The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-03
THE MISSOURI OUTRAGE, AS DESCRIBED BY
IT'S AIDERS AND ABETTORS.
From the Platte Argus, Extra

curreHce, anu may Ue considered perfectly au
| thentic.
1t will be seen that George S. Park and vii
liam j. Patterson, who have for years been
manifcsting Free Soil and Abolition proclivities
| through the Ltmindfy and otherwise, were
ordered to depart from the county in three
weeks. The resolutions speak like flint to TIE
POcder: like determined patriots who know no
| fear, and mean to defend their rights and their
| institutions. Let the case be fairly understood
| let the world understand that the people, in hon
est simplicity and determination, have destroy.
ed the press and fixtures of the Lun,indry news
paper, for the reason that George S. Park and
w. j. Patterson, ,cho are citizens of slavc
State, supported by shareholders money, have
been in open rebellion and opposition to the in
stitution of Slavery and the interests and safety
of our people and property. Week after week
the columns of their paper have been filled with
violent denunciations of the Pro-Slavery men of
Missouri and Kansas, and in open and avowed
aid of the Aid Societies of the North. For this
they have suffered, for nothing else. Let trail
tors beware The people are aroused; strong
arms and stout hearts are enlisted, not for q
day or single campaign, bm for the aoar! We
fight for peace, a final peace, for justice and
our rights. Again we say, in tones which we
would prefer should resound like the thunders
of the heavens: Let traitors among as be,ca1e
Let those who are coming to oppose US count
nell the cost.
PARKvLLE, Mo-, april Ia, 1855.
Mr.. EDITOR: The spontaneous upheavings of
an indignant and outraged community were
manifested here to-day in decided manner.
To tell you that the Industrial Luminary, q
newspaper owned by George Park and w. j.
Patterson, in this town, is a Free Soil sheet, and
has been aiding and abetting and Eastern Adolf
ton societies in their abortive attempt to aboli-
tionize Kansas for the past year, is to tell you
what you already know. You are also aware
that Park has large hotel in this place, kept
by a Free-Soiler imported from Illinois, and de-
voted to the same foul purposes 1t seems that
certain men in the neighborhood determined
"to abate the nuisance" How they managed
to notify so many, and keep it quiet, / do not
understand; but about ten o'clock this morning
were surprised to see about ten or fifteen of our
most respectable country acquaintance ride
into town, and go to the printing office and put
Patterson under guard. Park, it appears, had
either heard of it, or his good luck had prompt
ed him to go to the mouth of the Blue, in Kan
sas Territory. Attwelve o'clock, about two hun
dred men had arrived. The press was very uui.
city taken down and paraded into the street.
The crowd was called to order, and Patterson
was brought forth to receive his sentence. One
speaker stated that they all were aware that
they came there with the firm determination to
black, tar and feather, and ride on rail- G..
s. Park and w. Patterson; but that, as Park
had escaped and left his scapegoat to suffer for
both, he wished the meeting to decide what
should now be done with the prisoner. Anoth-
er declared that his voice was for mercy, not
that he had any excuse to offer for Patterson,
for ha cpd i'm
could, but that Patterson's wife throughout the
| morning had hung to him like leech; that she
now held ON to him, and that we could not in
hict the punishment without gross violence to
her feelings, and perhaps rudeness to her per-
son. He therefore, for the sake of the wife,
moved vote be taken to remit the tar, feathers,
&C., and set Mr.. Patterson at large for the pres
ent. The vote was accordingly taken, and q
small majority went in favor of the prisoner |;
he was therefore set at large. The following
resolutions were then offered and voted on sin
gly, and not one dissenting voice was heard on
the ground. Almost every one voted in the af.
frmative, and they voted with swim, too, that
showed they were in earnest:
Resolred, l. That the Parkville Industrial
LuminaYy is nuisance which has been endur-
ed too long, and should now be abated.
2. That the editors, to wit, G. S. Park and
w. j. Patterson, are traitors to the State and
county in which they live, and should be dealt
with rs such.
8. That we meet here again on this day three
weeks, and if we find G. S. Park or w. j. Pat
terson in this town, then, or at any subsequent
time, we will throw them into the Missouri riv
or; and IF they go to Kansas to reside, we
pledge our honor as men to follow and hang
them wherever we can take them.
A. That, at the suggestion of our Parkville
friends, we will attend to some other FreeSoilers
not far off.
5. That we will suffer no person belonging to
the Northern Methodist Church to preach in
Platte county after this date, under the penalty
of tar and feathers for the first offence, and q
hemp rope for the second.
6. That we earnestly call on our sister coun-
ties throughout the State to rise in their might
and clean themselves of Free-Soilism.
7. That our peace, our. property, and our
safety, require us at this time to do our duty.
8. That we request every Pro-Slavery paper
in Missouri and Kansas to publish the above
resolutions.
The press was then shouldered, with white
cap drawn over its head, and labelled Boston
Aid" the crowd following in regular order; it
was marched through town nearly to the upper
landing, and there, with three hearty cheers,
it was deposited in the tomb of all the Capu-
let's" to wit, the Missouri river.
A speech was then made to the crowd, and
they dispersed peaceably, each taking the road
| to his own home. During the day, frequent
telegraphic dispatches we're received from both
ends Of the line, of most encouraging nature.
Sic transit gloria Sdturdi!
In transferring the above account to its col
umns, the st. Louis Lateuigencer says:
It seems that the Parkville L.tnsinary news
paper, conducted by George s. Park ana ID.
Patterson, had become insufferably offensive TO
certain citizens of that vicinity, on account OF
it's imagined proclivity towards Free Soil'sm.
In other words, in the cant language OF the
resolutions passed by the citizens, 1T was a
nuisance which they resolved to abate. They
dracoed Mr.. Patterson one of the editors of
the Huminary, into the street, forced him to
witness the destruction of his property, and then
nrenared to tar, feather, and ride him on a rail-,
Int 4 guardian and protecting angel was sent
TO save the unresisting man from the mortify-
ing disgrace and degrading punishment ready
to be inflicted on him by the enraged populace
His devoted wife chung to him TO the last
astuck to him like leech," as brutal eye
witness and narrator of the scene expresses
it--and endeavored to defend him by her feeble
strength from the fury of the crowd. She
succeeded. Her frail form was an effectual
shield and saved her hushand from the lDtiic-