Squatter sovereign., 1855-05-29
St. Louis Intelligencer and Eve. News

so debased as to be capable of telling abb
surd falsehoods without blush, although
they know their infany viii be known to
half the world, provided they entertain
hope for time to be able to wound the
feelings and tarnish the reputation OF a
gentleman who may happen to stand In
the way of their carrying out some foul
design. We have never seen this fact more
fully illustrated than in the case OF the de-
based wretch who edits the sheets at the
head of this article.
Gen. B. F. Stringfellow, Of Weston,
Platte county, Missouri. just now, and Tor
some months past, has been thorn In the
side of all abolitionists, and their sympa-
thisers in all the land, and some of the
most low-fung, dirty articles that have ev-
er appeared about any one, have appeared
of late in the above-named prints. The
most contemplate falsehoods, and doubt
less known to be SO by the editors, have
been published in those sheets. Why is
thiss It is easily answered. The pen
and tongue of Gen. S. are like two-edged
swords among the pack with which the
Intelligencer, and News affiliate. The
whole pack, from Greeley downto the pup
Ply of whom we are speaking, let loose
their dark venom. Go on, simple-headed
and corrupt-hearted toadies, every lick you
strike adds to the respect and esteem en-
tertained for Gen. Stringfellow by the en-
tire pro-slayery party of the Union.
The articles alluded to were not written
with the hope of injuring Gen. S. with
| honest men In Missouri, but for the comfort
and encoura cement Of the abolition read
ers Of that paper, who have been brought
to stand by the arguments of Gen. S.
against their unholy warfarea gainst South
ern institutions, and the cowardly emissary
who edits that paper, begins to fear that
unless the Emigrant Aid Societies do more
efficient service, he and his papers viii
share the fate of the Parkville Luminary
| BY way Of explanation to those unin-
lforned, not for said editor, we would state
that Gen. Stringfellow not only does not
live In Our city-we wish he did-but has
never as yet paid us a visit, although we
hope he will before long. DR.. Stringfel-
low, one of the editors of this paper, re-
sides here, but he is now absent on visit
to his father in the Old Dominion, and has
been for several weeks.
AS to General S. being the author of
al the excitement, and resolutions of the
various meetings in Platte and upper Mis-
souri,, held for the purpose Of Kidding the
country Of abolitionists, if he is, he must
be lion. No better argument could be
needed to prove that he was 10 ordinary
man. But this is not the case. General
S. has not been at, or taken part in any OF
the meetings which seem 10 have shocked
the nerves of this notable truth-telling ed
itor, unless it was at Liberty while he was
attending court, where the people Of Clay
held meeting, and called on the General
for a speech. From November until March
last, General S. was at no time short Of q
thousand miles from Kansas or Missouri
During the months of March and April
: he was attending to his clients cases in the
courts of Platte, Buchanan, Clinton and
Clay; and while he was on his circuit, his
wife and children visited their friends al
Brunswick, where his little daughter took
the scarlet fever, and several weeks since
General S. was sent for while at Liberty
Before he reached Brunswick, one of his
children died, and soon after his arrival
there, another was taken away, leaving
but one, and by last advices, that one very
| sick. How base must that man be who
, can so grossly SANDER a man under such
circumstances. Let us inform the editors
of the editor of the News and intelligence
that not a few people are aroused, but the
5 whole of them, except those of like stripe
as yourself. General S. has not been the
cause of the excitement in Kansas ant
) Missouri. but your brother abo1itionists a
> the North, and their dirty tools like your
self among us, who have given them ait
: and comfort. You are more guilty thai
they, because you have, by your course
: made yourself a traitor to your own State
5 and deserve halter. Beware, take warn
/ ing in time. The people are aroused-you
villiarous course and base ISLANDERS of hon
est men, will gather a storm around you
: head that will not be quelled. General
Il is too well known, and has filled too hig
3 stations in Missouri for your dirty pen t
e injure him here; but we tell you that tn
people of Missouri are becoming tired {
such low-fung abuse of the defenders {
their rights and institutions by such for
: miscreants; and ere long, summary pur
I, ishment will overtake you.