Washington sentinel., 1854-06-24
"INsPECTOR.D

The Washington correspondent of the New
York Coarie, and Enquirer under the caption
"Will slavery go into Kansas thus specu-
lates on the subject:
"At the north powerful associations have
been formed under the title of emigrant aid
societies, the object of which is to settle the
new territories in a manner which shall coun-
teract the violation Of the Missouri compact,
and by filling them up with a free population
ensure their organization as free States, in con-
formity with the solemn treaty of 1920, be-
tween the north and south.
A cooperative union has been formed by
members Of Congress and others to promote
the objects Of these associations. The move
ment is now secret. The constitution has been
published It has been signed by from thirty
to fifty members of Congress-, and BY many
other persons. The signers generally subscribe
fifty dollars towards a fund for equipping and
forwarding emigrants to the distant regions
lately covered by the Missouri compromise.
This organization has been falsely styled
" new party" and it has been said that the OBJ
jects OF the organization are secret, and there
fore liable to inst suspicion. This is mis-
representation. The society, ifit may be called
such, is new league to enforce an old COM
pact-a compact none the less binding on all,
because repudiated by one of the parties to it.
1T is not certain that the movement will be
altogether peaceful. In fact, it is probable that
the meeting of two distinct classes Of popula-
tion in Kansas, the first destination of all the
contemplated expeditions and the clashing Of
hostile sentiments, will lead to violent COLI
sons-perhaps to bloody and protracted feuds.
For the people of the southwest have been no
less ready to prepare for taking possession of
the new territories, with their slaves, than
their northern rivals have been to establish in
them their own ideas and institutions. Ex-
cited public meetings have been held at Boon
vile, independence, and in all the chief places
in Missouri, along the Kansas frontier, at which
resolutions have been adopted in favor of the
immediate formation of slave-holding commu.
mites in both territories, and recommending
companies to be organized, well armed, and
fully prepared to defend their slave property,
wherever it may be carried. The northern
companies will also be well armed, and it would
not be surprising if, during the ensuing fifteen
or twenty years, Kansas should be the theatre
of exactly such scenes as occurred between the
French and English in OHIO in the attempted
joint occupation, previous to the war OF 1854.
and between the Spaniards and French in
Florida in the early history of the peninsula
Kansas may be the Flanders of the continent.
But it is obvious that the southern emf
grants will have advantages that will render the
contest entirely unequal. They are now upon
the very borders Of the disputed territory. They
can move in and occupy the most valuable To-
cations before settlers from more distant Sec
tons can reach the country. They are from
tiersmen, and adapted to all the exigences of
pioneer life. They have been habituated to
the use Of arms all their lives; and moro than
all, they will be united by that sentiment Of
common attachment to q peculiar institution
and material interest, which will give una
nimity and vigor to all their efforts for its pro-
lection.
:" know by experience, that slave labor is
valuable in any new country, and it is general
ly popular among settlers whether from the
north or south. 1t mitigates the severity of
those labors necessary for clearing up the coun.
try, and reducing it to habitable condition.
For these reasons, have no doubt at all that
large majority of the FIRST settlers in Kansas
will be from slaveholding States, and that it
will be slave territory, and will be admitted
as slave State. 1t is possible that slavery
may dwinde in Kansas, after the first excite
ment, which will cause rapid influx of slaves
into that region, shall have. passed, but do not
consider that probable"