The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-08-06
Free Speech I'm sEissOuri.

! When We turn from the Buchanan
press of this State, to the Independent
papefs of St. Louis, we always find the
contrast most striking and encouraging.
The Warren Ledger, IycomiRg Gq@eu>
and Harrisburg EniQn, have never q
word to say like Independent Frecmen,
but ara always siding with the Slave
Power, whether it is in their attempt 10
force Slavery irto portions Of SSMcxican
Tertiary, or oyer the Missouri compro-
mise line onto our own Free Soil We
Gire elsewhere in this paper an extract
from one Of these Doughface sheets
raad j., and thea refresh your soul with
the following opposing sentiments from
the Missouri Usmocrat--a paper pub
lished in a Stays State, Gpt possessing
too much manhQQd to withhold the truth
from its readers. Says the Democrat:
"Evcry one WHO has IN accurate
knowledge of western politics and histo-
ry, Is aware that IL tes' years the en-
tire territory Of the nation, RQFth If Ma
son & Dixon line, inclusive Of the state
Qf Missouri, will be possessed and culti-
waited by free white labor, and that every
effort to arrest this inevitable destiny will
only accelerate the defeat Of the system
Of Involuntary scryitude, If Kansas had
been admitted into the unioA as slave
state, this result, We believe would un-
,loubtcdly have been postponed for many
years to come. If Kansas, on the other
hand, had been admitted as 81 free state,
by the action of just and impartial laws,
Missouri would have been able to retain
her institutions for a much longer period
than She can possibly do now.
But the disunioniStS Of the southern
states, aided by corrupt administration
would rot permit Justice 10 have its
course. BY series Of usurpations u9
psraIlelQd in history, and discreditablc to
humanity, they endeavorad to deprive the
north and the northern settlers, of every
right, political and civil, and to drive
them like outlaws from their Just domain.
For, let it be remembered that Kansas,
by compact, solemnly ratified by the
south, which introduced and passed it,
was rs justly the property Of the north
west as Texas ie the property of the
south. The south received Missouri as
her share Of the compromise, and to de-
mand Kansas a ~ was aishonorable and
perfdious.
Perfdy is its own reward. The out
RACES by which the nulliferS endeavored
to steal Kansas, by cxasperating the free
state men, have rendered slave property,
all along the frGpticr, the most prccArious
and Improbable Of all Investments"
Every one who knows the character
Of the people of Kansas, and the history
which has formed that character, is ia
miliar with these facts. He knows that
10 stone has been left unturned that
could be turned-that no northern terri
torial leader has been left alive who could
saIaly be murdered-that no outrage has
been omitted which could safely be com.
mitted-by the administration Of Pierce,
and Atchison's banditti-in order to
make Kansas slave state. All have
failed. Free institutions have obtained
a victory by the valor Of free men. Kan
sas must be a free state As a reward
and punishment for her services to the
nulliticrs, MissQuri-willing or unwilling
will be obliged very shortly to follow
IN her train. MISSOURI, which tried to
"ernsh out the .sernant," has been stqng
! by it, and must succumb."
fss~The last quarterly meeting Of the