The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-10-27
To the Citizens of Missouri.

in many of the public prints of your
State, in regard to their plan and pur
poses.
So long as these misrepresentation
were made by irresponsible and preju
diced persons. whose characters had nc
weight, we did not think them worthy
of reply from Us. But when We find
them repeated aud endorsed by men o.
some influence in your community, We
feel that it is due to ourselves, and to the
character of the emigrants who have
gone out to Kansas under our auspices,
to state the truth.
In the published resolutions of the
Convention, lately held at Lexington,
Missouri, we find misstatements in re-
gard to our enterprise which we desire
to correct. This Company is the only
incorporated association. known to us,
in the United States, which has for its
object both assistance and organization
for western emigration. We must there
fore infer that We are referred to in the
resolutions which alluded to "monied
associations under the patronage of SOW
ereign States of this Union"
The resolutions charge the Company
then,
l. With recruiting armies and hiring
fanatics to go to. Kansas.
Ii. With flnstical aggression on
Missouri, with the intention of putting
the torch to the dwellings, and the knife
to the Threats OF its people.
Ill. With sending persons to Kansas
who do not intend to remain there, but
who go only TO interfere with and COLI
troll the actual settlers.
1t is easy for US to show the entire
falshood ofevery one of these charges.
l. To the charge of recruiting az
mics and hiring fanatics to go TO Kan
sas," our answer is very simple. We
have never hired man to go there. or
paid tie passage ola single emigrant.-
Every settler who has gone out under
our auspices, has himself provided the
means OF his passage.
Il is possible that you in Missouri may
not have before observed how large Is
the regular emigration from New Eng
land, To the new States of the West
Every year. the sons and dau3 hters oil
northern States, i'll numbers to be coun-
ted by tens of thousands, choose to emf.
CRATE to those more fertile regions
They do not wait or need to be ''hired.''
They go with their own names, make
their own selection of new home.
The favorable accounts which reached
us of the soil and climate of Kansas, ana
the advantages which it offers to The
settler, turns the attention of thousands
of such emigrants to that Ternftory.-
They resolved to go there, and were
eager to obtain every inforRation as to
the best msans of going and forming
permanent settlements III that country
/ The fact that such IySersons were will
ing to go, renderessft possible to form
dis company, whose object is to lacil-
tate their Organization, rendered theil
journey easy and safe, by The erection
OF m,5sand hotels. and by the promo.
uon, of such other enterprises as are found
Conducive to the common good. We dc
| hot hire them. No company on earth
Icould hire them. 1t would be more
p oper to say that the existence of such
men, and their resolution and intention
to go to Kansas created and sustained
this company
] To speak of such men as ''paupers,'
"mercenaries," and 'hired adventur
ers," is simply absurd. They are Amer
lean citizens. who have the enthusiasm
which all their countrymen have foI
colonizing new regions. and bringing
them under the sway of man.
| They carry with them their education
their skill, their money. They are erect
ins in Kansas their steam engines, thei
machine shops, their factories of wood
paper, iron, and all things useful to men
They have gone there because they hat
a right there-because they choose to g
because they had the means to GO
and because they believed that in SO do
ing they could better their condition
and perhaps do good service to God an
man.
That they might go conveniently an
cheaply, this Company has been organ
. lied. 1t is one of the customs of Ne,
England for men to organize themselve
, To work in cooperation for any objeC
which they can achieve thus better tina
as separate individuals. This is one c
our institutions to which we are attached
and to which We owe much of our pros
perity.
{ g. The resolutions of the Convention
charge Us with ''fanatical aggression o
, Missouri" We have looked in vain 70
the first de allied specification by whic
: this charge can be supported. 1t is GU
earnest wish that the emigrants who &
b under our auspices. should main ain tn
kindeSt and most friendly relations wit
all whom they mceton their way. whetl
er iii Missouri or any other State. w
j have every reason TO believe that tie
= have done SO, and until some distin,
o case of ''lanatical aggression" is mad
out and sustained by the citizens {
those towns where these emisrants me-
your people. We must entirely deny til
truth of the charge.
y By the accidental conditions of traV'
: at the present time. it happens tn;
many of the northern emigrants pass u
the Missouri river, on their way to the
:. new homes. Ii this be a grievance
u you, II is none the less an Inconvenience
: TO them. Il len ythens their journey {
r Kansas more than four hundred mile
We venture to say however. that the
/, have borne this so as to Civ
no serious ground of complaint to tho;
}. with whom they have had dealings
e your State. So soon as the rapid a,
r vance of the railroads in Iowa permit
they will be able to shorten their journe
materially. and yeu may then be relieve
5 from their presence. Till then it wi
}. be convenient for them to take yol
;. steamboats, up the river, and TO provil
: themselves with supplies from your me