The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-06-08


understand The meaning Of The two words above
quoted ID their present Specification lfthey do
not, they have little idea Of their fearful por
tentousness-t that they are the title Of The newly
invented lever with whose powerful force the
northerners are going to pry the institution
apart from its engrafted identity with the south
Northern papers say that ''that grand discov-
cry Of the age, concerted emigration, practical
ly disposes Of slavery" only requiring time T.
do its work Lest the reader should burst IN
ignorance, We will promptly check the ten
dgncy % explosion BY ventilating to lis salts
faction the grand discovery Of the age -
I Though it may not be Of 50 much immediate
moment as its projectors consider, at the same
time it is not 50 trihing matter that We VI the
south may laugh at it.
Concerted emigration" then is emigration
4 in concert-emigration Of large associated bo-
dies Of northerners into the border States Of The
south-Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, and even
Tennessee. The emigrants are pledged 70 hold
property in contigutty, and to do all in their
power against slavery BY excluding it from
4 lands which they may own or control IL aP-
pears that one company, entitled The Ameri-
can Emigrant Aid and Homestead Company, 4
which has been silently at work for long time
buying up lands, now announces chat IL 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
4 lands liz in great bodies, which will be laid off
into townships, divided into lots for small farms
and sold to northern emgrants on easy terms,
50 that popuIous towns will spring up in char
acter substantially after the New England pat
tern, to.quote circular Of the company.
1t will be at once appreciated that this move
ment is no joking matter, for the peril in which
slavery is placed in Virginia, Kentucky and
Missouri, by the gradual pouring in Of north
ern emigranls, is recognised BY all, and this
concerted movement, if cnergeticaly prosecu-
ted, will soon give the institution there its coup
de grace by placing its opponents in The MAORI
ty. To quote the circular: ''thus before a
steady and copious influx Of free labor emigra-
ton, slavery will gradually and quietly dis
appear
We believe this announcement just As sin-
cerely as its promulgators do, and we believe
that 50 foroibly will its truth address itself 70
public sentiment that energetic measures for
checking the insdous invasion Of the enemy
will be devised and carried out in the States
generally, if it is not already too late to do %
in those which lay along the northern boundary
line Of the south The same dodge will be re-
pgated in the next chain Of States after those
which are now on the frontier become aboli-
tionzed, and 50 on until slavery. is driven 70
the wall and compelled to seek new area, to
be acquired beyond our present limits by an
expatriated people.
Such is the course Of events set il motion by
northern aggression, and their march, already
well commenced, viii compel the adoption Of
radical protective measures which may cause
an uproar in the land that will result very Sc
riousy. Iftbey do not, we shall b. protected.f
/ they do, we shall be SAFE. The intention i
peaoeobly to subyerJ southern institutions w
the power of the balot-box, and that danger
Gus 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 in
fuence as we can to protect ourselves, and
I therefore we think that all northerners should
be made to serve a very lengthy naturalization
term before they are allowed to vote in south
ern State This would give them time to be cured
of the hot prejudces which many, even Of the
conscientious, bring with them, and would clip
the claws Of the designing. Twenty one years
would not be too short a term 70 serve for the
right of voting on questions in whichthe saliva
lion Of our vital interests are concerned. For
lack Of such precaution we shall lose Missouri,
and probably Virginia, within very short
period-the former within three Or four years,
very likely.
For more than year past the concerted
emigration" scheme has been secretly operat-
ing. Its emissaries have been at work gradu-
ally and quietly buying up lands until now,
when they have secured large bodies on which
their free State men may be entrenched ID
their own castles, " they boldly throw off the
mask and preach through the northern papers
their new abolition crusade. Itmay be readily
imagined at what sacrifice slave owners will
dispose Of their property to get out Of The dan
gerous neighborhood Of these free State colo
mics, and 50 they will enlarge until they eat up
majority Of State and have controlling
voice in its councils, when they can do as they
please. The terms on which the emigration
companies offer lands will readily induce thou
sands to rush from the over PeopIed north, and
a horde Of free State men will swarm over tile
border, the like Of which was not paraIleled in
the free State" rush to secure the aboitionisnl
Of Kansas. So much for concerted emigra.
ton, " the new device Of The enemy
A New PARIsH.-We perceive that the late
Legislature Of this State, passed an act authors
mo the governor To anpoint 4 connrtent nprsor