Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1855-09-08
Letter FROM Kansas.
SHAWNEE MISSION, Kansas Territory, ]
August 18th. 1855. !
To the Editor ofthe Examiner

Kansas is dedicated 10 slavery, and all
tho Greeley's and Emigrant Aid Societies
Of the North cannot drive US into submis
sion. Slavery is as safe here as in South
Carolina, or TIE cotton fields CT Mississip-
pi. will assure you in advance that oul
delegate TO Congress will be man deve.
ted to the South.
A bill ss just passsd the Legislative AS
sembiy with death penalty Tor stealing
negroes, and hemp is QUE Of our staples -
Ii is also made Peuite n.iary offence to
publish abolition documents and papers
These and all other laws we enact will be
executed, Notwithstanding the howls of
the Abolitionists,
The Legislature is highly respectable
body. and will compare adyaniag eously
with any Of Virginia. /, is no: q inena-
gerie OF wild beats. nor war counc,. of
Sioux, as the deiunct Governor Reeder
seems inclined to think. They are quiz
ct, orderly set of gentlemen, who do not
draw up their bills with the point CT their
bowieknives, no. urge their passage at the
mouth of the revolver. The refined ard
elegant. krout-eating Reeder may de.
nounce them as border ruG;uas" when be-
You'd the range Of their rifles bu, he is not
likely TO do ii here among them.
We owe the Presiden. many thanks for
driving stake through the mahgled car
case Of Reeder, and we trust that when his
body is removed TO his bereuved family in
Pennsylvania, should he attempt to kick
the lid from his coffin when U. S. Senr-
tolship is spoken Of, you viii gently re-
mind him that he is dead, and mast lie in
his grave as other respectable ghosts
Reeder was most infamous official, mi
selly Dutch Jew. who cared for nothing
but place and the ''nsonish'-a cogging
man worm,-and the lowest dirty specu-
lator since Judas Iscariot betrayeb bis mas
ter but Judas had conscience, aud hang
ed himself, while Reeder gloried iu his
shame. He would not fight. run. resign,
nor do anything but speculate in towns,
aud refuse to recognise our Legislature.
Why do not more Of the people Of Vir.
GINA come to this glorious country? You
can scarcely imagine its fertility No
garden in Virginia is SO rich, nor will our
soil ever need manure If it only is proper
y cultivated. Look at the sensus tables
Of Western Missouri counties, and see
.heir products. Our soil is precisely the
same. A member of the Council has fust
Informed me that on his Missouri farm, a
field OF $50 acres is just threshed aud av-
eraged 80 bushels to the acre. have
mover seen such corn and hemp; and pota
toes don't TO. in this county.
II the farmers Of Eastern Virginia who
have negroes, only come here, they can
make princely fortunes from the virgin soil
OF Kansas. 1t is the best country ever
sow. for slave labor. north OF Louisians.
But ! will weary your patience. beg
Of you to stand by the people Of Kansas as
heretofore We are under lasting obliga-
tons to your paper for it, manly course.
BE assured that Kansas will be no dis.
credit 10 the South: We will be decided,
but not rash. We will apply for admiss-
ion into the Union as slaveholding State
aud if we are repulsed by lawless set Of
fanatics, we can stay out. and make pracii-
cpl truths Of the Resolutions Of '98 and SO.
We will know, too, 10 that event, where
Virginia will be. Thank God. Virginia
still bears the flag Of the South with the
same steady tread as in days gone by.
Very truly yours.