Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1861-08-27
Missouri and her Treason.

NH'i0hNniIOiNo 'Hlohu w ~ tH0 Jung NOiN
mandor around the hostile ramparts of III
press, we give our readers, this evening, shor
chapter on the treason Of Missouri, in which
we expect to direct their attention to few foot
prints of rebellion and collar-marks Of treason
not often journazcd
1t is only few years, five if we mistake not
since Kansas was gored and bed somewhat cx
tensiyey by Missouri, and other States nearer
AKIN to King Cotton's royal family. Now,
while history will probably display and dignity
that contest with no more just and accurate
title than partisan fight or the most magnii-
cent swindle ever attempted by political experts
of the rule and ruin school, it nevertheless vas
the initial point-the first real and designed
sanguinory engagement between loyalty and re-
bellion. 1t may not, however, have been so IN
derstood BY the people Of Missouri For them
it may have been a step in the dark, set, marked
and measured by the line and plummet Of po-
litical architects engaged in building a more re.
gal edidco for the King, Lords, Dukes Earls and
lesser dgnitaries Of the Cotton Dynasty.
As such a step showing US what Slavery tried
to do in and with Kansas years ago, and at
time when rebellion first rcsortod to the torch
and the sword for argument, its history becomes
important, nasmuch as it uncoyors much cor
ruption. and reveals vast amount of treason
and treachery IN the germ, which, through the
agency Of subtle and mock diplomacy, was
dealt mildly with. In fact the peace then ne.
gociated BY subordinate agents Of our diplo-
matte bureaus, was simply an armistico, giving
traitors all they asked for, namely time and
opportunity to ieh and steal the necessary ann
ament for an open, bold, blood thirsty revolt
and hy haze done H.
But the fires kindIad by the torch Of treason
upon the plains Of Kansas are not yet extin-
guished. They sill burn, and their bisterng
flames are spreading CONSERVATION, suffering and
death among the marts and homes Of not only
one but many nations We have no space for
details as testimony against this first rebellion,
and withal no necessity to unroll the crimsoncd
parchment Of war in Kansas
Missouri is the bleeding victim now. Her
veins are full and bursting with the hot and
clotted gore of trcason-the same savage re-
lentlcss treason that is responsible for the muir
ders and arsons of l8jj--jG. More than this
The same men who nursed and doctored that
treason for the avowed purpose of protecting
Missouri her "rights and institutions" are to.
day the attending and consulting surgeons upon
those same delicate rights and darling nstitu-
tionS. Their new patient, however, is to be
bIed more profusely So to speak, the lancet
and scalpel suihced for Kansas, but the despcr-
ate and critical case of Missouri demands the
broad axe and the battery.
What chapter in the history of a worthless
cause, vain, imprudent dcuded people and a
proud, imperial State, can here be written
Proud, unhappy Missouri The rghs arm of
an interior commerce, surprising the sea-board
traffic of continental Europe-the key to our
national domain of millions of acres Just ready
to bring their haryests to her granaries, their
geld to her vaults, and their mountain products
to her store-houses Missour-rioh with noun
tains Of ore and strata Of minerals. sufficient to
supply the world with lead ard iron for a
thousand ycars-Geds, pastures and prairles
pregnant with oil the essential and virgin in
gradients Of fortility-her cities and her valleys
iarkenod and doalened with the smoke and roar
IF engines OF art and industry, and last but not
east The Union, with its money and its ayors
'iieciing more for the welfare of her people
md the development of her material interests.
han Tor any other people or interests beneath
is lag look at her, there she is-shackled
With the cumbersome chains of Slavery. bound
With the CALLING cables Of treason, eating.
thinking, sleeping and praying with the loulest
ends Of Hell, yoked and harnessed to the
'oody car Of tyranny that is whirling her
'eoplc, their rights and their institutions into
no vortex of murder, massacre and destruction!
uch in few words is Missouri as she wa, and
$ she is.
'9How Ikea mounting devil in.the heart
Rules the unregned Gmbition.n
Tho armisticc expires, and now being all
lady for the blow, where must treason strike >
he busy lribunes aud bold captains of rebellion
'on settle all questions of that magnitude
he Doth of December arrives, and Caroln,
uictly and deliberately breaks the ice. The
uIi States follow with their plumber, their
rms their soldiers and their Foreign Consul,
lns giving to treason local habitation and !,
anne " The drowsy tyrant by his minions
d, having done noble part in defence of
chaltols," boldly but reluctantly seizes the sa-
ed soil OF Virginia, and the mineral lands of
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