New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-25
THE MISSOURI MANIFESTO.


Kansas Of the Lexington Convention of West
ern Missoursns, to the People of the United
States. IT is very ably snd smoothly written,
but its positions and assumptions are of the
most starting character. Among them We
notice these:
l. II is essential to the maintenance Of Slavery
in Missouri that Kansas too shall become Slave
State. OF the hundred thousand Slaves in Mis-
souri,, full half are held in the range of counties
bordering on Kansas, (Which were stealthily added
10 Missouri eighteen years ago in fragrant violation
of the Compact Of 1S20-1 and this fifty thousand
human chattels, worth twenty-five millions of dol
lars cannot be held there with Free State across
the western frontier.
3. 1t was the object and intent of Douglass
Nebraska bill to relieve Missouri from this peril,
and enable her TO fortify her " domestic institu-
"tions" BY making new Slave State of Kansas
g. The voluntary ass ociation of freemen in
Massachusetts, and other Free States TO impel con-
genial emigration into Kansas, and thus make her
Free State, were in contrayenton of the comfy
due from one State TO another and " its success
"manifesty involved radical change in our Fede-
"ral Government, or It's total OcerthrOn2" By
whom Certainly not by those who thus sue
ceeded
4. mo Southern or slaveholding State has
lever attempted TO colonize Territory"
Perhaps no particular State ever did; but the
South colonized Texas while it was yet an in
tegral portion Of Mexico, planted Slavery
therein, reyolted against Mexico, expelled her
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pendent; whereupOn they proceeded to annex it
to the Union. Here Yves very large Slave
State put upon us, the prospective parent of
several more, by the most Objectionable use Of
those very means of colonization which the Mis-
sourisns condemn in the Free States.
5. The diffusion of Slavery over Territory
hitherto uncursed by it tends to " melorate the
"conditon of the slaves" I'VE went over all
that ground in 1870, and nobody was duped into
the doughface ranks by such sophistry but
those who were predetermined to be.
6. 1.-THE institutions of Kansas are as much
"f1ed, and as s9lemnly guaranteed by statute,
"as those of Delaware or TeIas."-[That is to
say. the felon acts of the Mssouri-Stringfellow
Legislature hayeifastened Slavery upon Kansas,
so that it can no longer be resisted without in
curing the Stringfellow penalties. We shall
see!
We have rot time to comment further, but
urge all to read carefully the Address. 1t does
not pretend to deny the stringfellow outrages
at the last Spring Election, but pleads that Gov
Reeder Chen the agent of Pierce & Coz gave
certificates to most Of the Stringfellow candi-
dates. $50 he did, in the absence Of official evil
deDce before lin that they lad been foully
elected. He won't do so again, and his mistake
won't suffice TO give Kansas TO Slavery.J
These gentlemen talk as if they had Kansas
in their grasp, and did not care for the voice of
its free settlers, whom they def.ms to the ut
most. We ~ish they and still more the Emigrant
Aid Societies, deserved all that is said Of them
by the Missourians; but they do not. However,
the Societies have done some good, and the set
tiers are mainly in favor Of Freedom. Let US
watch the progress Of the struggle to chain
them to the car Of Slavery.