The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
Letter from New Hanpshire.
SOHERswoRTH, II. H.,
March %. 1856. {

Ed. HERALD UF HEEDOA. DEAR OH
/ have had the Kansas fever for several
months, and it continues to increase ; the
only reason why I cannot effect cure is,
my wife is opposed to an application of
the proper remedy; she is afraid of your
long hot weather. If you can put some
thing into your paper that win give her
the fever, we will then be westward no!
My neighbors tell me that am too old
to emigrate to new country; but l don't
think SO. l am fifty y-three, and the hard
thumps have received within the last
twenty years in fighting the battles of
temperance and anti-slavery, make me
feel, sometimes, little weary of life ;
but think if could exchange our long
cold winters and damp east winds for the
sunny cline of Kansas and the society
of your water-preventive city, l should
enjoy myself much better than l do in
this place. We are making some head
way in the good cause; but in this State
there are so many professed temperance
men who are afraid of going too fast,
that it is hard work to push along the
car. You have started the car on the
very top of the grade, and be sure that
you keep it there; for when you have
prevented intemperance, you have saved
society from half the ills of life.
There is a deal of talk about Kansas
being a slave State but the late elections
have settled that question. There will
never be another slave State admitted in
to this Union-more especially none from
a Territory once eonsecrated to freedom.
But you will never apply for admission
as slave State: there will be more anti
slavery voters emigrate from New Hamp-
shire to Kansas this year than there will
be of shareholders from all the slave
States together. The fever in this State
RACES badly with the Methodists, but is
not wholly confined to that sect; and you
will be glad to learn that our rum-drink-
ers, blacklegs. and pickpockets are not in
the least affected with it. Spies are pre-
pairing to start with the first emigrant
train to search out the goodly land; and
You may soon expect a perfect avalanche
of choice spirits from the old Granite
State.
You keep writing what men can do in
Kansas; now tell US what woman can do,
and what compensation she can obtain
for her labor? This is manufacturing
village. and some two thousand young
women are employed in the mills, and
live in a state of single blessedness.-
Some Of these would be glad to find
milder climate and a different kind of
employment. suppose your answer
will be, They can get married if they
viii come to Kansas. Well, almost any
one of them would make good wife.
and some of them are but little below
the angels in Heaven. But suppose they
should not be duly appreciated. or should
choose to remain single, what are the in
ducements for them to come to Kansas?
Yours, respectfully, J.B. W.
Our friends letter is just the kind we
love to answer. AS to his wife, it is an
easy matter to dispose of her objection.
We are assured by those who have resi-
ded here that gentle breeze rises in the
summer with the sun, andall day through
the oppressive, sultry season in New
Hampshire, we are famed by the balmy
winds of heaven which infuse health,
vigor, and elasticity to those occupying
the high lands. The low lands and river
bottoms do not enjoy these advantages,
and for that reason we would advise the
pioneer to erect his dwelling on the high
est ground he can find on his claim. The
higher the better, as such places are least
subject to frost and fogs, and the residents
there will escape the diseases more COM
mon to the plain. The high winds !oi
autumn and winter may be urged as an OBJ
jction to building on elevated grounds
but it should be remembered that tene-
ments in future must be erected of materi-
al through which the winds cannot pene-
trate, as has been the case with our tenn
porary structures the last winter. The
winds here are not more severe than those
of Pennsylvania, but are more frequent
They appear oppressive because of oul
exposure.
: As to age, we think it no objection
We need the experience of wisdom to
: guide us during the present troublous
times. Besides, we have no doubt oul
! genial atmosphere would infuse new life
g into our friend, and make him young
l again. We would not, however, advise
those who are on the down-hill side o
life to come here unless they have pecu
MARY means to assist them. The young
| and the adventurous will find an ample
field for exertion, and they, in a few years
will constitute our capitalists and states
men. The aged with money. may make
themselves homes of afluence, which viii
soon be surrounded with conveniencas
never to be realized among the granite
hills of New England.
If the actual residents here can mfiu-
enee the making power, one of the
first acts of the Legislature of Kansas
viii be the adoption of prohibitory liq-
uor law; if. however, the representatives
of the grog-shops of Missouri are to con-
troll the ballot-box, and the most depraved
of that number are to be clothed with
authority and disgrace our Legislative
Councils in violation of all law, then we
have nothing to hope for the cause of
temperance. Human freedom, morality,
and religion are sacrificed together, and
universal anarchy viii peryade all condi-
tions of society. IsSa =
i Raasds cannot Be Stare Statet The
recent outrages perpetrated here has set