The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet ItHelper, Hinton Rowan
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
Helper, Hinton Rowan
Slavery -- United States
"Gerrit Smith, the Abolitionist, has just pledged himself to give
$1,500 a month for the next twelve months to aid in establishing
Freedom in Kansas. He gave, but a short time since, at the Kansas
relief meeting in Albany, $3,000. Prior to that, he had sent about
$1,000 to the Boston Emigrant Committee. Out of his own funds, he
subsequently equipped a Madison county company, of one hundred picked
men, and paid their expenses to Kansas. At Syracuse he subscribed
$10,000 for Abolition purposes, so that his entire contributions
amount to at least $40,000."
An Eastern paper says:--
"The sum of $500 was contributed at a meeting at New Bedford on
Monday evening, to make Kansas free. The following sums have been
contributed for the same purpose: $2,000 in Taunton: $600 in Raynham:
$800 in Clinton: $300 in Danbury, Ct. In Wisconsin, $2,500 at
Janesville: $500 at Dalton: $500 at the Women's Aid Meeting in
Chicago: $2,000 in Rockford, Ill."
A telegraphic dispatch, dated Boston, January 2, 1857, informs us that--
"The Secretary of the Kansas Aid Committee acknowledges the receipt
of $42,678."
Exclusive of the amounts above, the readers of the New-York _Tribune_
have contributed about $30,000 for the purpose of securing Kansas to
Freedom; and, with the same object in view, other individuals and
societies have, from time to time, made large contributions, of which we
have failed to keep a memorandum. The legislature of Vermont has
appropriated $20,000; and other free State legislatures are prepared to
appropriate millions, if necessary. Free men have determined that Kansas
shall be free, and free it soon shall be, and ever so remain. Harmoniously
the work proceeds.
Now let us see how slavery has rewarded the poor, ignorant, deluded, and
degraded mortals--swaggering lickspittles--who have labored so hard to
gain for it "a local habitation and a name" in the disputed territory. One
D. B. Atchison, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Border Ruffians,
shall tell us all about it. Over date of October 13th, 1856, he says:
"Up to this moment, from all the States except Missouri, we have only
received the following sums, and through the following persons:--
A. W. Jones, Houston, Miss., $152
H. D. Clayton, Eufala, Ala., 500
Capt. Deedrick, South Carolina, 500
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$1,152."
On this subject, further comment is unnecessary.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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