Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-06-10
AHnirs In the North.

disturbances in Kansas and the assault on Sena
TOR Sumner are the pretexts for the organzed,sys
tema,ic efforts they are making TO raise men AM
rssey-the real motive is deadly luminosity Il
the South, and the real object the overthrow o
slavery.
At public meeting in Detroit last week, annie
much excitement and vast amount Of demagog
uism and humbuggery: Hon. Mr.. Corten,us an
poupced that his services were ready IN oehalf oil
Kansas.
Han z Chandler offered his personal services and
his current income, If force OF one hundred mer
were raised in Detroit and one thousand in the Stat'
at large who shall hold themselves In readiness Il
proceed to Kansas.
Duncan Stuart ESQ. offered tive thousand dollar
per year SO long ~ kiehgcn force was kept In TIL
6eld
A large gathering Was held in Chicago tho 10,
inst, a. which $4,000 were contributed to the
Free State cause in Kansas; Il vagseond patriots
in large numbers declared their readiness TO shout
aer their muskets and set cut for the "seat Of
war"
Gerritt Smith, Of New York,th abolition can
didate for the Presidency, wrote letter to the
Syracuse Convention of the 81 nf. in which no
said:
trust that Your Convention will be large and car
nest and that its demand will be for the death of
slavery Its proceedings should they fall below ouch
demand will be altogether vain. To talk OF limiting
slayeryo let il live here and not there's insane
as to talk of letting the wolves leap into these sheep
folds but not into those. None OF the folds will be
.ccure from the wolves until the wolves are killed,
and no part of the land will be from slavery
until slavery is killed The utterly lawcss monster
will prow over all the land long as he is suffered
10 exist ia any part oft Slavery rules now in New
York and Philadelphia; and IL will continue To rule
in them as long as il shall be allowed 10 rule in
Richmond and New Orleans. To
drive liberty from the whole land or slavery rom the
whole land is the issue
must not doubt that your Convention will go for
The death of all American slavery.
Moreover, the people cannot yet break out OF the
habit OF following their great political leaders, and
these leaders full Of the caution aud tmidity OF train
ed cians fear To brand slavery as an outlaw, and
10 call for its expulsion from the whole world-irom
Virginia as well as Morroeoo-from Georgia rs well
as from Tripoli The nonsense, that slavery can be
voted against whilst slavery itself is involved must
in all probability, be repeated still longer.
| wish the Convention would go with me in voting
Slavery 10 death. But tell you, gentlemen, with
all my heart that II the Convention is not ready to
90 with me in voting slavery TO death, am ready To
90 with il in putting slavery 10 violent death y
Concluding then, that your Convention will decide
to fight rather than to vote against slavery, hope
State and taxing the courage energy, and liberaty
of every part of the State hope to hear that II has
adopted measures to raise one million OF dollars and
one thousand men. For
myself am too old and too ignorant of arms, to
fight scarcely know how TO load gun, and
am not certain that ever Shapes rifle, or
revolver, bowie knife
II is true that my very frequent contributions
during the last year In aid ofour suffering brethren
in Kansas have exhausted my current means. New
ertheless authorize you To put me down for ten
thousand dollars of the million.
This letter expresses the sentiments Of a large
body Of men in the North. 1t is not against slav-
cry legisatonbut against slavery itself that they
are prepared 10 take up arms. Restore the Mis-
sour restriction, abolish slavery in the District
Of Columbia, forbid the trade in slaves from State
to State, enact the Wilmot Proviso admit Kansas
as Free State-still they would not be satisfied
nor relax their exsrtions SO long as there was a
slave on the soil of the Union.
The Northern mind has been thoroughly be-
fooled on this subject Of slavery. Reeder in pro-
nounoing the first movements of the Missourians
" Border Ruffianism" gave the rallying cry to a
crusade against slavery in the states. Northern
editors, lecturers, essayists, correspondents and
preachers are devoting themselves, with the burn
ing zeal which fanatcism ever supplies to proving
that slavery and rufisnism are inseparable-that
slavery is oorruptng. debasing and brutalizing in
its effects, that people tolerating it must inev-
tably be coarse, rude, immoral, barbarous and
blood.thirsty. The Northern press teens and
groans with falsehoods, concoted chiefly in Kan
sas, to fasten this conviction on the minds of the
Northern people. A single illustration from the
New York Tribune will show to what a vllanous
extent this thing is carried. We copy from its
issue Of the. 9Th.
Gen. Atchison, with the Platte County Rifles, some
sixty in number, with their two brass howitzers beg
ged leave to 60 through Lawrence last Thursday and
were permitted aud crossed the ferry at that place.
have obtained the following report of his speech
delivered just before the large posse entered town.
Those who are not acquainted with the honorable
gehtemans style may object to its profanity, but it
characteristic. He delivered it to these men while
standing on a brass howitzer. Two men, who also
heard him. vouch for the correctness of this report
DAvY ATCHISONS SPEECH AT THE SACKING
or LAWRENCE.
"Boys This day am Kickapoo Ranger, by G.
This day we have entered Lawrence Southern
Rights inscribed on our banners and not one do
Abolitionist has dared to FIRE gun. No, by G.
not onel This, boys, is the happiest day of my
whole life. We have entered the id city, and TO-
night the Aholitionsts will learn Southern lessor
that they will remember till the day Of their death
And now boys, will 20 in,with highly hon
orable Jones and test the strength of that id Free
State HOTEL and learn the Emigrant Aid Society tina
Kansas shall be ours. Boys, ladies should be, and
thrust will be- respected by all gentlemen; but by G.
when woman takes on herself the garb of soldier
: by carrying the gsrb Of Shapes rifle, then she i
mo longer woman, and, by G., treat her for wha
you find her, and trampe henunder foet ~ you woul
a snake. By c., come on, boys Now to your du
ties, to yourselves and your Southern friends You
duty know you viii do; and if aman or woma
chunk of cold ieadi
The speech Of Sumner, for which he Was 8
to the same end. Its whole tenor was q libel O
the character of the Southern people. II was