Squatter sovereign. [volume] (Atchison, Kan. Terr.) 1855-1858, 1856-07-15
Appeal oy the Law and Order Party Of
Kansas Terr:scrs 20 tks,r friends in
tie South.

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tie Soath.
The undersigned, at Tecen, meeting
OF tie Parry, were constituted Commit
tee, charged among other things with the
publication Of this Address.
That state of Insurrection and Civil
War exists among US. is atundantly evil
dent. The Law aad Order Parry" on
the one side, opposed on the other by the
4 bolitionis,s, who are backed up and sus-
tanned by the Ernisrant Aid Societies OF
she North. A brief review Of ihe points
at issue, and their controlling circumstan-
ces, may be useful to justify this. our ap-
penl Tor aid. In Territorial politics, the
question of Free Or Slave state mas swal-
loved up every other. The Aboiitionists
on the one hand, in accordance with their
early teaching. regard slavery as the great
est possible evil-.hey deem IT a monstrous
national evil, which their false theories OF
government impu:e equally 10 every por-
ton of the coniederacy, and thus feeling
themselves individually responsible for its
existence, they feel bound each to strug-
gle for its overthrow: TO such extremes
have wicked delnagogues stimulated their
fana,icism, thatthe perverted consciences
justify any mode Of warfare against slave
holders, however much Ia violation of law,
however destructive of property or human
life, and however atrociously wicked it
may seem to others: nay. many OF them
already go SO far as to oppose all religion.
property, law, order and subordination
among men as subverside Of what they
are pleased TO call mans natural and in
berent equality. And with them it is no
mere local question of whether slavery
shall exist in Kansas OF not, but one OF far
wider significance; question of whether
it shall exist any where In the Union
Kansas they justly regard as the mere out
post in the war now being waged between
the antagonistic civilizations of the North
and the South; and winning this great out
pos, and standpoint. they rightly think
their march will be open to an easy con-
ques, of the whole field. Hence the ex-
traordinary means tie Abolition party has
adopted 10 flood Kansas with the most
fanatical and iawiess portion of Northern
society; and hence the large sums of money
have expended to surround their brother
a II.
GUS neighbors.
On the other hand, the pro-slavery Gle
mert of the Law and Order" party in
Kansas, looking to the bible, find slavery
ordained Of God; they find there, as by
our law. slaves made can inheritance TO
them and their children forever" Eook-
ing to our national census, and to all sta
tisiIcs connected with the African race.
and considering too ;Ieir physical, intel
lec,ual aud moral nature. we see that
slavery is the Africans normal and proper
state: since in that state that race multi
plies faster, has more physical comforts.
with less vice and more moral and intel
lectual progress than in any other. We
believe slavery the only school In which
the debased son Of Ham, by attrition with
a higher race can be refined and elevated:
we believe 1t trust and guardianship
given Us OF God for the good of both
races.
Without sugar, cotton and cheap cloth
ing, can civilization maintain its progress
Ian these be supplied without slavery:
nay, in the absence Of slavery institutions,
must not social distinctions supervene
among the free to the detriment of rcpub-
lican equality. This is no mere property
question, but great social and political
question OF races: it is not question Of
whether A or B shall be owner, but of
whether the slave, still having master,
shall still he working bee and not an
idle drone in the hive: question of
whether the South shall still lie land
flowing with milk and honey. Or land of
mendicants and vagabonds: a great ques-
ton OF races: question OF whether we
shall sink to the level of the + eed African
and take him to the embrace of social and
political equality and fraternity: for such
is the ma tural end of Abolition progress.
Fanaiicism must defend its benefciaries
first, by sending the Federal army to
protect them, and ultimately by giving
item 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 a degradation from which no
time can redeem us. Thus radical and
marked the difference in theory, between
the tho parties, and not less so. their diff
erenee in practice; while we, in good