Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-24

man OF the Kansas Executive Committee In
that city:
PLATTE City, Mo-, March 25.
DEAR SIR: Your favor of the 9th ult.,
reached me on Saturday evening last, and l
hasten to furnish you such information as I
have been able togather. In so new count
ry as Kansas, much of what you desire to
know is merely matter of opinion, and, i'm
pressed with the Importance of giving you
nothing but what has been we'll digested,
and is believed to be correct, I deemed it
advisable to confer with - on the SUBJ
ject. He is more conversant with every
thing relating to the political condition of
the territory than any one in thisupper count
ry, and has devoted much attention to the
scheme of populating Kansas with pro-slave-
ry emigrants. The result of our conference
I will embody in answers to your questions
in the order in which you have put them
Should my replies not be as full as you would
wish them, you must attribute it to your re-
quest that l should "write Immediately"
and to the Importance of giving the infor-
nation desired at the earliest moment.
l. Can you give US accurate information
as to the relative strength among the bona
fdc settlers in Kansas of the two parties?
I cannot tell with any precision the strength
of the two parties at this time. There has
been no reliable test of the vote of either
party since last Spring. The returns of the
elections of Whitfield and Reeder cannot be
taken as any criterion of the true vote of
the respective parties. There being DO op-
position to Whitfield, the vote cast at his
election by our friends was very light; while
at Reeder's, there being no legal restraints,
the vote was such as the abolitionists chose
to make it.
From the most reliable information can
get, I think there is certainly majority of
pro-slavery men in the Territory, and, as
they are not like the Abolitionists, concen-
trated upon one or tive points, in an election
for members of the Legislature they would,
without aid from the Border Rufians," be
able to carry decided majority of represen-
tatives We have the assurance, however,
that the Abolitionists will again make the
most strenuous efforts to send out emf migrants,
and as Missouri has already contributed so
many settlers, it is all-important that the
other Southern States should now come to
our assistance.
g As to the possibility of hostile COL
lision Immediately.
I think there is none, nor indeed do I be-
lieve it very likely there will be one at all.
The knowledge that Government troops will
be used against them will keep the Aboli-
tionists in check, and prevent them from again
breaking out in insurrection and unless
Whit6elds election be set aside and q new
election ordered, there cannot we'll arise any
occasion for a collision-at least, until next
fall, when the election for members of the
Legislature will be held.
3. The possibility of Strengthening effect
ually the hands of the pro-slavery party by
the next fall elections. And,
4. What number of emigrants from the
South will be necessary to secure in political
contest at the ballot box..the majority to the
pro-slavery party.
The election for members of the Legisla-
ture will be held on the first Monday in o.
tober next. If the slaveholding States will
send US two thousand emigrants-that istwo
thousand voters-during the present year,
our friends believe the condition of Kansas
will be definitely settled. This is, however,
a mere matter of conjecture, for, of course,
we cannot tell how large the emigration from
the North will be.
From themost reliable information, we are
led to believe that we shall receive the num-
Der suggested and more. There will also be
from Missouri large emigration in addition
to those already in the Territory.
5. The parties who arrive by the first of
June, ought to make by their labor enough
to pay for their subsistence. Employment
for all kinds of laborers can be obtained at
high rates. Mere farm hands will bring
from fifteen to twenty dollars Fer month,
with board furnished them, and mechanics
of all kinds are in great demand. All can
certainly procure employment until the first
of December, and am assured in ordinary
winters can labor conveniently out doors al
most the entire season.
In addition to the matters suggested by
your inquiries, would state that the terri
tory lying between the Kansas and Missouri
rivers is now occupied by decidedly pro-
slavery population. On the South side of
the Kansas river, and especially along that
river, the Abolitionists have made their chief
settlements. 1t has occurred to our friends
that it would be better, as matter of policy
and as being more Southern, more agreeable
to the Southern emigrants, that good por-
ton of them should settle South of Kansas
river. By this means we will secure the
Southern half of the Territory before it is
filled by abolitionists the Northern half
will be saved by Missourians. The repre-
sentatives have already been apportioned to.
the different counties, and adding to our
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