Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-09-03
From the Charleston. s, G.. Mercury


General. We commend these letters Il
the careful perusal Of our readers. The,
win see that the assertion so widely circu
lated throughout the South, that the pro.
slavery party in Kansas had given up the
contest 10 make Kansas a Slave State, is q
mere falsehood. We argued as much, as
cur columns will show, from the facts them.
selves, os far as they were disclosed
Thank God, Kansas is not yet lost--all
the lies to the contrary Notwithstanding.
EuFLAuLA, ALA, August l, 1857.
To The Editors of the Charleston Mercury:
GENrLrMEr: l received this morning,
from Gen. Atchison, letters from which |
make for publication the following extracts,
shedding light upon the real position and
hopes of Southern men in Kansas, refuting
the SANDER now widely circulated, that our
leaders there have abandoned the struggle
for the rights Of the South, and properly
characterizing the base suspicious which
have been whispered in some quarters, even
against the Executive Committee whom
had the honor lately to represent before the
people Of the South, and South Carolina es-
peCially, in their appeal for pecuniary aid.
Very truly and respectfully,
ALPBEUs BAKER, Jr.
Col. a. Baker:
"DEAa SRA week or since received
letter from you; also have read letters
from you to Col. Buford and Boone. You
have nobly discharged the trust we have
reposed in you. You have laborously, elo-
quently and theoretically done your duty
to the South; all this you have done, and
every true and honest Southern man must
sooner or later, acknowledge it and thank
you in his heart for it. Your mission was
difficult one, and you have been miscon-
strued by some and wantonly slandered by
others. Yet, if it is any consolation to you,
you must know that in this you stand not
alone. Indeed, every man who has taken
an open and manly defiance Of Southern
rights, has encountered the abuse Of the
North, and, what is still worse, the Nsneers
and detraction of Southern men.
The most ready weapon which comes to
the hands Of "a mean man in the South" is,
that the end we have in view is not the
rights and interests of the Slave States,
shut our own" They insinuated that the
money raised in the South is not 10 be ex-
pended in her cause, but to be appropriated
to the use of Atchison, Buford, Russell,
Boone, Stringfellow, &c. Now, every in
telligent man who uses such weapons sis a
liar,n and is conscious Of being SO when he
circulates or publishes such a 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.
81 see that not even thunder and light
ming will arouse the South. doubt
whether an earthquakes moral and polit-
isal earthquake, shaking the institution of
shvery to the earth, and bringing ruin upon
de whole South, would arouse her to ac-
ton. In a word, my only hopes now for
Kansas are in the border counties of MIS-
souri,; and by the by, any Of ten counties
could mention have expended more money
than any one State of the whole South in
this cause. The Executive Committee for
Kansas Territory will have meeting on
the 18th Of this month, for consultation,
when you shall hear from us.
"If the South would but do half her du-
ty, Kansas would be Slave State; and
hope we will be able TO effect that object,
Notwithstanding the apathy of the Slave
States and the energy of the Free States,
and all The open or secret efforts Of the Of
ficers of the Federal Government.
yours, truly,
(Signed) D. R. AToHIsoN."
In letter TO me of the goth July, dis
hesrtened by the Indifference Of the South
ty their appeals for assistance. and more
deeply wounded by unjust charges against
some OF the best and truest OF her friends
in Kansas, who have ruined themselves in
her service, he says despondngly:
"At times / have almost come 10 the con-
clusion to curse Kansas and quit the cause
OF the South. 1t is hard for man 10 de-
vote all his time and energies and money
10 cause and receive nothing but abuse
and SANDER in 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. Yet, in defiance OF all this,
! will not abandon our cause so long as
their is the shadow of chance for success,
and this is the determination Of most oil our
friends in Kansas anG Missouri.
"Our cause is not hopeless one. We
always have had, up to the LIST of March
last, a majority Of friends in Kansas, and /
believe we still have. will give you my
reasons for still thinking SO: The registered
voters amount to near ten thousand, an
this registry was made last winter and
spring, and at least SHINE tenths of those
voters are pro-slavery men," for the AbO-
ltionists refused, as general thing, 10
register their names, and the reason for
their refusal was, in my opinion, that they
knew they were in small minority. at
was not to preserve their consistency" for
AbolItionists are consistent in nothing ex-
cept in vilainy, Now if our Delegates to
the Convention will refer the Constitution
to the registered voters for ratification or
rejection, then we will ratify the Constitu'
ton, If it is 10 be referred, as Governor
Walker says, to all the people who shall be
in the Territory on the day of voting, then
we "must and will'' have majority at the
polls on that day. If the South would but
make one speedy and "united'' efforts, all
would be safe. If Walkers plan however,
"A "a Int