The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-09-03

h"'h vi ""So IioIC''s lhSic, uhi'C'H"iS
respected, whose only offence was that ho
avowcd himself Free State National
Gem crat, and wc,c dragging him by the
throat, to the Kansas river, Il few yards dis
tant, when he WAS rescued by IL portion Of
the citizens; but lie WAS told that if he
persisted in his course, all his valuable and
extensive dwellings would be given to the
flames. DO not such facts as these prove
conclusivcly that their professed object Of
projecting the polls, is us false a prctcxt us
to call their "city government" ut Law
renee, voluntary association, whilst re-
1nirin= from its officers an oath to support
the Topeka State Constitution What do
they want with Il military organization to
protect the polls at Lawrence where they
hoast Of a majority of twenty TO one 3
What do they want with Il similar organi-
zation ut Topeka, Oasawatomic, Empori;,,
and, in fact, throughout the Territory, where
they boast Of Il ma ority OF ten to one
1t is well known that terror rcgns in Law
renee, and that conservative Democratic cili-
zcns dare not express their opinion there. 1t
| is well known that about two months since,
! they drove Il Territorial officer. clothed with
the full authority Of law, from Lawrence, by
threats OF VIOLENCE, and committed Il most
vulgar and ;trocious outrage upon very
respectable citizen, whose only offence w;,s
that he quietly submitted to the laws. 1t
is well known that but Il few weeks since,
10y similar mcans these same men, WHO
falsely profess IL desire to protect the polls,
prevented III election nj Lawrence, for Dele
gates TO the Constitutional Convention.
DO they not openly avow that .l,erc is
no Territorial or other government now in
existence lii Kansas, and that, therefore, they
must resort to revolution? Step by step
they have dragged their 'lcl"lcd followers
into an actual revolution, supported 10y
complete military organization. Aided by
this military organization, they have opened
the revolution by establishing an insurrcc-
tionary government i'll Lawrence, intending
to extend it in towns, cities and counties
throughout the Territory, and then put in
complete operation their insurycnt Topeka
State government, us Il State out Of the
Union, for the leaders well know that a
Democratic Congress and Administration
would never admit them under their insur-
gent State organization.
Having in fact superseded the Terrific
rial government 10y town, city and county
organizations i'll detail, their purpose is,
when Congress shall refuse them admission
under their Topeka State Constitution, to
establish Kansas rs an independent State
out of the Union. Then they will open
the civil war, by making Kansas an asylum
for the slaves Of Missouri, and appeal to the
North, which they boast will send them all
the military recruits that arc needed. Their
Ultimate Object is the dissolution of the
Union, and tho formation Of separate
Northern con(cdcracy, of which Kansas
shall constitute part. Their avowcd oh.
jcct then, is war, actual war upon he South,
and especially upon the Southwest. Indeed
this is now openly avowcd in the speeches
Of their own orators in the convention of
the whole party at Topeka, on the 10th of
July last. We quote from Gen. Lanes
speech as reported in their pris cipal organ,
the Kansas News, in which Gen. Lane said:
lie should never consider their work done
till there was Il free State made out Of the
Indian Tcrrit' ry Oh the South, and one out
of Texas, between that Territory and The
Gulf Of Mexico. Till then he was 4 crusa.
der for freedom"
Their organ says: "Whcn The General
closed, three cheers were given for LINE,
the Crusader far Eicctlom.' IL is not mere
ly, then, the overthrow of tho govcrnm II,
Of the United States in Kansas, that is con-
tempatcd, but Of the laws and solemn trca
ties Of the United States, where slavery is
protected by them and by the Federal Con-
stitution, in the Indian territories, south Of
Kansas. Nay, more, it is openly avowed
that this war is to be carried into Texas.
from its northern boundary 10 the Gulf,
where slavery is not only protected by
State government, but also by solemn
compact by Congress will, Texas, under
which that State was admitted into the
Union. Such is tho plan openly avowcd
by the leader and military General of the
insurgent forces. II is war, civil war, that
Is contemplated, not only in Kansas, but in
the Indian territory and in Texas, and, as a
certain consequence, the dissolution of the
Union. Indeed, they openly boast in their
organs, that colony, similar to that Of
Lawrence, has already gone into the Indian
territory, south Of Kansas. TO abolitionize
the Indian territory in defiance of the
| Laws and frcaiins Of tLa Initial Stataa