Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-10-01
LIACHBU RI llnGiNiAN.
Kansas Politics.

ar.v Whitfield and Reeder will both be re.
turned The former by the voters whose sufrages
will be cast on the day fixed by the Legislature,
tho latter by those who hold lawless election
on the day appointed by the Free state conYen-
ton, held lately at Big Spring. To it Is clear
that Redeer's claim viii not present the cendi-
tons of 4 contes stand should not even be consider
ed by Congress. lie should be elected when he
enters the Hail. by the Speakers order TO the
Sergeant at. Arms,-not by the report OF COM
mltee and n vote of the House. lie will so to
Congress by no better authority than Atchison
might claim n seat in the Senate,by virtue OF the
sham election of the boys who qnizzed the n. L
Tribune. But his advent at Washington will be
seized upon by his free soil friends III Congress
as an occasion for transferring the whole Kansas
controversy, from It's legitimate tribunal, to that
bear garden of sectional milling matches. We
incline 10 think that when this is done, Southern
members should refuse to have anything to do
with t-remain silent and leave IL to the North
Then. If Reeder is admitted, they should return
home and leave action to the people aud the
States.
We find in the Missouri Democrat n preiudieed
account of speech lately delivered in ST. Louis
by Senator Douglas, in which he responded TO Il
question by the crowd, as to what he thought Of
the interference of Missoufans in Kansas affairs
by saying TINT he had been asked the same qnes
ton in Illinois, and would answer it again Us he
had then. ole opposed 10 any interference
on the part Of any State or people with the inter
nal regulations of the territory. but while he wa
ready to deeaim against the wrongs committed
by Missourians, he willing to denounee in
unsparing terms.ihe crusades against slavery I'm
dertaken by regularly organized societies in
Massachusetts, who had marched through Chiea
go with banners and devices, and travelled up the
Missouri river into Kansas. with the sole inten
ton of making it free state" These are the
people whose candidate Reedpr Is, aud. 10 make
the matter worse, they propose sending him 10
Congress by mob election, and wfha spurious
commission.
The ST. Louis Republican gives the address OF
the Missouri Pro- slavery Convention, relative 10
Kansas, which sets forth that haf tho slave pop
ulaiion of Missouri is in the counties which Dor.
der ON Kansas. 1t declares To be unfounded the
prevalent idea that slavery is not permanent
institution in Missouri, and AYERS that though
some of the newspapers and citizens in favor
Of emancipation, no respectable party can BE-
found in the State. outside of ST. Louis prepnr
81 to support il. 1t represents the repeal Of the
Compromise of lo20, Us having been necessity
to preserve slavery in Missouri, a- she Ind free
States lying on her Eastern and Northern borders.
and another free State ON the West would have cut
Missouri off from the slave Stntos, says that
the settlement OF n free state west Of Missouri
would be the indirect abolition of slavery in Mis-
souri, itself. IT then euogizes the principle of
popular sovereignty, which was the prominent fea
ture in the Kansas bill, though at the same time
il proceeds to show that the organized aud hired
emigration of anti slavery settlers was n subyer.
s ion of that principle. The modus operandi ind
character of this emigration represented in
the annexed passages from the address:
"Recrniting officers were stationed in places
most likely to furnish the proper material pre-
miums were offered for recruits; the public mind
was stimulated by glowing and false description.
of the country proposed to be occupied, and ii
Hessian band Of mercenaries was thus prepared
and forwarded to commence and carry ON a war
of determination against slavery.
To call these people emigrants is sheer per-
version of language. They are not sent 10 cult
vate the soil, To better their social condition to
add to their individual comforts or the aggregate
wealth of the nation. They do not move from
choice or taste. or from any motive affecting or
supposed to affect themselves or their families
They have none of the marks of the old pioneers.
who cut down the forests of Kentucky. Ohio and
Indiana, or levelled the canebrakes of Tennessee
and Mississippi, or broke up the plans of Illinois
and Missouri. They are mostly ignorant of agri.
culture-picked up i'll cities or villages, they
of course have experience as farmers. md
if left 10 their aneded resources, if not clothed
and fed by the same power which has effected
their sportaton-they would staryc or freeze.
They are hirelngs-an army of hirelings-recruit
ed and shipped indirectly by a sovereign State of
this Union ito make war upon institution now
existing in the Territory to which they are trans
planted, and thence to inhct Il fatal blow
upon the resources, the prosperity and the peace
of neighboring State.
They are military colonies, planted by "a State
governmental subdue Territory opened to set
Element by Congress, and take exclusive possess
sion thereof. In addition to that esprit da corps
which of necessity pervades such an organization,
they have in common reckless and desperate fu-
natcism, which teaches them that Slavery is a
sin, and that they are doing Gods service in has.
tenng its destruction. They have been picked
and eulled from the ignorant masses, which Old
England and New England negro philanthropy
has stirred up and aroused TO madness on this
topic, and have been selected with reference Ia
their views on this topic alone. They are men
with single idea; and TO carry out this. they
have been instructed and taught TO disregard the
laws of God and man, to consider bloodshed and
arsoi.. instruction, destruction of property or
servile as the merest trAes. compared with
the glory and honor of seducng single slave
from his master or harborng and protecting the
thief who has carried him off"
Gen. Whitfield is now the only regular candi-
date for Congress. before the people. Mr. Per-
kins. who was started as an Administration can.
ddate, in opposition 10 him. has withdrawn.
Gov. shannon recently made a visit To | a.