Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-08
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Emigration to Kanzas.
We have from all quarters accounts of the
emigration of large bodies of men for Kansas,
and the latest advices from Lawrenc represent
emigrants as pouring into the territory from
every direction but chiefly from the free States.
The Herald Of Freedom Of March %, says that
the streets of Lawrence are beginning to be
thronged with strangers and present livey APP
pearanee. Pro-slavery men from the South
are hurrying in to some extent, and also TAX
ing up claims. The Atlanta, Ca, Iatekti-
gencsr of the 10th ult, stated that companies
passed through that place almost daily for
Kansas. chiefly from Charleston and other
points in South Carolina. A company or
ganized at Atlanta, was to start in a few days.
A company of Fifty Georgian emigrants entered
Kanzas the first of March, but in three weeks
forty of them had left the territory and started
for home, satisfied that the establjshlsmen al
slavery by emigration %s * homeless.
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Douo'less telsis the experience Of most Of
LIZ emigrants, and it is for this rea-
son the pro. slavery faction are not willing tc
trust the establishment of their darling insti.
tuition in the territory, to the option of the
'squatters,' but wish to enlist the aid Of
President Pierce, to back up the border ruff
fans in forcing slavery upon the people of
Kanzas, contrary to their will. With this OBJ
ject, another lncursion from Missouri is re-
commended, and fight is to be got up to as
sist Atchison in putting down again that OBJ
noxlous instrument of popular sovereignty =
the ballot, thus contessing that ''the South
stands no chance tchea it comes to uote.''
In illustration of this, it is stated that at a
recent Kanzas meeting in Columbia, S. c.,
letters were read from Atchison, saying
among other things, " it is understood by all
parties that the fight will begin in the spring;
that he had at any moment the power to bring
about a civil war; that their organization is
complete; that they, have taken steps to pro-
vide for those who come to the territory with
out means of support" Mr.. Tradewell made
the principal speech, and regarded the Kan
zas quarrel as the most hopeful means of
bringing about a dissolution of the Union,
which he avowed was his object, as he be-
ieved it to be Mr.. Atchison's; but he said
"There is no chance on earth for the South
when it comes to votes. The only chance is
to assist General Ate hison in the way of men
and means of fighting. If there is not a fight
before the meeting OF the Convention to pre-
pare a constitution for Kanzas, the Union will
be preserved
Reference is here made to the Convention
proposed in accordance with Senator Doug
lass bill, the object of the introduction of
which appears to be, to enable Atchison and
his crew to get up another foray of border
rufians into the territory on the day of vot-
ing for delegates to that Convention. They
probably think that, by the connivance OF
the General Government, they can effect the
choice of majority OF pro-sIavery men, or
rufians, in that Convention, as they did in
the bogus Legislature. But the men Of Kan
sas will never consent to waive their right to
the Constitution they have already legally
framed, and take their chance of again being
overrun by another horde of border rufhans,
in an election provided for them by the special
grace Of Senator Douglas.
Let the friends of freedom in Kanzas,
throughout the North encourge TO the extent
Of their influence, the emigration thither of
all whom they can induce, to swell the ranks
of the Free state men struggling there to
maintain the true principles of popular SOW
ereignty," as EN- bodied in the State Constitu-
ton of their own voluntary drawing up. The
indications are, that if this emigration should
be kept up at the rate it is now proceeding,
Kanzas will soon contain sufficient number
of Inhabitants to entitle it to admission into
he Union as State, and will be SO admitted,
under the present constitution, before the close
of the present session of Congress. If it is
STAYED off, the administration will be more the
losers than the gamers, by opposing it. Five
States came into the Union on precisely the
same mode, and no valid argument can be
made against the speedy recognition of the
right Of Kanzas to like treatment.