The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-11-17

slAvery In Kansas---A Letter from Atchison.
We continually hear it asserted by the
Doughfaces who surround US, that there is
no danger of the permanent establishment
of Slavery in Kansas-that although the Mis-
sourians have succeeded in planting it there
already, it must eventually be eradicated by
the people, &C.
If any honest citizen, who is in favor of
Freedom and opposed to Slavery, has been
duped by this nonsensical clap-trap, we hope
he will carefully peruse the following letter
from Senator Atchison, the great Slavery
commander-in-chief of the Missouri border,
and comments thereon by leading journal
OF the South. If these documents do not
show our people the true spirit of the South
IN relation to this vital struggle for Liberty
IN Kansas, we do not know what will.
Senator Atchison was invited to attend a
recent celebration of the battle of Kings
Mountain in North Carolina, and responded
as follows:
PLATTE CRY, Sept. IL, 1855.
GENTLEMEN:-YOur letter of invitation
requesting my attendance at the celebration
OF the battle of Kings Mountain has been
received. 1t will be altogether inconyenient
tor me to be present on that occasion. l have
certain duties, both private and public, to
charge at home. The battle of Kings Noun
tam was fought by the Wings under the lead
of Campbell, Mcdowell, Shelby, Sewer and
Williams, against the Tories under the gal
liant Ferguson. We have similar foe to en-
counter in Kansas on the first Monday in o.
tober next: The "border ruffians," such as
fought with Mcdowell. Shelby, &C., on the
one hand, and the Abolitionists, such men as
fought with Ferguson, on the other. We
1.-THE border ruffians'') have the whole DOW
er OF the Northern States to contend with.
slngle-handed and alone, without assistance
and almost without sympathy from any quar-
ter; yet we are undismayed Thus far have
we been victorious, and with the help of God
we VIII still continue to conquer.
Gentlemen, thank you for the kind ex-
preston IN IN the concluding paragraph of your
letter-rihree cheers for Atchison and Kan
sss ~ 1 nave read this paragraph to sundry
Si tne border ruffians," and their ewes spar
me-! snei arms are nerved. We have been
ac.llg On Tue defensive altogether; the con-
S~Ss "AsAA ~ 10 OuS VI lie and death md II
will be so with you and your inst;tn+;on ~ :; &c
we fail. Atchison, Stringfellow. and The
"border ruffians" of Missouri, fiji n coh,rn ro
Of each Abolition paper published in the the
North; abuse most foul and falsehood nm.
blushing is poured out upon us, and vet we
have no advocate in the Southern press: and
yet we receive no assistance from the South.
ern States. But the time will shortly come
when that assistance must and will be rem.
dered; the stake the ''border r,ffians, arr
playing for is a mighty one. If Kansas i,
aooiitionlzed, Missouri ceases to be a Slave
State; New Mexico becomes a Free State
California remains Free State: Init If we
secure Kansas as a Slave State. Missouri i
secure; New Mexico and Southern Califor.
mia, if not all of it, becomes Slave State
in word, the prosperity or the ruin of the
whole South depends on the Kansas strup.
gle. Your obedient servant,
D. r. ArcHIsoN.
Messrs. w. B. Wilson, j. L. Miller and s.
w. Milton, committee of invitation.
On this letter, the Charleston Mercury
comments as follows:
at will be read with peculiar interest. It
rings in every line of the fierce battle which
has, for almost a year past, been waging be-
tween 'fanaticaf hirelings,' and noble cham