The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-15

WHICH Siil5lt Hltn OF Single lamllleS I0l-
low. These are the units which make
up it thousands. If then the fortunes of
the new States be left to the simple Jaw of
''letting alone that which is" the great
tide of unorganized emigration vii pour
into Northwestern States. Enigrants
will not trust themselves alone upon
doubtful land. The lesser wave, Of men
fond of southern institutions, will pass
in more slowly into the other Stats
Fast-growing free States, slow growing
slave States viii make up the States of
this Union, if we leave that which is to
take care of itself, without organization
or effort of our own
". These considerations of detail
have been necessary to our subject, be-
cause under such constitution as ours.
the first necessity in the home battles of
the gospel, is that the future be on the
right side. New States are to come into
this Union with powers similar to those of
the present States.
In the extension of the Gospel then for
the conquest of slavery, our first care is
for all these new States, that they may be
established on such principles that they
shall be forever free.
In other words, we must not trust to
the let-alone policy which secures US but
half of them.
The statistics given, and our knowl-i
edge of the human heart and character.
show that to secure them all to freedom
we need concentration of effort, dis
tinctly intended for that aim. In other
words, "Man must work together with
God" God has set in order the great
tide of emigration west, soabundant that
it could create fourteen States in ten
years, if it were exactly divided Mans
duty is to divide it with that purpose, as
far as he can. That is, he must give
such information, direction, encourage
ment, organization and capital, to this
emigration that its weight shall tell regu-
larly and solidiy in the scale of freedom !,
and that it shall not be lost by being scat.
tered or divided against itself.
This may be done:
/. By careful and humane arrange
ments for all who travel to the western
frontiers, that they may not be exposed
to the frauds, the sickness, the mistakes
which now makes the journey of the
poor emigrant, really, pilgrimage Of
dread The frauds on emigrants, as the
unorganized emigration is now conduct
ed, are such that the men who carry them
on, have established even language OF
their own to describe their various spec
ulations. The rlvages of cholera in the
western cities, during the last summer.
began, in almost every instance, among
the poor emigrants who had been slowed
too closely in the cattle cars or freight
cars in which they had been hurried along.
To labor with God, in the use of the
western emigration for the service oi
Christ and freedom, the christian church,
the men who act under its banner, must
arrange such system of movement west
ward that the path may be easy and ROT
hard, and that the poorest may find his
way to the lands which want no wealth
but men.
g The immense power for freedom
which God thus puts into our hands mus
be concentrated and not scattered. The
work of making the westward movement
easy may be done by men at home. Blu
} this work of directing and concentrating
its march, must be done by men, who
are willing to 90 into other lands with the
, gospel they profess. They must worl
with it as well as talk with it. 1t is moi
enough to send one missionary into Z
newly gathered State, with a message o.
love, to preach the duty of brotherhood
1t IS not enough 10 send ten.. it is no
) enough to send hundred. 1t is neces
sary that thousand, OF ten thousand
who know what freedom is, and life ths
power of the gospel, unite themselye;
and 90. The church does not Its duty
unless it sends forth its missionaries il
such numbers not as preachers only, bu
as pioneers of the pilgrim stamp, mer
who can chop and build, and reap ant
sow, and vote as well to the glory of Goo
and fulflment of His will. The mer
who love freedom and free institutions
are false TO their million professions anc
resolutions, if they do not In some WAY
organize their numbers for such con
centration of effort and work, not at ;
distance, but on the soil which is to be
saved not for public opinion far off
but for the only public opinion which ha,
power, namely the public opinion which
Is at hand.
From the hundred and thirty Thousand
VINO, IN each year, move into the western
wilderness, there should be no difficulty
in uniting FIVE or six thousand men anc
women of high principle, who will selec
their new home and go together, avoW
their views and wait there for aid
Around such center, il the way be
made easy for all, will cluster the sepa
rate bands who are pouring to the from
tier from the northern States eager pio.
neers, anxious to try the experiments o.
new land, with warm hearts, and with
right impulses, ready to sustain true
principles, if men of principle have led
the way. Let ten thousand men once
establish themselves, united, in any Ter.
ritory of the west or southwest, and five
} times their number viii at once gather
round them to profit by their strength
wisdom, courage and wealth. The road.
they build, the mills they set in motion
the schools they teach, thechurches the,
establish, are all so many inducements L
: others To swell their numbers, or to settle
) near their homes Such has already beer
| the experience of Kansas. The town o
: Lawrence was established by settlers from
New England and New York. But i
finds already that the disappointed Of 9th
er parties, and that lonely adTenturer.
looking only for the best they can find
! are glad to come in to take the advanta
f ges which its founders have arranged
; Probably not more than fifteen hundred
, settlers have gone into Kansas from New
{ England and New York But now the]
are there, the west aud northwest pouls
In to reinforce them. Yet, before thei
. organization was made, scarcely one mai