Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-01
From the St. Louis, republican Feb. %
Affairs of Kansas.

II we were to Judge of the state of affairs in
Kansas Territory by the notes OF preparation for
hostilities and bloodshed, which reach via
Washington city, no other conclusion could be for
med than that civil war was imminent and inev,ta-
BILE. We do not pretend te be wiser than other
people, or less excitablc than others; but have
some correspondence with well informed and re-
tional men in that Territory and with that portion
of the country inhabited by the Border Ruiiaus,"
and we have yet to learn that there is any undue
excitement among the pro slavery men, any de
sign to invade Kansas from Missouri for any pur
pose whatever. II will be pardoned in US, If We
withhold all credence to the thousand and one tasc-
hoods manufactured to order in Lawrence, and
among the AOolitionists, and sent to Washington,
with the view OF inhdmug the minds OF isuatical
congressman or to New York, expressly to keep
up yossblc, the agitation of the slavery question
until alter the Presidential election. In our Opin.
ion, credit is due to anything that may be puD-
shed from these sources; il by accident they
should hit upon solitary fact it may be safely at
trbuted to that cause aud not to any design TO tell
the truth, They have but one instruction, and
that is TO lie continually, and but motive, and
that is, omit nothing which is likely TO operate TO
the prejudice OF Msourians, to keep up the clam
ia the Free States about slavery until after the
election in November=cxt. A perfect system has
been agreed upon between the poyers and the
employed, aud the more outrageous and imprObl-
bic the story, the better the hired Lbs Hers paid
for it. This is the character OF the information
sent from Kansas 20 Washington and New York
aud which seems to Us TO excite good deal more
attention than is deserves, and to lead TO anticpa.
tons of trouble ard difficulty which only be
forced upon the Territory by such means The
truth is the Abolitionists Of the North are painting
for bIoodshed in Kansas: they know that they are
sale from HARM aud that it is only by bringing this
state OF things to pass, that they hope for
cess in their political objects hereafter. Civil
and blOodshed are invoked by them-not that they
care about the people or anything that may occur to
them, but because they have theiE own ambitious
ends 10 accomplish, and tins they intend to do at all
hazards.
This being the case it becomes the peaceabe
and well disposed citizens OF Kansas, and those
citizens on our Western border who have been i'm.
plcated in past transactions IN the Territory be
on their guard how they provoke any unnecessary
eXcitemeut-As things now sta0d they have 10th
ing 10 tear They have every thing in their favor.
A regularly organized Territorial Government i Ia
existence there: il any attempt i made 20 subveft
il, il must be done by the Aboltionsts, and those
who are sent there from the NORTH assist Ia gctt
ing up this civil war. Whenever the attempt il
made. by Robinson and bis men, to assume and
exercise power under the bogus Constitution adopt
ed at Topeka il viii then become the duty OF the
Federal Government TO maintain the Territorial
Government ia actual existence, aud this must be
done by calling in the aid OF the miiEsry force Of
the United States il the exigenoies OF the case
Should be such as to require II.
IL will become then a struggle between the Gem
era Government and those who nav attempt 10
usurp the Government; and il blood be shed, is viii
rest upon the AboIitiouis,s aud those who have
pushed thea peril their lives in such strife.
The President Of the United States viii not dare
not remain idle or Indifferent ia such an extremity,
aud he has said that be wOuld n0t; and the Pro
Slavery men In Kansas, aud their friends 10 Mi-sou
a. sLolld throw upon kim tbs responsibility Of a.
seriiRg The power Of the Government 70 put down
a rebellion of the kind contemplated. IL Is his
sworn duty 10 DO i, and expect hm % issue che
necessary orders ior this purpose, whenever he &C
easion shall arrive. There can b othsv lsaa
TsrritSeiaf gossrn1eafin kaHsas for sosss years
70 CONF. Even II ths bogus TopekA Constitution
should 6nd any eontenance in tie House. IL never
can pass the Senate and il Is 10 az iateuts and
purposes dead letter H. therefore, battea are 20
he loaght Ia KansAs on thls account, lei them be
bought b. he AbohiIopi-ts On one side, and the
GogasnraesIt 81 the Unfsed States against whom
they must array themselves in open rebellion, 90
the other. We counsel our friends on the border