The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-18
from the whole Of the Territory embraced in the

Kansas Nebraska bills. These will OF course |
take measures to ccunteract the immigrant eX-
petitions from the North. The South can as
easily send settlers into Kansas as the North;
and from our experience of the bulk of foreign
emigrants, we are by no means satisfied that
they will be found, at pinch, SO thoroughly
and sincerely opposed to slavery, as the
No Asachusetts abolitionists imagine. AT all
events, the arguments which are brought to
lIesr on the Irish and Germans in the North can
beplied with at least equal effect at the Soath
il man can be induced TO vote for freedom
for five acres, he may surely be tempted to
woteYor slavery for six. The South must look
after It's interests The country has heard
enough of the slavery discussion. We conser
vatives, who have fought the battles of the
Union against the extremes of either faction,
now desire to see the curtain fall on the battle
ground, and some of that energy we have been
wasting devoted to the development of our re-
sources in real earnest We are tired of angry
contests about free soil, and compromises and
eompacts. We want to see some of the zeal SO
lavishly displayed since January last in the adj
vocacy Of negro development applied to the
development of our country and the advance
ment of the Anglo-Saxon race. We want to
hear discussions about canals and railroads and
new States and projected harbors, and other
works of internal Improvement; these are far
more useful themes to agitate than slavery.
They follow in the wake of the settlement Of
new territory, and therefore its colonization
under any auspices may be amatter of congra-
tulation.
How far this prospect will be realized re-
mains to be seen. Those who cry the loudest
about the horrors and woes of slavery are not
won't to be the most liberal in paying their
money to diminish those horrors and woes. 1t
is by no means impossible that the pro-
jectors Of the emigrant aid societies will,
after making a great noise about the scheme
they have in hand, allow it to die out with
out having settled a hundred families in
the new Territories. We have seen similar
instances of fckleness of purpose and want Of
perseverance from the Northern abolitionists
before this. The task is in truth no slender one.
Immigrants are not to be cooped like fowls, or
driven in focks like sheep; and we presume
the philanthropic men who have the matter in
hand would like some security for the vote to
be hereafter given by their protegss 1t is toll
erably difficult to frame security which would
answer the purpose, without seriously impair
ing the value of the vote. Again, us we said,
European immigrants are not always such I'M
compromising abolitionists as the people of Bos-
tonbelieve. They very nearlyvOted slavery into
one of the noblest States of the West, in spite
of the prohibition Of the mother land, Virginia
and if the climate and soil Of Kansas are better
adapted for slavery than for free labor, they
will assuredly vote in slavery there, whatever
their Boston sponsors may have promised for
them. If, however, the immigrant aid societies
now established should not falter and swerve
from their purpose if Kansas should be settled
by Immigrants brought out through their agen-
cy and if, at fair contest, their proteges
should deliberately and knowingly vote that
the whole of the new Territory is to be free;
we cannot see that the South would have any
right to complain, or the soundest Union man
any pretext for regret. The field is now open
for all, and the South and West as well as the
North and East, must see that Kansas and Ne
braska are settled by the right sort of people
for the general good of the Union