New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-02
SENATOR ATCmSON on KANSAS.

Senator Atchison on leaving home for Washing
bon, made a speech, the purpose OF which may be
gathered from extract
Gen. htchs0n said that his mission bere to-day was
II possible. 10 awaken the people of this county TO the
danger ahead and 10 suggest the means to avoid it,
The people Of Khnsas in their first elections would
decide tie question, whether or not the slave holder
was 10 be excluded, and il depended upon majority
Of the votes ces at the polls Now Il set OF fanatics
AMI demsgogues, thousand miles OIL, could afford
10 advance their money, and exert every nerve TO
aboitohize the Territory and exclude the slave
holder when they have not the least personal in
terost, what is your duty When you reside within
day journey Of the Territory and rheR year peacc
your qEtcf and gOur property dcpcnd upon yoHr &c
lion gov can tifhO enerf,oa, 'eHd fire hHHdrod Of
yo'v gopag rho rH rote ~ taroT Of yoUr insfi-
fEfiOHs.
Should each county in the State Of Missouri only
DO its duty the question will be decided quietly and
peaceably At the ballot box. FIVE are defeated, then
Missouri and the other Southern States will have
show beInstv recTeaDt Ia their Interests aud Wall
deserve their fate. The AbolitioDists will have
nothing TO gain or lose. IL Is an abstraction with
them. We have much 10 gain and much 10 lose.
Said he II you burn my barn sustain great loss,
but YOU gain nothing So II IL with the Colonization
Societies and the dupes they send here to abolition
lie kHnses.
II these Abolitonists steal all your sgroes, they
gain nothing. The negroes are injured; you are rn-
med No much the greater is the motive for activity
on your part
Fellow citizens we should not be apshetic when
u much Ia involved. we should Dc up ana 0olhg'
lie was for meeting organization with organization.
BE was for Meeting those philanthropic knaves
pcaoeobly at the baot.box and oui-voiing them,
n ne cannot do has, IS an omen nat TIE t1sfRa-
ton Of Sarery TO fall ~ ttis and the other South,
erH States bEf u pouid fall after much strife, Girl
car Gsd Hoodshed.
II abotioDism under s present auspices, Is estab.
lished in Kansas there will be constant strife ana
bloodshed between Kansas and Missouri. Negro
stealing will be principle and vocation. ~ 'cdf ne
me poiry NJ phlanfhroDc ka0rcs until heg force me
slarcholdeT 10 abaHdoH M,ssopri-Ror rW be long
vafL n - done. You cannot watch your stables to
preyent thieves from stealing your horses and mules
neither can you watch your negro quarters 10 prevent
,our rcichbors from seducng away and stealing your
N Kansas ia abolitionzod all men who love peace
and au,et will leave MS, and all emigration 70 mls-
sour from the slave States will cease
In bybrid state we cannot live; we cannot lie ia
Constant quarrel-in constant state OF suspicion oil
our neghbors. The feeling is entertained by large
portion of mankind everywhere. -,
Ne, no said he was willing, notwithstanding ms
,aci6c views 20 hang negro thieves he would not
punish those who merely entertained aOsuac. opln-
IONS. hut negro Micrcs. and persons VINO suireu up
Standardization and Instruction among our slaves,
Ia bsUeved IL right % punish. and they could not 10
nvnished too severely: he would not punish man
Who believed that rape, murder or larceny was ao-
strsoy right yet he would PUNISH the man "uo GUM
pitted either. ..-.,
Ue said that there were few men who entertained
those opinions in the western part OF the STATE o,
Missouri and who no doubt practlsed upon them an,
that when fall evidence obtained yEsfice SHOULD
he done them. Convincing evidence must be had
lie was opposed 10 acknowledgements NIoonce'
bnt lot punishment fall on TIE gE'ky.
Wa, I. not strange TO end, in a state so deeply in-
,ercsted In the question Of Slavery, portion OF the
press denOuncing such men a. Douglas, Cess bIlgh'
and others and exuang over victories lately obtained
by the AbolitiOnsts in the northern STATES iet IL
. xss So As 20 ISLANDERS and abuse heaped upon nun
self he cared but little 10 was the iate Oh 2s..% e
men. But day of reckoning would come; there
viii be rescton in the northern States. The peo-
pie Of the North cannot be IN favor oil disso'Nlhs
the Union. k.
The mad platforms upon which the recent JASON
victories have been obtained, II earned ou'' "onia
Inevitably dissolve the Union.
lie had always bad great eonhdcsc' 90 ne tH'd"-
ecncs and ririae Of he people OFT n ack a'rca geo
fAaf ms orEdence he'd been s01schf sAaSe7 ~ tH'c
gr0rs. , :;
He again told the audience tbs, to succeed IN
making Kansas slave Territory u was not snihcleht
for the South to talk but TO act; 70 90 P'ae'a0y az.
RLob,f ne 7crriiOrg ard pcaoea5tE 10 reg ana s. 20
ne gpesoH according to the principles Oh inc