Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-31
KANSAS.

As we anticipated, the report of recent.outbreak
in Kansas, published last week, was greatly e1ag-
gerated-the rumors having since grown "small by
degrees until the affair seems to amount to little
more than o common street-fght.
Nevertheless, the condition of affairs in Kansas is
every day becoming more and more the object of ex
citing interest and anxiety. We have published in
another column IN epitome of the Message No. 2, Of
the President to the Senate, calling the attention of
that body to the subject. At home, in the South,
the spirit isup and at work. The mail brings cheer
ing accounts of the determined efforts of Southern
men in other States, and in South Carolina sui
len and inactive as we seem to be, We gladly note
the preparations for action In Abbeville our Ban
ner District three hundred men have enrolled them
selves "for the war;" and await orders; and the
citizens of Fairfield seldom to be found in the back
ground, have resolved to hold meeting and do like
wise. The clans ore gathering the Golfers of the
rich are responding to the call; and the work goes
on bravey and nobly for the defence of Southern in
stiutons and the vndication of Southern rights in
Kansas!
do In times gone-by she was not backward; will
she log behind now? We think not. One of our
best and most public-spirted citizens hos authori-
zed us to say that he will be responsible for one hun
dred dollars if an effort be made to raise fund. If
others of our men of substance will promptly second
the movement the fund can be easily secured and,
once the work is done the young men, we are sure,
will not be wanting Read the stirring appeal of
A7cmsoS on the first page. 1t contains reliable
statement of the condition of things in Kansas, and
will surely be enough to arouse oil true men to ac-
tion.
! In relation to the movements in Alabama in aid
of the patriotic enterprise of Maj. Buford, we take
the following from the Eufaula Spirit cfhs SOUTH
..We nre gratiied to see that the proposed expe-
dition of our friend, Maj. Buford to Kansas, is be-
ynnur to attract the attention that it emiucntly
deserves Of late there has been most unmistake-
able stirring of the waters and the South begins to
move like the strong man in his sleep. From Vir.
sin;a and Tennessee, from South Carolina Georgia
and Mississippi, every mail brings tidngs of gallant
young men buckling their armor for the struggle
that is to give Kansas to the South or surrender her
to the vagubond creatures of the Emigrant Aid Soc-
eties of Massachusetts. Warm, true hearts, all over
the South, yearn towards the fearless champion OF
our rights who noby pcris every thing in the cause
Meetings of the citizens in Montgomery and Colum-
bus, have recognized him as leader, worthy the
enterprise and the occasion, and have rendered him
not only their sympathy, but material aid. At the
former meeting Col. Gayle of Dallas, pledged the
people of his county, for not less than five thousand
dollars Truly, the work goes bravely on.
"Not only the people, but heirrepresentatives in
General Assembly convened, are awakening to the
Importance of the crisis. In the House, Mr.. Beck
of Wilcox, the determined foe Of a the schemes by