Squatter sovereign., 1856-02-26

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party, Tor subsistence and transportation 10
Kansas. and Tor furnishing means TO enter
his pre-emption, each enngrant agrees 10
acquire pre-emption, and 10 pay me when
his titles are perfected, sum equal to the
value Of one half of his pre-e.nption.
which obligation he may discharge in
money. or property. at Q fair valuation. at
his own option. Heretofore, from snsin-
formation. supposed prescriptions assigna-
bic before patent, but OH examining tue
act find they are not. Neither does the
donation act apply to Kansas, but each
male of full age, widow, or head Of tam
ly, who has not had pre-emption under
the Act of lS41, ard does not own $50
acres of land, and who has improved and
settled upon it, not to sell on speculation,
but for his own use, and 70 cultivation. is
entitled to 16O acres at 81 % per acre.
payable any time before the land sales.
have simplified my proposals to sin
gle proposition as above. in order to be
more easily understood and to obviate the
MANY questions that overwhelm me.
Beside taking only free males over
eighteen. the greater number of applica-
tions compels this. further, notification lie.
Il will receive only those e.nigrants who
rendezvous at the places above designated
"a, ei,l!er of which places. i. e., Eufauia.
Columbus or Montgomery, will receive
all males over eighteen, from any Souti efn
State, who join me at the times above des-
ignated their rations to begin from the
times above named Tor rendezvous. Emi-
grants must pay their own expenses to the
place and day of rendezvous. Those gem
tlemen in Carolina and other States, form
ing companies to join me, can very easily
obtain free transportation for their compa-
MES, by proper applications to the directors
of the railroads over which they must pass.
They give free passage TO cattle and agrl-
cultural productions to fairs, and why not
to volunteers perilhng all in their defence
Without Kansas and slavery, free negro
| dom will soon crush our cattle. cotton. col
ieges. property and progress will
eat up the hive, railroads disappear. and
wild beasts. briars and brambles oyerrun
the land. tits a question NOT OF property
tut OF the supremacy OF the white race. In
| which rich and poor have equal interest.
Kansas lost, and all west, nay! all cas-, Of
tine Mississippi must soon follow. Kansas
| is the great out post amt stand point in the
contest; a people wuo wall notdeeId their
outposts have already succumbei to the IN
vader. Do we fear TO send Que man lest
the North may send twos then we have
already ihgloriously surrendered without
| a struggle. 7 s-5'' o5f 4-l7 F.ts's
Is not Kansas now in our hands and
! If ~e only encourage the Missourians will
| tiey not retain 1t! Did not the South Send
| 10 Mexico double tie volunteers sent by
the North? aud w;nn'w was 1t discovered
that they are more patriotic or lore entnu-
siastlc in deleniing their eoH try and tier
institutions than we2 The way To queH
t iu.y OF tie fanatic and wild least. Is
not to crouch and fee, hut to turn and look
him in t;.e eye; for else he vii spring up, n
and rend you in fieces ;-and depend on
1t wien once the North Catcses tie steady.
| firn gaze OF Southern Reason. her con-
ufercial and conservative instincts will
awaken and save us. our. institutions and
| the Union from herlHadnen. .ssss
e. And who is perilling the Union. but
| the impious interineddlers, ws.o fam would
| make US accoun;ai le to them rather than
God. for the trust Which he has committed
to our keeping? And is not slavery
trust given US OF Providence for the benefit
Of both racess Can republican equality. as
| yet, be perpetuate ted without its without SUI
gar. cotton aud cheap elolhiag. can civIll-
zation maintain Its progress! and can these.
be supplied to the world without slavery!
Nay! slavery is the only school in which
the dehased son Of Ham. by attrition with
a superior race, can be elevated. Slavery
is not Of chance, nor OF man. but of God,
and has not yet ,Dorked out ITS mission;
aud will not have done SO TIL the TIVE races
are I'll for lf-goyernment- Dare we, be-
fore God, cowardly sneak off, and ike un-
profita Bile servants. baseiy surrender this
guardianship. because vain. selt-righteous
ln,ermeddlers have made il troublesome to
maintainl What good. what valuable
thing, was ever troug.t 4 forth without labor
and travail. and what ever preserved with
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la this connection. too. il is given US to
vindicate that priceless axiom of civil pol
ity, without which Liberty is but name
and rnockery; that principle. lying at the
foundation OF social security. aud which
teaches that whenever people Is individ-
ualized and isolated sfsosn others. by lam
guage. religion, interests or institutions. it
has. of nature, the inaliefIabie right TO
| manage its internal affairs free from the
control Of others. and without accountable
ity to any save God. Are Ne prepared to
give up this great principle and become
the serfs oil foreign interineddiersa and mas
ierss Are we prepared TO sink to the level
of the Ethiopian. and clasp him In the
fond embrace of political and social equal.
Hy and fraternity! For TO this .atolifion nm
stayed must come. Fanasicisrn must defend
its benefi .aries; first. by sending the fed.
erai army 20 protect them. and ultimately
by giving them the righ, 10 bear arms, 70
vote. testify, make and administer laws
10 ca, out your substance, to. pull you down
to their level. TO taint the blooi Of ysur
poserty. and bring it to degredalion
from which millions OF ages cannot redeem
Il. This Is question Of races. Am
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