The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-09-08
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times, is worthy OF the closest attention.
The Bitter Fruits-The Suicide of Slavery.
Our news from western Missouri is of om-
inous and most discouraging character. That
region is suffering from mildew and blight
lis glory is dimmed, its spirits abated and its
hope fading.
The emigratio to Kansas has been almost
entirely checked. Emgrants from the nor
thern or free states have ceased to go to Kan
sas, because they can find as good ands else
where, not cursed by mob law, not ruled by
nonresident bullies. Emigrants from the
southern states do not go to Kansas, because
they will not put their slave property in per-
il, by taking it into a territory where there
is a strong free soil element, atening the
security of slaves.
Any man of sense might have foreseen this
result. Alabama and Georgia may hold pub
lie meetings, and resolve to sustain the slave
holders of Missouri in making Kansas slave
state. But their resolutions comprise all
their aid-which is not material" enough for
the crisis. When shareholders of Alabama
and Georgia emigrate, they go to Louisiana,
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
emigrants shun Missouri and Kansas, because
here is the battle ground between slavery and
free soil.
The result is, Kansas, the farest land un-
der the sun, is neglected and idle occupied
by a few honest and earnest 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 des-
pised-and western Missouri stands infected
by the horrible contagion of outlawry, and
dwndles away under the moral leprosy of
its mobocratic leaders. We are assured by
two gentlemen of high position in western
Missouri, but totally differing in political
sentiment-one upholding the oligarchy that
controls the affairs and tramples upon the
peoples sovereignty in Kansas, the other de-
ploring the accursed madness of the day
that matters are gloomy enough in western
Missouri. Business is dull. Commerce is
stagnant. Money is exceedingly scarce, and
a panic pervades the people. The fifty thou
sand emigrants that ought, this season, to
have poured into Kansas, are not there, The
prairie sod remains unbroken. The sound Of
the axe, and the whoop of the husbandman
is not heard. Western Missouri towns are
not thronged with settlers buying their out
fits and their equipments of husbandry. The
farmers find no market for their horses, mules,
oxen and COWS. There is no new and large
trade springing up in Kansas. The much
vaunted Kansas towns lie neglected, mock
cry to their owners and laughing stock for
all men. "Dead, dead, dead" may be writ
ten on all the country, so deep and disas-
trous has been the fall from the high and
fond hopes of the past year.
In May last, the editor of the Intelligent
Ger was in Kentucky, and he met numerous
of the most respectable and worthy 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 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
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