Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-02-20
T OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Frhrn,rv 7 1876 {

llUUSE Of nEfRESEH n lhEH
February, Z, 1856.
My DEAR Sir: Last winter Gen. Slringicl-
low addressed Il letter to myself and others, Civ
ing description Of the soil Of Kansas, and the
average products of agricultural labor That
letter was published in the newspapers Of our
State, and every additional testimony confirms
the truth Of The statements therein contained.
Gen. Whitfield i. now at my side, and in re.
ply to the question relative to the demands and
rewards of mechanical labor, bids me say that
the minimum Of wages for labor il Kansas is
fully double the price in Charleston.
But higher considerations than pecuniary profit
are now presented to the young men of our
States; and they are just the considerations
which soonest reach, and most excite the heart
of young Carolina. They are the considera.
tions of patriotism and honor. Civil war has
virtually begun in Kansas. The lives Of such
friends Of the institutions Of the South and Of
the Constitution, as have gone to Kansas to
disseminate our principles, strengthen our insi.
tulions and protect your rights, my rights, and
the rights of overy slave owner, are in peril.
By the fiat of abolition Aid Societies" money
and men are pouring into Kansas The spirit
of popular sovereignty is being crushed, and
the principle of non.inieryention crcumvented
bv awless fanaticsm.
With the permission of Gen. Whitfield,
make tho following extracts from letter dated
Lecompton, January 23," and written by
gentleman in high position. and of intelligence
and integrity, whose name Gor reasons which
you would concur with me in regarding satsfac.
lory) is withheld:
"About six days ago, six men were sent to
Iowa to conduct 500 fighting men, who are to
be here by The last of February. They will be
here without doubt Yesterday. wagons were
sent to meet train with two cannon and five
hundred Sharpe's rifles from Illinois, which are
being sent TO Lawrence.
"rhese things 60 10 show that the traitors are
industrious and arc working. BY the lst of
March they will have 100 or 1900 men more
than they have now, and be better provided with
arms and munitions.
"On the 4th of March next, they put their
Government into operation, and if we are not
strong enough to put down them and their mill
tary organization, We will be driven from the
Territory.
"For myself, think that no man, in or ont
of the Territory, is willing to risk more Of eve.
rything that is dear or valuable, according to his
circumstances, than will, if the cause is appre-
CIaleu Wy tuC SOutIi, oHo" tHSh apP'S~
ciation by sending men and money to help.
But if the slave owners of the South content
themselves with temporary luxury and ease,
snd make no effort to save their institutions, they
may take care of themselves in their own way,
and will of myself in mine. If there is a man
who is enlisted moro deeply in the cause of the
South than myself, don't know where he is to
be found. am fortified in my position by
principle and feeling. ] hate the adverse cause,
and love to war upon it. have risked my life
and nv property, which are now in daily peril.
"The South must act with energy and prompt
ness. They must do the entire thing, or give it
up,-acknowledgc themselves whipped.
Our friends must he here on the 2sth of
February, or the few pro-slavcry men in this
part of the Territory will be burned out and
driven Oft as refugees. If the South cannot
send fifteen hundred men by the 2stl Of Febru-
ary next, and double that number by fall, ana
in time for the elections, they need not send
man."
Such is the state of affairs in Kansas, as rep.
resented by one who is on The ground:
The admission of Kansas into the Union as a
slave State, is now point Of honor with the
South. Every assistance which legislation can
render, was gwen by the last Congress. when
tho Missouri prohibition was repealed. What
more can Southern chivaIry ask of Congress!
An open field and 4 fair fight was all that our
ancestors ever asked of an enemy. Has the