New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-20
.coScRRrED EmreRArIoN.,,

aCOECERTED EMIGRATION.,
Il Is very probable that there are some Of our rea
ders who do not exactly understand the meaning Of
the two words above quoted In their present signd
cation. If they do not they have little dea Of their
fearful they are the title Of the
newly invented lever with whose powerful force the
Northernes are going to pry the insttuton apart
from its engrafted identity With the South. North
ern papers say that g that grand discovery Of the
age Concerted Emigration. practically disposes OF
slavery, only requiring time 70 DO its work Lest
the reader should burst in ignorance we will
promptly check the tendency to explosion BY yenti-
lating to his satisfaction the grand discovery Of the
age" Though It may not be Of so much immediate
moment its projectors consider at the same time
it is not 80 trifng matter that We Of the South
may laugh at It.
Concerted emigration then is emigration in con.
emigration of large associated bodies Of North
erners into the border States Of the South-vrgina
Kentucky, Missouri, and even Tennessee. The emf.
grants are pledged to hold property in contguity
and to do oil in their power against slavery by exclud
ing it from lands which they may own or control It
appears that one company, entitled The American
Emigrant Aid and Homestead Company" which has
been silently at work for long time buying up lands
now announces that It holds the title to nearly one
million acres Of the best lands in Virginia. Tennessee
and Missouri the greater portion in the first named
State, where it has much improved property also
These landslie in great bodes which will be laid of
into townships divided into lots for small farms and
sold to Northern emigrants easy TERMS that pop
ulous towns will spring up in character substan-
tally after the New England pattern" to quote
circular Of the Company.
II will be at once appreciated that this movement
il no joking matter fo the peril in which slavery is
placed in Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, by the
gradual pouring ia OF Northern emigrants, is recog-
BY ALL and this concerted movement if theoretically
prosecuted will soon give the institution there its
coup de grace by placing its opponents in the major
ity. To quote the circular: thus before steady and
copous influx Of free labor emigration slavery will
gradually and quietly disappear" We believe this
announcement just as sincerely as its promugatcrs
do, and We believe that forcibly will its truth ad
dress itself to public sentiment that energetic mea.
sures for checking the nsidious invasion of the enc
my will be devised and carried out in the States gen.
orally it it is not already too late to do so in those
which lay along the Northern boundary line Of the
South The same dodge will be repeated in the next
chain Of Statesater those which now ON the from
tier become abolitohized, and until slavery is
driven to the wall and compelled to seek a new area
to be acquired beyond our present limits by an expa
triated people.
Such is the courseof events set inmoton by Northern
and their march, already well commenced
will compel the adoption Of radical protective meas
which may an uproar in the land that will re-
suit in secession II they do not we shall be protected
if they do, shall be safe. The intention peaceaby
and that dangerous power our enemies
should be deprived Of. We do not know why men
hostile to the very heart by nature should be allowed
to come among us and WELD to our injury as much
influence as we can to protect ourselves and there.
fore we think that all Northerners should be made to
serve very lengthy naturalization term before they
ire allowed to vote in Southern State. This would
rive them time to be cured of the hot prejudices
which many, even of the conscientious, bring with
hem, and would clip the claws of the designing.
rwentyone years would not be too short term to
erve for the right of voting on questions in which
he salvation Of our vital interests are concerned
Tor lack Of such precaution we shall lose Missouri
md probably Virginia, within very short period
he former within three or four years, very likely.
For more than year past the concerted emigra |
ion" scheme has been secretly operating. Its ennis
aries have been at work gradually and quietly buy.
ng up lands until now when they have secured large
,odies on which their free State men may be en-. |
renched in their own Castles" they boldly throw
If the mask and preach through the Northern papers
heir new abolition crusade. 1t may be readily i'm
gined at what sacrifice slave owners will dispose of
heir property to get out of the dangerous neighbor
God of these free State colonies and so thew will en-
lrge until they eat up majority of State and have
controlling voice in its councils, when they can do
} they please. The terms on which the emigration
ompanies offer lands will readily induce thousands
} rush from the over peopled North, and horde of
zee State men will swarm over the border, the like
which WIS not paralleled in 1.-THE free State"
lsh to secure the abolitionsm of Kansas. So much
r !" concerted emigration, !" the new device of the
lemy.