The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-15

method OF helplng In THIS goSpel work,
equal in responsibility and influence to
that of those who go.
j Emigration viii go to points where is
least difficulty and suffering. Now the
lonly suffering of pioneer life results from
the want of capital in new regions. Cap
tal only can build mills, houses, bridges,
school houses, and churches. Capital
i only makes the difference between the
comforts of the man who lives in Bristol
county, and his brother who lives on the
| Wailamette. in Oregon. The latter has
| a more genial climate, a richer soil than
4 the other But the other has the comforts
Iaround him which the investmentof cap
ital has created.
4 Men of principle, then, who do not go
from home with the gospel of freedom,
may help those who go, by assisting in
J. those enterprises in which the West needs
! capital They need not send forward
one man too poor to go without help
| There are enough independent men on
: the way. But they may invest in mills,
in bridges, in railroads and other under
i takings at the West, those means for
which they seek returns; they may in
vest in churches and school houses the
J, money which they can lend to the Lord,
and thus they help also. Around those
Institutions men and women gather. 1t
3 seems as if they sprung up from the
ground, as they come in, unsolicited, I'M
heard of before, to fix their lot where
best they can train their children and Sc
cure comforts for their homes.
/ Go thus into the regions of the West
to preach the gospel which gives liberty
to the captive, or if you stay, work thus
+ to help those who go. Make easy their
way thither. Or sending your capital
with them, help to build their roads, their
mills, their school houses, theirchurches
Go thus, work thus, or send thus, with
reasonable alacrity and zeal. There is
no need of preaching new crusade
!. The crusade is in movement already. Ii
wants only direction, concentration, that
its forces may not be divided against
themselves. If not divided they are sure
to stand and to prevail.
:, " 1t is hard to make prophecy II
, this matter which shall not seem extrava-
. CANT to those who are used to put theil
: mouths to the dust, to cry ''Vilel Vile p
: while they put their hands to nothing al
. all. But if the christian church, the
whole body of christian life, cannot IL
one year, unite upon one point IN the
: West, ten thousand men, women anC
children, of right feeling and heart, from
I, 5among the one hundred and thirty thou
saad who go there. the christian church
/, cannot do anything atail. Let it do this
and, in twelve-month after, fifty thou
! sand volunteers will have followed il
their train.
!, For calculation let us suppose these
E round numbers to be the numbers infiu
enced by such an effort.
Sum up now the result of that effor
only.
In 1856 Kansas would have 60,00(
inhabitants and its fundamental laws b.
, so arranged by its inhabitants that i
should be forever free.
In 1857, Western Texas, which ha
now 10000 inhabitants, would have
i 10000; and could claim admittance a
{ State forever free.
In 1853, the country of the Uppe
= Red River might receive as many inhab
; itants, and take the preliminary steps TO
the formation of State forever free.
!, And thus with every successive yea
!, new State could be made, by the sub
> division of Texas, of Kansas, in the In
{ dian territories; of the parks" of tn
Rocky Mountains; in the immense Ter
+ ritory of Nebraska; in the subdivision
/. lof Minnesota, and these States should b
forever free.
e With the frontier thus secured,
S would be wholly in the power of tn
Y christians of the land to send like pio
n neer colonies into States already formed
It A body of 10000 intelligent men, wo
n men and children, buying their land, i'm
d proving it by capital invested in machine
ry, would nowhere be turned away o
n treated coldly. In Texas, in Louisiana
!. in Arkansas, In Missouri, in Mississippi
even in Tennessee, in kentucky, in Vir
Y ginia; or in the Carolinas, Georgia, Ala
: bama and Florida, are large regions @
a land, waiting for just such emigrants t
e go out into them with that gospel, whicl
/, is to be preached to every creature. TIL
5 institution of slavery is already estab
b lished in those Safes. Such emigrant
would in time put an end to it. Not b,
1 talking: the days of prophecy were owe
n eighteen centuries ago. Not by arms
y the days of arms are over. Not by an
/ lger: anger never accomplished anything
t Not by fraud, nor by hate, but as al
' evil is to be overcome. They woul'
. overcome evil with good.
e They would take up large body 0
: land and introduce the highest civiliza
: ton. They would not waste their phys
: ical strength; they would compel tn
f elements to do their work for them. Th
j coal of the mountains should make tn
e steam which should drive their SAW mill
/ or their planning machines which shoult
e spin their cotton or weave their WOOL
: They would not send a thousand mile
e for their hoes and plough-shares. The,
r would forge them from the iron of tn
j. lsame hills. They would not depend ol
5 a literature imported from New York o
j, England. They would make their owl
Y paper from their own cotton their owl
o type in their own moulds, and their owl
c books from their own brains. The,
n would not send their sons to Connection
i Tor to Paris or to Germany TO College
q They would build up their own Uniyer
it Isities beneath the shade of their owl
: Aagnolias. They would thus exten,
S freedom, by displaying the Institutions G
/, freedom side by side with that institutio
: lof the past, which is only possible while
: men live in the simplest duties of ag,icul
4 turll life. They would use the water
Y which now run to waste. And those wa
: ters would preach freedom. They woul
5 Ecoin ores which now lie dead. An,
L those stones would speak freedom.
n Such colonies also would grow. And