Squatter sovereign., 1855-04-24

Highly EssslsOs'sssfs from
lRARKvILLE.
Park Escaped Patterson at LARGE!
ssDog STAR, EcIipsed-Parkyi
| Lusninary i'm the Riser-Cor-
rect Exposition Of all the Facts
connected with the Destruction
of tIae ParkyiIEe Lunainary.
WESTON, April 16, 1855.
| Below will be read with avidity the let
ter of our correspondent at Parkville. II
was written by an impartial and an IN
telligent gentleman, who was an eye wit
ness to the whole occurrence, and may be
considered perfectly authentic.
1t will be seen that Geo. S. Park and
VIM. ]. Patterson, who have for years
| been manifesting freesoii and abolition
procliyities through the ''Luminary," and
ctherwise-were ordered to depart from
the county in three weeks. The Resolu-
tions speak like flint to The Po,rder-hke
determined patriots who know no fear and
mean to defend their rights and their In
stitutions. Let the case be fairly under
stood-let the world understand, that the
| people in honest simplicity and determina-
ton, have destroyed the press and fixtures
of the Luminary newspaper, for the rea-
son that George S. Park and w. j. Pat
terson, who are citizens OF a slave State
supported by Shareholders money, have
been In open rebellion and opposition to
the institution Of slavery, and the interests
and safety of our people and property
Week after week the columns of their
paper have been filed with violent de-
nunciations of the pro-slavery men of
Missouri and Kansas, and IN open and
avowed aid Of the "Aid Societies" of the
| North! For this they have suffered-for
| nothing else. Let traitors beware. The
people are aroused-strong arms and stout
hearts, are enlisted-not for a day, or
single campaign, but for the war We
| fight for peace-a final Peace and our
rights again, we say, IN tones which We
would prefer, should resound like the
thunders of the Heavens; Let traitors
| among as 6eUdre. Let those who are
coming to oppose US, count SreH TIE cost.
PARKvILLE, Mo-, April Ia, '55.
Nh. EDIroR:-The spontaneous up
heavings of an indignant and outraged
community were manifested here to-day,
in direct manner. To tell you that the
Industrial Luninary,'a newspaper own
ed by George Park and w. j. Patterson
| in this town, is a Freesoil sheet, and has
been aiding and abetting the Eastern Alb
clifton Societies In their abortiye attempt
to abolitionize Kansas, for the past year.
is to tell what You already know. You
are also aware that Park has large Ho-
tel in this place, kept by Freesoiler,
imported from Illinois, and devoted to the
same foul purposes. 1t seems that cer-
tain men in the neighberhood determined
''to abate the nuisance How they man
aged to notify so many, and keep it quiet,
don't understand, but about 10 o'clock
this morning, we were surprised, to see
about ten or fifteen of our most respectable
country acquaintances ride into town,
and go to the printing Office and put Pat
terson under guard. Park, it appears,
had either heard of it, or his goud luck
| Blue, in Kansas Territory. At IL o'clock
about two hundred men had arrived. The
Press was very quietly taken down and
paraded into the street. The crowd was
called to order, and Patterson was brought
forth to receive his sentence. One speak
er stated that they all were aware that they
came there with the firm determination to
black, tar and feather, and ride ON rail,
G. S. Park and w. ]. Patterson, but that,
as Park had escaped, and left his scape-
goat to suffer for both, he wished the meet
ing to decide what should now be done
with the prisoner. Another speaker. de-
clared his voice was for mercy, not that
he had any excuses TO offer for Patterson,
for he despised him as strongly as any
man could but that Patterson's S wife through
out the morning, had hung to him like a
| leech; that she now held on to him, and that
we could not inf1ict the punishment without
gross violence to her feelings, and perhaps
rudeness to her person. He therefore, fol
the sake Of the wife, moved a vote be Ia.
ken to remit the tar, feathers, &c. and Sc
Mr.. Patterson at large, for the present
The vote was accordingly taken and q
small majority went In favor ofthe prison
er; he was, therefore set at large. The
following resolutions were then offered
and voted on singly, and not one dissent
| ing voice was heard on the ground. Al
most every one voted In the affirmative
and they voted with 'svim," too, tha
showed they were in earnest.
ResoIued, 1. That the Parllville Indus
| 1Tlal u DuicdL1ICJ HiifSl Ahs
been endured too long, and should now b
abated.
2. That the editors, to-xit: G. S. Parl
and W. J. Patterson; are traitors 10 th'
; State and county in which they live, ant
7 should be dealt with as such.
! 3. That we meet here again, on thi:
day three weeks, and if we find G. S
Park or w. J. Patterson in this town then
OF at any subsequent time, we will throw
them into the Missouri River, and If the,
go to Kansas to reside, re.pledge our hon
or as men, to follow and hang them where
ever we can take them.
a. That at the suggestion Of our Park
: vile friends, we will attend to some othe
:. Freesoilers not far off.
S. That we viii suffer no person belong
:; ing to the Northern Methodist Church, +