The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-06-29
WHAT SECESSION HAS DONE FOR
9yEE 80 MISSOURI


editorial management of Hon. r. NJ. Stew.
Art, has become one of the boldest and most
nncompromlsing opponents of Secession in
missouri. In the issue of the I4ih, we find
the following fearful and truthful summary
OF what has resulted to the State by the no.
sition of secessionism, into which the execu
tive officers are forcing her:
ho" do THE PEOPLE OF MISSOURI LIKE sECEs-
SION AS FAR AS THEY HAVE GOT q?
AS they may not all know what it has done
ief tnem 30 Tar, we will give few results 80
tnat they can answer our query intelligent
II.
1t has reduced the value of all real proper
~ hall, all over the State, and made it impos-
eiole TO sell 1t at any price.
4thas brought our merchants and bust
ness men to the very verge of bankruptcy,
and sent many crashing over it.
1t has stopped for us the busy tide of travel
and commerce-stopped the ring of the me-
chanic's hammer-stopped the circulation OF
a1oney-stopped all faith in credit-stopped
De hum ofmachinery all improve
sesnts-stopPed all progress in any direc-
It has shut of Missouri from the market
for her productions (HEMP, perhaps. ex-
cePted,) thus rendering her present fine
crops powerless to aid her citizens in their
embarTassments and their necessities.
1t has sent thousands of our most intelli
gent and valuable citizens into forced or vol
untary exile. - =
1t has rendered our slave property so in
secure and valueless that it is being sent in
thousands from our borders.
I It has made our Governor, his cabinet
and the majority of our legislators, With
hundreds of others in every direction, nest
OF conspirators against our National Gov
eminent and our own liberty.
has has BET the very fires of Hell burn
ing in the hearts of men who, but a few
short weeks since were neighbors and friends,
changing their warm and, cordial greetings
70 studied GOODNESS and cold defiance.
1t has bankrupted our treasury-involved
as in great and worse than useless exeendi-
ture--increased our heavy taxation to the
last limit of human endurance-destroye ed
our State credit and dishonored US in the
eyes Of the financial world.
p In has saddled US like dumb driven cattle,
and put upon US horde of State military
dandies and martinets to pay whom for
riding US to ruin under whip and spur, it
has put its Floyd-like fingers upon money
that belongs to our creditors-it has 6lchell
from our children the sacred fund set apart
to educate and save them from the ways of
vice, folly and ignorance-it has stolen the
pittance due the poor lunatic and the glib
bering maniac.
1t has put upon our statute books and is
now endeavoring to cram down our Threats
law that makes every man who objects.
become, at the bidding of Claib. jackson, a
sworn traitor to his country, and if he dares
murmur against his Excellency or any of
his military satellites, subjects him to the
pains and penalties of treason.
And finally it has filed our State with
hosts of armed men and is striving to force
them into a conflict which would bring
mourning to every heart. and desolation to
every Preside within its borders.
These are few of the many blessings
that Missourians have already received by
the endeavors to nurse and develop this
child of the Rattlesnake and the Pelican,
yclept Secession.
Once more we ask them how they like it
as far as they have got?
"LEr THE COLUMN MOVE ON."--In his
last hours the intellect of the great Douglas
was unseated at times by disease, but at
such times, as we'll as in his lucid moments,
his mind was busy with the affairs of his
country. At one time he said, ''Tele-
graph to the President, and LET THE COLUMN
MOVE ON What grand shout for ma
tion-"Let the column move on !" We
clip The following from the Chicago Trib-
une. $50
''In his last days he gave those who stood
near to minister to his wants the most con-
vincing assurance of the depth and earnest
ness OF the lively love of country that filed
his heart. In his waking hours, as we'll as
in those moments when the violence of the
disease unseated his great intellect, he was
busy with national events and the conflict
that is now upon US. It was his last wish
that the work which would regenerate the
country while rescuing it from its enemies
should 90 rapidly on. To one, in wan
derinp moment. he said. II station you at
the Relay House. Move on OF another
he asked, .Why do we stand still? Let US
press on Let us to Alexandria quick !"
To still another he said. Telegraph to the
President, and let the column move on"
And so, throughout the progress of the dis
ease which struck him down, he was think
ing of his country and her peril"
JEFF. DAVIS A FAILURE.-Jeff. Davis lie
a failure. We expected to see him, at the
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