Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29
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Letters from David r. Atchison, late Pres
ident Of the United States Senate, and thus
OK oficio Vice President of the United States,
are published in the Southern papers, calling
upon the people-of the South to emigrate
with their slaves to Kanzas and save it from
becoming free State. When it is recollect-
ed that this Atchison was not only the prime
mover in the repeal of the Missouri prohibit
ton, but the chief manager in all the infa-
nous ontrages which have been perpetrated
in Kanzas, he using President Pierce's Gov
ernor as an instrument for the accomplish
msnt of his purposes, a few extracts from one
Of his letters may serve the double object of
exposing the designs of the slave power, and
stimulating the friends of free Institutions at
the North to renewed exertions to counteract
them, by hurrying forward to Kanzas organ
lied bands Of freefnen, in large numbers, as
soon as may be. ear
Atchison avows his intention of making
Kanzas his place of permanent abode, and of
converting it into slave State, and if not ad-
mitted into the Union as such, he threatens
to cut loose with it from the Union In
late letter to the Atalanta Georgia. Bramin.
or, he calls Justify upon the South for help
his border rufhans not proving sufficient for
the great work he has undertaken. He says:
81 expect TO be citizen of Kanzas and if
Kanzas presents herself legitimately, having
all the qualifications for State, and is reject
ed because her constitution recognizes and
protects slavery, then, as a citizen of Kanzas,
will contend that Kaazas is a State, sovereign
0nd Independent, out Of the Union"
Will President Pierce, in that case, dare to
interfere to maintain " the integrity Of the
Union -
In the following paragraph he expresses the
great primal motive which has influenced the
South, and especially the Missourians, in all
their operations in regard to Kanzas. These
are Atchison' own words. Mark them -
"Kanzas and Missouri have the same lati-
tude, climate, and soil, and should have the
same institutions. KANZAS MUST HAVE
SLAVE INSTITUTIONS OR MISSOURI
MUST HAVE FREE INSTITUTIONS
Hence the interest the 'border rufians' takein
Kanzas affairs"
Then he goes on to make the following pa
thetic appeal to the citizens of Georgia. to set
the example in coming to the rescue of the
South go
I" Let your young men come forth to Mis-
souri, and Kanzas. Let them come well arm
ed, with money enough to support them for
for twelve months, and determined to see this
thing out. One hundred true men will be an
acquisition. The more the better. 1 do not
h0xx airil
will. Twelve months will not elapBe before
war, civil war, of the fercest kind, will 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: net for our.
selves, but to support our friends who come
from a distance. Let your young men come
on in squads, as fast as they can be raised,
sceU armed"
:" If the. ssttlemgBt ST Emigration, it would
5 have been slave territory as certain as Mis-
souri, is a slave State. But inasmuch as these
have been violated and perverted by the force
of money, and a powerful organization in the
north and east, it becomes the south to be
up and doing" and to send us population to
counterfeit the north. This can be done with
a little exertion. Thus far, few counties in
Western Missouri have successfully encoun-
-tered and defeated this powerful free STATED
organization. Let Georgia set the example,
What is to be done should be done quickly.
This course on the part of the south viii save
Kanzas to the south; save bloodshed, civil
war, and perhaps dissolution Of the Union