Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-31
Dolitital
From the Atlanta Examiner.

LETTER OF HON. MR.. ATCHINSON.
We embrace the earliest opportunity of pre-
senting to the people of Georgia and the South,
letter from the Hon. D. R. Atchinson, on
the subject of the affairs of Kansas, addressed
to the senior editor of this paper. 1t is let
ter we feel satisfied will be read with intense
interest by every citizen of our State. The
distinguished gentleman who has penned it,
and by whose permission it is published, has
occupied, fora quarter Of a century at least,
an eminently high position among the states
men of the Union and, in the Senate OF the
United States, over which he presided with SO
much satisfaction to that body, at very re-
cent period, he fairly earned reputation of
which few can boast, as an able and influential
Senator, and an ardent advocate of Southern
Rights. Upon the statement of such man,
every Georgian can rely. Tohis appeal, eve
ry Georgian should respond. He speaks of
Kansas to the South, for the sake not only of
those who are fighting its battles there, but for
Missouri our sister, whose doom is certain in
the event that Kansas is abolitioniz 1.
Distant as Georgia is from the scene Of e.
vents referred to in his letter, in despite Of
railroads and telegraphs, and of official infor-
nation from Washington, our people up to
this time required information upon which
they could with confidence rely upon all that
referred to the disturbances in Kansas. News
paper reports were often vague, and what is
worse, contradictory The paid reporters Of
Northern "Emigration Aid Societies" and the
paid slaves of the Abolitionists, through the
freesoil and abolition presses of the anti-sla-
very States, have so perverted the truth, mis-
represented facts, and deceived the public
mind, North and South, that our indignation
here has been smothered when the wrongs per
petrated upon our brethren in Kansas have
reached us, accompanied, as they always have
been, by fat denial of the facts.
But the communication which we this day
lay before the public, puts quietus to all fur.
ther imposition upon the South. The political
history of Kansas, since its settlement by white
men, though brief, is clear. The design and
strategy of the enemy of the South, the un
principled abolitionists, are placed before us
so that no one can longer be deceived as te
the extent of our danger; while the struggle
through which the pro-slavery men have pass
ed, and the gallant bearing of the Missourians,
contemptuously termed by fanatics from the
North, as border sruf6ans," will excite the
sympathies of every true-hearted Georgian in
their behalf
Accompanying the letter which we publish,
we received another from the same gentleman,
from which we make few extracts. He says
x * We are in a constant state Of
excitement here (Platte City, The border
ssrufians" have access to my room day and
night. The very air is full of rumors. We
wish to keep ourselves right before the world,
and we are provoked and aggravated beyond
suference. :. Our persons and property are not
for moment safe and yet we are forbid by
the respect we owe our friends elsewhere, by
respect for the cause in which we are engaged,
to forbear. The state of things cannot last
You are authorized to publish the whole or a
part of what I have written but if Georgia
intends to do any thing, or can do anything for
us, let it be done speedily! Let your young
men come forth to Missouri and Kansas! Let
them come well armed, with money enough to
support them twelve months, and determined
to see this out One hundred true men will
be an acquisition. The more, the better. l
do not see bow we are to avoid civil war. Come
it will Twelve months will not elapse before
war, civil war of the fercest kind, will be up
on us. We are arming and preparing for 1t.
Indeed We of the border counties are prepared,
We must have the support Of the South. We
are fighting the battles of the South. Our in
stitutions are at stake. You far Southren men
are now out of the naive of the war, but if we
fail, it will reach your own doors, perhaps your
hearths. We want men. We want money;
not fer ourselves, but to support our friends
who may come from distance. I have now
in this house two gallant young men, from
Charleston, South Carolina. They are citizens
of Kansas, and will remain so until her destiny
is fixed.
Let your young men come on in squads as
fast as they can be raised, we'll armed. We
want none but true men. Yours truly,
D. R. ATCHINSoN.
IS. would not be astonished if this day