Civil War by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 21, 1856

Civil War.

By Editor

THE CRISIS FOR KANSAS

We cannot state the case more fully or impressively than to give the following extract from a Washington letter in the New York Courier and Enquirer:

"To me it appears evident that the people of the Northern States are not aware of the real condition of things in Kansas. I believe that without large supplies of men, money, ammunition and fire-arms, a massacre will take place there in the Spring. The message will greatly aggravate the aggressive and violent spirit of the Missouri borderers. If we neglect until the Spring opens the great duty of re-inforcing our people, the opportunity for defense will have been lost. I think I know something of the character of the men with whom they will have to deal. Two years ago I showed that they would do precisely what they have done, and I now state my conviction that a civil war is about to be commenced in Kansas, of which the object, on the part of the aggressors, will be the utter extermination of the Free-State settlers in the Territory, or their expulsion from its soil. Atchinson and Stringfellow openly declare themselves prepared for the greatest excesses, and every circumstance of this deplorable controversy furnishes a proof that they will have the means of executing their plans unless timely provision be made for meeting and defeating their attacks."

On the 5th of April a regiment of volunteers from Alabama will leave Montgomery for Kansas under the command of Major Buford. The regiment will be composed of 400 men, divided into companies of 50 each, commanded and drilled by officers chosen by themselves.