The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-09

KANSAS EMIGRANT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF SEN
AToRS TooMBS, INVERSION, AND OTHERS.

interesting one and resulted In the subscription Of
$500 the spot and the enrolment of twenty additional
members The principal points of interest however
the speeches OF Hon. Robert Toombs and ALFRED yersou
representatives of the State OF Georgia the Senate Of the
United States Having referred to the organization Of the
society Mr.. Toombs said;
II presents practical question: one that addresses ief
both to our interest and patriotism Upon the adms-
sion of Missouri into tue Union BY consent of the South
slavery was prohibited in all the Territories lying north OF
80 deg 80 min For long while this vast country was
Inhabited only by the red man. For few years past the
fertility of that portion of 1t known as the Territories Of
Kansas and Nebraska lying immediately west OF Missouri
and Iowa. has attracted thithcr large number OF enter
pri5ing pioneers and emgranis They recently applied
Congress for territorial governments the result was the
passage Of the Nebraska bill The principles of the
bill familiar ALL The prominent feature OF 1.-THE
only one OF practical importance 10 the Southwas that
il was a repeal of the Missouri restriction that it left
the people of the territories OF the West the sole regu-
laton of their domestic nstuons that 1T prohibited the
interference of either Congress the States In their gu
laton He had voted for the bill he content TO abide
by its principles The North consented to let the natural
laws of emigration people these Territories Such was the
understanding OF all upon the passage OF the bill The
South desired carry her institutions into them, yet she
did not for them the protection Of Congress She wac
and is now ready to stand by her compact Has the North
done so? Has she acted in good faith Is she not doing
everything in her power TO thwart the manifest objects
and purposes Of the bill Why her emigrant abolition aid
sociees2 she does disguise her nenonc they not
wrong prncpe2 Should she succeed by such euorn
uyerpowerng the gallant Mssourians ard make Kansas free
SOIL when she applies for admission into the Union the
South is pledged TO object II she applies with
sttuon recognising slavery the North IS bound BY
similar pledge The day is near hand when she will be
seeking admission Our enemies were already IN the field
why stand We here idle Delay fatal 1t was time
the South aroused to full sense OF her danger lie
in favor Of emgrant aid associations at the South
10 counterfeit the efforts of the abotoniststo avert if
possible the threatened danger in Kansas We must look
stout hearts and strong arms for the protection
of rights in the Territories He would have opposed
the taking OF natory steps OF this character by the South
in aiding emigration 10 the Territories The South had
Il rha Nnrth la mr. fhen
protection required demanded that should teach the
latter that will submit to such diabocal attempts
to aboonze Territory whose climate soil, and prodnc
tons indicated favorable tor the extension OF slavery
1t attempt to circumscribe IT. lie was not dis
posed to force slavery upon any people or Territory
the natural laws of emigration ought to settle the que
ton of Its extension in the West Yet since the North
will not agree to this let look to 1T at once that
southern rights southern interest and southern honor
shall be defended and represented there by good
and true For one, he was ready to open ms purse
and provide with those who were willing 10
battle in Kansas for the South and slavery He appealed
to the patriotism and pride OF all present to give and
give literally, material aid to the society," to carry out its
patriotic purposes TO give promptly for now the day
and the hour The North has forced this upon
have other alternative left Let be laggad
in maintaining rights; tho issue momentous
one; the struggle in the Territory for empire It
worthy of best nobest efforts. lie proceeded to
show the importance to the South of the admission Of Kan
sas into the Union slave State it was key to the
great West; the high road TO the Pacific; its influence
the formation of States from the Territories south and
of IT. Ii of vital consequence to the STAKEHOLDER
Missouri. Ii had been said that slavery would be
profitable in Kansas. This great mistake. 1t was
the latitude with Missouri; its soil very much the
same In no State in the Union slave labor
profitable than in Missouri the history of the institution
there the best evidence of this BY the of 1910
her slave population only forty thousands by the
sfs of 1850 than double that number Out Of
its eghtyodd thousand slaves, the showed that
fifty thousand of them in the western border eoun-
ties of the State Immediately adjacent to Kansas Hemp
tobacco wheat and corn the principal products Of Ms
souri, The soil of Kansas has been found equally as ven
adapted TO their growth. Their cultivation by far
profitable than cotton; the history of slave labor in
Virginia. Kentucky, and Missouri had proved it to be
Mr.. Toombs having concluded Capt Lomax being loud
y called for responded in few brief and spirited
i marks:
Kansas the keystone of the arch Of the Union.
of vital Importance only to Missouri but to each
OF the slavehoding States that it should into the
Union slave State The admission of California had
deprived Of the balance of power in the Senate Now
the time and this the occasion restore it. The hour
for action had arrivedunited and vigorous action Mis-
souri, led by her gallant Atchison, had done noby
was struggle of life with herr it behooved the South
rush at once to her Shall she appeal in vain to
southern hearts and southern patriotism? Her
the of the South He concluded by calling upon all
present to unite with the society in its patriotic eortso
open their purses and give material aid to those stout
hearts and strong who ready to emigate
/ TO Kansas and battle for southern rights.
The Hon. Alfred vcrson then rose and addressed few
| remarks to the society.
The policy of the NORTH said he was to surround the
\ ooulu cOruOn OF states, cODnninB
very TO limited area to crush it out In this point Of
view the maintenance of slavery in Kansas matter
Of vital interest to the South II slavery gives way in Kan
sas, Missouri will be surrounded three sides by
saveholding States the institution must give way
there 1T will also be in peril in the Indian territory lying
south of Kansas 1t will then only for the abol-
onists TO extend their influence to Texas and the
great object Of their ambition will be attained The South
will then be reduced to hopeless minority in the union
her institutions will be confined to the limits they
at present occupy and their overthrow will only be ques
| ton of time On the other hand he commended that,
slavery maintained Kansas it would be also main
tanned in Missouri it might possibly BIO extended 10 Utah.
! New Mexico, and southern California; it would certainly
be protected in the Indian territory and Texas and when
the northern provinces of Mexico annexed the Uni
ted Saiesas they certainly will be in thecoprse of time
the held OF the extension for southern institutions will be
indefinitely enlarged
j Upon proposition of John A. Jones' esq, be Of
ten to subscribe two hundred and fifty dollars each to arm
and equip company Of emgraus Kansas short dis
cussion arose. participated in by Mr. jones' Judge Craw.
ford and Others to the best and most expedent method
OF raising funds for the Of the society Judge Craw
lord suggested that every should subscribe one dollar
or each slave he possessed that if every Shareholder
the State would do fund of not less than four hun
bred thousand dollars could be raised which could be in
creased Mt least to half million of dollars by the sub
scrptions of others If the other slavehoding States
would unite with as in this undertaking, and the sub
scrpons be in accordance with this per capita SYSTEM or
some similar method might in the fifteen savehoding
States raise fund equal to that which be raised BY
the Emigraut Aid Societies of the New England States.
Give southern emgrants four millions of dollars in add
ton to the inducements TO- and the bright prospects OF
slave labor in Kansas and long she will be seeking adj
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