New-York daily tribune., 1854-08-26
KANSAS.
THE STRUGGLE OF SLAVERY AND FREE
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| THE STRUGGLE OF SLAVERY AND FREE
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! cor.srordeses of TIE n Y TrssuB.
FORT LEAvENwoRrH Kansas. Aag l3, lisa.
We wLO in the disputed Territory, and are eager
y watching the changing phases OF the battle for Tree
GOm, see constantly Incidents which arouse alternately
hope and fear For the last fortnight the indications
have been rather of cheering character. Frst among
them MAJ Dame the arrival OF the pioneer parig OF
thirty men sent cut by the Massachusetts Emigrant
Aid Company. Their appearance and bearing as they
passed through Missouri did much TO conciate favor
ard sympathy. They were seen to be men OF quite
different character from what had been unreasonably
enough anticipated neither paupers thieves nor in.
"ceLdiaTies' as the western Missouri papers had
given out This Company passed Immediately up the
Kansas River through the Shawnee reservation aud
have located themselves near the Wakarusa River.
This section Of country had already been previously
known free soil district much 50 that at least
one STAKEHOLDER, after locating himself with bis prop
erty there, becoming acquainted with the sentiments
OF bis neghbors, preeiptately returned TO Missouri.
The valley of the Kansas With its recent Infusion OF
New England emigration and the moral influence OF
tie prospective accessions OF the same SORT may now
be said be entirely Anti-Slsyery. recent journey
through the settlements of that region convinces
that the Free soil sentiment is at least twice as
strong as the opposite If may Judge by the tone
of the hotel and barrOom talk in the neighboring from
tier towns of Kansas independence aud Westport,
discoursgemeIt has taken hold of the PrO-Slayery
party, and the opinion freely expressed tnaI hahsds
will be free
But while the southern half of the Territory will be
the New England portion. and will contain very large
majority of northern settlers, the part north of the
Kansas River presents less favorable indications. The
country around Fort LeayenwOrth lying osoenous to
the cemparatiyely well peoped Platte, Clay and Bu
cbansn Counties, of Missouri, which contain the
pucDacious towns of Weston ana 1T. Joseph, has
received swaTms of Missouri settlers who two months
back passed at Salt Creek some flaming resolutions,
threatening non-protection TO Aboltionists," &c.
Lately some Indiana and Illinois settlers have estab-
lished themselves in the vicinity, and at meeting of
the squatters held on the 29th of July E. c. Andrews
ESQ. recently of the Boston bar, who has fixed HIM
self at Fort LeaveDwOrth, and who had been threat
ened with routing out from thence, simply on ac-
count of his Northern extraction, forward, aud
in an eloquent speech avowed himself warmly in
favor of freedom in Kansas from reasons drawn from
interest and prudence, well as humanity. His
speech was listened to with attention, and received
much applause although in truth the aOrity Of the
meeting was composed of Pro-Slavery men. One
thing sure that the Slavery propagandsts no longer
have 1t their own way, IN and around Fort LeaVen-
worth Northerners will receive AS efectua pro
lection the thing at all needed, as the men OF the
South.
Mr. Osborn the Editor of the Governors organ,
The Kansas H,ratd, has arrived, and will commence
publication On the lst of September He declares
himself Northern man with Northern principles, but
will not At present at all agtate the Slavery question.
Such was the sentiment of conversation which he
held with members of the Massachusetts party at ST.
Louis. The Utston Chronicle however, claims him as
a PrO-Slayery man.
A new city, three miles from the Fort, aud TO be
called Leayenworth, has been started by the Mssou
rians of Platte Co., and the work OF clearing the
ground is rapidly going forward. Sales OF lots take
place in October +. ID.