New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-11
KANSAS.

KANSAS.
Gen. Pomeroy, an Agent of the Emigrant Aid
Company of New England, lately addressed
public meeting in Boston concerning the prog
ress of the effort to settle Kansas by free emf
grants and 10 secure free institutions for the
future State. Amid the many discouragng facts
which for months past we have had 10 chronicle
upon this subject, it is cheering to receive the
positive assurances which Gen. POmerOy gives
upon the other eide. His statements are sub
stantially as follows:
Like all other new territories Kansas has its
centers which must direct the history and social
order of the future State. BY centers we mean
the towns or villages in which public sentiment
is developed and purified by argument, before it
radiates into the less populous districts.
There are in Kansas at the present time eight
prominent towns, namely; Lawrence, Topeka,
Pawnee, Boston, Ossawatemie, and Grasshopper
Falls-of the names of the other two we are not
informed. The right points are occupied and
controlled by Northern workingmen. They have
their mills. and their neutrality-suspicious. church
es, and newspapers. With the exception of
Council City, there is not another center of in
huence or trade in Kansas. Thus it will be seen
that while the Atchison gang have carried two
elections, they have not built one town. Their
voters having fulfilled the labor for which they
were hired, have returned to their homes in
Missouri, leaving the work of building towns,
improving lands and erecting public works to
the industry and enterprise of Northern men.
On the 22d ult. Lawrence chose, by majority
of 2S8 against 90 Free State delegation to the
Legislature, while Boston, before it was "a hours
old, indicated its name by electing Free State
Counselor, and three Free State delegates.
And this was done in the teeth Of an opposition
of braggart hirelings imported for the occasion
from Missouri. There was but little noise con-
corning this victory, and no buster. But its
effects will be evident in the legislation of the
Territory; it proves that, regardless of the as
sumpions of those who were elected by treach-
cry and Violence the people may yet form and
control their own institutions
With great quietness the emigrants from the
North have gone on in the preparatory work,
building towns, clearing lands, and giving
foundation to their enterprise The noise and
buster made by the negro-drivers, combinations
have not retarded them. They now hold the
centers from which public opinion in the State
must radiate, and by which it will be controlled.
The temporary legislation of the disciples of
Atchison as Gen. PomerOy thinks, will scarcely
be felt by those who repudiatc it, and whatever
may be its action, it cannot interfere with the
integrity of the State or the progression of It's
inhabitants. For every noisy demonstration on
the part of the Oligarchy," there will be
mill erected, farm cleared, church or school
house built And when the time comes for an
expression of opinion on the great question of
human rights, it will be found that the men Of
thoughtful purpose are not behindhand iii
action, when that action on their part becomes
an imperative necessity.
There can be no doubt that the Emgrant Aid
Company of New England has proved very
active ally Of Freedom in Kansas. The silent
action OF its members has led many persons to
suppose that it was Ineffective as an organiza-
ton; such however is not the case. 1t has
nOselessly gone on extending its operations,
| and we are assured has thus far fulfilled all that
its founder one year ago proposed to accomplish.
Satisfied with the progress they have made, the
New England Company now desire to go further,
and are at present appealing for more extensive
stock subscriptions in order to carry out more
general system of emigration during the present
Summer. The necessity of an increase in mum
bers Of Free-State residents in the terri
tories is plainly apparent, and with the assist
ance ofthose favorable to the cause it is expect
ed that before another year the number of inhl-
entail towns in the Territory will be doubled.
And thus while Douglas" Leavenworth, and
the other towns erected to sustain a lawess in
humanity have rapidly passed into decadence,
whole villages have sprung up to reward the
Northern industry which planned and erected
them. The blight which appears to have fallen
on the local habitations OF Slavery accompany it
in its emigration, and prevent its being perpetu-
ated; while the healthfu action Of free labor and
free institutions carries with it a motive power
which if duly sustained and furthered will
eventually succeed in eradicating gigantic social
evil even rs the AK of the emgrant clears
away the forests OF the West. All that is neces-
sary is devoted and persistent action on the part
of the friends of Freedom. With that the Terri
tory may be saved; without il il must be lost.
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