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JOHrf J. PAi MEiUM
CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
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VOLUME 5.
NUMBER 4.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1856.
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FlSBiaXABLE TAILORING.
THE sulicribi:r aniHiQncer
to tfce puMie renerally, tli.il le
mnw rer.-iving a large aasort
men' of new
Cloths.
Cassioieres
. fr Gout ieinen's wear, and wil'
he Bold iwi Cash .il a IM ill proht,'r maoS toor
iei icon. ii ir to 1 1 hitist styles. Shop Mil
or t- F.iin 'Grocery St re.
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JEWELUY.
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A S V h . just re- (10 J s QBG
c-h-ed .and wii! ' . a-
larlj r.-c iviugjaaViiH nj ibeteto) a abnice stock
of haadiwine auJ bsbMuabhi WATCHES froai
thMij')St el brated uiak- rs. Also, a rich assort-nx-Qt
of
iiNhinabfe Jewelry, Chains, &c.
All of which will b- sold low for cash, or oa short
-iin- to puuctiial i ah r.
THOMAS TEOTTF.B t SON.
Caarlotte, June 10, ldoo tf
T'
BRlS leav to inform
his iriend and the public geneially, that
h is sti I carrying on the ' a ' r i a k e
M iUIh,' II i' nets in a'l i's various
braiiehea wi h all the increased facilities af
lonl d by mo4lern improvement, "e oa- now
on and a lars niimhr of BQGGI V. t i 'A -K1AUES,
ROCK A AYS, fcc, ma.le on "tbe
most approved stya out of th bt material,
to which he asks the inspection of purchaser.
His establishments is ot: College and Dej ' t
trects, where ls will be glad to ee his
friends.
JOHN m RT1T
Charlotte, Joly 28, 1835. AS
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Si.DDXjj and
IIX2L013S
i 3 DOORS SOUTH OF
THE MANSION HOUSE,
Charlotte.
S. M, HOWELL
HAVING made more extensive preparations
for the Manufacture of
SADDLES and HARNESS,
He would respectfully inform the citizens of
North Carolina, that he is now prepared to fur
fhrnish 4 ft l I14RiS
of superior quality, of his own manufacture,
at the
Very Lowest Possible Prices.
"W vrxtlxxs Saddles
By leaving- their orders, can be furnished as low
I as they can procure the same at the North.
.
April J.'j, 1856 tf S. H, HOWELL.
EKCOUBAGE TBIS KN0i ItlXG.
rjJllIE undersigned heps have
fiL to return his thanks to those
: who f.ivored hii'i with a call dur
j iu the last year ; and h.; would
rssp -ct uily inform the public tha
I he has it-moved to the Machine
I Simp formerly occupied by Messrs. George &
h'snant, adjoining Mr. J. tEOUtsiil s Strain
Planing Mills, where he is prepan d to execute
all woik in his line as cheap and as good as can
b done in the Btn .
Turning. ItUting; Screws, Uepair
i:u Boilers and Engines of ail
descriptions, Making and Ke
nairinii; Mill Spindles, Wood
Plainer, Making Ploughs, lion-
,,r i ll o i
ing W aons; and in I lorse-bhoe-
itn- Rr.o wo will violil tn no nn
' '
tor neatness, wear, ami Ulftpaun. Jiuep-
feriirg Shors $1 J.", common ditto $1 , cast-;
t 1 1 T
ste,- toes, or steel plate,
I have also erected an Air Eumnce for mend
ing Brass, which answvti finely. The public can
now get brrs and composition eastings by call
ng at the above establishment, and furnishing
patterns. Old I trass melted overa! a reduced price,
with DeatB ss and d upatch. Oid Copper and
Brass wanted.
S J. PERKY.
nfc4H. Jan. 1. 186?. tf
ROREKT MIAW
rWl AKES this opportunity of informing the j
JL public generally, and all who intend going j
to Kansas m particular, that he mt nds to con
tinue the
Saddle and Harness Buiiuss,
At his old stand, in Springs' Corner Building,
where he iut -uds to keep constantly on hand a
supply of
Saddles, Bridles, ISames,
)" Every Description.
His friends are respectfully invited to call and
supply th mselves. as every article in his line
will be afforded on the most reasonable terms.
EtC I V I It I Ci done at the shortest notice
and with neatness and dispatch.
Charlotte, Feb. Uii, ls&b tf
TO THE PI BL.IC.
HAVE JUST RECEIVED and opened the
largest anl ml v;iri d Mock ot
Drugs, Medicines, tin lu
teals, Paints, Oils, Wil
de Glass, Putty, Dyc
" tuffs, Perluniery, Toilet
I -tides, &c. AcatEVEit offer- i
ED IN THIS MARKET.
All of whicli will be sM at extremely short !
profits, for cash.
I drftj c MPEriTiox .'mil if you want articles
in my line, call, yu shall be satisfied, both
with rcg;iri o price an1 quality.
i;es,, et(nllv, tc.
n. w. ri; i rni ni), m. ,d.
If'holtsale Sf Retail Drusgist,
(Granite How, No 3.
Charlotte, May ti, 1854V tf
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IjIUA xfiL fcUU 1J1 KLfefUiViU.
Appeal of the Law and Order Party of
rr . , . - . j . ,
Kansas territory, to their friends in the
South, and to the Law-Abiding People of
the Union.
,
Col. Biford, one of the Committee, furnish-
ed the Editor of D. Bow's Review, the following
document containing an interesting review of
Kansas Affair, and an Anneal to the South in
favor of that abolition-ridden country.
, r k
The undersigned, at a recent meeting of
the party, were constituted a committee,
charged, among other things, with the pub
lication of this address.
That a state of insurrection and civil war
exifts among us is abundantly evident: the
"law and order puny" on the one side, op
posed on the other by the abolitionists, pent
ut and sustained by the Emigrant Aid
S e'eiies of the North. A Inief review of
the points at issue, and their controlling
circumstances, may be useful to justify this
our appeal for aid.
In territorial politics, the question of free
or slave State has swallowed up every other.
The abolitionists on the other hand, in ac
cordence with their early teaching, regard
slavery as the greatest po-sible evils; they
deem it a monstrous national crime, which
their false theories of government impute
equally to every portion of the confederacy,
and thus believing themselves individually
responsible for its existence, they feel bound
each to struggle for its overthrow ; to such
extremes have wicked demagogues stimula
ted tl eir fanaticism, thattheir prevertcd
consciences justify any mode of warfare a
g in-t slaveholders, however much in vio
lation of law, however destructive of pro
perty or human life, and however atrocious
ly w;cked it may seem toothers; nay, many
of them already go so far as to oppose all
law, religion, property, order, andubor
dination among men, as subversive of what
they nre pleased to call man's natural and
inherent equality. And with them it is no
mere local question of whether slavery shall
I
fxi in Kansas or not, but one offer wider
s trnificanee a question of whether it shall
nft anywl !(.rr t,,e Union. Kansas they
instlv regard as the mere outpost in the
k t . A .
war now being waged between the antago
nistic civilizations of the North and ine
South ; and winning this great outpost and
stand-point, they riehtlv think their march
will be open to anv easy conquest of the
whole field. Hence the extraordinary means
the abolition party has adopted to flood
Kansas with tho most fanatical and lawless
portion of Northern society ; and hence the
larcre sum of mnnv tlu v have expended to
s r ound t' eir brother Missonrians with ob
noxious and dangerous noghbors.
On the other hand, the pro slavery ele
ment of the "law and order party" in Kan-pa-:,
looking to the Bible, find slavery or
dained of God; tlipy find thorp, as by our
j law. a'averv made -an inheritance to thorn
! and their children forever." Looking to
I our national census, and to all statistics
j connected with rho African race, and eon
I ri Vring. ton, their physical, intellectual,
and moral natures, we see that slavery is
tho African's normal and proper state;
! since, in that state, that race multiplies
fn-ter. has more physical comfort. Ipss vice,
and mere moral and intellectual progress
j than in anv other.
Wo believe slavery the only school in
which the debased son of Ham. by attrition
with a higher race, can bo refined and ele
vated : we beliovp it a trust and guardian
ship given us of God for the good of both
races. Without susrar. cotton and cheap
clothing, can civilization maintain its pro
gress? Can these be supplied without slave
ry ? Nav, in the absence of slavery insti
tutions, mnt not social distinctions snper
rene among the free to the detriment of re
publican equality ? This is no' more pro
pertv question, hut a groat social and polit
ical question of races : it i not a question of
whether A. or B. shall be owner, but of
whether the slave, still having a master,
shall still bp a working boo. and not an idle
dronp in the l ive ; n qtipstion of whether the
South shall still ho a land flowing with milk
and honey, or a land of mendicants and vag
abonds: a great question of races: a qne-
tion whether we shall sink to the level ot
I the freed African, and take him to the em-
brace of social and political equality and
j fraternity for such is the natural end of
abolition progress. Fanaticism musf do
j fend its beneficiaries first, by sending the
y by
federal armv to protect them, and nltimnte-
givingthem tho ri;ht to hear arms.
vote, testify, make and administer laws in
short, the right to oat out our substance, to
pull us down to their level, to taint our
Idood. and bring us to a degradation from
which no time can redeem us. Thus radi
cal and marked the difference in theory be
tween the two parties, and not loss so their
difference in prncttce ; while tn good
faith, sustain and uphold tho laws, the aboli
tionists on the qther hand, in effect, repu
diate and set them at defiance ; with
dislovnltv they assert tho invalidity of the
territorial laws, while they render our na
tional insignia only the mockery of a hol
low respect ; indeed, more than once, they
have openly resisted the marshal in the ser
vice of process, and. in some places, their
organised armed resistance to the territorial
laws is sr. overwhelming that ministers of
the law there never atttenipr, the discharge
of their official duties; they have repudiat
ed payment of taxes, and have held and pub
lished the proceedings of large public meet
ings in which they resolved to resist, even
to blood, the territorial laws ; and expecial
v the laws for the collection of the public
revenue.
According to testimony under oath late
ly given before the Congressional Commit
tee, they have secret military organizations
for resisting the laws aud for carrying out
their abolition designs upon Kansas orga
nizations. n which the members are bound
by the most solemn oaths to obey their lead
ers, in all cases, not excepting evn murder
and treason. It is abundantly proved by
cye-witnevscs of unquestionable veracitv,
that at this present time, they have at dif-.
ferent points in the territories banded to
gether in actual encampment lnrge num
bers of armed men, subsisted and kept to
gether by their aid societies for no other
object than to make foray upon the coun
try and drive onr friends fiom their homes.
By such banditti the murders near Ossa
wattamie, on Pottawattamie creek, were
committed, declarations by the perpetra
tors contemporaneous with- their foul deeds
(indubitably show the parentage of these
'crimes; six victims, whose bodies have
been found, fell in that massacre, besides
fur others missing from the neighborhood
and not-vet heard from. Of the six, one
wu AUen Wilkinon. E,q., a member of
the Territorial Legislature and postmaster
at Shcrmauville ; sick with the measles,
for no other offence save that of being a law
mid ordt.r man hp wns dragged at midnight
frm his bed. and from the side of a sick and
imploring wife, by a band -f abolition ns-
sassins, actinir, as they said, in the name
- .
of the preat Northern armv ; within hear-
ing of the terror stricken wife, with fiendish
barbarity, he was flayed alive, his nose and
ears were cut off, his sealf torn from his
head, and then he was stabbed through the
bfjirf- Sn'li in tha iivnm iriaiBM his wi-
dow lately tendered in Westport before the
Congressional Investigating Committee.
It revealed m the part of their friends such
a picture v( savage ferocity that that Com
mittee r once blushed, and even stultified
themselves, rather than receive the testi
mony as competent. They had already re
ceived and recorded the evidence of Par
dee Butler, testifying that since their ap
pointment as Commissioners he had been
tarred and feathered for negro stealing
but this decision they unblushingly revers
ed, and erased the evidence rather than be
forced to put against their friends this hor
rible tale of the Ossawattamie murder up
on the record. Besides Wilkinson, Win.
Sherman and brother, and Mr. Doyle and
two sons, were proved to have been mur
dered at their respective homes on the same
night and by the same hand ; one of the
Doyles' had also his fingers and arms chop
ped off before he was finally dispatched.
Incredible us these things may seem, they
unquestionably happened in Kansas Terri
tory in the latter part of last month ; yet
what is more incredible, but not less true,
is the undeniable fact that these outrages
are not. as some pretend, the mere extra
vagances of a few irresponsible individuals,
but on the contrary arc justly chargeable
to the abolition party, as the legitimate
fruit of their party measures and party dis
cipline, and as naturally resulting from the
public teachings, advice and counsel of
their chief men and most distinguished
leaders.
The outrages above specified were pre
ceded, and up to the present time, have been
followed by others of a like character and
j dictated by a like settled policy on the part
ot our enemies to bttrrass and frighten, by
their deeds of horror, our friends from their
homes in the Territory. Undoubtedly this
policy (a well settled party system) has die
tated the notices lately given in all the dis
turbed districts by armed marauding hands
of abolitionists, to the law and order men
of their respective neighborhoods, immedi
ately to leave the country on peril of death.
Under such notices our friends about Hick
ory Point, and on Pottawattamie and Rock
creeks have all been driven out of the terri
tory, their stores have been robbed, their
cattle driven off, their bouses burned, their
horses stolen, and in some cases they have
been assassinated for daring to return ;
some too of these outrages have been per
petrated under the very nose of the United
States Troops, who all the while assert that
all is pettce and quietness, and that they
will afford ample protection, without the
necessity of our banding together in armed
bodies for mutual defVnce. Among many
others of our friends thus driven away, we
might specify the cases of Messrs. llar
gous, Jones and Owens, of Hickory Point,
whom two hundred United States troops sta
tioned within two miles of their homes have
been unable to inspire with a sense of secu
rity. Morton Bourne, a most exemplary,
quiet and unoffending man of our party, liv
ing within eight miles of Leoompton, the
capital of the territory, where quite a num
ber of troops are stationed, was lately driv
en from his home by a band of twenty-five
armed men, who robbed him of all his guns,
five saddles, three horses, the blankets from
his bed, and over fifty dollars in money.
The thieves gave him twenty-four hours to
leave with his family, and threatened to kill
him if he ever returned, saying, they intend
ed to serve all the pro slavery men in the
neighborhood in the same way. Mr. Bourne
is still out of the territory, and though anxi
ous about his property and desirous to re
turn, yet he dares not do so, though as of
ten as he applies, the troops and the gover
nor assure hiin that all is quiet, and that he
shall have ample protection ; but he knows
that unless they remain constantly about
bis house they cannot keep marauders and
murderers away. This case is specified
not for its peculiar enormity or hardships,
but because it is a fair type of a large class
of such cases, and because the undersigned
have all the details from Mr. Bourne him
self, and know them to be strictly true, in
deed one of u- assisted his family in their
flight the day after the robbery.
It is but too evident the troops cannot en
able our friends to maintain their ground in
any part of the territory where the abolition
elenitnt is in the ascendant; notwithstand
ing, we as.-ure our friends that, after the
mot diligent inquiry and attention to that
point, we firmly believe that our party has
a well established, decided and increasing
majority of actu-d settlers in the territory.
This majority, however, we do not believe
can be maintaired unless something be done
to give confidence to our friends, where they
are few and weak in number. This can
only be done by colonizing large settle
ments together, under one common head
with absolute control : let, say from one to
three hundred agriculturalists, mechanics
and laborers settle together in some sui
table point, to be indicated by the under
signed, or some other committee charged
with the general interests of the party.
This can be lawfully, safely and efficiently
done, and by this means law and order can
be maintained iu tiie territory ; and we say
this, too. notwithstanding we are in posses
sion of very convincing evidence to the
fact, that the abolitionists of the North in
tend during the coming month, t" introduce j
large numbers of their hired bands to put
their treasonable pretended government in
to operation by force. These measures of j
mutual defence and future progress, howe- ,
ver, require means and demand aid from
our friends abroad. The colonists should
be subsisted a reasonable time, and each in
dividual furnished with adequate agricultu
ral mechanical outfit, so there can be no '
want of settlers coming and remaining at j
the points where tney are moat needed.
Funds are required, and for these we call
upon our Southern friends upon all having
a common iatoresty nay, we call upon ail
loving justice and wishing equal rights to
each State and section of the Union we
call on the honest free State man, who, sick
of the agitation and strife brewed by the
abolitionists, desires the restoration of
peace and quiet to the country. These can
be restored only by supplying the weaker
and attacked section the means of future
defence, in sectional equilibrium, or some
equivalent measure. Fanatical aggression
cannot be quieted by giving, but it may be
by taking away the power to effect its ends.
All fair minds who have looked this ques
tion full in. the face, know and admit that
it is not merely a question of whether Kan
sas shall have become a slave State or not.
but a question whether tbe South shall not
become the victim of misguided philanthro
py. That man or State is deceived that
fondly trusts that these fanatics may stop
at Kansas. To use that territory as the
mere ' key to the future" the mere means
of ulterior operations against the whole
South is unquestionably the settled policy
of the ultra abolitionists, the head and soul
of the aggression, and whose opinions, in
the end, mstu leaven and control the whole
body the whole mass that acts with them.
The most convincing proof (if proofs were
needed) of this was recently given before
the Congressional Investigating Committee.
Judge Matb"w Walker, a -Wyandott, an
unimpeachable witness, and most reliable
man, testified before the committee, that
before the abolitionists selected Lawrence
j as their centre of operations, their leader,
Gov. Kobinson, attempted to get a foothold
for them in the Wyandott reserve, near the
junction of the Kansas and Missouri rivers;
that in his negotiations for that purpose,
Robinson finding it necessary to communi
cate their dans and objects, divulged to
Walker (whom he then supposed a sympa
thiser) that the abolitionists were determin
ed on winning Kansas at any cost; that
then having Missouri surrounded on three
sides, they would begin their assaults on
her; and as fast as one State gave way,
attack another, till the whole South was
abolitionised. That this revelation was ac
tually made, the undersigned have not the
slightest doubt; and we are equally confi
dent that in that matter the abolition party
was truly represented by Robinson, who
has always been their chief mau and ac
knowledged leader in Kansas.
It is wididy reported, and generally be
lieved, that the northern abolitionists are now
raising large bodies of armed men, under
military organization and discipline, to be
surreptitiously introduced ito the territo
ry for the objects of driving out the peace
able inhabitants, setting the laws at defi
ance, aud overwhelming the law and order
party at the decisive election for a Territo
riel Legislature to crane off on the first
Monday in October next. It is not impos
sible they may partially succeed in their
aims; their labors to inflame the northern
mind are so incessant, their faculty of mis
representation is so extraordinary so fatal
ly bent on mischief. Their papers, for in
stance, show up the Ossawattamie massacre
as an outrage of our own ; according to
their account, "five pro-slavery men were
hanging an abolitionist, when his five friends
providentially came up and shot them in the
act."
All have heard, through the papers, of
the killing of Stewart by Cosgrove. The
facts were these: Stewart being in Law
rence, when news reached there of an abo
litionist having been just killed at Blanton's
bridge, in the vicinity, started off with four
others towards the California road, all swear
ing they would kill the'first pro-slavery man
they met. Lieutenant Cosgrove and Dr.
Bratton, two quiet and worthy men of our
partv, happened to be passing just as Stew
art and his men reached the road. The five
halted the two at the distance of only five
or six paces, and to the astonishment and
horror tf' the weaker party, immediately
after halting them began snapping and fir
ing at them. Cosgrove seeing Uratton shot
through the arm. fired' and filled Stewart,
and then with his wounded companion es
caped under a shower of bullets. The next
day a Lawrence man being taken as a spy
and searched, a letter was found on his per
s n to a friend iu the North, detailing
Stewart's death, iu which he says, Stewart
was met alone, unarmed, and without cause
or excuse shot down by five border ruffians.
Indeed it was proved before the Investi
gating Committee that the abolition party
hud travelling agents in the territory whose
duty it was to gather up, exaggerate, and
report for publication, rumors to the preju
dice of the lnw and order party, aud with
the view to excito abolitionists to come to
the territory ; and the witness, Parrot, ad
mitted in his examination that he. as agent,
had prepared such a report, and placed it
in the hands of Sherman, one of the coin
mittee, since his arrival in Kansas. Sher
man was then on the committee, and did
not deny it.
How can there be other than the most
exasperated state of feeling between the two
sections .' How can cival war be avoided,
when honorable coi imitteemen countenance
such reckless mischief! Look the future
in the face like men: if standing up to our
rights, to our responsibilities, and to our
trust, brings peace and security, so much
the better; no other course can effect it.
Send us emigrants and send us means. We
must have your help. Appoint agents, res
ponsible, trusty sreliable men, for every
State, district and neighborhood, whose
sole business shall be to canvass for aid.
Did we know suitable persons who would
act, we would not hesitate to appoint them
all over the country. Let our friends send
their names, with details as to character
and qualification, and we will duly accredit
them. One gentleman, an Alabarnian, Al
pheus Baker, Jr., Esq.. of Eufaula, Ala
bama, whom we all know, who has been
here, and has distinguished himself by the
zeal, success, aud singular ability with
which for a while he canvassed the border
counties tn Missouri for aid, we take the
liberty of nominating, without as-urance
that he will accept. We trust that he may.
Friends of the cause uiut contribute ac
cording to their several gifts we must not
meanly abandon our birthright, and, with
out a struggle, yield to grasping monoply
this fairest Eden of our common domain
this land of flowing brook and fertile plain.
Kansas is iudeed the garden spot of Amer
ica, and in every way adapted to Southern
institutions; in no other part of the Union
is slave labor more productive; aud in the
present imperilled state of our civilization,
if we do not maintain this outpost we can
not long defend the citadel. Then rally to
the rescue.
1 Any communications our friends in the
j South may be pleased to favor the under
signed with, will reach us meet safely and
certainly, if directed to us, at Westport,
Missouri, funds contributed may be sent
to our treasurer, A. G. Boone, Esq., direct
ed to him at the same place.
DAVID K. ATCHISON,
WM. H. EUSSELL,
JOS. C. ANDERSON,
A. G. BOONE.
B. F. STRING FELLOW.
J. BUFORD.
June 21st, ISoti.
Westport, June 24, 1S56.
Col. Jefferson Buford :
Dear Sir : Your colleagues of the Com
mittee appointed by the ' law and order"
party in Kansas to direct and control their
action, have unanimously resolved to re-
?piire you to proceed at once to the South
or the purpose of presenting to the people
of the South the vital importance of their
earnest, early and efficient action to defeat
the lawless purposes of the abolitionists.
You can be of infinite service to our
cause by laying before the people a correct
exposition of the condition of the territory.
With sentiments of siucere regard, we are
your friends,
D. R. ATCHISON,
A. G. BOONE,
WM. H. RUSSELL,
JOS. C. ANDERSON.
B. F. STRINGFELLOW.
Mr. Buford is now on a tour thnaygh the
Southern States, engaged in the duties as
signed him by the foregoing letter.
TO THE PEOPI-E OF THE SOUTH.
Herewith you will find the appeal of your
friends in Kansas, together with a letter ac
crediting me as their agent to solicit your
aid in maintaining that indispensable break
water to the angry tide of Abolition.
Want of time forbids my calling on many
of you personally. Read that address
thoughtfully ; consider that if Kansas, our
natural boundary to the North-West, is
lost, that then Missouri and all West of the
Mississippi nay, too, all East of it, must
soon follow, while, if we maint ain it, the ter
ritories West of Arkansas and Texas are
safe to us nay, the future is safe. Ask
yourselves whether you are prepared to
surrender white supremacy in the South, to
debase your blood, to degrade your social
and political status to the level of an infe
rior race, by submitting to Abolition's man
date to fraternize with it. Remember, that
all who know the country know that slaves
thrive and do well in Kansas, and that there
and in Western Missouri their labor pays
better than in any cotton State in the Union.
Reflect that we have every thing to encou-
ra? us in ibo ntrulcj .wo . till efwtflrui
the Goverment of the Territory, our immi
gration is daily increasing, while that from
the North has greatly diminished. In Illi
nois, as if in disgust, they have lately ap
plied to electioneering purposes, tho funds
they had raised for emigrants. Remember
that, instead of endangering the Union, our
winning Kansas makes it permanent, by
enabling us to defend our rights iu it, aud
by discomfiting and breaking down the agi
tators. Think of the magnitude of tho
questions at issue ; think or the imminence
of our peril, and you will not need person
al solicitation, but each one of his own vo
lition will send his Contribution according
to his means. Those wio cannot alone
send their fifties, hundreds or thousands,
can unite with fifty or an hundred others
and do so. Whore there's a will, there's a
way.
Remit in drafts on New York, payable or
end r-ed to our chairman, the Hon. D. R.
Atchison rif convenient, get duplicate
draft-. enclose the original or the duplicate
to our treasurer, A. G. Boone, Esq., at
We-tport, Missouri, and the other to our
chairman at Atchison, Kansas Territory.
Take the Postmaster's receipt and then
you have three guaranties that your contri
bution will not miscarry. Be assured it
will not be misapplied; our treasurer and
chaiiinarn are both gentlemen of wealth, as
well as of the highest character. And it is
better to send in this way than by the
hands of a collecting agent, for then both
his authority and his responsibility become
questions of indifference.
If the contributions justify it, I propose
to take out one hundred emigrants to form
the central colony alluded to in the address.
I want only men who. as long as required,
will abstaiu from liquor aud will implicitly
obey orders. To such a company, if the
funds are raised. I will give oue town site
of three hundred acres, with the privilege
of getting pre-emptions, aud I will trans
port them to Kansas aud find them provis
ions until the middle of April next. The
town site is central to one of the best coun
ties iu the territory, and will most probably
become its couuty seat.
J. BUFORD.
Richmovd, (Va.) July 24. 156.
SENATOR PRATT.
Tbe Hon. Thomas G. Pratt has issued,
through tho columns of the National Intel
ligencer, aa able and eloquent address to
the Whigs of Maryland, urging them to
cast their suffrages for Buchanan and
Breckinridge. It is a powerful appeal, and
coming as it d es from the most distinguish
ed Wuig of Maryland, must exercise im
mense influence in determining the posi
tion of his political friends in that State.
We have room only for the concluding
part of the address :
' It is clear, then, that to tbe South alone
can the. friends of Messrs. Fillmore and
Donelson look for the probable chance of
an electoral vote ; and it is to the States of
Maryland, Tennessee, Kentucky and Mis
souri that they profess to look with tbe
greatest hope of success. It is manifest
that if this hope were realized, it might in
deed prevent the election of Buchanan aud
Breckinridge by the people, but it would
only throw the eieotiou of President into
tbe present House of ilpresentat 'txe. com
posed as that House now is. Does not tbe
election of this same House, after a contest
of two month of a Black Republican
Speaker, admonish us of the danger of och
an experiment ? Who can doubt that our
political fabric would bo shaken to its very
foundations by this election of President
being thrown into the present House of Re
presentatives ? Ou the other hand, is it not
certain, beyond the contingency of a doubt,
that the vote of the States indicated for Mr.
Buchanan, when added to that of the other
Southern States, would secure his election
and the consequent safety of tho Uuion ?
It is obvious that iu this condition of the
canvaas the only serious contest is that be
tween Fremont and Buchanan ; that the
ouly possible result that the most sanguine
of the friends of Fillmore and Donelson can
hope to obtain is to carry the contest into
the House of Representatives. Who can
conceive any thing more fatal to the peace
of the country, more insane in political ac
tion, than such a course of conduct lead
ing to such a result! Suppose Mr. Fill
more to reach the House of Representatives
with tho votes of four or five States, (his
utmost possible strength) no man can seri
ously contend that he wo, ill b dected
President, and assuredly few will we bold
enough to assert that, under such circum
stances, he ought to be. The only effect,
then, of giving the electoral vote of any
portion of the South to Mr. Fillmore would
be to transfer the contest between Mr. Bu
chanan and Fremont from the hunting- to
the Boose f Representatives ; and the dan
ger to our country, now sufficiently mena
cing, would, iu that event, be appalling in
deed. Who can contemplate the occur
rence of such a contingency without feeling
that he would be a traitor to his country if
he failed to exert every possible effort to
avert so awful a calamity ?
I deem it, then, to be my duty, as well as
that of all who believe with me, that the
election of Fremont would bo the death
knell of the Union, to unite in tho support
of Messrs. Buchanan and Breckinridge ;
and I will sustuin their election to the best
of my ability. Whilst I concede that thero
are certain principles hitherto professed by
the party which nominated them that can
not receive our support, yet to the great is
sues of the constitutional rights of the South
the platform on which they stund meets my
cordial approval, aud is in accordance with
that of the party which I now address, and
io i.o.-o kind favor I owe the honor of
holding the seat I now occupjv and which
I shall cease to hold on the 4th of March
next by the fiat of that party to whicli Mr.
Fillmore has attached himself, and which
is now dominant in the Legislature of my
native State.
" Let Maryland Whigs remember that
the political battle now being fought is one
of the deepest interest to them ; that the
maintenance of the constitutional rights of
the South is the issue tendered to the A
merican people by the Democratic pur y,
and (as the Whigs have no candidate) by
that party alono ; that upon the issue the
Republican party have staked the Union ;
and iu such a battle, upon such an issue they
must be true to those who aro doing buttle
in our behalf. It would be indeed sad if, in
such a contest, the conservative strength
of tho country should not bo united ; it
would bo as strange as sad if. in such n tjon
test, Southern men should not be found bat
tling shoulder to shoulder for the mainten
ance of their own constitutional rights.
" In thus accomplishing what I bedeve to
be my duty, I shall be inexpressibly grati
fied if I shall find myself sustained by the
approval of my fellow-Whigs, who have re
fused to abandon either the party or the
principles in support of which we have so
long and so faithfully united, and which we
shall remain at perfect liberty to recognize
as soon as our common efforts shall have
succeeded in averting tho perils that now
threaten our beloved country."
THOMAS G. PRATT.
LETTER OF SENATOR PEARCE.
The Hon. James A. Pearce, a Senator
of Maryland, has published a letter address
ed to the Hon. J. R. Franklin, ofS.iow Hill,
Maryland, iu response to ail inquiry from
that gentleman as to what part he ineuns
to take in the Doming Presidential election,
and what should b done by old W.iig who
have never been attached to any other par
ty, and who do not desire to enter into new
political connections.
Mr. Pearce refers to the origin and ca
reer of the American party, and while he
does not object to some of their designs, he
disapproves of its peculiar characteristics.
He thinks, further, that tbe northern wing of
the party came into it with purposes very
different from the rent, adopted it as a cloak
fur their schemes, and aro now mainly affil
iated with the Republican party. He says :
"The contest, it seems to me, lies be
tween Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Fremont.
Mr. Fillmore's friends indeed cluim a great
reaction in his favor; but I have taken
much pains to ascertain what his strength
is in the free States, and so far I have uoi
been able ct satisfy myself that he can car
ry a single one of them. Hi wise and pa
triotic c ndact while President, which re
commended him so strongly to tho Whig
of the South, is regarded by the majority
at the North as a fatal objection to him.
It is not moderation and conciliation they
desire, they think, as one of their leaders
said, that the time for compromise hag
passed. Tbcy want, in thv President, ta