The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-01-12

Va ehS 1SSfSidtafe, ms
than ordinarily vial in lie action 10
honor and highest interests of MissO,
has just come to close. Among the
suits achieved, we rank rs foremos,
defeat of the aspirations of Gen. Ate
son to seat in the Senate of the Up;1
States. The significance of th;s IA n,
land marked. Missouri abhors .bs :
Icy pursued by Atchison in psososj
The repeal Of the Missouri Comprosai
She puts the seal of reprobation on 4
agita tion of the slavery question VII;
has grown out of that breach of GONNA,
for which den. Atehison glories ia -
primarily responsible. The violence al
frauds prscticed in Kansas, and the 3
element fermented in Missouri on 4
same subject by means of the Lexinpt.#
convention and other assemblages, we
intended to operate on the Missouri LeE
lislature, to secure Atehison's electiE
and the endorsement of the Kansas NJ
braska bill. Six weeks of ineessa
plotting and scheming failed to brir
about either the one or the other of the
measures. A. sanction of the Kans
bill was strongly urged upon the Legi
lature by the Governor in his reyIl
message. In pursuance of his recon-
mendatiOn, Col. Mothershead in.rodpce1
certain resolutions into the house, formal
ly espousing the principles of tia. in
iquitous violation of the solemnly pligh,
ed faith of the nation. Happily then
was majority possessing the nerve an
probity to resist and crush this effort d
compromise the State, and commit it 4
the corrupt designs of a fsctious caba
here and elsewhere. The resolutions,
were voted down. and with them the las
hopes of the nulliiers to sustain their.
cause in Missouri. Atchison was dropl
ped by his own party friends, the ami
Benton men, and it was well under
stood that if the balloting for Senator
had been resumed at the adjourned ses1
sion, Atchison would not again have
been placed in nomination. Even had
he been nominated, the result would
only have served to show into what an
abysmal political grave he has gone
down in Missouri. His agency in eff
fecting the breach of the Compromise.
his disgraceful interference in the affairs
of Kansas, so glaringly Inconsistent with
the pretended principles of that meas
ure. and his notorious completely with
the Dark Lantern conspiracy, have all
conduced to his condemnation to that
limbo of lost politicians, over whose dis.
NAL gates is written: 'Whoso enters
here, let him leave hope behind"
Not less significant is the action of the
Legislature upon the University BILL
This furnishes a most conclusive proof
of the reaction of the public mind of the
State upon the Kansas question. At the
regular session one year ago, an attempt
was made to pass similar bill, intended
to silence the pro-slavery rantings OF
Shannon, the President of the Universe
| ty. The bill failed. Shannon took the
stump during the last summer. and at
tempted to rally to his support the pro-
slavery sentiment of the State. at the
Lexington Convention, at every pro-sla-
| very meeting where he could get hear
ing-whereyer throughout Missouri a
protested minister of the gospel of peace
could parade before a scandalized public
an exhibition of ultraism and violence,
President Shannon was ready to explode
one of his inhammatory and insane har-
rangues. ALI was calculated with ref
erence to the action of the Legislature on
the questions which formed the burden
of his phiIlipics. The issue, however,
has been very different from that so con-
idently calculated upon by the Atchison
faction. The bill which failed to pass
last year was passed this year by an over
whelming majority and its numerous
friends in the Legislature were impe!led
to resort to illegal and revolutionary
measures in order to prevent the two
Houses from meeting in joint session for
the election of Curators of the Univer-
sity, who would have carried out the
condemnation pronounced by the Leg
islature, by effecting Shannon's expul-
sion from the institution. At the heel
of the session, after many Senator's had
left for their homes, when an attempt
was made to meet in joint session, Shan
mons friends defeated it By motions to
adjourn, by calling the ayes and noes.
and finally by going out in body and
leaving the Senate without quorum.
The Nullifers in Missouri have been
driven to such measures TO sustain their
dying cause. Another election will fin
ish them foreYer.-Missiuri Democrat.
Kansas.