Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1855-09-04

and sent him away TO be brought up pf'-
sately/
From the 81. Louis lntelligencer'
Tha Bitter Fruits-The Suicide OF Sla'
very.
OuR news from Western Missouri is
of ominous AMI most disc scouraglng char
actor. That region is suffering from
mildew and blight. Its glory is dimmed,
iIs spirits aba,ed and its hope iad'ng.
The emigration to Kansas has been
almost entirely checked. Emigranls
from the Northern or Free States have
ceased to 90 10 Kansas, because they can.
find as good lands elsewhere, not cursed
by mob law, not ruled by nonresident
bnllies. Emsrants from the Southern
States do no tso to Kansas. because
they will not put their slave property in
peril, by taking it into a territory where
there is IA strong Free Soil element,
threatening the security Of slaves.
Any man Of sense mi ght have fore.
seen this result. Alabama and Georgia
may hold public meetings, and resolve
10 sustain the Shareholders in Missouri
in making Kansas Slave State. But
their resolutions comprise all their aid
which is not "materlal' enough ior
the crisis. When Shareholders OF Ala.
bama and Georgia emiSrate, they 60 10
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. They
do not come, with their slaves, to Mis-.
souri or to Kansas. Call they that,
backing their friends 49,
Thus the matter stands: The north.
ern emisrants shun Missouri and kan'
sas as plague spots Of the nation. The
southern emisrants shun Missouri and
Kansas, because here is the battle ground
between slavery and free soil.
The result is, Kansas, the fairest land
under the sun, is neglected and idle ;
occupied by few honest and earnes!
but disheartened pioneers, and lorded
over by dozen or two feudal tyrants OF
Missouri, who curse by their presence
the land they have desolated.
Such is Kansas,-poor, neglected and
despi.ed-and Western Missouri stands
infected by the horrible con,agion Of
.ou,lawry, and dwindles away under the
moral leprosy Of its mobocratic leaders.
We arc assured by two gentlemen ol
high position in Western Missouri but
totally differing in political sentiment
one upholding the olisarchy that con
trolls the affairs and lfamples upon the
peoples sovereignty in Kansas, the
other deplorins the accursed madness o
the day-that matters are gloomy enough
in Western Missouri. Business is dull
Commerce is stagnant. Money is ex
ceedinsly scarce, and panic pervades
the people. The fifty thousand emf.
grants that ought, this season, TO have
poured over into Kansas, are not there
The prairie sod remains unbroken. The
sound Of the axe, and The whoop Of the
husband is not heard. Western Mis-.
souri, towns are not lhrooged with settlers
huying their outfits and their equipments
Of husbandry. The farmer finds no
marke, for his horses, mules oxen and
cows. There is no new and large trade
springing up in Kansas. The much
yaunted Kansas towns lie negected-a
mockery 10 their owners and laughing
stock for all men. "Dead-dead-dead'
NAV he written on all the country-so
deep and disastrous has been the fall
from the high and fond hopes Of the
past year- ~
IN Nav last, the editor Of the Inlelli.
cencer was in Kentucky, and he nae.
1umerous Of the most respectable and
wealthy farmers Of that State, such as
form so large portion Of the population
of Missouri, who inquired earnestly
about the coalition OF things in Kansas
and in the Western Missouri. They
smoke Of the intention they had OF re.
moving TO Kansas OF Western Missouri;
hut said they hal abandoned it utterly,
for The reason that they would never
tbink Of taking their families TO region
where law was set aside, presses mob.
hsd. and men driven from the country by
;,resnonsible and unknown bands ol
Reaula,ors. They preferred the rule o,
law to anarchy. In recent trip thIough
asyeral North Western States we found
that.the same circumstances were most
industriously and fatally used TO divert
emigration 10 those States, and 10 pre-.
;rdice Missouri and Kansas with every
Class of people. The most aggravaling
stories Of insults and outrages commit.
,ed hv Missourians on the persons OF
an,;o rants from the Old World or from
Free States, who are found ascending
~. Missouri river, are circulated ia the
havana pers all through the Free States ;
and il 10 impossible TO conceive OF the
dsep hatred thus generated towards our
whole State in the Northern half of the
Union. ,r.:
,onher languid existence. St. Louis
is is retarded in most wolul way. Our
railroads creep at snaiI's pace. We
build ten miles while other Western
Sss,e. build one hundred. In every de
nsr,ment Of life we feel the paralysis.
nsrs sd .ef bounding forward. buoyeni.
.trons. and rejoicing, ne sit With dull
os "a I..yv spirits, And listen 10 the