Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-31


was slavery or no slavery WHITFIELD was the pro-
slavery candidate, WAKEFIELD and FLENNEKEN on
the other side 1t will be seen that WHITFIELD beat
them both l7O5 votes receiving fourfhs of all
the votes polIed The umor, as TO this majority having
been obtained by Missouri assistance, is stouty de-
MED.
OF the seventeen districts into which the territory is
divided, only one Che lsp appears TO be much tainted
with abolitionsm. STRINGFELLow accounts for this
by showing that the abuonists sent oui by the Emi.
grant Aid Societies of The North, nearly all concen-
trated in and about Lawrence, in that district.
But where, it will be asked, those long trains of
clad-singing travellers. who but yesterday so
hurriedy and happily vending their way over hill and
dale to this bright land Of PROMISE there 10 crush by
triumphant r,ajores every effort to establish African
slavery in their midst! Where, GREELEY! Where
GARRISON! "Oh, where, tell me where!" Look at
that vote for Congress, and account foryour three thou
sand vaunted emgrants. STRINcFELLow says The
most Of them riaing scoundrels9 slOped as soon as
the stipend was placed in their hands Some went TO
Nebraska, some back to hum and some scattered
generally.
Some flew East and some flew West,
And some flew over the Cuckoo's nest.
or those that remain it is said, that ga large pro.
portion of them, they slavery as really
exists are freed from their preuices, and from sheer
necessity become shareholders for no other labor
he had''
The cause Of this general abandonment o: Kansas,
by these New Enganders, STRIHGrELLow thinks is
found in the fact, that prairie country like Kansas
either requires that settler should have suflicency
of pita to hire laborers that he should (as slave
holders do) carry laborers along with him. This po-
silion is elaborated with considerable ingenuity.
portion of General SrRlNGFELLow' remarks upon
this point we here append:
"To the farmer who has no help but is dependant
on his unaided labor, Kansas is, Of ALL the least
desirable country; it cannot be settled by such.
In the timber, the poor with his axe, erect
his cabin, make his rails the line Of his fence, with
his hands enclose his land, belt his trees and with
his onc.horse plough break his ground and put il in
cultivation Bn, in Kansas there is no such land for
cultivation Every luot of timber is needed for fuel
and fencing. The timber is confined to the banks OF
the streams the bottoms and the breaks OF hills;
hence tmbered land is less fitted for cultivation, while,
Of its scarcity il is far too valuable for that
purpose. Farms must be made in the prairie. The
farmer have team to hanl his rails and in mnst
cases they must he hauled far render fencing
100 costly for little fields Large fields alone, by re.
ducng the proportion of fencing, can render It's cost
of brick or of stone. But perhaps, the greatest Of all
liz difficulties III Tic way Of the poor man, is the fry.
cost of breaking prairie To do his requires .!yG hands
and least six yoke OF oxen. II hired, II will cost at
least three dollars per bnt IT cannot he hired IN
Kansas for years there, every man will have his own
land TO break each settler must, hence have his own
team, his own ploughmen. in no instance has prairie
land been first settled by poor After country
is settled and every facility is afforded, it is just posi-
bic for here and there to make farm in the prairie
In Missouri such instances even yet are inre. In
northern Illinois, with all its facilities, its rich praircs
lay virtually waste until railroads were made through
them.
But the argument which TO our view seems strong.
est, in making out The probabilyof Kansas becoming
slave State is ih contigly of Missouri and The de-
termination of her people protect themselves against
the nroads Of abolition propagandists. We are glad
to See the writer in question express himself go EN-
pha,icay IN this point. He is evidently convinced
that Missouri is wide awake to the interests of herself
and the South genera lily, and that effort will be
left unirrd her part, 10 secure the speedy establish
mcnt of African servtue throughout the territory Of
Kansas 'To protect their homes, they will, it need
be make their homes in Kansas" They know full
well that Abolitiunsts desire Kansas that they may
use it as lever whercwilh to overthrow slavery in
Missouri and Arkansas and they resolved to meet
the danger promptly and effectively
Upon the whole we are much pleased with this letter
of Gen. STRINGrELLow and should like 10 have given
it in full to our readers. Our immediate representa-
tive and his co.adjutors have done wise and useful
thing in calling it forth and then placing it before the
country. For one, We have not hitherto been very
hopeful as to slavery in Kansas. But if the state
mcnts Of tins letter to be relied on land we cannot
why they should not be) The thing is almost re-
duced to a certainly already. The Abolition sheets Of
the North indicate pretty clearly that such too is their
opinion about the matter and the Tribune is beginning
to belch forth new threats of vengeance and enmy,
preparatory to grand outbreak when Kansas shall
come knocking at the door for admission into the
Union as Slaue State. Hasten the day, kind Fates
Let the issue be fairly and squareIy met by the North
| and BY the South. And may the fight be n decisive
one-ecsve of the future of ourinsttuti"ns decisive
Of the future of the American Union!