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The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
Baggage.

Tourists, en- route for Kansas, cannot
be too cautious about their baggage
Rarely does a party arrive from the East
but some member has lost a portion or
all of his baggage. This is wholly un-
necessary, and can be avoided BY proper
prudence. Get your luggage checked
as far on your journey as possible. Ar
rived at that point you will supcrintend
the checking to the next most remote To-
cation for which checks are given, and
SO on until you reach your destination.
From Boston checks can be got to Alba
ny; from thence to Buffalo; thence to
Chicago; thence to st. Louis. Up the
river no checks are given; but you viii
take your baggage into your state-room,
and there you can attend to it personally;
but remember what we have before re-
marked about pickpockets and river
thieves, as they are very numerous at
this season of the year, and unless you
are constantly on your guard, you will
be '.done for" in some shape.
All baggage for Kansas should be
carefully marked with the owners name
and destination, and directed to the care
of B. SLATER, 27 Levee, st. Louis, Mo.
Should it become lost, it will reach him
and be promptly forwarded.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07

kinds Of timber may be grown, and some
lumber imported. As an Offset to this
lacko timber, you have your farm cleared
to your hand, ready for the pillow and the
scythe, and seeded for grazing. The
capital requisite to bring forest farm 10
this condition, would supply everything
a prairie farm lacks in the line of timber.
In every colony there should be some
men of at least moderate capital, and
many men of substantials stamina. Among
the earliest imperative wants are mills for
saving and grinding; these are best built
by private capital and managed by pri-
waite enterprise. Each colony needs some
suitable man or men for this work. If
well managed, it cannot be bad invest
ment. Every American citizen who en-
igrates to Kansas has, under general pre-
cmption laws, the privilege of occupying
l6O acres, to hold it by occupation till it
comes into market, and then buy it at
81 25 per acre. If good men and true
will go there in strength, they can rear
such institutions as they like, to bless So
eiety; they can make Kansas the garden
of the great West, filling it with the best
social, educational, and Christian institu-
tions of our times, and making it TEEN on
every hand with the choicest fruits of lib
erty and labor, knowledge, virtue, and
Christianity.
Is it objected that slavery is already
there, and will surely triumph? Our
answer admits that slaves are claimed
there, but not held under any law. And
We answer further, SLAVERY ouyhf not TO
be there, and'if good men do their duty,
.itgiH not be. The danger Of it is just
enough to stimulate, not enough to dis
courage, anti-slaxery efforts. The results
of the recent election simply call for
the interposition of free and firm men, to
save the elective franchise in our republic
from prostitution. Fraud too outrageous
to be endured helps work lis own cure.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
Election In the Territory.

The following article appeared as the
leading editorial in the Kansas Enter
prise of the Gath ult. Friend STRoNG's S
views of squatter sovereignty must be
different from ours:
The election in Kansas Territory is
close at hand, and we embrace this, the
last opportunity which we shall enjoy
before this event, of admonishing Mis-
souri, and southerners that it is the part
of>wisdom, as well rs prudence, to en-
ploy every means of preparation neees-
sary to successful combat for the issue
which is suspended upon it. We have
won the first victory, let not the second
be lost-but let it be ours. 1t can be
secured with greater ease than the for
mer. Thousands who have heretofore
remained in state of hesitation, with
the hope tina. the first signal of alarm
would prove premature and unnecessary,
have become convinced that the danger
which now encompasses them is actu-
ally visible, and that the ranks of en-
croaching Abolitionism are secretly aug
menting to formidable extent.
Let every man, then, do his duty; let
no one hesitate, and say there will be suf-
ficient to do the work Independent of his
aid and services for there is a part for
each and every one to perform, and in
precise accordance with the amount of
division which this work is to undergo
among all, the less, and the easier, con-
sequently, will be the task assigned to
each. So let no one hesitate, but let each
contribute his might, and we will succeed
in remedying an evil which, if suffered
to continue, might at last become a nui-
sance, the removal of which might prob
ably, perhaps, prove insuperable to the
effort of the very wisest and best men.
Upon this course of action, which we
here advocate, depend the harmony, safe
ty, and preservation of our Union and
Republic. 1tis a cause, therefore, which
will shed honor and luster upon It's most
humble defenders.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
Declaration of independence.

The following strong paragraph was
stricken out of the draft of the Declara-
ton of Independence, as proposed by
Mr.. jefferson, and approved by the Sc
lect committee to whom the subject
had been referred. We wish, said Hez-
ekiah Niles, in recording the fact, that it
had been retained. 1t might have acted
as an obstruction to the increase of our
black population, which now so fearfuliy
presses upon some of the States and,
besides, it would have stood in perpetual
remembrance of the fact that the slave
trade was not an American institution, or
approved of by the carly inhabitants of
these States
He has waged cruel war against hu-
man nature itself, violating its most sa-
cred rights of life and liberty in the per-
sons of a distant people, who never Of
Tended him, captivating and carrying
them into slavery in another hemisphere,
or to incur miserable death IN their trans
portation thither This piratical warfare,
the opprobium of Infdel powers, is the
work of Christian King of Great
Britain. Determined to keep an open
market where kEs should be bought and
sold, he has prostituted his negative foz
suppressing every Legislative attempt to
prohibit or to restrain this execrabie COM
merce. And that this assemblage Of
horrors might want no fact of distin-
guished dye, he Is now exciting those
very people to rise in arms among us,
and to purchase that liberty Of which he
has deprived them, by numbering the
people upon whom he also obtruded them ;
thus paying off former crimes committed
agains the liberties of one people. with
crimes which he urges them to commit
against the lives Of another"
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
Original Poetry.
Er tss Herald IF Essdezs.
The Voice of Kindness.


What moveth the heart of man TO love,
Iighteth its halls like the stars above,
Which shine o'eT the earth in her nightly rest,
And gleam like gems on, the rivers breastl
'Tis she voice Of Kindness that sweeps the strings
OF the spirit harp-ike an aDgers wings
Gliding on mission divine, in haste 5-.s-
That some mortal lip fresh joy may taste
The simplest word and the slightest glance <.
The ear and the eye of the soul entrance;
They waken melody whose echoes last
Vixen the fiiekering fame of life hath past
Then breathe it ever unto those you meet,
In the crowded hall, in the busy street,
And receive in your breast the glierdon won
BY each deed of kindness that's kindly done.
Look on each face that our God hath moulded
As leaf Of life for thee unfolded,
And see that you mark no letter there
In the fearful tongue Of grief and care.
But let each syllabled thought of thine
Make that dear face with new light to shine
To wear as thy record the stamp of love
A passport for thee to the land above.
Thus daily some flower be gently bringing,
With a smiling lip and voice of singing,
To beautify pathways now rough and bleak,
And restore Gods bloom to the faded cheek.
WARREN, Z. j. FLORIDA.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
Juvenile Benevolence.

The Congregational Sabbath School oi
this village, have voted to send library
to the Sabbath School of Lawrence, Kan
sas, provided the same be needed. The
presest population of Lawrence is 403,
of whom 80 emigrated from Massachu-
sets. The number of voters is 1856
Less than one year ago it was the abode
of only wild beasts and Indians. Now
ithas spirited weekly paper, and COM
paratively large number of professional
men. $ H& E
We clip the above from the Namasket
Gazette, published at Middleborough,
Mass. We have very interesting Sab
bath School in operation here, under the
superintendenoe of our esteemed friend,
Mr.. S. n. SIMPSON. The school is well
attended, and viii contribute its due pro-
portion in properly educating the youth
of Lawrence In the truths of the Chris
tan religion The library is yet small.
and any donation to it from our friends
in Middleboreugh viii be accepted with
gratitude.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
New Scheme of Disunion.
SAN FRAscrsoo, Feb. 6th,e 1856.

- SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6th, 1855.
i hasten to lay before you, in advance
of all publicity, scheme which is now
advancing, under profound secrecy,
among good number of our most re-
spectacle and influential citizens have
no timeAto comment, but give you the
plan, as it has been revealed to me, with
out any injunction of concealment.
A new republic is to be formed, con-
sisting at first of ten States, three to be
comprised within the present limits of
the State of California, three in Oregon
Territory, two in Washington Territory,
and two from the western portions of
Utah and New Mexico. The basis is to
be confederated government, similar to
yours on the Atlantic side. The great
railroad is to be abandoned, aud every
obstacle thrown in the way of its con-
struction; while the argument at the
hustings is to be made to the people, that
the government at Washington have re-
fused the road to the people of the Pa
cific. The question of slavery is to be
adjured and disclaimed until the plan is
so far executed that there can be no re-
traction, after which the southern four or
FIVE States will adopt slavery. The first
convention is to be imposing IN num-
bers, and especially SO in the distinguish
ed talent of its members. You need no
information as to the number of ex-Sen
ators, ex- Congressman, ,ex-Governors and
ex-Judges who swarm in our midst, pant
ing for one more good old-fashioned poll
tical chase.
The President, Senate, Representa-
tiyes, and Cabinet Ministry are all TO be
chosen by the direct vote of the people.
The naturalization laws are to be fixed on
a severe basis. The act Of independence
is to be simultaneous with well-plan-
ned and decisive seizure of the United
States reserves, with whatever of NOV
ables or live stock they may contain
The Sandwich Islands are to be guaran-
teed their independence, and the United
States are to be appealed to In a tone OF
friendly goodbye.
Here you perceive an opening for all
the prominent politicians, a field for the
military and naval aspirants, call for
powder mills and ordnance founderies.
You may also guess how readily such a
severance will be graciously received by
England, France, and Spain. l leave
the subject with you, without comment.
Visionary as it may seem, it is not fan
cy sketch; fail it may, but it is now a
purpose of deep interest with the parties
concerned. The first public movement
will be either society or convention,
for the purpose of forming a new party,
to be called the Pacific Railroad Party,
to draw off majority of citizens from
all old party alliances. Through this
medium the Washington government is
to be prescribed, and proved to be prac-
tically inadequate to our necessities. Il
is to be shown that we send our gold
away, and receive no government protec.
ton in return, and that we now virtually
govern ourselves, we might as well have
the credit of it abroad.
The couspirators will be startled wher
they see this letter in your columns, and
will begin to heave the lead to find ou
their soundings. PATRIOT.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07

and they wiIlosershadow the whole land. |
Missouri herself will learn, in case ofsuch
a contingency, that slave institutions are
not wholly secure.
"What can women do in Kansas !"
They can doeyerything that anybody can
do which is honorable, and for which they
have strength. We hope to see some of
those conservative ideas of New England
broken in upon here, and woman placed
in her true position. There is no reason
why men should be selected to measure
tape, and be employed in the thousand
and one occupations where strength is
not required, when women can eli these
places to better advantage. We want
three intelligent girls to learn the print
ing business, and win pay living wages
from the beginning. Our merchants
want assistance. Milliners and dress
makers are wanted, but we hope they
will wait till they get to Kansas before
they get their fashion sheet, and then
adopt one in which health and beauty are
blended. Teachers are wanted, and the
Yankee girls of New England are those
we need, and will command the best wa
ges. The sick are to be cared for, and
who so well adapted to sit by the bedside
of those who are paying the penalty for
a violation of some physical law, as wo-
man?
The field for female employment is
wide open, and all can find enough to do
without thinking of matrimony. Those
who are willing to gain a support by toll,
can secure the best compensation. La
Dor is not degraded in Kansas by compe-
tition with slavery, neither is it placed on
an equality with that of foreign emigrants
who are compelled to struggle from morn
ing till night for mere subsistence
Wages for females are higher here by one
half than they are in the East. AS to their
prospects of getting married we cannot
speak, as our own hands are tied, unless
the laws of Utah are extended over the
Territory and then, we suppose, it would
be impossible to get the consent of our
"other half" which we believe is abso-
lutely required even in Mormondom.
Our friend had bettercome right along,
and bring his wife and a host of those
factory girls with him. =.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
Troy o. Feb e5 1879

FRIEND BRowN Allow me to con-
gratulate you on the success of your eff
forts to provide the early settlers of Kan
sas with neat and substantial newspa-
per. Success attend the enterprise. As
outsiders, the people here are hoping for
the best in regard to the erection of
free State out of your Territory. Most
laboring men here, however, are provided
with comfortable homes, and have little
disposition to riska removal from home
in free State to better situation for the
requirement of wealth in country the
Institutions of which are subject to the
control of the slayeites. Owing also to
the stringency of money, you cannot ex-
pect that support from your old friends
East that you might otherwise receive.
But the spring emigration from old set
tied States and from Europe will give
you the necessary home patronage. Ex-
citing times seem to await the settlement
of the question whether slavery shall be
legal institution in Kansas. It is to be
hoped the friends of liberty directly or
peeuniarily interested in the subject will
refuse to barter away their radical abeli-
ton principles, under the delusion of fmore
directly aiding the cause they have most
at heart. The we'll known principles of
the real, substantial opposers of slavery
are perfect freedom of opinion, and free.
dom of conscience in contra-distinction
to human enactments., Acting from
these principles, no man will cease to
oppose a measure like the Kansas-Ne-.
braska bill. If professed friends of free
dom are to be metamorphosed into a kind
of acquiescence in the principles of that
bill by coming under its jurisdiction,
they had better openly join the opposi-
ton. Such may not be the ease; but 1t
is only too likely, considering the nature
of mankind. baai-Fd RE ! ee.sSl-
We feel as if the great question for
AbolitioniSts everywhere Is, whether
slavery shall be tolerated anywhere in the
Union, but viii not intrade this subject
upon your attention. A writer in an ar
ticle which appeared in your issue of
January 9th, says the question with Kan
sas people is, not Garrisonianism. Sew
ardism, DC, but free soil for Kansas.
Well, hope that is not the height of
your ambition In the anti-slavery cause,
though the question is well in its place.
1t is desirable that free soil should be
cultivated by men of free thought, and
unbiased in favor of the "powers that
be-" Yours for freedom, E. A. K.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
Slaves in the World.

The African Institution of Paris, an
association for the diffusion of eiyiliza-
ton and Christianity in Africa, has re-
Gently issued circular which shows
that the number Of blacks held in slavery
In different countries, is seven and half
millions, of which 3.095, 900 are in the
United States, 3. .a50, 600 in Brazil, 90O,-
600 in the Spanish Colonies, 5000 In
the Dutch Colonies, 14o, 900 In the Re
publics Of Central America, and 60, 600
in European establishments IN Africa. !.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
Misre,resen.ations corrected.


1t is surprising to see the vast amount
of ignorance among the members of the
press, as well as with individuals, in re-
gard to the emigration to Kansas. Mis-
sourians have been representing for a
long time that the n E. Emigrant Aid
Company were in the habit of selecting
paupers from the alms-houses of eastern
cities, and shipping them here at their
own expense, for the purpose of seeur-
ing voters to offset against the hired mer-
cenaries from the grogs-hops and broth
els of the river cities of Missouri, who
are sent here to control our elections !;
but we never supposed an editor so well
informed as DR.. BAILEY of the Nation
al Era, would give currency to such rep
resentations nevertheless, in his issue of
the 9th of February, under the head of
I" Emigration to Kansas" he virtually in
dorses this idea by saying -
"As to emigration, SO far as it may be
under the auspices of Emigration So
cieties, we have no information. 1t will
be recollected that we never attached
much efficiency to their action-that we
feared the expectations they excited
might retard the flow of voluntary emf
grafton, and that they would not always
select the best men for pioneers. Not a
word would we say to impede their ope-
rations /; but again let us urge upon all
disposed to seek homes in Kansas to de-
pend upon themselves. Individual effort,
in such case, will accomplish more than
ali the associations in the world-and it
is quite certain that the man who trans
plants himself to new country, has the
elements in him of atrue pioneer. Can athis
dt,cays be said of the miscellaneous cromd
picked up IN cities, and carried oaa at
Others erpensee Let Emigration Socie-
ties do what they can-but let the hardy
farmer, who knows how to fell tree and
build cabin, trust to his own strong
arm"
The New England Emigrant Aid Com
pany has neeer paid any mans expenses
% Kansas, and we presume never intend
to do so; neither are we informed of any
organization. save in the slave States.
which have engaged in importing persons
into Kansas free of charge. All the New
England Company profess to do is to
eseapen the cost of passage to the pio-
neer. by purchasing tickets of railroad
agents at reduced prices, and furnishing
the same TO persons wishing to use them
at cost, and to settle them together. as
far as practicable. on their arrival here.
Through all their circulars. pamphlets,
and publications. they have endeavored
to mako the pioneer self-reliant; and
those who came out with other expecta-
tons. obtained from reading articles mis-
representing the facts, ike the quotation
given above. are almost sure to return.
generally with curse upon the country.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
The yefaie Of Freedom.
Lawrence, Saturday, April Z, 1855.
: Restore the Missouri Compromise.

- Restore the Missouri Compromise.
When the bill was introduced into
Congress few months ago to restore the
Missouri compromise. and prohibit by
act OF that body the introduction of sla-
very here, we felt with Col. BENTON, that
it was i'll timed. and that Legislation in
that direction was uncalled for; that a
few months would witness the adoption
OF territorial law which would close up
every avenue in Kansas against the dis
graceful traffic in humanity. The incl
dents of the last week have changed our
views. and taught us the necessity of
congressional legislation. If the "actu-
al residents of this Territory cannot be
permitted to make their own laws-if we
have to be controlled by mereenary
mob which are to visit US periodically to
do our voting and our Legislation, then
we hope Congress will do it for US; and
we appeal to the freedom-loving citizens
of the Union to unite to man in send
ing members there who are right on this
question.
We were told that "squatter sover-
eighty" was to be the law of Kansas
We felt willing to leave the issue to that
honorable portion of our population, and
had no fears of the result; but "squatter
sovereignty" according to Senator At
chison's idea of the thing, consists in
having bar-room rowdies make preda-
tory excursions into neighboring Ter
ritory; to overawe the people by their
threats of violence, take possession of the
ballo.-box. outrage decency, and author
ize some OF their own number, in viola
.tion of law and justice, to do the legisla
ton for the population whom they char
acterize as "serfs and paupers."
If we are the degraded, abiect wretches
the people of Missouri represent us to be,
we appeal to Congress, in the name of
humanity. and in view of common
brotherhood, to take us under their pro-
lection, and save Us from the outrages,
and violence, and disorder, which has
been introduced here by a ruthless mob.
We came to Kansas to people its fer
tile prairies, and establish the Institutions
of civilization and refinement. 1t was
not our purpose to break down every bar
rier which tends to restrain men from
evil, nor to restore society to anarchy,
but to build it up on constitutional law.
We expected opposition from the most
deprGped Of the a6origines, but we have
found it only among those who have no
earthly interest in our soil, who are for
eigners in fact to our Institutions, and
who would, should we invade their State
in similar manner, and practice the
same lawlessness upon them, inearcerate
Us in dungeon for life, and infiict on us
all the seventies their ingenuity could
invent.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
Ferry Boat

Mr. JoHN BALDwIS, of this place, is
engaged in constructing ferry boat to
be used on the river at the crossing op-
posite this city.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
Emigrsns Aid Society.

Sneh a society has been formed in
Portland, Maine, to act in cooperation
with tho Massachusetts, company. and
promote emigration to Kansas Territory
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07

Eg on expectation fails, and most
oft where it most promises.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-01-30

PUTNAM FOR FEBRUARY Sometimes we
like Putnam, and very rarely We DON'T
Sometimes, or generally, Putnam is laden
even to the fulness of running over with
the good things of thought and feelng-ane
one or two numbers at least,we have known,
to bear Enthusiastically the impress of being
"made up in hurry" and therefore scarcely
fitting any readers mind, and not at all like
ly to wear well with those disposed to try it
on during spare moments. But the Febru-
ary number is not one Of these. Every
thing in and about it is good. The material
is excellent, and it is well put together
From the opening article, Diplomacy and
Cannon Balls" to the cursive and discur'
sive Editorial Notes." the contents are
above the average Of magazine literature, al,
most without exception. We therefore COM
mend Putnam for February to our readers
1t can be obtained at the bookstores. One
article alone, "Nature in Notion" contain.
information enough to apologize for the ex
penditure of several quarters.