The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-07-14
KANSAS NOT LOST.

Last week, in an article on Kansas and
Gov. Walker, we took occasion to object
to the manner in which some of our brother
Editors are discussing the affairs Of that
territory and the action of the Administra-
ton with regard to the same. ~In that arti-
Gle we expressed the opinion that the CIV
ing up of Kansas" by the South was pre-
mature, as the President had done nothing
to cause such espondency-that if the
South had power in the territory when
Walker went there, she had it still, and no
act of the Administration would or could
heaped upon President Buchanan by know
nothing papers was wrong and unfair.
Below we make an extract from let
ter to the Columbia Times, written by
Col Alpheus Baker, of Kansas, pro-
slavery man, and who has been through the
South recently as an Agent for the south
ern cause in Kansas. 1t will be seen
that he does not despond, but on the
contrary feels confident of success. Neither
does he blame the Administration. He
says:
Il regret that you so easily despair of
our cause-that you have so little conf
dence in the nerve and spirit of the
Southern men in that Territory. There
is no good reason for such dependency
and surely no wisdom IN giving express
sion to it. for its only effect can De to
dispirit and dishearten. Up to this point
at least, we have been successful. Every
fict has yielded victory, and that
of the 18th of June is not least brilliant
of them all.
How different from yours is the view
taken of the field by the Herald of Free
DOM" published at Lawrence, enjoying
circulation of over 1000, and by far the
most influential Abolition Press in the
Territory. In a late leader, entitled The
Free State Party-its policy the Editor
says of slavery in Kansas: The institu-
ton is fixed. The people are diSfran-
chised and the question is permanently
settled. The Republican Party may tri-
umph in 1860, but the question is be-
You'd the reach of Politicians. True. a
new set of men may get into office, but
the 10000 square miles of Kansas Is
doomed to the bonds mans lash and the
slast hope of Freedom has expired
An able member of the Kansas Legis
-lature, and a Southarn man, writing to
his friend in Charleston the other day.
says Il see your papers have given up
the fight very foolishly, for so have the
abolitionists.'' The late Convention shows
that they have. for the drowning traitors,
amid the wreck of all their reasonable
schemes, insanely cling to their Topeka
CONSTITUTIONS floating straw that nothing
but despair could prompt a man to catcl,
at.
Joshua H. Danford, Esq, who carried
out on LIST April last, from Barbour coun-
ty, Ala, company of 70, including eleven
slaves, and than whom there is not d better
informed or more reliable man i'll the Terri
tory, in letter of the 9th of June to the
Eufaula Spirit of the South asserts
his opinion that though the emigration
from the North is larger than from the
South; yet, being more tickle aud transient,
and many more of them returning home or
going elsewhere, the South even at this
time has a majority Of actual settlers. -
| am informed, furthermore, upon the
best authority, that since the beginning of
the present year not less than six thousand
Missourians have become permanent Pro-
Slavery residents of Kansas"