The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-08-12

Appeal Of the Lao and Order Party Of
Kansas Territory. to their friends in the
South, and TO the Lac Abiding People Of
| the Union.
| Col. BUFORD, one of the Committee, furnish
| ed the Editor of DcBow's Review. the following
document containing an interesting review OF
/ Kansas Affairs, and an Appeal to the South in
! favor of that abolition-ridden country.
| The undersigned, at a recent meeting of
] the party, were constituted a committee,
| charged, among other things, with the pub
| lication of this address.
! That state of insurrection and civil war
exists among Us is abundantly evident: the
| LAW and order party on the one side, OPP
! posed on the other by the abolitioniSts, sent
| out and sustained by the Enigrant Aid
! SCc,etips of the North. A brief review of
| the points at issue, and their controlling
circumstances, may be useful to justify this
our appeal for aid.
In territorial politics, the question of free
or slave State has swallowed up every other.
The abolti"nistS on the other hand, in ac-
cordence with their early teaching, regard
slavery as the greatest po o-sible evils they
deem it a mOnstrOus national crime. which
their false theories of government mpute
equally to every portion of the confederacy,
and thus believing themselves individually
responsible for its existence, they feel bound
each to struggle for its overthrow; to such
extremes have wicked demagOgues stimula
ted t. cir fanaticiSm, that their prevented
conscipnces Justify any mode of warfare a
grin~t Shareholders, however much in viO-
latinn of law, however destructive of pro-
pertv or human life. and however atrOciOus-
lv wicked it may seem to others; nay, many
of them already go so far as to oppose all
law, religion. property, order, ana .suoor-
dination among men, as subvPrsive Ot what
they are pleased to call mans natural and
inherent equality. And with them it is no
mere local question of whether slavery shall
exist in Kansas or not, but one of far wider
sgnificancP-a question of whether 1T shall
exist anywhere in the Union. Kansas they
Justly regard as the mere outpost in the
war now being waged between the antago-
niStic civilizations of the North and the
South; and winning this great outpost and
stand-point, they rightly think their march
will he open to anv easy conquest of the
whole field. Hence the extraordinary means
the abolition party has adopted to flood
Kansas with the most fanatical and lawlPss
portion of Northern society; and hence the
large sums of monv they have expended to
s''r~ound their brother Missourians with OBJ
nOHinus and dangerous neghhors.
On the other hand. the pro slavery ele
ment Of the ''law and order party in Kan
Ras, locking TO the Bible. find slavery or
dained of God; they find there, as by our
law. slavery made IAN inheritance to- them
and their children forever" Looking to
our national census. and to all statistics
connected with rho African race, and con
>iaering, too, their physical. intellectual,
Elo& c1o,-
the Africans normal and proper state;
since. in that state, that race multiplieS
faster has more physical comfort. less vice,
and more moral and intellectual progress
than in anv other.
We believe slavery the only school in
which the dehased son of Ham. by attritinn !;
with a higher race. can be refined and Ple-
waited we believe it a trust and guardian
ship given us of God for the good of both
races. Without sugar. cotton and cheap
clothing, can civilization maintain its pro-
greSs? Can these he supplied without slave
rv! Nav, in the absence of slavery insti-
tutions, must not social distinctions super-
vene among the free to the dptriment of re
publican equality This is no mere pro-
pertv question. hut great social and p"lit
ical question of races it * not question of
whether A. or B. shall he owner, bHt of
whether the slave. still having master,
shall still he n working bee. and not an idle
dronp in the hive question of whether the
South shall still he land flowing with milk
and honey, or a land of mendicants and vag
ahonds: a great question of races ques-
ton whether we shall sink to the level of
the freed African. and take him IT, the en-
brace of social and political equality and
fraternitv-for such is the natural end of
abolition progress. Fanaticism must de-
fpnd its heneficiariPs-first, by sending the
federal army to protect them, and ultimate
ly bv giving them the right to bear arms,
vote, testify. make and administer laws-in
short, the right to eat out Our substance. to
pull us down to their level, TO faint our
blood. and bring us to degradation from
which no time can redeem us. Thus radi-
cal and marked the difference in theory be-
tween the two parties, and not less so their
GInerenCe Ill practice: while we. I'm good
faith, sustain and uphold the laws, the aboli-
tionists on the other hand, in effect, repu-
diate and set them at defiance; with
diSlovaltv they assert the invaldity of the
territorial laws, while they render our ma
tional insignia only the mockery of a hol- |
low respect indeed, more than once, they
have openly resisted the marshal in the ser
vice of process, and in some places, their
organised armed resistance to the territorial
laws is So overwhelming that ministers of
the law there never atttempI the discharge
of their official duties they have repudiat-
ed payment of tnxes, and have held and pub
lished the proceedings of large public meet
ingS in which they resolved to resist, even
to blood, the territorial laws and expecial
lv the laws for the collection of the public
revenue.
According to testimony under oath late
ly given before the Congressional Commit
tee, they have secret military organizations
for resisting the laws and for carrying out
their abolition designs upon kansas-orga-
nizations IN which the members are bound
by the most solemn oaths to obey their lead
ers, in all cases. not excepting even murder
and treason 1t Is abundantly proved by
eye-witnesses of unqueStionable veracity,
that at this present time, they have at diff.
ferent points in the territories banded to-
gether in actual encampment large num-
bers of armed men. :ubsisted and kept to-
rether by their aid societies for no other