The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
General eiEgepce.
Kansas Circular.

he Kansas, Circular. fv s.
: The following circular has been issued
by the EmigrantAid Associationof north
ern Ohio, of which H. HILL, oberlin,
Ohio, is Treasurer, and J. A. REED and
HENRY CowLEs are the, Corresponding
Committee. Persons in northern Ohio
desiring to emigrate to Kansas should ad-
dress letter to the Committee:
SIR:-The Committee of the Kansas
Emigration Aid Society of northern Ohio
are laboring to save Kansas for freedom.
Trusting to your earnest sympathy with
us in this object, we wish to lay before
you some considerations, showing its
magnitude, and the inducements fol
earnest effort to secure it. Kansas ought
to be saved to freedom.
l.. To avert from its future population
the evils of slavery. You know what
these evils are-bow slavery curses the
white population with Incidence. unthrift,
RIGHTEOUSNESS, and general dissipation,
filing the land with violence and on the
other hand, how it inficts wrongs and
evils without measure upon the crushed
slave. You are not blind to the magni.
tude of these evils. Shall they be en-
tailed upon this fair land and its teeming
people through untold generations?
9. Kansas should be saved, to prevent
the permanent ,ascendancy of the slave
power in the U. S., Senate. You under.
stand that this body is politically the cit
adel of the slave power. Long time
have they managed to control the senate
rial representation of some of the free
States; of every slave State, of course
Let them have majority of slave States.
and all federal Legislation is by that grant
secured to the slave power forever. In
this point of view. can you consent tc
give them Kansas? .--.....f '..a
8. Kansas should be free soil, to SCI
bounds to the territorial extension of sla-
very in that direction. Our national his.
tory shows that slavery lives and thrives
by territorial extension. To impoverisf
its own and then grasp more, has ever
been its law of operation, Trace its patti
along our southern Atlantic coast-ther
westward along the shores of the Gulf
and onward to Texas. 1t never says
enough. With every new accession the
price of slave muscle rises, the yoke Of
bondage grips more tightly, and the slave
power gains nationally more command
ing position.
On the other hand, arrest its territorial
extension, and you smite it to the death
Give it no more virgin soil to devour
and it must ere long starve. The era o
its advance has reached its climax de
cline begins.
Has not slavery wasted enough of The
new world ? Who has the heart to Civ,
her any more soiltotrample down beneath
her foul hoof I? r
4. Save Kansas, and you inauguratc
the era of anti-slaEery emigration. Yol
introduce a new and effective mode o
action against slavery, showing how t.
use to purpose the numerical strength o
the free States.
Anti-slavery emigration is quite within
the Constitution. Its tactics are wholly
pacific. 1t invades no right !; employs
no unfair means has none but the no
blest aims Who does not see that, i
pushed with perseverance and wisdom, i
may save our nation I? How great, then
the importance of success in this first Ell
deayor! s7.ra = i. f - as
The great struggle for and agains
slavery assumes a new form. Kansa:
Territory becomes the battle-ground, The
grand question being, which party, the
friends, or the opponents of slavery, car
plant there, within the next two years
the greater force of influence and mum
bers =? tra
The opponents of slavery can if they
will. They have an overwhelming ma
jority of numbers on their side. Ant
the highest motives of public interes
and moral duty urge them forward ii
this effort. We are aware that, on til,
other side are the motives of gain, slav,
property, and lust of power-just thos'
considerations which sustain slavery
But shall those considerations wake w
more energy and inspire greater effor
than all our humanity, patriotism, anC
Christianity? Shame forbids US to admit
it till we must r.g
Now let it not be infsrred from the
very force of this appeal that emigration
to Kansas involves special sacrifices and
hardships. Far otherwise. New set
tiers must always forego some old com
forts. But they have the joy of making
their own comforts---the sweet of eating
bread first earned. There is provision
stored In that rich soil to reward bounti.
fully the vigorous hand of cultivation
Compared with other portions of the
great western Vailey,zit promises equa
returns ofhealth and haryests, at the eos
of only the ordinary privations and labor
Indeed, the system of emigration by
colonies greatly shorteiis the period o.
privations and lessons their amount.
The explorations of the past year show
abundantlyl that the soil is one of che
finest in the world that the face of the
country is beautiful beyond parallel
that the portions thus far explored are in
general well watered that the climate Is
mild and salabrious; that coal is found,
stone also, and lime, in abundance for
building purposes; that the chief defcien-
cy is in amount of timber, which is short,
except along the streams. 1t Is thought,
however; that the quantity is sufficient to
meet the wants of the first Settlements
In few years. the Usage orange viii
supply fences; coal may furnish fuel; some