The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-06-14
KANsAs-N0 REASON FOR ENCOURAGEMENT

Mr.. CONWAY, one Of the two Anti -Slavery
members returned to the Legislature at the
first election, on his way to Kansas from Balti-
more, writes to us from St. Louis, June lst, as
| follows:
:" am now on board steamboat Just start
| ing for the Missouri river and Kansas. The
| reports of cholera on the river and i'm the Ter
ritory which were circulated in the East, find
were utterly without foundation. This region
of country has never been healthier at this sea-
son OF the year than at present. The rumors
of sickness, and the apprehensions Of men along
the Missouri frontier, have caused great fall
ing off in the emigration from the East much
| to the damage and great annoyance of steam
| boat proprietors, and other persons whose
| branches of business patroniZed by the
travelling public"
| We feared that the lying reports about the
cholera, and the bullying system adopted by
Stringfellow 4 Co, might have the effect here
mentioned; but We hope it will be temporary
For years past, the cholera has appeared at
points in the West, hardly however, as an cpl
denic, and it is easy for the traveller to avoid
it by ordinary prudence. AS to Kansas itself,
there is not the slightest probability that it will
appear there at ALL
Later accounts from that Territory show in
dications of returning sanity. The barbarians
threaten loudly, but their violence has brough,
down upon them the rebuke of large portion
of the Press Of Missouri, and is already provo
king reaction. They released Phillips because
they feared a rescue; and so far from being in
Inundated by the treatment he had received, he
recently returned to Leavenworth, and let it be
understood that thenceforth he would protec
himself. We have not heard OF any attempt tc
repeat the violence.
At Kansas city, as we have seen, their eff
forts to get up a mob proved failure. Th,
town of Lawrence and other Anti. Slavery set
Elements in Kansas so well prepared to de
fend themselves, that they have not the slight
est apprehension of danger. Weston itself
which has become somewhat notorious for it
mob spirit, has at last made public demon
, stration against the barbarians A meeting O
} the citizens, called by the Mavor, on the 1871
ult, in the court room, that officer presiding
adopted a series of resolutions, disclaimin
all part or lot in the lynching of Mr.. Phillips
disappearing and deprecating anything lik
: mob violence in any FORM"
Meantime, there is still great influx of i'm
. migrants into the Territory; new settlement
, are in process of formation; commerce is in
J creasing and the facilities for reaching tn
Territory are multiplied.
Let one, DESTROYS to emigrate, and an,
= ious To see Kansas a Free State, be deferred
e the lying reports set afoat by the Pro-Slaver
Party. The first Legislature may attempt t
, fasten the curse of Negro Slavery upon the TIE
+ ritory, but we cannot believe that the Govern
$ or, who knows that the great majority of tn
n members have been elected through fraud an
J violence, will hesitate to interpose his veto
: arrest any such act of nfamy. At all events
4 wrong may be righted-the bad deeds of on
l. Legislature may be undone by another.
y Non-slaveholders comprise the whole of Ii
o population of the Union, with the exception
!. three hundred and seventy FIVE thousand persons
4 the poor white people of the South are just
!, much interested in the exclusion Of slave lab