The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
The settlement of Kansas.

DG new oIk oOuTEdI Ol OOUlIl6fCC
and the Boston Liberator, after some
years of difference of opinion, have found
common ground 1t is in assaiIing the
New England Emigrant Aid Company,
and the men who have gone to Kansas
under its auspices. The Journa: of
Commerce has never, till now, favored
its readers with any account of the Kan
sas emigrants but what it took from
Western Missouri papers. 1t has ex-
planned, again and again, that if these
"Abolitionists" had not been sent in, the
gentle outrages of Missouri invasion
would not have taken place; and on the
shoulders of those who sent in these cab
olitionists" has fallen all the blame it had
to give for the march of thousands of
armed men into new settled country for
the control of Its elections.
1t has now found out of sudden,
that the settlers. are not abolitionists at
all. Taking as its authority, an i'll na-
tured letter in the Boston Liberator, itcon-
demns the cowardly conduct of the Law
renee people in the case of fugitive
slave. From the letter published it ap-
pears that the master of slave woman
residing in the Territory sent her as d
decoy to Lawrence, to see if the settlers
would detain her. The settlers exanlin-
ed the facts, and when the master sent after
her to Judge Lecompte, the only judge
in the Territory, who said he had moth
ing to do with the case, and she returned
to her master. 1t had not the Importance
and did not involve the principles of a
case under the Fugitive Slave Law
For the woman was not removed at all
from the Territory Of Kansas. Her mas
ter lived within It's borders.
The neglect of the people of Lawrence
to take action in the case, after they had
satisfied themselves of its character,
meets the disapproval of one of their
number, who has written an account of
it to the Liberator. 1t also meets, like
everything else they do, the disapproval
of the Journal of Commerce. This
journal stigmatizes their behavior as cow
ardly, and says that the letter confirms
its impression, that many of the Aboli-
ZIONIST sent to Kansas by the Emigrant
Aid Societies of the East, ''no sooner
reach their destination than they throw
off their shackles, and act and vote as
they think proper
We venture to ask whether the letter
quoted from the Liberater does not i'm
| ply rather, that there were never any
shackles at all? As a matter of fairness,
we would ask also, why the Journal ever
chose to say there were any shackles p
And we viii express the wish thatby way
of variety, in the midst of its accounts OF
the Emigrant Aid Company taken from
Gen. Stringfellow and the "Squatter Sow
ereign,'' the Journal of Commerce would
once favor its readers with the account OF
its movements which any gentleman
nearer home, conyersant with its pro-
ceedings, could furnish.
1t is perfectly well known to every
person who has informed himself at all,
thatthe Emigrant Aid Company and the
New York Kansas League, the two com
panies alluded to, take no pledges of any
sort, and put no restrictions of any sorI
upon the emigrants who avail themselves
of theirarrangements.- The word "shack.
les'' and the idea of it, were introduced
by Gen. Stringfellew and Mr. Atchison
and the Journal of Commerce uncon
sciously borrows of them in using the
term. The men who go to Kansas from
the North are men Of every sect .anc
party they pay their own expenses
work their own way, vote their own tick
ct /; nobody debating, nobody hiring
If they change their opinions in Kansas
nobody is cheated; if they come home
nobody is to blame.
We repeat the statement which We
have often made, that the Emigrant Aie
Companies have not paid one mans pas
sage to Kansas. They have provided
: such conveniences for the travel of largt
parties as they could, and have sent int
Kansas such mills and other facilities a
would relieve emigration, in a measure o
: its first discomforts. But they hay'
! bribed nobody to go. And they hav
no need to. Emigrants are offering a
this moment, in larger numbers, thar
! the New England Company thinks advi
sable to send.
It is doubtless true that laboring men
; with their fortunes to make, will not lent
themselves to any scheme which shoui'
: make Kansas slave State They woult
not do so here at horne, why should the,
do in it their new home? Men VIII
have to work viii not readily assent /
statutes which would make labor dishon
l orable, nor to the introduction of sys
tenn of social order in which a high de
velopement of the arts has always prove
impossible. The emigrants, therefore
excepting the tender handed geutleme
: and politicians of their number, are yer
apt to prove free State men. So apt in
: deed, that an army of four thousand me
l had to be enlisted, armed and paid j
: Missouri and Kentucky, and marched
i the different polling places at the LAT
election, to- drive the Kansas judges fror
the polls, and to do the voting, which
0uNCi sum SalASy tic 1AfslS<.S fVeSi
would not do. We may add that thi
very invasion has made one party of tn
men of Kansas. Whatever their feelin
before, whatever their diversity of opu
ion, they are now all free State men,
Insulted by the foray of an army from
slave-holding State, it would be strang
If they were not so.
r We beg, therefore, to hold the Journ;
e of Commerce, and such journals in Il
D South as favor the movements made b
t Gen Stringfellow,s army in Missouri.
one position of two:
II /. Let them take the ground that Kar
o sas belongs to Missouri. That the me
!, of Missouri have a right to march
o Kansas elections and 70 return, arme
f and equipped for war. This is M
Atchison's ground, and Gen. Stringfe
n lows. Taking this ground, let the
: hold that the North had no right to em
. CRATE thither, that all emigrants from Il
|. North are slave catchers, hired to 6
there for the purpose of stealing slave
This is part of Gen. Stringfeilo~'s P