The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-18
The Contest for Popping Kansas and Ne.
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The Contest for Popping Kansas and Me-
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Philenthropists of the Mrs. Jellyby order,
and Spectators are busily engaged in en-
rolling themselves into associations for the en-
enlargement and furtherance of immigration
into Kansas and Nebraska. How many asso-
Citations Of the kind have been formed, how
many members they count, what funds they
have raised, and on what resources they are
enabled to rely, we have yet to learn all we
knosy is the general fact that a movement
is being made by many opponents of the
Nebraska bill with view to introduce free
settlers into the new territories and secure
them to freedom by means of their vote. The
question of freedom and slavery having been
disposed Of in accordance with constitutional
principle, and the free sellers defeated in their
attempt to override law, reason and right, the
only rational course left to the latter was to
endeavor to convert the future settlers
Nebraska to their views and this Is in fact d y
course they have adopted. We rejoice, even
at this late hour, that they should have dis
played SO much reason and sense. TIE
clamor they raised when the repeal of the
Missouri act was first proposed did not
encourage us to expect much evidence of
these qualities from them; it would have been
more consistent with their past conduct to have
opposed the introduction of slaves into Kansas
with fire and sword, or to have devoted the
next few years to abusing the South at Faneuil
Hall or the Tabernacle Long practice has
perhaps exhausted the charm of such pastimes;
or possibly, in the anguish of disappointment,
q CLEAN Of calm reason may have varied the
monotony of their normal madness However
this be, it is undeniable that the foes of the
constitution have for once adopted a policy
against which no radical objection can be
urged 1t is clearly the right of every citi-
zen to further immigration and to encourage
the settlement Of our waste lands by every
legitimate means at his command: by none
more naturally than by the expenditure of his
own money. The degree Of credit which such
acts reflect varies of course according to the
motive: he who fosters immigration in order
praise while he who does the same in order to
carry political point or to make money de-
serves none. But, from whatever motive the
act proceed, it cannot be condemned by the
public. The practical result of the organize
ton Of emigrant societies for Kansas and Ne
braska may possibly be to fill those Terri
tories with laborers and farmers many years
before they would otherwise have been settled:
and at this we cannot complain Whether in
cidentally to it's settlement, slave or free
labor be adopted in the region, is not ques-
ton in which we are directly concerned. That
interests the people of the Territory, and what
ever they may decide at first, we may rest per-
fectly assured that they will eventually adopt
that sort Of labor which is best adapted to the
soil, the climate, and the productions of the
country. 1t is enough for us to know that the
ostensible object Of these emigrant societies is
to settle the country and to grow corn and
potatoes where hitherto the fruitfulness OF the
earth has been wasted. And though it is obvious
to all of us that beneath this apparent motive
there lurk others which are neither more nor
less than fanaticism in some, and avarice in
others, we can afford, we think, to give the ia
natics and SPECTATORS the benefit of the most
favorable construction Of their conduct.
we are aware that many persons whose opin-
ions are entitled to respect consider that the
interests of large section of this country re-
quire that slave labor should not be excluded