The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-08

Important Kansas Pro-slavery Movement In
Gcorgin.
KANSAS MIGRANT Neutrality-suspicious. OF SENA-
TORS TOoMBs, INVERSION AND OTHERS.
The adjourned meeting Of the Kansas Emigrant Aid
Society IT Muscogee held in Columbus, Ga tue 9th
the subscription Of $500 the spot and the enrolment
OF twenty additional members The principal points of
and s o. a a The
c Georgia in the Senate OF the United States Having
referred to the organization o. the society Mr. Tcomos
said:-
II presents practical question-one that addresses it.
sell both to our interests and patriotism Upon the
South taveIy vas prohibited In all the Territories lying
north Of 80 deg 30 min For long while this
ny was II rs bited only by the rel man For few years
past the fertility OF that portion Of known the Terri
tories of Kansas and N.b aska lying i'm nedatey Of
Missouri Iowa. has attracted thher large number
OF enterp'sng pioneers and emigrants They recently
applied 10 Congress Territorial the re-
suit WINS me tasssEs Of the bill The
ntnt feature Of 1.-THE only Of practical i'm
por'ance to the south was-that it repe. Of the
Missouri restriction that it left to the people Of the
mestic institutiontha it prohibited the
OF either Congress the States in their regulation He
haa yo,ed 'or me pi he was content to aoe ey its
Of emigration people these Territories such the
Outstanding Of all upon the passage of the bill The
South desired to carry her institutions into them yet
she did not ask for them the protection Congress- She
Was and Is now, ready to stand by her compact Has
the North sos Has acted In good hh2 Is she
not doing everything In her power to thwar the mani
fest objects and purposes OF the fals Why her Emgrant
Abolition Aid SocieyS She does not disguise her nten
TONS they not wrong upon principlef Should she
succeed by such efforts in ing the gallant Mis-
souIons and make Kansas free sof When she applies
to object If she applies with constitution recognizing
slavery, the North Is bound by similar pledge.
The day is at hard when she will be seeking adj
mission. Our enemies were already in the field, why
stand we here idle Delay fatal. 1t time the
South aroused to full sense Of her danger he was
favor Of Engrant Aid Associations at the SOUTH
N s--t0
possible the threatened danger 10 Kansas We must look
to our own stout hearts and strong arms for the protec
posed the taking Of nitstory steps OF this character BY
the South in aiding emigration to the Territories The
them. seprotecon required demanded that we should
teach the latter that will not submit to such diab0
lca attempts TO abolitionize Territory whose climate
soil and productions indicated it so favorable for the
tension Of slavery 1t attempt to crcumscribe it,
He not disposed 30 force slavery upon any people
Territory the natural laws Of emigration ought to settle
North will not agree to this let look to II at that
Southern rights, Southern interest and Southern honor
shall be defended and represented there by good men
and true For he ready to open his purse and
provide with means those who were willing te battle in
Kansas for the South and slavery.
He appealed to the patriotism and pride of all present
to give and TO give literally material aid to the society,"
to carry out its patriotic purposes, 10 give promptly,
for the day and now the hour. The North has
forced tins upon have other alternative
left. Let not be lggard in maintaining rights;
the issue one the struggle in the Ter
noblest efforts
He proceeded to show the importance to the South Of
the admission of Kansas into the Union slave
1t the key TO the great West the high road to the
Pacific its influence in the formation of States from the
Territories South and West Of It, 1t of vital
quence to the stakeholder in Missouri
Il had been said that slavery would not be profitable in
Kansas; this was great mis- take. 1t was in the same
latitude with Missouri lis soil very much the In
no state In the Union slave labor profitable
than in Missouri the history of the institution there
the best evidence Of this BY the census 1910 her
slave population only 40 600 by the of 1850
il more than double this number. Ont Of its eighty
odd thousand slaves the showed that 30 900 Of
them were in the western border counties of the State
Immediately jacent to Kansas Hemp tobacco wheat
and corn are The principal products Of Missouri The
soil OF Kansas has been found equsl as well adapted to
their growth Their cultivation by far prota-
BILE than cotton The history of slave labor in Virginia.
Kentucky and Missouri had proven it to be SO.
Mr.. Toomb, having concluded Capt Iomax being loudly
called for, responded ia few brief and spirited remarks
Kansas the keystone Of the arch Of the Union. 1t
of vital importance not only to Missouri but to each
of the slavehodng States that it should come into the
Union slave State The admission OF California had
deprived us Of the balance of power in the Senate Now
the time and this the occasion TO restore It. The
hour for action had arrivedunied and vigorous action
Missouri led by her gallant Atchson had done nobly
TO ruh to her Shall she appeal in vain
to Southern hearts and southern patriotsmf Her
was the cause Of the South. He concluded by calling
upon all present to unite with the society in its patriotic
efforts to open their purposes and give material did to
those stout hearts and strsng arms who were now ready
Hon. Allied Iverson then and addressed few
marks to the society.
The policy Of the North said he was to surround the
South with Gordon OF free states. and by continuing
slavery 10 limited area to crush it out In this point
Of view, the maintenance Of slavery Ia Kansas was
matter Of vital interest to the South If slavery gives
way in Kansas Missouri will be surrounded three sides
by non.slaveholdng States, and the Institution must
give way there 1t will also be in peril in the Indian ter
rtoy lying south Of Kansas il will then only
for the aboonis to extend their influence to Western
Texas and the great object Of their ambition win be at
tanned. The South will then he reduced a hopeless
minority in the Union her institutions will be confined
to the marrow mi they Mt present occupy a1d their
overthrow will only be question of time.
On the other hand he commended that If slavery
maintained In Kansas, II would be also maintaiaed in
Missouri. 1t might possibly be extended to Utah. New
Mexico and Southern California; it would certainly be
protected in the Indian territory and Texas and when
the northern provinces of Mexico are annexed to the
United sates, they certainly will be IN the course OF
time the field Of the extension for Southern institutions
win be indefinitely enlarged.
Upon prop siiion Of John A. JONES' Esq to be one of
ten 10 subscribe $3.50 each to and equip company
Of emgIans to Kansas short discussion arose parci-
paed in by Mr. jones' Judge Crawford and others-as to
the Of the society. Judge Crawford suggested that
every should subscribe dollar for each slave he
possessed that every sehoder in the State would do
So fund Of not less than four hundred thousand dollars
could be rai.ed which could increased least to half
million Of dollars by the subscriptions Of Others the
other saveholdng States would unite with in this I'M
dertakng the subscriptions be in accordance with
this per cdlia system some similar method, might
in the fifteen slaveboldng States, raise fund equal to
that which may be raised by the Emgrant Aid societies
of tie New England States. Give Southern emigrants
four millions OF dollars in add ion to the inducements to
and the bright prospects of slave labor In Kansas and
long she will be seeking admission into the Union as
o slave state.
Fatal Railrond Accident.
frghtful accident occurred the Georgia Central
road on Wednesday afternoon, the particulars Of which
municaied to the Savannah Ereaiag Courier by
the messenger Of Harnden's Express Company
freight train from Macon had reached two miles and