Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-09-07
From the 81, Louis IntellIgenccr.
The Bitter Fruits-The Suicide oi
Slavery.

of omnious and most discouraeing
character. That region is suffering
from mldew and blight. Its glory is
dimmed, ITS spirits abatcd, and its hope
fading.
The emigration to Kansas has been
almost entirely checked. Emigrants
from the Northern or free States have
ceased to go to Kansas. because they
can find as good lands elsewhere, not
cdrsed by meb law. nor ruled by non
residents bullies. Emigrants from TIE
Southern States do not 90 TO Kansas,
because they will not PUT their slave
property in peril, by taking it into a
territory where there is a strong Free
soil element, threatening the security
of slaves.
Any man Of sense might have fore
seen this result. Alabama and Geor-
gia may hold public meetings, and re-
solve to sustain the Shareholders in
Missouri in making Kansas slave
State. But their resolutions comprise
all their aid-which is not "material
enough for the crisis. When slave
holders of Alabama and Georgia en-
igrate. they go to Louisiana, Arkan-
sas, and Texas. They do not come,
with their slaves, TO Missouri or Kan.
sas. Call they that, backing their
/ friends
Thus the matter stands: The North
ern emigrants shun Missouri and Kan
sas, because here is the battle ground
between Slavery and Freesoil.
The result is, Kansas, the iairest
land under the sun, is neglected and
idle occupied By few honest and
earnest, but disheartened pioneers.
and lorded over by a dozen or two
feudal tyrants Of Missouri. who curse
by their presence the land they have
desolated.
Such is kansas,-poor, neglected
and despised-and Western Missouri
stands infected by the horrible conta-
gion Of outlawry. and dwindles away
under the moral leplosy OF its mobo-
cratic leaders. We are assured by
! gentlemen Of high position in Wes-
tern Missouri, but totally differing in
political sentiment--one upholding the
oligarchy that controls the affairs and
tramples upon the peoples sovereign
hty in Kansas, the other deploring the
accursed madness of the day-lhat
matters are gloomy enough in Wes-
tern Missouri. Business is dull
Commerce is stagnant. Money is ex.
ceedingly scarce. and panic pervades
the people. The fifty thousand emf
grants that ought. this season, TO have
poured over into Kansas are not there.
The prairie sod remains unhroken.-
The sound of the axe. and the whoop
of the husbandman is not heard
Western Missouri towns are not thron-
sed with settlers buying their outfits
and their equipments of husbandry.-
The farmers find no market for their
horses. mules, oxen and cows. There
is TO new and large trade spiinging up
in Kansas. The much vaunted Kan
sas towns lie neglected. mockery
to their owners and a laughing stock
forall men. "Dead-dead--dead"- p
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 In
telligencer was in Kentucky, and he
met numerous Of the most respectable
and wealthy farmers of that State,
such as form so large aportion 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 abandon
ed IL utterly, for the reason that they
would never think of taking their
families to region where law was set
aside, presses mobbed. and men driv-
en- from the country by irresponsible
and unknown bands of Regulators
They preferred the rule of law TO an.
archy. In recent trip through sew
eral Northwestern States, we found
4 that the same circumstances were most
indusuiously and fatally used to divert
emigration to those States, and TO pref
udice Missouri and Kansas with every
class Of people. The most uggrava-
ting stories OF insults and ouIrages
committed by Missourians on the per-
sons of cmigrants from the Old Word
or from the Free States, who are found
ascending the Missouri river. are cir
culated in the newspapers all through
the Free States and IL is impossible
to conceive of the deep hatred thus
generated towards onr whole State in
the Northern half OF the Union.
Between these fires. Missouri is lead
Ing on her languid existence. 81.
Louis is retarded in most woful way.
Our railroads creep at snail's pace
We build ten miles while other Wes.
tern States build one hundred. In
every department of life We feel the
paralysis. Instead OF bounding for
ward, buoynnt. strong and rejoicing.
we sit with dull eyes and heavy spirits,
and listen to the uck OF a death watch
These are the bitter fruits OF the
repeat OF the Missouri Compromise
a wicked and wrongful deed-that will
yet bring hell OF bitter selI.reproach.
cs TO its authors. Missouri did not
demand that repeal. The South new
er asked il. Atchson solicited it,
and In moment of political insanity,
the South consented 10 the wrong aud
made the wrong her own. This was
the suicide of slavery.
j Every step since taken has deepen
cd the wrong and enhanced the dan.