New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-29
ENJGPfTION TO KANSAS.
forever.

Tho "details cf This great enterprise begin ~ come before
the public eye The trustees Mes'rs' a. ~. Lawrence
Moses H. Gnnel and +. Thayer. have advertised Tor pro-
passs for carving their emigrants Westat least 2oVvo
and at most Goo to be provided for by me Transporter
ton companies who make these ohers Inc nrsl CONVOY
is 10 start the 18th OF July, ombodyig sncieht num-
her of mechanics engineers &c 10 take practical mea
suTes for the reception OF after parties.
II may not be generally understood that 'he ournsy 10
Kansas is a very short The mail passes from New
York 10 ST. Louis in about 50 hours aud the line OF Kan
sas is northwsrd from the Mississippi River only z-omles
by the Missouri, up which steamboats, 60 wu emf ante
We presume that ii may be found convenient Tor ein
grants rendezvous at Alton, nearly opposite the mouth
of the Missouri , -,
The interest taken in this enterprise all through the
northern middle and western States is most satisfactory
evidence of the eagerness with which men have been look
ing for something which they could DO TO crafty Their at
tachment 10 free institutions. The spirit which cent
Brewster and Bradford and their associates to Plymouth
and Winthrop and his TO Massachusetts Bay proves 10
he alive after all that has been said of modern de9en
eracy and eager show Itself exactly as II showed ITSELF
with them We have heard fears expressed that this State
of Kansas would be merely undcpned mass OF newly
arrived foreigners With opportunity to see the pro
posas constantly arriving from Americans who intend 10
90 we have right to say that these fears are wholly un
founded. Every form of emigration party now cluster
ing from the widow Lowellthe first woman who sign
nfed her intent to because she had son two years
old whom she meant 10 bring up Kansas farmer
round the party of fifty families from one village IN
Pennsylvania who take with them their printing press
their tools and their money, TO establish at once IN new
home town even more thriving than they leave behind
Persons who do not mean to 90, constantly ask how
they can help II,
10 them address the following Suggestions, WHICH
we receive rom the trustees.
lis evidently impossible that this Company should deal
with 10000 separate persons who wish TO go west IL can
not undertake the task of picking up by one the set
tiers who To 90. at moment when thousands are
ready Nor can il undertake to furnish to indviduas,
who NAV need in their preparations those means
which other sources can just as well supply.
In every county therefore, or even town. whcre lew
persons have any wish to emgrate let them form an hm
rant Society Of their Let them appoint Master OF
Eu;ornon to attend to their joint enterprise; they had
best pay him for his time and pains he must hnd who
wish TO ion that partyhe friends of the movement IN
that must assist those who need assistance in
it-and he and he only conduct their correspondence
with tie Secretary Of the Emgs ana COMPANY Gon ,ben az
range TO take such party all at once land them IN Nan
sas al once help them to settle together they wis., ana
thew need scarcely know that they have left home
This subdivision Of effort between local officers and the
central board will approve ITSELF st once TO all persons
who are interested in the scheme.
The price of passage TO Kansas under the arrangements
of the Company, WILL we suppose probably be not more
than $50 much less than possible under any private ar
rangement. boston Chr. Register