The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-03
THE COMBAT THIcKEEs.

The barbarians in Missouri viii suffer no ON,
20 arraign their acts. The more respectable
citizens of that State do not sympathize witt
their proceedings, and portion of the pres
openly condemns them. The Parlville Lumi
mary, printed in Platte county, Missouri, pa
per opposed alike to Abolitionists, and the Dis
unionists of the Slave States, in its issue aftel
The election in Kansas, disapproved in very de
cided terms of the conduct of the bsrbarians
and advocated the right of the actual settlers o
Kansas to determine their own institutions. Ii
other words, it maintained SCATTER Sovereignty
as taught by Cass and Douglas. For this of
fence, it was held up TO popular Indignation BY
the Weston (Mo.) Argus, in terms designed tt
provoke mob violence.
If the people in the neighborhood of Park
ville," it remarked, "were not the most forbear
ing people in the world, the materials composing
the Lumiaary printing Office mould 90 into Tie
Missouri rirer, and the falsehoods that find an
outlet through its polluted columns would there
fore cease
Upon this hint the Slavery men acted, and
the mode of operations is complacently announ-
ced in the same paper that instigated the mob.
In another column the reader will find the par
ticulars Of the demolition of the Press.
These oulrages, we are glad TO see, are arous
ing public Indignation everywhere. Some of
the st. Louis papers are loud in their condem-
nation of them, and even the blood of the con-
servative press is stirred. The National Intel
HgeRcer devotes a large space in its columns TO
the subject, and few are shameless enough to
excuse these deeds of violence.
We cannot but hope that they will ultimately
work for the promotion of the Anti-Slavery
movement. Their tendency certainly is to as
sociate Slavery, in public opinion, with anarchy,
lawlessness, violence, and blood to deepen the
Anti Slavery feeling of the North, and swell the
numbers Of those who have made up their minds
that the overthrow Of the Slave Power is neces-
sary TO the preservation Of Freedom and of the
Union. That they will check the tide of immi-
grafton from the free States into Kansas, no one
who knows what human nature is made of, can
expect. They viii stimulate it, by provoking
the combativeness Of some, the love of adven-
ture of others, while not a few viii feel impelled
bya sense of duty to hasten to the battle ground,
to take their share in the peris of the present
struggle.
As an indication of this feeling, We take the
following item from the New York Tribune:
"a correspondent at Terre Haute, Indiana
writes TO inform us of a movement going for
ward in that State for the settlement of Kansas
10y freemen. Seven citizens of Vigo county, al
in comfortable circumstances, have just started
for the new Territory, impelled solely by the
desire TO take part in the pending struggle, ant
more are soon to follow; and that county is bu
specimen Of the entire State. Illinois, we art
told, is also resolved to do her part in the grea
work. From these two States from two to thre'
thousand emigrants may be counted on thi
year, and from Ohio thousands are also to b,
expected"