The daily union., 1856-02-01
TIE KANSAS EMIoRANr Alb SOCIETY.

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LADIES AND sKsTLK4Es have come hers 70 ask you
whether the mighty West shall be free territory slave
srhtory-wheher that lovely place shall be made the
ground where and women, with faculties and pas
sons and feelings like ours shall be sold like cattle
the place Of freedoms tTumphr have come to you with
this question: because l fnd in other community SO
hearty welcome with you. We have power that il
able TO settle this quesonwhich il not theory, and
which Is IN its Infancy stronger than slavery IN its full
Now ladies and gentlemen come to ask you If this
mighty organization shall be sustained Shall IL lack the
Pttance necessary TO carry y iorward But 1t may be
does IL acquire III answer, Il coniers such advantages
upon emgants have before been conferred and
which they cannot afford TO do without.
lie then enumerated the advantages Of emigration To the
West with the support OF the Aid Company Tickets are
sold at reduction of perhaps onerd and the emgrants
and their baggage placed in charge OF agent OF the
company who that they placed upon the road and
their comfort and safety attended to. They star-say
from Worcester Boston, or New York, or any oler
point reving they commence their journey the oest
wishes and encouragement OF their friends and the friends
Of their Two three thousand people perhaps
witness their departure They arrive at Albany and are
there by other friends and he mentioned one case
where colony was given public reception In Albany,
and the conference was prolonged until very late hour OF
the night great the interest They receive ad
dtion to their numbers and go on TO Utica perhaps,
where they enthusiastically rcceiyed additions are
constantly being made and when they arrive at their des-
tnaton they are heartily welcomed by their brethren
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We sympathizs with them, They go the apostles of
liberty in the West Most who have left their land
have been driven away but these missionaries
Even pilgrim fathers would not have come to these
shores il they could have enjoyed their liberty at home
The first men who went to Kansas went there to establish
freedom This is the first missionary emigration his tory
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In point of religious and political economy ask you
your work to the Pacific. We retain these men in
cause by the immense benefits which confer.
ducor is with them who is able take them through
They there by the agents of the company, who
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aud then haste TO make free city in the West ALI the
trads and pro essons represented in these wemafe
colonies. The value Of this property is enhanced by set
,lng in this way. Men who out poor two three
years worth perhaps ten or twelve thousand
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BY comforting these advantages upon the emigrant we
bind him 10 this organization and have been sending
out much colony week II of our colonies
fail have nothing TO do but repair it with those that
going behind IT, We giving to these men the in
sttutous and privileges which they have enjoyed at home
But there other why this organization ought
to be sustained IT benefits the country by placing in the
West the institutions of the North This organization has
already placed educated people in the Territory OF
Kansas than the Society for the promotion OF Education in
the West has placed there within the last eight years. and
more than the Home Missionary Society within the last
twenty years Every sixth is literally educated.
Atchison is becoming alarmed. At first the idea
of sending out Kansas from Massachusetts, who
could cope with the emigrants from Missouri rdi-
culed They thought we were sending pappes who would
be burden to them and to the country But instead of
this people were found to be active and energetic
The most enterprisng men in the country the
of the North But they kind to their southern
neighbors and conferred What vors they could They
were active in good offices for them. And when the peo-
pie to understand the character OF the from the
East when they them intelligent and weldisposed
they began to be convinced that these had been
ligned. ~. .... ... .....
The result was that majority OF the people who settled
in Kansas voted the freeSate ticket We get voters
there; not how many emigrant societies they
make Poor men emigrate. The rich cannot go
Kansas though they will pay Others for going, who
TO from tie free States and all who dare 10
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go from slave States will vote the reeSIate ticket
Seven-eighths of the men, in instances have voted
that ticket and IL is not easy 10 see how they will hnd
the means of discriminating the reeSate sentiment in
Kansas.
But there s TO another attempt at subugaion early
in the spring. Companies drilling in western
Missouri for the purpose OF invading Kansas in the month
of March, and 1t is hoped by successful invasion at that
time, TO exterminate the frce-Statc in Kansas We
prevent it. simply by increasing the power of this
ganization IL this done the lecturer pledged himself
furnish who would put themselves under bonds that
Kansas win be free State With thS help shall be
able TO put twenty thousand more there. But how
The men in the towns might be collected who going
West but have not decC positively TO what part Of the
West and asked if they would not form colony, and
carry with them the school and the church. and other ad
vantages with the understanding that the company will
put mill there and help them build their houses
and the inducement will be sufficient when this is reduced
systematic organization controls them They
cannot afford to do without these advantages The
sderation that their viii go down to postery
the founders Of cities and that they helped 10 make wall
against slavery, will not be lost upon them He thought
he could raise at least hundred Thousand for Kansas
If he at liberty 10 leave his present business.
will tell you said be- Why do slave States
1t taxes and 1t taxes Ii is luxury a
ford TO have. II taxes every day Of lives The
value Of the slave States TO the general government
compared with the free States Is small indeed and the
southern trade which many profess TO regard highly
important Is comparatively insignificant. There
sponsble merchant who will not tell u.s. unless he deal
cusvey ia cotton that the trade Of Ohio worth twenty
times that Of kentucky -
lie sd the political economy of the South was proved
be bad by The fact that their lands little
and also by the fact that much of held in New
York, PHILADELPHIA and other northern ces There was
possibility That the Emigrant Aid Society or some
other northern organization would yet direct their efforts
towards the colonization Of Virginia lie related CON
versaton which be had with gentleman from that State
this subject He had intmaed to the Virginan that
such colonization might take place and nt 10 such
the State would probably become free and answered
that IL could not behat such attempt would be stop
ped by law. t.EaaU
To show the folly Of making laws against the spirit o.
enterprise In the North he told the story of the way in
which clocks sold In one OF the southern States
at the time Connecticut clocks begun TO be made
easily aud chcaply and the South found TO be
good field for the operations OF the elockseers So they
sent lot Of clocks which sold quickly and the next
legislature fearing the State would be filed with Connec
tcut clocks passed Law orbdding the sale Of any clocks
except those manufactured 10 the State But the clock
manufacturers kept with their work though nothing
where the clocks 10 be sold and the cockworks all
made to m there and put together there and sold
there-real State clocks. .a
At the session another Law passed prohibiting
the sale Of clocks manufactured in any of their parts
the State But sll the manufacturers kept their machines
going making clocks faster than Everybody won.
dered what they would do with them But soon wagon
load despnt he'd