The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-15
LAWRENCE, Kansas TERRIToRY, shTRDAY, SEPTEMBER b. 1855

ers. How soon would they be outnum
bered by the swarms from that northern
hive of free labor, which can spare even
to the wilderness its hundreds of thou
sands every year. Without fraud. an
ger, arms, or empty talk, freedom would
win the triumph that it always wins. 1t
would overcome evil with good.
For it ougt not be forgotten, for an in
slant, that every indication of the times
shows the Lord working ON its side, in
this master-work of the organization of
emigration. Invention, machines, in
ternal Improvements, which human Wit
wrought out. without one thought OF
freedom, work for it in his hand. But
the institution of slavery is what it was
in the beginning, and has no new allies.
One brave man in Massachusetts,. in
earnest and awake, can summon in a
weeks time, by the press, by the living
voice, by his private correspondence, an
emigrant party of hundred, who can,
in week more, move to Kansas, with
their tools in their hands, and with the
money in their pockets which came from
the ready sale of their property IN their
old homes. For merchants and mechan-
les are at home the world over. What
if, on the other hand, an energetic, chiv-
alrous man in Carolina, strives to rally
a hundred men with their servants, at
the same time, to meet the northern ad-
venturers in this friendly controversy on
Kansas soil. A planter does not trans
plant himself so easily. There are plan
tations, not workshops, to be sold, and
hardly town in which to sell, ora news
paper in which to advertise. There are
field hands who are to be got ready for
travel not wives and children only, who
prepare themselves, and make the prsp-
aration for husbands and fathers. And
the journey is to be made, not on the
wings of the wind, but with slow care
for travellers who can escape, but cannot
order their own journey. The encamp-
ment in Kansas is to be made, not be-
meath tent, or the open sky, but with
all that cumberous machinery, which
patriarchs must move withal. The fly
ing artillery of the north settles the con-
test before such heavy armed adverse
ries are on the ground. And why p
Why? but because these forty years, a
God whose hand we did not see has been
giving voice to the trumpets of a north
ern press, has been bridging every Jor-
dan of the west, and building the roads
through the wilderness, over which
these northern adventurers- move west
ward-led indeed by pillarof fire by
night and pillar of cloud by day SO
that without one Sabbath on the road,
they prai.e Him f.om their new found
I home when the first day sof tho week
comes round. But, when their southern
rivals move, the same God has ordered
that their chariots move slowly, and
they drive heavily, and they do not come
to the Promised Land, till the wave has
passed over it, which consecrates it to
| freedom forever
Let the North set its hand to such
work as this. 1t accomplisheS every
necessary condition. For it is an enter
prise which may begin even with hum
bic means, but which gains strength as
it rolls on. 1t begins with the formation
of new States. But it will SO succeed
there that old States will be glad to Sc
duce such efforts to their shores. Even
Virginia would welcome, to her un-
equalled water power, fifty thousand
skillful men, though all of them were
descended from the men of the May
Flower. 1t is "going OUT into the
world with the Gospel: not sending it.
while we stay at home, it follows the lea
ding of Providence. 1t were impossible
unless God had marked the way. Il
uses an immense power, created by God
for this aim, which now is dissipated
and, in measure, lost. 1t is rapid,
peaceful, and sure. 1t co-operates will
the course of commerce, industry, sci
ence, and enterprise. ltputs an end IL
the mere talk about the giant evil of The
land and gives every man a place where
his actions may begin.
Let the North fairly rouse itself tC
such work, and before its strength i.
half enlisted, the Land is Free.