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* wra A TOTOT'PWTfTT Vf ^ Tc> /TV toto * ifiJiii} Vi uLIkj$LkiLib 1!L1 TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. "The Price of Liborty is Eternal Vigilance." PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. BY DAVIS & IIO LUNGS WORTH. ABHKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1856. VOL. XII NO. 42. rv~i ri r'^ /rv rr\ n r? r\ rvi ?\ atn. n?t ^ I - ? ........ - 1 in 'ii s Special Message from the President The subjoined message from (lie l'ic; <lcnt of the United States, was tiTiiismitU to both Houses of Congress on Thursda 24th ult., in relation to the Kansas que tion: To the Senate and House of Jicprctrntativfx: Circumstances have occurred to distui the course of governmental organization i tbe Territory of Kansas, and produced tlici a condition of things which renders it ii cumbent on me to call your attention toll subicct. and urtruiillv to recommend tl .adoption by yon of such measures of legi lation as the grave exigencies of the eas appear to require. A brief exposition of thu circumstance referred to, and of their causes, will be in cessary to the full understanding of the r< commendations which il is proposed I submit. The act to organize the Territories c Nebraska and Kansas, was a inanifestntio of the legislative opinion of Congress o two great points of constitutional construe tii ill : one. I hat. tin; desi<riial ion of I ho boll in I alios of a new Territory, ami provision to its political organization and adiuiuistratioi as a Territory, are measures which of rigli fall within the powers of the general gov eminent; and tin; other, that the inhabit ants of any such Territory considered as ai inchoate State, are cntitied, in the exeicis of self-government, to determine for theni selves what shall he their own domestic in Rtitutions, snl'ject only to the coiMituliot and the laws duly enacted by Congress un der it, and to the power of the existing States to decide according to the provision: and principles of the constitution, at wlia time the Territory sli:tlI Uo receive'] as i State inlu the Union. Such are the grea political rights which are solemnly declare* and aHirmcd by that act. Based u| mil ibis theory, (he aet of Coil gross defined lor each Territory the outline: of republican government, distributing pub lie authority among lawfully en-;,led agent ?executive, judicial and legislative?to hi appointed either by the general goveinmen v or by the Territory. The legislative tunc tions were intrusted to a council and ; House of Representatives duly elected am empowered to eliacL all the local laws whiel they might tluuin essential to their prosper ity, happiness ami good government. Act ing in tlie same spirit, Congress :il<o define* rhe persons who were in tin: lirst inMaiici to he considered as the people of each Tel ritory; enacting that every tree white mal inhabitant of tlie same above t!ie age o twenty-one years, being an actual ivsiden thereof, and possessing I lie qualification hereafter described, should be entitled t< vote at the lirst election, and be eligible t> any olHce within the Territory; but ilia the qualifications of voters and holding ol ficc at all suhscuueut elections should b auch as might b<; prescribed !>y the legishi live assembly : Provided, however, tliut ill right of suffrage and of holding office shoul be exercised only by citizens of the Unite estates, and those wtTo nStould have declare on oath their intention to become such, an have taken an oath to support thecoustiti tion of the United States and the provn ions of the act: And provided, further, tin no officer, soldier, seaman, or marine, n other persons in the army or navy of tli United Suites, or attached to troops in tliei service, should be allowed to vote or hoi office in cither Territory, by reason of bein on service therein. Such of the public officers of the Terr tories as, by the provisions of the act, wei to be appointed by the general govcrnmcn including the governors, were appointed an commissioned in due season ; the law hai ing been enacted on the 30th of May, 185' and the commission of the governor of tli Territory of Nebraska being dated on tli 2d day of August, 1854, and of the Terr tory of Kansas on the 29th day of Juu 1854. Among the duties imposed by the aoto , the governors, was that of directing and si perintending the political organization i the respective Territories. The governor < Kansas was required to cause a census i enumeration of the inhabitants and qual fled voters of the several counties and di triuts of the Territory to bo taken, by sue persons and in such mode as he might dc ignate and appoint; to appoint and dire* the time and places of holding the fir. elections, and the manner of conductin them, both as to the persons to Hiiperinten euch elections and the returns thereof; 1 dcclarc the number of the members of Council and llouse of Representatives f< each county or district;"to declare win persons might appear to be duly elected and to appoint the time and place of tl first meeting of the legislative asscmbly.In substance, the same duties were devolv< ,x k on the governor of Nebraska. While, by this act, the principle of co fttitntinn fnf il? f iim luiTiiones was 01 and the same, and the details of organ legislation regarding hoth were as nearly could be identical, and the Territory of N ? braska was tranquilly and successfully < ganized in the duo course of law, and i fiisl legislative assembly met on tbe 16 of January, 1855, the organization of Ka sas was long delayed, and lias been attend . with serious difficulties and cmbarrnssmen partly the consequcneo of local mal-admi ^ istrauon, uuu partly ot the unjustiliatile 111 ? terferencc of the inhabitants of some of tin States foreign l?y residence, interests ant n* riglits to tlie Territory. The governor of the Territory of Kansas commissioned, iis before stated, on the 29t!i 1S" of June, 1851. did not reach the designated seat of his government until the 7th of tin ensuing October; and even then failed tc j make tins first step in its legal organization 1,1 I ?that of ordering the census or enmneralc j lion of its inhabitants?until so late a .lay that the election of the members of the leK j gislative asseinhlv did not take place uniil the JJOt.Ii of March, 1855, nor its meeting * until the second of .July, 1855. So thai, for a year after the Territory was constituted by the act of Congress, and the oflie.crs to is , .... . . . . i oe appointed i?y the 1'eiteral jsxeculive lin<l been commissioned, it was without a eotnplete government, without any legislative 0 authority, without local law, ami of course without the ordinary guarantees of peace | ami puhlio order. " In other respects, the governor, instead of 1 exercising constant vigilance and putting forth all his energies to prevent or eountcr' act the tendencies to illegality, which arc 1 prone to exist in all imperfectly organized " and newly associated communities, allowed ' his attention to he diverted from oilicial j obligation hy other objects, and himself set an example of the violation of the law in 1 tin- performance of acts which rendered it l! : my duty, in theseipiel, to remove him from ; the ofliee of chief executive magistrate of tiicr Tcrriiory. 1 | ln'furu tin- requisite preparation was accomplished fur tlie election of si territorial ? L.-gislalure, all election of delegate to Coii1 gros had been lieM in the Territory oil tlie ^ 2!?:li of November, I!, and the delegate 1 took his seat in the House of liepreseiita* tiv-'S without challenge. If arrangements ' hail li.reii pel foeti d hy the governor so thai j tin: election for members of the legislative " , assembly might he heM in the several prc5 i ciiicts at the same time as lor delegate to * j Congress, any question appertaining to llie s i ([iialilication of the persons voting as puoJ : pie of the Territory, wouhl have passed nuc^ i .!a?:!fi!v ati.l ->t si... ? " | of Congress, as the judge of t lie validity o" 1 j tl.o return of the delegate, and would have ' j been determined before conflicting passions 1 j had become inll.-imcd by time, and before | opportunity could have been ailorded for systematic interference of the people of in' dividual State?. u This interference, in so far as concerns its primary causes and its immediate eoin15 ! mencemcnl, was one of the incidents of f j that pernicious agitation on the subject ol 1 ' the condition of the colored persons held s j to service in some of the States, which lias l> so lon?' disturbed the repose of our country, 0 and excited individuals, otherwise patriotic ' and law-abiding, to toil with misdirected zeal in the attempt to propagate their suu cial theories by the perversion and abuse l~ of the powers of Congress. The persons e J iiiul the parties whom the tenor of the act '' ! to organize the Territories of Nebraska ami i Kaunas, thwarted in the endeavor to im1 I ( pose, through the agency of Congress, their ^ particular views of social organization on the people of the future new States, now perceiving that the policy of leaving the ^ inhabitant? of each Slate to judge for thcin" selves in this respect was ineradicahly c rooted in the convictions of the people of Ir the Union, then had recourse, in the pur'' suit of their general object, to the, exiraor= dinary measure ol propagandist colonization of the Territory of Kansas, to prevent the l~ free and natural action of its inhabitants in c its internal organization, and thus to anticipate or to force the determination of that question in this inchoate State. With such views, associations were organized in some of the States, and their 0 purposes were proclaimed through the press ie in language extremely irritating and oftVnsive to those of whom the colonists were to L"' become the neighbors. Those designs and acts hacl the necessary consequences to 11 awaken emotions of intense indignation on States near to the Territory of Kansas, and especially in the adjoining State of Missouri, whose domestic peace was thus the most directly endangered; but tliej are far from justifying tlie illegal and s" reprehensible counter movements whicli eiiMiuu. 8" Under these inauspicious circumstances the primary elections for members of the legislative assembly were held in most, i 3 not all, of the precincts at the lime ami the places, and by the persons designUx ! ? and appointed by the Governor acco/din^ 10 to law. jr Angry accusations that illegal votes Lac fit been polled abounded on all sides, and im I; putations were made both of fraud and vio le leuce. But the Governor, in the exercisi ? of the power and the discharge of the dutj ;d conferred and imposed by law on liin alone; officially received and considers n- the return ; declared a large majority of tin ne members of the Council and the llouso o ic Representatives "duly elected;" with!iel< as certificates from others because of alle#e< e- illegality 01 voies; appointed a now eiec >r- tion to supply the place of the persons no its certified ; and thus at length, in all tli th forms of statute and with his own officio n- authentication, complete legality was give ed to the flret legislative assembly of the Tei ts, ritory. in. Those decisions of the returning officci - and of tlio Governor are final, except that, i tl ) by the parliamentary usage of the country tl I applied to the organic law, it tuny bo con- li ceded that each house of tlio assembly T , must have been competent to determine, in ol i the last resort, the qualifications and the o 1 election of its members. The subject was, w ; ! by its nature, one appertaining exclusively b ? j to the jurisdiction of the local authorities si i ! of the Territory. Whatever irregularities is j may have occurred in the elections, it seems b i too latn now to raise that ?pie.sti??n. At all C j events, it is a question as to which, neither p; ! now, nor at any previous time, has the least pi possible legal authority been possessed by ni j the President of the United States. For all j 1? | present purposes the legislative body, thus he constituted and elected, was the legitimate w assembly of the Territory. ol * . v i ? i' * I iiuuuruingiy, me governor, i?y prociama- | si ! lion, convend the assembly tluis elected to C 1 meet at a place called l'awncu city ; the two |?i ; houses met and were duly organized in the a?. j ordinary parliamentary form; each sent to, p< : and received from, the Governor iheoflicial in I | communications usual on such occasions: l>i j an elaborate message opening the session at was communicated by the Governor; and lil the general business of legislation was entered upon by legislative assembly. of J Wit, alter a few days, the assembly re- re solved to adjourn to another place in the ci' Territory. A law was accordingly passed, iii against the consent of the Governor, but in w due form otherwise, to remove the seat of tli I government temporarily to tlio " Shawnee el Manual Labor School," or Mission, and gi thither the assembly proceeded. Alter lb is, la receiving a bill for the establishment of a of ferry at I lie town of Kickapoo, tlie Govern- w or refused to sign it, and, by special mess- di age, assigned for reason of refusal, not anything objectionable to the bill itself, nor ot any pretence of the illegality or incompctency of the assembly as such, but only the cm fact that tin) assembly bad by its act trans- li; for red the scat of government temporarily at from Pawnee city to Shawnee Mission.? in For the same reason lie continued to refuse f>> to sign other bills, until, i:i the course of a fr? few days, be, by official message, coiiimuiii- it cated to the assembly the fact that he laid a received iiotilication of the termination of his functions as Governor, and that the al duties of t111! dflien Wimh l.?r:illv rWnUo.l tr j on the Secretary of the Territory ; thus as i to tliu last rco'?ir??iziii" th?j bodv as a dulv \vi elected and constituted legislative assent- gi !ilv. of It will l?e perceived that, it' any eoiistitu- b> tional defect attached to the legislative acts ; pi of the assembly, it is not pretended to eon- j ill sint in irregul.-iiity of election, or want of ai qualification of the members, but only in bl ihe change of its place of session, llow- pi ever trivial this objection may seem to be, be it requires to be considered, because upon It it is founded all that supers! riictnre of acts, h; plainly against law, which now tlie.itens the cr pcace, not only of the Territory of Kansas, la but of tlii: Union. so Such nil objection to tlic proceedings of Mi the legislative assembly wis of cxceptiona- is bio origin, for the reason that by the ex- ai press terms of the organic law, tliu scat of a government of the Territory was i4 located St temporarily at Fort Leavenworth," and yet |? the Governor himself remained there loss I ? than two months, and of his own discretion ri: transferred the seat of government to the p< Shawnee Mission, where it in fact was at the time the assembly were called to meet d< at Pawnee city. If the Governor had ai any such right to change temporarily the s[ seat of government, still more had the leg- w ishuive assembly. The objection is of ex- re ccplionahle origin, for the further reason that the place indicated by the Governor, ei without having any exclusive claim of g1 preference in itself, was a proposed town site only, which he and others were attempt- tl ing to locale unlawfully upon land within a rc military reservation, and for participa- tl tion in which illegal act the commandant tl of the post?a superior oflicer of the army h ' ll!LS bl!Pn liv ttJlilnncn /if nnii.l ^>1 J VV..^ v-wv..., w, martial. U ; Nor is it easy to see why the legislative tl assembly might not, with propriety, pass tl ' the Territorial act, transferring its sittings st to the Shawnee Mission. If it could not, fc ' that must be on account of some prohibi- tl 1 tory or incompatible provision of act of ai Congress. Dm no sucli provision exists. U ' The organic act, as already quoted, says b j. " tlie seat of government is hereby located d I temporarily at Fort Leavenworth," and it ti I then provides that certain of the public n f buildings there " may ho occupied and used v ' under the direction of the CJovernor and T I legislative assembly." These expressions o . migui posainiy be constructed to imply that <1 when in a previous section of tlie act it was 1< j enacted that " the first legislative assembly r< . shall meet at such place and on such day U , as the Governor shall appoint," the word tl j " place" means place at Fort Leavenworth, tl 3 not place any where in the Territory. If f so, tho Governor would have been the first tl ] to err in this matter, not only io himself b 1 having removed the seat of government to e y tho Shawnee Mission, but in again reraov- v t ing it to Pawnee city. If there was any / 6 departure from the letter of the law,- there- o ,j fore, it was his in both instances. I n But, however this may be, it is most un- I r. reasonable to suppose that by the terms of t the organic act Congress intended to do c s implicitly what it has not done expressly? < i:it is, to forbid to the legislative assembly 0 10 power to choose any place it might see olut t as the temporary seat of its deliberations, inea hat is proved by tho significant language mill f one of tins subsequent acts of Congress lie i n the subject?that of March 3, 1855? mor liieh, in making appropriation for public, Iciic millings of tho Territory, enacts that the soru line shall not be expended " until the leg- tive I...r /...t-i 'P r* ?t ? n * * i.iuuu \>i nmu lenuory snail ll.ivc nxe<l pe?"i' y law the permanent seat of government." It ongress, in these expressions, does not and rofess to be granting tin; power to fix the sas t i?rmam?nt seat of government, but recog- then izes the power as one already granted, cial ut how ? Undoubtedly by the com pre- molt misive provision of the organic act itself, to pi hicb declares that " the legislative power sl.avt the Territory shall extend to all rightful mise dijects of legislation consistent with the its 111 unstitutioii of the United States and the bege ovisions of this act." If, in view of this foil 11 ;t, the legislative assembly had the large even jwer to fix tlio permanent seat of govern- dilln cut at any place in its discretion, of course Ihmv ; the same enactment it had the less agiti 11I the included power to fix it tempora- bly Iv. y stiifi Nevertheless, the allegation that the acts Tl the legislative assembly were illegal hy prcst ason of litis removal of its place of sos- prod hi, was brought forward to justify the Norl >t great movement in disregard of law of tl ithi:: the Territory. One of the acts of new e legislative assembly provided for the little cction of a delegate to tlie present Con- tig"1 ess, and a delegate was elected under that prod w. Hut, subsequently to this, a portion Clini the people of the Territory proceeded, adv:i ithout authority of law, to elect another on tl legate. good Following upon this movement was an- with lior ? ??! Hi/n-.i ? * -? ** 11 - imj/'M i.iiil unu ui me same 'i1"7'"' ncral character. Persons confessedly not turl?i mstituiing the body politic, or all tlie in- J* ibilants, but merely a party of inhabitant*, lion id without law, have undertaken to sum- ^ "i on a convention for tlie purpose of trans- peop ruling the Territory into a Slate, ami have !l'"^ ' lined a constitution, adopted it, and under Abo elected a Governor and other ollicers, and c.itiz* representative to Congress. . eonl In extenuation of these illegal acts, it is tcrvi leged that the States of California-, Michi- '>)' 11 m, and others, were self-organized, and, to ei such, were adiuitled into the Union ",u ' it'iouf. M i n- ?"- Cliai.iillg act o[ v^oue.-s. It is true that, while, in a majority him? cases, a lueviolis net of t.-.c <rovu sen passed to authorize the Teiritory to detoi vsent it-s,-ir as a State, ami that this is and remed the most regular course, yet such lions i act lias not heen hold to he indispeusa- <"|Uir< e, and in some eases, the Territory has l>o\v< oceeded without it, and has nevertheless legn sen admitted into the Union as a State. ^ lies with Congress to authorize befoie- imp* md, or to confirm afterwards, in its disetion; hut in no instance has a State ort'e ;eu admitted upon tlie application of per- w"e' lis acting against authorities duly consti- ?' ? tod hy act of Congress. In every case it I1 the people of the Territory, not a party mstr nong them, who have the power to form ^roni constitution, and a;-k for admission as a ate. No principle of public law, 110 l',en acticc or precedent under the constitution ilct * the United States, no rule of reason, ^ i;lit, or common sense, confers any such turb; >wer as that now claimed by a mere party 1,0,11 the Territory. In fact, what has been l,er ' ine is of revolutionary character. It is offns owedly so in motive and in aim as re- ner? iccts the local law of the Territory. It P10'1 ill become treasonable insurrection if it cur :aeh the length of organized resistance by 'c*,ICl re to tho fundamental or any otlicr fedal law, and to the authority of the general s*'tu Dvernmcnt. terns In such an event, tlio path of duty for te Executive is plain. The constitution P"8' xjuiring him to take care that the laws of le United Stales be faith fully executed, if s icy be opposed in the Territory of Kansas, a co e may, and should place, at tlio disposal t'10 1 f the Marshal, any public force of the ft co iiited States which happens to be within rc?11 ic jurisdiction, to he used as a portion of 1I,to le jwxse comitatua, and if that do not ^ jflieo to maintain order, then ho may call a >rth the militia of one or more States for J tat object, or employ for the same object P"" ny pari 01 me lanu or naval force of the """ Suited States. So, al?>, if the obstruction t,on e to the laws of the Territory, and it be ''c c uly presented to him a3 a case of insurrecon, he may employ for its suppression the lilitia of any State, or the land or the naal force of the United States. And if the ,nce erritory be invaded by the citizens of ihcr States, whether, for the purpose of 10 ' eciding elections or for any other, and the ?onn >cal authorities find themselves unable to ?pel or withstand it, they will be entitled t t ? ? . . an/I >, ana upon me Tact neing rally ascertained Toy shall most certainly receive, the aid of ^etc i WAf lie general government. ; But it is not the duty of lite President of be United State# to volunteer interposition c,ety force t6 preserre the purity of. electiona . fiber in a State or Territory, To do so no^ ?ould be subversive of public freedom. Lnd whether a law be wise or unwise, just r unjust, ia not a question for bim to jodg?? J** f it be constitutional?that is, If it be tfce aw of the land?it is bis duty to cause it o be executed, or to sustain the authoritit* if any State or Territory in executing it in ?bo ^position to all insurrectionary movements, ven >ur system affords no jurisdiction of revionary acts; for tho constitutional ns of relieving tho people of unjust adistration and laws, by a change of pubngenls and by repeal, are ample, and e prompt and effective than illegal vioe. These constitutional means must be pulously guarded?this great prerogaof popular sovereignty sacredly resi'd. is tho undoubted right, of the peaceable orderly people of tho Territory of Kano elect their own legislative body, make own laws, and regulate their own soinstitutions, without foreign or domestic :station. Interference on the one hand, roeure the abolition or prolnbition ot i labor in the Territory, lias produced hievous interference on the other, for laintenancc or introduction. One wrong ts another. Statements entirely milled, or grossly exaggerated, concerning Is within the Territory, are sedulously sed through remote States to feed the e of sectional animosity there; and the itors there exert themselves indefatigain return to encourage and stimulate i within the Territory. lie inflammatory agitation, of which the lit is hut a part, has for twenty years need nothing save unmitigated evil, h and South, liut for it, the character ie domestic institutions of the future State would have hoen a matter of too interest to the inhabitants of the connis States, personally or collectively, to uce among them any political emotion, late, soil, production, hopes of rapid ncement and the pursuit of happiness ie part of the settlers themselves, with I wishes, but with no interference from out, would have quietly determined the lion, which is at this time of such diss ing character. ut wo are constrained to turn our attento tho circumstance of embarrassment icy now exist. It is tho duty of tlio lo of Kansas to discountenance every or purpose of resistance to its laws.? vo all, the emergency appeals to the jus of the States, and especially of lho.se iguous to tlio Territory, neither l?y inMitioii of non-residents in elections, nor naulhorizcd military force, to a'temp* icroach upon or usurp tho authority of nhabitauts of the Territory. w 1:111^011 ui our country stiouiu peiimi ielf to forge^that lie is a part of its ruinent, and entitled to bo heard in tlio initiation of its policy and its measures, that, therefore, tlio highest eonsidera? of personal honor and patriotism roi him to maintain, by whatever of jr or intluctice ho may possess, the in ty of the laws of the republic, utcrtaiuing these views, it will be my jrative duly to exert the whole power le Federal Executive to support public r in the Territory; to vindicate its laws, :hcr federal or local, against nil attempts rgnnized resistance; and 60 to protect eople in the establishment of their own tutions, undisturbed by encroachment i without, and in the full enjoyment of rights of self-government assured to 1 by the constitution and the organic >f Congress. I though serious and threatening disnnces in the Territory of Kansas, aniced to me by the governor in Decemlast, were speedily quieted without the ion of blood, and in a satisfactory manthere is, I regret to say, reason to apend that disorders will continue to ociherc, with increasing tendency to vioi>, until some decisive measure bo taken spose of the question itself, which conies the inducement or occasion of inil agitation and of external interference, his, it seems to me, can best be accomicd by providing that, when the inhabi5 of Kansas may desire it, ami shall be ufluient numbers to constitute a State, nvention of delegates, duly elected by [{Ualificd voters, shall assemble to frame nstitution, and thus to prepare, through ilar and lawful means, for its admission the Union as a State. respectfully recommend the enactment , law to that elfect. recommend, also, that a special appro lion be made to defray any expense :h may become requisite in the execuof t.lift lnwa nr t.lift liiimitonnnnn nf nnh -- r ? irder in tlio Territory of Kansas. FRANKLIN PIERCE. What's in a Name ?"?At a recent ting of the Asiatic Society, the Secre, on belmlf of the Council, submitted the meeting the name of Phra Bard idetch Phra Paramendr Maha MongPhra Chora Klua Chau Yu Hua, the if King of Siam, and that of his brother subordinate prince, Phra Bard Sorah Phra Paramendr Raruear Maheaesr Phra Pin Kh?u Chau Yu.Tlau, for Lion as honorary mum hers of the SoIt Af OAflMtt liAiK j ? v ? vwui wv w*m ??vi v viVVbVMi . 1 .1 '<> ? i KST An old deacon,-whO?e eyesight was e of the best, reada certain passage of pture to fats astonished bearers in tbia ): "And a solemn man bad three bun1~porcupines and tw<y burred knives." ihvnder," is r rendered: Tiik^you^d^t**** J? the de of . t^ echoes of fe?*? *? artillery, : 7 / 'rom the Spirit of the South. To Kansas Emigrants and to all Ftie; of. the South. I had proposed to start with my cc pany of Kansas emigrants on the 11th February next, but many of tlicm l?c unable to got ready by that time, and otli being unwilling to go before spring, ; especially as I am advised by my eorrc-p dents that (lie Missouri and Kansas riv are already impeded by ice, I have del mined to postpone starting till the wii: breaks. The emigrants may rendezvous at 1 faula, on tlie ' } 1st of Mareh next, at Colli bus, da., on the 3-1 of April, and at Mu gomery, Ala., on the 5th April next? that I can start from Kufaula, via Columi mil r\*\ u . ..x. J y W?l C.?v> v those I find sit tlie different places of r dezvous. The company will travel IV Montgomery l>y steamers, via Mobile J New Orleans, or else by railroad via t hmta to Nashville, and thence by stcan to Kansas. I engage to transport no b gage except six blankets, one gun, ( knapsack mid one frying pan to each ei grant?for baggage over and above tl the emigrant himself must engage tra portutiou?many will have no more, an must treat all alike. While I thought i company would be small, I expected to able to take women, children and slav but I find I imi>i leave litem l<> give pi; to men, who are now gieatly needed Kansas to preserve the public peace ; enforce the laws. I now expect over i'< hundred men, and I will take no fem ales,i slaves nor minors under 18 years of agi women and children should not be expo there in tents in the spring?but husbands should go first ai.d prep houses. The regiment will be divided into cc panics of forty or fifty men, under the us military oilieers, elected by the men. fj ccio have no emoluments, ami the organi tion is on the principle of volunteer mi! to susiain the laws; a majority of e: company may expel any m.;im>er. Kau< transportation ami fare, that ot' soldiers service. By remunerating me for the pr lege of joining my parly, for subsiaiei am! transportation to Kansas, and for I nisliing m?-ii to enter his pre-emption, e; emigrant agiees to aeipiire a pre-einpti and to pay me, when his titles arc | fee ted, a sum e<pial to the value of o half of his pre-emption, which obligat he may discharge in money, ur properly a fair valuation, at his own option. I I heretofore, from misinformation, supi>0! emfllions assignable before patent. I on examining Um act 1 liml tliey are i Neither does the donation act apply Kansas, hut each male of full age, widi or head of family, who has not had a j emption under the act of 1841, and d not own 3*20 acres of land, and who 1 improved and settled on it not to sell speculation, hut for for his own use a cultivation, is entitled to enter 1G0 acres ?1.25 per acre, payable any lime before laud sales. I have simplified my proposals to a s gle proposition an above, in order to more easily understood and to obviate many questions that overwhelm me. Besides taking only free males o eighteen, the great number of applicatu compels this further modification, i. e.will receive only those emigrants who r dezvous at the places above designated? either of which places, i. p., Eul'aula, < lumbus or Montgomery, I will receive males over eighteen from any Soul In State, who join me at the time above signaled ; their rations to begin from times above named for rendezvous. Jii grants must pay their own expenses to placo and day of rendezvous. Those g tlemen in California and other States, loi ing companies to join me, can very eas obtain fret; trntisiioi-L:itio:i for their coinii; ies, by proper applications to the direct of the railmads over which they must pi They give free passage to cattle ami a< cultural productions to fairs, and wlijfi to volunteers perilling nil in their defem Without Kansas and slavery, free ne? doin will soon crush out cattle, cotton, t leges, property and progress?drones \ eat up the hive, railroads disappear, * wild beasts, briers and brambles oven the land. It is a question not of pr erty, but of the supremacy of tlie while rj in which rich and poor eijtial inter Kansas lost, and all west, nay ! all cast the Mississippi must soon follow. Kan is the great outpost and stand point in contest; a people who will not defend tl outposts have already succumbed to invader. Do we fear to send one m lest the North mny^end two? then have already ingloriously surrendered wi out a struggle. Is not Kansas now in our hands ? s if we only encourage the Missourians, i they not retain it? Did not the So send to Mexico double the volunteers e by the North? and when waa it discove that they were more patriotic or more thusia6tic in defending their country t their institutions than we? The way quell tlie fury of the fanatic and w beast, is not to crouch and flee, but to t and look him in the eye, for else he i spring upon and rend you in pieces; i depend on it, when once the North catc the steady firm gaze of 8oulhem Reus her commercial and conservative insti will awaken and save us, our stitutioos i the Union, from Iter madmen. And who is perilling the Union, bal impious intermeddle!*; who fain would ini V.s accountable to theih rather than G for the trust which lie has committed our keeping ? ' And ? not slavery u ti given us of Providence fctf the benefit both raccs? Can republican equality, yet, be perpetuated without sugar, cot and cboap clothing, cap cWilizaUob not tain its progress? &d.can thes&be sonp ifr' flfc. .world w'fthout slavery < > w. alrtvery is ibfl only school io -which the based son of. Hafn, fey attrition will not -of eWice Wrprmat, b*t at t an^ I God, cowardly sneak off, and like unprofitands l?le servants, basely surrender this guardianship, becauso vain, self-righteous intermedin. | dlois, have made it troublesome to mainf tain I What good, what valuable thing, . ? i was over brought forth without labor and inS travail ? and what ever preserved without lers ' toil and clanger? iii.l : Are we prepared to hconmo the serfs of ol). : foreign iutcrnn-ddlers and masters ? Ai? i prepared to sink to the level of the ( rs Klhtopian, and clasp him in the fond enilc'r~ | braee of political and social finality and iter fraternity * For to litis Abolition unstayed ' must come. Fanaticism must defend its ' beneficiaries ; liisi, by sending the federal AIIUV (o uro!<U'r thi?m ?inl lihini'iJJtf ! ? ... , '- J "J giving ilium the right to hear arms, to vote, >nt- testify, make ami admistor laws?to cat -so out your substance, to pull you down to |)lls their level, to taint the blood of your posterity, ami bring it to a degradation from i which millions of ages cannot redeem it.? cn" This is a question of races. Am I mad for otn perilling my estate in the alt tempt?call it mil hopeless attempt?to tra-.ismit c.onservativo institutions to my children ] lint rather ; arc not you mad who eagerly gather wealth, not for your posterity, but that fiec negro ilo drones may have hoarded it Are not )tie you mad who construct railroads, not for mj. travel ami commerce, but that the rank ,is> i forests may choke them up?you who ,|S_ build cities and palaces, not for a high ,1 J civilization, but that grass may j?row in the mv ' streets, and foxes look out of the winl,"e dows i es; i Let every one awake to the terrible isiee sues now upott us. Let us cease fiddling in iml dancing while lloims is burning; let iml every one man the engines, let all contriDiir . luite according to his means. Let us nor . awaken the prayers of the church, the cn:? tliusiasm of our beautiful daughters; let sod them hold fairs ami put in use their many the pretty devices to raise material aid. aie : Look not to the slow, inadequate action ' ef political leaders; paralyzed l>y tho >m ! shackles of parly, we fear they can only IIIll 'IIOIKH ri.ii mill tii ... .1. ! C. _ , u J"t. ".v.. OV I (1IM.I &U'IU 'Ili- | of wonls," or only " cry peace! pence ! /.a- when there is no peace." A ml yet, what ilia politician so demented, that lie would u li renew old strifes to dissuade State action 'lis, and organized defence, under the vain hopo in that disconnected individual effort could ivi- | meet the emergency ? And yet. for this uce ' let not individuals despair, but rather let "tir- them increase their contributions and reicli j iloiible their energies. Let chivalrous and on, ! hopeful seekers of fair eliniis come on and >or- join our expeililion. 1 have before told lie- 1 you what Judge Calo (.Imlge of the Terriion ; tory) says of that fertile region. Ip his at letter of November last, he savs, "corn is uul plenty at twenty-live cents per biinhel.? *0(1 This is as fine a country as any on earth, |,lit i till* l?r?idle ..!? 5u- : ' - * lot. in tlie cotton regions. All gran, grass, to : clover and hemp, give large returns?at iw, ' least from thirty to forty dollars per aero ire- | annually. 1 have seen no poor land ; it oes : all seems richer than the best Chattahoolias , eliec bottom, and most of it is just like adon j joining Missouri lands that now sell at itid twenty to fifty dollars per acre. The cstii at j mated average of the corn is one hundred the j bushels per acre, and six tons hemp per j hand, worth $140 per ton. I can give ;jn. n? i lea of the lieauty :iml fertility of th? l,e soil mill country ; good wells can obtained l|)C anywhere, and running streams are frequent." ver ]>r. Walker, a long resident of its birjiis ders, and of high character and intelligence, ? I ' sa\s, "as far as health, climate and profit* en- i of lahor is concerned, Kansas is better than -at any part of the Union. There is no cent.Jo try where a man can be more independent, all ami make, his bread and meat with less eapiei'u tal than here; ten or twelve furrows will de | make ten barrels of corn per acre. Ono the thousand pounds hemp per aero is a comiui inon crop. There are swarms of catt'o ihe and good markets for everything." en- Another distinguished resident of Westtil cm Missouri, in his letter of 30th Decemsily her to me says, "Planters aie making twice im- the money per hand that they are in any ors other part of the Union. One hand will; rait-e live tons of hemp, and this don't inyi terlere with the corn, wheat and oat ciop ; not planters have no supplies to purchase, but [ 0? ever) thing to sell. A near neighbor l.u-t TO- year, with fourteen hands, men, women rol and boys, averaged eight hundred and v i 11 thiity-six dollars per hand?negro fellow#^ ii;d field hands, hire for three hundred dollars tin per ; iiiHtm?mechanics ?000 white rron ; f>I?- $25 per mouth ; any number of youngice, men, in the spring, can find ready em ployest. ment at that price, ar.d then they have i of other advantages. Kansas is the starting sas point for California, Oregon, Utah, aiid the New York?thousands of wagons leave i3\erv niirmg?miy carry llirce 11111110118 Ot the jroods per annum to Now Mcxito, besides an. immense government supplies to pay. we Indians and sustain our miliary posts, d*iv itli- Let every one wishing to go, urge his neighbors to hold meetings to appoint, md agents to solicit every man's contribution,. ivill oil her in money or note payable afrer the uth emigrants are taken out. Contributions eni must not be to individual member*, bul for red the common benefit. I could-,by the Inst en- of March raise a thousand men, if the cOn-md tributions reached, say $150 per head?for.to that would enable me to furnish all withdid their military and agricultural outfit, lam, urn asked, "what military and other service do will I require 1"?none except that wlien he gets <nd to Kansas, the emigrant shall begin some * lies honest employment for a living?if it bo on, working on his claim?that will net credit to buy breadon: On his w*jzih(?rfc^ I ina ne is expected to be orderly and temperate, to attend the" reading: of, tb? j$ttl?tur& atttt the prayer, night and morning, leaw^. fe^i;i]ce God, to be charitable to Qjjt egeo? od, Ue with females and those hv qptvp Kto merciful toslavea and all of All who intend to gg as me immediately.