The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-05-05
Disgrsceful.

The fre-eating portion of Missouriare
still engaged in hunting up subjects on
whom to wreak their vengeance. Like
the dreaded Inquisition of past age, it
appears that all who do not subscribe to
certain views are to be inundated. All
must join in proclaiming the greatness of
the demon of slavery, else he is stigmati-
zed as an A5olitionist--a name more
hateful in slayeholding communities than
any other word in our language. 1t en-
bodies in their estimation everything
that is mean, low and groveling.
Mr.. SLATER, the intelligent forwarding
and commission merchant of st. Louis, is
now the subject of their animadyersions,
and the whole border press of Missouri
have joined in general koacl for the pur-
pose of destroyinghim. Would it not be
well for them to know that ST. Louis has
a population of over 100000 persons,
and thatthe entire slave population is less
than 5000? That very large majority
of the people of that city are in favor of
making st. Louis the terminus of the
great Pacific Railway. to do which they
must make Kansas free State? Again,
will they only learn from experience that
the American Union was formed to pro-
mote tranquility" and not violence. and
bloodshed?
Missouri is bent upon plunging this
Union into fraternal war, which shall
only end with the destruction of an insti-
tuition which is based in violence and
wrong. Let her precipitate the matter
as fast as possible; but we beg her to re-
member that "glass houses are misera-
Bile shields for protection in case the war
should be carried into africa.
The St. Louis Pilot has the honor of
bringing to light the precise position of
Mr.. Slater on the slavery question. I'm
der the head of KANSAS Emigration" it
says
We find the following dispatch in the
New York Herald, purporting to come
from Mr.. B. Slater, of this city, to the
superintendent of the Kansas League and
American Settlement Company in New
York. 1t would seem that this gentle
man is the St. Louis agent of the associa-
tions organized in the East to abolition
ize Kansas, and so far as we know, is en-
gagged extensively in that business. He
may also be engaged in the kindred oc-
eupation of colonizing our slaves into
Chicago and Canada. At all events, a
large number of slaves have lately alb
seconded from this county. and as there is
so much congeniality in the two occupa-
tions-that Of agent for the underground
railroad and agent for the abolition soci-
cites of New England-that it is not at
all improbable that Mr.. s. forwards
slaves to Chicago as well as abolitionists
to Kansas. Here is the dispatch:
NAVIGATION OF THE MISSOURI.
To George Walter, Esq, General Super
intendent of the New York Kansas
League and American Settlement Com
pany:
regret that the Missouri river is low
and falling, when much freight and many
passengers are arriving for Kansas from
the free States. Several steamers expect
ed are reported aground. Only two are
up for Kansas. Price of passage sl8s s
freight, 81 80 per loo lbs. / have sent
on yours on lower terms. Keep back
settlers till April 10.
B. SLATER.
ST. LOUIS. March 80. 1855.
Can anything be more disgraceful than
the digging up of a business dispatch OF
that character, and explaining it as an
abolition document Mr. S. was pur-
suing his legitimate business, just what
any Shareholder in Missouri would have
cheerfully done, aud thought no harm of j;
but as is always the case with the guilty,
they see the god of Retribution on every
hand. and are constantly watching with
momentous interest the eliminating mo-
ment when he shall descend. and with
the sword of Justice hasten their destruc-
ton.