very much like that of Kansas.

The people, (including Indians of Cherokee, Shawnee and Delaware tribes, and colored and white,) have their Most of these are improved, but, after the crops are in, visiting is the next important occupation. A neighbor will come, probably before breakfast, sit with his hat on and smoke frequently and play several games of 'seven up," until evening, or, may be, stay all night. The folks at home do not seem to be the least uneasy. Fire-places take the place of cook-stoves in most of the houses. Almost every family has a herd of cattle.

We had the excruciating pleasure of seeing some cattle branded. They were driven into a corral and lassoed, then thrown down the figure of the braud, already heated, was applied by one mail while the other held the rope. We happened to be in time for the election of Chief and Council. The men are selected (the best to be had,) and nominated, representing two political factions, the National and the Downing party. Mr.

Mayes, a half-breed Indian, was the candidate of the National paity; Rabbit Bunch, a full-blood Indian, was the candidate of the Downing party. Their elections are held in very much the same way as in the States. Instead of treating to cigars, (probably they did,) they met in a grove, where from nine to fifteen beeves were barbecued, which the Indians devoured, whether it was well cooked or -not. The only signal given is Lidone." All rush forward and help themselves. The afternoon was consumed by the speeches of both candidates Rabbit Bunch speaking in Indian and interpreted by a white man.

while Mr. Mayes spoke in English and was interoreted bv an Indian (Delaware.) At the conclusion of the speeches the friends of each party were at liberty to speak, with which the time was taken up until evening. The election, in one precinct, was held at Goose Neck Bend, so named from the resemblance ot the Verdigris river to a goose's neck. While in the Territory we had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with Bushyhead, ex-Chief, Rabbit Bunch, Mr. Mayes, Armstrong, E.

C. Bondinot and Johnnycake. We THE PIRST AMERICAN ABOLITIONIST. It is pleasant to thing that many people of public and historic interest have found homes in '-Free Kansas." It should he of some interest to the colored people to know that in our prettiest little city, Ottawa, Franklin countv, there lives a worthy daughter and grandson of Benjamin Lundv, the first of our countrymen who devoted his life and all his powers to the cause of the abolition of slavery. The story of this patriot's life has been too much neglected.

Indeed, it is evident to an interested observer that the memory ot our Abolition heroes excites little interest in the public mind since the war. In late years there seems to be a tendency to find out and magnify the faidts of such men as John Brown, Wm. L. Garrison and Horace Greely, rather than to study them in the warmth of charity and gratitude. Of the many heroes who led this nation with her abundant sacrifices to the altar of liberty, perhaps none was purer, nobler or wiser than Benjamin Lundy.

While he was not one whit behind Rankin, Brown, Philips or Garrison in sacrifice, devotion and zeal, yet he had a cast of temper and talents which was more amiable ami more imitable than any other Born January 4, 17S9, ot New Jersey farmer parents, his early life was spent in hard toil, with very little play and very slender education. Summing up the results of nineteen.