Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-26

We embaace the earliest opportunity Of present
ing to tho people of Georgia and the South, a let,
ter from the Hon. d. R.. Atchison, on the subject
of the affairs of Kansas, addressed to the senior
editor of this paper. 1t is a letter we feel satisfied
will be read with intense interest by every citizen
of our State.
The distinguished gentleman who has penned it,
and by whose permission it is published, has occu-
pied, for n quarter OF a century at least, an emf
nently high position among the statesmen of the
Union; and, in the Senate OK the United States,
over which he presided with so much satisfaction
to that body, at a very recent period, he fairly
earned a reputation of which We can boast, as an
able aud Influential Senator, and an ardent advo-
cate of Southern Rights Upon the statement Of
such n man, even Georgian can rely. To his APP
peal every Georgian should respond. He speaks
of Kansas to the South, for the sake not only of
those who are fighting its battles there, but for
Missouri, our sister, whose doom is certain in the
event that Kansas is AbolitionizeJ,
Accompanying the letter which We publish, we
received another from the same gentleman, from
which we make p few extracts. lie says:
+ = + = W are in a constant state of OK
element here (Platte City,. The border 'rnfians'
have access to my room day and night. The very
air is full of rumors. We wish to keep ourselves
right before the world, and we are provoked and
aggravated beyond suferance. Our persons and
pr Operty are not for u moment safe and yet we
are forbid, by the respect we owe our friends else
! Wnere, Dy respect lot me cause III WHICH we are
engaged, to torbear. This state of things cannot
last. You are authorized to publish the whole or
q part of what have written; but if Georgia in
tends to do anything. or can do anything for re,
let it be done speedily!
LET your young men come forth 10 Missouri
and Kansas! Let them come well armed, with
money enough to support them for tv elye months,
and determined to see this thing out. One hun,
bred true men will be an acquisition. The more
the better. l do not see how we are to avoid civil
war. come it will. Twelve months will not elapse
before war-civil war of the fereest kind-wiIl be
upon us. We are arming and preparing for it,
Indeed, we of the Border counties are prepared
We must have the support of the South. We are
fighting the battles of the South. Our institutions
are at stake. You far Southern men are now out
of the naive of the war, but if we fail, it will reach
your own doors, perhaps your hearths. We want
men, armed men. We want money-not for our
selves, but to support our friends who may come
from a distance. | have now in this house two
gallant young men from Charleston, s. c. They
are citizens of Kansas, and will remain so until
her destiny is fixed.
as they can be raised, well armed. We want
none but true men. Yours truly,
I'D. R. ATCHISoN.
up. 81 would not be astonished if this day
laid the groundwork for a guerrilla war in Kansas.
II have heard of rumors of strife and battle at
Leavenworth. seven miles from this place, but the
ice is running in the Mississippi river, and l have
nothing definite. | was a peace-maker in the
difficulty lately settled by Gov. Shannon. ] coun.
ciled the 'Rufians' to forbearance, but / will never
again council peace. ID. R. A."
Who can resist such an appeal? What citizen
or State the in South can turn a deaf ear to it, and
withhold that material aid which our brethren in
Missouri and Kansas so much needi Where are
cur young and adventurous mem where IRE the