, 1861-01-03
WAR EIEMEETE,

Or7 readers are referred to the letter il:
another column from our Kansas CORES.
pondent, detailing, among other things, tbe
clements existing in the Southern portioi,
OF TINT Territory, the Cherokee country.
Arkansas and Texas, ready to be precipita.
ted IN deadly conflict as soon as the Unior
is sundered and the restraining power O.
Inc Constitution removed. The facts her.
presented are not new to those who haYc
!: studied the philosophy Of the chronic in
surrecsion in that quarter whose outbreak:
!; nave SO otten alarmed the country; but
:. This Is q clearer presentation Of the CASE
man we remember to have seen elseyhcrr.
NO one can fail to perceive that there exists
on that border alone an anti-secession arcu-
ment Of overwhelming force.
Let US suppose that the Union were
actually dissolvcd-that "peaceable secet-
son" were adopted as national policy--th.t
all the slaye-holding States were banded
together as one confcderacy, and all the
1ree ssatcs as another-on the 4th Of March
next on the 9Th there would be u foray
from Missouri into Kansas for kidnapping
purposes or from Kansas into Missouri tn
nans the kidnappcts, and quite probably to
hberate such Slaves as should be found in tile
line OF the expedition. simultaneously there
would be gathering Of the clans On either
side to possess the Cherokee country-the
key OF the Southwestern territory, conf
'mand1ng by its position the dcstinies OF
Northern Texas, New Mexico and Arizona
on the one hand, and Arkansas on the
othef. The vantage ground is now in peg
session. OF the free state forces. Southern
Aansas Is tull Of men Injured to scenes Of
bloodshed-nen who have suffered much
1or their devotion to freedom, and who
have been changed from moderate Rcpub-
ilcans or Democrats TO fanatical Abolition
ISIS ihelr ranks are being swelled by ref
usees IRON Texas driven to desperation hy
the wrongs they have suffered in that
stase. On the other hand are the
slavery propaganda Of Arkansas and
the pro-slavcry party among the Cher
okees, who have been laboring together for
many years 10 fix the institution perma-
nently upon the country. Let the Union
be dissolved and one month will not clapsc
ere these hostile forces arc brought face III
face with leveled muskets The South will
rally with such movable strength rs it can
muster to the aid ofits friends, and the North
will send hundreds of volunteers and thous-
ands Of dollars to the assistance Of the free
State cause. But when the local strife is
brought to close, the end is not yet. Tie
aalmosity brewed in such conflict will
make the meat it feeds On, and the war will
be carried straight into Arkansas and Tex
IS, lighted on its course by the fires of In
surrection-to stop, Heaven knows where
This is no romance. The facts pointing
to such strife are grimly before us. The
experience Of Kansas, bearing all over it
the prints of blood, warns us unc1rinsly of
the consequences Let the strong arm Of
the Federal Government be withdrawn anil
these elements Of antagonism will be in
simultaneously brought together, We have
no reason to fear the results; other peoplc
have. But as we are not the advocates OF
policy which will bring slaycry to d sud
den end at tile point Of the bayonet we
insist that the Union and tae supremacy Of
fhe Constitution be maintained.