The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-11
Correspondents.
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Letter from Ottawa.
OrrAwA CREHK, Augast3. 1855

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Letter from Ottawa.
0rrAwA cREEk, Augast5 ), 1855.
MR. EDfrrR.-I thought / had so
much % da ex,eadin, the sares Of human
freedom down here on the otfaws, that
Il couldn't possibly write coraIaunica-
lions for the Herald. But, dear me, what
Ichangable critters we sre;; how mighty
snail 3 thing turns US Fight-about face,
when it hits right When 1 got the Sec
Iond number OF the Herald, directed to
me s.Box i32, !" and read that glorious
speech of Thomas II. Ford, of Ohio, at tho
Philadelphia Il. N. Conyention-I say,
when had read it out loud to Jacob,
and laughed and cried over IL with him,
I began to think I'D ind time to tell you
how it does our old hearts good to hear
the eastern breezes gisiu' out sieh tones as
those.
An. Mr. Editur, when Jacob and I
left our old home in Vermont, and ssaked
out claim in this Territory, We didn't
know how seldom we would get the news
Of the true and fast friends Of freedom at
the East. We didn't think Of going be-
.yond Lawrence Post Office so far that We
must wait three weeks for achanee to get
and send letters and papers. But we are
to have our mails brought weekly here
after, and that makes US feel good deal
nearer our old friends, for we can hear
from them and write to them with mo-
raj certainty of getting return in given
time.
Mr.. Editur, ] know your paper is Ia
ken by great many of my acqusiHian-
ces, and would like mighty we'll. to
say a cheap. of things to them, bnt I
amt in philosophical mood just now,
and my dignity" is siip-shod, so Just
bethought me that, as / used TO write for
the Bratileburg Dimocrat and have .
good many intimate friends there, who
knows my style and viii recognise my
signature could write you in my slip
shod, s'old wife" character, and tie hot
weather wouldn't tspile it for them, ifthey
don't see it till ''dog days" are over.
NY friends East are 'mazin anxious to
hear how we live out here, and they write
US sich pityin' letters that We feel some
times after readin' 'em like the client,
iwho cried TO hear his counsel plead his
lease, and said he odidn't know before
how much he had suffered Wei, If
our friends would send US words Of good
cheer, instead of telling us how unhappy
our absence makes 'em, it would naka
us glad to receive their lettersS Is .
fact, come TO look it all over, that ffe
greatest sufferin' for us pioneers is after
all in the friends We have left. We amt
like to starye, and we have better appe-
tites than we brought from the East With
us. If our eastern friends could only see
Jacob and the boysstowe away the bacon
and johnny cake and milk. they'd think
the cooks in Kansas 3 hard class.
and expect we'd bs votin' for slaves to
du our work insted of runnin' bullets and
sendin' the boys-Hith johnny-cake lunch
in their pockets-to Palmyra, to keep
the Missourians from burning down The
town. By the way, Mr.. Editur, if the
Missourians would come and live among
as, we reckon there Kouldn't be any
6ghtin'. We have several Missouri
neighbors, and they are right peacsabls
people. We wish we had more OF 'em.
For, as I tell Jacob, the very air of Kan
sas smells of freedom; asd nobody can
breathe it long and curse tie Ysnkees
because they love it and have brought it
With them from Ticonderoga and Bunker
Hill.
/ But this want what took my pen to
write about. Pse been thinking of the
progressive women" Of the East. and
so longed to see something from their
pens. For, Mr.. Editnr, DO yon know
I'm thinking that they have almost for
/ got sfwimihss s rights, since nea's rights
are agin to be fought for in this republican
!. country. Our old Revolutionary moth
lers-Heayen remember ,em-had pretty
much sich rights as we wimin of Kansas
Ihaye-the right.to bake jehnny snd
help the men folks build log cabins, and
fight for ,em.
Nobody out here knows anything
about uimin's rights. The men here
wouldn't have any arguments Ike our
eastern opponents-that the women want
/ the right to work out dooss"-we all do
| that Nth btksiircoasent-''t turn soldiers"
d make smsunitionef fus-"driye
Icattle. cut wood,-these are feminine
employments in anew Territory y-sud the
liiks.
3 No, no, Dir. Editur. the wozsen Of
Kansas feels that slavery thrsateEs their
rights when it would parade . degraded,
lbe2stIy womanhood, % be trampied be-
meath the contempt Of their husbands,
sons and brothers. Oar rights win new
Fer be won and secured while slavery
ltramples upon our black sisters. / tell
Jacob, heweyeF, that as for the legal
rights Of white women, I'd sooner trust
1 the Missouriaas than men of Msssechn-
Isegts and Vermont. for thus far the sschiy-
IalSy" Of Missouri haslegislated better Eor
married women and Eidovs than have
the .Justiee- ee-Iosing men OF hose States.
/ But my sheet is full, snd / don't know
as you can make oat what ! have rit.-
hfy spectacles that ] brought from the
East don't suit my eyes right well, and
II'ye used .my hands 50 hard dDin' all
sorts of things dat ] can't get over the
paper as Esstas mus 30 say nhst want
10, and write 3 l.andsnm hsnd IS used
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