Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-16

AANZASs
The slavery propaganda are adopting new
plan to deter northern people from emigrat-
ing to Kanzas. They are circulating reports
that the Emigrants' Aid Company has failed;
and that the present settlers in the district are
nothing but set of dissolute, shiftless loaf.
ors and paupers. Last fall the Southern bull
lies held meetings in Missouri, and threatened
to keep Northern emigrants out of the new
territory, with bowie knife and rife now
they are lamenting, in their newspapers, over
the hard fortunes of those who have squatted,
in spite of their vigilance, on the bottoms OF
the Kanzas. 1t is amusing to witness the va
rious means which low cunning will suggest,
to gain the particular purpose 1t may have in
view. 1t is alike willing to threaten or mis-
lead. Finding that threatening did not scare
Northern people from going to Kanzas, last
fall, the Blunderbores of slavery next try mis-;
representation. We can assure those astute
gentlemen that this mode of trying to save the
territory to slavery will also fail.
In the spring there promises to be an extra
ordinarily large emigration from the east to
Kanzas and it promises to be as respectable
and influential as that which has preceededit it,
which is saying enough for it. The Southern
papers have stated that the first emigration
was composed of paupers picked up in eastern
cities by the Emigrants Aid Society and sent
out to Kanzas at the company's expense, and
this falsehood has even reached Washington
and been credited in the capital. Such sto-
~ would be amusing to us,ifit was not likely
TO prove mischievous elsewhere. The emf
grants to Kanzas, under the auspices of the
Aid Society, have hitherto been men of COM
parative wealth and high moral and intellec.
tual culture; and SO far are they from having
failed in their enterprise, that they have al
ready built city, established church, news
paper, schools, &c., and enhanced the value
of the land around them beyond all calcula-
ton.
When the Rev. Mr.. Lum organized a church
at Lawrence. he found there, larger proper
ton of men and women who had been church
members at home, than he would have found
in any similar number chosen promiscuously
from any eastern city. At the institution Of
the Kanzas Atheneum, in Lawrence city al
SO, it was proved, that, in population which
mustered three hundred, more than one voter
in ten had received collegiate education.-
The Emigrant Aid Company has not been
able, in consequences of the pressure of the
times, to expend SO much capital in the terri
tory as it was intended it should; but what
it has expended has been applied In the most
iudicions and profitable manner. 1t has
founded city, Lawrence, along whose streets
stately buildings are rising and are to rise
1t has put up saw-mill, erected FORCES, es-
tablished boarding houses, a lyceum, public
library, school house, and meeting house.
Those who went out there first could sell out
their claims for $500 advance, besides their
improvements, SO great Is the influx of set
tiers, and so strong is the desire to settle in
this nucleus of the Western free state of Kan
zas.
There is query inducement for intelligent,
enterprising freemen to immigrate to Kanzas.
The pioneers already there are prosperous, in
telligent, virtuous, active, enterprising, and
free. All the attendant blessings of civiliza-
tion-Christian worship, the education of
youth, the library, the lyceum, and the press
are to be found there. Besides, there is to
be the centre of movement that will ulti-
mately demonstrate to the South that Slavery
is an unholy, unlawful, Improbable, unchris-
tan thing. Then no! for Kanzas in the
spring,