Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-04-15
KANsAs--"oNcE MORE TO THE

recently determined upon Convention for the pur-
pose of framing constitution and the election OF
delegates to that convention is the important issue to
which We alude Under the constitution thus formed,
Kansas will apply for admission into the Union and
the contest will be whether slavery shall be recognised
| or not, in that constitution.
The bare statement of these facts is enough, We
should suppose, to every Southern community
to tho necessity of taking some active, Immediate
steps towards aiding the Southern in this pend
ing struggle.
Theinqury doubtless presentsitsef to every ono: how
are we to render this aid Weanswer, BY money The
pro-slavery emgrants in Kansas need help. They in
some instances need the means of subsistence Enough
of them are now in the territory to carry the election
of Convention delegates Southern principles, and
they are disposed and determined (f possiblo to re-
main and fight the battle out like men. At the same
time they are in difficulty, undergoing the hardshps
of frontier life with little or no means, bearing or
principles sake) the brunt Of danger, and encounter
ing the discomfort of actual penury. In word, the
most Of them are poor men laboring brurely in our
cause and they have right to assistance at tho hands
Of the Southern people Their being poor, is not to
services few there are, we know, who sneeringly
declare their belief that no Kansas cmigrnnt even
from the South is to be trusted upon the slavery qnes
ton unless he be slave holder This doctrine is not
only pernicious in its tendency but totally erroneous
All accounts concur in representing the Southern men
now in kunsas devoedly true to their section and
the institutions Of their section not one in thousand
| of them who would not risk his life in fighting for
those institutions, and many Of whom have ALREADY
actually done So They arc poor, it is true but they
| are spirited ut the time aud as fully imbuod
with Southern principles the weathiest slave-hod
crs amongst U.S. The very fact Of their having thrown
themselves into this perlous breach should satisfy
every cavi!ler upon this point The consciousness Of
this fact has made every emigrant of them living
acting earnest advocate Of our Southern Cause How
ever little Of his thoughts may have been given to the
subject before, he feels himself TO be one Of the
expunents Of Southern Rights in great struggle be-
fore the whole country. His bosom is fired with the
idca Ills love of the old home institutions be left
| behind him is made to glow with genial warmth
which few vf Us who remain lisessly by our Southern
fire sides have ever realized. lie is in Short the en-
holiment of Il principle and proudly feels himself
such. And poor though he may he, this conscious
mess thi. feeling places him far above the inauen-
ccs nf bribery corruption as though he had fifty
slaves ut his beck and bidding. No. no-itis ingrat-
tude in any Southerner thus to suspect his poor South
ern brethren in Kansas, brethren who have gone to
battle for Southern Rights and Southern Institutions
at tho calls of patriotism and of honor. Their power
.y their destitution in this disant territory is the very
reason why every of US who has the means should
promptly administer to their necessities They need
our aid this moment, and they deserve our fostering
care. The distinguished ArcHIsoN tells the South
that such is the fact Other prominent men in the
Northwest toll US SO toe, and appeal to the South in
behalf Of her men in Kansas Territory. l. not this
enough? Reasons Of policy may forbid their giving
particulars but their general and reiterated ecara
ton is that tho Southern cause in Kansas needs help
in the way of money contributions. They mako this
declaration with pressing cnrnestncss; and they arc
honorable gentlemen all l. not this enough for US to
know? Can we ask more, under the circumstances,
than to be certain that contributions aro seriously
needed and that those who will receive them are high
minded and honest solcmnly pledged to apply uil
such funds to tho wants Of the Southern pro8lavery
citizens of Kansas?
We repeat then, that now is tho time for % ue e Do
oometbinp in thiSmnttsr of duty hile tbs called
to-day" let every district in South Carolina send up
her contribution to this good cause. Besides the re-
lief it will afford to our Southern settlers in Kansas,
it will cheer and re-anmate their hearts by denonstra
ting to them that they arc remembered and cared for
by the people at home The reflection will impart to
them new energy, new ardor. They will canvass Tor
the coming election with increased diligence and as
siduity. They will 60 up to the polls tike san army
with banners :" and Kansas will he the full sister Of
Virginia and South Carolina, and Of all tho other
Southern State7 Who is not ready to give SlO to-
wards this glorious consummation Who does not
eagerly embrace the opportunity Of doing what he
can if it he but rs the mite which the poor widow cast
into tho trcnsury!
We rropose that n fund be raised in EigeGc1; that
our individual contributions be Deposited with Col. D.
P Carroll Of this place. whose duty 1t shall bc to for
ward them directly to General Atchson, at West Port
Mo-, and that Mcssrs. q. W. Jonet, a. Burnsidcs, W.
D. Jennings, Lewis Jones, George lIuct, Wiley liar
rison, John c. smyley and George A. Addison, 'ko
upon themselves the duty Of soliciting subscriptions
for the cause throughout the District Of Eigefeld
their returns likewise 10 DE uCnOslteu Will Soi I'I
roll and that for the satisfaction Of all parties, tho
receipts Of Gen Atchison DO published they arrive
in the Elgefcd Advertiser. II is III no rrtentiuus
sprit of dirtatiun that VIC Offer this pru"$it"n, but
from sincere desire to something dome, and done
quickly in this important business II the gentlemen
| whose names We have taken the liberty to suggest
think we'll Of the proposition it will be easy for them
L.. r,,rly A
public meeting has boon spoken Of by one or two; hut
public meetings 20 often result in nothing that it is
diseot.raging to think Of them. Besides, We could
not hold one effectively unit! <hlu-'ny ncAt and by
that time IL remittance or two ought to he made to
head quarters. Shall we, Or shall we not act! In
Charleston the matter has been taken up with rntu-
sasm Let up not be behind.
In connection with the sub ect matter Of this article,
We ask reference to the communication Of u. w.
Jones' on another column.
PRETTY.
as" sends the following verses and seems to claim
them Us his own. Now, as IL that 50! If We are
not greutly mistaken, our eycs havo met these same
lines in print several times. Nevertheless they are
pretty and we print them willingly:
"Therc urc gains for all our Losses
There arc buns for nll our pain:
But when youth, the dream, departs,
1t takes something from our hearts,
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