Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-09-07
The Bitter Fruits-The Suicide OF
SLAVERY.

uCle from the 81. Louis IatetIgeHceT, WHICH
we trust will be read by every man, wheth
er he is in favor OF or opposed to the spread
of slavery, or the outrages committed by
Atchison, SirinfeAow, and other border ruff
fans in Kansas. The editor of the E1tel6
geacer has taken the right view Of this ques
ton Of slavery extension, which is agitating
the country, and in most able mannei he
has expressed his honest convictions. /
is refreshing to find a Southern man, al
editor of Southern paper, thus taking holc
Of subject about which Southern mer
generally and Northern doughfaces partic
ularly, have been won't TO deceive them
selves, or act so as to deceive others, By
using unpopular terms, myshfying every
question connected with the main issues
and denouncing as abolitionists, men wh'
oppose the violation of solemn compacts
and the spread of an evil, known TO b.
such BY nine-tenths of the American peo
pie, over territory that thirty-fve years ag'
was dedicated to freedom. If the honest
intelligent men Of the South would speal
their honest sentiments with reference t.
this matter, and act in accordance there
with, the vexed question would very sool
be settled; and they would SO speak anC
act if Northern men would pursue ;
straightforward, manly course, processing
what they know and believe, and laying
aside hypocricy, act with a view to perpet
uate the peace and harmony Of our beloved
country Cincinnati Gazette.
Our news from Western Missouri is o
ominous and most discouraging character
that region is suffering from mildew ant
blight. It's glory is dimmed, its spirit
abated, and its hope fading.
The emigration to Kansas has been al
most entirely checked. Emigrants from
the Northern OF free States have ceased tt
20 to Kansas, because they can find as gooc
lands elsewhere, not cursed by mob law
nor ruled by nonresident bullies. Emf
grants from the Southern States do not G,
to Kansas, because they will not put thei
slave property in peril. by taking it into
territory where their is a strong Freesol
element, threatening the security of slaves
Any man Of sense might have foreseeI
this result. Alabama and Georgia may
hold public meetings, and resolve to sustain
the Shareholders in Missouri in maxim:
Kansas a slave State. But their resolution
comprise all their aid-which is not innate
rial enough for the crisis. When slave
holders of Alabama and Georgia emigrate
they 90 to Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas
They do not come, with their slaves, Il
Missouri or Kansas. Call they that back
ing their friends?
Thus tie matter stands: The Northern
emigraDts sbun Missouri and Kansas al
the plague spots of the nation. The South
ern emigrants shun Missouri and Kansas
because here is the battle ground of Slave
ry and FIeesoil.
The result is, Kansas, the fairest lanC
under the sun, is neglected and idle; occu
pied BIZ few honest aud earnest, but dis
heartened pioneers, and lorded over by
dozen or two feudal tyrants Of Missouri
who curse by their presence the land the.
have desolated.
Such is Kansas,-poor, neglected ant
desp;sed-and Western Missouri stands in
fected by the horrible contagion of outlaw
~, and dwindles away under the mora
Ileprosy of its mobooratic leaders We ar
assured by two gentlemen of high positio
| in Western Missouri, but totally differini
ID political sentiment-one upholding tn
oligarchy that controls the affairs and tram
piles upon the peoples sovereignty 10 Han
sas, the other deploring the accursed msd
ness of the day-that matters are gloom
enough in Western Missouri Business
dull. Commerce is staguant. Money
extremely scarce, and panic pervades tn
people. The fifty thousand emigrants tha
ought, this season, to have poured over ii
to Kansas are not there The prairie sol
remains unbroken. The sound of the az
and the whoop of the husbandman is nc
heard. Western Missouri towns are nc
thronged with settlers buying their outd'
and their equipments Of husbandry. Th
farmers find DO market for their horse
mules, oxen and cows There is no me-
and large trade springing up in Kansas
The much vaunted Kansas towns lie neg
lected-a mockery 10 their owners and
laughing stock for all men. "Dead-deR
l-desd"-may be written on all the cour
try-so deep and disastrous has been tn
fall from the high hopes of the past yea
In May last, the editor of the Iatel2igeH
Ger was in Kentucky, and hemet numerou
of the most respectable and wealthy farm
ers af that State, such as form SO large
proportion of the population of Missouri
who inquired earnestly about the conditio
of things in Kansas and in western MlssoI
lri They spoke of the intention they ha
of removing to Kansas or Western Missor
Iri; but said they had abandoned 1t utterl
for the reason that they would never thin
of taking their families to region whel
law was set aside, presses mobbed, an
uen driven from the country by irrespons
bic and unknown bands of Regulators =
They preferred the rule of law to anarch
In recent trip through several Northwes
ern States, we found that the same circur
stances were most industriously and fatal
used to divert emigration to those State
and to prejudice Missouri and Kansas wi
every class of people. The most aggrava
ing stories of insults and outrages comm
ted by Missourians on the persons of en-
grants from the Old World or the FIR
States, who are found ascending the NJ
-; ,;.or nrn circr,lafeh in the neRsn