The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-02-07
Fr"m the Spirit Of the South.
To Kansas Emigrants and to all Friends
Of the South.

| P"uS vi Ahhsao cthiS IduIS oit IiiC lllu VI
February next, but many Of them being
unable to get ready by that time, and others
being unwilling to go before spring, and
especially as am advised by my corrcspon-
dents that the Missouri and Kansas rivers
arc already impcded by ice, have deter
mined to postpone starting till the winter
breaks
The cmigrants may rendezvous at Eu-
t;.ula, on the 8 LIST of March next. ut Coum-
bus, Ga, OH the 81 Of April, and at Mont
gomcry, Ala, on the 5th April next-so
that can start from Euf;,ula. via Columbus
and Montgomery, collecting on the way
those | find at the different places Of rem
devious. The company will travel from
Montgomery by steamers, via Mobile and
New Orleans, or else by railroad via At
lanta to Nashville, and thence by steamer
to Kansas. | engage to transport no BIZ.
gage except six blankets, one gun, one
knapsack and one frying pan to each emi-
grant-for baggage over aud above this,
the emigrant himself must engage trans
portaton-many will have no more, and
must treat all alike. While | thought my
company would bc small, expected to lie
able to take women, children and slaves :;
but find must leave them To give place
to men, who are now greatly needed in
Kansas To preserve the public peace and
enforce the laws. | now expect over four
hundred men, and will take no females, nor
slaves, nor minors under s years of age
women and children should not be exposed
there in tents in the spring-hut thc
husbands Should 90 first ard prepare
houses.
The regiment will Le divided into com
panies of forty or fifty men, under the usual
military officers, elected 10y the men. Oil
GERS have no cmolumcntS, and the organiz,-
tion is on the principle of volunteer militia
to sustain the laws; Il majority Of each
company may cxpeI any member. RationS,
transportation and fare, that of soldiers in
service. BY remunerating me for The privi-
lcge Of joining my party, for subsistence
an! transportation to Kansas, and for fur
nishing men to enter his presumption, each
e'nigrant agrees to acquire a prr,cInption,
and to pay me, wien his titles are per-
tectcd, a sum equal to the value of one
half of his pre-cnpton, which obligation
he may discharge in money, or property at
Il fair valuation, at his own option Lad
heretofore, from misimForna,ion, supposed
nre emstons assiruablc before patcnt. bnt
on examining Tile act l hnd tn':y are li"l.
Neither does the donation act apply To
Kansas, but each male of full age, widow,
or head of family, who has not had pre-
cmption under the act Of lS4l, b, and does
not own 32O acres of land, and who has
improved and settled on it not to sell on
speculation, hut for for his own nse and
cultivation, is entitled to enter 1GO acres at
sl.25 per acre, payable any time before the
land sales.
1 have simplificd my proposals to a sin
gle proposition as above, in order to he
more easily understood and to oLviate the
many questions that overwhelm me.
Besides taking only free males over
eighteen, the great number of applications
co,npels tins further modification, i. e.
will receive only those emigrants who rem
devious at the places above designatcd-at
either Of which places, j. e., EuiauIa, Co.
lumbus or Montgomery, | will receive all
males over eighteen from any Southern
State, who join me at the time above de
sgnatcd their rations to begin from the
times above named for rendezvous. Emf
grants must pay their own expenses to the
place and day of rendezvous. Those gen
tlemen in California and other States, form
ing companies TO join ne, can very easily
obtain free transportation for their compar-
les, by proper applications to tile directors
of the railroads over which they must p"ss.
They give free passage to cattle and agri-
cultural productions to fairs, and why not
to volunteers periling all in their defence?
Without Kansas and slavery, free negro
dom will soon crush out cattle. cotton, col
leges, property and progrcss-drones will
eat up the hive, railroads disappear, and
wild beasts, bricrs and brarnblcs overrun
the land. 1t is question not Of prop
erty, but of the supremacy of the white race,
in which rich and poor equal interest.
Kansas lost, and all west, nay! all east, Of
the Mississippi must soon follow. Kansas
is the great outpost and stand point in the
contest people who will not defend their
outposts have already succumbed to the
invader. DO We fear to send one man.
lest the North may send two9 then we
have already ingloriously surrendered with
out struggle.
Is not Kansas now in our hands? and
if we only encourage the Missourians will
they not retain ita Did not the South
send to Mexico double the volunteers sent
by the North2 and when WAS it discovered
that they were more patriotic or more en-
thusiastic in defending their country and
their institutions than we2 The way to
quell the fury of the fanatic and wild
beast, is not to croucl, and flee, but to turn
and look him in the eve, for else he will
spring upon and rend you in pieces; and
depend on it, when once the North catches
the steady firm gaze Of Southern Reason,
her commercial and conservative. instinct
will awaken and save us, our stitulionsga and
the Union, from her madmeD. 80, z,
T. And who is periling the Union, but the
| inpious ntermeddles: who fain would make
4 US accountable to theih rather than God,
for the trust which Ire has committed to
our keepino q And Ia not slavery H. tr,,st