Squatter sovereign., 1856-04-15
ON the Charleston, (s. Co Evening News.
An Interesting Scene.

.atessrs. Editors Dropping In at our
Railroad Depot yesterday morning. about
the hour of departure of the Augusta train,
/ Witnessed a most interesting spectacle
A large crowd was. assembled, among
whom appeared some twenty youths from
q to 26 years of age, as fine looking
set as ever my eye rested on; oil properly
equipped for Kansas. They were sur
rounded by a crowd Of young friends, who
had come 70 give parting blessing and
ga God speed" on their long journey.
lii their manly faces were mingled ex-
pressions of regret at leaving behind them
the endearments- and comforts of home,
and the warm devoted love of parents,
relatives and friends, and hope for the
bright prospects of fame and fortune,
ietr...~ tkem to brave the danger and
ha-. -1ps of border life, on the distant
and. .itile soil of Kansas
Among them we're young professional
men, across whose inaginations, doubtless,
already float dreams of future senatorial
honor. Young merchants animated with
visions of future enterprises and princely
fortunes so often realized In the great
West" and there, too, were sturdy young
mechanics, with their huge boxes of tools
going to carve their fortunes and establish
their fame in this land of republican free
dom. which recognizes true merit as its
only !" aristocracy."
Hark the shrill whistle, and the cry of
"all aboard" the tender adicu, the warm
pressure aud the God bless you, are soon
over, and all are seated and silence per-
vades the crowd A voice cries out,
i. r
waved, and shout resounded through the
extensive depot which might have walked
the dead; as its echo dies away, the
hoarse below of she iron monster is heard
and off dashes the traini
Messrs. Editors: at that moment al
most forgot that was no longer a youth,
in my heartfelt wish TO join that gallant
band of young Palmetto boys, to share
their hardships and hopes. As Caroli-
nian. felt proud of the contributions TO
that young territory, SO justly priced by
rhe South, and methinbs / see the smile of
approval with which they will be greeted
by the gallant Atchison, as he excIaims,.
"send me few thousand such as these,
ard I'll defy. the hosts of all the fanatics
In America to drive us from our heritage"
Yes, we viii send more-this Is but a
pioneer band, and hundreds of others are
waiting throughout the State to be organiz-
cd into parties of emigration, as soon as
the necessary aid can be supplied to equip
Giem.
will that fail 10 be forthcomings VIII
Southern men finch from the first practi-
caI issue which has been made by our
enemies? Will they ingloriously desert
those gallant MIssourians who have set
tied in Kansas, and permit a band Of
hired minions of tire abolitionists to drive
them attic point of the bayonct from a
soil that is already theirs, and in which
fiisv are sustained by the constituted au-
thorities OF our country7 If they do,
(Which, God forbid, it will be the funeral
knelf Of onr institptions-not only because
il will flush our enemies with success, and
eheodrage them to further aggressions,
bun because it will prove conclusively to
the world that Southern men are unworthy
of 1.-THE privileges which God has given
them, and incapable of protecting their
rights. ALMETTO.