New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-02
WILL KANSAS BE FREE,


of yer people wills that such shall be her destiny
Those who talk thus find il convenient to forget
that this majority of to-day may be reversed any
week by the migration thither of & few thousands
from Missouri and ether Slave Ststes-and t,st v
IS reversed on tie eve Of each Election. Three
times has the voice Of the settlers of Kansas been
OveIborne al their own polls By the bludgeon' aud
bowie.knives of Pro Slavery invaders, who have
secured in each contest fraudulent but prse-
teal triomph to Slavery. The only election ia
which Freedom has triumphed is that last
held uDder : volunteer call, and at which none
but Free-State men voted. And now the fraudu.
lently elected Pro lsyery Legislature has legal
lied systematic frasd in all future elections b.
enfraDcbising intru1ers who pay one dollar each
and .wesr allegiance TO the Slave Laws while
one who de nies the authority Of tls sham Legis-
lsture and the binding force of is pcoslsvery
enactm.nts is not allowed to vote - We
nav have three fourths of the settlers Oh side
of Freedom, and sc: they are poweress and 'et.
tered unless the authority OF this pretended Legs
lsture shall be invsldttei and its enactments set
aside by Congress, in the admission of heeier ~
Delegate and in general reputation and reouko
of all the outrsges committed BY Atchison and his
minions under the pretext of Squst.er Sever
eighty"
Senator Atchison was invited to attend a
recent celebration of the Battle of Kings Noun
tain in North Carolina, and responded as follows:
"PLA-rE Cry, Mo. Sept. 10 1851
"GENTLFMES; Your letter OF inv s'ion rquas ing
nv attendance the celebration Of the battle OF Kings
Mcuutain has been received II will be altogether ip-
convenient for me (, be present on hat occasion
have certain dutiei, both privats and public, to dis
chsrse a. bone. The bait Of Kings Mountain wa
fought by tho Whigs under tie lead o. Campbell Nc
Dowell Shelby, SEWER and Williams, against tne
Torie, under the gallant Ferguson We have a sin.
lar foe to ter IN k4ns,s the fist Monday Ia
October next. The border ruihsns, ST. N as olght
with Mcdowell, Shelby, &c or the one baud, add
the Aboliuoniss, such men as fought with Ferguson
on the oil ef. We ltde border rufiians have the
whole power of the northern States 10 c)u<end WITH
tirP hsrced and aJue, without assistance and almost
without sympathy from any quarter yet we ara un
dsmsy ed Thus far have We been vc'orlous and
With the help of God will still cont Ne To COuq ter.
Cent, men, hank YOU for the kind expression In
the concudif2 paragraph Of your letter Three chers
for Atctison ana kaus,sl ] have read thi, pSa-
eraph TO sundIy Cf the border ruff ans and their
eyts sparkle; their arms are neWed We have been
actire on tie defensive altog ether the contest with
is Of life and death aud will ne 80 yith N and
your institution If we fail A'chison Shingts low,
and the DO der rutiians OF Missouri MI column Of
most foul ard fasehooG uub ushng is poured out upou
Us ard yet we have no advocate IN the Southern
press; ard Yet we receive no assistance ffon The
South IN States. But the time will shortly come when
u at asss arce must and will be rendered thu stake
the borctr rut.ns are play ing for is mig lty one
il Kane is sboiiioozed, Msso, ri ceases TO be ave
State, New Mexico becomes Free Sts'e 'ahforhia
remains q Free State but If we secure Kansas ~ q
Slave State Missouri is secure Nes-Mexico and
Southern California II not all of l., bAco mes Slave
State; in a word, the property or the rum OF the
whole South depends on the Kansas struggle.
" Your o9ed eht servant ,,
"Ne.ns w r. WILSON Jyo L. MrtLEE aud sANUEL w.
"MELTos committee Of invitation"
On this letter, The Charleston Is. c. Mercury
comments as follows:
at will be read with peculiar interest. IL
rDgs in every line of he herce ba tie which mas, for
smost year part hetn waeiDg between 'fauaticaI
hirelpgs and noble champions OF the South. II
speaks OF trials net and ri4s IT TO come, in which,
though every nerve be ested, there will be no yield
ing for the cause OF kaDsas is the care Of The
South Wat an example 10 the who Sou b have
these horde ruiiaus given Of the true aud only
spiri in which aggression is TO be met and mastered
A ycIly do they stand forth in wtheriug con rast
with that piul broor Of meek men, who have s, long
cursed ana dIshOnOre cd tbe South.
"Yet fear rot f,r The result; end the qu q
ton will be removed from Kansas to Congress there
to stand or fall wi The representatives Of the Solh
The House of Represr stlves WI have to decide be-
tween Reeoor and Viii feld-between Slavery and
AbOlitiOn-and upon its decision the future fate Of
KaDsas IL nearly suspended Thus in spite OF com
promises, ard ppesls, and party Platforms Aod-
Slavery still invades he cour ciis Of tse nation The
stfut will be fierce and with immense Ids against
us. Nothing vii avail the South, in her minority
sOD but cOpceTt ana the most deie iDiued spirit IIst
Southern Representatives bear this in miod. Lot
then RENE mbtr ROY much CT the battle is air ady
won, and what may be lost by their unworhiness.
But above al Jet them remember that the eyes Of q
whole people are upon them, eagerly Eatcbing how
they bear Themselves in the fight Meau while, let the
people of the South press forward in cid of the Mis-
sourisns aid evnce, by ac's their sympathy ADD in-
terost 10 the cause. We glad - be able TO state
that Charleston has recently sent forh two young and
tnterprisiDg sons for the patriotic work
Such is the spirit of the South-the spirit ia
which thirty Senators and ninety Representatives
will insist on the admission of Whitfield az Dele
gate and the recognition by Congress Of the scts
passed by the border rulians " sham Legislature
as true and valid laws Of Kansas, including those
which make her n0p a Slave Territory, and deal
with every effort to avert that destiny as felony
and treason The North united can Overbear this
array, and make Kansas Free State; but the
North, under the guidance of ilorato Seymour,
with his rebukes to Northern Emigration Societies
and bis dulcet reprOyal Of the border Irregular
4" ties" of Atchison & Co. will never do it the
North led by the apOstate Free-SOiler John Van
Buren, grinbiDg at the faulty Of those who neglect
their personal interests for the sake of watch ing
negroes in Nebraska, Z" will never do it; the North
Z" represented by Ulmann and J. W. Barker, the
&" Brookses and Levins, will never do it; the North
q Lad - Il, nfto.