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Say nothing about what you are going to do, but go to work and do 
it. Send us the right kind of men and let us have less of your 
braggadocio."'’ 
A southern clergyman, who served as a missionary in 
Kansas, wrote to Bishop George F. Pierce of Nashville, Tenn., 
in December, 1856 : 
The south has every advantage but is slow to occupy the ground. 
The capital invested in the Territory is, I think, mostly Northern. And 
what Southern capital is here is principally on the rivers, where it can 
turn it to a heavy per centum. And the South with reference to Kansas 
seems to have “curled’’ itself up and concentrated itself morally, 
politically and religiously into these words: “Will it pay?”^® 
Asserting that this policy would result in the South being 
rebuked by the loss of the Territory, the writer uttered the 
following warning appeal: 
We want good hona fide settlers here, not such samples as were 
sent by some from the South. . . . The South has good men; and 
these we want or none. The capitalists of the South seem desirous that 
young men bred in the school of adversity should settle the country, 
improve the soil, drive back the wolves, and fight the battles, while they 
enjoy the ease and luxury of their Southern homes. Most of the toil 
and burden, thus far, has been borne by poor young men — men who 
are not personally interested in Southern property, and whose pecuniary 
interest would suffer nothing by the North obtaining the ascendency 
here. Yet they have engaged in their work from principle, believing 
that the country requires sacrifices at their hands. . . . The days of 
this burden bearing are well nigh numbered unless men of capital and 
means pursue a different course.^^ 
The all-important thing in the long run for either North 
or South, under the principle of popular sovereignty, was to 
get settlers into Kansas who would remain. Only a small 
part of the great westward-moving current reached Kan- 
sas. There were those in the South who realized 
that if Kansas should ever be peopled by southerners, the col- 
onists could not be furnished by the lower South. There were 
people in both sections who were indifferent to the fate of 
Kansas. There were large numbers who were tremendously 
interested in competing areas. There were persons in New 
Kansas Free State, April 7, 1855. 
George F. Pierce, Incidents of Western Travel (Nashville, 1857), 187-188. (Con- 
tains a long* quotation from the letter from which the above excerpt is taken.) Bishop 
Pierce, a moderate proslavery man, visited Kansas in 1856, and published his book 
after returning* to Nashville. 
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