Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-04-06

.x bx regsrs of ice and granite long
 Thea Gsm igrstiOns were no longer to 'sx b. Ii,e of the lakes and of latitude.-
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 raion, and ts development was found to
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 .tion ss f-une to piont with unerring in-
 Kansas, and M conformity with the max ' 3ueed from the worlds history. The Fl of science, of civilization, and of Chris "A has moved with steady and untlriDg z xom the e~St to the west, while the wars .'- b;tion and of conquest have carried their Elm, scourge from the north to the south. Sarhusetts organized that stupendous enter S, he Emgsnt Aid Society" Its modest sfnpled that it was but philanthropic Fl of the poor emigrant, while, in its ob- 2ard ends, it WIS destined to be to Kansas \ Inc East India Company was to the Hin- @ Its capital was $5,OOO.O00, of which Tk2QOO0 could be invested in Massachu- Fl It's directors, resident in Massachusetts, N each have fifty votes for himself, and so 'v more by proxy. Sitting there, in Mas 'Ss ,4ts, in eonclsve, upon the affairs of Kan they develop and publish their plans of Zion. They were to contract with some & competing lines of railroads for the 1portaticn of twenty thousand emigrants to
 sud while the controlling object of the 1s sss declared Co make Kansas a "free R keen eye was directed to "the sections Ibd in which the boarding houses and mills 1ested." do not wish to misrepreSent the k and aims of this society, and shall per ' to speak for itself
 hganizstion, objects, and plans of opera |of the Emigrant Aid Company; also, de- 1ion of Kansas, for the information of eni- I Haaess-Amos A. Lawrence, Boston; J. 3 Williams, Cambridge; Eli Thayer, Wor- Teq.urer- A. Lawrence. Scretary-Thomas II. Webb, Boston. Ebr the purpose of answering numerous muuications concerning the plan of opera Iof the Emigrant Aid Company, and the lrces of Kansas Territory, which it is pro- d how to settle, the secretary of the com
 bas deemed it expedient to publish the wing definite information in regard to this cclar" x 7or these purposes it is recommended, first, ,the trustees contract immediately with .of the competing lines of travel for the sgsuee of twenty thousand persons from sfhusetts to that place in the west which us ees shall select for their first settle II is recommended that the company's s ste and take up for the company's be- the sections of land in which the boarding s and mills are located, and no others prther, whenever the Territory shall be ned ss free State.s the trustees shall dis all its interests there, replace by the 'he money laid out declare a dividend to ockholders and that they then select a eld, sHd make similar arrangements for Element aud organization of another free of this Union" * k Vith the advantages attained bv such a n of effort, the Territory selected as the Sof operations would, 1t is believed, be np sch free inhabitants"
 here IS reason to suppose several thousand 'f New England origin propose to emgrate the auspices of some such arrangement, 'ery summer. Of the whole emigration Europe, amounting to some four hundred al persons, there can be no difficulty in ins some thirty or forty thousand to take are direcGon." * Specially will it prove an advantage to lchusetts, if she create the new State by 're gh', supply the necessities to it's in ha- $ ~nd open m the outset communications en their homes and her ports and facto-
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 #determines in the right way the institu- of the unsettled Territories, in less time De discussion of them has required in Con- sili a5tonish my constituents to know that s&t tield' in which they were to extend operAtions of manufacturing " free States le Indian country west of Arkansas which Supposed half abolitonized bv the labors rtheTn m ssionaries, and the rigid test of yht of Christian communion which they sought to apply, in exclusion of the slave F member. of the church. To Virginia, b. interesting to know that the person ixures as secretary of this mammoth com ls one whose name is so intimately con- with the scheme of colonizing Virginia De free labor from the north, and that the abe mother of States is probably the next or ther operations.
 VI many persons were dispatched under auspices am not informed. That move becsme the nucleus around which gathered eeiements of this newly-awakened fana- |. The abolition societies, the church, niversities, all affiliated in the enterprise, Attributed contingencies to swell the num- f tht crusade. Every expedient was en-
 to insure its success. The church, for 6 lis holy mission, preached its sanction ' -tctional crusade from a thousand pull nd Sscr;legiously commended "Sharpe's il place of the Bible, as a more potent
 br brpropagatiny their tanaticism. The press sd everywhere with fabulous stories and d congregations of atrocities of the slave rin kalsAs, and prostituted its powers to le the resentmeuts and arouse the worst 'nr of the people. Contributions were le- roln the credulous yotaries and partisans c cSuse. Itnersnt missionaries traverscd 3uutry, and filled the iecture-rooms with ng hsrsugues, while monster mass-meet- sscmbled, and electrified the country with 'rougS of Kansas. These were the appli-
 and auspices under which unnatural and Emigration to Kansas was stimulated. IL lbled more an armed invasion than peace nigrstiou and it is quite clear that more ted from the arms than the votes of A l. ,l. of z grsuts was such that their removal was no Q New England, and still less an acquisi- Q Kansas. do not thus characterize all 'ee State settlers of that Territory. Some doubtess honest and orderly citizens, seek omes and better fortunes in the west. We
 been told that association is form of en- se common iu New England, and that her y affords frequent instances of peaceful isstiou in large bodies, armed for self-pro 'n. That is true; but l know of no paral- tths mos- extraordinary movement. In owed objects and controlling features it war of Massachusetts against Missouri, snt te responsibilities. The sequel Is thus ncslly portrayed in the report of the Sena- pm Illinois:
 When the emigrants sent out by the Mas Sets Emigrsnt Aid Company, and their Nd societies, passed through the State of ,ur in large numbels, on their way to Kan be violence of their language, and the un- ble indications of their determined hos to the domestic institutions of that State, Id spprehensions that the object of the slv ~ss to atoltiouize Kansas as means ose uring a relentless warfare upon the in- iol+ of slavery within the limits of Mis- These apprehensions increased and with the progress of events, until they ne the settled convictions of the people of portion of the State most exposed to the CT by their proximity to the Kansas border. natusl consequences was, that immediate
 wora taken hv tho ,,ao,,Ia of .bo ,,,o.tarn