Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-01
Kan sas.

Kansas.
The St. Louis Republican of the 23d instant
contains letter from Whitehead, Kansas, dated
April 10TH which states that Governor Reeder
has receded from the claim to decide all the
contested elections for members Of the Legsla-
ture, and that such cases will be referred to
the decision of that body. The writer Of this
letter left St Louis for Kansas April Sth, and
says there were on board the steamboat which
conveyed him, numerous emigrants from Vir
GINA, Kentucky, New York and New Jersey
and that those from the two States first men
toned, had number of slaves with them. He
thinks Kansas will be slave-ho!ding State
partly for the reason that many of the emf
grants sent out by the emigrants Aid Societies.
either return in disgust, or vote the pro slavery
ticket. He says,
There are two classes Of people who come
from free States-the independent and depen-
dent. The first have some means and intelli-
gence, and think and act for themselves. They
are not all Abolitonists, but Freesoers They
are observant, and practical as well as theoretic
They come to remain, and to make their con-
dition as comfortable and prosperous as pos
slble. II they find the country better suited to
slave labor and that that institution is the sine
qua non to the peace and advancement of the
State, they will become pro-slavery men. And
that they will find such to be the case, all who
know the nature of the SOIL and its peculiar
adaptation to the growth of hemp, and the tone
and sentiment of the leading citizens, can
readily comprehend.
The other class are the subjects of the 'sEmi-
grafton Aid Society," who come without means
and with atopian anticipations and are sadly
disappointed, and curse the men who sent them
hither
As many as are able, return. Those who
are unable to do so; are obliged to labor-hard
manual labor-such as they are unaccustomed
to. They are not used nor have they the
physique, to handle the maui and to WELD the
axe with the brawny sons of the West. They
feel their inferiority, and their energy and
pride stir them to extraordinary efforts. They
try to emulate their hardy compeers in everv
thing, and in nothing more than in their free
dom and independence of thought and action.
They become ashamed Of their relations to the
Emigrant Aid Society; they do not wish to be
thought subject to its will; it has deceived
them, they spurn it; they desire to show to it
their disregard of its edicts; and to give evi-
dence to those amongst whom their new lot is
cast, that they are treemen, and will act such;
and thus many of them who have freesoi or
even abolition principles, vote the pro-slavery
ticket They would do any thing rather than
bear the imputation, or even the suspicion Of
being slaves to the Aid Society. The recent
election has demonstrated this fact. In this
representative District, yclept by his Excelency
the Governor-for what reason we know not
the Burr Oak District-where there are some
three hundred voters, at least one hundred, or
one hundred and fifty Of whom are freesoilers
-Waterson, the highest pro-slavery candidate,
received 25S votes, and Fee, freesoil, only 2
And so it runs throughout the Territory.