The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-10-25
Kansas and Nebraska.

the opinions OF the Press, in various |
parts of the Country, as to the probabil-
ity of preventing the admission of Slave
ry inta tho New Territories. We con
TESS to no small apprehension that Kan
sas, at least, will be lost to freedom.
Such a disastrous result can be prevent
cd ouly by energetic and prompt emigra-
ton from the free States Freemcn of
Vermont Who of you are ready to
make sacrifices to save Kansas Now
is your time. Pour into that Territory
with n rcsolutc will to sustain the
right.
The immigration from the free States
to the Territory of Kansas is now an
encouraging feature of the times The
Springfield Enterprise says
Almost every hour in the day scores
of wagons pass our Office, on their way
to Kansas and Nebraska. and they are
generally accompanied by stout and in.
telligent looking men, aud comely women
and children Many Of these emigrants
drive stock from their former homes, to
the new Territories, and nearly all of
them have the outward indications of
being prosperous"
A late number of tho Washington
Star contains the following paragraph
EMIGRATION INTO KANsAs-We learn
from gentleman who has Just returned
to this city from Kansas, where he has
been ever since the passage of the Ter
ri!orial Government bill, that so far, no
slaves have been carried into the Terri
tory, though many Arkansas and Mis-
souri, Shareholders aud other southern
State citizens have taken up " claims u
Up to very recent period. the south.
crn settlers greatly ouinumbercd those
from Northern States, who were going
in there. Now, however, the tide seems
to have chaiiged. According to the
views of this intelligent and usually well
informed gentleman, ere the next Pres.
identi al election comes off Kansas will
have formed her State Constitution, and
will be knocking at the door of Congress
for admission into the Union as a
State
Paragraphs like the above may en-
courage the friends Of freedom but
should not beguile them into the fanclful
idea, that the battle has bccu fought by
them and the victory won in Kansas 1t
is possible that they may win it, but it
will require strenuous excrtions on their
part, and the full force of their induce
ments to FREQ emigration to enable them
to do So We are glad TO hear, that the
proporiionatc number Of free emigrants
arriving in Kansas is increasing
North ITeStcrn Gacettc
Can SLAVERY co INTO KANSAS ?-In
the Detroit Free Press, an administra.
ton paper, We find the following:
".S/drcry as he creature Of municipal
hd'c. lr CAN NOWHERE EXIST EXCEPT
~ POSITIVE ENAcTMENT.-Cntill laws arc
passed in Nebraska and Kansas ctab
listing Slarery, every slave taken there
becomes a free man the moment he steps
upon the soil. Does anybody doubt it ?
viii any Wing. or Abol,ionist, or Flu
'iouist deny it1'
This is the kind Of stuff rctailcd by
the Democratic papers throughout the
free States, and strange to say some
people are deceived By it The first
proposition, Slavery is the creature of
municipal law is undisputablc but the
next, - 1t can nowhere exist except by
positive enactment is utterly false in
the sense intended Why, every little
while we hear of slavery in various
quarters Of the earth where no positive
enactment in its favor was ever heard
of every slave taken there becomes n
free man. says this NcJraScal, while
the truth is notorious that at the prcsen;
moment scores Of slave are held in Kan
sas and strong efforts are making to in
ducc the transportation thither of many
hundreds more How absurd to preach
Ike doctrine that "mau's inhumauity tc
man" must be enacted, &C." before i,
can exist, and that the strong hand only
keeps back the hire of the reaper wher
authorized by "positivc enactment" and
statute law The hireling presses Of
Locofocosm may labor to disguise the
treason against liberty of which thcil
party leaders have been guilty. but they
will labor in vain The spirit of the
free North is aroused, and 10 such mis-
cradle spcciousncss as the above will pre-
vent it from exacting from slavery and
its Democratic allies, abundant linden
nifty for the past and security for the fu
ture |"
As sufficient refutation Of the reason
ing of the Free Press. read the following
e extract from letter dated " Kansas
, Sept. 90" -
The roads arc lined with teams, from
the border States. In about every fiftl
or eighth wagon you will SEQ sprink
|, ling of negro slaves Do not believe
that Shareholders have given up Kansas
, A terrible struggle is before us at tht
very first election, They ara determin
ed to have law recognizing slavery, a
the very first meeting of .he legislature
r If they DO not get it then, they ncrc,
aciUN
Then MS to the Interpretation thu
Democratic judges there will give tC
any pretented law or custom, read this
MIR. Lecompte of Maryland the Chic
Justice of Kansas. takes several old fam
lily slaves out with him. This is an OK
cellcnt guaranty to the South for his or
thodoxy on the slavery question. ant
must be very comforting to those who
have been told that the courts would dc
eide that question according to the cs
tablised principles of law"
! From the Washington Sentinel.
awe saw in the future some hope that