The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1855-05-12

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has attended its efforts up to this hour.
Under its auspices, the emigration of
northern freemen to Kansas has gone on
with unexampled rapidity. Already has
it sent out to the new Territory over six
teen hundred persons, and these are but
a small portion of the number who have
gone there indirectly through Its infu-
enee, 1t has kept open communication
between us and that distant land, so that
the emigrant has not felt that he was
separated from all the ehdearments of
home. 1t has taken up little easternc COM
munities and transported them with un-
broken number, and unseyered ties, to a
country where, under more genial sun,
and on a more fruitful soil, they may en-
joy the eminent advantages of New
England habits of industry and virtue.
1t has made emigration attractive by the
social relations and charities with which
it surrounds the emigrant, and the assu-
rance it gives him that a place is prepared
for him. But its work has not been con-
fined to general projects. 1t has en-
ployed agents to explore the new Terri
tory and make known to the settlers Its
abundant and varied resources, and the
most desirable places for settlements. 1t
also employs agents along the route to
Kansas, to procure tickets for the emf
grants at greatly reduced prices, and to
furnish them with whatever information
and assistance they may reasonably re-
quire. 1t has issued a pamphlet of thirty
four pages entitled, Information for
Kansas Emigrants," of which it has dis
tributed, at Its own expense, about one
hundred thousand copies. This pam
phlet contains full and explicit directions
to the emigrant in regard to all matters
affecting his journey and the success of
his enterprise. We have been struck
with the minuteness of this pamphlet in
anticipating every conceivable want of
the emigrant, and the entire fairness with
which the company avows its realobjects
and limits its responsibility.
Thus the Emigrant Aid Company has
done much to people Kansas with free
dom-loying population. 1t can point to
the present condition of Kansas as the
best evidence of its usefulness and sue
cess. If slavery is to-day less sure of
prospering in Kansas than it was a year
ago, then 1t is due to the efforts of this
organization, and if in the future, slavery
shall be driven from its borders, the re-
suit will in fairness be ascribed to the
same instrumentality.
But it is the chief benefit of this organi-
zation that it holds northern anti-slayery
sentiment as regards freedom in Kansas
steadily to a practical object, and does
not suffer it to exhaust and dissipate itself
upon visionary plans and prospects,
Kansas is no longer dreamy land, over
which impends a fearful doom, which we
would gladly avert but know not how.
There is plain practical way of rescu-
ing her from slavery, involving no dis
puted questions of constitutional law
identified with no party organization, but
commencing itself to the favor and sup
port of all true friends of human free
dom and popular rights.
As slavery has hitherto triumphed
through its perfect social organization,
SO shall freedom hereafter possess the
same means of defence or aggression.
From an institution it shall hereafter de-
rive stability, energy, and well regulated
action.
With the design of making Kansas
free State, and success thus faranswering
to the magnitude of the design, and pro-
phetic of its final accomplishment, the
Emigrant Aid Company has appealed to
the North for sympathy and support.
Nothing would be SO natural as to sup
pose that the appeal would be regarded.
If the public speakers and presses of the
North have ever been sincere in deplo
ring the introduction of slavery into Kan
sas and its existence elsewhere-if they
have been sincere in uttering those senti-
ments in favor of freedom, to which all
true hearts respond-if they do not de-
sire the encroachments of slavery to con-
tinue, that they may be furnished with
material for fine speeches and flaming
editorials-ifas they assert, the question
of freedom in Kansas is really the doIni
nant question of tie age-why should
they not exert their influence in favor of
this organization, as the practical means
of efFecting what they profess to desire !?
Such, however, has not been the case.
Some of the most prominent anti-slasery
speakers at the North have hardly alluded
to this enterprise, for which tie South
sincerely thanks them. 1t may be of too
practical character TO meet the views of
theorists and declaimers, or it may at
tach too little importance to refined specu-
lations and impassioned rhetoric. Ii may
have committed. the error of supposing
that the time for action had come, after
speaking had gone on fer twenty years
The press, too, has not given the move
ment its earnest and united support
The leading journal of the world regards
the scheme as the greatest and most prac-
teal the age has seen. The two leading
reviews OF this country have given it |
their unqualified approval; but the press
es of the North either pass itby in silence
or criticise It in style that no merely
human work can bear. What if slight |
errors have occurred In the conduct of
the enterprise ? What if the expecta-
tons of the public have exceeded the
possible attainment? Shall the enter /
prise be abandoned, and Kansas sunen-
dered to slavery for such pitiful reasons
Will northern men and presses extinguish I
the last hope of saving Kansas, and en-
gage in the ignoble work of abusing and
annoying the noble and determined men
who have undertaken this enterprise p
Is it the condition of their aiding to make
Kansas free, that they, themselves, OF
their party, shall reap selfish benefit
The great obstacle TO the triumph of free
dom, Is, and ever has been, the divided
efforts of the North. One is of Paul,
and another of Apollos, and 3 third of
Cephas, and each is afraid that he shall
not get all the glory of achieving enamel
patton. The South Is united and harmo-
nious, having nobody to watch but the
common foe-but We are distracted with