The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-09-08
THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.

dHu AdusdS VIII eNeI9 CLASS VI ptpplC. AuN
most aggravating stories Of insults and out
RACES committed by Missourians on the per-
sons of emigrants from the old world or from
the free states, who are found ascending the
Missouri river, are circulated in the newspa-
pers 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 of the Union.
Between these fires, Missouri is leading on
her languid existence. St. Louis is retarded
in most woful way. Our railroads creep
at snails pace. We build ten miles while
other western states build one hundred In
every department of life we feel the paraly-
sis. Instead of bounding forward, buoyant,
strong, and rejoicing, we sit with dull eyes
and heavy spirits, and listen to the tick of a
death-watch.
These are the bitter fruits Of the repeal Of
the Missouri compromise-a wicked and
wrongful deed, that will yet bring a hell Of
bitter self-reproaches to its authors. Mis-
souri, did not demand that repeal. The south
never asked it. Atchison solicited it-and
in moment of political insanity the south
consented to the wrong, and made the wrong
her own. This qca8 the suicide of 8lavery
Every step since taken has deepened the
wrong and enhanced the danger The Free
States organized Aid Societies, and sent their
men TO make Kansas free. 1t had been free
soil, by solemn compact, for thirty five years;
and they naturally were incensed to see its
character changed The South would have
been far more indignant if a slave territory
had been thus, by unexpected act Of Con-
gress, converted into Free Soil.
The Free States had a right to be indig
nant that lifelong Compromise had been
repealed and they had right to try to keep
Kansas free as it had been, by peaceable col
onization. They attempted nothing else.
But portion of the citizens of Missouri,
headed by Atchison and Stringfellow, de-
nounced the northern emigrants as ''paupers
and hirelings,' because they were sent west
by the money of society and so they held
county meetings in Missouri and raised mo-
neg and sent Missourans to Kansas to make
Kansas slave territory! Were these Mis-
sourians "hirelings" too? And did these
two wrongs make one right?
Atchison and Stringtellow, with their
Missouri followers, overwhelmed the settlers
in Kansas, brow beat and bullied them, and
took the government from their hands. Mis-
souri, votes elected the present body of men,
who insult public intelligence and popular
rights by styling themselves " the iegisla-
ture of Kansas" This body of men are help
ing themselves to fat speculationS by loca-
ting " the seat of government" and getting
town lots for their votes. They are passing
laws disfranchising all the citizens of Kansas
who do not believe negro slavery to be a
Christian institution and national blessing.
They are proposing to punish with impris-
onment the utterance of views inconsistent
with their own. And they are trying to per
petnate their preposterous and internal tyran-
ny,by appointingJ for term Of gears creatures
of their own,as commissioners in every coun-
ty, to lay and collect taxes, and see that the
laws they are passing are faithfully executed
Has this age anything to compare with these
acts in audacity?
The Free State men of Kansas have resolv.
ed not to submit to this daring usurpation ot
a nonresident oligarchy. They have called
a convention of the people of Kansas, tc
meet in September next, and frame Con,