White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-03-28
Secession Literature.

Secession Literature.
A correspondent favors us with let
ter which he received from an acquaint-
ance in Texas. From the extracts which |
we hero with present. it will be seen what
huge calculations the calori6c gentry
down South are making. and what i'm
pudcnt trash they try to stuff into the
psopls Of the North. The writer Of the
epistle is . lawyer but most persons
would doubt it, were we to print his e.
fi,sion rer6asim. Bot to the extracts:- =
Times are { little dull here. but not half 20
much so as in the older States. We have no
Banks. nothing but gold and silver, and our
people are not in debt; and il they we're, they
could not be oppressed, for the Homestead law
here exempts 60 much property. that man
must be rich before an execution could reach
him: consequently, it is now rather . poor
country for Q lawyer, and have made nothing
really but support since l came to the coun-
try. am, in fact, not worth as much as
brought to the country; but still am well plea
sed with the country, and would not exchange
it for any other. Yet have family, and must
20 where can make something to ct them out
in life; and as the metropolis Of the great Sou
theru Confederaey will undoubtedly become
quite city, have thought to cast my lot there.
l think probably that Montgomery. Alabama,
will be the piace-cannot tell yet.
Why do you people countenance and tolerate
that Dam scoundrel, Montgomery Ifthe peo.
pie of Kansas doe. not drive him out, they will
find the people Of Missouri irritated to retail
iatory feeling, and wo! be to Kansas. The
few people in Kansas should not attempt war
upon the South, even if backed BY all the Free
States, for the Southern people are now the
strongest people on the globe. Numbers do
not constitute strength; but strength in war
consists in the ability of people to put an ar
my in the field, and sustain 1t there. The South
could put two million soldiers in the field, and
keep them there for an hundred years, withou,
taxing her people one dime, or in the least eI'
hausting her resources; and whenever the South
is compelled to take up the sword for her de.
fence, she will use it manfully, and the result
will be the perpetuating of her institutions, and
their spreading all over the Free States. Al
will receive the institution as Divine, for such
it really is, and no power on earth can destroy
it. The negro was as much made for the white
mans use a. horse or an OK; and it is as rea
sonable to suppose God capable Of creating al
animal to hold the plow, as one to pail it-[o'
. jaekass to practice law.-Printer]-and those
who know the negro best, know slavery to b<
his normal condition. He is not happy without
. master. But a. you are all o. X. on tha
subject, enough.
In our new Confederacy, we do not intend ts
permit q free negro or . wild Indian to reside
We will enslave the Indians also. We have
fought them for 300 years; We will now en-
slave, and see how it works. A good many In
dams are now enslaved in Texas, and they
make very good servants.
Our Government has been partly corrupted
and destroyed from the manner in which thu
revenue was raised. It was raised by tariff
instead of direct taxation; consequently, thu
great body of the people knew not how it wa'
raised, and cared not what became oft Hence
the game in every Presidential election wa
one of an hundred millions, and unscrupulou!
Demagouges played for the game, and Dsmbet
Religious Fanatics entered the arena, to assis
in the mighty struggle; and Abolitionists al
belonged to the Church, and they hoped to free
the Dambed Ignorant Negro, in order thai
they, the Preachers, might possess an ignorant
people to live upon, we'll knowing that Silence
and Truth would soon, among the white races
rob Othello of his employment, unless the ne
groes we're turned loose, and, by amalgimation
the Intlect reduced to serve the wants Of tht
Church. But Dam the Churches.
In the organization of our new Confederacy
We will adhere to the following propositions:
Ist. A Confederacy of Equal States.
] ID. Each State but one Electoral vote.
Sd. one Senator.
9TH. two Congressman.
5th. All Office salaries shall be reduced Il
actual expenses.
9Th. All revinew shall be by Direct Advola
rum Taxes.
7th. No tariff, no tax on trades, occupation
or professions.
. 9th. No warfage or harbor duties.
. 9th. The Confederacy shall own no Terrific
~, but all States entering shall enter as eqaal
and with their boundaries defined.
10th. No free negroes, and no wild Indians
The above are the Ten Commandments, ant