Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-02-10


sum within the ability Of the FREQ laborer to
pay.
But why did not the single men, who had
no families East remin In Kansas | reply,
il was not because they could moi make farms
In the prairie not one OF them Rauve this as the
reason Of their return to the States No, the
legal necessity of occupying their farms, and
these things being too distuu, from families for
them to get board aud pursue their farming op-
eroticns, they wefe compelled, ir they remained
to set up house keeping, cook, wash, &C.; and
this they felt unequal 10, OF thought il better
10 return and get them ,rirrs, as a preliminary
step to success in pioneer life. Surprising Mr.
Striugfellow to be a Ch1siion stakeholder, and
not an inddel, refer him, for the true character
and force Of this reasoning, to The eden" %
Genesis. Now Eden, from the Bible account,
was better prepared for an indiriduai to Sire
Tin" than even Kansas prairie, for the Lord
ICED had, b" not only used The breaking-pp plow,
"but planted garden eastward in Eden. And
there he pu, tho man whom he had formed,
"and out Of the ground the Lord God" mot
zone or more slaves'') made 10 grow every tree
that is pleasant TO the sight and good for food :"
''Still God said, at is not good for man to be
'alone will make an help-meef for him
"and this was rife, not a slave
Il was for want Of helps 10 MAKE a home, which
a preemplor Of lands in Kansas must have. that
so many men returned "before election"
OF those who returned after election, know
return with their "helps.' .f
One word in reference to the voters for Del
egaie to Congress- That Missourisns, 10 the
number Of 1000 to $500, went over into the
Territory and voted, and by threats, in many
instances, prevented actual settlers from voting
the opposite tickets, was fact not disputed in
in the vicinity Of the Territory, by respectable
residents OF Missouri. No claim was preferred
for those votes on the score Of actual or intended
residence 10 the the Territory. And unless
the occupancy Of the Kansas prairies, as past
foreground for their cattle IN the years past
makes them residents Of Kansas, or "a board
having their name nailed to Kansas tree -
Of which Gov. Reeder speaks in his protest,
Mr.. Slringfellow will fail to show even lean
majority Of settlers in favor of Slavery for Kan
sas. On this day Of the election, and the pre-
eedina day. was on an eminance. in Lawrence,
that overlooked miles Of the great public road
which keeps on the south bank Of the Kansas
West, and that road was literally filled with
wagons and horses bearing Missouriaas TO Kan
sas ballot-boxes. DoUglds--a one house "ci,y,'
ten miles west Of Lawrence Its name indicates
its Observation-Disclosures over 800 votes, and
yet not fifty residents could be found in lis vi.
cinity. These voters came armed and equipped,
las the idv ALLows) with whisky by the bar
rel to aid them in the exercise OF "ihat noJlest
privilege Of the freeman, the elective fran
chise !"
As for the rest Of Mr. String ielow's letter,
II is, in the main repleie with facts aud conclu-
sons TO ncile free immigration, and encourage
those who are now getting bare living by their
own unaidcd energies from The less genial soil
of New-Eneland, lay out those energies in
Kansas. The mechanics, too, may read bis
appeal to the ''poor mechanics trho are not "abo.
hfionisfs," and pack up their tools fearlessly !;
hopes rainbow is glorously bent, spanning
Kansas high above Mr.. &ringfellop. like
to write out his name 10 fall il 50 reminds me
Of the old Methodist stanza-"Judas by a cord
out ran his Lord, and got ''io heaven first"
Yours for Kansas, Humanity and Emigran, Aid
Companies.