The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-15
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In view of the enlargement of popu-
lation and consequently of emigration,
the annual emigration into frontier States
and Territories may be now estimated al
one hundred and thirty thousand.
AS to the tendency of this emigration,
it appears from these statistics, that the
great preponderance of migration into
frontier States is into those whose institu.
tions are free. The States and Terrific
ries named belong to both divisions o.
the Union, free and slave. The division
between the two classes in 1910 was
nearly even; the slave part having, how
ever, about ten per cent. larger popula-
ton of the two But the emigration in
ten years into the free part was more
than two to one than into the slave region;
being 776, $50 against 346, $50. Sothat
in 1850 the free section had passed the
slave section completely in its population
and, with less natural increase, number
ed ,44o, 900 to 1873, 600 who were il
the three slave States named.
The cause of this preponderance and
gain is evident. Men who emigrate are
men who must labor. They go to places
therefore where labor is honorable. They
avoid regions, as has been already said,
where it is disgrace. In the districts
named in the table above, there is no re-
gion, besides California, so attractive to
the settler for soil and climate as both
Upper Texas or Western Missouri. Yet
the increase by emigration in these States
is small indeed compared to the rapid
growth of Iowa, of Wisconsin, and OF
Minnesota in colder climates and with
no more promising soil. The great west
ern tide-wave turns away from nothing
else. But it does shriak from lands
where labor is shame. 1t pours on,
without check, into the free land of Min
nesota, though the climate is colder than
New Engiand's. 1t does not fear winter
Nor does it fear solitude. Nor does il
fear the savage. But from the institu-
tions which disgrace industry it recoil>
and turns away. They drink of a smaller
eddy. And it pours its richest treasures
over other soils.
If now, those one hundred and thirty
thousand persons, who annually seek the
frontier for their home, settled altogether
until they had formed State, and then
formed new States successfully, as fast
as their population permitted, new
State might be formed, at the rate of the
present emigration, at the end of every
period of eight months and FIVE days.
If these States formed their own insti.
tutions by popular vote, they would be
free States. For the proportion of emf
grants who favor free institutions is &c
those who settle in slave States re is tc
SAG, or more than two to one. Many IN
deed of the $40 are slaves who have nc
vote at all.
1t is. however, impossible to consider
the emigration as an organized mass, a;
one NAV speak of the emigration of the
IsraeIites from Egypt Men and familie:
move forward separately. 1t is only ii
rare instances that few families associ.
ate together and go into the same region
The West fills up with people who oio
not know each other before they arrived
at their new homes.
1t isa consequence of this separation
and of their diversity of motive, that i
there be any doubt as to the institution:
of a State OF Territory, emigranls whC
wish to remain in a free State will no
trust themselves, single and unsupported
TO the chances of its organization Nc
single man or single family viii venture
alone in an uncertain region. While The
emigration is unorganized, the whole