New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-26

them to their own highest pecuniary advantage, and
believe that will devote them 10 Free labor Human
BONDAGE slaveabar existing the track Of the great
thorouphfercs between the free Eest and the immense
undo, oped wealth Of the free West thnt surgng
SEA of free enterprise md industry which will cbb
and flow across the American Continent, would he an
old fogy anomaly utterly opposed TO the laws OF pro-
prcss The stronghold If the institution ia Missouri
ht- been for years comparatively small section Of
the State, much Of which donated to the soyer-
eiguty CT Missouri and devoted TO Sayery-years
after tho admission Of MssOuri-by :he representatives
of portion Of tho American people who have always
been too crcdulous too confding. and too resdy to
make cOnct .siOn- from aise ideas Of cOure1y and whs
learn lesson from the fact that thr soil 20
yielded up from cOurteoy guarded against the passage
it into Kansas Of any American citizen who WI
not take oath to ptrpctnate the Legislation which
perTetuates Slavery in Kansas guarded too by men 10
the stolen aCcoutrement- and with the stolen arms OF
our common country. The Pro. Slavery sentiment 10
Northern Missouri is comparatively moderate, and
seems to derive its chief strength from State pride.
The sentiment to the permanence Of the insti-
tuition IL entertained by large majority OF the voters
but seems dormant at this time. believe from what
have seen that it will become active within lew
years sooner and more Orciby than II would bat tor
the outrspes the frontier Of the last eighteen
months Every one Immediately recognized my wagon
and equipment as those Of Yankee, and, Of course.
understood that ! bound for Kansas. so
thu, this was constantly the theme without being in.
troduced by myself. | believe | never talked
more Free-SoirIn in a week In my lie. ana
vet | do not recoloCt TO have ever Introduced the
subject The Yankees can hardly claim a monopoly
of curiosity Most who shareholders al all own
but cry few slaves and oil or less land;
did not find such but Who wonld admit when
puebed, that his pecuniay interest wouic be advanced
were Slavery removed from Miss ur. Real estate 10
most parts of Northern Missouri possessing the same
natural ad, aItages is only worth from 10 what 1t Is
in Iowa. think would be safe to state the dispro-
portion az greater but will set il at that Then thcre
are all those important differences, existing and pro-
spective, in schools, roads, mills, s.ciety aud ON
Thousand other subjects which even ali ignorant man
can appreciate. When / reached within -
miles of the frontier began TO meet cmgrants on
their return to Iowa. Illinois, and Indiana who had
been at or the border, and had become alarmed
discouraged AT the reports Of violence in the Terri
tory. majority Of the stories they brought, were
too inconsistent for belief by any one but bisot but
for all that they answered the purpose in very great
many cases, of discOuraging Free State Immigrants
From this time spent hours every day conradcting
stories, az they were told me, and arguing against
their probability. The facts in modern history which
have mos. tested my powers Of credence, have been
some of the circumstances attending the Salem witch
cfat; how our Puritan fathers could believe the most
honid and unnatural things Of their friends and neigh
bors. II Il no longer forced belief with me. have
seen a practical manifestation within the last few
weeks OF the same spirit leading To similar results
have observed for the last twelve months that when
any particular outrage was contemplated toward the
Frees State people, It wa. heralded in The Squater
Sorereiga as having been already pcrpetrated
by them On Pro-Slavcry people. This is dono
TO stimulate the vicious and the credulous on
the Missouri border 10 realiate. II is exceedingly diff
fcult to always tell precisely among those who retail
th hese stories who il honestly relating what they sim
ceiey believe to be facts and who repeats them know
ing that they are greatly exaggerated or still worse,
those who fire give them currency when they know
they entirely manufactured out of the whole cloth
Pc sons of each OF these three classes seemed to
abound. For example: acquaintance of mine,
little way back from the frontier, candid, fair man,
Pro-Savery and an owner OF negroes, felt so much
anliety on my account, when he learned that was
nv way, that he wrote me letter which he hoped
Eoud reach me in the north part Of the State relating
,ome of these improbable stories, and advising to
svod certain points in travelling through Missouri
lid not receive his letter, and when saw him had
Dot talked with him an hour before think convinced
him that three-quarers which he repeated to mo OF
what going in Kansas, a. he alleged, was moon
,hLe. One Of the grossest lies heard was first re-
peated TO me by brother of Davy Atclison, TO the
feet that the Abolitionsts (every Free-Stae in
Kansas is called Abolitionist just nowl had first
murdered the Pro-Slavery parents in cold blood ana
hen unofending child and finally proceeded to cut
,ti the chds hands at the wrist He also stated that
hey had ordered all the PrOSavery residents ont OF
he Territory. The first-named man, am confident,
believed every word he stated. Er. Atchson appeared
ike great, honest, goodnatured, sixand a-quarter-
foot khan, and the expenditure on my part oil
very insignificant amount OF logic was followed
ty the admission from him that both stories
looked improbable ] did not have access to
any means Of information more than they did, out
differed principally in being in different itame oi
mind al feeling a different interest. probably con-
tradcied the hrsnamed story fifty times III the next
few days and presume finally did it with some impa
ticnce for the man was talking with told me must
claim TO be Il better than Col. Doniphan for he
heard him state it in addressing public meeting.
told him was sorry to hear that Col. Doniphan was
doing what be could to excite civil war gave him
my name and address, and told him 1t he would track
that starv to its source, thought he would tud i IN
ope of the newspapers of Westpor Leavcnworth City
or Atchison and in any event II 1t proved To De true
he might publicly denounce me as liar. Say II with
solemnity and without the least spirit OF trhg that
have once in my life experienced call to missionary
labor in procaimDR peace IN Kansas good WIZ 10
man. to that extent that had opportunity in Jackson
Platte and Clay Counties, No. in May and june, IS1o.
The greatest outrage ever offered to my feelings "a
greater shall probably never experieHce), was IN
Platte County: and yet now when rec sll the excltnS
scenes went through there and in Jackson aud Gay
for some two weeks talking myself hoarse every day
reasoning with men wild with excitement sOmst,nes
when yves not only entire stranger to them, out
nn acknowledged citizen of Kansas, and belonging to
the political party so despked and hated by them and
wore than ALL when what had to say eontradicted
III. ir political leaders land you should know how politi.
cal leaders looked up to at the extreme West and
South west, experiencing all the time thst o''er
and humiliatiux sense of indignity offered TO me
In their predspositon, almost pre-determinaon, not
TO believe what said which. after all, was no indgni-
ty but only the natural result of our mutual relations 10
each other unnatural and inhumsn relations 70 Do sure
brought about by political demsgogue-, who posses.
inst enough of that lowest development Of intellect
called canning, which enables the monkey aud the fox
in their instincts to resemble man. to STIR up deadly
strife between brethren; say, when recall all this
which now seems like some horrd hsit-rememoeIed
Sream and which of the time consumed my flesh faster
aud strained my nerves to greater tension than iever
over did also remember in all that hazy atmosphere
of rumcr which filed all space how that simple touch
stone rom mon sense applied to the most plsusby man.
we,ctnred rumors by a sort Of moral chemistry con-
verted them into vspor. remember, too, among the
many, a few, and they the most intelligent who dep
recalled these evils most sincerely but who can e1Pi
any c,reat reaction and striking exhibition OF moral
co1repe among the conservative in Western Missouri
rh irnorant sre too many and the evildispOsed too