Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-22
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1854.
SETTLEMENT OF KANSAS EXCITEMENT IN
THE WEST

SETTLEMENT OF KANSAS EXCITEMENT in
THE WEST.
Considerable excitement prevails IN one OF
two of the counties Of Missouri bordering Kan
sas Territory, especially in .ckson county oc-
casioned by,exaggerated reports OF fhe plans
Of the Emigration Aid Society, lately organ
Trad IN Massachusetts, The Association is an
honest and deserving one; its object being to
encourage and aid the settlement OF poor, 10.
dustrious, and respectable people in the. new
Territories lately organized. That such Asso-
Citations have not hitherto been established in
orr Eastern States, both for their own benefit
and for the good Of their surplus population, is
somewhat surprising 1t is rather amusing to
see the alarm this very reasonable movement
has awakened among some of our ultra Pro-
Slavery men. They imagine that the Emf
grants Aid Society is about gathering together
all the rank Abolitionists = Of the country,
and preoiptating an avalanche Of them on
Kansas and Nebraska! Tho Washington SEN
tinel begins to glow with the fire tf chiyalry,
and we shall expect noon to sec him mounted
a Ia Qmrots, and riding full tilt against this
new horror. Hear his trumpet voice
Now. if this rush ID to be made by these
hordes, designed as they are for an army OF
occupation, it is time for the South 10 make an
effort to establish its power in these Territories
Ii fair for one, it id fair for the other. There
are clans in the South as well as clans Ill the
North. Let the pibroch sound over hill and
valley, and true men will flcck to the gather
ing II the effort be TO get in FIRST the South
il the nearest, and the South has most at
stake Let her sons step over the line, and
raise their banner over tho virgin soil Ct Kan
saso
Now, we are inclined to think that our Abo-
Iition friends who have worked the Sentinel
up to such pitch of daring, will prefer stay
ing at home, and sounding their rams horns
about the great Bastile of Slavery, trusting
the settlement Of the new Territories to the
hardy freemen, who know how to sling the
axe and use the spade.
The alarm awakened by this innocent Emil
grants' Aid Society would be ludicrous, but
for the mschieyous use that has been made Of
it, doubtless by cunning demagogues in Wash-
ington, TO inHame the People OF some Of the
western counties of Missouri. Missiles, we
presume, have been sent to them, telling them
that the men who resisted the surrender Of
Antony Burns are organizing in equadrons,
for the purpose Of taking possession Of Kansas
and running eff from jackson and Platte coun-
ties all their slaves--and very likely post
script has been added limiting that it is with
such men Col. Benton ia cooperating!
We advise the good people Of Missouri to
keep cool this hot weather, and beware OF be
ing practicsd upon. That Emigrants' Aid So
oiety unfortunately 40 far exists only on paper.
The only emigration we know anything
about, is the spontaneous movement among
certain portions Of our population, who, when
ever new territory is opened for settlement
begin TO wonder whether they could not better
themselves by change. The unprecedented
excitement occasioncd by the introduction and
passage Of the Nebraska Bill, and the singular
prominence which the struggle has given to
she two Territories, have doubtless stimulated
the spirit Of adventure among these classes Of
our population. The people now on their way
70 Kansas are, like all other immigrants to new
Territories, scif.moved, selfdirected, selfsus-
tanned, animated by such feelings sent hun
dreds Of thousands Of adventures to California,
and have pcopled Oregon 80 rapidly that it is
already popoloos enough to become State.
something Of the groundless fears awakened by
the arts Of demagogucs among some Of tho
People Of Missouri we quote the resolutions Of a
meeting recently held at independence jackson
county, on the great thoIonghfare Of Western
travel:
Rsoivtd, That we, the citizens Of Jackson
cbunty, in mass meeting assembled, do hereby
cndorse, re-sfiirm, and proclaim the Justice
aod policy cf the action and resolves of por.
ton &C our f-lIow citizens who recently con-
vened Mt Wcstport, in THE county; and that
ia order t. ef-ctuate and carry out the object
Of that n,eetng, 10 secure and guaranty tho
rights &c Southern emigrants 20 the feIrifos J
Of Kansas, tho chairman of this meeting do APP
point Committee OF Vigilance, whose duty it
shaIl be 10 acquire full and reliable ioforma-
tioD of the progress cf settlements in the new
Territory Of Kansas, and Of any infringement,
or DANGER oi tuisfngtmtbt, uIuo the riRHiS ~
Southern scttlerr, and to take proper STEPS 70
prevent and resist The same.
Resolved, Thata Committee Of Correspond
ence be also appointed, whose dnty IL shall be
70 embody, in the form Of nm address, all nse-
fnl information concerning the advantages, nit
nation, production. So, of the Territory Of
Kansas, 10 be circulated among citizens Of our
own and other Southern States; and, further,
- correspond freely by letter with all persons
Of thoee States who may be DESTROYS OF inform
alton upon this subject
Resolved, That We further most earnestly
call upon our fcllow-ctizens OF Buchanan,
Platte, Clay and all border and Western conn
fles of missouri, 70 meet and organize and TO
follow mp their organization by action, that We
may meet and repcl the wave of fanaticism
which threatens to break upon our border !;
and that ~c pledge ourselves to 90 cooperate
with them in all necessary measures for our
common protection.
Resolved That VIC recommend 10 oil our
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