Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-12-22
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norton Of the Southern press - Gaming uPo'
the Ler;slatures Of the slaveholding States &
.dopt measures of protection and support TO
the pro-slavery party in Kansas. The Charles
ton Mercsry makes an eloquent appeal in be
hak ut that little band Of true and hardy men
who have pioneered our cause in that di.tan
land. II says: while New England has free
" kiwsu her thousands, and sent her legions Il
assal NJ. 10 have barely given few hundreds
and lsft to ssll and esterprisng individuals tn
vindicahcn Of our rights. While Atchison an,
Missouri have fought gallastly on from the frs,
the South At large have merely applauded tbei
patriotism. but never shared their troubles ]
IL cruel and ungrateful MAS to desert them
But tits not too lste.es row to render timel'
.asistasce. The Legislature can and ought
move in the matter. Let consultations prompt
j. take place. Let patriotism, and State pride
and Soathesn Apiri<, be expressed in some suita
Bile, practicable form. of aid for Kansas. Tn
session 10 far advanced, but there is yet time
and We arc SURF that this Legislature can
nothing which will commend It more to the ap
prevail of the State, and to the gratitude Of tn
country. than to signalize its closing delibera
tioas, wisha earnest cior. for Kansas
The Mississippisn closes an article, in thu
same spirit, with these words:
How important. then. 10 prempt and eficen
action on the part of the whole South Asw
before remarked. the gallant patriots Of kansa
are fighting not only their own battles, but III"
battles of all the savehoding States. The
cause Is fAe eo4~ efthe entire South. and !
must be 90 regarded. The Federal governmeI
has done its duty. Ii has repealed the uncon
stitutional Missouri restriction and thrown ope
to the South wide and fertile region,from whic
for moro than thirty years. she was unjustlyc 1
cludsd That rsgloa is adapted 10 slavery. J
is already tne-e. The people of the ierritor
have established and pro- soted ii by law. Sha
those laws be maintained, Shall the Aboiitio
societies be permitted to take possession of tb
country With their emissaries and drive out n
slaveholdersl This is the question for the slay
States to answer. We agree with Senn.
Brown that the States themselves should net
their sovereign capacity, and We hope that Mis-,
issippi will take The lead IL Georgia and ALI
bama have no, already done And whatew
IL done must be done promptly. There is II
time TO be lost
As original and independent propositions, n ;
one would deny that these suggestions were COZ
trary TO the theory and objects Of Of the Nebrask
Ksnsas law. That law contemplated leaving ID
Territory Of kan.as to the roiaesary immigr,
ton and occupancy az those who might choo,
- to become its citizens, and proposed leaving
the people thus settling on its soil the establish
-ment Of whatever domestic institutions th'
might prefer. The South would have been col
tent to see the spirit and meaning of the law oil
served; and would have left it TO time and Il
spontaneous action of the people TO dctcrmi
whether Kansas should be free or slave. Not,
with the North. The impatient md graspin
spirit Of fanaticism could not abide the issue
natural causes and the unoonst, aimed develo,
ment and establis bment of its own policy by H.
Kansas law. gnd set about defeating that polio
and circumveniing TIE South by Immigrant A
Societies"-the whole object Of which was
transport hireling voters to tho territory, an
out-number the regular immigrants from Il
slave States. This was so palpabe an infrac
ton Of the true intent and object of the Knns
legislation that the people of Missouri justiiyin
themselves with the. argument that people mn
choose their own mode of repelling wrong, OF
posed violent resistance to the scheme of III
Abohtionists, aud thus far have held them
ch Ok. The issue has reached crisis, and no
hangs douhafully in,the scale Of events. III
measured proposed by the Mercury and Mis-i,
sippian would doubtless create corresponding NJ
ton in Northern Legislatures. and would hav
the tendency still further to embroil each sectio
in the Kansas cpntroversy-but if the Sou
deem such action demanded by the present oml
Gus conjuncture. whatever may be the conse
quences. we believe it will stand justified bcfor
the world, and in the sight Of Him who rules Il,
world.