Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-08-29
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ing effects Of the repeal OF the Missouri
Compromise on the prosperity Of that city
and State. We believe ali 1t says in respscs
to the disastrous effects Of that act, as ii
comes ahandaatly endorsed from other sour
ccs, and hope. its title may prove true and
what may hare been inicnded Tor the ex-
teusiaE may prove the death Of slavery,
We give several extracts from the article
ia question and commend them to our read
ees.-
sour news from Western Missouri is Of
omiaous aud most discouraging character.
That region is suffering from mildew aud
blight. Its glory is dimmed, its spirits alta
ted and its hope iading.
The emigration to Kansas has been simoss
entirely checked. Emisrants from the north
ern or free States have ceased TO go to
Kansas, because they can ind as good lands
elsewhere, not cursed BY mob law, nor ruled
by nonresident DULLES -Emigrants from
the southern States do not go TO Kansas;
because they will not put their slave prop
erts in peril, by taking il into territory
where there is a strong Free-seil element,
threatening the security of slaves.
Any man Of sense might have ioreseen
this result. Alabama and Georgia Iaay held
public meetings, aud resolve TO sustain The
slsveholders in Missouri in making Kansas
as.are State. Bu, their resolutions comprise
ali their aid-which is not "maierial" en-
ouch for the crisis. When shareholders Of
Alabama and Georgia emigra.e, they 60 TO
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. They do
NO; come, with their slaves, to Missouri or
T~A +t,, thar
friends.
Thus the matter stands. The northern
emigran,s shua Missouri ard Kansas as
plague spots Of the nation. The southern
em'gran,s shun Missouri and Kansas, be-
cause here is the battle-ground between
slavery and free soil.
TIE result is, Kansas, the taiFe.t land
under the sun, is neglected and idle; &C.
cuped BIZ few honest and earnest but dis
hear,ened pioneers, and loraed over by
dozen or two feudal iyrants of Missouri, who
curse BY their presence the land they have
desola,ed.
Such is Kaasas,-poor, neglected and
aespised-and Western Missouri stands in
feeied BY the horrible contsgion Of outlawry,
and dSiniles sw az under the moral leprosy
OF It's mobocratic ieateis-We are assured
BY two gentlemen ofhish position in West
ern Missouri but totally Offering in political
sentiment-one UNFOLDING the oiigarehy that
controls the affairs and tramples upon the
peoples sovereignty in Kansas, the other
ceploring the madness Of the day-ihat mat
tiers are gloomy enopgh in Western Ms
souri,. Business is dull. Commerce is stag
DaDt Money is exceedingly scarce, and
psnic perfades the people. The fifty thous-
aud emigrants that ought, this season, TO
have poured over into Kansas are not there.
The prairie sod remains unbroken. The
sound Of the axe, and The who p ofihe hue
hsndman is not heard Western Missouri
towns are not thronged with settlers buying
their outfits and their equipment Of bus
bsn1ry. Tie farmers End no market for
their horses, mules, oxen and cows. There
is no new and large trade springing up in
Kansas. The much Wanted Kansas towns
lie neglected. mockery TO their owners
and q laughing stock for all men. Dead
-,dead-desd''-may be written on all the
country-so deep sni disastrous has been
the fall from the high and fond hopes Of the
past year.
Ia recent trip through Kentucky, the
editor of the Inteiii9eaoer encountered nu-
merous OF the most espectable and wealthy
farmers of that State, who inquired earnest
~ in respee, to matters in Kansas and
Western Missouri and..spoke of the inten-
ton they had to remove thiiher, but said
they had abandoned it utterly, for the rea-
son that they never would think of taking
their families among such a lawless set Of
men. The editor then continues in the
following strain. We bad though; to abridge
the article bu, really can find no portion
that can be omitted without impairing the
= hole -
Between these fires. Missouri is leading
on her lauguid existence. S.. Louis is re-
tsrded in most wofu way. Our railroads
creep AZ snail's pace. We build ten miles
while other Western States build one hun
dred. In every department OF life we feel
the paralysis Instead Of bounding forward.
bueyant, strong and rejoicing, we sit with
dull eyes and heavy spirits, and listen TO
the tick Of death watch.
These are The bitter fruits OF the repeal
of the Missouri Compromises wicked and
wrongful deed-that viii yet bring hell Of
bitter seif-reprosches to its authors Mis-
souri, did not demand that repeal Tie
South never asked il. Atehison solicited it
and in moment of political insanity the
South consented to the wrong and made the
wrong her own. tbs uas tie sgicidc of
SLAVERY.
Every step since taken has deepened the
wrong and enhanced the danger. Tie Free
States organized Aid Societies, and sent
their men TO make Kansas free. II had been
tree soil, BY solemn compact, for thirtv-fye
years; and they naturally were incensed 10
see is Character changed. The South would
have been far more inlignan, If slave ter
ritory had been thus, BY unexpected &c, OF
Congress, converted into Free Sci.
The Free States bad right to be ind'g-
nant that a lifelong Compromise had been
repeaied-and they had right TO try to
keep Kansas free Us I; had been, by peace.
able colonization. They attempted nothing
else. Bat portion of the citizens Of Mis-
fouFi, headed by Aiehisen & sringfellow, +
denounced the northern e.ngrants ss "paa.
pers and b;relings," because they we're sent
west By the money Of aspciety; and 50 they
held county meetings 10 Missouri, and
rctsed Money and sent Missoufiars 10 Kan
SIS 10 mike Kansas slave tprritory Were 4