The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-17

taught the children OF pro-slavery emil
grants to read. and then succeeded in
making their parents reliable. and
Jealous Free Stats men. The Yankee
emigrants had been represented to
them as paupers; when they saw how
these Yankee paupers prospered, they
wondered howrespectable people from
the North would get along, Laugh
ter, and sided with us. Itwas stated
in the Georgia Legislature, by a
member of that body, that of eleven
men who had emigrated from his
neighborhood, eight or nine had gone
over to the enemy; and that he had
received a letter from friend in Ten
nessee, in which the writer said that
eighty out of eighty-fve emigrants
from that State, were now abolition
lists in Kansas. These people soon
see the difference between free and
slave labor. A Lawrence is more elo-
quent to them than an anti-slavery lee
turer; a saw mill more logical rea-
soner than a volume of invectives
against slavery.
The speaker related the various plans
that the South had adopted to thwart
the tendency of the organized emigra-
ton. by invasion, military colonies,
and unconstitutional laws; and showed
how signally each and all of them had
failed to do so.
The last Presidential election was
no more decisive, as to the fate of
Kansas, than the last eclipse of the
moon. Kansas will be free ii ma
iority of Free State men were its in
habitants; and we not only have, but
intend always to have, majority of
Free State men there. Applause.
We have six to one, by the latest ad-
vices. Applause.
The speaker explained that the OBJ
iect of the Company, at present, was
to raise 100000 additional stock
to erect ten additional saw mills in
Kansas, hotels, &C.; in fact, to estab-
Iish ten additional towns and centers
of Free State population. He called
this meeting to show the inevitable
results of such a plan-not expecting
the clergy to subscribe, but, if they
approved it, to give it their support.
This Company was placed on mon
led basis-for the institution it was
organized to oppose, was similarly
founded; and, in consequence of this
fact, he was certain that the Emigrant
Aid Company would be a permanent
power. The Company, for erecting a
mill or a hotel, received one-third or
one-tenth of the town lots; as soon as
a purchaser for their hotel or mill ap-
peared, they sold it. on profit, but
retained the lots, which increased in
value as the town increased in popula.
tion. The interest of the squatters and
the Company was identical.
The speaker proved that slavery.
met by organization, is powerless.-
Like bully, it is formidable to non
resistants only. Fight it with its
own weapon--organization-and it
is powerless. Do not despair. God
is with us; humanity is with us. Next
to faith in the will of God, is faith in
the heart of maR. Applause.
I have not attempted to give the
speakers own eloquent words, except
in a few instances only.
After the speaker had concluded, a
committee, consisting of Revs. Messrs.
Bowler, Miner and Hale,was appoint
ed, who reported the subjoined reso-
luton, which was unanimously adopt
ed
"Resolred, That this meeting looks
upon the organization of emigration,
as an agency Of the most wonderful
efficiency in the extension of Freedom,
Education, and the institutions of the
Gospel" JAS. REDPATH.