AWFUL RAILROAD ACCIDE.NT!
TWENTY TO THIRTY 1 lIUIS.
[From the Philadelphia Pennsylvania!!, August 30.]
About noon yesterday our city was startled
with the report that a dreadful accident had
occurred on the Camden and Ambov Railroad,
a short distance above Burlington. We im
mediately dispatched our reporters to the scene
of the disaster.
A most horrible sight presented itself to
their view when they reached Burlington. The
dead and dying were scattered around in every
house open to receive tlieni, and to the credit
of Burlington, be it said, 110 door was closed
against the unfortunates. The ladies, who arc
ever foremost in the cause of humanity, con
tributed everything in their power to alleviate
the sufferings of the wounded.
After a most careful inquiry into the facts
which caused the lamentable disaster, we learn
ed the following particulars : The 10 o'clock
train from this city left punctually at the aje
poiuted hour. On reaching Burlington it was
discovered that the 8 o'clock train from New |
York was behind time. The Philadelphia train
held up at this point, according to the rules of
the road, and then proceeded onward. When
about three-qarters of a mile above Burlington,
the New York train was perceived coming
down, being, as near as we could learn,
about half an hour behind time. The Phila
delphia train was at once reversed, and backed
down for the purpose of reaching the first turn
out, just outside of the city of Burlington.—
At the first crossing the train encountered the
carriage of Dr. Hennecken, who resides at
Columbus, about 8 miles above the scene of
disaster.
The horses were instantly killed, but most
fortunately, the pole of the carriage breaking,
the Doctor, three persons aud driver, who were
in the carriage, escaped unhurt. The hind
most car was thrown from the track, and driven
backwards about one hundred yards, when,
another car was thrown diagonally across the
track. One of the other cars were forced
through it, and thrown down an embankment
011 either side of the road. There were live
cars completely torn to pieces. A more sad
wreck we never witnessed 011 a railroad. One
of the cars was reduced to splinters. Another
was cut in twain. One end was reversed, and
the other end in ail upright position, frightfully
shattered. The other cars were ripped from
one end to the other, and beyond repair.—
Some of the heavy iron axles were twisted into
a bow. The heavy T rail was bent in some
places and torn from its fastenings, and the in
side flanges cut as if by a powerful knife.
The wrecked cars lay on either side of the
track a mournful and silent monument of those
who were an instant before the occupants of
their seats, and full of life and hope.
As soon as the accident was known, John S.
Trick, one of the Directors 011 the Burlington
and Mount Holly Railroad, the depot of which
is close to the scene of disaster, took a train of
cars and proceeded to the spot. He nobly
assisted in extricating the wounded from the
wreck, and took the cushions and doors of the
cars for beds on which to lay them. He then
started the train down to Burlington, and
prepared quarters for tliem, whore they receiv
ed such care arid attention as their injuries re
quired. He then returned with the train and
brought down the dead, who were placed in
coffins and taken to the City Lyceum.
Mr. Benjamin K. Mills of Bridgeport,
Conn., who came 011 the late train, says the
car where he was flew into fragments instantly.
At the first concussion, those in the rear part
of the car rushed forward, and lie had just
risen to beg them for God's sake to sit still,
when, before he knew what had happened, he
saw the windows and timbers lying in every
direction. A gentleman named Humphreys,
of Peoria. 111., was sitting 011 the same seat
with Mr. Mills, and had just been taking his
counsel as to the best route to Boston. He
was killed by his side, the back of his head
being completely cut off. Mr. Mills says that
the first he knew lie found that he was going
through the bottom of the car, and thought
his last hour had come. He fell among the
trucks, his face in the sand and his throat
across a bar of iron. Ilis leg was badly con
tused, and he suffered somewhat from internal
injuries.
Mr. Ray states that a woman lost her hus
band who was sitting 011 the same seat with
her.
The conduct of the ladies on the train is
said to have been above all praise. Their
presence of mind was something extraordinary
on such an occasion.
Dr. Heineken, whose carriage the train ran
into, gave us the following statement : I was
driving to Florence to visit some patients, and
on my return to Burlington, I turned from the
River road to the Bordentown road. I heard
no alarm or whistle. I looked up the road and
saw 110 cars coming. I then looked down to
wards Burlington, and saw 110 train. I then
kept on towards the Railroad, and just as I
arrived at the crossing, I heard a rambling noise
like the cars coming. I then quickly reined up
my horses, but they were going with such great
speed that I could only check them enough to
keep my carriage off the track. The cars
were backing at the rate of thirty miles an
hour. The ears struck my horses and and over
turned the carriage. I was accompanied by
mv wife and father-in-law, Tims. ANTRAJI Esq.
and wife, together with my child. I was
thrown out of the carriage ; I now bear the
marks upon my shoulder. None in the carri
age were seriously injured. My horses were
both instantly killed. I think that the engineer
was to blame in not giving the alarm.
I have been cautious from a proceeding ac
cident which happened several years ago.—
Several members of my family were run into
by the cars on this same road during my absence
011 a visit to a patient.
There was no bell rope attached to the bell.
T have been practicing at Columbus for the
last 32 years. [An act of the Legislature
fixes the maximum rate of speed through the
Borough of Burlington, which extends to
where the accident occurred, at six miles per
hour.] lam a member of the Presbyterian
Church at Columbus, the Rev. S mil. Miller is
our Pastor.
One of the laborers who was working at
the scene of rain, dug up a human heart.
A list of the killed and wounded, is publish
ed twenty, from which we learn that persons
have already died, while eighty more or less
wounded.
Among the [utter we find the name of Rev.
R. J. PARVIN, formerly of this place, who is
reported as being severely bruised about the
legs. His numerous friends in this vicinity
will regret to hear of his mifortune, and grati
fied to learn that he is properly cared for hav
ing teen immediately removed to Bishop Doane's
'srabfort,llqiorter.
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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R E PUB LIC A N
MASS CONVENTION.
The Freemen of Bradford County, without
regard to former party distinctions, who view
with alarm the constant encroachments of
Slavery upon our free institutions, as illustrat
ed by the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
and its legitimate consequences, the invasion of
free territory by the armed minions of Slavery,
followed by the removal of Gov. lleeder ; who
desire to see the General Administration di
vorced from Slavery-propagandistn, and the
Legislative and Judicial branches free from its
domination ; who believe that Slavery is section
al and Freedom National, and that the North
I is entitled to some consideration ; are invited
to meet at the Court House,
MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 10, 1855,
for the purpose of organizing a Republican
Party, to respond to the action of the Repub
lican State Convention, and to place in nomina
tion a County Ticket, to effect " an union of
Northern forces upon one common platform of
Freedom ," —to give strength and expression to
the sentiments of Freedom, and endeavor to
stay the tide of Slavery usurpation, which now
threatens to overwhelm the freedom of our
institutions. The meeting will be addressed by
HON. DAVID WILMOT, H. W. TRACY,
U. MERCUR, HENRY BOOTH,
AND PROBABLY BY OTHER ABLE SPEAKERS.
Jtegf We crave the indulgence of our readers
until after the October election. We have a
" mission" until that time—a duty to perform—
which will somewhat abridge our miscellaneous
matter. As we have previously announced,
we wish to be " counted in" in the " free fight"
just commencing. After that is settled, we
shall endeavor to once more make the Reporter,
what we design to have it, a welcome visitor
in the family circle.
REPUBLICAN MASS CONVENTION.
By the call for a Republican Mass Conven
tion, on Monday evening next, which appears
in this week's pajier, it will be seen that the
Freemen of Bradford, are determined to cast
off the shackles of party bondage, and in con
cert to array themselves upon the side of Free
dom, in the great struggle which is now taking
place. This step is one of the highest impor
tance and interest, and we hail it as the inau
guration of an era which shall tell with migh
ty effect oil the side of Freedom.
The Democratic organization in this County,
by its action on Tuesday night, in nominating
for Representative a well known tool of the
slavery propaganda—the apologist and defen
der of Slavery—by refusing or neglecting to
express the sentiments of the people of this
County, upon the vital questions of the day—
and by endorsing the action of the State Con
vention—has alienated and offended the hon
est and independent mass of the voters. Tliey
will not endorse its action—nor suffer a minion
of ATCHISON and STRING KLLOW to be thrust up
on them by any pretence, nor to subserve any
local question.
The Whig Convention, as will be seen by
the proceedings, upon organizing, passed a re
solution adjourning until Monday evening, to
participate in the formation of a Republican
party. The friends of Freedom are thus pre
pared to affiliate upon the great question of
the day. There is no division of sentiment
among the masses. There is nothing in the
way of their united action, except old and ef
fete party names, and old party prejudices.—
These, we are pleased to say, are to be laid
aside, as of 110 importance. The questions
which press upon us, from their magnitude,
should obliterate the past. If we would pre
serve our free institutions—if we would keep
our own soil from the contamination of slavery
—we must make an united and vigorous effort
at the North. Cowards may lay supine—trai
tors may doubt and cavil, or opeuly oppose—
but the free aud independent yeomanry of
Bradford are determined that a bold and deti
ant front shall be presented in this County,
at least, to the unlawful usurpations of slavery
propagandism.
This Mass Convention will take sueh action
as is necessary to place the Republicans of
Bradford in concert with that party in the
North—consider and respond to the action of
the Pittsburg Republican State Convention—
and place in nomination a ticket to be support
ed by the Republicans of this County. We
trust that the people will turu out to the meet
ing, aud make it a demonstration that shall
accomplish half the work to be done. And
when the Republicans shall come triumphantly
from this fall's contest, they will be ready to
strike an effectual blow against dough-faces and
slavery-propagandism in 1866.
WHIG COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Whig County Convention met in the
Court Tlouse, on Wednesday evening last, and
organized by the election of B. F. POWELI. as
Chairman, and J. B. INGHAM aud J. P. SPAI.D
ING as Secretaries.
The Convention was well attended, and up
on its organization, 11. W. TRACY offered the
following resolutions, which were adopted by
an overwhelming majority :
WHKKEAS, The great iiuestiou now F>efore the country,
is, whether Slavery shall he extended into, and prevail
over free Territory, or whether it shall he contiued to its
present limits. That in view of the overwhelming im
portance of this question, it is the duty of all freemen to
discard the trammels and petty distinctions of party, and
unite in a common effort to secure and maintain the rights
of the North against the encroachments of the Slave
power. Therefore—
Resolved, That this Convention do now adjourn with
out further action, first exteuding to the true men of all
parties an invitation to meet and co-operate with us in
the formation of a Republican Party, and the nomination
of a Republican Ticket at this place on Monday evening
next.
After the adjournment of the Convention,
JOHN C. ARAMS Esq., addressed the meeting,
deprecating the action of the late Convention,
and was followed by 11. W. TRACY, HENRY
BOOTH and I)r. C. T. Buss, in favor of the
Republican movement.
THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION.
The proceedings of this body will be found
iu another column. We invite public attention
to the " antecedents " of its most active mem
bers, to its candidates, and to the resolutions.
The townships of Ridgberry, Springfield,
South Creek, Orwell, Pike, Warren, Derrick,
Tuscarora, Wilmot, Durell and Asylum were
not represented in the Convention.
Heading the list of nominations will be
found the name of V. E. PIOLLET. The De
mocracy of Bradford will be astonished to learn
that they are expected to support a inan for
Representative, who has beeu for the last
seven years at least, endeavoring to misrepre
sent their views, to embarrass their action,and
to overthrow or stifle the sentimeuts which
they so often rallied to support. They are nut
ready, to gratify a local question, to allow a
man to be thrust upon them, who holds no
sentiments in common with them upon the
great questions of the day, who has been known
iu all the struggles of the past, as a facile and
subservient tool of Slavery propagandists, who
is the bosom friend of FORNEY, the supporter
of men and the advocate of measures which if
successful, would give the widest seojie to the
designs of Slavery.
We listened to the remarks of this nominee
in the Convention, in astonishment, if anything
could be astonishing which comes from such a
source. The unblushing effrontery with which
he declared himself incapable of misrepresent
ing the sentiments of the people of this County,
has no parallel. What, Democrats, is your
recollection of his share in the conflicts of the
past ? Has there ever been any doubt as to
the sentiments of the Democracy upon the
question of Freedom ? Yet Col. PIOIXET has
been actively engaged since 1848, (when he
neglected his duties to endeavor to defeat
DAVID WIIJIOT,) in an attempt to thwart the
expression of your views, to embarrass your
action at home, and misrepresent your senti
ments abroad. Who, in all the battles we have
had in this district with the doughfaces and
tools of Slavery, has been the acknowledged
leader ? Who, we ask you, but V. E. PIOIXET?
And now you are expected to ignore the past,
and more than all that to forget the present.
More than this, duplicity and fraud will be re
sorted to, to gain your votes for a man who is
now in league with the General Administration,
and is expected to vote for an U. S. Senator
to bolster up the fortunes of FRAXKI.IN PIERCE,
by an endeavor to persuade you that he has
never disagreed with you in principle !
We ask the Democrats of Bradford to look
at the names of the delegates who placed Mr.
PIOLLKT in nomination. Have these men, who
have been endeavoring for years to subvert
your principles, given up their pro-slavery doc
trines ? Do you not recognize in theiu the
same factious clan, who have 011 every occa
sion, denounced the Freemen of this County ;
while professing to hang 011 to its organization,
have taken every opportunity to stab at the
true men of the party, and have openly avowed
and advocated doctrines repugnant to the great
mass of the people of the County ? Such men,
taking advantage of a local question, have sac
rificed their interests to give the forms of a
nomination to a man whom they know has 110
feeling in common with the true Democracy of
Bradford.
Have you a question, Freemen of Bradford,
where the influence of V. E. PIOLLKT would be
thrown, if you could so far forget your cherish
ed principles as to place him in the Legisla
ture? Wonkl his action and his influence be
on the side of Freedom, in the great struggle
which is now going on, or would he be the advo
cate of measures and the supporter of men to
gratify the slavery propaganda ? Arc the Free
men of Bradford prepared to send a man, up
on any consideration, to the Legislature of
Pennsylvania, for the purpose of advancing the
aspirations of JAMF.S BUCHANAN for the Pre
sidency, and to elect an U. S. Senator of the
kind that now disgraces the State.
These are matters which we desire the De
mocracy of Bradford to ponder well. The mo
mentous struggle of the present will tell upon
our freedom and the destinies of our country
for all coining time. Local questions may be
taken up any propitious moment, and be de
cided upon their own merits, without making
them subservient to recreancy from principle,
to the designs of dough-faces obeying the be
hests of the slavery-propagandists.
For the first time in several years, an assem
blage calling itself a Democratic Convention
has failed to speak out manfully upou the great
questions of the day. For the first time, iu
our recollection, has there been au evasion of
the issues which engaged the attention of the
country. It has been the high privilege and
d ity of Democratic Conventions in Bradford
heretofore to speak in plain, emphatic and dig
uified tones their views and sentiments I But
now, elements the most irreconcilable attempt
to harmonize, and the result is that the voice
of the Democracy of Bradford is stifled. At
this time, when the breasts of her Freemen are
swelling with indignation at the outrages per
petrated by the slave power, at the attempt to
extend that institution—at the purpose to
make Pennsylvania virtually a slave state—a
sympathizer with Northern traitors, is present
ed for our suffrages, and the sentiments of our
people are denied an utterance.
We need hardly say, that our hope is now
in the Republican party of Bradford. The
true men of the County may unite in defence
of their principles. They are ready and deter
mined to do so. They claim a right to speak
out. They claim the privilege of declaring
their apprehensions of the alarming encroach
ments of the Slave power, and its dangerous
and subversive designs upon our free institu
tions—their detestatioa of a National Admin
istration that has been recreant to its pledges
and its duty, and degraded itself by directing
its power and patronage to extend Slavery—
their indignation at the outrages in Kansas—
their determination to restore the Missouri
Compromise, or by all proper means to oppose
the admission of any more Slave states —and
their adhorreuce of dough-faces generally, and
V. E. I'IOI.LKT particularly.
Of the remainder of the ticket, we can only
say, that we should be glad, under other
circumstances, to give them our support. —
They have, however, made their own election,
and by it must abide. The Republican ticket
nominated on Monday night shall receive our
cordial and earnest support.
THE AGGRESSIONS OP SLAVERY—THE IM
PENDING DANGER—DUTY OP THE NORTH.
That the patriots of the Revolution, they
who through the dark and drying scenes of
that eventful struggle, which gave us existence
as a Nation, looked upon the institution of
slavery as a National evil, as a blot and stain
upon the country's fair name, cannot be con
troverted—and indeed, will hardly be denied.
They found the curse fixed upon the country ;
existing in every one of the thirteen States.—
For its existence they were not responsible ;
but there was no diversity of opinion and ex
pression in regard to its character. That ex
pression was one of universal reprobation.—
Slaveholders and others alike shared the gen
eral feeling, alike uttered the common senti
ment that a system which consigned men to
bondage was a moral, social and political evil,
and a National disgrace. The attention of the
best men in the early days of our National exis
tence was given to the solution of the difficult
question which necessarily obtruded itself, but
without success.
lii those early days, when privations and
sufferings in the cause of liberty, had implant
ed in the founders of our Republic an exalted
patriotism, there were none to advance the
doctrine that the Constitution nationalized
slavery—that it was a national and social bles
sing, and that its area was to be extended aud
its existence perpetuated. On the contrary,
while concessions were made of necessity from
the fact of its existence, the slave trade was
broken up, aud steps taken for the emancipa
tion of slavery iu many of the States. That it
was to be extended was a proposition so mon
strous and absurd, so opposed to the philan
thropic and patriotic views of the day, as not
to be entertained. The acquisition of Florida
and Louisiana was a matter of policy and ne
cessity, coincided in by the whole country, and
having no connexion with the question of sla
very, or if it had, so eminently necessary aud
wise a purchase, as not to meet the opposition
of those who would have been unwilling to ac
quire new slave territory for the purpose of
strengthening the institution.
Of late years, the attitude of the South has
been very materially changed. Slavery is 110
longer looked upon as an evil, which would be
removed, if possible, but which at least, should
be confined within cxistiug limits ; but on the
contrary, her statesmen and public men are
claiming for it the high sanction of Divine au
thority, the approbation of the Constitution,
and a necessity arising from political and so
cial economy. lustead of the testimony which
JEFFERSON and lIEXRY and MASON and a score
of the best and most sagacious men of the
South left on record, the orators of the South
are claiming that the institution is a blessing
and an honor, and demanding for it the pro
tection of our laws and the guardianship of
the Constitution. The JSgis of our freedom
is misapplied for the protection of an institu
tion which our forefathers reprobated, which
is a stigma upon our national honor, and a re
proach to our name abroad.
There can no longer be any question that
the two great and opposing principles incorpo
rated in our National organization, are now
engaged iu a struggle which must eventuate in
the preponderance of one or the other. The
time is fast hastening when slavery must yield
to the ever-living principles of Freedom, and
be content with the security guarantied it by
the Constitution of our couutry, with its pre
sent limits, and a fair share of influence and
patronage, or the spirit of liberty will be crush
ed beneath the iron rule of despotism, and free
men yield up to the slaveocracy the best por
tion of their dearest rights. It will be well
for us, as Northern freemen, to consider the
aggressions of slavery upon the constitution
and its encroachments upon our soil; to notice
how intolerant and prescriptive, how arrogant
and presumptuous it has become ; the imminence
and extent of the danger which threaten our
free institutions ; anil calmly and considerate
to evolve the duty which is incumbent upon
every Freemen in view of the love he bears his
country and her freedom.
To JOHN C. CALHOUN is owing many of the
narrow and sectional dogmas which have usurj>-
ed in the South the liberal and national views
once entertained by her statesmen. From his
bold but treasonable schemes has arisen much
of the sectionalism and intolerance which
threatens to subvert the spirit of our free in
stitutions, and to make our land not the home
of the free, but one great and extended land
of stripes and oppression. Ilis fertile imagina
tion early conceived the idea of a Southern
Republic, and the stern will and inflexible in
tegrity of Old Hickory, which crushed his trea
son in its early stages, turned his active mind
into other cannels, aud made him a monoma
niac upon the subject of supposed Southern
wrongs. From nullification and secession came
those dogmas about slavery, which have since
been received by the whole South, ami which
at the time of their promulgation were so mon
strous and manifestly repugnant to the Con
stitution, so opposed to the spirit of our insti
tutions, diame tricallycontrary to the views
of our patriotic sires, as to startle and alarm
the whole country, and found little or no favor,
out of South Carolina. How these doctrines
have become so generally received, is easy of
solution. Slavery iu some respects is like
vice—for
" Though a monster of such hideous mien,
That to be hateil needs to 1m? seen ;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with its face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace."
It can hardly be expected that an institu
tion in which so much capital is invested, which
is so compact and united in its iuterests, should
not be used for political purposes, and courted
by ambitious and designing men. This is the
secret of the prescriptive and intolerant spirit
which slavery now assumes, making aud con
trolling Presidents and moulding the legisla
tion of the country for its own aggrandizement.
It has been courted and sought after so much
by aspirants that it has learned its power to
corrupt and seduce Northern men, and has be
come arrogant. Slaveholders have gradually
relinquished the doctrines and opinions of JEF
FERSON and his compeers, and seeing in the in
stitution a source of political power and influ
ence, have been ready to embrace different
views, and to seize upon every opportunity to
extend the institution and increase its influence.
Selfishness has usurped the place of patriotism
—patronage overcomes philanthropy.
The Missouri Compromise and the Jefferson
Ordinance, after the acquisition of Florida, de
barred the further spread of slavery. The
South found itself shut up within existing limits,
without a jHissibility of extending the area of
slavery. The annexation of Texas was con
ceived, and the plot so adroitly carried out,
that the North sacrificed MARTIN VAN BUREN
for his far-seeing sagacity, and expended its
enthusiasm in consummating a shrewd scheme
for the extension of slavery. Emboldened by
this success, came the Mexican war—-a contest,
which however much its declaration may be
justified by the laws of nations, was unques
tionably hurried on for the purpose of acquir
ing new fields for slave labor. From that time
there ha/ been no proposition too monstrous
for the South, which was designed to strength
en the institution. Her public men have given
themselves up to the one idea of Mr. CALHOUN,
viz : to so increase the power of the slave
states that they should be a preponderance iu
the Nation. For this object, national faith has
been disregarded, compacts the most binding
and solemn been violated, the patronage and
influence of the General Government, misap
plied and prostituted.
Thc onward strides of slavery propagandism
have become most alarming. Already the most
gross and unjustifiable measures are adopted—
and encroachments made upon the rights of
the North, which point to an ultimate attempt
to crush out Northern sentiment. If the next
five years shall witness the same progress made
in this direction as has been made in the last
five, it will be unlawful to hold the views of
Freedom, and high treason to doubt the di
vine origin aud beneficent operation of slavery
propagandism. Looking at the past, are we
uot justified in such a fear ? Would it be any
more progress than slavery has made, in her
outrageous demands? When the Judiciary
bows down before the institution, setting law
and justice at defiance, to uphold the saered
ness of slavery, and to render nugatory the
freedom of our institutions, what may we not
expect ?
—The dangers that threaten the North,and
her duty in this crisis, shall next receive our
attention.
INS" In another column will he found an
article from the Evening Pnst, in regard to
the disintegration of parties. We invite for
it the consideration of our readers. In this
latitude, the pro-Slavery men are perfectly
furious in denunciation of the proposed uuion
of Freemen to advance the cause of Freedom.
They are shocked at the idea of concentrating
voters of one belief in a concert of action.
In Philadelphia, however, " fusion " suits the
Pennsylrnnian, and it is all right. In Lebanon
County, the Democratic and Whig Conven
tions formally "fused"—yet the thing is all
very well, except when upon the side of North
ern rights.
THE WHEELER SLAVE CASE. —The jury in
the case of the men arrested in the matter of
the alleged rescue of Mr. Wheeler's slaves, re
turned their verdict Monday, Sept. 3d. It
declares all the defendants " not guilty" on the
first count, charging them with riot ; but ou
the second count, which charges them with
assault and battery, the verdict is " not guilty"
in respect to all except Ballard aud Curtis,who
arc pronounced "guilty."
The Bitter Fruits—The suicide of Slavery
The fallowing remarable article is taken
from the St. Louis Intelligencer. It j s r ,,
markable as the expression of opinion of
leading commercial journal of one of the
iug slave states. It is one of the signs of tl Je
times, worthy of inspection.
Our news from Western Missouri is of. •
nous and most discouraging character Ti
region is suffering from mildew and bin,, mt
Its glory is dimmed, its spirits abated and it
hopes fading. ' 8
The emigration to Kansas hag been entirely
checked. Emigrants from the northern
free states have ceased to go to Kansas !.'■
cause they cau fiud as good lauds elsewLdv
not cursed by mob law uor ruled by non-nl'
dent bullies. Emigrants from the southern
states do not go to Kansas, because tliev wii|
not put their slave property in peril, h v takin-r
it to a territory where there is a strong free
soil element, threatening the security of slave/
Any man of sense might have "forseen tin
result, Alabama and Georgia may hold public
meetings, and resolve to sustain the slavehold
ers iu Missouri in making Kansas a slave state
15ut their resolutions comprise all their aill-1
which is not '• material " enough for the crisis
When slaveholders of Alabama and (JeoHa
emigrate, they goto Louisiana, Arkansas, aid
Texas. They do not come with their slaves
to Missouri or Kausas. Call they that bark
ing their friends ?
Thus the matter stands. The northern
emigrants shun Missouri and Kansas us plague
I spots of the nation. The southern emigrants
shun Missouri and Kansas, because here is the
battle-ground betweeu slavery and frecsoil.
The result is, Kansas, the fairest laud un
der the sua, is neglected and idle ; occupied
only by a few honest and earnest but disheart
ened pioneers, and lorded over by a dozen or
two feudal tyrants of Missouri, who curse by
their presence the land they have made diao
late.
Such is Kansas—poor, neglected and des
pised—and Western Missouri stands infected
by the horrible contagion of outlawry, ami
dwindles away under the moral leprosy of its
nioboeratic leaders. We are assured by two
gentlemen of high position in Western Mis
souri, but totally differing iu political senti
ment—one upholding the oligarchy that con
trols the affairs and tramples upon the people's
sovereignty of Kansas, the other deploring the
accursed madness of the day—that matters
are gloomy enough iu Western Missouri.—
Business is dull. Commerce is stagnant.—
Money is exceedingly scarce, and a panic per
vades the |>eople. The fifty thousand emigrants
that ought this season to have poured over in
to Kansas are not there. The prairie sod re
mains unbroken. The sound of the axe and
the whoop of the husbandman is not heard.—
Western Missouri towns are not thronged with
settlers buying their outfits and their equip
merits of husbandry. The farmers find n
market for their horses, mules, oxen and cow-
There is no new and large trade springing up
in Kansas. The much vaunted Kansas towns
lie neglected—a mockery to their owners aud
a laughing stock for all men. " Bead—dead
—dead " may be written on all the countrv—
so deep and disastrous has been the fall ii m
the high and fond hopes of the past vear.
In May last the editor of the hittllipwr
was in Kentucky, and he met numerous of the
most respectable and wealthy farmers of that
state, such as form so large a portion of the
population of Missouri, who inquired earnest
ly about the condition of things in Kansas and
iu Western Missouri. They spoke of the in
tention thev had of removing to Kansas or
Western Missouri, but said they had abandon
ed it utterly, for the reason that they would
never think of taking their families to a re
gion where law was set aside, presses mobbed
and men driven from the country by irrespon
sible and unknown bands of regulators. They
preferred the rule of law to anarchy. In a
recent trip through several northwestern state
we found that the same circumstances were
most industriously and fatally used to divert
eiuigratiou to those states, and to prejudice
Missouri and Kansas with every class of peo
ple. The most aggravating stories of insults
and outrages committed by Missourians on the
persons of emigrants from the old world or
from the free states, who are found ascending
the Missouri river, are circulated in the uew--
papers all through the free states ; and it is
impossible to conceive of the deep hatred thus
generated towards our whole state iu the north
ern half of the Union.
Between these fires Missouri is leading on
her languid existence. St. Louis is retarded
in a most woeful way. Our railroads creep
at snail's pace. We build ten miles while oth
er western states build one hundred, In even
department of life we feel the paralysis. In
stead of bounding forward, buoyant, strong
and rejoicing, we sit with dull eyes aud heavy
spirits, and listen to the tick of a deathwatch.
These arc the bitter fruits of the rejeal of
the Missouri Compromise—a wicked and wrong
ful deed—that will yet bring a hell of bitter
self-reproaches to its authors. Missouri did
not demand that repeal. The South never
asked it. Atchison solicited it—and in am>
ment of political insanity the South consented
to the wrong, and made the wrong her own.
This was the suicide of slavery.
Euery step since taken has deepened the
wrong and enhanced the danger. The fr "
states organized Aid Societies, and sent tin
men to make Kansas free. It had been free
soil by solemn compact for thirty-live years,
and they naturally were incensed to see it?
character changed. The South would have
been far more indignant if a slave territory
had been thus, by an unexpected ait of t
gross, been converted into free soil.
The free states had a right to be indignj 1 ' 11
that a compact had bcenp-epealed—and tlwj
they had a right to keep Kansas free as id 1 1"
been, by peaceful colonization. They attempt
ed nothing else. But a portion of theciti-' ,; -
of Missouri, headed by Atchison and
fellovv, denounced the northern emigrants a?
" paupers and hirelings," because thej
sent west with the money of a society ; a ,u "'
they had couuty meetings in Missouri and ra.
Ed money, and sent Missourians to Kansas : -
make Kansas a slave territory ! ere t; 11 '*
Missourian " hirelings" too ? And did tiif*
two wrongs make one right ? . .
Atchison and Stringfellow, with '
Missouri followers, overwhelmed the settler?
Kansas, brow beat and bullied them, ami
the government from their hands. Mi*?'"-'-
votes elected the present body of men.
insult public intelligence and popular right?
styling themselves " the Legislature of kj 11 '-?'
This body of men are helping theinselo*
fat speculations by locating the "seatm
eminent," and getting town lots for their
They are passing laws disfraenhising a •
citizens of Kansas who do not believe m-