The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-30
The Pro-Slavery Mob Spirit In Missouri,
and Kansas.

outrages whicl, commenced with the late
general election in Kansas, and were fol
lowed by the destruction of the type and
presses of the Parkville Luminary, in Mis-
soari, are still continued, especially in the
latter State. The threats against all North
ern editors and Northern clergymen, made
at the Convention which decreed the de-
struction of the Luminary, are daily being
put in force. The edict put forth against
members of the latter profession, was at
first confined to those of the Methodist per
suasion who left by scores rather than
wear the uncomfortable apparel Of tar and
feathers. Since then, ministers of every
stripe, who had the misfortune to be born
North, and the greater misfortune to live
in Western Missouri, are driven off under
the fear Of the same treatment. We learn
from the Rochester Democrat that the Rev.
F. STARR, Jr., a Presbyterian clergyman,
for three years past settled at Weston, Platt
county, Mo, has arrived at Rochester, hav-
ing been expelled from Kansas by the same
gang of pro-slavery ruffians who threw the
types and presses of the ParkVille Lumina-
ry into the river They gave him notice to
quit within two days under penalty of being
lynched, and he deemed it prudent to leave.
1t does not appear that he ever preached
against slavery, but only that he was a cler-
gyman of Northern origin.
The instigator@ of Tic mobs which have
thus over run all iaw and order, and COM
mitted violence upon the persons of those
commissioned to deliver the messages Of the
Gospel of Peace, are believed to be Sena-
tor ATcHIsoN, late Acting Vice President
Of the United States and candidate for
reelection and Col DoNIPHAN, who won
some distinction in the Mexican war, aid
who is the Wing candidate for us. Senator
from Missouri They arc pro-slavery dema-
gogueS, as many of the abolitionist leaders
at the North are anti-slavery demagOgues.
AS the latter class at the North seek sue
cess by pandering to the fanaticism of a
weak and credulolls morality, SO these men
seek Il like success by inlaming the preju-
dices of the slaye-holding population to
whom they look for political support. A
writer in the Missouri Democrat says that
each Senatorial candidate of course found
il polite not to allow himself to be outdone
in zeal and devotion in that cause by his
competitor, and each accordingly did his
best to regulate the domestic concerns Of
his neighbors in his own way. Ambitious
Missouri politicians hope to help themselves
to Office by leading horde of banditti on
. crusade against the peaceful settlers in the
Territories from the free States"
The St Louis News, which divides with
the Republican the honor of being the
State organ Of the border mob, says, in ref
erence to statements from Washington, that
the President endorses the course Of Gov.
REEDER, in Kansas, and upholds him against
ArcHlsoN's gang, that IF he sends body
guard of troops to escort Gov. REEDRR to
Kansas, and place him in the gubernatorial
chair, the squatters will resist, and rally by
the hundreds, if not by thousands, to place
some one else there" 1t adds, 4" that moth
ing short of General HARVEY and his regi-
ments can avail any thing against them"
As a set off to the spirit of lawless brag
gadocio WHICH is breathed in the foregoing,
we are glad to notice the journals of the
North generally, and especially those Of the
State from which he was appointed, up
holding the noble and fearless course pur-
sued by Gov. REEDER The Washington
correspondent of the Pennsylvania, whom
the editor characterizes as one wis has
".battled long and well for the rights of
the South writes under late Gate, as
follows: III . -..-..---
"Gov Reeder has proud yet most critical posi-
tion The murderers in Missouri pursue him alone
because he will not yield to their demand for slave
ry, by illegal votes, in Kansas. Had he done so,
there would not be the skeleton of Democratic par
tv left in the free states. He might have purchased
ease and place by letting the slave owners of Mis-
souri, take charge kansas. He might have been
governor or senator, bun he thought Of Pennsy lvania
and the north, and Of his honor, and he acted as an
honest and patriotic Democrat. lie goes back, and
will sell his life dearly, il any attempt is made to do
him personal injury. The fact is the south asks too
much of us. l am sick of their arrogance-sick Of
their volence--and resolved that however ready
am stand by their rights, will not sustain their
wrongs. Slavery is not God-descended-it is not
divinity. 1t is load carry and we must not have
the load made heavier by arrogant exactions.''