New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-28

gagged IN working upon the rreludlces, The supersti
iCDs The bigory and persecuIing Intolerance of the
ignorant crszed and fanstcal Long before the pss-
rage Of the KaI act the cry forth for
an armed defiant colonization fom the Free States
cooniz alton which should eectualy srsas 10
one sec ion Of The Union and which should a. efTec'u
ally prevent another ction from enjoying equal rights
il aT6nory which The common and joint property
Of all the States This attempt TO forestal natural inn
migroon-to anticipate the workings Of the popular
severe CITY principle not by constitutional right but
| by ruff6n ngbt-wss followed, as might have been
expected by stroEg preventive measures and realis-
| tory acts.
| Here the gst Of the accusation is that THE
| TRIBUNE provoked AMI melted the Mssourians to
| inaugurate the reign of Border Ruffianism in Kan.
sas- that such violence would not have occurred
but for previous proyOcation and irritation on the
part Of THE TRIBUNE AMI its compatriots. We
meet this with pointed and solemn denial: we
appeal from our accuser to the testimony Of living
men Of unimPeachable veracty-to records which
cabIOt be evaded nor gainsayed.
| To the law, then, and the testimony
The Rev. Frederick Starr, for i've years and a
half pastor Of the Presbyterian Church in Weston,
Missouri just over the NJ ssOuri River from Kansas,
testifes that he heard, in the Winter of 1922,
DAVID r. Atchson, then a Democratic l.. s. Sena-
tor from Missouri, and lhen just before President
pro ttm Of the Senate, standing upon two dry goods
boxes at The corner OF Thomas and Market streets,
i'll Weston, deliver baraDgue Of which the follow.
ing is The substance:
"Af er decouncing Col Benton as recrean TO the in.
eIests Of Slavery, because be vas III favor Of the Mis-
sour Con promise ch'son stigmatized by the basest
nsIncs, that bonoled compact; brsnded its author,
Henry Clay, as black hearted traitor to the
South for having trcduced the Compromise
Sta Il of ta Uh nd mat haop f,ro
eanzing Nebraska, he expressed his gatc alton that
il bad tailed ne would oppose the admission of Ne
bIoska into the Union IS Free State with the las.
{ drop Of his blood; he would oppose the Missouri
Compromise to his last breath he would have that
{" odous Missouri Compromise" repealed which
made either give up their niggers, give - the
- Northern cattle the finest farms in Nebraska
American citizens should be permitted 10 20 where
& they pleased and carry their property with them,
whether that property was furniture, or mule',
niggeIs. On Tat quts tiOn when 1t should come up,
he pledged hms If 10 tie faithful; that Compromise
should be repealed He went further, by the most
iIfammatory appeals to the basest passions of men
he examined the other side Of the case. What will
'you Go if the Missouri Compromise is not repealed
fNil you sit down here at home and permit the sers
he agger there's. The catte tie rerma of the NORTH
so coIne into Nebraska and take up those fertile
prairies, off your negroes and depreciste the
'value OF your slaves here know you WE'LL know
what you will do; you krow how to protect your
'interefts; gour 01on rifles vii free you from such
'naehhors, and secure your property. You will 90
there with your slaves ind you will stay there with
them, even if the Missouri Compromise is not re-
moved You will 60 in there if necessary, with the
'bogOnct and with blood. But We wi lrepeal the COM
promise. | wOud sooner sec The rkole IF Nebraska
'hund1td times IN he bottom Of HE'LL than 10 sec n
Free State.
THE speech wac received with loud cheers aud in
teLse excitement. stood from the beginning to the
erd Of hs speech about twelve feet directly in front of
him, and heard every syaable he uttered
This was at least year before THE TRIBUNE
had anything to say on the subject; and we cha-
leDge The Onion to cite any passage we ever wrote
that is ole half so irritating and abusive of the Pro-
Slavery party to this Kansas controversy, as the
above is of the Free-Sta.e men, And this was but
a sample OF the Pro-Slayery haranguer with which
the Border resouDdtd in those days.
But again: hardly two weeks after the passage
of the Kansas Nebraska bill, and before any thing
we said thereupon could have been known on the
Kansas border, there was meeting Of three hun
bred MissCuriaDs (clalm hunters) a! Salt Creek,
three miles from Fort LeayenwOrth, 10 form
SQuatter Association al which the following among
other resolves We're passed.
"Resolred, g. That ne cW AFFORD protection % no
AJOi,liOn,sls rs settlers of ksnsas Territory.
Resoirtd, .. That we recognize the lGs.til n :"
Slavery aiTeddy eristfhg IN this Territory, anu re-
commend to Shareholders 10 introduce thelt properly
az early as possible
There was no pretense set up at this time that
the Mssourans were irritated by any thing said by
TIE TRIBUNE or done by anybody else. The sim
PIE, ayCwed ground Of their action was fixed re-
solve TO make Kansas Slave State at all hazards.
Just about the same date, The WestOn Argus,
Democratic organ on the border edited by one
of the brothers Strinefelow gave the following ed
itoral warning to Free-Sta'e emgrants that they
would be allowed to settle in Nebraska, but not in
Kansas:
"TLe Aboltioniss will probably not be interrupted
ii they settle oih of the FoRTIETH PARALLEL OF NORTH
Lq,itnde, bit SOUTH Of that hne aud WITHIN Kansas
TFRRIToRY, they need not SET FOOT. IL IS DE-
CREED by the Ieopie who live adjaccHi tna' THEIR
Institutions are 10 be established there"
Two weeks later, when the news hid reached he
Border that Emigrant-Aid Societies were being
formed at the East to promote the removal of peace
full industrious Free State men to Kansas-without
one word or thought Of yioence-that same Weston
Argus thus commented on the news:
1T ia time now 10 soIId The alarm. We know we
sposk the sentiments Of Of the mast disRgu',ked
statesmen Of Missouri when advise that counter or
CARNATIONS be immediately made, both IN Is an'as aod
Missouri, IN thHaIt the reckless course Of the Adolf
tioniss They must be met If need be- with the RIFLE.
We must meet them at the very threshold and scouree
| them back 70 their cayerns OF darkness Ihey hare
made the ISSUE and it is for TO NEE. and repe them,
ereR At THE POINT OF THE BAYoSET.
| Mr.. Eli Thayer of Worcester, Mass, (now chosen
TO the next COngress), appeared in some Eastern
journals as Secretary OF the Emigrapt-Aid Society.
which never contemplated, proposed, nor did any.
ih,rg worse than 10 designate, ard forward emf
grants to Kansas upon, the cheapest. routes and in