The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
Original Correspondents.
FIR the L1rald u FREEDOM.
Letter fron Connecticut.
PRovIpENcE. Aug, 55.

DEAR sIR-Aecording TO promise,
having arrived at the end of nay long
journey. send you short account of
what have seen and heard. Well. af
ter leaving you l went to the Shawnee
Methodist Mission, and Stopped a few
hours with the notorious Kansas Legis-
lature, so called, or miscalled, as you
please. / did not stop long enough to
get the run of their business, but saw
that they were driving through bin after
bill with lightning speed, and with very
little consideration Indeed I presume
the thinking had all been done more
than .Gwo months, before, as their
Speaker said, II their meetings in Mis-
souri,, so that their only business here is
to carry out what was then agreed upon
In passing down tie Missouri / found
that was in company with Major Don
aldSon, the messenger of the aforesaid
L legislature, who was bearing their tine
mortal" requesting the removal of Gov.
Reeder, TO the President of the United
States. 1t was said that he was also the
bearer of petition, signed by the mem
bers of the Legislature, TO be himselfap
pointed Governor of the Territory If
so, he must probably have felt a little
disappointed when on arriving at St.
Louis he learned that his memorial and
petition had been anticipated by the re-
moyai of Gov. Reeder and the appoint
ment Of another besides himself to his
place. Leaving st. Louis, where stop
ped day; came on to New York, after
making stop of a day at several places.
and finally arrived at my journeys end
and found all well.
In passing through so large an extent
of country at this beautiful season of the
year, | had fine opportunity to com
pare Kansas with the regions thus tra-
versed, and Ieould not but be struck with
the superiority of the former In many res
poets. 1t seems TO me to possess a much
finer climate, more beautiful scenery,
and much richer and more productive
soil, than any region which l saw. The
corn in Kansas is much larger and prom
ises much more abundant crop, than
any which | saw, not excepting that of
Illinois, which isealled the,greatest corn
growing portion Of the whole country.
The stock, toe, in Kansas looksmuch lar |
ger aud more thrifty and in better eondi-
ton, than any which | saw. On the
whole can but feel better satisfied with
Kansas after comparing it with other
portions of the country which | have
seen, than | ever did before. And can
not doubt but the future of Kansas viii |
be prosperous and even brilliant in the |
extreme, if she is not suffered to become
cursed with the withcring blight Of sla-
very.
And this leads me to remark that
while on my journey, and stopping at |
several places, made every effort to
ascertain the views Of people in regard to
Kansas political matters, and / was much |
graJifed to find them well posted up in |
regard to facts which have transpired |
there, aud thoroughly alive to the great |
question of freedom or slavery which /
seems destined to-be decided In that To- |
cality. All in the free States, and all the |
sober rejecting people of Missouri, even,
and the slave States, heartily detest the /
unlawful, fanatieal, and marauding course
of tie fire. e-eaters, whose names will be |
handed down to eternal infamy. Most |
seem to understand that the question is |
not whether tie negroes shall be slaves |
or fIeemen, but whether the whites, the
inhabitants of the free States, so called,
shall continue free or be ensiayed, or
subjected 10 the slave power 1t is gen
orally understood that the slave power
has become so grasping as TO plan and
.ittemptnot only the extension of negro
slavery over the whole of the United
States unsettled territory, but finally the
subjugation of the States now free to It's
tyrannical sway, and the introduction in
TO them by force of slavery. With such
an understanding and such views, which
are doubtless correct, it is no wonder
that tie Liberty loving people of the free
States are awake to the subject, and are
determined firmly and unitediY to say to
the tyrannieal monster slavery, "1'hus
far shalt thou go and no farther i am
glad that the pfo-slavery party have
done what they have, and thus clearly
shown their true principles and spirit;
and j predict thatthey have thus raised
storm which win not be allayed until
their principles and plans, and they too,
If need be, are swept into the "iery
Lake. whence they emanated. More
anon. Yours DC. YIAT0R.