Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-09-20
i he Bitter Frui s-The Suicide of
Slavery.
From the St. Louis n:elligencer.I


Our news from Western Missudri is Of
omin0us and most discuuragins character. -
The region is suffering from mildew and
blight It's glory is dimmed, Its spirits aba
ted and its hope fading.
Tae emigioiion to Kansas has been almost
entirely checked. Elm grants from the North
ern or free Stores have c. a. I'd to 60 to Kan
sas. because they tind as good lands else
wh.re not cursed by n,b law, nor ruled by
nonresident bullies. Emisrants from the
S ,ulhern States do not 60 to Kansas, be.
cause they will rot put their slave property
in peril, by taking it into territory where
there is a strong Freesoil elemen. threaten
ing the security Of slaves.
Any man of sense might have foreseen
this result. Alabama and Georgia may hold
public meetings, and resolve To sustain the
shareholders in Missouri in makng Kansas Il
slave State. But their resolutions comprise
all their aid-.whth is not "material' enough
for the crisis. VIII. II slsvehoiders OF Ala
bama aud Georgia emigra,e, ,hey 90 to Lou
i,iana, Arkansas, and Texis. They do not
come with their slaves to Missouri or to
Kansas. Call they that, backing their
friends!
Thus the matter stands: The Northern
emigrant shuus Missouri aid X lnsas as
plague spots of the nation. The Southern
emigrarts shun Missouri and Kansas. because
here ia the battle ground between Slavery
and Freesnl.
The result is, Kansas, the fairest land un-
Ter the sun, is neglected and ld!e; occupied
by few honest aud earnest, bat dishearten-
ed pioneers and orded over by duzen or
two feudal tyrants o! Missouri. who curse by
their presence The lard they have desolated.
Such ia Krnsa pour, neglected and de-
spised-and We.tern Missouri stands infect
ed by The horrible contdgion OF Ouilawry,
aud ,indes away Ter the moral lepro,v
OF its m bocratic leaders. We are assured
bv twn gentlemen of hi Oh positi IN in We tern
Missouri, bat totally differing in political
sen,iment--o' upho;dag The obIgnrchy
tha controls The affairs ant ,ramp.es upon
the peoples sovereign y in Kansas, The 9TH
er depluriag tho cursed mnduess of the day
the matters are gloomy enough in We.ter
Mis- ouri. Blu mess is dull. Commerce is
s'agnant. Money is exceedingly scarce. and
a panic pervaiss ,he people. Tne fly thou.
sand people that ought. this season, to have
p"urcd into Kansas, are not th.rn. Tne
prairie sod remsins unhroken. The sound
of the axe sni tn" whoop OF N husbandman
are not heard Western Missouri towns are
not thronged with settlers buying their outfits
and their equipments of hushanGry. Tie
farmers fnd no IN ,rket for their horsrs, mules
oxen and cnws. There il 70 new and large
trade springing up in Kansas. The much
vsunted Kansas towns lie neg.ected-a
m,ckery TO their own'rs and a laughing
stock for all men "Deah-dead-dead
may be written on allthe countfy-so deep
and disastrous has been the high and foni
hopes Of the past year.
In NJ ~ last the editor of the fnteiti9encer
wac in kentucky. and he met numerous oI
the most respectable and wealthy farmers o;
that State. such as form so large portion Of
the population Of Missouri. They spobe Of
the intention they had Of removing 10 Kansas
or Western Missouri; but said they had aban-
doned il utterly, for the reason that they
would never think Of taking their families to
a region whore law was set sside, presses
mobbed, and men Criven from the country bv
irres ponsible and unknown bands of Regula-
tors. They preferred the rule Of law To
In a resent trip thr ugh several
States, we found that the same
were most inIustriously and
fatally used to divert emigration to those
States, and to prejudice Missouri and Kansas
with every class Of people. The most sr.
stories OF insults and outrages CON-
mittee by NJ ssourians on the persons Of emf
grants from the Old World or from he free
States, who are found ascending the Mssou-
ri river, are circulatsd in the newspapers all
through the free States; ard it 10 impossible
10 conceive Of the deep hatred thus generated