New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-03
PLEA FOR THE MISSOURI MOB

PLEA tUk MlcoOI6k MOn
To t< YS,try If he " y. n1sa&
SIR: Will you permit me 20 ssy word m your Pc
p.r On this Kansas business II may seem that
sm sskir q too much, but am tempted 30 make the
~ quesi BY observing the unif courtesy extended
by The TRIBUNE to oil opponents Of ito sentiments,
whether in morals politics.
wish to speak with regard to the transactions
which have taken place in Krnsas since organss-
ton into u Territory, and for which yoa end your
friends seem determined TO hold the Msscurian bor-
derers alone responsible. shall have nothing ., all
10 soy concerning the measures which preceded and
cleared the way for the erection Of Kansas into ooe OF
the Teri'oies OF this Union for on that point Know
that even YOU viii agree with me In the assertion that
fiose eas, re wee concocied by Northern mon for
the benz 1T of Notheru politicians, and carried out
mai, Iy hy The indie fatg able exerions OF Northern
Administration. But what want 10 sayis this: That
IN throwing all the blame Of the recent events In Kan
sas as You DO upon the shoulders OF Southernors you
dead them gr al Injustice and are IN tact altogether re-
y.rirC the merits Of the question. ihe undenasbie
t,ntb IT, a the first aggression IN tins matter came
FINN Northern men. Hardly had the preiminesHs
been taken h, our promptin-s h-maten Admnistra-
ton for the Territorial anizston OF Kansas when
The tocsiu of Freedom sounded at the Norm and
West and "Kaasas shall never be Slave State
was echoed in loud aud varied notes from
the sealoard to the pruires. Now previous
To this Unnecessary warcry, nothing whatever
had Iten said or done in Missouri toward making
Slave Territory of kansss-aoIhiHg, absolutely, IN
word OF ceed aud contend hat this bald Genial at
the North of "reServed right" OF the Mi.soartans,
in advance of its positive assumption by theni was
The YER, thing that suggested il TO their minds.
"Have The name, have the game" "a al adsge a. old
az Metbuseah. do not, of course, ny the right OF
Noiherners TO make appeals TO the country
in bel sf of Freedom II Err edom really be in
immediate pei That Is trick as old "a the ssience OF
Politics But, while not denying this right do con-
tend with ST. Paul that in exercising II I'VE shoold do
land snyl nothing whereby our brother be offended"
There a, a hundred things which man has perhaps
q perfect right 10 do, but which II Is not always ex'
Incident for him 10 do, and which II he does do AMI
breach OF the pesce ensue In consequence, society wiz
not bold HIM gultlss of u wrong even IL the law alb
solve him from a penalty. There is no legal dlsao'
ity TO restrain man from dangling piece OF pork
before he nose of jew, or from sneezing while a
NEGRO is passing him in the street or from placing his
the and t~iriiDg hrs fingers At any
Individual who may be peculiarly oonox Gus TO HIM;
But it he do either OF these thisgs ana Is knocked
down for il in return the law, think, wil nnier the
circumstance 10 the ofense OF the down. knocking
Marty as Ssry vtnal one at most, and the COMMUNE
ty az large viii apt declare at once that he served
his insulter Just right -, -,
of Liberty at the North did not rest satisfied with
merely sounding the alarm that their goddess vas IN
danger in Kansas. They went further. they got up
Emigration Societies in New Eng LAND, and even here
in New-York within sight OF Castle Garden ana
War-st, for The evowed purpose OF mski,g foray
into Ka Sos and planting the flag OF Freedom upon It's
Hitherto untroddcn prai les and almost upon the bor
d.rs of n Slave State. How could such course DO
ob,rwise than arouse the ire Of the ohlvarous South
err Stakeholder aid prompt him TO resistance as wen
as TO a counter emigration movement be'ofe nis
n,;od tlele was not, far can learu, even the
slightest action toward cm ration to the new lorritory
| among The Shareholders on the borders OF Missouri.
The souherI movement was papaby provoked oy
And then, ernin look at the conduct or these North
ern Pioneers of Free .om' after they arrived IN the
Territory Before even they had put their crops INTO
the ground they built schoo'-houses IN which 10 ncu'
/ = 4. -. h.ts. nlf h..
cate in tie minds of their children natred o, .ne
peculiar sttution of the South, aud they also started
psper aud called it the " Herald 81 Freedom,
in orer Doubtless, that its very name might oe per
petus taunt TO he eye aud ear OF ther orsenron IN
Mssouri II heir object not to offend IN these
things why did they not wait until they had more
leisuIe before they busted themselves about school
| housep and why did they not cioose some lees oo-
no1ious name for their journal newspaper oy any
| other would smell sweet; and If they had
calico their typ, -hantling simply the kansas Jo~ nal
OF if ore ambitious title were waited II they had
ch,isteped il The Kansas Journal Of Commercial
| (hr,sfianify its cognomen would net have been 80
attentive 10 their brethren the border, aud its
| DAYS oud be much longer IN the land than uey now
nromi,e 10 lie. IL would have been still better, II in
adopting different title they had also gven dliier-
Ont tore 10 ia columDs--a tone somewhas IN conso-
mace with the implied guaranty In the name last
BEFORE closing what have to say allow me, II you
p'ease, Sir to solemnly warn your Northern road
ers against doing or saying anything IN the pres
ept excitabe times that may provoke further disturb
aice on this sub Jet in ahy quarter OF our beloved
country. Hatred beges hatred elimination grovokes
| recrininator. ArotLsr foray in behalf OF Freedom
will II evitaby draw out more deseerate resistance
from the friends If Slavery And II disturbance come
o. these Il incs who is to blame but those who take
! the initial sepi Friends of Liberty, DO discreet,
then and sl, mt Do not thrust your goddess before
tie ewes of ali un 1illng genereon lest her far form
be- ditfeured and her heayen-hued garments trampIcd
/ in the uust. Do nothing whereby thy brother be
! "oht nded." SOUTHERN FRIEND
| 81 hielOlas Hotel " y Ciiy, Juns n, 1885.