The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1855-11-27
Important KANSAS Pro-sIavery movement In
Georgia.


KANSAS EmeRANr NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
OF SENATORS TOXINS, IvERsoN AND OTHERS.
The adjourned Meeting of the Kansas Emil
grant Aid Society of Muscogee, held in Co.
lumbus Ga on the 9th Of October, was a
most interesting one, and resulted in the sub
scription of 5000 on the spot, and the enrol
ment of twenty additional members. The
principal points Of intesest, however, were
the speeches of Hon. Robert Toombs and AL
fred Iverson, representatives of the State of
the United States. Having referred to the
organization of the society, Mr., Toonbs said :
at presents practical question--one that
addresses itself both to our interest and our
patriotism. Upon the admission of Missouri
into the Union, by consent of the South,
slavery was prohibited in all the Territories
lying north of 36 deg 80 min. For a long
while this vast country was inhabited only by
the red man. For few years past the fer
tility of that portion of it known as the
Territories of Karsas and Nebraska, lying
Immediately west of Missouri and Iowa, has
attracted thither a large number of ehterpri-
sing pioneers and emigrants. They recently
applied to Congress for Territorial governments
the result was the passage of the Kansas-Ne-
braska BILL The prominent feature of it
the only one of practical Importance to the
South, was--that it was repeal Of the Mis-
souri, restriction--that it left to the people of
the vast Territories of the West the sole reg,l-
lation of their domestic institutions-tha it
prohibited the interference of either Congress
or the States, in their regulation He had
voted for the bill; he was content to abide be
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 to carry her institutions into them,
yet she did not ask for them the protection of
Congress. She was, aud is now, ready to
standby her compact. Has the North done
so? Has she acted in good faith? Is she
not doing everything in her power to lhwart
the manifest objects and purposes of the bill
Why her Emigrant Abolition Aid Society
She does not disguise her intentions; are they
not wrong upon principle? Should she sue
ceed by such efforts in oyerpowering the gall
ant Missourians and make Kansas free soil p
When she applies for admission into the Union
she South is pledged not to object. If she
applies with Constitution recognizing sla-
very, the North is bound by similar pled-
&C.
"The day is near at hand when she will be
seeking admission. Our enemies were already
in the field, why stand we here idle2 Delay
was fatal. 1t was time tie South wa; arou-
sed to a full sense of her danger. He was
now in favor of Emgrant Aid Associations at
the South, to counteract the efforts Of the
abolitionists--to avert, if possible, the threat
cncd danger in Kansas We must look to
protection OF our rTgnrs Iii 'raea ,eEns fr. the
Ho would have opposed the taking of initia-
tory steps Of this character by the South, in
aiding emigration to the Territories. The
| South had not done SO. The North was re-
spousble for them. Self-protcction required,
demanded, that we should teach the latter
that we will not submit to such diabolical at
tempts to abolitonze Territory whose eli
mate, soil and productions indicated it so
favorable for the extension of slavery. twas
an attempt to circumscribe it, Hc was not
disposed to force slavery upon any people or
Territory the natural laws of emigration
ought 20 settle the question of its extension in
the West. Yet, since the North will not
agree to this, let lis look to it at once that
Southern rights, Southern rights, Southern
| honor shall be defended and represented there
by ''good mon and true" For one he was
ready to open his purse and provide with
means those who were willing to battle in
Kansas for the South aud Slavery.
ale appealed to the patriotism and pride
of all present to give, and to give literally,
material aid to the society, to carry out its
patriotic purposes; to give promptly, for now
was the day and now the hour. The North
has forced this course upon us; we have no
other alternative left. Let us not be laggard
in maintaining our rights the issue was q
momentous one; the struggle in the Territory
was for empires it was worthy of our best,
our noblest efforts"
He proceeded to show the importance to
the South of the admission Of Kansas into
the Union ms Slave State; it was the key TO
the great West the high road TO the Pacific; /;
its influence in the formation of States from
the Territories South and West Of it. 1t was
ofvital consequence to the STAKEHOLDER in
Missouri
at had been said that Slavery would not
be profitable in Kansas; this was great mis-
take. II was in the same latitude with Mis-
souri,; its soil very much the same. In no
State in the Union was Slave labor moro profi-
table than in Missouri; the history of the
institution there WIS the best evidence of this.
BY the census of 1910 her Slave population
was only 10000; by the census of 1850 it
was more than double this number Out of
its eighty odd thousand Slaves, the census
showed that $4,000 of them were in the wes-
tern border counties of the State, Immediately
adjacent to Kansas. Hemp, tobacco, wheat
and corn are the principal products of Missouri.
The soil of Kansas has been found qually as
well adapted to their growth. Their cultiva-
tion was by FAR more profitable than cotton
the history Of Slave labor in Virginia, Ken
lucky and Missouri had proved it to be so.
Mr. Toombs having concluded, Capt. Lo-
max being loudly called for, responded in a
few brief and spirited remarks:--
Kansas was the Keystone of the arcl, of the
Union. 1t was Of vital importance not only
TO Missouri, but TO each of the Slaveholdina