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populace in such articles as the following, taken from the Kickapoo 
Pioneer , of Dec. 26 : 
“ Eat the abolitionists, or free-state men, if you please, have 
become dissatisfied, and are willing to violate the constitution of 
their country, which explicitly recognizes slavery, and disfran¬ 
chise themselves as loyal citizens, for the purpose of stealing ne¬ 
groes, and committing other unconstitutional and unlawful dep¬ 
redations. Should such men receive any compassion from an or¬ 
derly, union-loving people? No! It is this class of men that 
have congregated at Lawrence, and it is this class of men that 
Kansas must get rid of. And we know of no better method than 
for every man who loves his country, and the laws by which he is 
governed, to meet in Kansas and kill off this God-forsaken class 
of humanity as soon as they place their feet upon our soil.” 
While articles like these are circulated through the borders, let¬ 
ters, calling for men and money, are industriously written and 
published throughout the South. Southern Kansas aid societies 
are being formed, and it is rumored that Gen. Quitman, of Missis¬ 
sippi, of filibuster renown, has given twenty-five hundred dollars 
to this society, and will be here in the spring with several hundred 
men from that state. Major Buford, of Alabama, has contributed 
twenty-five thousand dollars for a similar purpose, and upon the 
opening of navigation proposes to be here with three hundred 
southerners. Notwithstanding the hue and cry made over north¬ 
ern emigrant aid societies, will there be aught said against these? 
Jan. 1st . — A beautiful, sunny morning ushers in the new year, 
but the air is still keen and cold. For nearly ten days the cold 
has been without precedent, and we, of New England, who came 
hoping to find warm and pleasant winters, begin to surmise we are 
in the wrong latitude, and talk of a new emigration still south¬ 
ward. 
A gentleman here to-day, who has lived in Missouri over twenty 
years, says he has never seen such weather as this. With his 
large, blue blankets, a place being cut in‘the centre through which 
he slips his head, his ears and nearly the whole of the face being 
protected by a worsted fabric of gray color, one can hardly tell 
whether he belongs to the Anglo-Saxon or the aboriginal race. 
