The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-24
TO THE PUBLIC.

When our printing Office was DESTROYED |
was absent in Kansas Territory, and returned
forthwith on receiving information of 1t. |
am filled with the deepest concern for the events
that have transpired and the passions that bear
sway premeditated, as they have been, by
large and powerful secret association. | am
happy to know that the citizens of Parkville
and vicinity took no part IN 1t; and why my
life and property should be destroyed BY any
portion of this community | cannot tell. The
charge of abolitionsm is false. | have never
harbored thought nor medltated an action
detrimental 70 the honor. the interests. or in
stitutions of Missouri, but have labored un-
cea>ingly to promote her prosperity. L Is
true | have not believed the honor and inter
ests of Missouri TO be IN that course of policy
marked out by SOME politicians; duty has com
PEELED me to cross their path. which has bro't
on my devoted head the bittereSt persecution
Our paper can be read. 1t speaks for itself,
1t does not claim perfection. The leading OBJ
jects have been to promote the principles Of
temperance, morality, and virtue; TO take a
conservative political stand, and, by modera
ting the extremes and by softing sectional as
perities. TO promote the general good of :he
country and the perpetuity Of the American
Union.
l love the South. and have spent the best
energies of my life to advance her interests
and her glory. The battle fields of Texas
are eternal evidences of the fact, where indl-
vidual enterprise gathered around the gallant
Houston, and bv incredible hardship and al
most super humsn exertion, the independence
of that vast country was acheved-now one
of the brightest stars in the consultation of
States and | refer to my fellow citizens to at
test the fact that, while | have resided In
II 4 L.
mote her interests.
| love tile NsfSah too Never while life
lasts, shall | forget thSz3feoTs INNS oe w.
mont, where rests the grave of my mother;
the deeds of the men of rs; nor the vir-
tue and energies of the men who have made
those States a beacon light the wonder and ad
miration of the sworld; and shall ever look
upon their glory as the common inheritance of
avery American citizen.
With regard to leaving this community,
would do 50 cheerfully. as soon as | could dis
pose of my interests here, were l satisfied that
a further residence was not agreeable; but 10
leave the grave of my wife, the home l have
toied years to embellish and improve, and ma
ny interests interviewer with the growth and
prosperity of the country and flee for no offence
like base culprit, | cannot | would rather
prefer death at my own home amid the flow
ers and trees planted and consecrated by aztec
ton, and upon the soil of the country have
toiled to build up. Our press has been thrown
into the Missouri river; may be buried there
too; an humble individual is in the power Of
hundreds of armed men, but bis death will
not destroy the freedom OF the American press
Independence of thought and action is inher-
ent in the bosom of every freeman, and it
will gush up like perpetual fountain forever.
God has impressed on his universe the prin-
eiples of truth and justice, and they must pre-
vail
If there is no security in the land Of
Washington if an American home affords no
protection if the time has arrived when this
Union must be dissolved, and all It's kindred
ties and mighty interests broken and DESTROY
ed, and our land drenched with fraternal blood,
then let me be buried beneath the turbid
waters of the Missouri rather than live to be-
hold such scene. God save our country,
GEO. S. PARK
Parkvile, (Mo) April %. 1855