Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-09-06

ness Of the day-lhal matters are gloomy e
nough in Western Missouri. Basiness Is dull.
Commerce is slagnant. Money isexceedingly
scarce. and panic pevadeS the people. The
City thousand people that ought this season,
10 have poured over into KanE -. are not there.
The prairie sod remains unbrokeu. The sound
Of the axe and the whOop Of the busbandman
are not heard. Western Missouri towns are
DOW thronged with settlers buying their outfits
and-thsir equipments Of husbandIy. The far
mers find no market for their horses, mules
oxen and cows. There is no new and large
trade spri1gipg up 10 KaDzas. The much
Wanted Kanzas towns lie neglected. mock
cry to their owners sad laughing stock for all
meH. 'Dead-dead-dead'-may be written
on all the eountTy-so deep aud disastrous has
been the fall from the high and fond hopes Of
the past year.
In May last, the editor Of the Intsllipencer
was in Kentucky, and be met Numerous of the
most respectable and wealthy farmers of that
Slate, such as form so large portion Of the
population Of Missouri, who inquired earnestly
about the condition Of things in Kauzas and in
Western Missouri. They spoke of the inten.
tion they had Of removing TO Kanzas or West.
ern Missouri; but said they had abandoned il
utterly, for the reason that they would never
think Of tLking their families to a region where
law was set aside, presses mobbed, and men
driven from the country by irresponsible and
unknOTn bands of Regulators. They prefer
red the rule Of law TO anarchy. In a recent
trip through several Northwestern States, we
found that the same circumstances were most
industriously and fatally used to divert emigra-
ton to those States, and to prejudice Missouri
and Kanzas with every class of people. The
most aggravating stories Of insults and outra.
ges committed BY Misso urians on the persons
of engrants from the Old World or from the
free States, who are found ascending the Mis-.
souri, river, are circulated in the newspapers
all through the free States, and it is impossible
to conceive Of the deep hatred thus generated
towards our whole State in the Northern half oI
the Union.
Between these fires. Missouri is leading on
her languid existence. st. Louis is retarded
in most woful way. Our railroads creep at
snaiPs pace. We build ten miles, while other
Western States build one hundred: In every
department Of life we feel the paralysis. In,
stead of bounding forward, buoyant. strong
aud rejoicing, we sit with dull eyes and heavy
spirits, and listen to the tick of dead watch
These are the bitter fruits of the repeal o
the Missouri Compromises wicked and
wrongful deed--that will yet bring hell o
bitter self-reprosches to its authors. Missouri
did not demand that repeal. The South nevel
asked it, Atchison solicited it-and in a mo
ment of political insanity, the South consented
to the wrong and made the wrong her own
This was the suicide Of Slavery.
Every step since taken has deepened th,
wrong and enhanced the danger. The Ere
States organized Aid Societies, and sent thei
men to make Kanzas free. 1t had been fre
soil, BY solemn compact, for thirty five years
e and they naturally were incensed to see il
s character changed. The South would hav
s been far more indignant il Slave territOr
had been thus, by unexpected act Of Congress
t converted into free soil.
: The Free States had right to be indignan
that life long Compromise had been repealed
, and they had a right to try to keep Kanza'
free as it had been, by peaceful colonization. -
They attempted nothing else. But portion o
the citizens of Missouri, headed by AtehisoI
and StriEgfellow, denounced the northern emf
: grants as paupers and hirelings,' because the
i. we're sent west by the money of society; an,
) so they held county meetings In Missouri. AM
raised money and sent Missourans to KAMA:
to make Kanzas slave territory! Were thes'
, Missounans hirelings' too? And did these tw,
r wrongs make one right?
: Atchison and Stringfellow, with their Mis-
souri, followers, overwhelmed the settlers il
, Kanzas, brow beat and bullied them, and tool
r the government from their hands. Missouri
votes elected the present body of men who in
suit public intelligence and popular rights b.
: styling themselves the Legislature of Kan
gas" This body of men are helping them
selves to fat speculations by locating the sea
of government and getting town lots fc
their votes. They are passing laws disfranch
ising all the cititizens of Kanzas who do NJ
believe negro slavery to be Christian institu
a ton and a national blessing, They are prC
: posing to punish with Imprisonment to utte
: ance of views inconsistent with their oWn.-
r And they are trying to perpetuate their pre-
posterous and internal tyranny by appOintn
for term Of years creatures of their own,
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