Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-29

communication are already known to our read
ers but the appeal here made viii not be in
vain
KANSAS TERRITORY, KANSAS RIVER,
july 2, 1854
To the Editor of the National Era:
DEAR Sin: Through your valuable paper, !
wish to say few words to you. and tho Anti
Slavery friends throughout the nation wish
to state few facts, and then let the good sense
and humanity Of this great nation decide
whether this beautiful land shall DO another
prison house for our brother man.
With this letter send You copy Of the
Weston Reporter, a paper published at Weston,
Missouri in order that you and others may see
what efforts are being made here to chain this
new Territory to Slavery's sin-cursed car. /
wish you to publish such resolutions and make
such comments as will show Anti-Slayery men
that Freedom enemies are not only among us
but are marshallng all their energies to fill
our land with pro-slavery population
This Territory, lying as it does south OF Ne
braska, and contiguous to slaveholdng State,
makes it an object for slaveholding popula-
ton. And now, when the last, the greatest
barrier-the Missouri Compromises repeal
ed, we may rest assured that any and every
effort will be made, which can be done, to fast
en- Slavery on the land. Already are exclusive
unions being formed, public meetings called,
and resolutions passed. calculated to create the
impression that this siH be slaveholding State.
The repeal Of the Missouri Compromise, and
the recent action of her citizens in interfering
with our business, have precipitated the war
upon US, and fairly and fully opens the way for
national victory.
Cut of, as now am, from almost all mail
communication with the States, by choosing a
border residence, one hundred and twenty
miles from q post Office, cannot tell what is
being done for u.s. but one thing know, that,
unless we receive some sympathy and aid from
friends in this hour, in all probability Slavery's
dark belt Of hell will encircle US. Those OF us
who are here would fight morally, had we
channel through which we could speak; but
all the public organs near us are in Missouri,
and virtually in slaveholding hands.
What we need at this time ia aid; we need
q good press, and candid and discriminating
mind to unmask Slavery, and reveal the real
character of the giant wrong. We want you,
my friends, if you have not already done it to
devise some plan to send US press, and man
who will stand like a sea-girt rock, to his post,
till the great Kansas mass will feel that the
people who wipe out that God ordained relation
which man sustains to his brother man, are out
on boundless sea, whose dark waters will, if
applied, continue to dash, till all POLITICAL moral,
and social good are engulphed in one common
grave.
Am asking for too much, in asking you to
send us a press, a suitable man to conduct 1t,
and, for short time, assist us to sustain him
with means? Where can we make go profta-
BILE an investment, for few cents or one dollar
apiece, az. we can to keep the cries and groans
Of Slavery from this landa A little from each
one will do the work, and will be better than
o sum from few. Will you not aid us, and
do it soon Let US plant moral cannon on
the hill at Fort Leavenworth, and then keep it
supplied with moral, social, and political facts,
till, logically, we have spiked the enemys last
gun Shall it be done?
| want every true friend of the slave to have
a share in the happy reflection, that when the
hills Of Kansas were being shrouded with sla-
wish, perpetual night and her valleys were be-
ginning to clank with the poor mans chain,
then it was that they had share in the great
moral conflict which gave freedom for the tears
and groans which would have went mp from
this slave cursed land For this reason ], as
an individual, wish it to be tie struggle of the
friends of Freedom, throughout this Nation.
Let each one share little. Let it be ma
tional victory--a triumph of right over wrong.
Respectfully yours. &C.,
SAM'L D. HousroN.