The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-09

politics well law The abolition Eruption upon
nine years Of national he have rolled by; yerrtory
after Territory has been annexed settled and added
to the GALAXY Of States until from thirteen We have IN
the head Of any statesman, North or Souh TO devise
plan Of acquiring usve occupation of fert,ry by
Of its invention and trust she viii survive It's defeat
But he IL not the Massachusetts must do justice to
her past history to that she Was ia the times o. her
where she stood in more recent times when her Web
sters and Choates and winthrops led the van Of her
rtsenen. Her legislative halls filed with hless
fanatics dead to the past and reckless to the future
her sta,ute books polluted with enActments pur
porting to annul the laws Of Congress- passed in pur-
fuance and by reason Of the special requirements oil
the constitution and her senstoIal ch1s ut Washing
ton are filed by rhetorician and bigot Of whom
the oct hideous and tressonable fanaticism
whilst his colleague is plea sed to hsrapgue city rabbe
with oper and adul,eaed dsnnonsm, associated With
the orscles OF abOticnism and inhdeitya melancholy
spectacle to the descendants Of the compatots OF Ben
min Franklin.
No Southern saveholdipg State ever attempted
to c0l0nZe Territory. Our public lands have been LETT
the occupancy Of such settlers soil and climate in
ved The South has cent armies to force slave labor
from Virginia did tennessee from North Carolina and
Kansas will from Missourifrom contguity OF territory
and similarity Of climate. Emigration has followed the
parallels OF latitude end will continue do unless
diverted by such organizations Emgant Aid Societies
II has been said that the citizens of have
undoubted right to emigrate to Kansas; that thi
right may be exercised individually or in families, ia
larger private associations and that associated
pse under the sanction Of legislative eDactments but
another ard equally jusifsble form OF emigration Po-
icsl actions like those OF individuals must be judged
by their motives and elects. unquestionably, em
grafton both individual and collec i've, from the free
States to the South, and vice versa from the slave
States to the North, has been progressing from thu
foundation Of government 10 the present day. with
out CO mmeDt and without objection 1t Is not pre-
tended that such emigration II fostered by State
pato would be Illegal, or in any respect objec
tf,a nd H..
serted wastes of the sunny South invite occupation
and man, from the southern extremity Of Florida
ed to On tmigrant smply because lie was from the
North and preferred free labor to that of slave Upon
this subject he Is allowed to consuit his taste
venence and conscence ard 1t is expected that he viii
permit bis neighbour to exercise the priv eye. But
FAM to distinguish between honest, bonr
de emigration, prompted by choice necessity and
organized colonization with Offensive purposes upon the
institutions OF the country proposed 10 be settled Nor
there be any doubt in which class to place the
Kansas Leagues. Their motives have been candidiy
avowed and their objects boldly proclaimed Throughout
the length and breadth Of the land Were this not the
case it yond still be impossible to mistake them Why
might well inquire Il single emigration in
these binary efforts confined 70 the territory
Kansas Is ebaska which was opened to settemen. By
the law, less desirable less inviting to Northern
sdyenturers than Kapsas9 Are Iowa, and Washington
sna and mnnssG sns na and n
giants herself w sn
whom she cannot feed at bonner Or l. Kansas, as East
orators have insnusted newly discovered paradise
"a modern FL Dorado--where gold and ptecops stone
can be gathered at pleasures OF an Arcadia where ma
ture is bouutul not to need the aid of man and
fruits and vegetables Of every desirable dessrpt spon
taneously spring up2
that shaws conclnsvey the spirit and intent
this mircaiied and pretended emigration. anti
slavery movement. As such it organized and put In
motion by anti slavery legislature; such, the
ganized amy equipped In Massachusetts, and tran
ported to KaIsas and as SUCH 1t was met there and de-
ieated.
there ovem ents upon Kansas we might extend oh
selvaons to the probable reception OF similar movement
upon State j the Masfachuset Legislature, or ha
OF any other state, have the right send army OF
transport hem Missouri We not appraised 81 an,
In this respect distinguishes their condition from that
Territory. We have no laws, and presume shave
hsidng State has which forbids the emigration Of
slavthoaers Such laws If passed. would clearly c,nic
with the federal constitution. The Southern and South
weste, slayeboldrg States are to fro
Bon ehcding Sta Kansas They differ only In thu
pice oil land and the density Ct population Let sup
pose then that shoold her attention
that State nearly divided between those who favored
and those who opposed slavery and that thousand
votes would turn the scale in favor Of emancipation, and
actg in accordance with her world wide phan lhropy
be should resolve to transport the thousand voters
cessary to abolish slavery In Texas how would such
movement he received there Or reverse the propo
sion Let il be supposed that south Carolina. With he
large sayeholdng population should undertake to trans
poit thousand shareholders to Delaware, with view
to Turn the scale in that State understood to b.
raIidy passing to the st Of free States would the
gallant Of that ancient State small she Is terri
torally submit to such interference Now, the nsti
buttons Of kansas much fixed and AZ solemnly
guaranteed by statute those Of Delaware Texas
The laws of Kansas Territory may be abrogated hy
succeeding Legislatures but, also may the laws,
and The constitutions of Texas and Delaware Kan
sas only differs from their condition her limited
sources her small population and her large amount 81
kafa lanAa TvtarA Ia ~sr1.
beween the supposed II jus6abe and legal In the
one, iii equally 80 in the other. They differ only il
be an outrage easily perceived. promptly met, and
speedily rereed the other disguised under the forms
81 organization, and meets with no popuous and orga
niaed comm unity 10 reen! IT, We appraised that It !
said that tie kanfas Legislature elected by fraud
and constitutes fair tation Of the opinions
the people the Territory This il evidently the
Of tho osir party to stimulate renewed efforts
their nds at hcme but even this is refuted BY the
cord. The Territorial Governor Of Kansas gentleman
OF suspected Of charged with Partially to slavery
to it's advocates, has solenny cei tile under his ocl
SEAL that the statement Ia false that large majority u
the Ltglature duly and legally elected Even iu
be districts where Governor Reedcr aside the cleo
tons for ealty the subsequent returns of the special
elections ordered by him produced the ssme result
and 1t Is apparent that to send army OF aboponisr
to Kansas 10 destroy slavery existing there and rec g.
Of the 1esisature than Il would Be-
tepd like force to Missouri, with the like purpose
The object might be easily and safely sccompis
u
equally epuerant to every principle Of interH
comfy and likely to prove equally fatal to the harm ~
ard Ieace If the Union.
We conclude then, that this irrupon upon Kansas by
Emgfant Aid Societies and Kansas Leagues under the
patronage Of the Massachusetts, legislature to be re
gardtd in no other light than phase Of abolition
i'm, practical in its aims, and therefore
g.rous than any form IL has yet assumed. We have
shown II be at variance with ,he intent of the
act Of Congress- by which the Territory opened
settlements ut variance with the spirit Of the constu
ton Of the United States, and with the institutions
the Territory already recognized by law totally dtstruc
tive Of that fellowship and good feeling which should
ist among citizens Of coniederated States rninous
security, peace and prosperity Of neighboring State;
unprecedented in political annals up to this date
and pregnant with the most disastrous consequence
the harmony and stability Of the Union Thus far its
purposes have been defeated but renewed efforts are
threatened. Political conventions at the North ard
North sest have declared for the repeal OF the Kan
Nebraska law, and anticipating failure In this direc
are stimulating the anti slavery sentiment 70 fresh
ertions for sboionzng Kansas after the Massachusetts,
fashion. We have discharged our duty In declaring the
light in which such demonstrations are viewed here aud
firm belief az the spirit by which they viii be met.
II civil war and ultimate disunion are desired renewal