Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-27
see the blow descend, and take no step to
parry or weaken its force.

We invite reading this morning of what
was read in the Senate by Judge DoUGLAs,
as an extract from the published plan of
operations of the Massachusetts, Emigrant
Aid Society, an institution having for its
avowed object the making of Kansas
free State, by fair means or by foul. Let
Southern men reflect upon that passage,
where they compute the number of foreign
emigrants who can be induced to go to
Kansas to make it free State-thirty or
forty thousand, say they. 1t requires but
ninety odd thousand to authorize them to
frame a State Constitution and knock
at the door of the Union. One agency
alone proposes to send half the number
requisite, and to send them for specific
purpose-to prevent the extension of slave
ry-to Danish the Southern man and his
property from the new territories. These
societies have an object-tbey have the
amplest means with which to accomplish
it, and of their abundance they coolly cal
cuate how much it will take A half
million of such material annually finds its
way to our shores. The enemies of the
South who have for years made war on its
institutions, have canvaSsed the opinions of
these emigrants. They know their men
when they equip them with money for Kan
sas. Every foreigner whom these fanatics
have sent to that Territory, has but to de-
clare his intention to become citizen, and
dagger is placed in his hands to stab the
South-his vote is recorded against the
Southerner-he shall not carry his slaves
there to contend with him in the struggle
for bread for his children. This is part
of the records of the country. 1t is the
history of the times and cannot be denied
The American party have urged this point
on the attention of the South. The clap
trap cries of demagogues have diverted
attention from it, An overt act is now
presented, whose impressive lesson demands
their attention 1t will not down at the
demagogue'S bidding. The machinery by
which these foreigners are transported to
Kansas is the daily theme of Democratic
denunciatiOn Even now the echo of their
diatribeS against Emigrant Aid Societies
is ringing through the Senate Chamber.
The American party propose an efectual
means of neutralizing their efforts. They
would take away from the newly landed
emigrant the right to vote. They would
emaSculate him Of his power to do us harm,
though they cannot eradicate his propen-
sty. They are willing to give him home
on the rich and bountiful prairies OF our
great northwest, but will not Undue him
with the power to debar the citizens of fif-
teen sovereign States the privilege of living
on and tilling, after the manner of their
fathers, the same luxuriant soil.
Southerners, it is under the provisions of
the Kansas n ebraska act that this potent
engine of mischief is brought into play.
While this clause remains, every effect of
the act which could benefit the South may
be rendered nugatory. 1t was in vain
that the odious restriction line was remOv-
ed, if a new but equally sure and effective
agency be established to do its work. The
single fact adduced in DOUGLAS report, and
the present condition of Kansas-the cause
and the effect-prove that such is the case.
And yet the party who set up as your es-
peciaI friends, refuse to take the only step
which can counteract this northern-fOreign-
freesoil movement, and denounce those who
would place wholesome restraint on the
foreigner, and preserve, if possible, your
rights in the Territories The American
platform refuses the powerful prerogative
of the franchise to all but "native born
and naturalized citizens" The Nebraska
act would food the new territories with
horde of rabid anti-slavery foreigners, arm
ing them with the power to say to the
Southern man: Away! begonel this soil
is sacred from the pollution of yourself and
your property!