The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-03
A5iseeiiapeops.
Kansas Emigrant Aid Society.

oiSo, tllfti to OlitiCol GSVhOAhJ Aho
discoveries in the application of steam
and electricity, are matched by the dis
coEery of the Maine Law, and other new
principles, which are destined to create as
great revolution in moral and social af-
fairs, as the former in the various indus
trial pursuits. The principle of mutual
laid, by which action and reaction
takes place upon bodies, instead of single
individuals, if not new in itself, is new
in many of its applications and the vari-
Gus objects to be accomplished.
The Kansas Emigrant Aid Society,
unless We mistake the characteristics
which it exhibits, deserves to be classed
as one of the new discoveries in Political
Economy. Its operations, thus far, have
given strong evidences of what it is ca
pable of doing; and unless some defects,
not now apparent, are discovered, it
is destined to play an important part in
! populating and giving character to the
vast unsettled part OF our western ter
ritory.
1t is estimated, with how much cor
rectness We cannot say, that more than
six hundred thousand emigrants annual
ly cross over and settle in the new terri
tories. Of these large proportion are
foreigners, who, upon landing here, i'm
mediately take up their journey for the
back settlements; many are from the
older western States, while but compare
lively few go from New England. These
foreigners are of the lower classes of Eu-
ropean population, entirely destitute of
the institutions of Christianity or educa-
ton, and the result is, that society in all
those back settlements can hardly be
said to be civilized. A theater is thus
opened for the spread of in6delity and
vice, requiring the labor of generations
to eradicate them. In the midst of such
society, whatever may be the natural ad-
vantages, few who have been reared in
the midst of good Institutions care to
enter. The enterprising sons of New
England, at the heads of families who
have been blessed with the common
school and the church, although casting
longing eve from. our sterile soil and
cold climate to the fruitful fields of the
/ far West, choose rather to remain and
struggle with scarcity, than to repair to
the land ''flowing with milk and honey"
leaving behind the means of mental and
moral cultivation to their rising families.
The history of the California emigration,
from the Moth shows how deep is this
sentiment. Of the thousands that have
annually gone there, scarcely any have
done SO for the purpose of settling; and
scarcely New England family can be
found in its precincts.
The object of the Emigrant Aid Com
pany is to remove these difficulties. 1t
is to enable the emigrant to reach his
destination in the shortest time and at the
least expense-to place in his reach the
most desirable location, and to transplant
those institutions, in all their usefulness
and vigor, which he has enjoyed at home.
Agents are first sent out to explore the
country, learn its natural advantages, and
select its best sites. Contracts are then
made with different transportation COM
panies to carry emigrants through with
out delay Agencies are established in
different parts of the country, where
tickets are had at the contract prices. A
moderate-sized family can, by these reg
ulations, be placed in Kansas for less than
a hundred dollars, and in less than eight
days time after leaving. Times are set
for leaving, and all who go congregate
at different starting points on the route.
The emigrants are thus thrown together,
and by the time of arrival at their desti-
nation, become acquainted, and are thus
prepared to settle side by side as old neigh
bors. The first thing done by the Com
pany, after selecting an eligible site for
settlement, which is usually on the banks
of the rivers, is the building of public
house, for the accommodation of the en-
igrants, before they can build houses for
themselves. A saw-mill and grist-mill
comes next, then church and school
house. The former are built at the ex-
pense of the Company, to which the set
tier does not contribute, unless he is also
a member. Nothing then remains for the
emigrant than TO select his 100 acres of
land mark its boundaries, build his house,
and in few weeks he finds himself in a
New England settlement-surrounded by
most of the privileges he enjoyed in his
old New England home The pre-emp-
tion laws of the United States secure to
him his land at the government price;
Thus may man. with scarce hundred
dollars in his pocket, leave barren local
ity, where he has been starving for
years, and in fortnight be located in a
country where soil and climate justly en-
title it to be called the garden of the
world, in the midst of good society, and
in the enjoyment of all necessary privi-
lleses. This much to the settler.
Now. as 70 the remuneration for the
expenses incurred. This Remuneration
is obtained in the rise of real estate. In
those localities where villages and cities
spring up almost by the touch of enchaat-
uient, the rise in real estate is very great.
The price to be paid 70 the government,
when surveyed, isone dollar and twenty
FIVE cents per acre The same beeemes
in single year worth many hundreds.
In this rise the company are the .sharers.
They receive part, the remainder be-
longs to the original settlers as tenants IN
.eommoa. The city of LswnHnee. which
is town not six months old is striking
example of the workings of this new the
ory Its FIRST settlers arrived in the latter
part of July last. It now contaihsa pop
ulaiion of near 500, and upwards of one
hundred residences, Of rude construction
il is true; . steam ssW-mill, turning ont
its three or four thousand feet of lumber
daily; there are also a number of board
ing houses. tive stores, and seveFalothers
about opening; three printing Offices.
issuing three anti-slavery papers weekly,
soue Of which, the Herald IF ETeedona. IS
nearly IS large as the largest is this State