The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-08-24
kansas.

There appears to DO good deal of excite
ment on the Western frontier of Missouri
growing out of the proposition to colonize the
adjacent Territory of Kansas with Northern
frCemen.
The Platte MOI Argus Of July 22d con-
tains the proceedings of a meeting, which
seems to have organized an association similar
to the Vigilance Committees Of South Carolina
and Mississippi with q view to ferreting out
and furnishing abolition under the Lynch code.
The most unwarrantable invasions of the rights
of individuals are resolved upon, such as 80
community whom We may have cause to sus-
pect, and diligently search for evidence tend
ing 80 show whether any person suspected is
in fact an AbolitiOnist," sc. They demand
the removal Of the free negroes from the coun-
ty, and propose other lawless and tyrannical
measures. These rOwdies and cut-throats style
themselves "the Platte County Self Defensive
Association"
A writer under his own name, in tho same
paper recommends similar proceedings for the
Territory of Kansas
1t is evident that where the champions Of
Slavery have sway, there can be no freedom
for white men, much less for blacks.
The following article from the Boston Id
Uertiscr, presents hopeful view of the Kansas
question. Our knowledge Of the country, do
rived from Fremont's and Emory's Reports,
confirms the account given by the writer. The
country is very high, and in that latitude can
not be favorable to the staples on which Sla-
very tlrivcs.
GAS fsr as tho political destiny of these new
Territories is concerned, the general appearan-
ces are, that neither Of them will ever come in
as a slave State
The soil of Kansas may be very we'll fitted
for hemp; but even if hemp should be cultivs-
ted, which for the present is almost out Of the
question, since all settlers begin with the rails
ing of corn-even if, by and by, hemp should
be cultivated in Kansas this would not be suf
fcient to make slave labor generally profitable
Nor can the few slaves who area brought here
out of spite by some stubborn slavery propa-
gandist stamp it as O slave State L. is well
understood here that Kansas will be essential
ly farming country, and that the handful Of
slaves who are now brought here are brought
here at loss, not for any Industrial purposes,
but simply for the fanatical and ridiculous
purpose of giving to the North an exaggerated
idea of their power to extend the institution.
In the instance of Kansas, the fanaticism of
the South for universal Slavery will wreck
against the decree of Providence, who as if to
assist all honest men in their opposition to the
iniquity, has untitled the soil Of Kansas or Ne
braska for any labor which is not the labor of
freemen. Let them, therefore, bring their
| sla vas along The miserable bravadO will oy,
ly hurt the short sighted men who follow
blindly their bad passions or their rotten po-
litical leaders, without reference to their own
benefit, and to the benefit of their fellow
men,"
Let the emigration societies press on the tide
of free population. With energy there can be
no doubt of success; and we incline to hope
that the emigration movement may not only
keep Slavery cut of Kansas, but root it out Of
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