Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-23

ENEMA AM AElLL0GlEL. VI LII GAAA-.
GRANT AID SOCIETY.
81 propose, in this connection, to give some
glimpses Of history throwing light upon the uniisrm
conduct Of such men Is refused 70 vote ano
20 gentlemen. IT, after contemplating sHch Facts,
tbeT csn conscientisusy feel thst they sfe m the
line Of their duty in standing By this body Of lsW-
b-astsrs AGAINST the whole mass Of lsW-aDlolng
citizens Of Kansas. -. 7 ...-.,,...,.
Senator Douglas, who now opposes the LecomPSon
constitution on the ground that II does not ea.Do0y
;1l 81 the whole people, himself traced IN an
ot In the Senate, IN 1856, step BY step, the
ss5Il movements Of these law violating men
5 - he adoption Of the revolutionary constitu
t; - oralzs and their traitorous resolves thstthey
49, No allegiance 90 the TERRITORIAL Legislature
thst the Territorial Jaws nave no Dlnolng force
- tben-thst s'every freeman among us Is at full
III ,sstently with his obligations as citizen
- ,on 70 defy and resist them (the Territorial
81 go choose 50 70 d0"-that I'VE will endure
~ Lit to these laws no longer than the best IN
ests Of the Territory require, ss the least OF tWo
oviJs and viii resist them to the bloody issue as
- os ne ascertain that peaoeable remedies shall
sOyn 80 fo-cible resistance shall furnish any rea-
he 7,rosnect of success-and that, in the mean
go We recommend to our friends throughout the
rT-;,o-, the organisation and discipline Of voun-
toor coT1nanies. and the procurement and prepare
tom Of sIms."-Speseh Of Gen. zottieotT.
Tn srnlapatian of, and in justification Of these
bi-b- handed proceedings, [cOmmitted BY the pro-
slavery men, commencing with the elecloh IN
March 1855 il lie alleged tnat glganhc Hauu naS
committed bv the EmigraRt Aid Society IN attemPt-
inc by unusual and violent means, TO make Kansas
a Tree state Ihave no defense TO make Of the pro-
ceedngs of that society; but it is maternal 70 state
~ mon investigation fud that before the nrst
election ia March, 1855, only one party OF company
of emigrants srrived in Kansas unaer the susPlSes
Of the society, consisting OF one hunIreu anu
md
nine souls, men, women anu onI,uLs., a. $50
thirtvseven Of them voted at that eleotlon--pS''"
Of Mr. Ben.
Mr.. BELL has no defence to make for these Emil
grant Aid Societies. Certainly not. He dePlores
as much as any man the spirit in which they were
otten IN. To be sure he does. But then he insists
thew were not so bad after all; and when charged
by Southern men with having attempted, by unu-
small and violent means tomske Kansas free State
he thinks it material to state that they not
the rasca they were represented to have been or at
least are not as guilty as they had been charged
Mr.. BELL will have no trouble in making himself
understood.
Mr.. BELL could not have been expected to denounce
in unmeasured terms this body of "laW-breakers,"
as they have been called by Gen. ZOLLIoOTFER-
1t would have been in violation of pledge to his
northern allies for him to have done 50, for he eI-
pressly declared in speech in the Senate in 1856,
that he was not prepared to denOunce In unmea
sured terms the getting up Of the Emigrant Aid
Society, aad the employment Of associated capital
TO secure the ascendency of the Free State settlers
in Kansas, thus combining the two most powerful
incentives to human actiOn-cuPidity and fanaticsl
zeal" For, continued Mr.. B., az can well under
stand how the strong sntislavery sentiment at the
North may have been so far excited and inHamed
bv the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as to
have led TO the adoption Of extraordinary modes
Of redre ssing what they considered grievance"
These grievances" had been very highly CO.
lored by HoRACE GREELY, THEODORE PARKER, and
Others in view Of which Mr. BELL further said, evil
IDENTIFY with the view Of apOlOgzing for these grace
less cutthrosts, had been oOnsCientiOusly Op
posed to slavery and settled in Kansas with view
to better my condition, and had witnessed the out
RACES said to have been committed by the people Of
Missouri on the rights Of the Free State inhabitants
and had 1 felt my neck CALLED by the yoke Of
usurped government and had lost all hope Of re-
lief from any quarter if resistance to such OPpres
sion be treason, so help me God would have been
"a traitorl" In rembrance Of such pledge, how
could it have been expected Of Mr.. BELL to have
done otherwise than he did?
We are graihed to say, and congratulate the
people Of Tennessee, that the language which has
characterized the speeches Of Gen. ZOLLICOFTER on
this subject, presents very striking contrast For
instance, in his recent speech he says:
1.-The great mass Of those who oppose the sdmis-
sion Of Kansas into the Union, oppose it because it
comes with a pro slavery constitution. Many Of
them have, indeed gone so far as to pledge them
selves never 20 vote for the admission Of another
slave State IN the Union. What spirit is this in
q union Of States such as ours-fOrmed originally
between slave States and free, and in which they
are still Of nearly equal numbers. ThatI should
yyuD1th-s th such feelings, "a any irgy cooperate
ruth those gh0 enter The animated 6y deadly
spirit Of hostility to the people Of fifteen States Of the
UH0n trH not yor moment be expected By any 'chO
ku0JC me-
Such is the language Of patriotism; We honor it,
come frola what source it may.