Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-04

An intelligent and reliable correspondent OIL
the Ne,O York Evening Post, writing under date
of Dec. 18th, from Missouri after speaking of
Douglas and his Nebraska Bill, and the mis-
chiefs growing out of it, thus speaks of the
introduction of Slavery into Kanzas, whch he
fears will take place. unless judicially prevented.
/" Whatever may be proclaimed by timid dem
agogues, this will be most in urious to the in
terests of Missouri. Our chief city is the APP
propriate mart for that vast country westward.
The city and southern part OF the state will TEEN
with manufacturers, and abounds in most valua-
BILE minerals, particularly lead, iron and copper
Imagine the difference between the trade of
Kanzas, free, with a numerous white population,
with villages, schools, churches, small farms
and railroads and Kanzss, Stare, black pop
ulstion in shanties, consuming few yards OF
jean, u straw hat, and one pair Of shoes per an
mum, widely scattered neighbors, no school
house except in town parishes of thirty miles
square, and no railroads but by the exertion of
government Such are the two propositions.
1t is the merest fustion, and go intelligent men
understand it, to talk about surrounding our
state with Gordon Of aboltionists. For well
nigh q thousand miles Of border we have for a
long time been subjected to precisely the same
danger, and with not half the loss that has Ia
ken place since that nulitier let loose the dogs
of agitation again. The Prosperity of Missouri
is not identified with slavery, and it is against
nature to make it So 1t is both climate and
a soil to be inhabited by white men, not black
We want capital, artizans, manufacturing pop
ulation and skill, and plenty of white farmers
With these elements We might drive every black
ever the border to-day, and be richer to morrow
than we were yesterday.
Yet we find AtchiSon, an ill-bred, drinking
politician, staying away from his place in the
Senate to lay your New York pipe in Kanzas,
that is, to export forced and transient emigra-
ton to violate the ballot box, and defeat or OBJ
scure the popular sovereignty of which so much
has been said. He is one of the numerous class
Of our day who will take posterior infamy
TOR present notoriety. One good result has
attended his swindle, however. lie is displaced
from that chair in the Senate which he dis
honored
In the closing part of his letter, the writer
turns to the Mormons, and in commenting on
the course of our government towards them
makes suggestions which are new to US, and
which we think are well worthy of consdera-
tion. He says
wrote to the Evening Post over wear
ago that our government was pursuing wrong
and dangerous policy towards Utah and thev
would find trouble. They did find trouble and
the end is not yet. That poygamous people
10 not to DO conciliated. Instead of establish.
ing law, order and deconcy among them in their
weakness, government has witnessed and waited
for their growth and strength. Every wears
delay increased the hazard and the Difficult
ty. Their ecclesiastical and miturv chief
whom the President still further establishes os
civil and legal chief, has already declared the
permanently Of his government and defend bis
successor. Their means of independence and
hostility are great. Their natural position and
dsfences are strong. Their unity has been c.
mentsd by persecution by q common faith and
common crimes, and peculiar institutions and
absolute ecclesiastical authority. Their military
capacity, with some training, is not contempti-
bic. The savages surrounding them, already
exasperated against the United States and in
the spring to be reused to war by the campaign
to be prosecuted against them, might be easily
subsidized, emboldened and strengthened into
powerful allies of the Mormons, whs have the
same polygamous habits with themselves.
snofeAoro renow Vic warming, tnat congress and
the war minister should attend to this swelling
cloud, which forbodes tempest. 1t will be
WE'LL too, to remember with what instrument
Abe whirlng column of wind and water is some
times broken by an endangered vessel at sea
NY opinion, based upon my knowledge of the
character Of this people, may be worth little Or
much. But gave it-that not less than full
regiment be established within three days march
OF Salt Lake City that at the same time A
clean bill Of official fare be sent to them. from
Governor down, without poygamist upon it.
composed OF prudent, intelligent, courageous
men; and that new seat Of government for
shs territory be carefully selected, in another
part Of the territory, with view to it's defep-
sibility and its csntrality, in region which
VIII attract Christians to settlement that shall
ultimately outnumber these heathans, and re-
deem our country from this impious strain