Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-02-06
From the Spirit of the south.l
TO KANSAS EMlGRANTS And TO ALI FRIENDS
OF THE SOUTH.

Kansas emlgrants on the lth OF Febuary next
but many of them being unable to get ready b,
that time, and others beRg unwilling to 60 be-
fore spring, and especially us am advised b,
my correspondents that tie Missouri and Kansa.
rivers are already imped@ by ice, have deter
mined to postponed sarIing till the winter
breaks
The emigrants may rendezvous at Eulaula
on the 3lst of March next, at Columbus, Ga.
on The Sd of April, and tat Montgomery, Ala.
on the 4th April next-so that | can start from
EufauIa, via Columbus and Montgomery, col.
lecling on the way thoseH find at The differeu,
places Of rendezvous. The company will travel
from Montgomery by steamers, via Mobile and
New Orleans, or else BY railroad via Atlanta 10
Nashville, and thence by steaner to Kansas.
engage to transport no baggage except six blan.
kets, one gun one knapsack and one frying pan
to each emigrant-for baggage over and above
this, the emigrau. himself must engage trans
:. portalion-many will have no more, and must
i treat all alike. While thought my company
would be small, expected 10 be able to take
women, children and slaves but find must
leave them to give place TO men, who are now
greatly needed in Kansas to preserve the ,ublie
peace and enforce The laws. | now expect over
four hundred men, and will take no females,
nor slaves, nor minors under l8 years Of aye
women and children should not be exposed
there in tents in the spring-but the husbands
! should 90 first and prepare. hc1ses.
The regiment will be d:s led into companies
! of forty or fifty men, under the usual military
officers, elected by the men. Officers have no
emoluments, and the organization is on the
principle of volunteer militia to sustain the
laws; a majority Of each company may expel
any member. Rations, transportation and fare.
that Of soldiers in service. By remuneratng
me for The privilege Of joining my party, for
subsistence and transportation 10 Kansas, and
for furnishing men to enter his pre-emption, each
emigrant agrees TO acquire pre-emption, and
to pay mo, when lis titles are perfected, a sum
equal to the value of one-half Of his pre.emp-
ton, which Obligation he may discharge in mon.
ev. or property at a fair valuation, at his own
option had heretofore, from misinformation,
supposed pre-emptions assignable before patent,
but on examining the act find they are not.
Neither does the donation act apply 10 Kansas,
but each male of full age, widow, or head Of
family, who has not had a.pre -emption under
the act of ls4l, and does not own 800 acres Of
land, and who has improved and settled on it not
to sell on speculation, but for his own use and
cultivation, is entitled to enterl 60 acres at Sl.25
per acre, payable any time before the land sales.
| have simplifed my proposals TO single
proposition as above. in order 10 be more easily
understood and To obviate the many questions
that overwhelm me.
Besides taking only free male over eighteen.
the great number of applications compeIs this
further modification, i. e.-I will receive only
those emigrants who RENDEZVOUS at the places,
IL I u,ill
receive all males over eighteen from any South
ern State, who join me at the time above desig-
mated; their rations to begin from the times
above named for rendezvous. Emigrants must
pay their own expenses to the place and day Of
rendezvous. Those gentlemen in California and
other States, forming companies to join me, can
very easily obtain free transportation for their
companies, by proper applications to the direc-
tors of the railroads over which they must pass
They give free passage to cattle and agricultural
production. to fairs and why not to volunteers
perilling all in their defence? Without Kansas
and slavery, free negrodom will soon crush out
cattle, cotton, colleges. property and progress
drones will eat up The hive, railroads disappear,
and wild beasts, briers and bramblrs overrun
the land. 1t is Il question rot of property, but
of the supremacy of the white race, in which
rich and poor have equal interest. Kansas lost
! and all west, nay all east, Of the Mississippi
must soon follow. Kansas is The great out post
and stand point in the contest; people who
will not defend their outposts have already sue.
cumLed 10 the invader. Do we fear to send
one man, lest the North may send two! then we
have already ingloriousy surrendered without a
struggle.
Is not Kansas now in our hands and if We
only encourage the Nlissourians, will they not
retain it? Did not the South send to Mexico
double the volunteers sent by tho North! and
when was it discovered that they were more
patriotic or more enthusiastic in defending their
country and their institutions than We? The
way to ouel the fury of the fanatic and wild
beasts is not to crouch and flee, but to turn and
look him in the eye, or else he will spring upon
and rend YOU in pieces and depend on it, when
once the North catches the steady firm gaze Of
Southern Reason her commercial and conserva-
tive instinct will awaken and save US, our insti.
tu,inns and the Union, from her madmen.
And who is periIling the Union. but the i'm
pinus intermeddlers, who fain would make US ac-
countable to them rather than God. for the trust
which he has committed to our keeping? And
is not slavery trust given us of Providence for
the benefit of both races! Can republican
equality, as yet, be perpetuatcd without sugar,
cotton and cheap clothing, can civilization main
tain its progress? and these be supplied TO tho
world without slavery! Nay slavery is the
only school in which the debased son Of Ham,
by attrition with superior race, can be elevated.
Slavery is not Of chance nor of man. but OF
| God. and has not vet worked out its mission
and will not have done so till the two races are
fit for seIfcoyernment. Dare we, before God,
cowardlv sneak off, and like Improbable ser.
wants basey surrender this guardianship, be-
cause vain, selr-righteous Intermediates, have
made it troublesome to maintain! What good,
what valuable thing, was ever brought forth
without labor and travail and what ever pre-.
served without toll and dangers
Are we prepared to become the serfs Of for.
eipu intermeddlers and masters? Are we pre-
pared to sink, to the level Of the Ethiopian, and
clasp him in the fond embrace of political and
social equality and fraternity! For to this Alb
oition unstayed must come. Fanaticism must
defend its benefciaries; first, by sending the
federal army to protect them, and ultimately by
irving them the right to bear arms, to vote tes-
ltify, make and administer laws-to eat out your
substance, to pull you down to their level, to
TO faint the blood Of your poaterity, and bring
it to a degradation from which millions of ayes
cannot redeem it. This is question of races
Am mad for pering my estate in the attempt
call it hopeless attempt-to transmit conser-
| vative institutions to my children? But rather
are not you mad who eagerly gather wealth, moi
for your posterity, but that free negro drones
NAV have boarded it? Are not you mad who
construct railroads, not for travel md commerce
but that the rank forests mny choke them up
you who build cities and palaces, not for hig,
cization, but that grass may grow in the
/ .Ixaaia md faxor lnf.k ont nf tho uindn