The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1856-01-31

at three dollars per acre. If contri
buttons are made, families to the ey
tent of contributions will be carried
free of charge in preference to singl,
persons.
INDUCEMENTS TO ENrGRATE.-Maiol
Buiord offers to furnish subsistence
and transportation to Kansas to emi.
grants for one half of pre-emption
claim to l6o acres, and pay the en-
trance money for the whole If emi-
grants wish to be guaranteed against
starving, he proposes for 10 acres
more, to subsist them until they can
get employment.
RoUrE.--Thc company will leave
Eutaula on the lth of February next
and will stop at Columbus, Tuskee-
gee, Montgomery, Selma. Cahaba
Mobile, New Orleans, Natchc7, Nicks-
burg and st. Louis, from the generous
citizens Of which places contributions
are solicited, in provisions, clothing
military equipment, and agricultural
implements.
FRoHPEcrs or THE CoMrANy.--Ninety-
tonrrecruits have already been raised,
and Maj Buford has no doubt Of being
able to raise a company highly re-
spectacle, in point Of numbers, char
artrr AMI Intelligence. lie describes
those who have already been engaged
IA clever, honest, poor young men
from the country, without wife or
children, and accustomed to agricul-
/ tural labor and beside these. several
young merchants, clerks, mechanics,
printers, editors, one physician. and
three young lawyers, Of fine cduca-
ton, character and intelligence also.
several married men, who Will leave
their families and send for them after
the first yea@.
CnARAcrER OF THE CouSrRy.-The
Hon. Sterling q. Cato, the Territorial
Judge, IA a recent letter u h,s broth
cr, of EalauIa Ala, says;
The people !.cfc axe quiet and
orderly sharp ana Intelligent, lillc
rough in manner, bd. wa.ln-nca.lci
a.d cordial.
his i, as fine country as any on
the face of The earth, ana The proft Is
of its production, would far exceed
those Of lhe cotton fields Of the South.
All kinds Of grain, grass, clover and
hemp, yield a rich product.
| have no doUbt, but that slave labor
would yield i'll hemp, corn and grain,
at least from thirty TO forty dollars
per acre annually. have seen no
poor land, it all seems to me richer
than the best Chattahoochee bottom,
and most Of it is just such land as in
the adjoining Missouri counties is
now selling at f.om twenty to fifty
dollars per acre. Corn is now selling
at twenty- five cents per bushcl, and
the product estimated at one hundred
bashels per acre; and the hemp crop
(six tons per handD at $40 90 per ton,
and you see at once how labor is
more productive here than at the
South. 1t is impossible to give an
adequate idea of the beauty and fer
tility of the soil and county gener-
ally rolling, without great deal of
timber, but as | understand abounding
in coal for fires, and stone for build
ing and fencing; good wells Of water
can be obtained any where, besides
frequent streams running through the
prairics."
Observation-Disclosures are
solicited in aid of the enterprise
For every $50 contributed, Maj, Bu
ford agrees to land one Southern
enigrant in Kansas free of charge.
We close this notice OF this patriot
ic enterprise with the concluding par
agraphs of Maj. Butord's letter. No
words from us can more torc.bly
place before our readers the necessity
of hearty endorsement Of his scheme
on the part Of the Southern people
Is there indeed no public spirlt-no
enthusiasm left US? II IA foreign enc
my was approaching our borders
merely to take our property, orto cs-
,ablish different form of government,
and one under which our civilization
and social position would not mate
rally rctrograde, still every one would
fly to arms, and give his last dollar,
and last drop of blood to repel the
invader; and yet we could regain
Or reform bad govern
ment; but social degradation can
never be redeemed. And this dcgrc-
lation Abolitionism Is thrc atoning us
with for it cannot stop short of uni
versal freedom, equality and iratcrni-
ty /; and, when it emnncipates, ii mus,
protect its bencticiaries By giving them
'isht to bear arms-to vote--to tcsti-
y-to make laws-nay by sending
he federal army to defend them, and |
% fight their battles, 1t is, thcrfore,
10 mere property question of whether
slaves shall be owned or of who shall
,wn them, but question OF races,
'qually affecting every white skin in
he land--it is question Of whether
he inferior race, ceasing to be produ-
,ers and tax payers, shall become {
lroncs, and eat up the hive,-wheth-
,r the stenchy Ethiopian shall sleep
with the white man-sit with him in I
,hurch-jostlc him in the street
hrust him from the assembly, the {
witness stand, the jury and the ballot '
'ox,--marry his daughters, make and y
administer his laws-steal his pigs. I
md put him in prison for complain q
ng-a question in which every white
kin is equally interested.
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