Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-09-07

their owners and laughing stock for all
men. "Dead-dead-dea may be writ
ten on all the couutry-so deep and disas-
trous has been the fail from the high and
fond hopes of the past year.
In May last, the editor Of this paper
was in Kentucky, and he met numbers of
tho mostrespectable and wealthy farmers Of
that State, such as form SO large portion
of the population Of Missouri, who iaquir-
el earnestly abou, the condition Of things
in Kansas aud Western Missouri. They
spoke of the intention they had of remov-
ing to Kansas or Missouri; but said they
had abandoned it utterly for the reason
that they would never think of taking
their f1milies to 4 region where law was
SC: aside, presses mobhed, and men driven
from the country by Irresponsible and uu-
Known bands of Regulators. They pre-
fcrred the rule of law to anarchy. In a
recent trip through several North Western
States We found that the same circumstan-
ces were most industriously and fatally
used to diver. emigration to those States,
and to prejudice Missouri and Kansas with
every class of people. The most aggraya-
ting stories of insults and outrages com
mitted by Nissourians on the persons of
cmigrauts from the Old World or from the
Free States who are found ascending the
Missouri river, are circulated in all the
newspapers all through the Free States
aai it Is impossible to conceive Of the deep
hatred thus generated towards our whole
State in the Northern half Of the Union.
Between these fires, Missouri is leading
on her languid existence. St. Louis is
retarded in most woful way. Our rail
roads creep al snail's pace. We build ten
miles while other western States build one
hundred. In every department of life We
feel the paralysis. Instead of bounding
forward, buoyant, strong, and rejoicing,we
sit with dull eyes and heavy spirits, and
listen to the tick of deathwa.ch.
These are the bitter fruits of the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise-a wicked
and wrongful deed, that will yet bring q
hell Of bitter self-reproaches to its authors
Missouri did not demand that repeal The
South never asked it. Atchi5on solicited
it-anl in a moment Of public insanity
the South consented to the wrong, and
made the wrong her OWL. This was the
suicide of slavery.
Livery step since taken has deepened
the wrong and enhanced the danger. The
Free States organized Aid Societies, and
sent their men to make Kansas free. 1t
had been free soil, By solemn compact for
thirty FIVE years, and they naturally were
incensed to see its character changed. The
South would have been far more indignant
if slave territory had been thus, by un-
expected act of Congress, converted into
Free Soil.
The Free States had right to be in
dignaut that lifelong compromise had
been rcpealcd-and they had right to try
10 keep Kansas free, as it had been, BY
reaceable colonization. They attempted
nothing else. But portion of the oitiz-
ems Of Missouri, headed b. Atehison and
Stringfellow, denounced the northern emf
grants as ''paupers and hirelings,' because
they were sent west by the money of I
society and so they hal county meetings
in Missouri, and raisci money, and sent
Missourians to Kansas to make Kansas
slave territory Were these Missourians
"hirelipgs' too? And did these two
wrongs make one right?
Atchison and Stringiellow, with their
Missouri followers, overwhelmed the SOFT |
lcrs in Kansas, brow beat aud bullied them,
and tool; the government from their hands.
Missouri elected the present body of men,
who insult public intelligence and popular
rights By styling themselves ''the Legisla- /
ture of Kansas This body of men arc /.
helping themselves to fit spocula;ions by
locating "thc scat of government and get
ting town lots for their votes They are
passing laws disfranchisius all the citizens
of Kansas who do rot believe negro slave /
~ to be q Christian institution and ma
tional blessing They are proposing to
punish with imprisonment the utterance
Of views inconsistent with their cwn.
And they are trying to perPetuate their
preposterous and internal tyranny, By ap !
poiniins J5r q t7rE, cf 5ccrs creatures of
their own, as Commissioners in every eouu-
ty, to lay and collect taxes, and see that
the laws they are passing are faithfully ex-
ecuted. Has this age anything to com
pare with these acts in aulaci!y?
The Free State men of Kansas have re-
solved not to submit to this daring usurpa-
ton of nonresiion; o.igarchy. They have
called q Convention of the people of Kan
sas, to meet in September next, and frame
a Constitution for their government. This
movement will be supported BY thousands