New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-07
prp,BLIcANISk IN MISSOURI.
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To "a. ESi,or II Tie n L. Tnosae
s,R NV attention IN just been directed To para
graph in The Pittsburgh cor dependence OF Tie ~ y.
Eapress in which IT is stated TAT was your Special
Kansas Reporter, horrors in, entor, and that
am not q resident, Of the State of Msse un VIII you
hsvethe kindness TO allow TO correct hese state
ments in your columns You are aware that have
no claim 10 the honor of writing your able Kn7sas
correspondence, and that my friend Mr.. Philips Of
Chester, Illinois, sexclusiyely entitled to il. am
citizen Of Missouri.
have Travelled and resided in several of the Border
Counties of Missouri during the last nine months, and
have had many and long conversations with their in
habsnts the subjec of Slavery propagandism. I
believe that if a vote were taken in Platte County, by
secret ard uncontrolled ballot, it would be found that
reary twotLirds Of its citizens in favor Of the
admission Of Kansas as Free State, and opposed 10
the extension of involuntary servitude another
iloh of National Territory Platte County is tho most
ultra Slavery county in the State. Its propaganda
minority noisy, bold and organized; il controls tho
LEGAL press overawts the tmid and siences the Coz
servatiye but it is minority nevertheless.
There are thousands of Republicans in Missouri
rot members of our party, many Of them even de-
nouncers of t-but Republicans in creed, Republicans
not,from motives of political expediency. Regsrdings
negro population as nuisance ana curse, ana oooA
labor as less profitable than white free labor in tenn
perate latitude they much opposed to the fur
Their extension of Slavery they are to external in
tr renee with the peculiar Institution where il already
exists
1t is because our citizens taught that the Repub-
lean party is an Aboltionist organization that Re-
publican party exists in Missouri. Ii because they arc
taught that the Republican party sectional in its cha
racter-disloyal to the Union and malignant TO tho
Souththat there is but little sympathy felt or ex-
pressed in Missouri for its ultimate and inevitable sue
cess When is that we are neither Disuncnsts
nor AboltiC niss-bu loyal 10 the Union and the Con-
sttution; that we are not enemies Of the Southern
people, but disciples of the most llustrious Southern
statesmen ell Of whom, except Calhoun, lwho ridi-
culed the Declarations selfevdent truths), were OPP
posed TO the extension Of negro Slavery and ALL TO
Presidential imbecty when II is made evident, from
q comparison Of platform Of principles with tho
writings Of our immortal patriots, that II we arc SEC
tionalists, ngger-worshipes and traitors, so was
Washington, Jefferson, Henry Jay, King shermao'
Franklin, the Members of the irst Congress which
passed the Ordinance of the n. W., Adams Madison,
Wort Hemlton, Webster, Clay, and many others
whom all the people delight to honor-then, predicfs
it will be found that there are great many moro
"Black Republicans" in Missouri than the nuilihens
and propagandists and Northern.born doughfaces, o.
orr State, ever dreamed Of Respectfully,
pbaed,l1hiq. March 4. 1856. JAMES REDPATH