The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1855-06-16

how destructive their influences.
We say that America is free-and s.
she is free from the shaekles of foreigl
despot or the bayonets of a native tyrant
but there is despotism established ant
growing in this country that will event
ually overleap that of any country of tn
old world. A man steps from the back
woods with pack on his back. rough
rude, and uncultivated, as the rocks o
his native hills, and the idea in his mint
is wealth. Labor and economy are hi
means. At the end of a few years al
opportunity offers and be invests his saw
ings, and at the expiration of few
years more he is wealthy. Thus far h
has done well, and should be applaudeC
forh industry and energy. Here, how
ever, is the end, and his better judgmen
here leaves him. Almost any man with
the opportunity, can make money, while
there are but few who dispose of it judi
ciously. In possession of wealth, oul
protogee lays about him and calculate,
how he can best dispose of it to accom-
plish his own happiness, and in quite &
mistake believes that it must be stucl
about him like honey around bees leg
He builds a costly palace on Fifth avenue
I write from what I'VE seen in New
York adorns and furnishes it with rega
splendor-has his equipages and steed,
STABLES, perhaps superior to Saladin':
and his servants wear alivery. His
family rustic in silks which sit slatternly
and uncouthly upon them, and in which
they move awkwardly and unnaturally
while in his own apparel he is the very
exemplar of a coxcOmb with mustouched
lip, white kids and tight pants. At his
board in his saloons assemble as light
brains and as silly tongues as his own, to
the exclusion of honest merit and cult.
waited talents. Thus he spends his wealth.
while wantand haggard poverty lives in
a hovel his next door neighbor, or the
ambitious wisdom loving student, pores
over some pages of science, by the mid
night taper, which glimmers through an
attic window over the way, and then
tolls the Gvelong day thereafter, for food
and clothes and the means of another
nights refreshment.
America has many roods of fertile soil,
and lofty hills, and lovely wales many
a league of flowing water, DER whose
bosoms our thousand barks glide proud
" on. Mother earth clasps us all to hel
generous bosom and feeds us bountifully
while within is many a hidden treasure
and mine of wealth. We are free !; oul
laws are liberal our government strong
our people civilized and learned, and we
already stand second to none in the great
conclave of nations. Since the establish
ment of our republic our career has been
progressive. Let it continue SO, and yet
to secure its preservation the present and
future generations must be purified, not
perverted.
We say America is free and yet i
she I? Steal into the basement pits, tic
animate tombs and the sinking cells O
lower i mean underground New York
or any of the large cities of America,
where the poor, the vicious, the aban-
doned and indolent congregate and are
compelled to exist, and behold the bond
age both unnatural and unnecessary
But this is voluntary seryitude, serYi-
tude not of man to his fellow man, but oI
the soul to the base and disgusting pas
sions of the body, and the conflict be-
tween capital and labor, wealth and pow
erty. But | have seen safe and infalli-
bic remedy for diseases of this sort and
slavery of this kind. There is one hall
of the national domain still uninhabited,
uncultiYated and a wilderness, yet with
as rich soil and as beautiful a country as
the foot of man ever trod or the eye oi
mortal ever scanned. Let the beings
who rot in their sinks of pollution, and
those who struggle with poverty and are
pinched with penury in those large towns,
come forth to the prairies of the West.
But is America free from involuntary
slavery? From the despotism of man
over man? Of master and slave? Just
about half and half. Here then is the
head and front of my offending, or the
commencement of my epistle.
When l rise from my couch each morn
at dawn of day, and arrayed in the gar
ments which civilization and the formula
of our social organization have prescribed
and go forth from my domicil to take &
peep at the naked beauties with which
nature has surrounded and decked Clare
vale. and clustered upon its hills, and il
its vallies m profuse luxuriance, and t,
inhale the free air, look forth to tn,
East and behold it blazing with glory
and the streams of gold which the SUI
speeds before it, to herald his approach
ere he pours over the earth his flood o
light, and a gush of delight shoots thro
my being when / thinkit is the land o
the free, the glorious FREE. While thi
grey dawn fades away in the West
and the sun fingers no longer in the YAK
of Cashmere, but springs up the heavens
in his luminous career, my eyes follow
the golden stream as it flows to the South
where they linger for awhile Then
seated myself on mystone bench-an'
though it is the sunny South, the clim
of luxuriance and beauty, and blandesto
zephyrs blow, and where every seaso
smiles, though it is the
..land of the cedar and vine.
Where the flowers ever bleeni, the beams eve
shine;
Where the citron and olive are fairest of frlit,
and the voice of the nightingale never is mute,
Still l think of the curse Of huma
blaekness which rests on all that fai
realm, of the hydra-headed monste
slavery, and all the accumulated torture
and horrors coexistent with it. In thi
train of thought have several time
made up my mind to write an epistie 3
the abolitienists, and tell why came .
Kansas.
There is cause for everything, an'
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