The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-08-27
THE EXTREMISTS.

THE EXTREMISTS.
The Extremists in the South have of late
been "agitating" the people of the slave States
with their ideas. General Atchison has writ
ten a second letter, in which he gives the South
some encouragement in reference TO Kansas.
He says
81 will not abandon our cause, so long as
there is shadow of q chance for success; and
this is the determination of most of our friends
in Kansas and Missouri. Our cause is not a
hopeless one. We always have had, up to the
Let of March last, ma jority of friends in Kan
| sas, and / believe we still have. / will give
you my reasons for still thinking so. The regis
| tered voters amount to near ten thousand, and
this registry was made last winter and spring,
and at least nine tenths of those voters are Pro-
| Slavery men for the Aholtionists refused. as
| q general thing, to register their names, and
the reason for their refusal was, in my opinion,
that they knew they were in small minority.
| 1t was not to preserve their consistency, for
| Aboltionists are consistent in nothing except
| in villainy. Now, if our delegates to.the Con-
vention shall refer the Constitution to the regis.
tered voters for ratification or rejection, then
we will ratify the Constitution. IL is to be re-
| .ferred, as Governor Wdlker says, TO all the
| people acho shall be IN the Territory on, the day
| of'voting; then sce must and ,oiU hare major.
| ity at the polls ON that dag. If the South would
but make one speedy and united effort, all would
| be ssfe."
The Charleston Mercury comments as fol-
lows upon this singular letter:
" In addition to the letters published recent
| ly from General Atchison, we beg leave to say
| to our readers, that from other letters received
| from Kansas, we are informed that the Pro
| Slavery party in Kansas is resolute in its de-
termination of making Kansas slave State.
In conserving to become Democratic party,
the Pro- Slavery men did not mean to abandon
their policy, but to lift the minority it placed
with them to their support. The statements
which have been circulated in the South that
they had acquiesced in Governor Walkers
schemes to make Kansas free State, are ut
terly false. They thoroughly understand and
detest him, and hope to make him as powerless
as Geary. Governor Walker, with the author
ity and patronage of the General Government
might hereafter succeed in dividing, parayzing
and finally defeating them. This is possible
But on the 2lst OF last month they were confident
of success, and would form Constitution with
Slavery acknowledged in it. If this Constitu
ton is referred to the people for ratification, il
is intended to refer it only to the registered
voters, who will doubtless ratify it. We have
more hopes of Kansas than we have ever had
We haze great taih an the fighting capacity OF
| Southern men,"
The Hon. Mr., Keitt has seen fit, in this crisis
of Kansas affairs, to write a letter to the South
ern public, in which he does not mince matters
al aii he uvt only hos revereuuv 70. Walker
but speaks dis-espectfulIy of the Administra.
ton. We give an opening paragraph:
Events, in my Judgment, are hurryng to a
crisis, in which the South will have to stake
her rights and safety upon her own union, and
vindicate her existence by her own resources
The day is passed when treacherous con
cession and huckstering compromises can STAY
back fanaticism. And / trust that the day will
never come when unmeaning or insulting no.
sanpas 70 the Union will be able to bind her
arm, when made bare to strike her foe. The
rival forms of society at the North and at the
South are about to face each other, and no
| shivering Cabinets, nor convulsive Administra.
tons, nor dying parties, can avoid the conflict,
or mitigate the shock. A spurious and lachry.
NOSE philanthropy, Synonymous with pauperism
and riot. is now fitting down upon the pointed
spears of Southern Slavery and either North
ern license or Southern law must triumph"
We give our readers a specimen of the style
in which Mr.. Keitt approaches the Administra.
tion-the President he helped to make:
| "Mr. Buchanan was nominated by the North,
and elected by the South and any act of per.
fdy on his part is and will be doubly damned.
Democracy at the North is hopelesslv prostra-
1 ted, unless it can be revived by some Free Soil
application. In any issue between Slavery and
Abolitionism, the North will accept the latter ::
and as that is the main issue before the people.
the North cannot be relied upon The only
chance that remained, viz: that of allowing
each section to legitimately develop its insttu.
tons through fair rivalry, has been DESTROYED
by the fraudulent intervention of the Federal
Government. The contest is rapidly coming,
and the South must rely upon herself. Though
her efforts be stigmatized by Federal minions,
and the resolutions of sovereign States denoun.
cling fraud and wrong be pronounced ungra-
cious by an Executive of her own creation, yet
she must achieve her safety, though her arm
should fall heavily upon Cabinet of mutes and
a paralytc Administration. In 1850, the Wing
party of the South which had elected General
Taylor, trampled him from power when his
treschery was made manifest; and will the
Democratic party of the South be less true to
our rights and honor, or less naughty and in.
dignant against fraud and wrong? The Demo.
cratic party owes its ascendency to the South,
and every act of treachery should be met by
/
| against the vengeance of al outraged people.
and no official is so high that popular Justice
cannot reach him. The South must maintain
her rights, though she turn deaf ear to the
appealing shrieks of shivering Cabinets, of hys.
terical Presidents, and dissolving parties"
| 1t remains to be seen if Mr.. Buchanan will
bend before the Southern Storm Events in
Kansas lock like it; and no Anti Slavery man
will feel any confidence in an Administration
elected by the Slavery interest If the Extre-
mists do not win, it will be because death to
the National Democracy is the alternative.
Says the New York Herald, an Administration
print:
" Let the fate of Pierce stand as warning,
| and the example of jackson as the guide for
the present treatment of all sectional agitstors
of discord and disunion. The only choice to
Mr.. Buchanan in this next Congress will be
| the absolute surrender OF the Northern Democ-
| racy to W. II. Seward and Company, or the
loss of restless reckless, and impracticable
| Southern faction from the party camp. The
| dissolution of the present Democratic party,
| North or South, however, is but paltry trihe,
compared with the duties of the Administration
| to the Constitution and the country"
| A rowdy in Iowa recently attempted, with
few companions, to destroy the printing Office
of the Oskaloosa Herald. The editor, James
M. Brown, warned him to desist; as he contin-
ued in his endeavors to force open the Office,
Mr.. Brown shot him dead with a revolver.
A paper is to be published in England called
The Manchester Cotton Press. 1t is intended