The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-30
Correspondence.
The following letter although written
in April was not treceived anti this week:
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Ho,nesiek Correspondence.
STEAsiER ExPREss." No., RYER, !
April, 18Th, 1855. s
EDIToR HERALD OF FREEDoM We
are now, and forabout twenty hours have
been. tied up 10 a sand-bar. badly
.'snagged.' p Are three hundred miles
from st. Louis. With geod luck. how
ever. We viii be On our winding way in
a few hours. Patience is in great requi-
sition, and liberal bestowal of the article
win be duly appreciated. Our passen-
gers at this time number from eighty to
one hundred. many of whom are fugi-
tiFes from the "orful' calamities which
is thought must be the inevitable lot of
Kansas pioneers. As such are well pre-
pared co to give a correct and honest
report ~ thereof.
Some of US have gone up the Kansas
river as far as Topeka, although we
did not leave the main travelled road to
view. the country en- either side. Have
had the same represented to US by those
who say they have been few miles fur
ther up, as being really worse than the
portion oye- which We have travelled !;
and We were constrained togiye credence
to their story. Hence we took the back
track
A large portion of US have extended
our perigrinations as far as Lawrence !;
tarried all night, and few of US one
whole day; found that every body was
bustling around attending to their own
business, and had no time to ''loaf" with
u.s. We had no change of plate; there
was quite lack of vegetables great
destitution of the luxaries aud delicaeies
to which we have been habituated no
fine beds; soft, downy, cushions; easy
spring lounges, (although we eonstitu-
ting quite number of ioungers. Law
renee nothing but small village, with
only 1900 to 1900 inhabitants: the Ter
ritory generally unfenced, unpainted,
and unfinished and we altogether dis
appointed.
After our eyes beheld all this, and our
delicate stomachs felt the need of what
was not to be found, you need not be
astonished that we are dissatisfied and
"won't stay" By far the largest por-
ton of Us yaliantly pushed our way
from our far homes ill Maine. New
Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Mas
sachusetts, Maryland, and District of
Columbia; battling of-privatiOns severe.
enduring fatigue unparalleled, fisking
our precious bodies, trunks; ;-earpef-sacks
and ..hoss pistols" without insurance,
on the shoaIly. shaggy. turbid, danger
Gus Missouri river, all the way up to Kan
sas, City, Mo. When we look over our
hair breadth escapes, we grow tremulous;
yet to have suffered our migratory pro-
pensities (pretty well eked out, to have
carried us further from home, would
surely have resulted in death; therefore
the following has been by US almost
unanimously adopted;
Whereas, We, the returning emigrauts
to Kansas Territory, having already suf-
fered greatly on account OF our migFa-.
tory propensities oYer-infuencing our
better judgment; having had but little
milk and butter on our trip. the waters
of the Missouri not having been settled,
clarified and running cool, pure, and
swift for our especial accommodation ;;
but on tie contrary, rather turbid and
unpalatable, with the possibility of there
being an utter destitution of every COM
fort. convenience and necessary. further
into the interior; and Whereas, We
have been greatly disappointed in the
size of the cities called Lawrence and
Topeka, although made aware that they
were but seven months fledglings, before
leaving the homes of our youthful joys :;
and Whereas, We are not, neither have
been, enamored with the Missouri town
called Kansas City, it being rather bro
ken, filthy and unsightly and Whereas,
The 'EmiSrant Aid Society actually
charge for board and lodging at their
hotel in said Kansas City, contrary to our
expectations, and in addition, have not
as by US anticipated, fine coaches, car
riages, horses, mules, de-, constantly on
hand. TO convey emigrants. "Seott free,"
whittier they wist; and Whereas, We
have divers and sundry- other grievances
of which to complain, the recital of which
would immoderateiy lengtllen this pre-
amble, and more than likely be disbe-
lieyed by the majority of those who read
the same therefore,
Resolved, That Kansas Territory is a
huInbug, the "Emigrant Aid Company"
a great swindle, the sovereign squat
ters'' unenlightened and heathenish, and
wen 20 back to our mas.
Resolved, That we will. in returning
to our homes, busy ourselves on the
route, by the invention of all kinds of
hard stories about Kansas, although by
none of us explored, and by most of Us
not even entered; fearing that we may
be the "butt" of our neishbors who viii
laugh at our stupidity, boyish freaks, and
chicken n-heartedness.
As you see, we have, after the due de-
liberation that men of enlarged capacities
possess, the decision of character, and
fearless adventurous spirits of course
ours, come to the firm conclusion, that
heathens settle the west, and the more
enlightened, better dressed portion of
this Union, who have long since discard
ed pork, beans, cern-dodgers and the old
Allopathic practice of medicine, will re-
main at home until they. the said heath
ems, get the several little conveniencies
around them inducive to our emigration
thitherward; continuing of course as
heretofore. to shoot our grain in thecrey-'
ices of the rocks on our lovely eastern
border, and carry soil enough to cover
the same from Egypt. which we hear is
very fertile country.
We would advise every body and his
wife, residing east of the Allegheny
Mountains, 10 stay away from Kansas,
leaving the vast waste to the Western
States and skaw Injuns," they being
more peculiarly adapted to develop such
a God-forssken country, where there
IS no great supply ofsimber for shipment