The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-19
WESTERN DEMOCRAT.
90 CHARLOTTE %"
Tuesday Morning, Feb'y IS, 1856
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION
KANSAS TROUBLES.

Late udvices received at Washington
represent the danger of bloody civil war
in Kansas as more imminent than has
generally been supposed.
When the history of this Kansas agitation
comes to be fairly written, remarks the
Washington Sentinel, an amount of cum
ming, deception, fraud, and trickery, on the
part of the anti-slavery party will appear,
that will astonish the country. In making
this declaration, we do not mean altogether
to exempt from censure the pro-slavery
settlers i'll that Tertiary and their sympa-
thizers residing without its limits. Removing
into that Territory under the Constitution
Of the United States, and trusting to the
protective efficacy of the carefully prepared
bill under which it was organized, they have,
in some instances, carried with them their
slave property, and in many more instances
purchased lands and built houses with the
ultimate purpose of removing their slaves.
They have been met on the threshold bv
hircliags and crnissaries of the New Eng
land Emigrant Aid Society, whose appointed
mission it was to exclude slavery from
Kansas by every cxpedicnt of cunning.
every resource Of fraud, and every form of
Outrage That pro-slavery men should
under such circumstances, have sometimes
been betrayed into acts of indiscrct;on. is
not at al to he wondered at The wonder.
indeed Is, thatahey should have pursued
80 moderate course They have had to
struggle not only against tie freesoil hands
IN the Territory, but against nearly the
whole of New England, led OH by political
fanatics and l1pecrit.cal persons. The
intense zeal and tlA. fierce determination Of
these lncn may Re Judged of from the
hanSes sermons ' Lich have been preached
10y Their car:D,g parsons One of these
sermons ~ Zoe Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
pastor 'i lac Plymouth Church, BROOKLYN.
We alluded to in our last. They believe
that n" Sharp rifle" is the beet moral
Hgcrt.
Che roumor has for some timD prevailed
that large sums have been invested, by sub
scrIpt!on, IN SharPe's rifles, wherewith to
arm the .nti->lavcry men in the new Ter
ritorF' and we see, i'll late newspapers, evil |
'dences that systematic and earnest effnrt is |
being made by the sham authorities to pro-
cure help from all the non slaveholding |
States They have addressed communica- |
ions to the governors and legislatures of |
these States. Ono ofthesc communications, !
addressed TO the governor of Ohio, was
recently transmitted by him to the Iegisla-
at fIut int
presentation of highly inAammatory aboli-
ton resolutions. One of these resolutions
reads rs follows:
"ResotrCd, That our Representatives be
requested tn vote for the Immediate admis
son OF \. III. Reeder to a seat in the House
"t Representatives in Congress, as a dele
gate from Kansas, until such admission of
hansGS Is State.'
Without any opportunity to examine into
The facts OF the case, the mover of the above
resolution graTely requests the Ohio mem
bcrS OF Congress to vote for the immediate
admission of Governor Reeder. Whether
entitled or not to his seat, he is to have it: :
and whether informed or ignorant of the
facts tite Ohio members are requested to
give it 70 him. This is legislation with a
One feature however, in the proceedings 8
IF the Ohio Legislature pleased us. Itwas
the speech of Mr.. Sawyer, made after the {
reading of Governor Chase's communica :
ion, Dir. Sawyer in the course of his re-
MARKS said:
lie he'd heard the Governor, in q pubIic
speech, on another occasion, recommend {
he uSe OF Sharp's rifles to prevent slavery Y
a Kansas and offered to give fifty dollars f;
% ald ab"iltloniStS to go to Kansas and :,
'hG0t down the slavchOlding citizens: and
low, aS Governor of Ohio, he is melting the
'ery difficulties which we all so much dcpre a
ate. Why, sir, where was his voice when a,
'uf own citizens were shot down in the ~
tr"etS OF our own cities by mob. and in :,
nel@hOorng State! Not i word was heard "
'@m him then. He belonged to party IL
,nlch respected the white citizen more than il
ne negro but the Governor would embroil Is
ne country i'll civil war, in order to be- =,
riend the negro" VI
The AboIitionists are taking much pains =
circulate the rumor that Kansas is soon
be invaded ky bands of armed men from ~
re Southern States. We do not believe a
ord OF It. This is but pretext by which =,
ley seek to justify their active prepare :"
oRs for war. They have already put d,
remse!veS without the pale of law. They a.
fuse TO recognize the Government and the
existing in Kansas. They have, -
lthout any show of right, sought to estab- -
sh and to put into operation their own
oYernment, and to set up and install in -
ower their own officers, elected ndpor No :"
w but mob law. All resistance made bv
lese men TO the regular, established. and SC
gal government, and officers of Kansas. u
rebellion, and they merit the treatment eli
rebels. If it shall be found necessary
} get the aid Of border rutfans" to ouell
en- then we hope their aid will be pro-
lred Is
The following is & communication which
spurious free-soil Governor of Kansas
; addressed 70 Ill e Al