The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-09
AFFAIRS IN KANSAS.
Position OF the Pro Slavery Party-Spsech ~
q Border Ruffian.
TCorrespondence Of the st. Louis Democrat

IIAyxNwORrH Cry July Il, 1851
was summoned 10 court n 4 witness yesterday, and
heard ppeech made in the Court House by Peter Able
which, regarding g Important have concluded to give
you the main points of the remarkable affair Mr. Able,
after thanking the people for calling upon him. said that
he had frequently heard 1t charged that the pro slavery
s .Sd % gu. 70 oe bs ee osan %
slavery men of Kansas 30 that their friends Missouri
might plans and policy They had aDsu
doned the idea of making Kansas slave State by q Jug
full On the contrary they were greaty encouraged and
he occasion to say to pro slavery men ina, tao
hopeful than they had ever been Il ceemed that there
was a great deal or MISUNDERSTANDING in Missouri 10
history Of the party and It's policy; for he knew s
about it, In the fret place. he said, they organized tha
party under the name Of the pro slavery party, and Il
favor of the South into one solid compact body As time
passed great many persons came into the Territory
from the Northern states who were pro slavery men
in their feelings, but who against the free State men
in cir resistance the Ia rs OF the Kansas Legislature
They found that this class Northern woud uo<
act with the free State men in resis snce TO tn laws nor
would they With the pi slavery men because thew
were no, in favor Of slavery In order to get ths class
Of Northern men to act with them the pro slavery nsr1
agreed after to change the nam Of the pav
from pro slavery the law and order party This change
OF names had happy effect, because it brought GOOD
many men into the party that they could not
have gotten into their ranks In any other way.
After a while a still larger number OF people from
the Northern States came In and policy dictated another
move he had written a cal for delegates from ali the
.nd Ssv did mss and deSsrss
upon he futu re action OF the party great msuy men
had ipo the Nh 3tataa
who had voted for Mr. Buchanan and who were opposed
both to the black republican and pro slavery parties and
1t was policy Of the pro slavery proptste this
class of men II admitted In their deliberations thai
the name Of law and order party did not have national
reputation, and that the of the party must be
changed II was admitted that the whig party was dead
and It's would not answer the purpose >hey has in
view II deemed unwse to assume the name of Ame
rcans Know Nohings for that party mad been able
die out After viewing ths whole ground, it agreed
that the party should change its from the law and
order party that OF the national de nocracy The de-
mocrats had just elected the President and would have
majority In Congress, and II the pro slavery party In
Kansas should assume the name OF national demo
crscy. would bring them into favor with the ad
mnistraton and with Congress, and Al the same time
secure to their party the services Of the free State
tina, this good move and great advantages would
result TO the party from 1t This wa: the history of the
pro slavery party in Kansas, and under all its
had remained he goose and the charge thst the
ORC slavery men In kansas had sold out the free sellers
was inamoasly false He was glad to inform The pro-
slavery OF Platte that the prospects OF the party
bright, and hat we sil do our duty In the future
well as We have done 10 the past success Was certain In
everything he had sao, but not prepared to take
grounds against him yet Walker was a good manager
and keen man, and he thought he understood him He
believed when Walker held his secret councils with tho
President and his cabinet that they were chAlkpg out
that q majority OF the cabinet we're Southern men,
and he believed that Walkers trip to the Northern
States after bis consultations with the President and
all bis talk North about Kansas becoming free
State had design in II The object WAS TO get himself
endorsed by the Northern and the tree State
In Kansas and after he had succeeded In this could put
down the free state In Kansas by the strong Of
the government, and point TO his endorsement by the
Northern and the free State press In Kansas for bis
jus ncation. He believed In Walker, though he would
not endorse him fully, and believed that he could be
very ss ,n eso 20 me nmnsaon o. 81.
this the best piece OF policy they had yet done 1t was
capital move He would get the democrats from the
Northern States 10 . man Ransom was sound on the
goose sound ~ General Calhoun and he muet not DO
suspected By the pro slavery men. NJ. Buchanan and
his administration were TO come down TO the work right
and not poy false His sincerity and that OF his Cabinet
to be tested and he should and would be made 70
de- right or they would blow him and hts adminstra-
ton into ten thousand pieces They should do nghl,
the national democratic party should be broken
mp, for KAnsss was determined 10 have her light He
expressed himself sang uine about the soundness Of
Mr. Buchanan and knew he had to do right or be blown
up. The national democracy had eleCsed . large majority
70 the constitutional convention and slavery consu
tuition would be made, and he believed that II would be
submitted 70 VOC OF al the people that were In the Ter