Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-04-15
KANSAS, HO.

We are rejoiced to see that Southerners are re-
solved to have their share of Kansas. They are ex'
pressing their resolutions too. not by the mere empty
declarations Of meetings and conventions, but by
their actions. Thousands are removing to this new
and fertile territory, and carrying with them many
slaves Many who cannot remove are advancing
money to aid the enterprise and to purchase lands
Our ancestors were confined, at the time Of the revo
luton, to little strip of comparatively sterile land
between the Alleghanies aud the Atlantic. Now,
their posterity in the South and Southwest have
bouebt, settled and reclaimed a hundred times ns
much, aud far better lands. How much more wisely
have they acted than if they had remained at home
divided our lands minutey, and attempted to recu-
perats exhausted soils! Still hear old foges,
wbose brains are ossifed, aud whose thoughts are
stereotyped, protesting against emigration. IL IL
the best and easiest way to make ample ProVi"n Tor
our children. The removal, too, gives them hardl'
hood, energy, industry and independence oi oharao
ter 1t at once makes brave, sell reliant men OF the
The "border ruan, the farmer of the far South and
West is the noblest type of mankind. In MS person
is revived all the chvalry and generosity ot tue
knights of the middle ages. He is equally noble
but fur more useful. He is the pioneer OF d
high and honorable civilization. He is planting
master race-meu like the Greeks and Romans
on new soil: not buying up white men al
the shambes, to remove them from slavery to capital
IN Boston, to make them in few generations QlaVeS
10 capital i'll Kansas In a few generations the pro-
cess OF subsistence and stratlcation of society takes
place. aud then like the European peasants, set
OF lneu become tworse than slaves the mere hercdi-
tary bonds'nen of capital or property. thousand
men are killed by lightning where one English agri.
cultural peasant rises above the condition of his ans
cestry. &c. without slaves, will it be in kansas,-
White men must clean tho grss!s work the rouds,
stand behind the chairs Of gentlemen at table, brush
their clothes, black their boots and hold their hurscs
To this condition all free society soon comes. For
these menial purposes, Boston capitalists send out
free Americans to Kansas Withou. white slaves to
oapts their town lots and lands will be worth no.
thing. II they can send enough emigrants however
labor will, by competition, in few generations, be.
come as cheap as in England, and the body OF the
emgrants be as we'll of az the peassntry OF England
Then free labor will be far cheaper than negro slave
labor Then the hireling white man viii get saough
to feed and clothe his family in seed time and IN mar
vest, aud be cast off to perish in Winter Free men
Of the North! Boston that grew fat on the African
slave trade, Boston that is driving neat little busl'
uess in Chinese slaves this Boston wishes to engage
in grander aud more profitable business, by sending
you to Kansas. Go there! But invite SoutheEness
with their slaves, who have equal rights to come si
50. Then the African will be :h7 menia which suits
his nature aud yoa, however poor privileged and
honored cluss like the ancient Greeks and Romans.
TO be citizen Of Kansas, will then be an honor