Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-26
SOUTHERN KANSAS EMIGRANTs.

A stirring scene took place in Montgomery Ala,
on the 7th inst. The Kansas colonists, collected
under the auspices of Mai. jeff. Burford, amount.
ing to between 400 and 500, left that city on that
Previous to departing, they assembled at the Bap-
list church where Rev. Mr.. Tichenor addressed
them, and Mr.. Burford made q brief response. A
Bible was presented to them. This is quite a diff
erent scene to that which was enacted in the
church at New Haven Conn.,, where, instead of the
Bible and peaceful counsels, Sharp's rifles and
Warlike words were the order of the day.
After leaving the church, the colonists proceed
ed to the wharf, where a large crowd assembled,
and with a cotton bale for a platform, Mr.. billiard,
one Of the American candidates for elector, adj
dressed them. The "Mail' gives the following
brief notice of his remarks
Mr.. III. proceeded to make one of the most grace
full and eloquent addresses We have ever heard
from him. 1t was short-just the right length
and from beginning to end, was q perfect gen.
lie set out, by saying that this concourse was not
assembled to vindicate "a theoretic principle, or tc
discuss speculative politics; it was there to give
emphasis to a practical assertion of the principle
that the people of the South had q right to &C
into and settle the territories with their property
He went on to state, that the Kansas act left the
subject Of slavery to be determined by the people
who should settle the territory. Congress had MOI
assumed to say what was property or what was
not. The Constitution even did not constitute
slaves property; it found them such. 1t did no
make or unmake; nor was there any power which
could do so, except that which might he asserted
by the people of a territory met to form their or
ganic law. On this rock the South planted, tina
the stakeholder of right might enter the territories
with his property and demand the protection of tn,
flag of the Republic. Mr.. H.. declared himself 'il
a high sense" a national man." and he declared
that he believed there were national men yet re
naming in the North, who would sympathize Will
US in this increment for the protection of our con
stitutional rights.
Mr.. billiard contrasted, with great felicity, thu
manner of sending forth the New England colo
nists-with Sharpe's rifes-and the peaceful colo
nization by the South. He spoke with severity or
the conduct OF Prof. Silliman in melting the class
es of Yale College to supply rifles; and denounced
Henry Ward Beecher, who had desecrated his elo.
quence and his clerical Office, by similar incendia-
rism. He urged our colonists to be peaceable, or,
derby. law-abiding-to sustain the reputation OF
the South by carrying with them respect to the
Constitution and laws of the countrywide avoid col.
lision, If possible, and seek to establish our insti.
tuition at the ballot box. If these failed, and their
arms must be raised in the defence of themselves
and the South, he did not doubt but that Sharpe't
rifles would be met with snARpERl
Before concluding, Mr.. billiard alluded to tn,
platform from which he spoke-a bale of cotton
That, he said, was the foundation principle from
from which this movement sprang-it symbolize
the Supremacy of the White Race-it was tn
White Man standing on the products of Slave La
Dor! Providence might change our relations t.
the inferior race, but the principle was eternal
the Supremacy of the White Race. In conclusion
Mr.. billiard told the colonists to follow and stanc
firm by their leader, whom he had known long anC
well, and whom he honored for his virtues and en-
thusiasm. Follow him" said Mr.. billiard; "anc
you will pursue the line of honor-stand by hin
and you will be at the post of duty ~
The mail" thinks that when Major Burfort
leaves New Orleans, his companions will numbe
one thousand,-NaShriUe Patriot,