The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-28

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aud vegetable, to the extent that ma
ture demands, incorporated and un-
cooked if preferred, the better; but II
you must use flesh, let it be the flesh
of unrestrained animals-those that are
wild, and procure their food independ-
ent of man. Work enough to produce
what you consume, unless you choose
to live upon the spontaneous fruits of
the earth. Clothe yourself just suffi-
GENTLY to keep comfortable. Battle
enough to satisfy nature, and keep clean
all over. If in the unnatural labit OF
using tea, coffee, tobacco or liquor,
abandon it by degrees, or, to use COM
mon expression, "taper off, which you
can most surely do if you will live as
have recommended. You know that
these appetites are all acquired, and that
when you first commenced this down.
hill course, they were most of them dis
agreeable, and some of them really dis
gushing and <ickening, and that 1t was
long lime before you could use them to
the extent you now do; but this you
have now attained by regular progress
sion. So, then, just reverse this course,
and progress back 10 your purer life
Do you say you can't, and don't want to
do il? Then L beg your pardon, you
are not the one am addressing.
| am aware that there are hundreds
ana thousands in and around the towns
and Giles now that would rejoice to Sc
cure thai. little home, but they have not
the means 10 get it, and then get to 1t.
| understand your condition very well /:
l know that flour is sixpenee pound,
and every thin. else in proportion; that
coal is high, anl rent higher but if you
can possibly live and pay these prices,
you must be earning something Now,
for the sake of ge ting the only spot on
Gods earth where you can be independ-
ent, see If you can not economize lit
lie {; and in the first place lay aside all
superfluities, especially in dress. Can
not many, If no most of you, save nearly
one-half in your clothing, and think just
as well of yourselves No matter what
Others think person who thinks well
of himself, pleases the most important
parsonage lie has any thing to do with.
[ would willingly take the job of clothing
Tie working people of New York at one
half of what it now costs, think, and
do it Just As comfortably. Then, in the
matter of food, if thousand of you
would club together. and buy at whole
sale, you woulI save some twenty-five
cents on the dollar, suppose, and all
these retailers are supported by YOU
But you say we must have fresh meat
and milk My frienIs, do better with
our them, or just as well, am sure ; for
we have not used pound of fresh meat
| throu Oh the summer, in my family, |
believe, and none of us have had either
cholera, or dysentery, or fever.
I5would cost so much to get out West
Not so very much,i il you would go in
the second-class ears, which you can do
very comfortably and pleasantly b.. so
many of you going together as to fill one
car; and, no doubt, any railroad COM
pany woul give you comfortable and
clean one, if you would FIJI it with pas
sengers, AMI by going in company, you
could save in many ways, such as NOV
ing baggage, procuring food, DC. and
then by locating together, much might |
be saved in fencing, and money might
in great measure be dispensed with,
which, if the love of it is the ''root |
of all evil" It is one of the roofs you
had better not transplant in a new coun-
try and new home. Were | person
ally acquainted with You. no doubt you
would ask me if | thought it would be
for your interest to 60 West and wheth-
err thought you would like it ?, Now,
the answering these questions is pretty
difficult; but l will try and doit. by tel
ling you what kind of persons Ithink are
aiape1 to that country. and what are
not. In the first place, those who are
fond of farming on a large seale-who
like to see the whole country covered
with felIs of grain aud grass, who are
fond of having or seeing great herds of
cattle and hogs, and who desire to get
up in the world in this way-get rich
Then there is another class who should
go-"whose god is their belly"-whose
heaven consists in having animal food,
abundant and cheap; and another class
who, by constant and unremittins toll,
can but just live; those that have no !
home, renters. hirelings, DE. ] have
supposed that these three classes have
but little ideality-a good comfortable
home, with plenty to eat, being their
chief end and aim.
There are few persons who are not
calculated for the west, an j who would
not be satisfied if they were to 90 there
they are of that class who have lived a
quiet, rural life-who have not beencom-
PEELED to bow TO toll, like beast of bur-
den: who think much of their home,
especially If Il az home is beau fled by
mountains, hills, dashins waterfalls, AMI |
a great variety of fruis AMI evergreen
trees AMI shrubbeFy whose. health is
good. and who have no great e,ndness
for yariega ed and romantic scenery.
70 those persons who have a little |
home, where they can produce all, or
most of their food, and are making liv-
Ing with a fair amount of labor, are
healthy AMI tolerably conteuted-I would
say, say where you are "les well
enough alone. . as, in going TO new
country, you must encounter thousand /
little evils. which you would otherwise
escape !: and in all probability you would
not escape sickness. though you night /
not be very sick !: still, must tell you |
that il wouli be remarkable Il, in the
course of a few years. you did not have
bilious attack, or .'slight brash of
the ague." But if you are poor, and
compelled to work for others, and desire
a little more independence somewhat
Misunderstanding 70 Be your own mas