The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10
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course, from week TO week, which has |
a tendency to make Kansas slave State. |
To think that anti-slayery men have CIV
en- countenance, to any extent, to sustain
those who are using all the energies they
possess to destroy confidence in the most
efficient agents now employed in popu-
lating Kansas with the advocates of free
dom, is, indeed, humiliating.
When the freedom clause of the Mis-
souri, ricompromise was repealed, the friends
of humanity all over the nation stood ap-
palled at the spectacle presented them.
They heard, in prospective, "the groans
of departing slaves" and saw the "chains,
shackles, negro-whips, and blood-hounds
on the beautiful plains of Kansas" They
waited patiently for time; at length
light appeared in the East. The Emil
grant Aid Company was organized, and
as soon as the immense machinery Incl
dent to such an enterprise could be set in
motion, they commenced sending forward
pioneers. The 1st company. consisting
of 81 persons, arrived in Lawrence on the
1st day of August last; the Cd party ar
rived the 18th of September, and num-
bered 100; the Sd party arrived the 9th
of October, and numbered 162; the 4th
party arrived October 90, and numbered
$50; the 9Th party arrived November
Goth, with 100 persons; the 9th and
last regular party of the season arrived
December 1st, and numbered so persons;
amounting in the aggregate tosix hundred
and seventy three. But this does not be-
gin to show the number who were In
duced to emigrate to Kansas in conse-
quence of this organization. Other por-
tons of our confederacy, witnessing the
great movement westward, set in motion
by this Company, were induced to fall
into line. The Pennsylvania company,
numbering fully three hundred persons
in all, were induced, to our certain kneWl-
edge, to come last season in consequence
of the mutual advantage they expected
to derive from those connected with the
Aid Company. Ohio sent forward her
pioneers, who were also strengthened in
their purpose to locate here from the same
cause. Hundreds on hundreds of indi-
yiduals from all parts of the free North,
were wakened up on the subject, and in
duced to emigrate on account of the de-
Iscriptions of the country, and the adyan-
tages to the settlers first furnished to the
public press, and afterwards extensively
copied into nearly every anti-Nebraska
Journal, by the agents of this organiza-
ton. Even the American Settlement
Company, which claims to have done so
much towards populating Kansas, was but
AN ofshoot of the New England organi-
zation, and owed its existence to Mr..
THArER's great speech in the Tabernacle,
New York; he having given birth to the
New York Kansas League, and some of
those connected with that League devised
the Settlement Company. We have no
doubt but if all the instrumentalities
which have operated to influence the pub
lie mind, directly and indirectly, could
be brought to light, it twould appear that,
instead of sending "two or three hun-
dred'' into the Territory from the free
States, it would be manifest they had in
fiuenced the settling of thousands among
us-not fiftieth part, however, of the
number which they viii eventually in
duce in the same direction, if need be, to
make Kansas free State.
The Company did not accomplish all
they desired last season, or what their
friends, at the outset, hoped they would.
They met with numerous discourage
ments at home and IN the Territory. 1t
was indeed a magnificent undertaking,
something new in the world and while
few minds were capable of COM
pretending it, the masses had to be Ia
bored with long and vigilantly. Money
was to be raised, and crisis in pecunia-
ry matters was rapidly approaching !;
the wise saw this, and hesitated to invest
in what appeared an extremely hazardous
enterprise contracts had to be made with
railroad lines, and proprietors of steamers,
and agencies established along the route.
The delays incident to these matters were
not all taken into consideration at the
outset; hence as much as was contem-
plated was not accomplished. But, like
an army in an enemy's country, they
have snugly entrenched themselves for
future operations, and we have no appre-
tensions of the public having occasion to
complain of them in the future. a few
weeks viii show that they have not been
inactive during the last few months.
But it is said they have retarded indi-
vidual enterprise? How Z? Have they
not given strength to individual enter
prise by holding out assurances that
Kansas would be free State. How
many are there from the northern States,
who would have been here to-day, had it
not been for this mueh-abused Company?
If they have held out inducements
which have not been fulfilled to the letter,
it was because of their inability to do
so, in consequence of causes over which
they had no control. What private in
dividual is there who accomplishes all
his expectations within given period ?
Go read your broken obligations; your
notes over due your promises violated /;
your contemplated Improvements not
begun, or only half completed. Have
you made that proficiency in moral or
mental culture which you anticipated at
the beginning of the year? And have
YOU not fallen short in every calculation
of life ? Then why not have little
charity for others, and be less severe in
eensure ? They have met with discour-
agements you little dream of and while
others were enjoying rest on beds of
down, or under shelters provided with
their money, their agents have been in
dustriously engaged in preparing still
further for the accommodations of those
who are yet coming to swell the ranks OF
the hosts of Liberty.
But it is said Missouri is endeavoring
to "eheck-mate the Aid Company,
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