Washington sentinel., 1854-06-21
KANSAS AND sLAyERY.

A st. Louis correspondent of the New York
Herald has written a carefully prepared state.
ment Of the geography, geology, products, and
boundaries Of Nebraska and Kansas, which ap
pears in the Herald Of the 18th instant. ]. II
is too long for republication, or we would pre-
sent it to our readers. From that letter we
make the following extract, which refers to the
prospect of the introduction Of slaves into
Kansas:
Prior to the present session of Congress,
Colonel Benton undertook to declare the west
ern territory open to settlement, in the teeth OF
Indian treaties, and direct contravention Of the
intercourse act of 1884; and he urged the
northern people to enter upon, and cultivate il
at once. Many versions broke up their bust
ness, sacrificed their property, and foolishly
made the attempt; but they we're met at the
threshold by the Indian agents, and forbidden
to set foot upon it without q regular license to
carry on bona .tide trade with the indiana.
This they could not procure, and their move.
ments were checked. The colonels sincerity
has been since fairly tested. He was anxious
for its occupation, so long as doubt of the
right to occupy existed, because he knew that
under such circumstances shareholders could
not remove there and have any protection to
their property; but as soon as the proposition
was made to organize Kansas and Nebraska,
and leave the emigrants to decide the question
OF slavery for themselves, the colonel shifted
his position, and we hear no more from him
about the importance of an immediate settle
ment. But il his zeal has abated, the zeal Of
the pioneers has not. They are pouring into
Kansas BY the thousand from Missouri and
Arkansas, and into Nebraska by the thousand
from Iowa and Wisconsin.
/. see that Horace Greeley and other aboh
t'onists are attempting to raise q fund to
colonize Kansas with abolition propagandists
and kidnappers. This may be fun for Horace
and others Of the leaders of the disunionists !;
but / can assure him and them, that if per-
sisted in, it will be death to the innocent and
misguided fools who are to be sent there. The
pioneers Of the west, and the men of Kentucky
and other slave States, have no objection to
respectable northern people, who come TO bor-
der us settlers in good faith, resolved to act as
upright and orderly citizens, anxious for the
promotion Of the common good of all; but
they cannot be expected to yield one inch, and
certainly will not yield the tenth part of one, to
the myrmidons of band of men who have
already proclaimed their determination to break
the bonds Of Union and expose the southern
States to the horrors of o servile war. Kansas
will be slave State in spite of the efiolts OF
these incendiaries, and advise only such of
them as come with arms in their hands and
hearts to WELD them, to enter into this nnholy
crusade. Ere this reaches you, there will be
more resolute men in Kansas determined to
crush aboltionism and freesoiIism than can be
mustered by Greedy and bis gang in twelve
month to come. 1t is to be hoped that the In
dian titles along the border will be soon extin-
guished. They occupy by far the most valua-
BILE portions Of the country, and when they are
removed a prosperous community will soon
spring up.n