Freeman's champion., 1858-03-18
[From the st. Joseph (Mo) Journal lgos
The Republican on Slavery In
sau coooK Kanzas, ,Ma gru

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Two years ago, the St. Louis Re-
IpnWicap shouted. as loudly for slavery
in Ksnzss, as Greeley did against, it,
A doubt Of its establishment FROM
any source, was PRONOUNCED free-soil1
ism, and those whose political sagac-
ity foresaw the result Of the tremen-
dous 'humbug then being practiccd
by Northern cunning upon Southern
credhlity, were accommodated from
the Ethiopian church by all the forms
of "book, belland candle" and sum.
marily cast into the outer darkness Of
abolitionism. In the opinion Of this
Immaculate sheet, no man who pre-
dicted that Kanzas would be q free
State, was "sound on the goose" -
He was a traitor to the South--an en-
emy Of equal rights-worSe than q
fratricide, and richly deserved the po-
litical damnation to which the ebony
worshiping Republican speedily CON
signed him. Indeed, strange as it
may seem, this paper, which for a
quartersof a century was considered
the typographical embodiment of
whiggery in Missouri, became 50
niggensh, that "to save the country
and secure Kanzas to the South" it
turned intensely democratic. From
its age, circulation, position and char
acter attained for it by the late la
mented Col. A. B. Chambers, in his
life time, it held the balance of pow
er in the State, and by strong sec
tional appeals, cloaked under the garb
of patriotism, it not only deludcd the
old line wings, but led thousands Of
honest voters into the support Of their
| lifetime and bitterest foes.
/ Then Kanzas was declared to be es-
sential 10 the South, necessary to her
we'll being-and in effect, the very
FliIe blood Of our"peculiar institution"
Under these specious assertions, the
Republican left nothing undone, which
Ecunning could invent or deceit could
practice, by which liberal and con-
selwative men were to be seduced into
perpetuating the misrule Of sectional
agitators. both state and national -
Assuming, for its own selfish ends,
q liberal and independent tone, 1t as
sured us that Kanzas could only be
easily secured by the election oiloco.
focos to- office. The vhig party, il
said, was dead, the Americans were
in. partnership with the negro thieves
the Benton democracy were abolition
lists, and the only hope for the coun'
try's salvation rested upon the na
tionality OF the great democratic par
ty. Byit uncoasing agitation OF thu
! negro question, its bIgoted sectional
ism, its false charges against Ameri
canism and its broken laith to whig
gerry, it has already sacrificed publl
, respect, and is no longer considered
: a reliable and trustworthy jour
NIL, But there is step in iniqui,y be
yond all these which the Repablica,
has taken. Lost to all sense of po
lltical honesty licking its greed.
chops in anticipation Of the i'll -gottel
gains OF its apoStacy, with an etiront
!, cry which Gun boast neither eXampl
nor excuse, itnow ShameleSsly lift
the veil from its foul deformity, ant
7 reveals q mass of corruption fron
which all honorable men must shrink
t, as from moral pestilenco. Thes
! are strong charges to make agains
an established public press, but w
: write for the benefit Of those whom |
Is has heretofore lived but to decoiv
and betray, and if our charges be true
contempt has for once met an object
down TO which, its utmost condescen
4 sion can never rcachs 30 o." s9sIi is
! We charge that the Republican ha
y wilfully blinded the citizens Of Mis-
4 Esouri and the South generally, to til
4 ultimate fate Of Kanzas we charg
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