Washington telegraph., 1856-04-30

OOO the emigrant may be protected, free
State may be secured, to the lasting advan-
tage of the country, and possibly a valuable
property secured to the subscribers
From this confession we see that the de-
sign of the Association was twofold-frst
to make Kansas free State by preventing
the introduction of slavery into it; and sec
ondly, with characteristic thrift to make a
good thing out of it-a profitable speculation
under the hypocritical guise of philanthropy
In behalf of the poor emigrant
We make another extract from the same
fauthority-the printed circular of the Sec
retary
1T rs recommended that the Company's
agents locate, and take up for the Company S
benefit, the sections of land in which the
boarding houses and mills are located. and
no others. And further, that whenever the
Territory shall be organized as free State
the trustees shall dispose of all its interests
there, replace by the sales of the money
laid out, declare dividend to the stock
holders, and that they then select new
fcld. and make similar arrangements for the
settlement and organization of another free
State of this Union e. ..
Now, here, with unblusbing effrontry, the
scope, nature and object of the machinery
are distinctly avowed 1t is confesscdly a
proselyting organization to realize as much
as they can from profitable speculations in
Kansas, and after they have accomplished
with the proceeds as much as they can in
driving out slavery, thence to Change the
Uenue and seek new missionary ground.
By way of pricking up the laggards in
the cause of freedom. the champions of uni
versai philanthropy use the following argu-
ment, which we find in the same document
We have been quoting from:
1t is impossible that such region should
not FIJI up rapidly. The Emigrant Aid
Company proposes to give confidence to
settlers, by giving system to emigration.
By dispelling the fears that Kansas will be
a slave State. the Company will remove the
only bar which now binders its occupation
by free settlers. 1t is to be hoped that
similar Companies will be formed in other
free States. The enterprise is of that char
aeter, that for those who first enter it the
more competition the better.
We might accumulate similar documcn-
tary testimony to any extent, to show con-
clusively that these Emigrant Aid Societies
were inaugurated first for the express pur-
pose of making Kansas free State; and
secondly. the meaner, lower and more sordid
one Of making money. But the evidence
already presented is abundantly sufficient to
establish these points
Let us now see how far these Emigrant
Societies have. and are fulfilling the purposes
of their institution. We are very free to
admit, that there have been irregularities.
indiscretions, and even acts of violence and
outrage committed BY a portion of the people
of Missouri who, pending the contest, OBJ
truded themselves on the Territory of Kan
sas VIC have not word to say in their vim
Gication But who commenced the wrong,
who gave the first provocation, who first
initiated acts of violence and injustice; who
were the aggressors? We appeal to the
facts and the truth for an answer Within
thirty days after the passage of the Kansas
bill, meeting was held in Washington of
members of Congress, who solemnly pledged
themselves to resist by all means in their
power the introduction of slavery into the
Territory of Kansas. 1t was proclaimed
far and wide that the virgin soil of freedom
was never to be polluted by. the unhailowed
touch of this moral and physical curse.
These were not merely hollow professions;
the 'Sons of Freedom" as they called them
selves, went out from the towns and villages
of New England in trained and disciplined
bands, with arms in their hands, prepared
to encounter all who might oppose them.
To show how provident they were In their
arrangements, and well supplied with arms
and munitions we need only mention the
fact, that In one instance of resisting the
legal process of the constituted authorities
at Lawrence, the Free State party was armed
with from eight hundred to thousand
Sharps Rifles. Sharp's Rifles are the fa-
vorite weapons of these philanthropic and
freedom-loviug emigrants. Instead of plows,
hoes, spades and axes, the usual implements
of peaceable citizens emigrating to an agri-
cultural country, they were furnished by
their sanctimonious and fanatical patrons,
with weapons of war; and to excite their
holy zeal in the cause of freedom, Bibles
were placed in the hands of these bigoted
and mereenary wretcbes, and the ministers
of religion prostituted their holy calling by
bes.owing their benedictions upon the bloody
mission. We have already seen what was
done in New Haven, where that militant
herald of the Gospel, the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, aided BY the venerable Professor
Sillimau, was engaged in Gods holy temple
in stirring up the passions of the congrega-
ton, and Obtaining from hoary headed men,
weak and silly women, and even innocent
children. contributions for purchasing Sharp's
rifles, to murder their own brethren and all
for the cause of freedom As Madame Ro-
land said when witnessing the excesses of
the Partisan champions of freedom-"Oh
Liberty, what crimes have been committed
in thy name 20 The exciting appeals Of the
Reverend fomentor of strife, and of the
learned professor were eminently successful.
The result was the organization of COM
pany of so men, and free gift Offering of
26 rifles, with pledge from Parson Beecher
that plymouth Church" In Brooklyn would
contribute as many more.
Is the South to remain supine and pas
sive under these aggressive assaults upon an
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