New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-03
NUMBER 17s.
Prospects Of Kansas
From recent Kansas letter to the St. Louis
Democrat we extract the following:


From a recent Kansas letter to the St. Loui
Democrat we extract the following: @
AIcHfsos IN PLATTE GousTY-On my way
psersook gentleman on horseback. / enclose
his name, but refrain from publishing it. You
Will see that he is an OH citizen of Platte
county, and political opponent of Mr.. Benton.
ne dId not know my profession, and he entered
into conversation on politics.
You are all Atchison men here. in Platte
county" | remarked
No, SIR" he replied, ssnot by any means
Not third. Atchison has killed himself here
as dead as Douglas at Chicago; and .thas,s re-.
yond all hope of the arm of resurrection ever
| raising him. No, sir, Atchison couldn't carry
this county now, and never will again. He,
disgusted all the conservative men by his VIC.
| lence, and most of the Democrats by joining the
Know Nothings and between them, he's dons
for. I'll be sorry to see Kansas q free State
myself, but l don't believe in making it a slave
State by trampling the laws of the country
under feet II is really disgraceful to SEE
Atchison, the Vice President of the Union, over.
riding the constitution as he has done over
there, and stirring up other men to do it tool''
=" 1t is, rather, that's fact" said I, but
did he do it,"
y es, sir" was the answer, 81 heard him
say at Platte City, IF zoe couldn't get Kansas
by PedcefW means, ace must get it at the point
Of the bayoaet, If necessary. Those are the
very words he usued How consistent it is,
too. Preaching against the North nullifying
the laws in one part of the country, and then
doing just the same thing in Kansas. You see
what Douglas and Atchison have done. Douglas
has abolitionized the North, and Atchison has
made Kansas free State. 1t was q id bad
move, that Kansas Nebraska bill There was
no necessity for it at all. By =, old Benton
was right sir it was suicidal legislation for the
South, that bill"
Do you despair of Kansas altogether p
asked
8. Yes, sir, slavery will never go over The
river. Eve travelled all over the Territory, and
I'm sorry to say there's no chance The aboli-
tionists and free State men are far too numer-
Gus for slave property to be safe, and are get
ting more SO every day. You can't drive them
out, and you can't silence their abolition pa
pers; besides, all the land is taken up in small
sections. II the Compromise hadn't been re-
pealed, we would have got Kansas without a
word by settling it up and then coming in as a
slave State before it was expected but now we
will have as much es we can do to keep Missouri
to the South. We are hemmed in by fanatics
on both sides; we're divided among ourselves,
and we can't keep abolitionists out The de-
stroying the Luminary press was bad bust
ness, for it went too far and turned mems minds
to the other way of thinking Maybe you
won't believe this; but it's so, sir; it's Gods
truth. Atchison has changed the sentiment OF
this section Of the State. Conservative men
won't stand this turning of preachers out of the
State as they've tried to drive Northern Meth
odists out of Platte county I'll bet they won't
do it again, soon. We've organized company
now to protect peaceable men, aud, by Cd, if
the Platte mob
'sYou mean the regulators 20
yes; they call them regulators out of the
county soe call them the Platte mob Well,
sir, if they attempt that thing again, they will
find us pretty hard cases to regulate
After some further conversation, our routes
being different, we parted.