Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-11
The Emigrant Aid Society, and t heir
Purn0aaS

PNSASh N AOiiOWLhS aftiCle III OEueE
to show the people of Indianapolis what are
the real designs of the Emigrant Aid Socie-
ties, formed in the East to operate in the
West.
They intend not only to settle up the Ter
ritories with Abolitionists, but also to c~olonize
Virginia and other Southern States with a
sufficient number of Abolitionists 10 abolish
Slavery therein. These colonies are to be
controlled by the Societies located in Massa-
chusetts.
How long would the Union of these States
be preserved should the designs of this 3d.
cicety be fully carried out.
THE KANSAS ERA AID SOCIETY.
Remarks Of Mr.. 7hayer at a meeting in Brook
Ign, Mw York, an behalf o. the Kansas Emf.
grant did Society.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IL have come
here to ask You whether the mighty West
shall be free territory or slave territory
whether that lovely place shall be made the
ground where men and women, with facul-
ties and passions and feelings like ours, shall
be sold like cattle or the place Of freedoms
triumph? l have come to you with this
question, because | find in no other commu-
nifty SO hearty a welcome as with you. We
have a power that is able to settle this ques-
tion-which is not a theory, and which is in
its infancy stronger than slavery in its full
age.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, / come 10 ask
you if this mighty organization shall be sus-
tanned? Shall it lack the p~ittance necessary
to carry it forward? But it may be asked,
if this organization really has such strength,
how does it acquire it? | answer, it confers
such advantages upon emigrants as have
never before been conferred, and which they
cannot afford to do without.
He then enumerated the advantages Of
emigration to the West with the support Of
the Aid Company. Tickets are sold at a
reduction of perhaps ~one-third, and the emf
grants and their baggage are placed in charge
of an agent of the company, who sees that
they are placed upon the road and their COM
fort and safety attended to. They start-ssy
rom Worcester, or Boston, or New York, OF
any other point, receiving, as they commence
their journey, the best wishes and encour-
agement of their friends and the friends of
lDcl CducC. wv " lnlCC buOuodnu pCOpACf
perhaps, witness their departure. They ar
rive at Albany, and are met there by other
friends; and he mentioned one case where a
colony was given a public reception in Al
bany, and the conference was prolonged un-
til a very late hour of the night, so great was
the interest. They receive an addition to
their numbers, and go on to Utica, perhaps.
where they are as enthusiastically received;
additions are constantly being made, and
when they arrive at their destination they
are heartily welcomed by their brethren
there.
We sympathize with them. They 90 as
the apostles of liberty in the Vest. Most men
who have left their land lave been driven
away, but these men are missionaries. Even
our pilgrim fathers would not have come to
these shores if 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 history tells
us of.
In point of religious and political econo-
my, / ask you to create a mighty coadjutor
there for freedom, to carry on your work to
the Pacific. We retain these men in our
cause by the immense benefits which we
confer. A conductor is sent with them who
is able to take them through. They are met
there by the agents of the company, who
give them all useful information. They Sc
lect a city site, and then haste to make
a free city in the West. All the trades and
professions are represented in these well
made colonies. The value of this property
is enhanced by settling in this way. Men
who went out poor two or three years ago
are now worth perhaps ten or twelve thou
sand dollars.
By comforting these advantages upon the
emigrant we bind him to this organization
and we have been sending out as much as
one colony a week. If one of our colonies
fail, we have nothing to do but repair it with
those that are going behind it. We are Civ
ing to these men the institutions and privi-
leges which they have enjoyed at home.
But there are other reasons why this or
ganization ought to be sustained. 1t benefits
the country by placing in the West the in
stitutions of the North. This organization
has already placed more 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. Every sixth man
is literally educated.
Atchinsop is becoming alarmed. At first,
the idea of sending men out from Massachu-
sets, who could cope with the emigrants
from Missouri, was ridiculed. They thought
we were sending paupers who would be a
burden to them and to the country. But,
instead Of this, our people were found to be
active and energetic men. The most enter
prising men in the country are the men ofthe
North. But they were kind to their south
crn neighbors, and conferred what favors
they could. They were active in good offices
for them. And when the people anne to
understand the character of the men from the
East, when they saw them intelligent aud
well -disposed, they began to be convinced
that these men had been maligned.
The result was that a majority Of the PEG.
pie who settled in Kansas voted the free
State ticket. We got our voters there we
care not how many emigrant societies they
make. Poor men must emigrate. The rich
cannot 20 out to Kansas, though they will
pay others for going, who are TO overawe men
from the free States, and all who dare to
speak for freedom. Rely uponit, that a ma
jority of those who go from slave States will
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the men, in some instances. have voted that
ticket, and it is not easy to see how they will
find the means of exteEminating the Free
State sentiment in Kansas.
But there is to be another attempt at SUBJ
jugation early in the spring. Companies are
now drilling in Western Missouri for the
purpose of invading Kansas iu the month of
March; and it is hoped, by a successful in
vasion at that time, to exterminate the free
State men in Kansas. We must prevent it.
simply by increasing the power of this Or
ganizatioD. If this is done, the lecturer
pledged himself to furnish men who would
put themselves under bonds that Kansas will
be a free State. With this help we shall be
able to put twenty thousand more men there.
But how?
The men in the towns might be collected
who are going West, but have not decided
positively as to what part Of the West, and