The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-01-10
8 The Prico of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance" :"
ABBEVLLE SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY

expensesa will freely do so; but ther
such would not he benefited by any con-
tributions that may be made us by the
way.
9th. Organization to be that Of a mill
tary company, with officers corresponding
to company in service-leader, to be cap
tain, with power Of removing subaltern Of
ticers. All officers under captain to be
elected by the company. Character of
subsistence and transportation, such as is
usual with soldiers in service-for instance.
steerage passage, with sufficiency of such
food as is usually furnished the army.
Eufaula, Silver Run, OIL the Girard and
Mobile Rail Road, Columbus and Montgom-
cry, will be the places of rendezvous but
those with women and children, must rem
devious at some point on the Rail Road
Single men may rendezvous at Eufaula on
the fifth of February next, and emigrants
Of any other description may rendezvous at
the other points by the tenth Of February.
We will 60 by rail road and steamers, Ell
ther by the Mobile and New Orleans, or by
the Atlanta and Nashville route, according
to the state Of the Alabama river. If fifty
or more single men, armed and uniformed,
prefer to rendezvous at Charleston, Colum-
bia, Augusta, Savannah or Atlanta, and
apply, will receive them there.
7th. Rations will be issued from the day
appointed for rendezvous, up to ten days af.
ter landing in Kansas no provision
will be made for furnishing subsistence prior
ito the time of rendezvous, because the men
would be worn out by long encampment,
become denoralizcd, and desert. The wo-
men and children will have the same char
acter Of subsistence and transportation will,
the men.
l am asked what is meant by saying that
leach successive contribution receipt shall
specify one emigrant more than its prede-
cessor" Ianswcr, that have been prom
iscd, and expect some contribut;ons-tha
for the first fifty dollars SO paid, by one or
more contributors, will give him or them
my written obligation, within six months
thereafter, to land one emigrant in Kansas,
or refund the money with interest-for the
next fifty. will give like obligation to
land two, and for the next, three, &c.
When return, will publish, :. report,
giving the name Of every emigrant, with
the post offices where enlisted, and where
left; and distinguishing those taken by the
contribution fund, from those paying their
way-and those taken under promise to re-
imburse by assignment of -emption or
otherwise; said report shall also specify the
name and post Office of such contributor
and its failure to do SO, shall give the right
to recover the amount of any such fifty
dollar obligation as may he omitted in such
report. Tie surveying of the lands will he
finished early in the spring, and that is the
time locations ought to be made. Those
wishing to go, may make their arrange
ments accordingly. In answer to another
question, I have to say, that with corn at
25 cents, and game plenty, the cost Of liv-
ing in Kansas cannot be high.
Is there indeed no public spirit-no en-
thusias'n left us! II a foreign enemy was
approaching our borders merely to take our
or to establish a different form of
government, and one under which our civ
ilization and social position would not ma
tcrialIy retrograde, 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 property, or reform
bad government; but social degradation
can neuer be redeemed. And this degrada-
tion Abolitionism is threatening us with;
for II cannot stop short of universal freedom,
equality and fraternity; J; and when it eman-
cipates, it must protect its 6e'sefciaries, by
giving them right to bear arms--to vote
to testify-to make laws-nay, by sending
the federal army to defend them, and to
fight their battles. 1t is, therefore, no mere
question OF whether slaves shall
be owned, or of who shall own them, but
question of races, equally affecting every
white skin in the land-it is question Of
whether the inferior race, ceasing to be pro-
duccrs and tax payers, shall become drones
and eat up the hiye-whether the stencby
Ethiopian shall sleep with the white man
sit with him in church-jostle him in the
street-thrust him from the assembly, the
witness stand, the jury and the ballot box
marry his daughters, make and admins
ter his laws-steal his pigs; and put him in
prison for complaining question in
which euery white skin is equally inter
ested. - 81, -,
The war is now ,0aging, that involves
these terrible facts, and Kansas is the great
Rhermopyle and pass in the mountain bar