The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-08-12
TO THE PEOPLE OF TIE SOUTH.

Herewith you will find the appeal of your
friends in Kansas, together with letter ac-
crediting me as their agent to solicit your
aid in maintaining that Indispensable break
water to the angry tide of Abolition
Want of time forbids my calling OH many
of you personally. Read that address
thoughtfully; consider that if Kansas, our
natural boundary to the North West, is
lost, that then Missouri and all West of the
Mississippi-nay, too, all East of it, must
soon follow, while, if we maintain it, the ter
ritories West of Arkansas and Texas are
safe to us-nay, the future is safe. Ask
yourselves whether you are prepared to
surrender white supremacy in the South, to
dehase your blood, to degrade your social
and political status to the level of an infe-
rior race, by submitting to Additions man
date 70 fraternize with it. Remember, that
all who know the country know that slaves
thrive and do well in Kansas, and that there
and in Western Missouri their labor pays
better than in any cotton State in the Union.
Reflect that we have every thing to encou-
rage in tho etrugglo-w stiIl control
the Government of the Territory, our immi-
grafton is daily increasing, while that from
the North has greatly diminished. In Hi
nois, as if in disgust, they have lately ap
piled to electioneering purposes, the funds
they had raised for emigrants. Remember
that, instead of endangering the Union, our
winning Kansas makes it permanent, by
enabling us to defend our rights in it, and
by discomfting and breaking down the agi-
tatOrS. Think of the magnitude of the
questions at issue; think of the imminence
of our peril, and you will not need person
al solicitation, but each one of his own vo-
lition will send his contribution according
to his means. Those VITO cannot alone
send their ffties, hundreds or thousands,
can unite with fifty or an hundred Others
and do so. Where there's will, there's a
way.
Remit in drafts on New York, payable or
endorsed to our chairman, the Hon. d. r.
Atchison-.if convenient, get duplicate
drafta-enclose the original or the duplicate
to our treasurer, A. G.. Boone, Esq, at
We>tport, Missouri, and the other to our
chairman at Atchison, Kansas Territory.
Take the POstmaster's receipt and then
you have three guarantees that your contri-
button will not miscarry. BE assured it
will not be misappled; our treasurer and
chaitnam are both gentlemen of wealth, as
well as of the highest character. And it is
better to send in this way than by the
hands of a collecting agent for then both
his authority anu Ills responsibility become
questions of indifference.
If the contributions justify it, I propose
to take out one hundred emigrants to form
the central colony alluded to in the address.
[ want only men who. As long as required,
will abstain from liquor and will implicitly
obey orders. To such company, if the
funds are raised. will give one town site
"f three hundred acres. with the privilege
of getting prescriptions, and will trans
port them to Kansas and find them provis-
ions until the middle of April next. The
town site is central tn one of the best cuun-
ties i'll the territory. and will most probably
become its county seat.
J. BUFORD.
RICHMOND, (Va.) July "a. 1856.