The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-03-15
FREEDOMS STRUGGLE IN KANSAS.
To the Friends of Freedom:


The great Pinkney proclaimed but plain and
simple truths, when he stated, in the Legislature
of Maryland, that Slavery was contrary to the
eternal principles of natural justice, and that
the most fruitful soil must ever wither beneath the
touch of the unpaid slave. The observation of
every man, who has enjoyed opportunities in the
older States of the South, confirms this declara-
ton and yet the concoctors of the Kansas Ne
braska Bill have exposed new and immense,
and naturally fertile and beautiful tracts of ter
rtory to the tread of Slavery. But one of the
provisions of that Bill, however designed to oper-
ate, has left it in the power of the friends of
Freedom to secure Kansas from the grasp of
the spoiler, by settling it with such emigrants as
are alive to the evils of slave labor, and to the
advantages of free labor-not with emgrants
from the free States merely, but from the slave
States as we'll, for there never was a greater
mistake than that which represents the people
of the South, generally, as in favor of extend
ing the acknowledged curse of Slavery into new
States, however the case may stand in the border
State of Missouri, and the ever-fussy State of
South Carolina. Having availed myself of the
advantages of my Southern birth and citizen
ship in the slave States, in four of which l have
spoken publicly on Slavery, know whereof
affirm on this subject.
With the fact, that associations have been
founded in various parts of the country, to aid
emigration to Kansas, the public in general are
aware. The purpose of this Circular is to give
definite information as to two of these associa-
| tons, with which the undersigned has become
associated-or, rather, to open the way for Civ
ing it. | allude to the american Settlement
| Company" and the New York Kansas
| League" which are located in the city of New
York, and cooperate for the furtherance of their
| great common object
The League is purely phanthropic associa-
| ton, depending for its funds upon pecuniary
| aid, in the form Of such contributions as the
friends of Freedom in Kansas, and of the emigra.
ton movement thther, may feel moved to give.
| Its aims are to furnish information as to the
best route TO Kansas, the proper equipments,
the cost, the advantage of the country, &c. and
to arrange with transportation companies for
reduced fares, when the applicants for this in
| formation shall have made up their minds to emf
| CRATE To promote these ends, the p" League" has
opened an Office at 0 Broadway, where the Gen
eral Superintendent, George Walter, holds him.
self in readiness to afford information to visitors.
or to transmit it by mail, in the shape of circu.
| lars, &c.
The other association 1.-THE American Settle.
| ment Company, whose office is at the same
place. is Joint Stock Association in its nature
and primary operation. Impressed with the i'm
portance OF establishing central points of inhu-
ence upon emigration and settlement. az well
as of sympathy and cooperation, it has located
a city, in beautiful agricultural and mineral
region, on the great Santa Fe road, to which
the name of Council City has been given. The
stock of the Company has been divided into
shares OF five dollars, of which, to prevent even
the suspicion OF speculative intentions. no per.
son can purchase more than six shares The
| of .,Shar
holder member of the Company, thus putting
all its advantages at his command, and it emit
ties him to lot in Council City, and also to the
aid OF an agent on the spot, should he emigrate
and desire to locate a farm besides, in the neigh
borhood. Thus membership in the Company.
purchased with a few dollars, will insure adyan
tages which any one arriving in Kansas without
any connection of the sort, cannot reasonably
expect.
Ever since the discontinuance of his paper in
Baltimore, (the Saturday Tisitey,) the under.
signed has desired some practical mode of aid
ing the cause of Freedom, through the proven
tlon OF new slave markets-one of the most ef-
fectve modes, as he thinks, of breaking up
Slavery IN its present stronghold, removing as
1t would the stimulus of increased prices in the
slave-exporting States while cutting off all new
outlets for that superabundant slave population,
so much feared by the late Governor Mcdowell
OF Virginia, and other far seeing shareholders
and thus rendering emancipation selfprotect
ing measure! This consummation, he trusts
has been afforded by official positions in the
abovedescribed associations, (the Vice Presi
dency of the Company" and Directorsbin
In the League,") which have been recently
rendered him, and which he has accepted in hope
fitness, and with determination to make the
most of their machinery for the benefcent end
OF their organization. In pursuance of this de-
termination, he is about to enter upon an extend
ed tour, commencing in the border slave States
whose Slavery-depressed classes are ready 70,
emigration. He sends forth this circular for
publication, as he hopes, in all such papers
without regard to their political bias, as may be
favorable to this great enterprise to notify those
seeking information, while not able to visit the
Office in New York, that it will give him pleasure
to attend meetings, wherever they can be sc
arranged as 10 eeonomizs time and expense Of