The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-23
Correspondence.
For the Herald Of Freedom.
what Will the Great Westpo !?

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NV York, juno 9TH, '55.
G. W. Baows &. Co.-GExss:AA
cursory glance over your noble sheet
that bright, earnest. fearless, and. trust
truthful as courageous apostle Of new
faith. and better gospel. for the ives
and southwest, than at one time prom
ised to obtain or be sent forth-my ey,
fell upon the above quotation, and in
voluntarily exclaimed. How true, ye
how isel-How promising, yet how
specious! For "perseyering and indus
trieus men exist by thousands and ten
ofthousands /; and thousands from among
them die annually, without having over
come either all, or even many, of the OBJ
stacles that obstruct their paths. Thi:
is not only true of the ''perseTering aud
industrious" in Thousands of instances,
but is almost equally true of thousands
who to perseverance and industry add
economy and even self-denial! Yet per
Sc. it is general truth, that without m
dustry and perseverance, success is not
obtainable-nor should it be. The ex-
=eeptions coming mainly through the
deaths or kindness of friends and rela-
tives-or by what are termed accidents
and chances. - =. -
What then are ,the obstacles that pre-.
vent success to the perseyering and in
dustrious? To answer this we need to
look deeply into the heart Of things, and
also into mans relations to society and of
IL to him. Of what avail are, OF would
perseverance and industry be to the
slaves of the south, and the serfs of Rus
sias Why only to make their masters
more greedy, and their chains more gall
ing-adding to their listless. servile con-
ditioa, the conviction that the greater
their merits. the less their reward-and
the more their liability to be harder
worked, for such is mans nature wher
master, the more he gets then he wants
and the less considerate is he to the
rights of man in the abstract, and the
rights Of the laborer in particular. The
same general truth is equally applicable
to the persevering and industrious of al
who toll for living, in every cline be
meath the sun, and in every land like
wise, not excepting the "free north" o.
free west, or "ingenious Yankeedom'
itself, and only can the proverb yor
quote "That an industrious and perse
vering man will overcome all obstacles
become truthful and applicable to man
when you have first practically adopted
as both political and social truth, tina
labor, honest, hard, manual toll, in what,
ever department of life, under whatever
name or guise. needed or performed, i:
not only the best and highest duty and
occupation of man, but is as fully emit.
tied to high salaries and high compen-
sation per day or hour, as all or any 9th
er occupation of life, call it what you
viii. While the ten. thousand Migrants
of society who keep it by the ears. be-
cause of this or that doctrine, religious
or political; because of this or that legal
decision or precedent; because of this
or that medical tenet, hypothesis, or su-
perstition because of this or that pre-
tence for usury, and the monopoly of the
elements of the social state. While these
things last, especially while those who
preach them, and whose practice is ac-
cordant with their theories while these
cling to the body polite, leech upon and
suck the blood of society; the blood OF
those. that tod and from the circulating
medium thus acquired, step just beyond
the existing compact of civilization, and
absorb the free soil of the great west to
establish slavery thereon, or the scarcely
less abhorrent crime of Land Monopoly
while they thus act, while the people
tamely submit to these social crimes,
while intellectual egotism and its tyranny
reigns, ruling our institutions and shap-
ing our social destinies; the question be-
tween black and white slavery; between
tyranny and freedom. can never be set
tied; can never be question but of de-
grees of seryitude, and consequent social
restitution and inequalities, or one OF
numerals merely; for in the free States
there is more real anguish of the. heart,
springing from the want of employment
or its miserable compensation, and among
the industrious and perseyering, too,
than in the southern States. 1t is true,
however, Notwithstanding this state Of
the case, there is vastly more real pleas
ures of the heart and imagination in the
free States, than m those of the South, as
a compensation; more pro rata, more
without reference to the rules of proper
ton, too the philosophy of which springs
from causes too various to be enumerated
here. What Will the great west do
then? Will she tread the beaten round
Live politically as the old free States
have, and quietly let capital strangle her
Do for her what slavery has done fol
Virginia, and all the slave States Lei
capital absorb her soil TO the exclusion Of
the many? Scatter the peoplewest, still
west, under the same hindrance, to COM
pact settlements ? Wellrewarded inter-
dustryt General education and free
schools! Can any one tell the difference
between the power of capital and the doc
trines of slavery, as to the final question?
The ultimate consequences that will ac-
crue to their exercise upon society p
They each conquer both man and the
State. Zach are equally nlerciIess, un-
patriotic, and powerful.
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When you get to the Pacific when
capital has grasped the remaining public
domain, it will not only retain what sol
it already holds. and its existing mastery
of the race, but rolling backward on it;
track viii make not only tighterand tight
lzer its grasp upon the neck of freedom
and free labor, but hedge in. and eonfine,
in narrower and narrower bounds, the
CHANGES the canaeities. and comDeusa-