The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-17
THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THE sLAvEocRAcY

The world at large has regarded the destruc.
ton of the Luminary at Parkville, Missouri,
as an outrage; but the Weston (Missouri) Ar
gus of April 2lst, now before US, assures US
that it was the publication of an independent
paper there that was the outrage! This same
paper also makes an editorial call for mass
meeting at Weston on the 2Sth of April, and
says:
"The first battle in Kansas has been fought,
| and our friends have gained victory that full
ly establishes the fact that Kansas is being set
| tied by men of principle, who are determined
| to stay the tide of Abolitionism which threaten
ed that Territory, and by their vigilance and
| bravery have placed Missouri and the whole
South under lasting obligations.
"The work is not yet completed. Kansas and
| our Union must be saved, and nothing short of
the determination of the last vestige of Free Soil
| and Abolitonsm from that Territory, and ere,y
Stare State, can save either.
"The first Legislature in Kansas will lay the
foundation for purging Kansas, and it becomes
the people of Missouri to set about cleaning her
own borders. Free-Soilers and AbolitiOnists
are not entitledIto any place or respect in Mis-
souri,, and should, ,O,u, and must, be acholly er-
terminated. Honorable warfare with
an honorable foe, is our motto; but against the
| thieves, robbers, and murderers, about whom
we are speaking, their only REGARD should be
hemp. Destroy their papers; hang
their editors; travel not in their Territories:
| have no dealings with them of any kind, and
they will soon learn by sad experience that We
can do better soittoM them than they can acith-
| ont us.
| "Our Parkville friends have put the ball in
motion. Let us keep it moving until the last
dirty Free Soil sheet in Missouri shall be DESTROY.
ed their editors driven off or hung, and their
whole pack of emissaries hunted up, and ship.
ed off to their brother, Fred Douglass"
| Mr.. GEORGE s. PARK, OF THE PARKvILLE
| (Mo.) CULINARY" St. Louis Repu5li.
can of the 9th instant says:
"This gentleman called to see us Yesterday.
The press upon which his paper was issued was
destroyed by citizens of Platte county. and Mr..
Park was potfied to leave within given time.
Not wishing to incur the resentment of the
people who had thus treated him, and who, he
says, were not citizens of Parkville, he has left
that section of the country, and will probably
take up his residence, for the time on a farm
he owns in Illinois. Mr.. Park is the owner OF
slaves, has grown up in Missouri, and acquired
wealth, and we should not suppose, from his ap-
pearance and character, that he would make
himself obnoxious to any class of people,"
The Republican adds, that no attempt had
been made to Lynch him.
The Grand Know Nothing Council of New
York State brought its labors to close or
Friday of last week, after somewhat storm,
session. The question of platform is under
stood to have been left to the decision of The
National Convention of the party, although
strong evidence was given that National Unior
sentiments actuated large majority of tn,
members of the Council
7 Chicago, Illinois, continues its wonderful ca
reer of expansion. A recent number of tn
: Timer says that, since the LIST of MAY, the in
3 crease OF rents has been twenty five, seventy
, i've, and even one hundred per cent,