Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-19
KANSAS.
A CHAPTER OF GEJRaIA LEGISLATION.


In the lower branch of the Georgia Legisla-
ture, on the 18th inst, q long and very ANNA
ted debate sprung up on bill providing that,
whenever any citizen of that State shall have
collected together company of the citizens Of
the State wishing to emigrate TO the Territory
of Kansas, but are unable to do 80 for the want
of means, upon the facts being made known to
the Governor, and when the leader of said
Company shall have given bond, payable to
the State, with such an amount and surety as
the Governor shall approve, conditioned to ex-
pend the money advanced thereon in trans
porting, subsisting and Quitting such destitute
emigrants, and also conditioned within twelve
months thereafter, to transport one hundred
emigrants to Kansas then the Governor shall
issue his warrant in favor of The principal OBJ
Igor in SAID bond, upon the Treasury of the
State for a sum equal to fifty dollars per head
of such destitute emigrantS. The bill also pro-
vided that the money SO expended should be
reimbursed to the Treasury by tax upon the
slave property of the State.
Members who favored the passage Of the bill
took the ground that the golden moment for
securing Kansas was now at hand that the
apple was ripe, inviting the hand to pluck it :;
and that it would be the maddest infatuation
to neglect so glorious an opportunity to secure
for the South splendid territory.
Mr. JOKES, of Muscogee thought the aid of
the State ought to he given as proposed in the
till, as an offset to the enigrant aid Societies
of the North, and as a measure of safety and
defence" He denied the right of Congress to
Interfere but claimed that the Southern States
have the right to interfere by money, by the
press, by public harraugues, and other similar
means, in order 10 perpetuate and extend the
institution of slavery; and that Massachusetts,
and the other free soil States have the same
right They Cie said) have the right, as we
have, To organize Emigrant Aid Societies, and
we have the right to repel force with force.
This gentleman thea held up in contrast Nor
thern and Southern society and institutions,
and declared that the superior prosperity and
happiness of the South was attributable to her
system Of slavery.
Mr.. SMT ,ot Union, supported the bill, and
combated the idea that Georgia had need OF
all her sors, and that the bill would depopulate
her. ''Sir, (sad he) if this doctrine be true
now, it should have been true years and years
ago; aud suppose it had been followed then2
Where would now be our Texas, our great and
.~l,,;,r, S,utbuast2 Rnt sir tLa doctrine of
anti-emigraton was not believed then; it is
false H0U. Our fathers saw the broad lands, the
waving pralries, and the splendid territories
which stretch out towards the Pacific. They
saw-they went thither-they conquered, and
made them their own. /, sir, am in favor OF
this bill. an not in favor of letting Kansas
90 by default. 1t is pearl of great price. 1t
is ours if We will. | WILL. Our true policy
is TO send our men to Kansas, and let them
settle that territory, as we have settled Others
that are now ours"
On the other hand, Mr.. WARD, of Butts, OPP
posed the bill. lie thought the better plan
was to form emigrant societies in every coun-
y, and raise the men and means privately. lie
was willing to repose in the generous i'm
pulses and true Southern feelings of the PEG
pie of Georgi. What guaranty, he asked, had
they that the money appropriated would be
expended upon the right sort of men. Were
we not told a few evenings since by the gen
tleman from Kansas, who lectursd in this Hall,
that out of SO men who were transported TO
Kansas from Tennessee, so proved false, aud
voted against the South and of 9 men from
the county of Gordon in this State, s proved
false.
Mr. THORNTON, of Muscogee, also opposed
the BILL He preferred action through the in
strumentality Of private aid societies. ."Nev-
ertheless, (he said) he considered even these
societies as wrong, as subversive of the great
principles which underle our Republic; at
war with the spirit of our Government. These
societies should have been everywhere discour
aged and discountenanced But the North
had set them on foot. The devil must be
fought with fire. Still, there was wide diff
ference between individual enterprises, aud
those set on foot and achieved by sovereign
States. Suppose Massachusetts,, by the mil
lions in her treasury, should colonize a terri
tory, and in due time bring it forward for adj
mission into the Union. as an abolition mem
Der OF this coniederacy. As the matter now
stood, N could, aud you'd, shoulder his mus
ket TO prevent such al outrage But, pass this
bhl--let Georgia in her sovereign capacity
pass this bill, aud then with what proprety,
with what face, could we ever protest, much
les tight, against itl We would have set the
precedent. Our mouths would be stopped
our resistance at an end Ii Massachusetts
ten. as a STATE, has no right 10 force her IN
stitutions into the territories of the United
States, neither has Georgia a right to force
hers. The territories belong not to The North
or the south; they are not theirs, they are
DOT ours; they belong to US Joih"
Mr. Harris, OF Fulton am not opposed to pri-
vate associations OF capital, intellect physical
enterprise and energy, TO peFpetuaie the iustitu.
tons OF the South. Bat, Elf, | consider the prin-
eipys Of this Oh as pernIsious 10 their eonse-
qavnees, aud yioAtive OF all conservatism. admit
sir, that have fallen upon tFoublous times. but
yet Us be ealm, aDd be ready 90 Trim our sails.
though NC shall have TO 90 50 amid the crash q
'huuders, and BY the lightuing's glare wAnt NO
BaE, on,b spesohes--Ho clap trap hafangaes Let
as pug lhis question to IFS proper test Let
Us apply ca IL the cold. stern, aud rigid logic Of
statesuanship. What does tits bill propose 70 dot
Look a. its caption. Il proposes 10 promote the
settlement OF the Territories Of the U. States.
cali upoa the gray haired veterans upon thls door
il they knOs Of any such prceedeat IN the history
II cur state Slr, IL eAnuos be found. ITO pro
mote the setilrmens OF the rerFitoriesl" And b
whomg The State Of Georgia in her sovereign ca
pacilyl Ii Is proposed under the broad seal Of
Georgia to embark the State IN Colonization. Bal,
sir, asa il wise, Is i polisie. i il prudent adj
hitting il we're noi wr0ogs 10 ship from the Stase