Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-07-10

we are supposed TO be citizens OF the same repuO-
lie. Our fathers fought side by side and formed
an alliance, &c.
The fight shall be as free rs the nature of the
case admits. Indeed, there should be no fight at
all do not desire it, but, sir, if nm met by
robber in the highway, and he demands my purse
or my horse, will not stop to ask him whether he
has revolver, hut will Immediately resort to the
use of my own weapons, and make the best defence
can.
Your people, you say, leave their homes thou
sands OF miles off, and come out Of the ordinary
course of emigration for no other purpose as they
avow but to exclude us from Kansas and over
throw our institutions. All to overthrow slavery
and establish freedom, rs they say.
AT the election last fall, for delegate to Congress,
it is fact beyond controversy, that many, very
many Northern men, came from New England,
New York, and other remote points, to vote, and
for no other purpose; for not less than one hun
dred and fifty Of them left for the East, together
with their candidate, on the day after the election.
Now, was it right for abolitionists, one thousand
miles off, to come to Kansas to vote us out of that
territory, and wrong for the people of Missouri,
living in sight of her green hills and broad prai-
ries to 60 there to secure their homes 4? Answer
this, if you please. "You say that my influence
is requisite to restrain your (our people from do
ing great injustice to actual Settlers" &c. My
influence shall be used to prevent injustice to all
actual settlers who come to Missouri or Kansas to
improve their condition, whether they be from the
North or South. But let the settlers be sure that
they do not come with the express purpose Of doing
great injustice to Ifso, they deserve and shall
have no protection from me. The crusade preach
ed by Peter the Hermit, and headed by Walter,
the Pennyless, was just, righteous and holy com.
pared with the Northern crusade to Kansas, and
&t,ao AHA oil CkoSau Do
ter complained of exactons, expressions and out
rage upon the Pilgrims to the Holy Sepulchre by
Infdels. To redress those grievances he preached
his Crusade, but you and your friends have no
such grievances to complain Of whatsoever, in the
South or the Territories. When you come among
u.s. you arc greeted as friends ana treated as broth
ers, unless you come with the avowed purpose of
doing wrong to US.
Now, sir, fanatcism preachers, the Three IhoHs-
and Peters of New England and the -4Joltion Bat
tdlions of Walter the Pennyless, will, doubt not,
meet the fate of their prototypes. Indeed they
have already, to some extent, met it. You say
that "proximity is ours, and that we can afford to
be not only just but generous" We can and we
will not only be just but generous-we will protect
ourselves and do the least possible injury to the
persons and property of those who are neither just
nor generous. For just men will not come from
Massachusetts to war upon the right of men who
never wronged them. You say that "the repeal
of the law which secured this territory against
slavery is considered by most men the free States
to have been breach of national faith ?" The
history of the country the public records show this
to be n mistaken assumption. Did it never enter
into the heads of men in the free States that the
enactment of the law which was repealed was q
gross violation, in the first place, of the national
faith, and that the disgraceful "statute" should
long ago have been expunged?
You say that "those who 60 from New England
to Kansas, have gone in good faith, and at their
own expense" sc. This may be, and, I doubt
not, is true in many instances for I do not for
one moment suppose that you would knowingly
msrepresent, yet you may not be fully informed.
You further soy, ''neither is there any truth in
the assertion that they are Abolitionists. Noper'
son of that stamps known to have gone from here.
Now, my dear sir, we may not agree as to the term
s.Abolitionst;" but / care not how this may be
setted--a man coming from Massachusetts or South
Carolina to settle in Kansas, with the express pur
nose of excluding shareholders from that Territory
and by means of his influence in that Territory
abolishing slavery in Missouri, regard as ar
"Aboltionist," and any enemy to justice and righ
and the Constitution and Union of these Unitet
States
respect no man who is willing to overthrow oul
government, involve the United States with eact
other in civil war, that African slavery may be a
boshcd So would admire the man who would
declare it wrong and who would stake his life and
his property on the proposition that it was sinful
and against Gods law to butchera calf, or slaugh
ter lamb. The term ''free soiler" is to me fa,
more odious than "Abolitionists." The one i'm
plies something of honesty, and the other all o.
knavery and hypocrisy. | do not know what or
CARNATIONS you may have, for the purpose of abo
litionizing Kansas but most assuredly we hav,
seen in the Boston and other Northern papers, anc
heard from Northern men, that companies have
been chartered, and by some of your Legislature
the object of which was to colonize Kansas with
aboitionists.
And we have certainly seen notices of public
meetings called to organize what they termed
"Emgration Aid Societies." one of which had f
P. Blair for President. You say that "what has
been undertaken here Boston, will be carried OF
fairly and openly The management is in the
hands of men of prudence, of wealth and determi
nation" SC. Now, my dear sir, let me assure you
that the management of our affairs here, to mee
your movements in the North is also under the con-
troll and direction of prudence and determination
We have not much wealth amongst US, but we
have sufficiency and we will see that justice is
done to your people and to ourselves, and when
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acouiesce, but not till then.
In conclusion, I would say that you and youl
people are the aggrcssors upon our rights. You
| come to drive us and our 'pcculiar" institution
from Kansas. We do not intend, cost what it may,
to be driven or deprived Of any of our rights
Missouri will never again compromise or concede
We are and intend to remain your equals. Since
the war of the Revolution you have done nothing
for the extension and glory of the confederacy. lr
the war of 1872, except few of your sailors, you
did nothing. In the contest with Mexico, Massa
chusetts, with the exception ofa mutilated regi'
ment, was not in the war and your peculiar
friends did not aid in raising and equipplng thai
regiment. When territory is purchased with oul
money and our blood, you are for monopolizing
it, l may be somewhat unjust in the foregoing
remarks, but such is my recollection OF history
If am wrong, you can correct me. The sin Of
slavery, if sin, is ours, not yours. Your fathers
sold their slaves and ours bought them. If you
consider slavery in Missouri and Arkansas griev.
ance to you, say at once that We must free them
or you will separate from US. Do this and We
will act like honest men, and we will meet you
half way. We cannot ever maintain this state Of
quasi peace and quasi war.
have been informed that you have IN income
of 100000. Let me suggest that you purchase
| 500, 900 worth of negroes come out to Kansas
feed and clothe your slaves well give them em
ployment; build for them and yourself good hou'
ses; improve their condition build for yourself
fine barns and stables cover the prairies will
wheat, hemp and corn; feed your cattle on thou
sand hills; assist your poor neighbor; and my
word for it, you will DO more good for your race,
both white and black, than you are doing or can
do in Boston. I should be happy to have you fol
a neighbor; and you will find as much good among
shareholders as you have found among non-slave-
holders. At least You will have tried an expert,
mont Your ohedient servant