Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-05-28
Civil war In X ansas.

The troubles in Kansas have reached that is.
sue 10 which all controversies in which fanati.
cism IL an elemeat are apt 10 oome--au appeal
to physical force. We hope as We believe, that
this turn Of matters will eventuate in the sup
preston Of all Sbarpes rife demonstrations and
the expulsion of the aboltionists-but we are
obliged to regard it possible. in the present OK.
aspersted state Of the public mind, that the
whole country may become involved.and that the
first gun of an universal civil war has been fired.
Whatever may be the result, the South relies ON
the justice Of her cause. and will meet the emer-
gency in a becoming manner. This is no con-
test by the people of Kansas for the right Of
self government as is represented in the North,
although IL that were oil the Froe State men
would have no advantage. IL j., in fact, strug.
gle by the North for political power, resisted by
the South from conviction that, If acquired. ii
would be abused Very few of the inhabitants
Of Kansas are voluntary settlers, Influenced on
ly by the considerations which ordinarily govern
men in charging their residence. Those from
the North are for the most part emissaries of ab
oiionsm, sent there mainly for tho purpose of
m akng Kansas free State. Those from the
South chiefly men who have been induced to
60 thitber from an honest belief that If Kansas
Is made free State the power thus added to tho
abolition capacity for mischief will be used to
the injury ct the South. On the part Of the
North it is wilful, malignant aud overbearing
contest for power with the South it is a strug.
gle in self defence. Let the North succeed and
make Kansas Il free State, and there will not be
one slave less in the United States-let the South
succeed and make it a slave State and there will
not be one slave more The diffusion Of slaveryis
not an increase Of slaves The aboiionsis have
n OF therefore even the excuse of false human
ty to justify them Their whole desire is TO add
another free State to the Unon-to give two
more free soil Senator's and one or more free
soil representatives, to Congress. The anti
slavery interest already weighs down the South
in that body-the equilibrium of the Union is
iost-bu' the abolitionists, not yet content, are
striving to add to this preponderauce, to over
shadow and overawe the South, to reduce her TO
condition of absolute helplessness, and then f.
nally crush her into subsection. Believing that
this is the object of the Emigrant Aid Societies
of the North-that this is the issue to be deter
mined in Kansas, the South is sending her sons
there to confront and defeat it, or die in the at
tempt. We believe the South is right-and,
come what may. the North is the aggressor and
must take the consequences. Men acting in
self-defence against wilfu wrong are not to be
expected to measure very carefully the means
they employ. Expostuiation, remembrance and
entreaty have oil been fruitless. and if now they
III va &c saIvad IN m oaf THAR .rnias with s,a,,
err arguments. II nothing will avail but that they
must give "their roofs to the flames and their
bodies 10 the eagles" we solemnly believe they
viii stand without sin before Heaven. and with
on. reproash In History.