The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-09-29
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18th inst, he sketches some Of his observa.
tons Of the state of affairs n that vicinity -
We clip the following from the article, for the |
purpose of calling the attention of the people |
of Ohio and the North generally, to some Of
the legitimate results Of the repeal of he Mis-
souri, Compromise:
"Thc short time we were on the frontier
allowed us 10 Judge of some of the peculiar
notions OF the people Of that country. The
settlement Of Kansas, and the ways and
means to Gust the Abolitonists, is the all
absorbing topic. Niger sympathizors had
better choose sumo other locality, for in all
the frontier counties the people are wide
awake, and no mistake. A stranger going
into that country is spotted Immediately,
and unless he is as secret as an oyster 'whar'
he came from aud what's the object of his Wis
it is soon known. This system Of surveillance
is part OF their police regulations, that every
man in the country feels himself particularly
called upon to assume, and if a stranger is
from the infected district, they quarantine
him Immediately. This remedy is varied ac-
cording to the violence of the disease Tar
on the Missouri river, is sometimes used; but
if the case is very bad, they suppress the cir
culatien by means of rope. The laws regu-
| luting the disease termed Aboitionsm, are
very strict, and are faithfully executed"
"The small supply of old corn on hand, and
the increased demand occasioned by the set
tlement OF Kansas Territory, has furnished
cash market for this kind of grtin. They
choose their purchasers, however, and Yam
kce, as they term them, can't get grain at
any price. It's part Of their system of
starving them out, and we would advise the
New York ard Massachusetts leagues, that,
in sending Or their emigrants, they had bet
ter take the precaution of stocking them well
with provisions, otherwise when they return
home they will look 50 gaunt and lean their
best irenls will not know them"
We have feltour Indignation strongly arous-
cd by the tone of this article, and the state
ments it contains. 1t is nsolent and insult
Ing to the last degree, aud will not fail TO
produce the most unhappy consequences. -
Why is it that the Republican and the slave.
holding interests of Missouri, will persist in
this mad purpose of abusing and repelling
from her, every man OF the Tree States who
happens TO think that freedom is better than
slavery, and that II free State is more dcsira-
bic than one cursed with the blight of that
institution! What DO these lrontiermen and
the republican expect to accomplish by such
brutal and unncighbory conduct! Where, in
the theory of our institutions and in the COM
munity OF States, ia the warrant for such gross
outrages! We embrace this occasion, and
take the above extracts us texts for few
passing remarks.
In this war OF sections, will the slavehol-
ders OF Missouri bear in mind that the entire
number Of their body in the United States, ac-
cording to the census returns, is only about
$4,000, while the number of ireemen, ,rhO
do not hold SlaueS, amounts to 5000, ,0OO!--
Will they remember that the Northern and
Free States greatly surpass the Slave States,
botl in numbers and in all the clements of
material wealth! st. Louis is anxious to se-
cure the trade OF the vast regions west of the
Mississippi. The new territories of Kansas
and Nebraska will soon become States, and
will look somewhere for place of trade and
business. The towns Of Independence, West
port, Kansas, Weston, st. Joseph, &C., Or
the western borders OF Missouri are compet-
tors for the trade and business of the rich
and fertile regions west of them. Those re-
gions will soon be filled with an active, intel.
( l'gent, and, we trust, free people. The Free
States are destined, beyond all doubt, to con
troll Nebraska, and we begin to hope that
Northern energy and enterprise will also Sc
cure preponderance in Kansas. Let those
towns OH the Missouri not forget that their
conduct towards the pioneer settlers wM be
remembered. When these men, who now
propose to mob, to tar and feather, and to
hang their fellow citizens, because they hap
pen 10 come from the Free States, ask for
the :radc and business o: these early settlers,
they will most assurcdly be -epulsed with the
scorn and contempt they deserve. They will
then be practical non-inlercourse between
them. Do the Missouriuns think of these
things! DO they reflect that tho men they
now propose to spurn, to starve-out, by relu-
sing to sell to them .heir surplus corn, are
men of Intelligence and energy OF character
and that they will be far in advance of their
lazy, sleepy slaveholding neighbors, in all re-
spects!
| We ewarn the business men of Missouri of
W,
they are pursuing course OF policy most IA
tai 10 thor best interests. They will be re-
membclcd and Stunned, for generations, as
they deserve TO be, il this language expresses
their sentiments, and these lhreuts ure yeri
fed The northern emigrants will send to
the free states for every thing they wish to
! cat, to drink, or to wear, ii it shall become
necessary to maintain their Independence.
This is simply the dollar and cent view of
the case. 1t is the argument addressed to
the pochot. How much more villainous and
outrageous does it appear in its social and
moral aspects Here is vast territory.
which, for thirty-iour years, has been set
apart and dedicated to freedom by the express
agreement OF the shareholders themselves
BY the aid OF II few traitors, the South has
succeeded in procuring the repeal ~ the law
which excluded slavery from il. l$ their own
Interpretation of the case, as it now stands,
this territory is open and free iorsettlers from
every Sta:e of tho Union. Ii the majority
shall determine in favor OF the establishment
of slavery, when the time shall arrive for the
formation OF a State Constitution, then they