The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-03-22
Letter from Hon. P. s. Brooks.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WAsHIGToN, Feb. 7, 1856.


fellow addessed a letter to myself ant
others, giving description of the sol
of Kansas, and the average products o
agricultural labor. That letter was pub
lished in the newspapers of our Sta te
and every additional testimoy confirm
the truth of the statements therein
contained.
Gen. Whitfield is now at my side, AM
in reply to the question relative to tn
demands and rewards of mechanical la
Dor, bids me say that the minimum o
wages for labor in Kansas is fully double
the price in Charleston.
But higher considerations than pecun
iary profit are now presented to tht
young men of our State; and they are
just the considerations which soones
reach, and most excite the heart o
young Carolina. They are the consid.
erations of patriotism and honor. Civil
war has virtually begun in Kansas
The lives of such friends of the insti-
tutions of the South and of the consti-
tuition, as have gone to Kansas to dis
seminate our principles, strengthen our
institutions and protect your rights, my
rights, and the rights of every slave
owner, are in peril. By the .tfat oI
Abolition Aid Societies." money and
men are pouring into Kansas. The
spirit of popular sovereignty is being
crushed, and the principle of nonintcr-
vention circumvented by lawless fanat-
icism.
With the permission of Gen. Whit
field, make the follwing extracts from
a letter dated ''Lecompton, January
g." and written by gentleman in high
position, and of intelligence and integ-
rity, whose name for reasons which
you would concur with me in regarding
satisfactory is withheld:
''About six days ago, six men were
sent to Iowa to conduct 500 fighting
men, who are to be here by the last oil
February. They will be here without
doubt. Yesterday, wagons were sent to
meet train with two cannon and five
hundred Sharpe's rifles from Illinois,
which are being sent to Lawrence.
''These things go TO show that the
traitors are industrious and are working.
By the lst of March they will have
100 or 1900 men more than they have
now. and be better provided with arms
and munitions.
"On the 4th Of March next, they put
their Government into operation, and il
we are not strong enough to put down
them and ther military organization, we
will be driven from the Territory.
"For myself, l think that no man, in
or out of the Territory, is willing to risk
more of everything that is dear or val
liable, according to his circumstances,
than l will, if the cause is appreciated
by the South, and they show their ap-
probation by sending men and money to
help. But if the slave owners of the
South content themselves with tempo
rary luxury and ease, and make no effort
to save their institutions, they may take
care of themselves in their own way.
and / will of myself in mine. If there
is . man who is enlisted more deeply in
the cause of the South than myself, |
don't know where he is to be found. !
am fortified in my position by principle
and feeling. l hate the adverse cause,
and love to war upon it. | have risked
my life and my property, which are now
in daily peril.
''The South must act with energy
and promptness. They must do the
entire thing, or give it up,-acknoWl-
edge themselves whipped.
"0ur friends must be here on the 28th
of February, or the few pro- slavery men
in.this part of the Territory will be burn
ed out and driven off as refugees. If
the South cannot send fifteen hundred
men by the 28th of February next, and
double that number by fall, and in time
for the elections. they need not send a
man"
Such is the state of affairs in Kansas,
as represented by one who is on the
ground.
The admission of Kansas into the
Union as slave State, is now a point OF
honor with the South. Every assistance
which legislation can render, was gir 81
by the last Congress, when the N.issour
prohibition was repealed. What more
can Southern ebivalry ash of Congressi
An open field and fa;r fight was all tha
our ancestors ever asked of an enemy
Has the spirit of the sires departed from
the bosoEs of their sons? /? Shall the
page of South Carolina history, which
records the lofty sentiments and glorious
deeds of Gadsden, of Hayne, and o
Moultrie, grow pale when reading of us
And shall it be written that their blooC
was transmitted without their virtues
and of their spirit, that the ''grace o
the fashion of it perisheth?"
The last Congress gave TO the peopl
of the South a fair field, and the Aboi
tionists have thrown down the glove up
on it. Who in all the South viii take j
|up?
his nag deliberate conviction that M
fate of tie South is to be decided sOifI
the Rsasas issue. If Kansas becomes
hireling State. slave property win declin'
to half its present value in Missouri a
soon as the fact is determined. Thel
Abolitienism viii become the prevailins
sentiment. So with Arkansss--so Wit
upper Texas. While ne are thus de
creasing in political power, the -Nortl
will increase. War with England j
now desired by Seward, who is the mos