The true Democrat., 1856-08-19
The Voice of Kansas, Let the South
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 d Territory to their Friends in the South, and t d he Laao-Abiding People of the Union
 One of the committee (Co Buford) places the manuscript in our hands, and we commend It to the serious attention of the readers of the Review. The cause is one to which, without e loss ot single day, every southern man should contribute. Alabama, South Caronia, ano Georgia. have been lavish in their aid. The loss of Kansas will give to the enemies of south. ern institutions victory more signal and more important than has yet been won over us' Tc avert the mischief, prompt and concerted action at the south Is only needed. Those familiar with the state of affairs in Kansas knoao that il can only be abolitionized by the supineness of the people of this section, whose all is at stake Tn these contests.-De Boao's Revieao for Auqu,t ,, 1856.
 The undersigned, at recent meeting of the party, were constituted a committee, charged among other things with the publication of this address.
 That state of instruction and civil wal exists among us Is abundantly evident: the Claw and order party' on the one side, opposed on the other by the abolltionists, sent out and sus- , talned by the Emigrant Aid Societies of the 2 north. A brief review of the points at issue and thelr controlling circumstances, may be useful to justify this our appeal for aid.
 in territorial politics, the question of free or slave State has swallowed up every other The abolitlonists on the one hand, in accordance with their early teachings, regard slavery as the greatest possible evil, they deem it a monstrous national crime, which their false theories of go- vernment lmpute equally to every portion of the contederacy, and thus believing themselves IndI IT l1xyr feel bound each to struggle for its overthrow; to such extremes have wicked demagogues stimu- lated their fanaticism, that their perverted con- sciences justify any mode of warfare against shareholders, however much in violation of law, however destructive of property or human life, and however atrociousy wicked it may seem to others; nay, many of them already go so far as to oppose all law, religion, property, order, and subsrdlnatlon among men, as subversive of what they are pleased to call mans natural and inherent equality. And with them it is no mere local question of whether slavery shall exist in hansaas or not, but one of far wider signifi- canoe, question of whether it shall exist any where in the Union. Kansas they justly regard as the mere outpost in the war now being wag- ed between the antagoniStic civilizations of the north and the south; and winning this great out post and stand point, they rightly think their march wlll be open to an easy conquest of the whole held. Hence the extraordinary mealls the abolition party has adopted to flood Kansas with the most tanatical and lawless portion of northern society; and hence the large sums of money they have expended to surround their brother Missourians with obnoxious and dan gerous neighbors.
 On the other hand. the pro- slavery element of the law and order party" in Kansas, look ing to the Bible, find slavery ordained of God they find u ere, as by oar law, slavery made "an inheritance to them and their children for ever." Looking to our national census, and to all statistics connected with the African race, and considering, too their ph yscal, nteectual and moral natures, we see that slavery is the Africans normal and proper state; since in that state, that race multplIes faster has more phy- slcal comfort, less vice, and more moral and in- telectual progress than in any other
 We believe slavery the only school in which the debased son of Ham, by attrition with a higher race, can be refined and elevated; we believe 1t a trust and guardianship given us of God for the good of both races Without su- gar, cotton and cheap clothing, can civilization maintain it's progress? Can these be supplied without slavery? Nay, in the absence oi slave institutions, must not social distinctions super
 
 publican equality? This is no mere property question, but great social and political ques- ton of races; 1t is not question of whether A. or 5. shall be owner, but of whether the slave still having master, shall still be working bee, and not an idle drone in the hive; a ques- ton of whether the south shall still be land flowing with milk and honey, or a land of men- dcants and vagabonds; a great question of races; question of whether we shall sink to the lc- vel of the freed African, and take him to the embrace. of social and political equality and Fraternity; for such IS the natural end of aboli- ton progress. Fanatclsm must defend its be- nehclanes-hrst, by sending the federal my to protect them and ultimately by giving them the rlght to bear arms, vote, testify, make and administer laWs-ln short, the right to eat out our substance, to pull us down to their level, to tart our blood, and bring us down to degre- datlon from which no time can redeem us Thus radical and marked is the difference in theo- ry between the two parties and not less so their difference in pratice; while we in good faith, sustain and uphold the laws, the abolitonists on the other hand, in effect, repudiate and set them at defiance; with open dsloyalty they assert the invalidity of the territorial laws, while they render our national insignia only the mockery of hollow respect; indeed, more than once, they have openly resisted the marshal in the service of process, and in some places, their organized armed resistance to the territorial laws IS so overwhelming that ministers of the law there never attempt the discharge of their official duties; they have repudiated payment of taxes, and have held and published the pro- ceedings of large public meetings in which they resolved to resist, even to blood, the ter rltorlal laws, and especially the law for the col lection of the public revenue.
 According to testimony under oath lately given before the congressional committee, they have secret military organizations for resisting the laws and for carrying out their abolition de- signs upon kansas-organization in which the members are bound by the most solemn oaths to obey their leaders, in all cases, not excepting even murder and treason It Is abundantly proved by eve witnesses of unquestioned vera city, that at this present time, they have at diff ferent points in the territories banded together in actual encampment large numbers of armed men, subsisted and kept together by their aid societies for no other object than to make forays upon the country and drive our friends from their homes. By such banditti the murders near Ossawattamie on Pottawattame creek, were commltted declarations by the perpetra- tors cotemporaneous with their foul deeds n- dubltably show the percentage of these crimes; six victims, whose bodies have been found, fell in that massacre, beside four others missing from the neighborhood, and not yet heard from. Of the six, one was Allen Wilkinson, esq, a member of the territorial Legislature and post master at Shermanvle; sick with the measles, for no other offence save that of being law and order man, he was dragged at midnight from his bed, and from the side of sick and mploring wife, by band of abolition assassins as they said in the name of the great northern army; within hearing of the terror stricken wife, with fendish barbarity, he was fiayed alive, his nose and years were cut off, his scalp torn from his head, and then he was stabbed through the heart. Such is the sworn evidence of his wid- ow lately rendered in Westport before the Con- gressional Investigating Committee. It reveal, } ed on the part of their friends such picture of savage ferocity that that committee for once bushed, and even stultifed themselves, rather than receive the testimony as competent. They