Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-09-21

The Bitter Fruits-Thc Suicide of slavery.
Our news from Western Missouri is of
ominous and most discouraging character.
That region is suffering from mildew and
blight Its glory is dimmcd, its spirits abatcd
and its hopes fading.
The emigration to Kansas has been entire
ly checked. Emigrants from the northern or |
free states have ceased to go to Kansas, be- |
cause they can find as good lands elsewhere, |
not cursed by mob law nor ruled by nonrc-
sidcnt bullics. Emgrants from the southern
states do not 60 to Kansas, because they will
not put their slave property in peril, by |
taking it to u territory where there is
strong frccsol element, threatening the secu
rity of slaves.
ANY man of sense might have fOrcsccn the |
result Alabama and Georgia may hold pub
lie meetings, and resolve to sustain the |
shareholders in Missouri in making Kansas a
slave state. But their resolutions comprise |
all their aid-which is not d" material
enough for the crisis. When Shareholders of
Alabama and Georgia cmgrate, they 60 to
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas They do |
not como with their slaves, to Missouri or to
Kansas. Call they that backing their
friends
Thus the matter stands. The northern
emigrants shun Missouri and Kansas as
plague spots of the nation. The southern
cmigrants shun Missouri and Kansas, be-
cause here is the battle-ground between
slavery and freesoi.
The result is, Kansas, the farest land
under the sun, is neglected and idle occu
pied only by few honest and earnest but
dishcartcned pioneers, and loried over by
dozen or two feudal tyrants of Missouri, who
curse by their presence the land they have
! desolated.
Such is Knnsas-poor, neglected and des-
pised-and Western Missouri stands infected
by tho horrible contagion of outawry, and
dwindlcs away under he moral leprosy ofits
mobecratic leaders. We are assured by two
gentlemen of high position in Western Mis-
souri,, but totally differing in political senti-
ment-onc upholding the oligarchy that con-
trolls the affairs and tramples upon the peo-
pies sovereignty of Kansas, the other deplo-
| ring the accursed madness Of the day-that
matters are gloomy enough in Western Mis-
souri,. Business is dull. Commerce is stag
nant Money is exceedingly scarce, and
panic pervades the people. The fifty thou
sand emigrants that ought this season to
have poured over into Kansas are not there.
| The prairie sod remains unbrokcn. The
sound of the axe and the whoop of the hus-
bandman is not herd. Western Missouri towns
are not thronged with settlers buying their
outfits and their equipments Of husbandry.
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mules, oxen and cows. There is no new and
large trade springing up in Kansas. The
much vaunted Kansas towns lie neglected-a
mockery to their owners and a laughing
stock for all men, Dcad-dead-dea may
be written on all the country-so deep and
disastrous has been the fall from the high and
fond hopes of the past year.
In May last the editor of the Intelhgencer
was in Kentucky, and he met numerous 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 condition of things in
Kansas and in Western Missouri. They
spoke of the intention they had of removing
to Kansas or Western Missouri, but said they
had abandoned it utterly, for the reason that
they would never think of taking their Gam-
lies to region where law was set aside,
presses mobbed, and men driven from the
country by irresponsible and unknown bands
of regulators. They preferred the rule Of
low to anarchy. In a recent trip through
several northwestern states we found that the
same circumstances were most industriously
and fatally used to divert emigration to those
states, and to prejudice Missouri and Kansas
with every class of people. The most aggra-
waiting stories of insults and outragcs com
mttcd by MssOurians on the persons Of cmi-
grants from the old world or from the free
states, who are found ascending the Missouri
river, are circulated in the newspapers all
through the free states and il is impossible
to conceive of the deep hatred thus generated
! towards our whole state in the northern hal
of the Union.
Between these fires Missouri is leading or
her languid existence. St. Louis is retarded
; in a most woeGul way. Our railroads Greer
, at snail's pace. We build ten miles Will,
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every department of life we feel the PARALYSIS
+ Instead Of bounding forward buoyant, stron,
and rejoicing, we sit with dull eyes and heay,
spirits, and listen to the tick of death
watch.
\ These are the bitter fruits of the repeal o
Q the Missouri Compromises wicked an,
t wrongful deed-that will yet bring a hell o
1 bitter selt-rcproachcs to its authors. Mis-
= souri, did not demand that repeal. The Soutl
1 never asked it. Atchison solicited it-an,
Q in moment of political insanity the Souti
r consented to the wrong, and made the wron,
n her own. This was the suicide of slavery.
d Every step since taken has dcepcned tn
II wrong and enhanced the danger. The FIRE
& states organized Aid Societies, and send thei
n men to make Kansas free. 1t had been free
II soil by solemn compact for thirty6ve years
l. and they naturally were incen.cd to see it
IS character changed. Tho South would hay
" been far moro indignant if slave territor
n had thus, by an unexpected act of Cor
IT gross, been converted into free soil.
"a The free states had right to be indignar
* that long-life compromise had been repea
y ed-and they had a right to keep Kansas fre
10 as it had been, by peaceful colonization
4 They attempted nothing else But porto
ie of the citizens of Missouri, headed by Atcl
oi ison and Stringlellow, denounced the nortl
I'll ern emigrants as paupers and hirelings,
N because they We're sent west with the none
oi of a society; and SO they had county NEE
o. ings in Missouri and raised money, and sci
oil Missourans to Kansas to make Kansas
n slave territory, Were these Missouriai
y 4" hirelings" too And did these two wron,
re make one right
Atchson and Stringiellow. with the
Missouri followers, overwhelmed the settle
st in Kansas, browbeat and hullicd them al
k took the government from their hands Mi
f. souri, votes elected the present body of mel
o. who insult public intelligence and popul,
r. rights by styling themselves "the Legislatu
Tx of Kansas This body of men are hepir
in themselves to fat spccuations by locatiI
IN the "seat of government and getting tow
ut lots for their votes. They are passing Ia,
a DISTINGUISHING all the citizens of Kansas wi
ne do not believe negro slavery to be Chri
IS, tian institution and national bcssn
r, They are proposing to punish with impriso
he mcnt the utterancc of views iuconsistc
y with their own. Aud they are trying
ce pcrpctuate the preposterous and intern
,ir tyranny, by appointing for i'rm Of yca
ell creatures of their own, AS commissioners
NV every county, to lay aud collect taxes. al
nd see that the law. they are passing a
at faithfully executed. las tins age an
* thing to compare with these acts in auda
all ity
ed The free state men OF Kansas have rcsoly
,x- not to submit to this daring usurpation of
to nonresident oligarchy. They have called
convention Of the people Kansas, to mt
we in September next, and frame conStituti
t.. for their government. Ihis movement "