The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13
Worcester Journal.

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Worcester Journal.
LAWRENCE, January 10, 1855.
FRIEaD BRows The Daily journal,
of Worcester, Mass, has an article upon
I" Slavery in Kansas and the Emigrant
Aid Company which is an amusing
specimen of what occasionally turns up
in the papers at the East. How so many
false ideas of Kansas and the Emigrant
Aid Company can get into one editors
head, is beyond the comprehension of us
Kansasites, unless it is because he knoaos
nothing about what he writes.
The editor commences with lamenta-
tions that the scheme set on foot to secure
this place to freedom is likely to fail, and
believes the result will teach useful les
SON to the North. This is well but
when the vote shows that 600 of the 800
voters in the Territory voted for free soil,
we can see no good cause of discourage
ment, even though 1000 voters should
come over from our neighbor State, for
once, to interfere In our affairs, and sue
eeed in overriding the principle of "pop-
ular sovereignty"
This intelligent editor says the Emil
grant Aid Company is now operating
under a charter granted by the Legisla-
ture of Connecticut, DC. What compa-
ny does he mean? No such company
has been seen at Lawrence, or elsewhere
in Kansas.
Also, he says: "Theif plan has been,
thus far, to select the best locations in
Kansas, and monopolize the land around
them, then to secure the woodland, and
thus monopolize the lumber trade of the
Territory" Who can the man mean ?
We have heard of no Emigrant Aid Com
pany that owns foot of land in Kansas
Territory, whether woodland or other
wise. As for the monopoly of the ium-
Der trade, the monopoly of the company
located here is just such as the people
like, (only there is not enough of it, as
they furnish lumber to the settlers from
ten to twenty dollars thousand less than
anybody else.
"These are facts" he says; sand we
have before us letters from emigrants in
that Territory that utter loud complaints
in regard to this subject These must
be very curious facts which have not a
word of truth in them, and those letter
writing emigrants, who verify them, must
be very remarkable men, and their names
ought to be known to fame. Please out
with them, Mr.. Journal, that they may
not be left in obscurity to "waste their
sweetness upon the desert air" The
idea of monopolizing unsurveyed public
land, which can only be held by individ-
uals, in lots of 160 acres, must be origi-
nal with the editor; especially we must
conclude so, when it is known that this
land-monopolizing company has but one
agent in the whole Territory. What will
the editor of the Journal ask to tell US
how we can buy the timber or otherpublic
lands OF Kansas? Did he not hear how
it could be done from some of his letters ?
and if so, will he not impart the inform
alton for a nable.consideration for
not only the Emigrant Aid Company
might like to know how, but it would be
an act of " beneyolence" to many of the
''poor settlers" The Journal says:
1--WE have heard of the association
monopolizing whole forests, securing the
best lands in the Territory, and then tell
ing the poor emigrant, who was upon the
ground, you can take lot that borders
on what we have taken for our sites for
towns and cities; and the result of this
system has been and now is, that in some
cases almost every dollar of the emigrant
has been taken, in order to pay only the
premium upon land that was monopolized
by the Emigrant Aid Association
How, when, and where did he ever
hear of such things, cad of what COM
pany? Certainly not of the Emigrant
Aid Company of Massachusetts, or, il
he did, he heard things that were moi
true. That company has not taken OF
bought an acre of timber or other land
from any settler, or any one else, for pur-
| pUSSS VI SpcCuidtIOll, O0I S2inp uttcFte
such interest In the towns laid off as tbs
settlers choose to give them as a basis fol
investments in saw-mills, school-houses,
colleges, hotels, warehouses, DC, dc
If the "poor settlers can make few
farm claims, that cost 81 25 an acre,
worth 6ye hundred dollars an acre, By
allowing the Emigrant Aid Company .
few lots on which to erect their mills
DC, how much do they lose by the oper.
alton? VIII the editor inform us !? I
nothing, then nothing is lost ; for this j:
all the monopoly and oppression the Mas
sachusetts company has practiced in this
region. It is to be hoped that the editol
will improve by practice; but would no
his Kansas and Emigrant Aid editorial.
take better if, among so many false state
ments, he should get in !" small sprink
ling" of truth KANSAS.