The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1855-06-23

DoUGLas MISSION, August, 1854.
Last wesk-the Lord be praised for all his mer-
To bis unworthy !servant!-1 arrived
Safe at the Mission, via Westport, where
tarried over night 10 aid in forming
A Vigilance Committee, to send back,
In shirts Of tar and feathers, doubtless quilted
With forty stripes save one, all Yankee corners.
Uncircumcised and gentle, aliens from
The Commonwealth of Israel, who despise
The prize of the high calling of the saints,
TO plant amid the heathen wilderness
Pure Gospel inst tutions, sanctifed
By Patriarchal use. The meeting opened
With prayer, as was most fitting. Half an hour
Or thereway, groaned, and stroye and wrestled
As Jacob did at Penuel, till the power
Fell oil the people, and they cried ''ATnenm
''GlOry TO Ged!h and stamped and clapped thei
hands,
And the rough voiced boatmen wiped their eyes
''Go it, old hoss" they cried, and damned tbs
niggcfs--
Fulfilling thus the word of prophecy,
"Cursed be Canaan" After prayer, the meeting
Choee a commIttee-good and pious men
A Presbyterian elder, Baptist deacon,
a local preacher, three or four class leaders,
Anxious inquirers and renewed back sliders,-
A score in ALTO watch the river ferTy,-
As they of old did watch the fordS of Jordan
And cut off all whose Yankee tongues refuse
The Shibboleth of the Nebraska bill.
And then, in answer to repeated calls,
/ gave q brief account of what saw
In Washington; and truly many hearts
Reioiced to know, the President and you
And General Cushing regularly hear,
Drinking with thirsty souls of the sincere
Milk Of the Word! Glory Amen and Selahi
Here, at the Mission, all things have gone well;
The brother who, throughout my absence, acted
As eyerseer, assures me that the crops
Never were better. l have lost one negro,
A first rats hand, but obstinate and suilen:
lie ran away some time last spring, and hid
Found him, and treed and shot him. For the rest,
The heathens round about begin to feel
The influence of our piOus ministTatiOns
And works of love; and some of them already
Have purchased negroes, and are settling down
As sober christians. Bless the Lord for this!-
] know it will rejoice you. You, hear,
Are on the eve of visiting Chicago,
To fight with the wild beasts of Ephesus,
Long John and Dutch Freesoilers. May your
arm
Be elotehed with strength, and on your tongue
be found
The sweet oil of persuasion. So desires
Your brother and co-laborer. Amen!
p. S.-All's lost. Even willie in grief write
these lines,
The Yankee AboIitionists are coming
Upon Us like food-grim. stalwart men;
Each face set like flint Of Plymouth Rock
Against our institutions stalking out
Their farm lots on the wooded Wakarusa,
Or squatting by the mellow -bOttomed Kansas
The pioneers of mightier muititudes-
The small rain patter ere the thunder shower
browns the dry prairie. Hope from man is not.
Oh, fer q quiet berth at Washington
Snug naval ehaplaincy, or clerkshiP, where
These rurners of free labor and free soil
Might never meet me more. Better to be
DoOr-keeper in the White House, than to dwell
Amidst these Yankee tents, that, whitening
show
On the green prairie like fleet becalmed.
Aethinks hear a voice come up the river,
From those for bayous, where the alligators
Mount guard around the camping fillibustsrs:
''Shake of the dust of Kansas. Turn to Cuba.
There may'st thou, underneath thy vine and fig
tree,
Watch thy increase of sugar cane and negroes,
Calm as Patriarch in lis Eastern tent.'
Amen: So mote it be! So prays your friend.