Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-06-26
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Emigration 10 Kansas.
1t might be supposed that the single fact
that land offices are to be established in Kan
sas this summer, would draw into that beau
tiful region very large proportion of the for
eign emigrants arriving daily at our ports with
the intention of moving Westward. This
would seem especially likely, if the plan of the
Homestead bill, now pending, be carried out.
400, 1000 enligrants and more will arrive from
Europe this wear. More than half of these
will proceed Westward. If there should be
only a fair opportunity, Kansas would of
course take its chance to receive a very con-
siderable proportion of them.
The risk or threat, however, that Kansas
may be slave State, is quite enough to deter
separate individuals in that emigration from
establishing themselves there. Emigrants
will not settle in slave States. There are
lands in Delaware, Virginia, and Kentucky,
begging for them to come and take them. But,
for very good reasons, they will not go. And
it is fact, which has already been observed
upon the Upper Missouri River, that separate
companies of settlers have passed through
Kansas and gone to the more repulsive climate
and soil of the northern territory, Nebraska
in their unwillingness to take lot in region
where they were not assured Of free institu-
tons.
This fear vanishes at once, when any sys-
TEN is given to the emigration. Twenty thous-
and emigrants moving together to Kansas do
not incur any danger of institutions being
forced upon them which are not agreeable to
themselves. And, already, since the public
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grant Aid Company has selected Kansas as
the State to which emigrants shall go, who
move westward in its conveys, the apprehen-
sion which small companies of settlers had, is
relieved, and they make their preparations to
take up their homes in the more favored region
of the two.
So decided is this tendency, as already ex-
hibited South and West, that the press of the
Southern and Western States is universally
recognizing it. The New Orleans Bulletin
said, very early in the matter, that if Massa-
chusetts men feared Nebraska would become a
slave territory, they must go there and vote it
free. Not only Massachusetts, men, but men
from every New England State, and as we
happen to know, from New York, Pennsyl-
yania, the District of Columbia, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, and Missouri, intend to do this,
and to do it not only for Nebraska, but for
Kansas first. Very Justly and honorably is
the issue, thus presented, met in the lynch
burg Virginian, which calls on the South to
do precisely as the North is preparing to do,
"fll the country as rapidly as possible with
the right sort of population to sustain our in
stitutions." A few people of jackson Coun-
ty, Missouri, have resolved to do the same
thing. And, as the Virginian says, the South
has now an opportunity to reply practically to
the Northern boast of superior enterprise, ac-
tivity and energy.
The difficulties in the way of the Southern
"reply are these LIST. That the moving
of slaves into wilderness for profitable labor,
is not an easy matter. End. That large own
ers of that class of property" however will
ling to subscribe to resolutions, or even to
funds about emigration, hesitate before they
take their people to a frontier region, where
opportunities for escape are frequent, and
where they are sure to be surrounded by non
slaveholding neighbors. 3rd. That when they
are there, these slaves command no votes,-
and though their presence hastens The time
when Kansas shall become State, they are
not able to give any accession of strength to
the vote Of their masters, in the first contested
election, however DESTROYS they may be to do
so. An appeal is made particularly to Mis-
rouri to furnish the emigrants who shall secure
to Kansas the benefits Of slave institutions
The appeal is very natural one. But it is to
be remembered that the whole vote of Missou-
ri is not more than 5000; that of that num-
Der certainly one half have no particular at
tachment to Southern institutions that there
Is no special private reason why any Missouri
farmer should leave his newly acquired home
for wilderness; and that if half the voters
in Missouri We're to go to Kansas they would