New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-01
ALETTER TO A DOUGHFACE.

The following letter, aculeseeo 70 the rehesoee c-
tor of one of the Kansas Pro-Slavery newspapers,
appe airs in The 81. Louis IatsligsRcsr'
To NJ ROBERT = KELLEY-t" Born n Mas.aehssstfs')
NY VERY DEAR SIR: You have rendered your name
somewhat familiar 20 the public among other acts by
the cowardy, brutal lyDching of deenseess clergy
man. the Rev. Mr.. Butler; and stu more so oy the
wish repeatedly expressed in your paper that the pres-
emf session of Congress may be the last that viii ever
be held in the American L mon.
Though il is notorious that you are not leader, but
oply mere toad-eater in the Affairs of kan-a- still
shall condescend to drop YOU He Tor IN my "uni0'o
opinion you richly deserve one.
feel myself under no special obligation to address,
with cereinonious Difference, a man who has oeen
guilty of the moral treason OF wishing the OF
cur Government and the involving our country IN tne
horrors Of civil war But self-respsct will induce me
70 treat you with all the courtesy that sacred regard
10 truth will permit. shall make no remarks about
the Individual who has led the crusade OF rutiiansm
against Kansas; for he is 4eGd-moraly and politically
dfdd-and wish 10 tread as lightly as possible upon
his grave At present shall deal only with one OF his
crawling sycophants.
Rom and raised in Massachusetts,, where the very
air YOU breathed is redolent of Freesosm, you drew
in with your mothers milk bitter hatred OF the
peculiar Southern Institution This feeling, we
NAV well suppose, grew with your growth ana
Strengthened with your strength, till entered INTO the
very marrow of your bones, and Il became an in-
separable pant Of your being. Under such circum'
stances who would have dreamed that MIR. Robert y
Kelley, born and raised in the very hot-bed of Free
soilsm would suddenly, and without single pre-
monitory symptom" have turned up in Kansas the
dead, persecutor Of his own clansmen, and profess
zeal for the South far more fiery than Is felt by
Souherners themselves. This you not only did, but at
"a mpted 10 become one of the leaders OF the South.
Ii was in vain that highminded Southrons limited 10
YOU that their institutions were guaranteed 10 tne ny
the Constitution of the United states, ana were IN no
DANGER; but should their sacred rights ever be In
yaded the South had sons, born upon her own soil
men of strong sinews and bold hearts-fuly capable
of defending her. without calling in the aid of rene
gades from the ranks of Abotionism, IN whose new
born zeal they had no confidence. But, with the IN
stinct of selfinteres which is said TO be your rusg
passion You pese vered in rendering yourself conpc-
uous in the affairs of Kansas.
Commoton in the political world like the boiling of
pot always throws the scum to the surface. But for
this in all probability, your name would never have
been heard beyond your immediate neghborhood; for
no one has ever vet ventured to claim for you any
but the most ordinary grade OF talents. That your
education il sadly defective, is glaringy apparent
from the editorial articles in your paper They SAVIOR
much too strongly of the inflated fustian and swag.
g.ring buyism of the SIR Lucius O1rigger
school, ever to have emanated from well cultivated
mind. But, it requires but a small stock, either OF
talents or education, for man TO set up the trade
of a ruffian. You commenced your career in Kan
sas az the meter of mobs. | have already men,
toned one of your lynchings-that of defenseess
clergyman whose very "Reminiscences, TO say moth
ing Of his age and sacred calling, would have pro-
u
renegade Being the publisher of paper Of very
limited circulation you destroyed in the Post-Ofce of
which YOU were Deputy Postmaster, the papers OF
your rival whose superior talents and success you en-
Wed. How much agency you had IN the destruction
of The Territorial Register Office, recently destroyed
by mob, imagine you not quite willing should
be fully Known; for Mr.. Deahay, and all the other
propretors and editors of The Register are Southern
ers, ind you fully aware that the blood OF South
rons does not run suggshy in their veins that they
will see with complacency the sons of the South IN
suited and their rights tramped upon by Mr..
Robert s. Kelley, " born in Massachusetts" y
And what has been the result of the insane violence
which YOU and other tools Of once high in office
have ucrpetrated in Kansas You have everywhere
created impression that slave property would be in
secure in that Territory. But for your lawess vio-
lence thousands Of enterprising Southern planters
would have emgrated with their slaves to the new and
rich lands of Kansas, and that Territory would have
been peacefully, quietly won for Southern institutions
No Jaw in all the OF political economy Is more
immutabe than that capital will always shun place
where life and property are insecure. we need not
ask how much protection there IL for either, in Ter
rtory where both held only by the precarous ten
ure of the will of border mob. BE assured that
Southern shareholders feel temptation to emigrate
to that battle-ground Of the Missouri borderers, while
millions Of Of equally rich lands can be bought in
Arkansas and Texas, where law reigns supreme, and
all their possessions will be secure.
IL is not my intention to charge you with premedtar
ted treachery TO the South, though confess that
ask in what way, had treachery been the motive
power of all your acts you could have wrought more
injury to the South than you have donei As it were
not enough for you to convince Southern men that
slave property was insecure In Kansas, you have pur-
sued course of deadly persecution against the emf
grants from your native State--the people among
whom you were bom-that has powerfully excited the
sympathy Of hundreds Of thousands on both sides
OF Mason & DiXon's line rendering odious in the
ewes Of all honorable men, the reputed leaders OF
III horn ~ in
emig ante from your native State who have built
so many steam mills, a. paupen, and declared
against them, in your paper, war OF utter ex-
termination. IL must have extOrted smile even
frem "the Gentleman in Black as well from all
others acquainted with your origin, to hear you utter
the CRY Of "p0uper" Indulgence 10 no just cause OF
reproach to any one unless he makes 1t the theme OF
reproaeh TO others-nor do mean it as reproach
wien assure you that, if ON correctly informed the
house of Kelley would have found il quite inconve-
pient for them to pay off the national debt of Great
Britain. A PrO-Slavery man of Kansas, himself q
stakeholder who sits at my elbow while write, as
sures me that there than or two hundred
among those very men whom you have branded az
"paupers" that could buy you out twice over, or-h
may be permitted to use bis own peculiar phraseoo-
gy-buy you out SOUL body and byeeches."
But, what matter if every one of these emigrants
were really pauper Had it not been for the suicidal
course pursued by you and by others Of the same kid
ney Southern emigrants with their slaves would have
outnumbered them ten 20 one.
II is my intention TO drop you another lane, Mr..
Kelley before the present moon has gone far into the
wane. / will therefore not extend the present one
much further. Before close however, permit me to
remove false impression that has gone abroad in
relation to the state of society in the border counties
of Missouri. / know the people Of that region
wELE, and / say it alphabetically, that there
il no section in the broad West that con-
tairs larger proportion Of intelligent, re-
fined and wealthy people than these same border
COUNTESS. But the men Of wealth and intelligence
stayed at home II il VIGOROUSLY true, that the men
who invaded Kansas, each with bis jug Of whisky,
belong to that class whom the negroes call "Poor
ever will own the hair Of negro, and large ma
jority of them neither read nor write. Cnfortu-