The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-17
THE PROGRESS OF THE OUTLAWS.


| NOBLE SPIRIT FALLEN.
Our esteemed fellow citizen. Malcolm Clark,
has fallen by the hands Of an Abolition miscre-
ant, called McCrea. Hard words passed be-
tween them, when Mr.. Clark in the act of stri-
king with his fist was instantly shot through the
heart He died in five minutes. 1t was hoped
for a while that an outraged people would hang
the cowardly assassin to the nearest tree; but
| quiet was restored, and he was locked up at
Fort Leavenworth.
Malcolm has been slain, hut his numerous
attached friends will yet see that a hemp rope
and the nearest tree end the career of the assas-
sin-murderer, McCrea.
OUR PAPER.
BY reference to the proceedings of the great
Pro-Slavery mass meeting held in this city on
last Saturday, it will be seen that the Platte
| Argus received the unanimous and unqualified
endorsement of the citizens composing it. This
is as fatterng to our pride as stimulating to
renewed exertions on our part, to the advance
ment of the great principles Of constitutional
liberty and equality which we have always ad-
yocated, and expect to advocate as long AS We
| live
We live in a slavehodng State-our organic
law and Constitution recognise and establish
| Negro Slavery. All officers are sworn to sun.
port the Constitution, and, as a consequence
the institutions Of that Constitution. so long as
| they exist. All good citizens are morally un-
der the same obligations to support that Con
stitution and ats Institutions. VIII any one
deny the correctness Of this position? If not,
| it follows that the man or men who denounce
in our State the Constitution or its institutions,
thereby creating anarchy and characterization,
endangering the lives and property of our poo
pie, are morally guilty Of perjury, and are
traitors to their God and their State.
This being so, the perjurer and traitor are
| outlaws. They are in open rebellion and arms
against their country and her institutions, and
deserve the doom which was found Just for Ar
mold, and all traitors, from the days of Jitdds
Traitors at war with the people should be hang
ed The law sanctions it; self-defence and the
first law of man require it sound morality can
not condemn it; and unprejudiced men the
world over must agree that the people, in their
| might, have the unquestionable power to pro-
tect themselves against the intestine outlaw and
parrlcidal traitor, as we'll as against a foreign
foe.
We are satisfied that in Parkville alone other
AboGtionists can be found who ought to be
dealt wlth-men as destitute of moral principle
as Park or Patterson. Preachers of the Cos
pei, who, instead of teaching the merits of our
| Saviour, inculcate the lessons of Abotionism-
they must be looked to. 1t is not alone among
Northern Methodists that an Abolition preacher
| Cdlu NC lOuHu-duu utTEJH We duIulrS the SplrlL
of one resolution, to investigate the condnct and
teachings of all, whether Methodist, Presbyte-
rian, or any other religious denomination.
We shall have occasion hereafter TO point ont
other traitors in Parkville, as well as some near
er home. We shall keep up the ball until it
rolls to Jackson and Cole, and even TO st. Louis
county, sweeping into rivers and blazing bon
fires the Abolitionism Of the Inquirer Messen-
ger, Democrat, Latetti9encer, and others of the
same stripe.
For this contamination we devoutly pray
for it we are determined to fight, until the coiors
shall strike, or their presses are annihilated.
We urge all to 90 to Parkville on Saturday
next. 1t will be all eventful day, and we hope
| all will turn out. We want it done calmly and
deliberately. If Park demand trial, give it
| to him, but let it be summary. Let it be Just
and impartial, and let the verdict be upheld.
GREAT MASS MEETING!
A meeting of the citizens of Weston and vi
| cinity was held in the Court House, in the city
of Weston, on the 28th of April, 1855. George
| Galloway was called to preside, and d. p. Wal
lingford appointed Secretary.
Motions and remarks were made by Judge
| Galloway and Peter Abel A committee was
| appointed, consisting of Messrs p. L. Abel, S.
| p. McCurdy, Lewis Ramage, G. w. Bayliss, j.
| w. Vineyard, j. +. Walker, and II. Coleman,
who reported the following preamble and reso-
lutions:
| Whereas it is now manifest that the speak
| ing and publishing In slave States those Free
| Soil and Abolition doctrines and sentiments
| which inculcate in the minds of slaves that the
system by which they are held in Servitude is
morally and practically 'crOng has already
| done much in corrupting and dissatisfying the
| slaves, and rendering their condition infinitely
worse, &C., &C.; now, therefore, in view of the
| forooO1no, e. nd h.
| pie of Platte county in mass meeting assem-
| bled, in the city of Weston, in said county, on
the 28th day of April 1866, do most solemny
resolve and declare
|. That at this time, Selfdefence requires at
| the hands of the people of Platte county, and
| every other county in the State of Missouri, as
well as the counties of any slaveholding State
| in the Union, the immediate expulsion from
| their borders of eUeTy person who may, in any
manner, speak or publish doctrines or senti-
| ments calculated to bring reaproach upon the
institution of Negro Slavery, as it exists among
us, or to corrupt and disaffect our slaves, and
| render our property in them insecure; and we
pledge ourselves to use every effort in our pow.
er to ferret out all such persons, and use the |
necessary means to eXpel them-peaceably if |
we cam forcibly if necessary.
2. That the highway robber, the midnight |
assassin, traitors to their country, and all Others
who, by their actions, make themselves outlaws, |
have no right to protection of law.
3. That portion of our fellow-citiZens hav |
ing put the selfdefensive ball in motion at Park
vile, short time SINCE by putting a stop to |
the publication of that Abolition and Free Soil |
sheet, called the Parkville Luminary, we do |
ratfy and confirm the action of our friends at |
Parkville and hereby approve the resolutions |
adopted by them, and pledge ourselves to join
them in carrying them into execution.
4. That while we approve of the resolution |
Of our Parkville friends in relation to the North
ern Methodists, we offer as an amendment |
thereto, that the principles thereof be extended |
to the ministers of all denominations who teach |
or preach doctrines and sentiments at war with |
the institution of Slavery, and prejudicial to
our rights as slave owners and believe there /
arc others among US, equally guilty with the |
Northern Methodists, and we pledge ourselves |
to make no distinction ia this matter.
5. That we look with amazement upon the |
forbearance of our friends in Jackson, Cole
st. Louis, and other counties in Missouri, in |
long tolerating the publishing in their borders
Abolition sheets, and recommend to them the
example set by our Parkvlle friends. There is
no remedy against the Abolition papers publish
ed in our State, but the Missouri or bonfire
for the presses, and hemp rope for the editors;
and the idea of starving them out by withdraw
ing Pro-Slavery patronage from them is moth
ing more than the arguments of Abolitionists |
who pay them to remain among US, to corrupt |