New-York daily tribune., 1856-02-26
SOUTHERN AID SOCIETIES.

Kansas and the Fooolng vi tAc save interest," In
that Territory. The North saw at glance that
under the squatter- -SPyereignty provisoss Of the
Kansas. Nebraska act the decision whether tho
| Territory should ultimately become Slave or
, Free State, depended yery much on the character
| and sentiments of tie first occupants. Upon ftis
hint action wss taken al ones, and no sooner wss
the bill passed than associations were Organized to
facilitate the settlement Of Ksnsss BY Frss-Stats
men. This same pretty Obvious iiea is as lsst be-
gnaiug to get through the thick skulls q our
Southern brethren. Ii is seen that in gyfe Of
Border. Rufian invasiOns froa Missouri, and Al the
countenance given TO those irEasions BY the Fed
eral Government ard Federal Senate the aja<ty
of which is largely composed Of Border Rushsas
and Dougbfaces, it will not be easy 10 iorrs
Slavery upon Territory five sixths of the inhsa-
tants of which are utterly opposed to it. This dis
coyery has at last been made by the more iptelli-
gent of the Shareholders and after al the hue and
cry raised at the South against Northern Emigant
Aid Societies great efforts now making thsro
to organize Southern Emigrant Aid Societies On
what is supposed to be the same model
OF course we do not complain Of this. Border.
Rufian invaders we detest and execrate; but such
bona fde settlers as choose to remove from the
South to Kansas, whether going on the strength Of
their own means, or paid, hired and fitted-out by
their wealthier neighbors, we have not the least
objection to. There is, however, a striking. dit.
ference in the method of operation proposed at
the South and that adopted at the North--a dif.
ference made necessary no doubt by the different
state of society and materials TO operate upon in
the two sections, but which we apprehond will
place our Southern competitors in the emigration
business at decided disadvantage. great
clamor has been raised at the South against our
aid societies, as if they were institutions to send
out paupers and vagabonds to Kansas We doubt
if this pure calumny; it was probably sug-
gested to our Southern friends by the state Of
society among themselves; and these Southern aid
societies, we see, all formed upon the principle
of paying the expenses of the emigrants whom 1t Is
proposed to send out The fact Is the South does
not afford, as the North does, body Of men able
and willing 10 emigrate on their own account and
who only need the assistance Of the aid societies to
furnish them information to secure them the
cheapest aud shortest passage, aud to establish
saw-ms and other things of that sort essential to
the comfort of the settlers. The shareholders
who have means of their own do not choose to
venture on this ororn hope. As to the aon-save-
holders, in the first place they have no interest to
undertake this enterprise for the extension Of
Slavery, and, in the second place. they have no
means to undertake it.. Thus money becomes a
double necessity to these Southern aid societies
in the first place to hire the settlers to co. and in
the second place to pay the expenses of their trans
| pOrtation.
Now, great, magnanimous and free as the hearts
of our Southern brethren are, there is apt to be
erribe vacuity in their pockets They are as bad
ly off as the poet Catulus Look into their PURSES
and nine times out of ten you will find nothing there
but cobwebs-or more likely, perhaps protested
drafts and unpaid bills. They will declaim to you
by the hour about Southern munifcence aud gener-
Osity; but ask them for a subscription for the
darling purpose Of the extension Of Slavery, aud
you may expect 10 them cooly turn their backs
upon you-perhaps denounce you az an impertinent
fellow, with no regard to the finer sensibilities.
Such seems to have been the experience, at least
so far as collecting money is concerned, Of the
patriotic gentlemen who, in Georgia, Alabama and
other Southern States, have attempted to raise
ing money by private subscription, they induced
Mr.. Crook of Chatooga to introduce into the Leg
islature of Georgia bill for appropriating $4,000
for this purpose to be raised by special tax on
slayes--an appropriation which 1t was hoped would
be initiated in all the other slavehclding States.
Mr.. Crook-poor simple sOul-really seems to
have believed that the shareholders would jump at
the exclusive privilege offered them, by means of the
special tax proposed, TO contribute their money to
extend the area" He also wished by this provision
10 shut up the mouths of the nOnSlayeholders,
pretty numerous in his part of the country, who
might complain at being taxed for an object IN
which they had no interest But the House, to be-
gin with, and without ceremony, struck this exclu-
siye tax on slaves out Of the bill.
In the course of the debate some curious facts
came out. 1t was stated on the authority Of q
gentleman from Kansas who had lately ectured in
the Representatives Hall, that out of eighty-n -nins
men who were transported" from Tennessee 10
Ksnsas-at the expense we suppose Of their slave
holding neighbors-eighty proved false" and voted
against the South; that is, we suppose, against
Slavery; and further, that Of nine men from the
County of Groton, in the State of Georgia, eight
"proyed false" Rather bad investment, that, Of
Shareholders money, and not very encouraging to
Southern Emigrsnt Aid Societies. This point, and
some others connected with il, were strongly urged
by Mr. Harris Of Fulton who thus opposed the
bill:
alt II proposed under the broad seal OF Georgia 10
embark the State in colonization. But, Sir, ssk 10