Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-03


plans and purposes of the Nebraska Emigra-
ton Society.
New Political Machinery.
An enterprise has been set on foot in Mass
achusetts, which is worthy of special note
among the signs of the times. 1t is one of
the first fruits of Douglass Nebraska bill.
Other hands than his are scattering seed on
the field from which he expects to reap his
harvest. In another part of this sheet we
give, from the Worcester Daily Spy, an out
line of the plan and objects of the Emigrants'
Aid Society, which the Massachusetts, legisla-
ture are about to incorporate, with capital of
five millions Of dollars, and the founders of
which consist of men of all parties, animated
with a common zeal against the attempted
fraud on northern rights.
The object of this society is to facilitate the
passage of emigrants to the West, whether
they be the enterprising young men of our
own country, or the laboring people of Eu-
rope who are thronging to our shores. 1t is
to be sort of Nebraska Colonization Society.
While the slaye-owners are waiting with their
gangs of work-people to cross the barrier of
Nebraska as soon as Douglass bill shall be-
come a law, it is the object of this new asso-
citation to send into the territory, whenever it
shall lie open to settlement, all the free labor
ers who can be induced to direct their course
to that region, by such aids and such inform
alton as will remove the usual uncertainties
and d'scouragements of emigration. There
are, already, explorers in Nebraska, and they
send back favorable report of its salubrity
and its fruitfulness We shall have all the
places desirable for settlement noted, and the
moment the current Of emigration begins to
set that way, the means OF cheap and commo-
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bill should pass, if slavery should be legalized
IN Nebraska, then will come the great strug-
gle of voluntary counter action. Then it will
be seen whether the people of the free states
and the free laboring population in the slave
states, whose interest in this matter is identi-
cal with that of their northern brethren, are
prepared quietly to see the rights, conceded to
them third OF century ago, wrested, with
out ceremony, from their hands, or whether
they will make an effort to preserve them by
means which the statutes of the federal gov
eminent have no power to reach.
Nothing short OF a strong and universal
feeling among the people of Massachusetts
could have given birth to such scheme as
this, or brought the men who are named in
the bill to cooperate in its objects. We, re-
gard the measure as one of the most signif-
cant which has been brought to our notice, of
the force and unanimity of public opinion, in
that quarter, on the Nebraska question. Yet
Massachusetts does not stand alone; in other
New England states the opposition to the bill
is asvehement. We may hope to see this ex-
ample followed in Maine, in New Hampshire,
in Vermont, in all the New England states,
and next winter, perhaps, in New York. The
policy Of checking the encroachments of
slavery by facilities given to free emigration is
SO clear and obvious, that it will not be neg
lected whenever it is practicable. Measures
will be taken to station agents wherever emil
grants are to be recruited for the territory, and
particularly IN all the ports at which these
who have turned their backs upon the old
world first set foot on the American shore, in
order to speed them on their journey to the
banks of the Platte and the Kanzas.
Whether the Nebraska bill should pass at
this session or not. the necessity of these
means OF CONFEDERATION is equally clear
Congress may, perhaps, adjourn without le-
CALLING slavery in Nebraska, but that will not
settle the question; it will but postpone the
controversy, 20 be revived at more favorable
moment. Even now, notwithstanding the
disasters which this i'll omened measure has
brought upon the democratic party in the ell
ectlons OF four states, it has not lost a single
democratic supporter in Congress. There is
their determination to push it through the
House of Representatives, if possible. The
political interest which seeks to wrest this
new concession from the free states, never
forgets its purposes, and never lays them
aside. Fooled at this session of Congress, it
will return to the attack in the next; if dis
appointed then, it will lay its demands before
a new Congress. We quoted yesterday, from
southern journal, an acknowledgements that
as long as that interest has any demands to
make, however, extravagant, it was sure to
find plant politicians of the North ready to
second them.
The movement which has been begun in
Massachusetts, and which w hope to see ex-
tending itself into other states, cannot, there
fore, be safely desisted from, whatever be the
immediate fate Of the measure now before
Congress. The defeat of that scheme, at this
session, will give time for making the arrange
ments of counter-aetion more complete; but
If we pay any attention to past experience, it
will be no reason for pursuing them with any
less zeal or diligence.