The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-03-06
VOL. *.

colleague in the other House is accented. and If
the hundred men go from South Carolina 10
Kansas, they Will never be interfered with in
the exercise of their legal rights bv the men who
have gone there from New England or from the
North.
Atchison, the organizer and chief of those Dor
der movements, thus appeals to the citizens Of
Georgia to come to the rescue, for "KANSAS
MUST HAVE SLAVE INSTITUTIONS. OR MIS-.
souri, MUST HAVE FREE INSTITUTIONS
He continues:
Let your young come forth TO Missouri and Kan
s Lei thsm come well armed, and with money enougb
support them for twelve months and determined m a.
tsls thng out do not how are TO avoid civil W.
Come II Will Twelve months will not elapse before wa
civil war Of the hercest kind, will be upon us W. a.
srmng and preparing for it, indeed we Of the border
counties are prepared We must have IN. snpport ~ M
institutions stake We want men-snned nun VEI
as fast as they can be raised tcsA armed 1N'''
Atchison's Lieutenant Stringfellow. calls uror
the South to come to the aid of Missourians who
have dictated law to Kansas, and "can do :,
again." The Mobile Ne1Os assures the South tbat
Atchison Stringfellow, and their lawless foIou
ers, shave been the only means under God NJ
teaching such miscreants as the editor of ,ba
Missouri Democrat and his Lawrence friends. tb,t
the way to the abolitionizing of Missouri and
Kansas is road of reddest blood for them to
travel"
Slave Propaganda, you complied with Atchson'.
demands, and repealed the Missouri Prohibition
You then told the laboring men of the Repuhlic
whose heritage you thus put in peril that they
could shape, mould, and fashion, the institu-
tions of those future Commonwealth Ami
mated by motives pure and aims a. lofty
as ever actuated the founders of any portion Of
the Globe, the sons of the North wendell their
way to this region beyond the Mississippi. These
emgrants did not all go there under the auspi.
ces of Emigrant Aid Societies. for it is estimated
that not more than One-fourth of the settlers al
Kansas are from New England and New York.
that nearly one-half of the jewellers i'm that Ter
| ritory are from Pennsylvania and the Northwes.
Only about one-fourth of the actual residents
of Kansas are from the slaveholding States and
many of these settlers from the South perhaps
majority of them, are in favor of making Kans,,
a free State. That many of these emigrants from
the South are in favor OF rearing free institution,
will surprise no one who understands their con.
ditiOn. Most of these emigrants are poor men
| and have felt in their native homes the maligp
influences which bear with oppressive force upon
| free labor Thirty-fve per cent of the emiprs
ton of the slave States has sought homes in The
free States, while less than ten per cent of the
emigration from the free States and from the old
world find homes in the slave States, although
| those States embrace the largest as well as the
| fairest regions of the country east of the Rocky
Mountains
Coming from fields blasted bv the sweat Of
artless, untutored, unpaid labOr-frOm region,
once teeming with the products of prolific soil
| now exhibiting" to quote the language applied
"with sorrow" to his native country by the
Senator from Alabama, Mr.. CLAY, "the pain,
| ful signs of senlity and decay, apparent in Viz.
| GINA and the Carolinas witnessing the pros
perty of free, educated labor, many Of these sons
OF the South meet the men of the North and
stand with them, shoulder to shoulder, in up
holding the institutions of Freedom
Within the Territory, the men of the North
and the men of the South meet together in conn
Gil. Northern and Southern men stood side by
side in those assemblages of the people that put
the brand of condemnation upon the acts of the
Legislature imposed upon them. Northern and
Southern men sat in council in that constitutional
Convention the Senator from Connecticut now
Pronounces "spurious," and Northern and South
ern men stood side by side in the trenches OF be-
lsaguered Lawrence.
Leave these men now in Kansas free from Mis-
souri, forays and Administration corruption, and
in spite of the inhuman, unchristian, and devil
ish acts to be found in the past legislation of the
Territory, they will bring Kansas here as they
have done already, robed in the garments of Free
dom. Men of the South, you who would blast the
virgin soil Of Kansas with the bighting wither-
ing, consuming curse Of Slavery-you who
would Danish the educated, self-dependent, free
laboring men of the North, to make room for the
untutored thriftless, dependent bondmen Of the
South-vote down the Free State men of Kansas,
if you can but do not send "border rufIians to
rob or burn their humble dwellings, and murder
brave men for the crime of fidelity to their cherish
ed convictions.