Squatter sovereign., 1856-10-14
Preserve us from such Friends.

erv interest than all the concentrated yen-
ON OF the howlng fanatics in the North:
Pretending Jealous devotion 10 the South
-boasting of Southern nativity, the hoary
serlbbler Las always heen busy in manu-
featuring capital for an abolition market. |
At no one time have the pro-slavery party I
acted in concert with tie views OF the edl-
tor During an editorial career of years,
VIM. Musgrove has ever been casting odi-
um upon every measure that has been put
on foot for the protection of Southern IN
teres.s; Eut the su;joined is peg beyond
anything We I.ayeyet seen from the pen OF
thistwo-faced apostate. When such false
hoods enanate from one oil the largest and
most deeply interested siaveholding coun-
ties in the State, we are not surprised al
the monstroslties with which the North is
soodsd By che abolition press. But to the
extract:
& Up to the last year cur government
has been government OF laws. Since
tie commencement Of 1855 there has been
no law on our border. All laws have been
openly violated; property and life have
been sacrificed and measures of fetalia-
ton have ttcn rcsorted to, until the war
which lo~ wages uithiIi sixty miles OF cur
doors, las become II war of plunder-a and
could these plunderers be restrained in
their acts 10 tie property oil their enemies,
and limited 10 lnere reprisais, II would be
considered as one among the many neces.
sary evils incident to a parlizan war; but
friends and foes without discrimination
are robbed OF their property; even in
camp they are robbed OF their horses by
their ompanions, and we hear Of no at
tempt to arrest and bring to punishment
aud shame the guilty perpetrators of these
outrage which are so disgracetul TO the
character of all con :erned. The - Leo
| tai;cniS' seems TO 30 the only law r.cog
nised in the Tcrri,ory-and the measure vi
retaliation is not always meted out IN all
eases i'll just proportion to tire wrong. nor
| does the retaliation, one time 10 ten, fall
| upon the persons committing the wrong,
nor is the retaiiaiory act performed by the
party injured but If Al Atoltionst steals
horse from Il pre-slayery man, it is pre-
suned to give TO any number of pro-slav-
cry men the unquestionahlc right 10 press.
take or steal 4 horse from any man of any
party, who may happen TO have one. In
| this one particular the aholitionists may
| have more honor than some OF the oppo-
site party. We Go not Lear oil their piun
dering and robbing one another, while
some of our men steal each others horses
even from their encampment."
Here we are told, by a journal profess
ing to be true to tie South. that the pro-
slavery party, for the last year, have open
ly violated all law and order-a more de-
liberate, malicious, base and contemplate
falsehool than which could not be uttered
by Greeley, the prince of liars. We defy
the autlicr OF this bsrefaced slander IL
pon cut one instance where the pro-slav-
cry party have not yielded a wiling obe-
dience-too willing for their own good
to the laws and the legally constituted au-
thorities. An assertion to tie contrary
could only spring from an abolilionst, OF
an ex-Kcntucky emancipationist, such a:
rules over The dcstinies Of tie Citizen.
An laws have been openly violated
"by both parties Cool, decidedly! Old
Musgrove tunblcs the pro slavery party
and the aboIitonists into the same mess
with the consolation TO the former that IL,
latter :" may have more honor than sone
of the opposite party" Kind, cofnrlirnen
tary, consiIeraic, amt it? How Sottleri
it sounds, Sou,hcrners bigger horse.
thieves than Yankees! How like you tia
! sons Of the South
But we have taken more notice Of thi:
ca.iiing hypocrite tLan his insignifcanc,
jus,ifies. = A guilty conscience needs n;
accuser," and hence it is that Musgrort
invariably accompanies such tirades uit!
; liomily on his love for the South, and hi.
being " born aud reared OH her SOIL" ar
honest man needs 10 such efforts 10 patel
up his political reputation, but the dema
gogae and lypoerte are ever busy mend
ing the rents their own periidy is continu
ally creating.
FGy The Border Rufians are shooting
j all the Germans they can get sight at IL
Kansas, because the Germa rs are in favor
of freedoin--.Mchigas ETpositor.
Such are the low and desplcable mean,
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