Squatter sovereign., 1855-12-04

man will need any help to support him af
ter he reaches here. twenty-five dollar
would be more than enough to cover con
tingent expenses while making location
will say, further, that to any man VIII
will come and secure a pre-emption, th
money necessary to enter it will be ad
vanced on the security of the claim, at rea
sonable interest. In 90 cases in 100, hi
claim will, when entered, bring 500 dol
lars Claims can now be had which viii
bring on entry ten dollars per acre, witt
only a cabin.
But you must not confine yourselves t.
sending poor men-of all portions of the
Union, Kansas is the most desirable t.
men of means-especially TO those whe
have slaves. 1t must be one of the health.
lest portions of our country-our negroes
are as healthy as in Virginia. They hire
for better prices than in any other State
in the Union. This is conclusive as to the
value of their labor. There is as little
danger Of their escape, even less than from
Virginia. They are remote from any
free State, have no facilities for getting
away, and our people are more on the
alert than elsewhere.
They have now laws more efficient to
protect slave property than any State in
the Union these laws have just taken
effect, and have already silenced Aboli-
tionists, for in despite of their heretofore
boasting, they know they will be enforced
to tie very letter, and with the utmost
rigor. Not only is it profitable for slave
holders to go to Kansas, but politically it is
all important. Every slave taken there
will gain five votes from anti-slavery men.
Though in feeling opposed to slavery. those
who have moued, not been sent to Kansas,
from the non-slaveholding States, soon be-
come attached to Southern men, and are
to drive them away, or to strip
them of tEeir property, and thus become
practically pro-slavery.
But in addition, the necessity for la bor
demands that slavery be brought here, else
he people may be driven to seek white la
Dor, not being able to get negroes, and
rom necessity be forced to exclude negro
slavery, that wlite slaves may be induced
o come. In this, our only real danger,
where patriotism and profit combine to call
Southern men to come, must hope they
will respond-tha: they will not be fright
'ned by the idle threats of Abolitionists in
New York or Boston.
They ought TO know that all their outcry
S in the hope that thus Southern men, on
he principle stupid one by the way
hat slavery is timid," will, SO long as
S seeming contest, be deferred from
oming with their slaves, and that thus,
fter time, they may outnumber US
Dur friends in Kansas have given e, idence
hat should satisfy the most incredulous-
They have carried every election-have
nacted the most efficient laws-are Pre-
jared and determined to enforce them.
] care not how this has been done-if,
S Aboiitionists say, Missourians have done
/, Missourians can do it again! AS you
now, we can, if driven to it, from this
ountry alone, send more men to Kansas
han all New England has been enabled
0 put there. If we are forced in self-de-
ence, we will show that we can do far
nore than Greely in his rawlings has char
ed us with doing. But we do not wish,
nd it is not right that We should, be COM
elled to odepopulate our country. in defense
{ Southern rights. Others should be not
sss patriotic, when, too, they would be so
luch greater gamers than we, by re-
loval. The South has not heretofore been
aereant, and am glad to find she is now
eing aroused to the necessity for action. |
'ou are in the interior, remote from dam
er; We are on the outposts. fighting your |
attIes. We will hold the post while we |
ave man left-and if you will give us
little help, we will not only gain victo-
:, but place you and all your friends "out
danger" in the future.
Excuse the length of this. You know
ow deeply feel on this matter. When
arted, l hardly know how to stop; but
now cannot say too much, even to one
) deeply enlisted as you.
Truly, your friend.
B. f. STRINGFELLOW.
A Rough Road.