The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06
organized Emigration.


ing forth from the older States either in families
or alone, our fathers struck out over the broad
prairies or wandered through the magnificent
primeval forests of the West and South west, til
finding spot TO suit them, they built their log
cabins aud proceeded with the work of making
home in the wilderness. Living thus in isolation,
far from neighbors the nearest settlement often
weeks journey, and apart from all the advantages
of society, education and all the blessings of civil
ization, the hardy men and women who laid broad
and deep the foundations of our magnificent Wes-
tern States, encountered much in their work of
making ''the wilderness blossom like rose"
i This day We trust has in great measure passed
away. and from the inception of Kanzas settlement
a new era in emigration has dawned upon the
American people. The necessity of meeting the
steady and persistent encroaehments of slavery
started in the fertile brain of enterprising Yam
kee, Ell THAYER, of Worcester, Mass, the idea of
ORGANIZED EMIGRATION. The n. E!Emigrant Aid
Company was the first fruits of that suggestion
That Company has been of great assistance to
kanzas. 1t has enabled the emigrant to travel
cheaper, more comfortably and with pleasant
companions. Instead Of settling the pioneer down
in isolation in these vast praries, it chose suta-
BILE locations, furnished information, brought capt.
tai to encourage the settler, and removed much of
the first rough edge off from life In the West. More
than that, 1t taught the people that by association
for specific purpose, they could accomplish their
object of making homes in the wild for themselves
and their posterity, better, much better than they
could alone. The full result of the idea underly-
ing the Emigrant Aid Company movement, can
only be told in the future; yet, even now we can
feel portion of the benefits arising from it That
movement had the effect of early directing more
intelligent, reliable and go-ahead class of popula
ton to Kanzas, than Territories are generally
blessed with. It, combined with the struggle for
Freedom here, with which it is intimately connect
ed and forms part, has tended to fill country
up more rapidly than other States have done. and
viii shorten materially the period of pupiIage,
so that hastening the day when weshall havs rail-
roads and all the appliance of organized society,
we shall soon show on the waving prairies Of our
lovely territory, all the institutions of learning, Of
christianity and progress; making it fit home for
noble race-Freedom-loving and Labor honor
ing-which shall forever be bright example to the
struggling ones, whose vail for Liberty rings on
every breeze.
But it is not alone in its material aspect, that
this idea of organized emigration strikes fDrc-
bly,. In moral point, the results that are likely
to arise from it of broader significance and of
greater importance than those of mere dollars and
cents.
It has learnt the North q lesson which some of
their liberal minded, intelligent capitalists
e king advantage Of After aiding Kanzas TO dnye
e back the minions of slavery, it has determined to
take up It's home In the very heart of the reeaters
themselves Westward the Star of Empire takes
Its way" and wave after wave of emigration has
rolled on across the bosom of the American eonti-
nent until
e Lonely Shasta, listening, hears the tread
: OF Emope's fair-haired children, Hesper-led,
| And gazing downwards tllro his hoar-loeks sees
, The tawny Asian climb his giant knees"
7 The western enigration fields are becoming ex-
e hausted, while in the South and Southwest, are
vast and fertile domains, wasting and withering
beneath biighting curse, with soil as productive
as any the golden of day" poured its
l diant wine upon, fast becoming desert benessl
the black hand of slave labor, that ike the Locust
5 devous every green thing. What better opporta-
nifty for Yankee enterprise to display itself than in
reyiSifying these States and making their feeble
pulses throb strong again with the life-blood Of
Freedom. The worn-out fields of Virginia and o.
North Carolina, the rich, yet undeyeloped lands ol
a Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas, pre-
sent opportunity for the resources of organized
emigration to display itself. Accordingly the self
same enserprising Tankee, Eli THArER, who first
: preached the subject, steps forward to organize
I ssThe Neighbors,a army Of Free Northern men
Y and women, emigrants to the waste lands ef the
Slave States, before whose onward march the foot
prints of the Slave shal1 yanish elike flakes
before the st1nmers sun" a company has been
formed, whose object it Is to purchase the waste
i lands Of the Slave States, that goa begging fcl
i purchasers IN the Northern Market and 10 locate
Northern settlers upon them, placing IN then
hands, by the aid of capital, the most improved
machinery and all the advantages of older settle
ments- How long viii it be before the Southera
planter VIII learn of his Yankee Aeighbor, the ma
: teFial advantages of Free over Slave IAber7 How
long viii it be before the demands of Free LAber
seeking its due, VIII compel the Shareholder and
his serfs fall back. The enigratien from Europs
1 that has flowed westward, because the West was
free lsnd. viii, encouraged By The pregess Of ths
Northern euigrants, be diverted to these new fields
a while all the land made sterile By imperfect cut
al walton and the resources of tie South which hav,
never been developed, win be made 10 blocn
again With cultivation and the material and rnorz
prosperity of the whole country win be grsasI,
= enhanced. Success. say We 10 ..she Eeighbsrs'
I'll and to Organized Enigrasioa. Nay It drive feu
is present resting place, the curse Of slavery ant
). using Che Almighty Dollar" far ; noble purpose
not only enrich those who go IN the a-ny of Frs
e Labor but elevate, ennobla and make free aiiks
the oppressed bondsmen and aie degraded whit
q man Of the South
TSsH Horsros has announced himself Is Al
e Independent candidate Eor Goyanof Of Texas.--