Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-22
From the South Carolinian.
Kansas.

hduSaS.
The Charleston Mercury publishes the
following letters from ID. r. Atchison, ESD,
to A. Baker, jr., in which he expresses IA
hope still for Kansas. This docs not accord
with the recently published letter of DIR.
I'5tringfellow, in which he said that the pro
slavery party had disbanded, nor with the
statements we have received from Kansas.
We agree with Mr. Atchson, that the
South has not done her duty--if she had,
Kansas would have been made slave
Statc-that it would continue so VIC do not
bclieve-but having made the issue we
ought to have taken it when We could have
done it, Mr.. Atchison has worked nobly
for the South and deserves to have been
sustained:
CLINTON Co., July II, 1857.
Col. A. Baker.
DEAR SIR: a week or two since [ re-
ceived letter from YOU; also have read
letters from you to Coloncls Buford and
Boone. You have nobly discharged the
trust we have rcposcd in you. You have
laborionsly, cloquently and encrgctically
done your duty to tho South all this you
have done, and every true and honest South
ern man must, sooner or later, acknowledge
it and thank you in his heart for it. Your
mission was difficult one, and you have
been misconstrued by some and wantonly
slandcrcd by others. Yet, if it is any con
ISOLATION to you, you must know that in this
you stand not alone. Indeed, every man
who has taken an open and manly part in
defence of Southern rights, has encountered
the abuse of the North, and, what is still
worse, the snocrs and dctraction of South
crn men. The most ready weapon which
comes to the hands of Il mean man in the
South, is, that the end we have in view is
not the rights and interests of the slave
States, but our own. They insinuatc that
the money raised in the South is not to be
expended in her cause, but to be appropri-
ated to the use of Atchison, Buford, Rus
sell, Boone, Stringfcllow, &c, Now, every
intelligent man who uses such weapons, il
Hor, and is conscious of being SO when he
circulatcs or publishes such charge; and
try him IN any emergency, when the South
shall stand in need of all her sons, and he
will prove himself coward or traitor, or
both.
sec that not even thunder ard light
ming will arouse the South. | doubt
whether an earthquakc--a moral and po-
litical earthquake, shaking the institution
OF slavery to the earth, and bringing ruin
upon the whole South--would arouse her
to action. lna word, my only hopes now
for Kansas arc in the border counties of
Missouri; and, by-the-by, any one of ten
counties L could mention have expended
more money than any one State of the whole
South in this cause The Executive Com
mittcc for Kansas Territory will have a
meeting on the 18th of this month, for con-
sultation, when you shall hear from u.s.
If the South would but half do her duty,
Kansas would be slave State; and hope
we will be able to effect that object, not
withstanding the apathy of the slave States
and the energy of the free States, and all
the open or secret efforts of the officers of
the Federal Government Yours, truly,
ID. II. ATcmsoN.
In letter to me of the goth July, dis
hcartencd by the Indifference of the South
to their appeals for assistance, and more
deeply wounded by unjust charges against
some of the best and trucst of her friends in
Kansas, who have ruined themselves in her
service, he says. despondmgly;
at times / have almost come to the con-
clusion to curse Kansas and quit the cause
of the South. 1t is hard for a man to de-
vote all his time and energies and money
to cause, and receive nothing but abuse
and SANDER III return, from those who should
sustain and cooperate with him; and to be
the object of suspicion even to good men,
is worse than all. Yot, in defiance of all
this, / will not abandon our cause SO long
as there is the shadow of chance for sue
cess, and this is the determination of most
of ourfriends in Kansas and Missouri Our
cause is not a hopeless one We always
have had, up to the 1st of March last, a
majority of friends in, Kansas, and believe
we stiR have. Twill give you my reasons
for still thinking so; The registered voters
amount to near ten thousand, and this reg
'istry was made last winter and spring, and
at least nine-tenths of these voters are pro
slavery men, for the AbolitioiIists rcfusatdI, ),
as q general thing, to register thor names,
and the reason for their refusal was, in nay
opinion, that they knew they were in a
small minority. 1t was not to preserve
their consistency, for Abolitionistsarc con.
sistent in nothing except in yillainy. Now,
il our delegates to the Convention shall re-
fer the Constitution to the registered voters
for ratification or rejection, then VIC viii
ratify the Constitution. lift is to be re-
ferred, as Coy. Walker says, .to, all the pee-
pie who shall be in the Territory on the
day Of voting, then We must aud will have
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