The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-01-19
The Itefalo Of freedom.
Lawrence, Saturday. Jan. %, 1866.


8
1t is really amusing to see the mad
schemes of southern men to entail slav-
cry on Kansas. Georgia proposes to ap-
propriate 100000 from her State Trea-
sury to aid in the enterprise. One slave
:. holder offers his entire effects for sale.
and viii donate the whole to pay the
expenses of poor men from the South to
Kansas; another offers for $4,000 to
bring one hundred pioneers from the
South to the Territory. Georgia, Ala
bana, South Carolina, and Mississippi,
are greatly sconvulsed on account of the
danger of their fayorite institution here,
and are moving in every possible way,
public end private. to secure their end.
Suppose they should succeed in trans
porting their "paupers'' in fact to this
Territory, what would they accomplish?
We have State Constitution, one adop-
ted by the actual settlers of the Terrific
~, and which viii go into operation on
the 4th of March next, which positively
prohibits slavery in the Territory, and
there is no way by which this feature can
be changed for the next five years.
Then, again. TWO thousand voters
from the South, actual residents of the
Territory, would not be equal to the
present Free State majority in the Ter
ritory; and it should be remembered
that whilst public and private means are
being consumed to pay men for coming
to Kansas from the South, it is certain
that there will be five times as many
freemen from the North come here on
their own account.
But there is another view of this ques-
ton. Those who come here from the
South in the manner proposed are poor
men; they are not sla, eholders, and can
not be from necessity. Bring those per-
sons in contact with free labor; let them
see the difference between the poor men,
degraded to a level with the slave in the
South, and the poor man equal with his
employer in the North, and buta few
months of reflection will make them as
devotedly opposed to slavery as men can
be.
Look over Kansas to-day and it will
be observed that the opponents of slavery
have no frmer advocates, and none who
will go to greater lengths to prevent the
establishment of slavery in Kansas than
settlers from the Southern States. who
have seen the evils resulting from the in
stitution, and who have removed to
Kansas to avoid its communicating infu-
enee. With the exception of their perfect
hatred of tho negro as race, we could
desire no stauncher advocates for the
freedom of Kansas than the Southern set
tiers. And in justification of their ha-
tired of the negro, we may be permitted
to say that they have only seen hin,-the
vile and degraded vagabond, as made by
the damning influences of slavery. They
have known him upon the plantation, or
those who have been emancipated, and
have seen him in his filth and wretched-
ness, without education or refinement,
the vilest of the vile. We think this
may be given as the reason Of the great
difference between the Eastern settlers
and those from the South.
Let the people of the South come on.
We shall welcome them with great pleas
ure as pioneers, and feel that the more
come the sooner will Kansas be settled,
and consequently enriched; but we trust
they will not come in the character of
the professional rowdy, for should they
do so their presence would be a source of
regret to us as well as them.