The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-17
A Better Spirit I'm Missouri
ers Giving UP the Game of Extension.

A Better Spirit I'm Missouri Slavehold. |
ers Giving Up the Game of Extension.
The people ofMissouri, says the Chica-
20 Press of the 30th inst, have learned wis
dom by sufering-the only way in which
most people acquire it. They now under
stand that the foolish and unlawful blockade
of the Missouri river to prevent freemen
from entering Kansas was very bad pecun-
larry speculation, and this conviction joined
probably to q " sober second thought " ofthe
subject in its other aspects, has wrought
change in rheir tcmpers and
views. The ruffians by profession, as we
have before remarked, find their occupation
gone," and they would not again be tolerated
in the performance Of such mad antics, as
disgraced the State during the last spring
and summer. The St. Louis Republican,
which during that period was the chief organ
of lawless disorder in the State, now vies
with the Democrat of that city in the utter
ance of reasonable and temperate views OF
the Kansas question. In truth it is now evil
dent that the party of treason has at no time
embraced any considerable portion of the
people of Missouri. 1t was small but noisy
faction, which, by its incorporate violence,
was able for time to hold the reason and
the better feelings of the mass Of the people
in abeyance. Under the healthy reaction,
of public feeling, the men Of violence are glad
to g hide their diminished heads" consider
ing themselves fortunate in being permitted
to sink quietly into ignoble obscurity.
Travelling in Missouri is now reported to
be as safe as in any other portion of the In
ion. An eastern gentleman who within the
last two or three weeks travelled throughout
Missouri by stage, on his way to Kansas,
informs the editor of the Herald of Freedom
that all is quiet there on the subject of slave
ry. During his entire journey he heard no
harsh expressions about Kansas, although he
hailed from Lawrence, and registered HIM
self as such at every hotel where be stopped
on the route lie says travellers can come
up the direct road through Independence and
Westport without danger or violence. This
augurs we'll for the future. The restless, ri
otous spirits of that State will not again be
allowed to tax the business of the people so
heavily in carrying out their mad projects.
No obstacles will stand in the way of their
emigration to Kansas on the opening spring
on the largest scale, and the present indica-
tons are that it will be greater from the free
States than ever before,
The shareholders of Missouri now give it
up that Kansas is destined to be a Free
State. The Herald of Freedom of the Goth
inst, says: .....-
A gentleman who has spent a greater por-
ton of his life on the western borders Of
Missouri, who is familiar with the entire
workings of the institution of slavery, and
who is at this time a heavy STAKEHOLDER, as
sured US the other day, that the property
holders of that State, who have been COM
PEELED to pay the expenses of these maraud-
ing expeditions into Kansas, lave fully de-
termined to array themselves with all the
power they can command, against further
interference by the people of that State, with
the institutions of Kansas. He said the day
had gone by when there was even hope Of
making Kansas slave State. "Every intelli-
gent person who knows the true state of
affairs" said he, "knows this to be a state
of the case" lie claimed that Stringfellow
and Atchison might continue to buster, but
if left to themselves, instead of hurting 9th
ers, like Col. Benton's bull, they would kill
themselves "splurging."
Already many persons in Missouri, who
apprehended all was lost if Kansas could not
be made Slave State, are preparing to leave
with their slaves for Texas. This is but the
natural effect of the foolish statements of the
demagogues of Missouri, who said "slave la
Dor would be valueless if Kansas was an alb
clifton State" The assertions of those men
that Missouri would be free State in ten
years if Kansas should be free State, has
done more to make it such than all the ac-
tiOns Of the Northern men combined.
The Union.