New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-08
SLAVERY IN KANSAS AND NEBRASKA.

Some of tie Missouri people seem very confident
that Kansas is to become Slave State, and strong
hopes are expressed that Nebraska viii likewise DO
visited by the same curse. The following is an OK
tract from letter published in The 81. Louis Repub-
iicqn dated Whitehead X. T., May "a;
The elections in our First, Second, Third, Seventh,
Eighth and Sixteenth Districts took place on the 22d
insani-day before yesterday; but have not heard
the result. There was no excitement about IT. The
friends of the South and of the Union may rest
satisfied, and the Aboltioniss and Disunionsts can
bang their harp upon the willow and SIT down upon
tie eastern banks of the Mississippi and weep, Tor
the fate of Kansas is settled, and settled glonousy
Mssourians Kentuckians, Tennosseeans Nirginians
and other Pro-Slayery citizens are coming every day
by hundreds and making homes comfortable homes,
all over tie Territory, and they weld so strong an m
guence socially and morally to change the politi-
cal opinion of many of the FreeSoers who have been
sent here by the Aid Society. Ii Is only here and
there in limited localities that you find any number OF
Abolitionss and they so fanatcally bitter yindc-
tive and repulsve that they operate against their own
cause. They never will be able to control any inhu-
enco OF to effect anything OF moment.
So strong general and pervadlng Is me fro-SiaVery
sentiment that il has extended even TO Nebraska, and
We find The Nebraska CITY Ners enlisiing under u
banner ard hear of public meetings being held, resolu-
tious passed and addresses published advocating the
establishment of Slave State in the southern portion
of that Territory Several families have already gone
the with their slaves. There are not less than forty
slaves in Richardson County alone.
What will our " Emisrant Aid friends say TO this
What can they say When we had conceded that Ter
rory to the FreeSoilers and they had the Government
in their own hands why did they not pass law pro-
hibitipg Slavery resolution to that eiiect was In
troduced and negatyed. The reason Is that those
people have been let alone; they have had time for
observation and reflection, and IN their cool Deliberate
Judgment majority of them in their IL gslaure a.
sembled determined that not polite to prohibit
Slavery; that it might piOve the best Institution tor
the State Those of the southern and more fertile por
tons thought slave-labor would be the most suitable
and productive in their agriculture, while those oil the
sterile north deemed it a curse.
The result of our elections has been attributed wholly
10 tie interfere OF the Mssourian5 and yet where
there Missourians and where we supposed
thee were none but Frec-Soilers resolution TO pro-
hbit Slavery was getived, and citizens are moving
in with slaves and public meetings are being he,d In
favor of Slavery and The principal paper IN the Terri
tory is its strongest advocate.
We subion the article from The Nebraska city
Ne,cs, referred to in the foregoing article:
TIE question Of Slavery or no Slavery has at last
been raised in regard to the southern portion OF Ne
breska. We have with many Missourians and Viz
vnians come of them hare their siares atready here,
who are among most enteprising and populIr citi
zete and VIC are well though they say but little
in regard TO tie matter, they are bent upon establish
ing stho peculiar institution" in Southern Nebraska,
if it can be done by majority vote. Emgrants from
Southern States moving here south OF the Patte
faster perhaps than any other style OF settlers Emil
Grants Northern states are scarce Ut
proportion TO those from the South and as south OF
The Platte River il already the most populous portion
Of the Territory, and as ii Is acknowledged by all to
be by far the best agricultural part Of Nebraska IL
matter of importance to all whether 1t be Free or
Slave State. .
We do not affirm, many unacqualnted with our
~ ters do and will that there possibility OF South
ern Nebraska ever becoming Slave State. On the
contrary we see no impossibiy about II; we see no
reason why with majority OF slave-State emgrants
for her population SouthPlatte Nebraska should not
eventually become powerful supporter of Slavery.
Northern men who take the ground that every man
born south of Mason and Dxons line Is born indolent
and without ambition sillypated foolish men, aud
they reckon without their hOst. We have seen rs
much enterprise in Nebraska which originated IN
Southern heads and was being pushed aud hurried
along 10y Southern hands, we have Of Northern I'M
dertakines II is 10 truth that all southern
men are INDECENT and imbece, some fanatics con-
fdeny asscr than it is that all Norti ern men are IN
dustrious and Ingenious which everybody knows isn't
exactly the
And now Slavery is here in a small way-a lew ne
croes, twenty or so-und its supporters are coming
fsstcr and faster What sends them here A beautl-
u country il not all that they seek. but slavery We
tory over II ose who have challenged then They seek
to drown flat hypocritica voice that cried slavery
shall not enter Nebraska and prove AZ false they
eek 10 conquer those wi have tainted them Dy ihaA
inc sou;h of the Platte River Slave state.