The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1855, Page 2

potent with oe Bilnciple fe seahperrectee Sais. the States and Terri ‘Tecog- y, subject only to the constitution ‘tates ded that nothing herein con- shall be construed to revive or put in foree any w or regulation which may have existed prior to the March, 1820, either protecting, establishing, prohibit- or abolishing slavery. EFFECT OF THE BILL. The passage of the act caused a great excitement all over the country. Emigration began to pour in upon Kaneas from all sides, The abolition organs in the North were loud im their denunciations of the supporters of the ‘bill, and a socie'y was formed in Boston, for the purjose of assisting emigration, in order to make Kansas # free Btate. Fe eee WHAT KANSAS IS LIKE. In order that it may be seen what sort of a country ‘all this fuss is made about is, we subjoin some notes taken on the spot in the spring of the present year:— ‘The route to Kansas is via St. Louis and the Mis- souri river to Kansas City, on the Missouri river in Missouri, four hundred and fifty miles from its mouth. ‘This city consists cf a trading store and a few miser- able cabins. This is the place at which the New Epglani Fmmigrant Aid Sosiety deliver the goods forwarded to Kansas; from thence the Western emigrant has te find him, gel‘ and his way to the modern Utopia, Kansas; here he finds that he is fifty miles from Lawrence, and is obliged to pay four dollars to get himself hauled to Lawrence, and two dollars per bundred for conveyance for his Plunder. He may be detained at Kansas for two or thre» days, at the charge of seventy-five cents per day. On nis way te Lawrence he passes through Westport, @ respec- table town in Missouri—as towns in Missouri go. Law- rence upon the Kansas is well located, but without water, except from the river aud a well sixty feet deop, a short @istance from the river, but at present dry. The houses are of mud, sods and cotton cloth, aout fifty ia number, some three or four log houses and some few emigrant tents. Some more respectable buildings are being erected, ant the New England Emigrant Aid Society are putting up a hotel. It has now about three hundred permsnent re sidents. Pawnee City, one hundred and fifty miles from the month of the Kansas, has about fifty inha sitants, two log houses anda barn, used at present as a boarding house; this place is said to be the head of navigation, and may be said to head navigation aliogether as itis only six or cight weeks in the spring that there ix water enough on its sboals and bars to float a flat boat. This city is owned by speculators, and is stake! out in atreeta, squares and lots; the lots are 25 by 100, and the map looksas wellas possible, Ofall the States and Territo ries known as the great West, there is, perhaps, no coun- try that presents so mauy objections to the emigrant as Kensas; the best portion is held as Indian reserve. These lends are excellent—abundance of timber and water; bat as you travel westwariyou will look in vain for timber; you have vast open country, without water for inter- vals of fifteen or twenty miles, until you reach the Big Blue river, some eighty tiles from Lawrence. Here may be found timber similar to that upon the Kansas. The country west.of the Big Blue is mostly prairie couatry and of the poorest kind, abounding in hills, short, sharp and sudden—in many places these hills are covered with small fiat stones, resembling slate stone, with sharp edges, which give the country » desolate appearance. Corn and pork ts the staple food, and fifty cents the price per meal, and hard to get-at t! APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS—MEETING OF THE LEGISLATURE, &c., &c. After the passage of the Nobraska-Kansas act the Pret dent appointed Andrew H. Reoder, of Vennsylvania, Gov- exvor of the Territory. Mr. Roeder lived at Easton, and bad a fair reputation at the bar. The soat of govern- ment was fixed st Fort Leavenworth, on the Missouri river, thirty miles above the mouth of the Kansas and four miles below Weston, Missouri, This is @ military post, established in 1827. The government rescrwation contains nine square miles, and is said to be» pleasant place. Governor Reeder ptoceeded to custrict the ‘Territory for the election cf the Legislature, and ascertained that there were two thousand nine hundred and five voters in the Territory. He was acensed by some of his opponents of giving unwarrantable prominence to some districts, and intentionally adding to the returns, in order to elect aboli- tien mem rs. i The Governor called the Legislature to moet at Pawnee, a rettlement one mile below the confluence of the Repub- lican ana Chetolah. This place could boast of a stone house and a hotel in course of erection; but the member of the Legislature slept in canvassed houses, upon the ground floor, covered with their blankets, Politics run high in the Territory, @migranta flocke* im from the Fast, each bringing his Yankee prejudices, and primed up to the hilt with abolitiontsm. Tue free soflera charged that Missouri people came over and vote! the pro-rlavery ticket when they had no residence in the Territory. The pro-slayery men charged, on the other hand, that the New England parsons sent men out to steal their negroes. In some places there were all anti slavery men, and in others all pro-slavery. So high did the party fecliog run, that travellers were refused lodg dug or subsistence, even for pay, because their senti- ments were believed to be different from those of tho settlers. THE BORDER RUFFIANS—MURDER AND LYNCH LAW. The men living near the border were Jed by a m:1 named Stringfellow, and by Senator Atchison ; and it wax barged by the free soilers that these leaders brough’ men from Missouri, armed ‘ rufflans,”’ who obstruc':4 the voting places. Ina row at one of the voting p'xc, & lawyer named M’Crea, a member of the free soil party, shot one of his political opponents, An attempt was made to lynch M’Crea by some of tho dead man’s friends but it was unsuccessful. M’Crea was taken to Fort Leavenworth, ani is now awaiting bis trint [tis elain ed that he acted in self-defence. Mr. Sau: .ol Park, the editor and proprietor of the Parksville (Missouri) Lumi- teary, having taken strong abolition ground, was ordered out of the State on pain of death. His type, presses, fix tures, &c., &e., wore thrown into the river. Ble was the founder, ard one of the leading citizens of the place Bince that time, he has been invited to retura in a series of resolutions adopted in a public meeting at Parkavillo An itinerant Methodist preacher named Pardee Butler, was sent down the river on s raft for preaching abolitiva doctrines, Several other persons were orderet out of the Territory for not paying that strict attention to their own affairs, to the exclusion of those of others, which ix eo commendable a virtue in the human species, “SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY.” ‘The squatters met in August, 1854, and chose a Chie! Juntice to try disputes about claims, a Register to record claims, and &@ Marshal to assist them. Every man must move on his claim sixty days after it was marked off, or elec it would be forfeited. Other regulations were made to prevent apeculators from monopolizing the lands posi- tively set apart by Congros# for actual settlers. This is the real squatter sovereignty, ELECTION OF A CONGRESSIONAL DELE- GATE. An election for a delegate to Congress was had in the summer of 1854, which resulted in the choice of the pro slavery candidate, Gen. J, W. Whitfield, by a large ma- jority; about 1,809 votes wore cast. General Whitfeld ia a Tennessean by birth, but was for many years an In ian agent in Kansas. He sat in the House during the short session of the 234 Congress ORGANIZATION OF THE LEGISLATURE. The Legidatare met at Pawnee on the 24 July of this year. It was found that the pro-slavery party largely in the ascendant, It was claimed that they hat elected thirty-eight of the thirty niae members cheren Governor Reeder refused to grant cortifisates to some of the pro-slavery delegates, on the ground of informality im the election. A new election was ordered, and they were all returned to the Legislature by the v: tos of Mis- souriane, as the free soll men charge. Dr. Stringfellow, brother of the person before named, was chosen Speaker of the House, A short time after the House organized, the Legislatare adjourned to « pice called Shawnee Mission, an older set flement than Pawnee, and one, it is said, where there were better accommodations for the members This place ie « Methodist missionary station, one mile from the Mis pouri line, and near Westport This removal was in opposition to the wil! of Governor Reeder, who seems to have had a deep personal interest fn keeping the capital at Pawnee. He claimed that the Legislature bed no right to adjourn to Shawnee, and vent was NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1855. | them amessage addressed to “The Legislature of Kansas,” a terrible mistake, Dessuse he said in the same message that he did not recognise them as a Legislature. The Legislature, however, went on without him, and enacted a code of laws for the Territory, including several very strong guards for the protection of slave property. Judge Lecompte, Chief Justice of the Sapreme Court, and his associates, gave an opinion, saying that the acts of the Legislature in their opinion were legal. The free State pariy, however, refused to acknowledge the authority of the Legislature. REMOVAL OF REEDER. On the 20th of July Governor Reeder was removed ‘rom the government of Kansas, and Secretary Woodson reigned in hia stead for the time being. Reeder had been unable to restore peace in the Territory, During the early summer he came home to Easton, Pennsylvania, and made an injudicious speech on Kansas affairs, and called Mr. Stringfellow bad names. Mr. Stringfellow maie a row about it, and knocked the Governor down in the go- vernment house. The alleged cause of Reeder’s removal ‘was that he and Judge Johnston, Judge Elmore and Mr. Isaacs (United States Attorney) had been speculating in Indian reserved lands, contrary to the acts of Congress and the regulations of the department. As we have stated above, nearly sll the good land in Kangas is on the Indian reserves, and these gentle- men probably wanted a good dip into it. We are told that Gov. Reeder did, through interpreters, tell the half. breed Kaws that he was the only person who was author. ized to purchase their lands. From time immemorial, individual reservations to half breeds, and also to In- dians, have been purchased by the whites, which pur- chases were eanctioned by the Indian Department, and the purchasers received patents for the same when area. sonable compensaticn had been paid, Thousands cf acres in Illinois and Indians, now under nigh cultivation, were so purchased. The twenty-five sections of the Kaw half-breeds were lying upon the Kan- sas river, 120 miles from its junction with the sfis- souri river, Government objected to Reeder’s xpecu- lating exclusively in these lands, and using his officral position to get them. They removed him and Judge Fi- more. It might be well enough to inquire why the heads of Jobnston and Isaacs were not also cut off. Judge Elmore intends to contest the question of whether or not the President has power to remove him, and as it has been reveral times before the federal courts, it ought to be settled in come way. Mr. J. L. Dawson, of Pennsylvania, was appointed to sncceed Mr. Reeder, bud he respectfully declined the dangerous honor. .He wrote a very sensible Setter, giving much wholeson e advice to all parties. Of course, none of them paid the slightest attention to it, ANOTHER APPOINTMENT—GOV. SHANNON. ‘The President then appointed Wilson Shannon, of Ohio, as Reeder’s successor, Mr. Shannon was” national democrat, and was Governor of Ohio in 1842, and was ence Minister to Mexico. He wat in the Thirty-third Con- gress, and voted tor the Nebraska-Kansas bill. He ac- cepted the appointment, and arrived in Kansas early in Avgust. He was received at Westport, Missouri, one mile from the Kansas line, and made a speech, wherein ho suid he was in faver of slavery in Kansas. He also evidently thonght bimself in the last named Territory, as be said to the people that he endorsed thelr Legislature. THE MISSOURI MANIFESTO. Farly in September last, a moeting of the citixns of Lexington, Missouri, and others, was held, and its result is the following manifesto: — ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATRS. We bay: been appointe1 by # convention of eltizeas of Missouri, mainly representing that portion of the State lying contiguous to the Territory of Kansas, to lay betore you some Auggestions upon a topic which vitally concerns our State, and which, it is believed, may, to a serious ex- tent, affect the general welfare of our country, We propose to discharge this duty by a concise and candid exposition of tacts, touching our condition and its Dearing upon Kapsas, accompanied with such reflections as the facta naturally suggest. That portion of Missouri which borders on Kansas oon- tain, as nearly ag can now be ascertained, s population of fifty ‘housand slaves, and their estimated value, at the prices prevailing here, is abcut twenty-five millions of lars, As the whole Btate contains but abont one hua- dred thousand saves, it will be seen that one half of the entire slave population of Missouri ix located in the eighteen counties bordering on Kansas, the greater por- tion of which is separated trom that Territory by no na- turel boundary, and is within a day's ride of the line. This part of our State ix distinguished, by a uniform for, tility, of soil. x temperate and healthful climate, and w yUpUIRtON progresslug rapidly in ull the elements that constitute a prosperous comuunity, Ageiculture is in & most oucithiog condition, and the towns aud vil- lsges which have sprung up indicate a steady pro- gress towards wealth, refinement and cornmereial imp r- tauce. Nor have the higher interests of education, reti- gion and science been neglected; but common schools and respectabe institutions of ’a higher grade and churches of every Christian denomination, are found in évery county. The great staple of this district is hemp, although tobaczo and corn and wheat are also largely produced. The culture of hemp has been found profitable —moere so than cotton in the South: and this fact. with the additional ones, that almost every foot of tand within the counties alluded to is wonderfully adapted by nature to its pfocuction, in greaier quantities nod flow qualitios and at smaller cost, than in avy otuer sinte ia the Union, and that tne clizate is sich a? i) pernit the growers of thie article to reste on theic will readily explain ané account for the unexampled coowth of the c.untiy. Already it constitutes the most deasoly popolated portion of our State. and ils remarkable fer- tility of cil and general salubrity of climate, with the facilivies for outlet furnished by «noble river running through its midst, and two great railroads destined s20n to traverse its upper and lower borders, will render it at no distant period, if left undisturbed, as desirable and Houriabing a district as can be found in the Mlssléstppt alley. ‘An idén has to some extent prevailed abroad that Mis souri contained but a very aml! slave population, and t the permanence of this institation here’ ws threatened by the existence of at least a re- spectable minority of her citizens, ready and auxious to abolish it, and that only a slight external pressure was necessary to accomplish this purpose. We regret that this opinion has to some extent receivel coun- tenance from the publication and patronage of journals in our commercial motropotis, evidently aiaiag at such a result, Without, however, going Into any explant on of political perties hece, which would be entirely foreign to our pu:pose, we think it proper to state that tho ides above alluded to is unfounded. and that no respectable party con be found in this State, outside of St. Louis, pre- pared to embark in any such’ schemes, In that city, constituting the great outlet of oar commerce, as weil as that of teveral other States and Territories, it will not seem surprising that its heterogensous population shoals furnish @ foothold for the wildest and most vidonary projects. St. Louis was, however, represented in our convention, and it is not thought unwarrantable to ‘assume that the revolutions adopted by this body have received the cordial approbation of » farge and influe: tin] portion of her citizens, Other counties, besides > Louis, outside of the district to whioh our ‘observatioas have been principally dicected, were also rep:esented by delegates; and bad not the season of the year, the short notice of ita intended session, and the locality where the convention was held—remote from the centre of the State—prevented, we doubt not tha: delegates from every county in the State would have been {n attead- ance. Indeed, a portion of the upptr Mississippi and lower Misrissippi counties are as deeply, though fess di- veetly interested in this ques ion, as any part of this State; and their citizens are known to accord most hearti- ly in ‘the sentiments and actions of Western Missouri Even in the southwest partot our State, from the (sage to the borders of Arkantas, where there are but fow alaves the roceediogs of pubile meetings indicate the entice and astive sympathy of their people, From the general tone ot the public prese throughout the State, a stmailar inference ix deducible, and we feel wacranted ta as- serting, « very general, if not unanimous concurrence in the principles adopted by the Lexiagtoa Convention, Those principles are embodied ia» eactas of regotations appended to this acdress, and which, we are happy to say, were adopted with entire naanimity-by a body re pretenting every shade of political opinion to be (ound in the interior of 6 these tacta are conclusive of the condition of ntiment in Missouri. The pro es here fn reference to the queation ot re not essentially different from what they are see, or Virginia, or Kentucky. In relation to numbers, a reference to the census shows that Missoart contains’ double the number of Arkansas, nearly double the number of Texas, and about an ejual number with Maryland These facts are stated with a view to a proper under. standing of our position in reference to the sectlement of Kansas, and the legitimate and necessary interest felt ia the progress and character of that settlement. Provious to the rep, I restriction of 1820, by which Mi n into an isolated position ia reference to the question of slavery, and made a soll exception *o a general rule, her conditi territory west of her border, and ical ine which Congres had ‘tixed as the ter: outhern jnstitutions, was truly uvenviable. With two States on her northern aad. eastern border, un many portions cf which the constitation of (he Unitod States, ard the Fugitive Slave Iaw, passed {n pursuance thereof, were known to be as inefiicscivus for the protection of our rights ag they would have been in London or Caniaa, it was left to the will of Congress. by enforcing the re striction of 1820, to ent Miseourt off alinoat entirely feng all territorial connection with States having instita congenial to her own, and with 1 ready ond wil- ling to protect and defend them. No alternative was left to nd thus leave that body out to epeal the restriction, to the constitution and the Jaws of nature the settlement of our Territories, or, by retaining the restriction, indl- rectly to abolish slayery in ¥ If the latter alter. rn native had to be selestet, it would have been an act of charity and mercy to the slavehoiders of Missouri to warn them in timé of the necessity of abandoning their homes, or manumitting or selling their elaves—to give them ampletime to determine between the eacrifice of filty millions of slave property, or seventy millions of landed estate. Direct legislation would have been pre- ferable to indirect legislation. leading to the same result, and the enforcement of the restriction in the settlemeat ef Kansas was virtually the abolition of ry in souri. But Congress acted more wisely, as we think, and with greater fidelity to the constitution and the Union. ‘The history of the Kansas-Nebraska bill is known to the country. It abolished the fapbical line of 36 Ro Ea oy Shia to Sade e caves Ga se end 7 Sn wilh et bn tena she fear Lt such domestic leery anys Wever = was « principle to ten, and reconetle all: this would seem to have been the one. It was the prin se of popular sovereignty—the basis upon which our nce had been ed—and tt was therefore wap) to be justly dear to all Americans, lati and every creed, fanaticiem was not satis- fled. The sbolit and their allies moved heaven and earth to accomplish defeat, and al- though wi b ¢id not therefore despair. Out-voted in recelving no couptenance the executive, they retired to another theatre of action; and, strange to tituted am ancient and respectable commonwealth—one die o Anes Comite ae : means le Bailes to such a a crusade against slavery, novel in its character, more alarming iu ite features, and Hkely to be more fatal in its consequences, than all the fanatical movements h.therto attemp'ed, siuce the ap- ‘of abolitionism as a poli ‘party in 1835. rey originated and matured a Re og My be‘ore heard of or thought of in this country, the object and effect of which was to evade the principle of the Kansas- Nebraska bill, and in Meu of non-intervention by Uon- intervention by the States. An company wito a capi- us was Chaitered; and this company was plist an army of mercenary fanstics, aud traneport ‘hem to Kansas. ruiting officers were sta at plices most likely to furnish the proper mate- rial; preniema were offered for recruita; the public mind ‘was stimulated by glowing and false descriptions of the country proposed to be oecupied, and a Hessian band of mercenaries was thun prepared and forwarded, to com- mence and carry on a war of extermination against slavery. To call these people emigrants, is a shear perversion of Ldap. bins not sent to cultivate the soll, to Letter their social condition, to add to their individual comforts, or the aggregote wealth of the nation. They do not move from choice or taste, or frcm any motive affecting, or supposed to affect, themselves or their fami- lies. have none of the marks ot the old pioneers, who cut down the torests of Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, or levelled the canebrahes of Tennessee and ee: orbroke up the plains of Dlinois and Missouri. Tney are mostly ignorant of agriculture; picked up in cities or villoges, they of course have no experience as formers, and if left to thoir unaided resources—if no" clothed and fed by the same power which has effected their transportation—they would starve or freeze. They are hirelings—an army of hirelivgs—recraited and ship ved indirectly by a sovereign State of this Union, to make war upon un institution now existing in tha Terrt- tory to which they are transplanted, and thence to 'v- flict a fatal blow upon the resources, the prosperity and the peace of a neighboring State. ‘hey are military co- lonies, plinted by a S'ate goverpment, to subdue a tor- rtory opened to settlement by Covgress, and take ex- clusive posression thereof. In addition to that eiprit du corps which of necessity pervades such an organization, they have in common @ reckless ani desperate fanati: cism, which teaches them that slavery 15 8 sin, and that they are doing God’s service in hastening i's destruction, They have been picked and culled from the igno sut maven which Old England and New England negro philanthropy has stirred up and aroused to madness on this topic, and have been selected with reference to their views on this topic aione. They are men with « singe idea: and to carry ont this they have been instrucced aod taught to disregard the laws of God and man; to consider Diordshed and arson, insurrection, destroction of pro: perty, or servile war, as the merest tri les, compared with the glory and honor of seducing # single slave feom his master, or harboring or protecting the thief who ha~ carried him off, ‘That such & population would be fatal to the peace an security of the neighboring State of Missourt, and imme diate destruction of such owners of slaves as iad already moved to the Territory of Kansas, is too clear to admit an argument, A horde of our Western savages, with avewed purposes of destruction to the white race, would be less formidable neighbors. The colonization of Kansas with # population of this character was a circumstauces which aroused attention, and excited alarm among our citizens here, aod those who had already emigrated 10 Kansas. Could any other result have been expected? Did sensidle men at tho North—did the abolitionists themselves—expect any other? Missourl contained, as we have seen, one hundred thousand slaves, and their value amounted to fifty mil- Mons of dollars. Mad these funaties who pronounced slavery an individual sin, and a national curse, ever yet pointed out any decently plausible scheme by which it could be removed? The entire revenue of our State, for ordinary fiscal purposes, scarcely reaches five hundred thousend dollars, and the abolition of slavery here would involve the destruction of produc' ive capital eatimared at fifty mfllions of dollars, or taxation upon the ple of five millions of dollars annually, which is the logelized interest upon this amount of capital, besides the addi tional tax which would be necessary to raise « sipking fund to pay off the debt crea'ed. fhe constitution of Missouri prohibits the Legislature from paseit laws emancipating slaves, without a full compensation to their owners; and it is therefore apparent thet tenfold the entire revenue of the State would be barely sufficient to pay the futerest upon « sum equivalent to the actual money value of the slaves, without providing any means to extinguish Hie, pripaival which such a cebt would create. We orcit altcgether, in 1his caleulation, the im practicability and impolicy and cruelty to bovh races, to substitute & of incorporation was tal of five m il ting the sieves here, with provision for Tr tomate end the additional debt which such removal would create, equal, in all probability, to that occasioned by their’ mere emancipation’ It would seem, then, that the merest glance at the sti- tistical tables vf our Staie, showing the population and revenve, must have tatisfied the most sarguine aboli ticnist of the {utility of bis schemes. If the investigation was pursued further, and our estimate was made to em- brace the three millions and a half of slaves now ia the Southern and Southwestern States, and the billions to which our ccmputation must ascend in order to sscer- tain their vslue in money, this anti-slavery crusade, which presents itsel! in a form of open aggression agains’ the white race, without the semblance or pretext of good to that race for which the abolitionist professes ro much regard, and which stands ro souch bigher in his affections than his own, is seen to be one of mere folly and wicked- ners, or. what is perhaps worse, a selfish and sectional str gle for political power. It is a singular fact, and one worthy of notice in this connection, thut in the history of At slavery up to this ime, no government has ever yet been known tu abolish it which fairly represented the interests and opinions of the governed, Great Britaim, it is true, aboli hed slavery in Jamaica, but the planters of Jamaics had no potential voice in the British Parliament. The abotition of slavery in New Englaud and tm the Midcie States con haraly be cited as an exception, since that rogation was not co much the result of positive legiala tion as it waa of natural cauges—the unfitness of climate and productions to slave lobor. It is well rnown ta thore familiar with the jurisprudence of this country and cf England, vhat slavery has been ip no instance created by post'ive statutory enactment, nbr has it been thus abolished in any country where the popular will was paramount in legislative action. Its existence and non existence appears to depend entirely upon causes beyond the reach of goveromental action, and this fact stiould teach scime dependence upon the will of an overruling Providence, which works out its ends in a mode, and at time, not always apparent to finite mortals. ‘The history of some of our slayeholding States in rela tion to efforts of this. chara-ter, it would seem, ought to be conclurivr, at least against those who have no actual interest ix yorved, and whom a proper sense of sel(-res- pect, if not of constitutional obligation, should restrain from impertinent interference. Virgivia in 1831, aw! Kentucky more recently, were agituted from centre circumference by ® bela and nprestricted discussion o' the rubject of ewwaneipaticn. Upon the bustings and the Legisla‘tve Asremblies, the subject was thoroughly + x- aniived, ond every project which genius or philanthrupy could suggest, was investigated. Brought forward in the od Tomiaten, under the sanction ot names venerated and respected throughout the limits of the common- wealth—well known to have been acherished project ot hor most distinguished statesmen—favored by the hap- pening ofa then recent servile disturbance, and patron- ed by one of the most patriotic and enlightoned citi zens, the ssheme nevertheless failed, without # show of oe less or a step in aovance toward the object contem- plaied. The magnitude of the difficulties to be overcome wae co great and 80 obvious, as to strike alike ‘he emin- cijationists and their adversaries. The result nas been, both in Virginia and Kentucky, tha® slavery to use the Jsngusge of one of Kentucky's eloquent and disting 1" sh- ei ses, and one, too, of the foremost in the work of cmancipation, ‘has been accepted ns a permanent part of their social xystem.”’ Can it be that there is a deati- tution of ere intelligence—oi patriotism and prety in slaveholding States, and that these qualities are alone to be found in Great Britain and the Northern free States? If not, the conclusion must be, that the difficul- ties in the way of such sn enterprise exceed all the cal- culations of stateemanship and philosophy; and their re- moval must await the will of that Being, whose pre rga- tive it ix to make crooked paths straight, and juatify une ways of God to man, ve have no thought of discussing the subject of slavery. Viewed in its social, moral or economical aspects, it is regarded, aa the resclutions of the convention declare, as solely and exclusively @ matter of State jurisdiction, ani therefore one which does not concern the federal govern ment, or the States where it doer not exist. We have merely adverted to the fact, ia connection with the re- cent abolition movements upon Kansas, that amidet all their flerce denunciations of slavery for twenty years st, these fanatics have never yet been able to sugges’ ian for ite removal, consistent with the safety of the nothing #f constitutional guarantees, a“ white race, say federal and Sta ‘The colonization scheme of Massachusetts, as we have sald, excited alara in Missourl. Its obvious design vas to operate further than the mere prevention of tae natu- ral expansion of alavery. It was intended to oarrow it existing limits, to destroy all equillorinm of power tv tween the North and South, amd leave the slaveholder at the will of a majority, ready to disregard constitutional obligations, and cariy out to thelr bitterend the man- dates of ignorance, prejodice and bigotry. its success manivestly involved & radical change in our federal go vernment, or its total overthrow. Jf Kausas could be thus abolitionized, every additional part of the prewnt public domain hereafter opened to se tlement, and ever fuiure accession of territory, would be the subject similar experiments, and an exploded Wilmot proviso thus virtually enforced thronghout an extended aomain sill claimed #s national, and still bearing on its military ensigns the stare and stripes of the Coion, If the plan was constitutional and legal, {t must be con d that it was skilfully contrived, and admiraby acapted to ity ends. It war aleo eminently practicable, if no resistance was encountered, since the States adopt: ing it contained a surplus population which could be breught up and shipped, whilst the Sou'h, which had an interest ia resistive, had no such ple among her white population. The Kansas Nebraska law, too, which was so extremely hateful to the fanatics, and has ©: stituted the principal theme of their recent dennneia- tions, would bea dead letter, both as it regards the Ter riterles for which it was particuia ly framed and asa precedent to Cot for the opering of other distnets to rettlement. The old Missourl restriction could have done no ore, and the whole pur pore of the anti slavery agitators, toth in and out of Congress, was quietly ac- complished, Bat the scheme failed—ax it deserved to fail—and as the peace, prorperity and union of our coun- tty Fequired it should fail. It was @ scheme totally at of our government, both State the nia fnitationn hich these soveemoes ‘protect, aad ita sueceas SvWPhaws boon Gbial ty tans che centred it aw it have been to those intended to be its victims. ‘The circum stance of novelty is entitled to ite weight in polities as wellas law. The abohtion irruption upon Kansas is without precedent iu our history. Seventy- nine years of our national life have rolled by: Ln pren | after itory has been annexed. or settled, and to the of States, until from thirteen we have ia- oret two; yet it never before entered into the head of any statesman, North or South, to devise a lan of acquiring exe usive occupation of s Territory by te colonization. Mansachusette the honor ieee ton are filled by ‘a rh studies to disguise in the drapery o} us and @ ciassic elosution rT Pvc, Bosc Gag Remeron wi 4 ww ue @ ci rabble with oper and rated disunionism, associated with the oracles of abolitionism and infidelity—a melaucholy spectacle to the descendants of the compatriots of Benj min Frankiin, No Southern or slaveholding State has ever attempted to colonize a Territory. Our public lands have been leit to the occupancy of such settlers 2s soil and climate in. vited. The South has sent no armies to force slave labor upon those who preferred free labor. Kentucky. sprung from Virginia, a9 did Tennessee from North Carolina, an Kansas will from Missouri—from contiguity of territory an‘ similarity of climate. Kmigration has followed the parallels of latitude, end will continue to do #0 unless diverted by such organizations as Emigrant Aid Soeleties and Kansas Leagues. It bas been said that the citizens of Masuachusetts have an undoubted right to emigrate to Kansas; that thi: right may be exercised individually, or in families, or ia larger private associations; and that associated ente- prise, under the sanction of legislative enactments, is but Another ard equally justifioble form of emigration. Po. litical actions, like those of individuals, must be judged by their motives and effects. Unquestionably, emi gration, both Individual and collec ive, from the free tes to the South, and vice versa, from the slave States to the North, has been progresslog from thy foundation of our govervment to the present day, with- out ecmment and withuut objection. It is not pre- tended that such emigration, even if fostereg@ by State patronsge, would be ‘legal, or in any respect objec tionabie. The wite expanse of the toriite West, and the acserted wastes of the ¢unny South, invite occupation, ard 09 man, from the southern ex'remrty of Florida to the northern boundary of Miesouri, has ever object ed to on emigrant simply because he was from the North, and preferred free Jabor to that of slave. Upov this eubject be is allowed to conzult his own taste, con: venience, and conscience; xd it is expected that he wil! permit bis neighbors to exercise the same privi'ege. But, no one cap faa) to distinguish between an honest, bon: Side emigration, prompted by choice or necessity. and an ‘orgenized colonization with offensive purposes upon the institutions of the country proposed wo be settled, N can there be any doubt in which elaas to place the move. menip of the Marsachuretts Emigrant Aid Societies wa Kansas Leagues. Their motives have been candidly avowed, and their objects boldly proclaimed throughov the length and breadth of the land. Were thie not the case, it would stil be imposible to mistake them. Why wo might well inquire, it single emigration was in view, are these extra: dinary efforts confined to the Territory Kansast Is Nebraska, which was opened to aottlemen’ the rame law, less desirable, less inviting to Norther» adventurers than Kaveas? Are lowa, and Washington and Oregon, and Minnesota, and Illinois, and Michi gan, filled up with population—their lands all occupied and furvishing no room for Maraschusetts emi grants’ Is Maseachusetts herself overrun with pepulation—ebliged to rid herself of paupers whom she cannot feed at bome? Or is Kansas, ro Bast em orators have insinuated, a newly discovered paradiar —a modern El Dorsaco—where gold and precions atone can be gathered at pleasure; o: an Arcadia, where na ture is so bountiful as not to need the aid of main, and fruits and vegetables of every desirable dessripti . spon- taneously «pring up? There can be but one answer to these questions, and that swer shuws conclusively the t and intent o this mixcailed and pretended emigrat It wan anti slavery movement. As such it was organized wal oy in aimee motion by an antivlavery Legislature; na ported to Karas; and as such, it was met there and de- feated. gantued army was equipped in Maseachusot If further Wustration was needed of the illegality o there moverents upon Kansas, we might extend our ob servations to the probable reception of similar movement- upon a State, If the Masrachusei ts ture, or ‘hay oi apy other State, have the right vo send an army o! abolitionists into Kansas, thoy have the same right t traneport them to Missourl. We are not apprised of any rovisions in the cumstivutiuns or laws of the States whict ‘this respeot distipguishes their condition from that o: a Yeriitory. We have no laws, and we presume no slave holding State has, which forbids the emigration of noo- slavebolders. Such laws, if passed, would clearly conflic with the federal constitution. The Southern and South- western alavebolding States are as open to emigration fro. non-:laveholding Sta“esas Kansas. They differ only in the price of lend and the density cf population. Let us rup- pose, then, that Massachusetts should turn her attention to Texas, and rhould ascertain that the population of thet State was nearly divided between who favore: and thore who opposed slavery, and that one thousand votes would turn the scale in favor of emancipation, and acting in accordance with her world-wide philanthropy she should resolve to transport the thousand voters ne- ccseary to abclirh slavery in Texas, how would such » movervent be received there? Or, to reverse the propo sition. Let it be suppoecd that South Carolina, with her large slavebolding population, should andertuke to trans- port a thousand slaveholcers to Delaware, with a view to turn the scale in that State, now understood to b- rapidly parting over to the list of free States, would the Nant sons of that ancient State, small as she is terri torielly, submit to such interference? Now, the insti tutions of Kaneas are as much fixed and as eolemnly guaranteed by statute, as those of Delaware or Texas ‘the laws of Kansas Ternitory may be abrogated ty succecding Legislatures ; but, so alao may the laws, and even the constitutions, of Texas and Delaware; Kan: ras only differs from their condition m_ her limited ro soureer, her small population, and her lerge amount u: warketable Inds, There is no difference in principle between the cases suppored ; if justifiable and legal in the one, it'is equally so in the other. They differ only in int of practicability and expediency ; the one would be an outrage easily perceived, promptly met, and speedily repelled; the other is disguised under the form: of ongantanttor and meets with no populous and orgs nixed community to resent it. We are apprised that it i- said that the Kaneas Legislature was elected by fraud, and constitutes no tair representation of the cpinions « the people of the Territory. This i+ evident}; excus+ of the lorirg party, to stimulate renewed 6! amon: their filendsat home; but even this is refuted by the r«- cord. The Territorial Governor of Kansas, a gentleman rot suspect d of, or charged with partiality to s'avery 0 to its anvocates, has solemnly oertiled under his off, seal, that the statement is false; that a large majority of the Legislature were duly and ‘legally elected. Even in the districts where Governor Reeder set aside the elec. tions for illegality, the subsequent returns of the special elections ordered by him produced the same result, ex. cept in a sirgle cistric. ‘There is, then, no pretext lef and it is apparent that, to send an army. of abolivionist- to Kansas to destroy slavery eaisting there, and receg- nized by her Jaws, is no more to be Justified on the p .rt of the Masruchusotts Legislature than it would be « rend a like force to Missouri, with the like purpos < ‘The onject might be more easily and sufely accompli» in the one case thamin the other, but in both cases it ix equally repugnant to every“principle of internation! comity, and Nkely to prove equally tatal to the harm uy and peace of the Union. k We conclade, then, that this irruption upon Kansas by Fmigtant Ald Societies and Kansas Leagues, under the patronage of the Massachusets Legislature, is to be re garded in no other light than anew phase of abolition. jem, more practicalin its aims, and therefore wore d..i- gerous than eny form it has yet assumet, We have shown tt 10 be at variance with the true intent of the act of Congress by which the Territory was opened to settlement; at variance with the spirit of the constitu: tion of the United States, and with the institutions of the Territory, already recognizea by law; totally cestrne- tive of that fellowship and good feeling which shou!d ex- int among citizens of confederated States; rainous to the security, peace and prox ity of a neighboring State; unprecedented in our political annala up tethis date, ap re with the most disastrous comsequemee . .o the harmony and stability of the Union. Thus far its purpores have been defeated; but renewed efforix are hreatened. Political conventions at the North and North vest have declared for the repealof the Kus .+- Nebraska law, and anticipating a failure in this direc :on are stimulating the anti-slavery sentiment to fresn ex- ertions for abolitionizing Kansas after the Masrachuseits fashion. We have discharged our duty in declariog ths light in which such demonstrations are viewed here, and our firm belief of the spirit by which they will be met. If civil war and ultimate disunton are derived, a renewal ‘of these efforts will be admirably adapted to such pur. pores. Missourt has taken her position in the resaln- tions adopted by the Lexington Convention, and from that povition ske will not be likely to reced» [t is base! upon the conetitution—upon justice aa «quality of rights among the States. What she bas dove, and wh she is rtill prepared to do, is in gelfde‘ence and for wit preservation; and from these duties she will hardly be expected to shrink, With her everything is at stake the security of a large slave property, the prosperity of her citizens, and their exemption from perpetual agitn- tion und border feuds; whilat the emissaries of abolition are pursuing a phantom, an abstraction, which, if ro«!- ized, could add nothing to thelr possearions or happiness, and would be productive of decided injury to the race for whose benetit they profess to labor. Savery is an evil, and it is conceded that Congress can not intertere with if in the States; it i# most manifest that its diffusion throngh a new Territory, where lan? is value lear and labor productive, tends greatly to ameliorate the condition of the slaves, Opposition to the extension of sla very is not, then, founded upon any philanthropic views, or upon any love for the slave. It is @ mere grasp for po. litical power. beyond what the constitution of the United States concedes; end it is so understood by the leaders of the movement. And this additional power is not desired for constitutional purporos—for the advancement of the qiveral welfa-¢, or the national repatation. For stich purpores the majority in the North is already sufficient. [nd'no fature evenis are likely to dimiaish it. Ti slaveholding States ae in a minority, but so far, be nority which has commanded ne in the national covrcila, It has answered, and we hope will continue to svbserve the parposes of self-protection. Conservative men ficm other quarters have come up to the rescue when the rights of the South have been seriously threat- ened. But it is exsential to the parposes of self-preserva- tion that this mirority should pot be materially weaken- ed; ft in exvential to the preservation of our present form Uf government that the dave States should retain euffi- cient power to make effectual resistance againat outward sggrestion upon an institution peculiar to them alone, tha of the consti dis. tinet and upequivocal step towards a dissolution of the Union. We presume it would be so everywhere, North and South, Taken in connection with the abroga- tion of that provision of tne constitution which enforces the rights of the owners of slaves in all the Srates of the Union into which they might escape, which has been fected practically throughout nearly all the free States, and more pece fy by solemn leginlative enactments in a portion of them, the rejection of Kansas on account of lay would be disunion in a form of grosseat insult to the een slave States now comprehended in the nation. It would be a declaraiion that slavery was incompatible with republican government, ia the face of at least two formal Yecognitions of its legality, in terms, by the fede- 1 constitution, ral We trust that such counsels have not the remotest prospect of frevalling fn our national logislatare, and upon the ence of their adoption We prefer to anticipate &@ returning fidelity to national obligations—-s faithful adherence to the constitutions) heering to @ contiaued and ‘WM. B, NAPTON. Chairman, STERLING PRICE, M. OLIVER, $8. H. WOODSON. REPLY OF THE NEWENGLAND AID SOCIETY. TO THE CITIZENS OF MISSOURI, The Directors of the New England Emigrant Aid Com- pany are desirous to correct gome of the misrepresenta- jens which havo been sedulourly cireulated in many of public prints of your State, in regard to theic plan guarantees, and the uent the patriot of this and other ands —o perpetual Union, s ere misrepresentations were made by irre- sponsible and Lo pe persons, whose characters had no weight, we did not think them worthy of a reply from us. But when we find them repeated and endocsed by men of some influence in your community, we feel that it Js Cue to ourselves, and to the character of the emi- giants who have gone out to Kxntas ander our auspicos, to state the truth. In the published resolutions of the Convention lately held at Lexington, Missouri, we find mistatemen's ia re- ard to our enterprise which we cesire to correct This “ompany is the only incorporated association, known to us, in the United States, which has for its object both as- sistance ard LE aes ion for western emigration. We must therefore infer that weare referred to in the reso- jutions which alluded to “moneyed associations under the patronage of sovereign States of this Union.” ‘The resolations ehurge the Company then, 1. With recruiting armies and hiring fanatics to go to Kanras. 2. With fanatical aggression on Missouri, with the in- tention of putting the torch to the dwellings and the knife to the throats of 1ts people. 3. With sending persons to Kansas who do not intend to remain there, but who go only to interfere with ant centro] the actual settlers. It is easy for us to show the entire falsehood of every one ot these charges. 1, To the charge of “recrulting armies and hiring fa- upties to go to Kansas,” our unswer is very simple. We hove never hired aan to go there, or paid the passage of wsingle emigrant. Every settler who has gone out under our auspices, has himself provided the means of bis passage. It is possible that you in Missouri may not have bo- fore observed how large is the regular emigration from New Frgland, to the new States of the West. Every year the sons ana daughters of Northern States, in numbers to be counted by tens of thousands, choose’ to emigrate to those more fertile regions. They do not wait or meet tobe “hired.” They go with their own names, make their own selection of a new home. Tne favorable vecovnts which reached us of the soil and climate of Kansas, and the advantages which it of fers to the settler, ivrn the attention of thousands of snch emigiants to that Territory. They resolved to go there, and were ¢sger to obtain every information as to the best means of going and forming permavent settle- ments in that country. ‘The fact that such persons were willing te go. rendered it possible to form this company, whose object is to fa- cilitate their organization, render their journey easy and safe, by the erection of mills and hotels, and by the promotion of such other enterprises as are found oondu. cive to the common good, Wedo not hire them. No compary op earth could hire them, It would be more proper fo say that the existen:e of such men, and thrir resolution aud intention to go to Kansas, created and sus- tained this company. ‘To speak of such men as “paupers,”’ <“mercenaries”” and ‘hired advontnrors,)) ia simply abourd. are Ame rican citizens, who have the enthusiasm which all their coustrymen have for colonizing new regions, and. bring- ing them under the away of wan. they carry with them their education, thei: skijl, thoir money. They are crecting in Kansas’ their seam en gines, heir machine shops, their factories of wood, pa- per, fron, and ll thinge useful to mon, They have gor there because they hed a right th ‘because they choose to go—because they had. the means to go—and because They believed that in so doing they cmld better their condition, and perhaps do good service to God and map. that they might go conveniently and cheaply. this Company has been orgenized. It 13 one of the customs of New kngland for men to organize themselves to work in co-operation for any object which they can achieve thus better than separate individuals, This is one of our institutions to which we are attached, and to which we cwe much of our prosperity. 2. The resolutions of the Convention charge us with ‘ fanatical aggrersion on Missouri.” We bave looked in vein for the ‘first derailed, speelfcation by which this charge can be supported. It is our earnest wish tuat the eroxgiants who go under our auspices, should waintain the kindest and most friendly tions with all whom they meet on their way, whether in Missouri or any other State. We have every reason to believe that they bave done so, arc until some distinct case of ‘fanatical oggrersion” is mace cutand sustained by the citizens 9f there towns where these emigrants meet your people, we murt entirely deny the truth of the charge. Ry the accidental conditions of travel at the present time, It happens that many of the Northern emigrants s'up the Missouri river, on their way to their new comes, If this be a Jpisvance to you, it is none the less an inconvenience to them. It lengthens their yourney to Kansas more than four hundred miles. We venture to however, that vhey bave borne this inconvenience 80 68 to give no rerioua ground of complaint to those with whom they have had deslings in your State, So noon ak the rapid he pre of the rai'r in Iowa per. mits, they will be able to shorten their Journey material- y end you may then be relieved from their presence. iii then it will be convenient for them to take your steamboats up the river, and to provide themselves with supplies from your merchants. : ‘tisour belief, however, notwithstanding the misre} rexentations of interested parties, thai the true citizens of Mitsouri do not feel this passage of emigrants from other States along thetr magnificent river as any griev- ance at all. We believe in the brotherhood of Ay the States in this Union, and in the hospitality of the peoplo of Missourt. We ave confident they will cordially wel- come travellers from New England as citizens of the saie great country, and will bid them God speed on their ¥8! 8. The remsining cha: inst us is that of sendii neous €0 Kenote fer polition Ctjects, who are not the ut fide settlers. ‘The entire injustice of this charge will be evident from a simple statement of what we have done and are doing for emigrsnts in Kansas. The whole action of our Com- pany is based upon the presumption that they are to be and remain there as actual settlers. Our firet object is to aia emigrants on their journey. This we do, not by paying for thelr passage, but by par- chasing tickets at wholesale and furnishing them to {a- cividuais at the actual cost ; by combining our parties 80 that triends and neighbors can travel peer, Ay ep pointing for each party a conductor acquainted with the route; end by making it for the mterests of rival railroads to carry them comfortably, safely and cheaply. We thus reduce for the settler the cost of his journey, guacd him against frauds, and bring him to Kansas with the ut- most expedition. On his arrival in a new country the chief ¢ifficulty ofa settler is the want of qagital. want 1s particularly felt in Kaneas. One of | lutions of the Lexington Convention expretees re it the settlement of Kan- tas was not Jett to lonely pioneers like thore who eettied Ohio and Indiana. We refer you to the letter of Gen. B. | Stringfellow to Messrs. Clingroan, Brooks and others, for the opinion ¢n this point of one who knows that coun- try. Gen. Stringfellow assures those gentlemen that such a settlement is impoasible; that such ploneors as have bi therto levelled the forests and brolen up the ‘‘plains o the West,” cannot do the «ame work in Kansas, His tet- ter shows that «ugh labors need the resources of capital, and that capital may well be embarked isting them, to the mutual Lenetit of ad concerned. So coon a6 it was evident that the westward emigrants from New Fogland intended to move in large numbyrs . Kansas, it became clear tous that their most urgent need would be for those improvemects which capital ont thet only can supply. They must have first of all, com- toriable houres, school houses and churches. To supply sawed lumber for theee they mast have «aw mille and other conveniences, to secure which their own capital was nécescarily inadequate. We at on jerefore, con- nected with our undertakings for the assistance of emi grants on the way, such investment of expital in Kansas on would relieve some of these firet wants of the new set- ‘ements Our intelligence trom the Territory shows us ‘har we judged righty, and with the daily "fhoreage of our capital we continue our investments in this way. They are expenditures of advantage to every settler, who- ber be goes frem us or from you. You will ree at once, from these statements, that it is directly for our interest that the emigrants ‘to Kansas bould be actual settlers. We advise ncne others to there, and we encourage all to stay. We try to pod 24 their ecndition there ax comfortable as we can. When a heme-siek boy comes back to say that the land is barren and worthless, it is quite as much a matter of regret to ve as it can possibly beto you. We join you heart and band in the wish that Kansas ay Me gid nee any settlers but Lona fide settlers. We have done much to induce all who go to remain. With our increased facilities for promoting their comfort, we «hall be able to do more. You will observe that’ our plan involves no control whatever, of men who go to Kanaas with passage tickets obtained by our intervention. We ask no questions of thore who boy. They are to no party. If they atics,”’ itis no fault of ours. If they are «pics ‘upon our transactions, it is a matter of indifference to us. Ali we know ie that they want togo to Kansas, and we nid them by all the means in our power. We are pertectly ee ok what you must al- ready be aware of, that w) we organized ourselves to extend och facilities to the emigrante from the Fast, we knew that they would be men who meant to live in a free State. They aremen who live by bard work, a# we all the institutions of Kansas and Nebraska. were willing to take the chances of an appeal to tee cnn ple. ‘We have never thought of marching men into Kansas for un election and then bring them home We have never seized upon Indian lands sgainst law and right. If we cared to reeriminate, we might say that ce:tain as- aociations have committed these outrages; dut all the world knows that it wae not the New a Aid Company. We have repliei, and the om the pri “squatier povereig ata,” which leaves the actual settler unmolested in his hard earned home. We were almest as confident when we begsn as we are cer- tein now, that uncer this principle the actual settlers im Kansas will make its laws such as shal prohibit slat in that Territory. But the action of these settlers will be on their own soil in Kansas, have niga tarsi there, und have neither wish nor thought to oy with you. They have interfered with no mau’s rights, ner will they long allow any man tointerfere with theirs. We trust that this statement will #a! all citizens of Miasour: they bave been de:eived in regard to the plan and purposes of our Company. have dsne one that friendly brothers of the san great vation shi not do. We claim no rights in Kan- sus but what are given us by the constitution and the Jaws. We claim none which we are not resdy to concede to every living man. The misrepresentations which have been made of our Compsny, do not injure us. It is only to defend the character of our friends in Kansas, that we have felt called upon to notice them at all, and we write this Siienoly ‘address to you, and claim your candid at- [t, that you may be nv longer misled as to the: eset and Jegitiiate pur poses of the New vet- Jers in that Territory. ‘They ple who know their nights, und are resolved to fie’ them. But they respect also the rights of others, and will make no “‘ag- gressions”” upon neighboring States. Jenn Carter Brown, of Providence, R. 1., President. Eh Thayer, of Worcester; J. M. 8. Williams, of Cam- britge, Vice Presidents. Amon A, Lawrence, of Boston, Treasurer. Wim. B. Spooner, of Boston; Samuel Cabot, Jr., do.; Joba Lowell, do.; 6, 5 Bigginson, do.; L+ Baron Russell, do.; Wm. J. Rotch, of Nev Bedford; J. P. Wilirston. of Northampton; W. Dudley Pickman, of Salem; R. Py Wa- ters, of Beverly; R. A. Chapman, of Springfield! John Noa- mith, of Lowell; Charles H_ Bigelow, of Lawrence; Na- than Durfee, of Fall River; Wm, Willis, of Portland, Mi Frapklin Muzzy, of Bangor, Me.; Ichabod Goodwin. of Port»mouth, N. H.; Thomas M. Edwards, of Keene, N. HL; Albert, oy. of Harford, Ct., Directors. ‘horas H. Webb, ot Boston, ‘Secretary. It is well enough to notice that these societies were started in New England. There can ben» cavil about. that fact, and we have given the above documenta in ex- tenso in order that the arguments on both sides may be heard. AN EMIGRANT AID SOCIETY IN GEORGIA. A society to aid emigration to Kansas was formed at Columbus on the 24th of October, last past. The asso- ciation is called the Kansas Emigrant Aid Society of Mus- kogee county, and has for its object to raise money, by voluntary contributions, for the purpore of aiding relia- bie Southern men, who are attached to Southern institu- tions, in emigrating to Kansas Territory. The Executive Committee have the general direction of the affairs of the society, and unlimited power in selecting emigrants and appropriating the funds of the society; and upon them more especially devolves the duty of raising money. Any citizen may become a member of the society on the pay- ment of one dollar, The following is the platform of the society :-— Whereas, the action of the non.slaveholding States with regard to the settlemont of the Kansas Territory has thwarted the natura: laws of increase and immigra- tion, and tends to form upon that Territory their peca Har institutions, in violation of the spirit and intent of the Kansas-Nebraska act, it behooves the South, and very patriot who desires to preserve the equality of the Southern States in the Union, to counteract these insidi- ous attempts of Northern abolitionists to stifle the free action of the citizers of Kansas in the formation of their socia! institutions, and thus to convert that magnificent domain into an engine of oppression to the South; it, therefore, AE ms te ‘Resolved, by the citizens of Muscogee county, without regard fo old or existing party divisions, that we form a Kanras emigration society; that \le chairman of this meeting appoint a committee of ten prrsons to draft a constitution for the government of the society, and to relect the names of permanent officers for the same, Gen. Stringfellow has written a letter to a friend in Alabama, in which he claims that the Missouri people had a right to look after things in Kansas, He calls on Ala- bama for help. REEDER’S VIEWS. Ex-Gavernnr Raedor, om bir part ommouncod "De 10/0W- ing as his platform:— We proclaim by our platform of principles that we de- mand the right f free tpecch, free Bulhrage, aud free go- vernment; that we desire to build up here another great repablic Uy free white labor, and to exclads, as we have the right to do, the institution of slavery, which we believe would blight cur progress and our prosperity. We aa; to our brethren ot the Union who liter from u that al- though we might deny their right to hold siares in. the Territory, yet in the epicit of Uberallly we will find no fault that they bring tosir slaves along when :hey come to enter into fraternal contest at the ballot-box for deter- mining the character of our institutions, and will reoom- mend that their slaver ba in the meantime unvaclested: and we declare that when free institutions shall be estab- Mahed, the right of property which they claim fa the slave within our boun: Ibe treated with that mode- ration and charity which should exist between brethron of e great republic who differ in optnion, ANOTHER ELECTION FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS. ‘ According to a law passed b) the Legislature in July— their session lasted only three weeks—the election of a delegate to the Thirty-fourth Congress was appointed to be holden on the first Monday in October. Mr. Whitfield received nearly all the votes cast, 2,462—so stated in the Kickapoo Pioneer, The free State leaders refused to acknowledge the right of the Legislature to hold this election, and hela & meeting at Lawrence, the free State strong- hold, in September, where Mr. Reeder was nomi- nated by acclamation as the free State candidate, and announced bis platform as given above. The fies St men voted on the 9th of October;the pro-slavery men did not go the polls; Mr. Reeder, according to the Herald of Freedom, received 2,864 votes. This would give the united vote of the Territory about 5,200, although one of the free State papers says that 1,000 illegal votes were cast for Whitfield, which would leave the straight vote of the Territory 4,500. The white population is variously estimated, but from all the accounts we-can get we should not ibink it wan over 25,000. This is doing very well for the first eighteen monthe, and it is undoubtedly true that thourands have been driven away feom the Territory by the brutal conduet of the leaders of the political parties. The free Stato party seem to be strong: im the more popu- lous precincts, while the pro-slavery: men have their acherents in the sparsely settled districts. Tt will be seen by the above that Mr. Whitfield was elected in the regular way, the election having been held by order of the Legislature, on the day appointed by it. ‘The authority for the Legislature to do this is given ia the act erecting the Territory, and‘he (Whitfield) has the certificate of Gov. Shannon as to the legal{'y of his. lection. On the other hand, Mr. Reeder was nominated at an irregular public mecting, and voted for after the regular éay of election. Unggpbtedly the people yoted for him: in good faith, and ® majority of their voices may be in his favor; but his election is decidedly “free.” Mr.. Whitfleld’s name was calledon Monday last by the Clerk of the House, and he now has the seat; but Mr. Reeder is only waiting for the organization of the House to contest it, ‘The free State paper saya:— At the free State election the jndges were solemnly sworn to poll no vote cast by any non-recident of the Territory; while the evidence of residence at the pro- slavery election was simply the receipt for one dollar tax, and in someinstances this was not even required, ¢ The Legislature imposed this one dollar poll tax, and. it fe a great humbug if rt is to be used aa a text of qualt~ fication for » voter. THE FREE STATE PARTY SETS UP FOR ITSELF. The free State men not liking their new Governor, re- solved to hold a convention at Big Springs on the 5th September, Which they did. G. W. Smith, Eaq., presided and the following plersant resolutions, among others, were pasced:— Resolved, That we will endure and submit to these {thore pasted by the Legislature of the Tecritor Tt longer than the best interests of the Territory re jaire, a8 Jeast of two evils, and will resist them toa blondy certain that eavle remedies fail, and forcible reristance shall furnish any rea~ semable prospect or success; and that, in the meantime we recommend to our tienda throughout the Terriiory- the organizaticn and discipline of volunteer companion and the procurement avé preparation of arms, Rerolved, That it is the opinion of thie convention that the admission of free negroes or mulattoes into the Terri- tory or future State of Konsas will be productive of evit to the people of Kansas, and dangerous to the institu- Mons of our sister 4tate: and that we will oppose their acmission into the Territory or future State of Kansas now and forever. And this as the authority for Reeder's election = Resolved, by the citizens of Kansas, in conventi - sembied, that an election shall be held in the several election Cistricts in this Territory, om the second Tuesday of Oct ber next, under the regulation preseribed for the ceetion of the (0th ¢f March last, in reference to the places and manner of kolding the same, and the manner of making the returns, a wellas all matters reisting to the formula of the election, excepting the apposistment of cfficers und the persova to whom return shall be made, which bey BND gy = oa by this convention, for the yurpore of ¢! ing a colegate to represent this Territory in Thh ty-fo uh Congrese of the United States, ‘This conventicn adjourned to meet at Topeka on tho 101) here secutive committee (J. Hl. Lane, chair