Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-08-29
TUESDAY. AUGUST 25. 1857.

| 1he New Plan TO EnsIave Kansas.
The following, from the Charleston Mer-
curry, shows that the South has not yet given
| up the idea of enslaving Kansas:
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 resolu e
| in it's determination Of making Kansas
slave State. In consentng to become DEM
| ocratic party, the pro-slavery men did not
mean to abandon their policy, but to lift the
minority it placed with them to their sup
port. The statements which have been cir
culated in the South that they had acquiesc-
| ed in Gov. Walkers schemes to make Kan
| sas free State, are utterly false. They
| thoroughly understand and detest him, and
| hope to make him as powerless as Geary.-
Gov. Walker, with the authority and patron
| age of the general government, might here
after succeed in dividing, paral lying, and
finally defeating them. This is possible
| But on the 2lst day of last month they were
confident of success, and would form a con-
| stitution Wi h slavery acknowledged in it
Ii this constitution is referred to the people
for ratification, it is intended to refer it on
ly to the registered voters, who will doubt
less ratify it. We have more hopes of Kan
sas than we have ever had We have great
faith in the fighting capacity of Southern
| men.
A letter from Atchison accompanies this,
which discloses the modus operandi to be
pursued in elfecting the objects Of the ruff
fans. He says:
Now, if our delegates to the convention
shall refer the constitution to the registered
voters for ratification or re- jectibn, then we
will latify the constitution. 1t is to be re-
ferred, as Governor Walker says, to all the
people who shall be in the territory on the
dav Of voting; then we must and will have a
| majority at the polls on that day. If the
South would but make one speedy and uni
ted effort, all would be safe. If Walkers
plan, however, prevails, it will give us in
finite trouble, but it will also give the abo-
litionists more. Walker has done us and
our cause more jury than Hale, Chase OF
other abolitionists could have done; yet, | re-
peat, do not despair: One more effort. 1t
is the last we can make, and we will sue
ceed.
! am happy to find that Walker is fully
understood at the South. A great many
Southern men have gone to Kansas this sum-
mer, and more will 60 from this region. -
We do not give it up. regret that cam OF
devote Hly whole time to our Kansas affairs
in this crisis. Now is the time for the South
to act. Yours truly,
DIR. ATCHIsON.
The meaning Of this cannot be misunder-
stood. Voters are to be supplied for the oc-
casion from Missouri, as they have hereto
fore been. Kansas is to be governed by
Missouri. That State has already given it
two Leeislatures-a code of laws which are
disgrace to mankind and full quota of
territorial officers, and now proposes to give
it Constitution.
Appropos Of the ''Democracy' spoken of
by the Mercury, as determined to make Kan
sas slave State, we quote the following
from recent number Of the Washington
Union:
TIE DEhoCRACx OF TIE NORTH.
The real democracy is the same in every
part Of the Union. The principles which
actuate them are the same everywhere, and
point to the same conclusion. Those who
do not fully understand and appreciate the
difficulties which the northern democracy en-
counter cannot readily comprehend what the
northern democrats have to contend with
when resisting the progress Of fanaticism. =
The South boldly contend for rights which
their State constitutions guaranty and the
national compact recognizes upon the sub
ject Of slavery.
Here we have description Of the ''De-
mocracy' of the North. They are set down
by their own organs as slavery propagand
ists-s'as resolute in {, determination of
making Kansas a slave State'-as ''the
same in every part Of the Union.'' How can
any one doubt that the purpose and aim of
the ''Democratic" party Of the present day
is to extend the ''peculiar institution of the
South? Will the ENQUIRER of this city dare
to persist in declaring, in view Of these
facts, that its party is hot pro-s}avery?