The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-02-16
Letter rom a Missouri an.
WEsrERs MIssoURI, Jan. g, 185

| DEAR FRIENDS :-You letter, written
soon after your arrival in Kansas, was
received some weeks past. We were
glad to hear from you. and that all were
well. All are well here and hereabouts.
thank God.
You have had squally and noisy times
since your return. The first version We
had of your rebellion" &c, we now
believe to be full batch of lies, con-
ceiyed in the womb of iniquity, and be-
gotten by the devil and some of his sons,
who are the very image and likeness Of
the old monarch. You are truly set Of
slaves, serfs and bondmen. when l re-
feet that your Legislature were creatures
of Missouri, citizens living and dwelling
in Missouri, chosen by Missourisns,
twenty-five of whom came from Macon
county, in this State, one hundred and
fifty miles, headed by godly preacher,
am constrained to cry out, Names of our
Fathers! shades of Patrick Henry, John
Adams, and Samuel Adams have we
SO degenerated No, my children, lib
erty is a farce. There is no shadow of a
shade of liberty in Kan>as, and this is
pretty much the truth all over the United
States. If the Missourians have the
right to legislate for, and to ''bind you in
all cases whatsoever, so have the people
of Texas, Alabama, Iowa-so have the
English or Mexicans so have the Gu
bans and the people of ST. Domingo.
Good Lord have read all law, human
and dlyine-Solon' Draco's, and Bona
parte' none can compare in atroci-
ty and despotism with your pamphlet of
bogus laws. | much question if the laws
of hell and the Internal regions can ex-
Gel yours in atrocity. Submit to the
calling yoke, or flee away. But where
, will you go? There is but little true lib
erty anywhere. The Democrats! | be-
longed to the abominable set all nv life.
They cry outfreedom, liberty, and equal
ity when seeking votes, but once install
ed into Office, the ''dear people" may
sink into perdition for what they care.
1t is the spoils, the public pap that they
seek after. The constitution, bill of
rights, and human rights all may sink
into oblivion if you will but let them
have the Treasury. | will never vote
for one of the blood suckers again.
lam STAKEHOLDER, a, you well know.
| was born one, ever have been one, and
no man shall take from me my rights. |
will defend my rights with my last drop
of blood. But | had rather my negroes
and those of all my kindred, for all have
slaves J and all in Missouri, and all in the
United States, were put on one vast ship,
and that ship scuttled and sunk in the
middle of the Pacific, than to have wit
messed the drunken and beastly immor-
ality, the more than sacreligious, devilish
and internal assaults made on the elec-
tive franchise, and on republican institu-
tions and privileges, such as | have wit
messed lately.
Not one voter in thirty throughout the
State of Missouri owns even the sore
shin of negro. Some who do own have
an interest," reversionary interest-of
one-eighth part of an old, gray headed
negro man. Now. is it not plain to the
eyes of the most obtuse understanding,
that Davy Atchison, and Stringfellow,
and such like, have done more to open
the eyes of slaves to their condition and
their rights, (if they have any and rem
der them unhappy. untractable, disobe-
dient and worthless, than all that has ever
been said or done, or that can be said or
done, by all the abolitionists on both
sides of the Atlantic put together. These
blind men have injured Slave property
one hundred per cent They have open
ed the eyes of hundreds and thousands
of Missourians who own no slaves, and
hundreds and thousands who do own
them, to the fact that shareholders are a
very little minority in this great State,
and should it ever come to the test, for |
most assuredly it will come, you will find
two thirds of the voters going one way
and one-third or less going the other.
Only see how we are trampled upon by |
monopolies. The boat monopolyon Mis-
souri, river, the salt monopoly by hogs,
or rather by hog dealers-salt being now
Sc and likely to be SO per sack before
spring The cause: We have no way to
get % market. Missouri can't build a
With all her mineral wealth,
with all her fertile lands, she is the poor
est old creature in the world. Nothing
developed, nothing done. Her school
system is very good. but such school
teachers, in general, "all the world and
the rest of mankind" never beheld.
know many of these worthless. could
describe many of them. This much l
will say that the arts and sciences they
have never condescended even to look at.
But whisky they know is made of corn.
Labor is high here, indeed. No ne
groes, no laborers can be had, of any
sort, at the highest prices. What shall
we do? We must either import more
Africans, or we must seize upon the In
dians and Mexicans. or the Cubans. La
borers we must have. We are in pre-
di':ament that has no parallel on earth.
We have the best lands on the globe, a
healthy climate, more mineral wealth
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