Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-08-14


conscience, which Mr.. Archer makes against
President Pierce upon the authority "of
the United States Attorney for Kansas. -
The charge is this, and we beg the South
ern people to note it and bear it in mind
"While Mr.. Pierce quelled the people Of
the South with honeyed words and messa-
ges which we all approve, he sent his agents
to Kansas SECRETLY INSTRUCTED that Il
'ods necessary for The salUation of The Nor
the't Democracy that Kansas should be
brought into The Union as a Free State"
"
SENATOR MAsoNs OPINIoNs.-In the
last number of the Richmond South we
find the following letter from this distin-
guished Senator. Mr. Mason, it seems, is
of opinion that the Richmond South's ve-
ry severe condemnations of the conduct
of Walker are entirely proper. He is of
opinion too, that, if slavery shall be ulti-
mately excluded from Kasas, new and
most instructive lesson will have been
givern to the Southern States, and we are
exactly of this opinion. The South will
have learned lesson that would have been
of very essential service to her if she had
only learned it before the passage of the
Kansas bill. IT'S agreatmisfortune some
times that important lessons are not more
easily learned. However, if they were
learned more easily, they might perhaps
be forgotten more easily:
WINCHESTER, Va, July 22d, 1857.
To the Editor of the South:
DEAR SIR; In your paper of Monday
last, in an article headed walkers Usur-
patton" 1 observe the following para
graph:
"But we are told that Hunter and Ma
son and other distinguished Southern Sem
ators, in the debate on the Nebraska
Kansas bill, expressed the same opinion
that Kansas must be free State" &c.
l cannot undertake to say what opinions
may have been expressed by my honored
colleague, or by other Senators from the
South, in reference to the probable condi-
ton of Kansas; though, from a general
knowledge of their views in regard to that
Territory, I should not donbt that any
opinionsso expressed would have reference
to circumstances and contingencies nee
essarily qualifying them. To avoid mis-
construction, however, think it proper to
say that / never expressed the opinion
thus ascribed to me; because never en-
tertained it. At the time the law passed
organizing the Territorial Government,
there were few with whom I conversed who
did not believe that the future State would
take its place with those recognizing and
cherishing the con 'ition of African slave
ry. There was at that time, certainly, ev-
cry reason to believe why this should be
so, and none why it should not The State
of Missouri, borderingits eastern frontier,
was slaveholding State, holding at that
time nearly an hundred thousand slaves,
and these were chiefly held in the border
counties.
The State Of Arkansas, adjacent to the
Territory, on the south, was likewise
slaveholding State. The soil and climate
of Kansas were we'll adapted to those val
liable products, chiefly hemp and tobacco,
which gave value to slave labor in Missou-
ri. The proximity of its population, with
the attractions of new, fertile, and cheap
land, | believed would lead the slavehold-
ers in Missouri to diffuse themselves spec
dily over Kansas, and the prohibitory line
of $3.50 being obliterated, there was no
reason why they should not. | had no
fear of fair competion in such appropria-
ton of the new Territory from any quar-
ter. Unfair eompetion I did not look to.
What may yet be the result as to the con
dition of Kansas, notwithstanding the ex.
traordinary and unscrupulous efforts Of
Northen Abolitionists to force population
there, cannot undertake to say Nor
will l allude in this place to the new and
unexpected aspect now exhibited of affairs
in that Territory, with SO much propriety
reprehended in the columns of the "South. :"
Whatever may be the information of 9th.
ers, certainly am not sufficiently informed
of the existing state Of things in Kansas
to form a clear opinion one way or the 9TH
er; yet | will venture to say this much, that,
if African slavery be ultimately excluded
from Kansas, it will be effected by the nu-
merical force of organized majorities, ope-
rating against the usual laws which gov
erns emigration; and will present new
and most instructive lesson 10 the South
Gknko