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California was first opened to settlement the same kind of associations were 
formed, with only this difference : in one case, each party had an agent of 
its own for the purpose of procuring tickets, arranging details, &c. ; while, 
in the other, all the parties have a common agent. There is, however, con¬ 
nected with the aid society for Kansas emigrants, a stock company, for the 
purpose of erecting mills, hotels, etc., in the new country ; but the agent of 
this society will purchase tickets for a slave-holder as soon as for a free-state 
man, and the investments are for the benefit of all settlers alike. No ques¬ 
tions are asked, and no distinctions are made. 
Had the President visited Western Missouri before any aid society had 
been formed at the East, he might have found a secret, oath-bound associa¬ 
tion, pledged to make Kansas a slave state, peaceably if they could, for¬ 
cibly if they must. This society has been in active operation since its incep¬ 
tion, and now threatens to deluge Kansas with the blood of American cit¬ 
izens, for the crime of preferring a free to a slave state. 
Also, it is only necessary to read a few southern journals to see accounts 
in different parts of the South, not of emigrant aid societies, but of Emi¬ 
grant buying or hiring societies, which do not simply procure tickets for 
the emigrants, at cost, irrespective of party or condition, but which pay the 
fare and expenses of the right kind of emigrants, and support them in 
Kansas one year, more or less. However it may be, the “ king can do no 
wrong,” although it may be wrong for the common people to do as the king 
does. 
The people of Kansas will not object to aid societies, whether North or 
South, so long as they treat all parties alike. Emigrants from all parts of 
the country are received with a hearty welcome, and the investment of 
capital, wdiether eastern or western, northern or southern, is greatly 
needed. 
The settlers of Kansas have suffered severe losses and injury from re¬ 
peated invasions from a neighboring state, and it is highly proper that Con¬ 
gress be memorialized upon this subject. Especially should the general gov¬ 
ernment repair the injury it has inflicted. All the invasions have been per¬ 
mitted by the officers of the government, without any opposition, while at 
least one w r as invited by them. It is the duty of the federal government to 
protect infant territories in their rights ; but Kansas has not only not been 
protected, but it has been actually oppressed by those whose duty it was to 
defend it. 
It is unjust to any community to send among them officers, with govern¬ 
ment patronage, whose political sentiments are opposed to the sentiments of 
the people, particularly when those officers mount the stump and shoulder 
the rifle for the purpose of crushing out all who differ from them. Some of 
the federal officers of Kansas are charged with undignified conduct, and one 
of them, at least, with high crimes ; and it is the duty of the Legislature to 
memorialize the President, that our citizens may be protected in their lives 
