The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-11-10
Aschison at Home "A tchiscn and DousIas---No
Slavery in Kansas.

A.chison at Home Atchiscn and DousIas---No
Slavery in Kansas.
Mr. Redpath, the intelligent and reliable
correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat,
gives the following as one of the Incidents
Of horseback journey. from Parkville to +,
Leavenworth, dating On the 18th:
On my way overlook gentleman on
horseback. | inclose his name but reffaiE
from publishing it, You will see that he is
an old citizen of Platte County, and poll
tical opponent OF Mr.. Benton. He did not
know my profession, and we entered into
conversation upon politics:
s. You are all Atchison men here in Platte
County," remarked
I" No, sir" ne replied, "not by any means
Not third. Atchison has Killed himself
here as dead as Douglas at Chicago and
that's beyond all hope Of the arm of resur--
rection ever raising him.. No sir, Atchison
corld not carry this county notv, and never
will again. He's disguised all the conserva--
tive men by his violence. and most of the
Democrats by joining the Know Nothings
and between them he's done for I'll be
sorry to see Kansas Free State, myself but
don't believe in making it a Slave State by
trampiing the laws of the country under
foot. 1t is really diseraceful to see Atchison,
the Vice-President Of the United States,
overriding the Constitution as he has done
over there, and stirring up other men to do
it too! J" r
g 1t is rather, that's fact" said I, "but
dill he do it ?'
Yes sir" was the answer, ~ heard him
say, at Platte City, If we couldn't get
Kansas by peaceful means, we must take it
at tie point Of tie bayonet, if necessary
Those were the very words he used. How
consistent it is, too; preaching against the
North nullifying the laws in ore part Of the
country, and then doing just the same thing
in Kansas. You see what Douglas and At,
Gibson have done. Douglas has abolitioii-
lied the North, and Atchison has made KaI.-
sas Free State. 1t was ID bad move
that Ksngas-Nebraslsa Bill. There was no
necessity 70, it at ALL By -, old Benton
was right, sir it was suicidal LEGISLATION for
the South, that bill" ..~-
=" Do you despair of Kansas altogether 2"
I asked.
" Yes, sir, Slavery will never 60 over tie
river I'VE travelled all over the Territory,
and I'm sorry to say there's no chance The
Aboltionists and Free State men are far too
numerous for Slave property to be safe, and
are getting more so every day! You can't
drive them cut, and you can't silence their
abolition papers; besides, all the land is
taken up in small sections. If the Compro-
mise hadn't been repealed, we would have
got Kansas withouta a word by settling it up
and then coming in as Slave State before
it was expected but now we will have as
much as we can do to keep Missouri to the
South. We are hemmed in by fanatics Oh
both sides; we're divided among ourselves,
and we can't keep Abolitionists out. The
destroying that Luminary press was bad
business, for it went too far and turned
mems minds the other way of thinking.
Maybe you won't believe this but it's 80,
sir; it's Gods truth. Atchison has already
changed the sentiment of this section of the
State. Conservative men't stand this turn
ing Ct preachers out Of the State as they've
tried to drive Northern Methodists out Of
Platte Couty. I'll bet they won't do it
again, soon. We've organized company
now to protect peaceable men, and by Cd
if the Platte mob"
You mean the regulators ?''
eyes; they call them regulators out Of
the county, we call them the Platte mob.
Well, sir, if they attempt that thing again,
they will find us pretty hard things to regU-
late"
After some further conversation, our route
Icing different, we parted