The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-27
FIR M< Hraia II Freedom.

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Ma. EnlroR As thers seems to he q
disposition on the part of some few dis
affected persons to denounce this COM
pany, as unworthy of trust and conf
dence, it may not be out of place for one
of those poor deluded persons, who still
(disregarding all that is said to the con-
trary) have confidence in the Emigrant
Aid Society, to give his reasons for be.
lieving the company effective in securing
the objects for which it was organized,
which is, in fact, a benevolent one. Ipro.
cured ticket in Boston which took me
to St Louis, for about seven dollars less
than the regular fare, and something was
saved in the passage from st. Louis to
Kansas City, NO.; and, through the in
strumentality of the company, boarded
at the Union Hotel, at reduction from
the regular price. The price of storage
is three fourths less per month than it
was before the company commenced oper-
ations here in Kansas. 1t is true, the
company have not erected large hotels
on the road between this city and Kansas,
and they do not board emigrants without
charge at such hotels. But on coming to
this city we find that two or three large
thatehed receiving houses have been
built. True, they are not so comfortable
as one could wish; but they are the best
that could have been erected under the
circumstances. Who built them? The
reply is, the Emigrant Aid Company
A saw-mill is in operation. True, it has
not worked first-rate but it was the best
that could be got in time to put up last
fall. The steam engine, which was pur-
chased in Rochester, NJ Y, by the same
company, was not forwarded on SO soon
as expected but now it has arrived, and
is to be taken up to settlement above to
assist those who have located in Topeka.
The same company have employed all
who desired labor and would work, and
have paid them cash, ever since their ar
rival. We know the Emigrant Aid Com
pany does not plow the land and sow the
seed for the emigrants neither do they
board people without money and without
price but they have enabled the emf
grants to keep boarders at reasonable
rate +; and no sensible person will COM
plain at the inconveniences of pioneer life,
and charge them all upon the company,
when the fault is in themselves.
The pleasure derived from the same
society here that we enjoyed in New
England, has induced people to come out
together in large parties, and on their
arrival they are located together, and can
at once enjoy the privilege of the public
school and the church, which is highly
priced by many. And I think, consid-
ering the shortness of the time, the Pc
cuniary, and other disadvantages which
always attend new enterprise, that they
have done remarkably well, and promise
to do better in the future. One thing is
certain, the company have not been an
injury to any man or body of men here in
the Territory. No one has ever lost a
dollar by them and if they do no harm,
why denounce them for doing but little
good? well know that the Emigrant
Aid Company does not need my poor de-
tense; it does not require it, in order to
live and flourish; for despite all tina
can be said against it by those who arr
opposed to the great principle upol
which it is based, it will live and accom-
Iplish its great object, if that object il
what many think it is, good one. I.