New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-28
HOW TO MAKE KANSAS A SLAVE STATE.
LETTER or sLNATJu BROWN or " ssIssPPL

VI
STEAMER EMPRESS, Nov "a 1883
Long and anxious reflection has satisfied me that the
South eIn people owe II 10 thor safety to use all
the means in ther p01er TO introduce Slavery into
KanfBs sud p- otcct j. after il gets there The North.
EN- FIee-Sol Enig siOn Aid Societies are actively Of
worn 10 txsG0e Slavery from the Territory. Their
etfo.ts NJ Ia 10 b. ne sud promptly rep ll5t. Tne
most ciciel means fer TO use in the accomplish.
me ut of this purpose is the lroper question for our
Grafton Our CeciaiOn tnuet be long DELAYED
il Wc mean to Ceteo5 our rights.
The late nent in Georgia ia favor of iiyidual
subsc.iptiCns 20 raise mcuey in aid of Pro.Slavery
migration TO Kansas hag already attracted cOufif.
tiabe attention. But TIE backwsrdness with which
our people approach that proposition seems to indi.
cate thai II "ill not be embraced with unaniGi y.
Every saveh older hos direc; interest in the qups
lion and every should contribute 10 prop ,rtion
to bis interest. This satisfied, all or nearly all
wOu Willingly do II p.Oper guarantees given
thu TIC money 20 corIibued wos 10 bo judicoIsly
applied.
To nsuIe this and at the ga ne time TO obtain
speedy eno decisive Ecion, Will Il not be we'll for he
Legislature to- tske tho matter in hand? A tax of 81
per head slaYes w0ulO lalse at 1925 900. In
such emergency the people would not srumje if it
vege Sestcd in Msrch and collected ia MAY. This
sum udicousy laid cut, would buy at least 800 slaves
and surplus Sufficient to delray the expenses Of
800 enis rants f. KsDses.
M plan would he This: For the State TO purchase
the slaves in her own name, and send them IA charge
OF TeGLie pc into tho Territory, to he held there
as lie - Opely of the Stse, aud used for the bele6
Of the pcYsOrs .ayiDg them N chsrge Mississippi is
certainly part owner of the Territory, and the power
that could batfully COnti6Cae expel her property
from t. Territory would have to be something greater
tran equal think greater than those of an ndivid-
ual. Tie point gained by this movement would, as /
think lie 10 ant Slavery in the Territory, backed by
the sovereignty cfthe Sste, ard thus place upon the
most solid and certain basis
Tie persons going out in charge of the slaves could
lie chosen by Commissioners, TO be appointed Cor each
County by the Governor, and these Commissioners
could also purch see the slaves.
Young Mssissppian, thus made the master OF
slave bv lis State and sSnt free Of charge, to su Ga
Territoiy az Kansas would do the necessary voting,
and ia neede be- tho ehtag aso required to sustain
the acts Of his Safe III the IeTIuoly -
In ebcrt nv PROPOSE ion is for the state to colonl7e
200 eaves ard appc 800 IF her young men TO defend
mem W. b balo.s au6, if necl Ssary, with bullets 10
do His viii cost 81 head every slave III the sac,
ard 70 more II al the ave Ststes viii follow me
+xhmpls, in twelve mOnths we would have SisVe
Colony in Ean-as tina: all the Aboltomsts IN me
Union cCud OF tSptl go
fyou thjrk wei Of ttis proposition put II ia such
form as will ARE ct he ate 1tioI Of the Legis stufe
II will not 90 TO rely Oh Individual enterprise ms
interest involved is tor great to be left to such neer
tain dcfeIses TIE persons interested are too numer
ous and too wictly scatter d. even to act IN suhc9nt
eoIcei' 4" P'0N' A. @. BROWN