Squatter sovereign., 1856-04-01
Treason at the North, Abetted by the
st. Louis Democrat.

Treason at the North, Abetted 5y the
St. Louis Democrat.
The Detroit advertiser, In an article
headed " When does forbearance cease TO
be virtue s'' lets off the following:
!" There are wrongs so bitter that the
| judgment of man is overswayed in the
contemplation of them, and no place Is
left In the heart but for indignation. There
is despotism so fragrant, so shameless
and so arrogant, that it can be characters
| lied by no terms but those of opprobrium.
The late Presidential proclamation is
public wrong-a national insult-a des-
potic act-WhereIn the writer avails him.
self of his position, as a servant of the
people, to become their insolent, irrespon-
sible master. 1t is such an act as will
stir the Indignation of the free people of
the North to pitch which will require
every available bayonet In the United
States service to reduce to control
He then goes on to give an abolition
summary of the events which have since
transpired in connection with the settle
ment of Kansas-distorted, of course,
filled with Misrepresentation of the &C.
tion of the Southern States, and of Presi-
dent PIERCE. After giving a wretched
parody of the Presidents proclamation,
he adds:
Has the blood of our fathers become
rotten in the veins of their sons. that this
Infamous proclamation can be calmly pom
dered by them? Do we live under laws
and constitution, or do we hold our po-
litical rights, and enjoy our political opin-
ions, at the sufferance of strutting mill
tarv pigmy, whose chances for further pre-
ferlnent have become desperate by his own
imbeeility and bad faith, and who now
seeks, like cis-Atiantic Louis Napoleon,
to commit grand coup d'etat, III the in
sane hope that in a common ruin his indi-
gidual fortunes may triumph
Are Northern men to be told, under the
threat of the gallows, that they shall abb
stain from sending to their brothers, friends,
neighbors, and fellow citizens IN Kansas,
such aid as their circumstances may re-
quire ! And will they be deferred from
sending thither, men, money, rifles, ammu-
nitien or provisions, by such insane threatsE {
The eager hope of further power has turn
ed the brain of this irnbecile sot, In whose
person men will cease to remember that
they speak of the head Of their Govern
ment. Let US here in Michigan show our
bitter disdain of him and his threats, by
promptly taking such measures as. will
place our opinious beyond controversy.
If we have been hitherto tardy, let the
spur of Just Indignation be added to the
convictions Of manifest duty
When such articles as these appear In
nearly every paper Of the free States, re-
commencing practical treassn-a total
disregard of the proclamation-is itenot
strange that a paper can be found IN the
slave States, who can see nothing IN all
this excitement about Kansas, but the er-
rors of the border Missourians. In the
Democrat of the 18th March, will be
found this sentence:
Surely it is time that there was peace
time that Kansas should be left TO the
control of her own affairs, without the IN
ternseddting Of .Nissourians IN any way OF
shape tohateveg."
We begin to think that when such un-
blushing abolitlonists as those who control
the Democrat, are tolerated in Missouri,
that she viii have no time to meddie In
Kansas affairs. The scou'ldrels can quiet
ly sit, and read such papers as the Detroit
advertiser, New York Tribune, and others,
who preach treason as a virtue, and find
no time to comment omit but if a gentle
man from Missouri, moves to Kansas with
his slaves, his howl is heard from Maine
to Texas. The people of Missouri should
serve him as they did the Parlkyille Lu-
minary. rat'ad