Kansas weekly herald., 1855-03-16
BY 1EASTIN 81 ADAMS,
Slavery.
UsrTERFRoM B. F.sTRINGFELLo

= LETTER FROM B. F.STRINGFELLOW.
Tohe Hon. p. s. Brooks, Ihos. l.. Cling.
man, I'm. Smith, and John Nc Queen.
GENTLEMEN: 1t gives me pleasure to
comply with your request, and state in writ
ing the information I have been tenabled
to give you, touching the settlement of Kan
sas Territory, and its adaptness to slave
labor, and to present the considerations
which induce me to say, without hesitation,
It will be slave holding State.
= For the sake of convenience, I will
reply toyour inquiries separately.
,a1 !. WiU Kansas be a Saceholding Sfate7
/ answer without hesitation, it will
Though citizen of Missouri, yet residing
on the border Of Kansas, have necessari-
ly felt deep interest in the decision of
this question, and have watched anxiously
the progress Of the struggle which has been
going on in that Territory. A residence
Of nearly seventeen years In Missouri had
I believed, enabled me to form reliable
opinion as to the class of population which
would naturally and permanently occupy
Kansas I admit, however,, | was some
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friends seemingly ready to surrender it,
deferred by the declaration of those on
whom they were accustomed to rely, that
.'it was not adapted to slave "labor," while,
at the same time, Abolitionists were organ
iZing their Companies, with millions Of
capital, to colonize that Territory. Yet /
never despaired! still declared that, though
sent out, they could not remain; they could
not live in the prairies! / can now refer
you to the resul, of the late election for Del
egate, as evidence conclusive of the cor
rectnsss Of my opinion.
The question Of slavery was not proper
ly involved in this election, and Gen. Whit
field, accordingly, in announcing himself a
candidate, presented, as the issue, the prin-
ciples of the Douglas bill. But the real
issue was not left to him; the friends of his
opponents, before he was fairly announced,
made the issue distinctly and directly on the
question Of Slayery-induced to do so,
without doubt, under the false impression
that a large number of those sent out by the
Abolition societies were still in the Terrific
w.. That issue was at once accepted by the
friends of Whitfield and, by the action oi
the Abolitionists, became the only issue in
the contest; it absobed all others, and on il
the election turned. -.-a
Whitfield received the pro-slavery vote.
The anti Slavery was divided between
Flenniken and Wakefield. The former
was favored by the Governor, and, as con.
tra-distingnished from the Abolitionist, was
called by the softer term Free-Soiler. He
received the vote of those who denied tha
they were Abolitionists, but claimed only
to be opposed to slavery, with such of the
Abolitionists as could be Influenced by the
Governor Wakefield was the proper Alb
clifton candidate, and received, with few ex.
ceptions, the votes of those sent out by the
Emigrant Aid Societies. This last vote
you will see, was nearly all given in one
district. That district included the town o
Lawrence, to which those sent by the Alb
clifton Societies were forwarded. Those
societies show, by their reports, that they
have transported to Kansas 5000 during
the past summer; and | incline to the be.
lief that the number is not oyerstated. o.
that number. You will see, there were lef
on the dayi of the election but 24s: ofthese
am credibly informed, $50 left on the day
following, the election, having complied witt
their contract in voting Others have since
kcIt, ana Cau SdlSfy sd fiiie1t, OI tuc HHoie
batch, there will not by March be fifty LEFT
in the territory! They were not such mel
AS could settle a prairie country.
IL am aware that it is charged by Aboii
tionists, that Missouri sent thou ands (the!
had it four thousand to Kansas "merely
to VOTE" and thus elected Whitfield. ]
ought not, perhaps, to deny the charge, a
Missouri has certainly an equal right witt
Massachusetts 10 send men to Kansas =
Abolitionlsts have not the exclusive right to
organize Emigrant Aid Societies.! .
If that charge were true, do not Sc.
ffat it can afford much consolation to Abo
litionists to 6nd that Missouri can. alon,
and unaided, SO easily defeat their boastet
schemes On the contrary, it might wei
encourage our southern friends to learl
that though they be asleep or afraid, Mis-
souri is not only awake but able and deter
mined to protect, the rights of the South.
For answer to this charge, however,
need only refer you to thelvote; you will SCI
that Whitfield received majority in ever,
precinct but three. in two of which yer,
small vote was given, and iii the other !
situated the town Of Lawrence. You vii
see, too, that there was but handful o
Abolitionists in the whole territory, thci
whole vote being oaly about 500. TO say
then. that Illegal votes from Missouri car
gisd the .slettion, is to assert that ther'
were ne psople in the Tertikozs his !