The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-01-03
Shall Kansas be surrenderedt 10 Freesoilism9 ?

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We ask the readers attention to the let
ter OF JEFFERSON BuFoRD, Esq, of Eufaula,
Ala, who proposes to appropriate $4,000
OF his private fortune to carrying emigrants
to Kansas. Maj. BUFoRD is a native of this
State, is represented as bold and fearless
man, and leading lawyer of Alabama.
He proposes the only practical way of
meeting the Kansas question. We have
before insisted upon the propriety of form
ing Emigrant Societies in South Carolina.
Several of our sister States have sent eff.
cient aid to Kansas. Virginia has sent out
large bodies Of emigrants; Georgia, too, is
sending her quota of men. The whole
South must feel the Importance of making
Kansas Slave State.
Would it not be well for the influential
men in every District in the State, to call
meetings of the citizens and organize So
cietiess If the proper measures were ta-
ken, South Carolina could land one thou.
sand men in Kansas in three months,
without inconvenience to her citizens. We
have no doubt but that free passage could
be obtained for Kansas emigrants upon the
different lines of travel.
Massachusetts, has sent her cargoes of
paupers into Kansas, and furnished them
with arms to commit murder. Are we to
stand by and see our rights so.grossly vio-
lated, and suffer lawless mob of rabid
Abolitionsts, who, in desccration of every
principle of justice, virtually say to the
Southerner that, although you have COM
mon interest with us in the soil of Kansas
although it belongs equally to North and
south-yet, in consequence of your sym
pathes for slavery, you shall not be allowed
to inhabt the soil-you shall be forever de-
barred the privilege of being citizen of
the Territory, unless you abandon your pro-
slavery principles, and swear fealty to that
absurd dogma-Abolitionism.
If we lose Kansas, not single one of the
Territories that we now have, will ever come
into the Union with Slavery Constitution
but if the pro-slavery men there can carry
their point, the probability is that other
Slave States will be carved out Of the terri
tory West and Southwest of it. And thus,
by forming new Slave States, and gaining
additional representation in Congress-pre-
serving the equilibrium of power between
North and South-we shall postpone the
day of dissolution. On the contrary, if
Kansas is given over to Freesoilism, slavery
iii the border State, Missouri, will become
less valuable, and may, in course of time,
be abandoned. So it is obvious that the
loss of Kansas will not only be an eternal
barrier the extension of our institutions.
but i lose us States whose institutions
and interests are now identified with our
own.
Then let us, by every honorable means,
encourage men, favoring our institutions, to
go there. Let the practicability of sending
men there, be discussed; it is question of
vast Importance to the South-one upon
which the perpetuity of the Union depends; {;
because, if you allow Abolitionisn ti,e
power, its encroachmcnts and insults will
be such as will ultimately force upon us the
calamity Of dissolution.
Since the above was in type, we have re-
ceived a communication from WARREN P.
BELcnER, which we publish in another COL
umn, proposing to act in concert with Mai.
BUFoRD. We shall, in our next issue, pub
lish another letter from Maj. BuFoRD, giving
full explanation of all his plans; it is
crowded out this week for want of space.