New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-27


has been 20 in this casc the South TO think this
great question 20 be an equal question between tn.
South and North, that right and wrong shoai' oe
taken out in consideration ] tell you that no man
has q right 10 vote territories away 10 wrong. Ipe
first violation of the Missouri Compromise was the an
nexation Of the Platte purchase adjoining the hs-
souIi River in 1897 That purchase now CONTAINS SIX
Counties 50 900 inhabitants and 5000 slives IL wa
annexed in 1887 through the influence oil Col; Den
ton and by the votes of Northern doughisces. "uo"
YOU call for the restoration of the Missouri ConP'o-
mise, YOU demand the Liberation OF 9,OVV siaVes.
When that Compromise was made slaves rose III Fo'ue
twenty ine per cent. The next act for SlsVery ex-
tension was the annexation Of Texas with Slavery Ia
IT, and here again slaves twenty-five per cent Ia
value. The acquisition Of Texas Brought on war
with Mexico, and the area OF freedonA was extended
at mighty cost of blood aud treasure. But a new
feature then arosethat Of squatter sovereignty ana
il was then proposed that moral question should be
settled by majority. Next came the outrases IN
Kansas TO curso its soil with Slavery. Snow me
now the man in the United States whom
the South has not governed. The South
IL smarter than YOU While you are passing paper
resolutions they all the time clustering about AGO.
Itonism and tie aggressions of the North The South
never makes such fuss about Northern aggressiois
unless they up TO some devitry. Within the last
three four weeks new proposition has been started
that is to restore the Missouri Compromise line If we
will give them Kansas. We allowed the question OF
Slavery in California to be settled by the majority
rule and the majority declared that It should be Free
but the South proposes TO extend the line OF tne
Missouri Compromise 10 the Paclhc leaving all sOutn
of So 80 to be given up TO Slavery. This would
be a remers able bargain for the North, 10 give up
Lower California and part OF Upper CaIhorma 70
Slavery. In determining the bounds OF Kansas me
soutben line not fixed with reference TO the sonth
line of Missouri. Ii should have been; but 1t was
showed north so that in it made free State
il would leave the ChOctaw nation with s slaves Sc
cure for the South. The northern line was crowded
down below the line Of Iowa. in order to prevent Kan
sas from being communicated with through the Free
State of Iowa but TO have oil communication take
place through Missouri, the levees of whose riyer
could be planted cannon TO ire into steam
boats which carry fleemen to Kansas. The
South in the past has been carrying forward Its az
eressons very smartly by legislation But the time
has come when legislation works too slow they are
now ready TO do thing; they are men OF grit ana
men of nerve, and 10 towards. The times look now
like civil war The press Of NJ Patterson this Spring
was thrown into the river and the facts eegraphed TO
tie different towns on the Missouri as they occur
red. Pro Slavery were congregated In all
of the telegraph offices. The press-the bulwark
of American freedom-was Frustrated. The nsht
arm of freedom was paralyzed. Last year
candidate for Congressman from Kansas was nom
mated in OvertOn; five weeks after Missounans
crossed the river by hundreds and voted for that eau
didate Mr.. Whitfield. And Atkinson and StTlDSiel0w
had the to assert that there was no egal
voting done at tbat election. There were SIX hundred
votes roled for Whitfield when there not thirty
male inhabitants in the District; and three months al
terv ard when the taken, during which time
the number of inhabitants had increased Dy engra-
ton there were only sixty voters OF all parties. This
81 ring we had another election, and saw armed men
90 over TO Kansas by hundreds and thousands,
some of whom publicly asserted they were paid slJ
each for their trouble, besides beng transported,
fed and lodged free of expense to themselves,
with plenty of poor whskey thrown III. saw one OF
the finest steamers the Missouri River, arrive at
LcayenwOrth wi b armed men from Overton, who mad
cone TO deposit their votes. The Amercvn citizens,
tie Inhabitants of the Territory stald away from the
polls by hundreds. What mattered 1t to them whetb-
or they were prevented from exercising their rights as
freemen 20 vote or whether they were voted dswn by
men wit had no business to deposit a ballot In the
Territory. The outrage is as great the crime the same
tell you felOw-cltiZens, that the present question Is
not one of African Slavery. 1t Is question
of White American Slavery 1t to come
right down to you, bone and sinew. Ii Is
whether you and / slaves or not Since left
Missouri friend of mine, Mr.. Phillips, practlcng
lawyer and property-owner OF Leayenwonh Clty,
an educated man, protested against .ne p f s
seized told to leave the Territory or he would be
lyncled. He refused TO do SO. His friends meeting
together in formidable numbers and armed 10 rescue
him il was thought best TO release him. But subse-
ouently, when in his own house, he was seized by
fen armed men, torn from his family placed
in boat and conveyed to the island where
the demand was again made that he promise 10 eaye
the State under the penalty of death. He again re-
fused Icheersl He then conveyed to the old
pork house where he was stripped, his head hali
shaved, and after being ared and feathered he was
rode on rail through the streets of Weston Win
their rcyoyers over him he would not sign that paper
promising to leave the State loud cheersl. He was
finally taken to his home by his brother. Ana tins
was the outrage perpeTated upon an American free
mana descendant of the Pilgrims who landed on
Plymouth Rock-for daring to assert what he thought.
Is it not privilege to be an American czen IN these
days When Anthony Burns was IN the hands OF ne
Thilistnes in Boston, the President burst open the
Treasury and LAUGHED out $4,000 to aid in sending
him back into slavery When Mr.. Phillips tele-
rapbed to the President for protection for his life and
PROPERTY and to be Unidentified for the loss OF prop
erty, he got no reply. The speaker urged IN conclu-
sion that there must be North if such outrages were
TO be stopped and the aggressions of Slavery be put
an end TO. They should accept DO COMPROMISE, but
confne Slavery os present limits If this could not be
done. Slavery would multiply its horrors until the
very darkness Of night and the erTors OF hell VIII take
hold of them Loud cheenl.
Mr.. Starr concluded his remarks at II o'clock after
which the assembly dispersed.
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