New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-15

A year ago, and the State of Missouri was the
of bigh-hsnded outrages, perpetrated by Pro-
Slavery fanatics upon Northern travellers on their
way to Kansas, or suspected to be 50. Party after
party of Kansas emigrants were stopped on their
passage up the Missouri River at Lexington and its
neghborhoOd, the boats being brougbtto BY can
non planted on the banks and rufiian committees
sent Oh board by the Border Ruftians and any
of the passengers suspected of being Free State
men were disarmed, their trunks broken open and
often robbed, and the passengers turned back and
compelled to pass again down the river. Nor were
these robberes and Outrages limited TO passengers.
Merchandise in the regular course of Transmission
through the State was seized and enlarged;
even respectable commission hotAes, or houses
which had hitherto enjoyed the reputation of being
such, taking part in these outrages. The question
at that time was very loudly asked throughout the
Northern States, Where are the decent, respecta-
BILE civilized inhabitants of Missouri that they thus
allow their rivers and highways to be waylaid by
papps of rufians, and trade and travel to be thus
interrupted Does Missouri too mean to submit
to that reign of terror which has been so generally
established throughout the slavehoding States
To these questions We are beginning at last to
get pretty distinct answers, and pretty satisfactory
answers too. ST. Louis gave hers some months
ago in the election of Mr. Blair to Congress, and
now the whole State is replying IN the vote given
for Rollins. The determination thus evinced BY
the State of Missouri not to be bound and gaggedby
the Shareholders is, looking at the matter IN mere
money point Of view, worth more to her beyond all
que ston than all the slaves in the State would sell
for if put up at auction tomorrow. 1t will tend
TO draw the eyes Of the whole North upon her, as
a State in which free labor is respected and its
interests thought to be paramount to those Of
.layehoding; and she may now fairly caculste to
cone in for good proportion Of that immigration
Of intelligent and enterprsing free laborers of
which che stands so much in need. Hitherto, the
emjeration 70 Missouri has consisted By fai too
much of those who, in danger OF being starved out
upon some exhausted plantation in the Atlantic
Slave States, have transferred their incidence and
tbrif,lessness-witb, perhaps, few slaves run OFT
between two days" to save them from the clutch
of the Sheriff-to the fertile soil of Missouri, there
to play out the same losing game.
Ii 10 a most curious, il might well be said
oroy;dentsl coincidence that Ut the very time that
a profisate Congress, under the leadership of
pr, Hs ate Office seekers, has undertaken to repea!
the Missouri Compromise, for the purpose Of open
ing Kansas and all the far West to the savehoId-
ers-it 10, We cay, most remarkable that simui'a-
neou.y with this attempt to set aside the Missouri
Con promise, so far as it went to restrain the
spread of Slavery, the good people o. Missouri
should have taken It into their heads to make
clean job Of it, and to got rid also Of that Com
promise, - far q it COOS to saddle that fertile
State with Slavery. The sdventurers who under
tock TIE repeal Of the Missouri Compromise arc