The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1854-07-29

question Of freedom or slavery in Kansas
While we are compelled to differ with many
honest and well meaning persons as to the
justice and psopriety Of a distant government,
necessarily unacquaintcd with the condition
and wants Of far off territory, to interfere
with, and regulate its domestic institutions,
our adherence Of slavery, our firm conyic-
ton that the institution is an inc,mbus upon
the prosperity Of every country where it ex
lists, and, more than all, our concern for the
peace and quiet Of this Union, incline all our
synpnthies in favor Of the success Of the eff
fort of its people to secure it to freedom
Entertaining these views, we have watched
with deep interest the progress Of settlement
there, and the probable preponderance ofthc
friends Of slave or free territory.
Mr.. Wood, win has en,igralcd to Kansas
from Cincinnati, writes from Independence,
Mo-, under date of June 9Th :
A meeting is called on July 8, Of those
friendly to making Kansas free State. En-
igrants from Iowa, Illinois and Indiana, are
arriving daily. Ten days will not pass until
cabins of at least two hundred opponents of
slavery will be in progress of construction
a few more, and we shall be inyincible All
we want is for every northern man--cycry
northern family, who have their minds on
this Territory, to come on at once. This
slavery question must he decided n0m Let
slavery once get ioothold and she will be
hard to rout, while a proper demonstration
now will scare all the Shareholders out Of the
Territory, and prevent more slavery from be,
ing brought here. Let me, therefore, say to
one ana all, who ever design coming here, to
come at once no time is to be los. you will
find every assistance to get good claims rem
dercd to you that is possible"
The few more" desired by Mr.. Wood
promise to be abundantly supplied, We no
tice large party startedr recently from Quin-
cy, in this state, with their families for Kan
sas, all opponents of slavery. The advance
guard" Of the Boston Emigration Society,
have also crossed the Mississippi, consisting
of bewteen thirty and forty men, from Is to
As years Of age, but most of them in the vi
cinity of 80, and many more are TO follow I'M
der the same auspices. From Ohio, Penn
sylvania, and indeed all quarters, parties are
likewise being made up, and the emigration
to Kansas really promises to rival that to Cal.
ifornia in 1919.
The publication ola newspaper, called the
Herald Of Freedom, has also been common.
ccd, by Mr. Brown, late publisher of the
Conneautville Courier, Pa, designed to op.
pose the introduction of slavery in the terri.
tories.
A little feeling, doubtless, is manifested
by the slave population Of Missouri at the
rush from the north for this territory, and at
what they regard as determined effort to
abolitionize it; and some extravagant and
foolish resolutions have been passed at seve.
raj meetings on the borders. But the Indc.
pendcnce messenger denies that these meet.
ings reflect the sentiments Of any considcra.
BILE portion Of the people in that region. The
New York Tribune says Of the Boston COM
pany:
The Company's letters from Kansas and
the best private ntormationit has, show that
while on the Missouri frontier there is un.
doubtcdly a divided feeling as to large
northern emigration there need be but very
little fear of any violent opposition made
by hot-hcadcd Young Kansas to anybody :
arrival. On the western line of Missouri
there are in the neighborhood of Missouri
river some large farms and plantations with
| slaves but with this execution there are Inn,
few slaves teld in the counties contiguous to
Kansas. In the northwestern section of the
Statc--the section which, by one of the ear
~ invasions Of the compromise, was added to
Missouri in ls37--thcre are very few slaves.
This is directly opposite the river shore OF
Kansas. Indeed, all through the early spring
this country was crowded with cmigrants
| from the northwestern States, intending to
pass into Kansas rs soon as the country was
open. We need only follow our hand to
keep the tide OF Northern emigration strong
enough to wash the channels clear.