The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-02-01
Kausa. Matters. Trouble brewing.

Hon. David r. Atchison, Ex-senator Of
the United States, and leader Of the "Bordcr
Rufhans," has recently sent to Georgia two
letters, which are Published in the Atlanta
(Ga.) Examiner. We make tho following
extracts, from which it will be seen that civ
il strife is expected in Kansas.
lie makes an urgent appeal to the citizens
of Georgia for armed recruits, and says:
Z" Let your young men come forth to Mis-
souri, and Kansas! Let them come we'll
armed, with money enough to support them
for twelve months, and determined to sec
this thing out One hundred true men will
be an acquisition. The more, the better
| do not see how we arc to avoid civil war.
Come il will. Twelve months will not
elapse before war of the fcrcest kind, will
be upon us. We are arming and preparing
for Ii. Indeed, we of the border counties
are prepared. We must have the support
Of the South. We are fighting the battles
of the South. Our institutions are ut stake.
You far Southern men are now out Of the
naive of the war, but II we fail, it will reach
your own doors, perhaps your hearths. We
want men-armed men. We want money
not for ourselves, but to support our friends
who may come from distance.
ID. II. ArcuIsoy.
P.S. / would not be astonished il this
day laid the groundwork for guerilla war
in Kansas. have heard rumors of strife
and battle at Leavcnworth, seven miles from
l IL 4. h,,t tb. Il rp,nnin,r In, tha
Missouri river, and have nothing definite.
was peace-maker in the Cifhculty lately
settled by Governor Shannon. counseled
the 'Rufians' to forbearance, but Twill new
or again counsel peace. ID. X. ~"
In a letter of Dec. 10Th, Mr.. Atchison
holds the following language;
Kansas and Missouri have the same lat
itude, climate and soil, and should have the
same institutions. The peace and prosperi-
ty ofboth depend upon it. Kansas must
have slave institutions, or Missouri must
have free institutions; hence the interest
the border ruflians' take in Kansas affairs.
A large number of the citizens of Kansas
have gone there, or rather have been sent
there, for the express purpose OF abolition
izing it, and ultimately Missouri.
If the settlement of Kansas had been left
to the laws which govern emigration, it
would have been slave territory as certain
lyas Missouri is a slave state. But mas
much as those laws have been violated and
perverted by the force of money, and pow
erful organization in the North and East, it
becomes the South 'to be up and doing,
and to send in population to counterfeit
the North. This can be done with little
exertion. Thus far few counties in West
ern Missouri have successfully encountered
and defeated this powerful organization
Let Georgia set the example What is to
be done should bc done quickly. This
course on the part of the South, will save
Kansas TO the South-saye bloodshed, civil
war, and perhaps dissolution of the Union
itself. Your obedicnt servant,
DR.. ATcnlsoS."
That the Free State men anticipated
further trouble, we find evidence in letter
published by the Evening Telegraph. The
letter is dated at Lawrence, Jan. 6, and
says:
alt is reported that the Missourians are
drilling along in the border towns, making
preparations to invade our territory again.
1t is expected they will be here on the 4th
Of March next, to prevent the Legislature
from assembling. Gov. Shannon has left
the Territory. He will not engage in anoth-
err war upon the people of Kansas.
The only hope the pro-slavery men now
have of making Kansas slave State is that
Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama, and other
slayeholding States, will do what they have
promised to do, viz send thousands of emf
grants, with their slaves, to this territory
next Spring. 1t is reported here, that the
redoubtable General Quitman, who has
gained some notoriety already by being en-
gagged in the contemplated invasion of Cuba,
Is coming to Kansas with two thousand men
in the Spring, to make this slave State,
and to silence the abolitiOnists. Our pro-
slavery friends take courage at this and
many other reports of similar character,
'of tremendous emigration from the South
next Spring. and do all they can to create
the impression down South that slave prop
erty will be perfectly safe in this territory.
Every effort Is made to induce those all
right to come to this land of promise and
bring their slaves along with them"
A late number of the Kansas Herald of
Freedom has the following caution:
"Wc desire the Eastern press to DO on
their guard against the infamous talsehoods
which are and will DO sent over the tele-
graph wires in regard to Kansas matters
The wires along the border are wholly in
the hands Of the Border Ruffans,' and it
has been found impossible to get any sort Of
a dispatch, even in cypher, to the East, en-
anating from Free State men in Kansas"
The New York Post has a letter from Law
renee of January A, which says:
The sounds of war arc not quite lulled,
It is thought by many that a Eight is ineyita-
BILE, and will come before Spring. Col Lane
has received letter from his friend Gov.
Wright, of Indiana, who says he has five
hundred men, with money and ammunition,
to march to our aid should war be again
mcnaced. Gov. Grimes, Of Iowa, is also
known to sympathize with us, and will aid
us. We are preparing and distributing
arms. These arms, which are such bugbcars
in the eyes of our neighbos, will, however,
not hurt those who do not interfere with us.
We are not now, nor have we ever been
armed, except for protection"