The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-04

tl0u6 Vi Jur 1oIIlLOIys
JOHN NJ. BERRY.
FARIBAULr, March Is.
Movements At the South for the Con-
quest Of Kansas.
The Mssissippian of late date is highly
gratifed at the steps taken by the bogus
Legislature of Kansas for the formation of
State Constitution, justly regarding them as
directly calculated to plant slavery there
It is especially pleased with the provision OF
the law declaring that "no emigrant going
to the Territory after the LIST of April shall
bepermitted to VOTE" and thereupon exhorts
the minions of slavery propagandism to
"strike final and decisive blow" without
delay. The magnitude of the stake for
which they are to strike is thus truthfully
sketched:
Kansas must not be lost to the South. North
ern entertainments have already destroyed
the equilibrium of the sections. There a, e
now sixteen Free or hireling States, and but
fifteen Slave States.
Look for moment at the map. West of
Kansas lies Utah, with her policy as to At
rican slavery still undetermined. And she
again connects with California. Who does
not discover At glance the influence which
slave Kansas must exert over the destiny OF
Utah.
Then there is New Mexico on the South
west, also in embryo condition. Hedge her
around with slavery, and we venture to pre-
dict that the inherent vigor Of the institu-
ton will carry it there.
Directly south of Kansas is the vast In
dian territory, where slavery already exists;
and where it will remain unless forced out
by means Of anti-slavery propagsndism in
Kansas.
Contiguous to this region and to New
Mexico, is the territory belonging to, and in
cluded within, the bounds of Texas, out of
which she has the privilege of forming three
new States.
Plant slavery in Kansas and all these ter
ritories are secured to the South, with the
immense, we will say, ancalcauaJle attending
advantages.
They will be the means of preserving the
equilibrium of the sections in the Senate,
and thus saving the Union and guarding the
South.
What are a few dollars when untold mil
lions are at stake? What are few sacra-
fees when everything is to be saved? Oh,
that we could ring out our warning voice to
the slumbering masses and arouse them to
due sense of the awful dangers that threaten
them, and to the Importance Of shaping for
their own salvation the great events in the
womb of the future.
We find in the Eufaula (Ala.) Spirit of the
South the following communication, to which
we invite the attention of our readers, and
we hope that the appeal contained in it will
be met by spirit of liberality commensu-
rate with the importance of the end to be
attained.
"Mr. Editor: have received a cOInmiss
ion from the Hon. DIR. K. Atchison, Chair
man of the Kansas Executive Committee,
for the purpose of raising money to aid in
securing and protecting our rights, and as
sisting our friends in Kansas. The COM
mittee have already spent large sums of
money in struggling for us, and some of them
have almost bankrupted themselves in our
behalf. 1t is only right, therefore, that they
should be repaid the sums already expended,
and furnished with substantial aid, literally
and speedily; unless this is done, they can
do but little for us in the future. will be
pleased to receive, (until the first of April,)
such contributions as generous public are
willing to bestow for this purpose also, con-
trbutions to aid Messrs. Clayton, Treadwell
~aA~ NY SSAA IL SsA AnO COhiPohy va oSUu"A
settlers (now being organized) to Kansas this
spring. We do not ask large amounts from
any one, but little from all. Contributors
will please state to which object they design
their contributions devoted, and their wishes
will be faithfully complied with.
Respectfully your ob't serv't,
81. H. DANFoRrH."
we had supposed says an exchange that
Atkinson & Co., had given up the business
of colonizing Kansas from the South as
bad job, but it seems they have been busy
in their old work. We do not apprehend,
however, that their agents in the South will
be able to accomplish much. The stories of
hardships and disappointment told by the re-
turned South Carolinians, Georgians and
Alabamians last fall will not have favora-
bic effect in stimulating fresh emigration from
the South; and in any event, the Northern
emigration is sure to Outnumber it ten to
one.
The South, in attempting to clutch all the
new Territories lying at the Southwest, Kan
sas included, will find that it is graphing
with an overmastering destiny. Suppose a
pro-slavery Constitution should be adopted
in Kansas, and the Territory should even be
admitted into the Union as slave State, the
South will have gained nothing. Before these
events can happen, from thirty to forty thou
sand immigrants from the Free States will
have been added to the population of Kan
sas, thus giving the opponents of slavery
complete control of the internal administra-
ton of the new State. There are but few
slaves there now, and not many more will
be carried in while there is so great de-
mand for them in the new cotton fields of
the far Southwest. Southern families will
probably retain few servants, and that will
be about the extent of the slave population
of Kansas for couple of years to come,
evenif it should be slave State. At the
first session Of the Legislature under the
State Constitution there must be a majority
opposed to slavery, and they can at once
take steps to amend the Constitution by
adding prohibitory clause.
The blow aimed at Kansas, then, by the
agents of Atkinson Co. must come too
late. While the question of emancipation
is being agitated in Missouri, and the facts
Of the census point Enthusiastically to the ex-