The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17

LAWRENCE, Feb. IS, 1855

ka1aenooQs answered.
LAWRENCE, Feb. Is, 1856
Mr.. EDITOR II cut the following e1-
ract from letter which appeared a few
weeks ago in the Kansas Herald:
"There is not single doubt that Kan
sas will be slave State. Our recent elec-
ton shows majority in its favor. Gen.
J. w. Whitfield, the pro-slavery candi-
date, had out of the twenty-eight humid
red votes polled, twenty-five hundred.
And Notwithstanding the Aid Societies
have poured in hordes of her paupers for
the purpose of Abolitionizing Kansas,
they either become initiated in our insti-
tutions, or leave as fast as they arrive.
Now if the South does herduty, and espe-
cially Missouri, the northern hope of Alb
olitionizing Kansas. viii be phantom
hope. -
81 am a northener by birth; Hove her
Institutions; / am proud of the native
State that gave me birth. but when see
policy prompted by dishonesty and false
hood, / ever mean to decide on the side
of justice. 1t is doing justice to the
South, to the negroes, and de fafo to hu-
manity, to have this slave State; and in
my estimation, Judging from the present
and from the past, it is destined to become
one of the first, and most important slave
States in the Union.
"Where is Lawrence, the reservoir for
the overflow of the Aid Societies Ii is
true she is still situated on the Kaw river,
butts now one of the principal pro-sla-
very towns in Kansas.
"And now, dear sir, allow me to give
you description of the manner in which
the poor victims of the Aid Societies live.
Many live in miserable canvas tents, with
scarce room enough for one man to stretch
himself. Others have been fortunate
enough to erect od-houses, built on the
same plan as the Esquimaux snow huts,
with hole in the top, which answers the
purpose both as window and a Chin
ney-a small semi-circular hole, about
three feet high, answers for the door. It
is comical to see the poor fellows when
they peep out in the morning, and how
disappointed they look ; for perhaps they
have dreams about plenty of vegetables,
beef, &C., as hungry man viii have. ]
took occasion to inquire of one Of these
poor fellows how he managed to live.
He said he hardly knew himself. The
Missourians, who are fast settling up the
place, give them as much as they can af-
ford. He said he forgot his hunger in
his sleep. 1t is thus they live. But
things commence to assume different
aspect. Since the energetic men of the
South have taken their march thither, a
saw-mill has been erected, and things are
commencing to assume civilized form.
"Leavenworth stands on an elevated
bluff, about two miles below the fort, and
about forty miles above Kansas City. 1t
is the finest site for town on the river,
and is destined to become, in my estims-
ton, the metropolis of the Northwest
1t contains a fine hotel, between thirty
and forty houses, steam saw-miil COM
pleted, and another near completion.
"Inconcluding this brief sketchof Kan
sas as it is, allow me to inform you that I
write disinterestedly, having no interest
in theabove-mentioned places, any further
than wishing them prosperity. The above
l claim to be plain unvarnished descrip-
ton. I am, sir, your obedient servant,
"UDOLPHo WOLF, yR.''
To me, this is very extraordinary Ian
guage. The writer must have known
that his statements were untrue in many
respects; and if he did not know that
same thing, am strongly inclined to the
opinion that he did moi want to know it.
Kansas to be slave State-proof, Whit
fields election. Now this argument does
not at all agree with the avowal of the
slave State papers generally that the sla-
very question had nothing to do with his
election-that the issue on which he was
elected was that of squatter sovereignty.
Mr.. Wolf says: +" am northener by
birth; / love her Institutions" and just
below says it is doing justice to humanity
to have Kansas slave State. Shame on
the man who can find itin his heartto utter
such sentiment. A northern man with.
southern principles is, to my mind, to
be detested everywhere. He generally
sinks his manhood in debasing subser-
viency to slaveocracy, and he is usually
most heartily despised by southerners-
This is because he adopts southern princi-
pies for mere policy. or to secure scme
personal end. A man who has been
reared at the North, and who loves the
free institutions Of the North, cannot be-
come really in love with a system which
curses whole States, and prevents their
development in agriculture, IN science.
and in art.
Further, he adds: Lawrence isnov one
of the principJ ro-siasery towns in Kan
sas. How does this harmonic with the
fact that every paper printed here-thrse
in numbers for making Kansas free ?
Also: "Sinee the energetic men of the.
South have taken their march thither,
saw-mill has been erected" &c. Hr.
Wolf knew that the inference ve ara.
compelled to draw from this remark is
false tn toto.
What he says about Lawrence issinply
ridiculous. and no sane man viii give Il
the least credit. Only knave or fool
could have penned such tissue of mis-
representations and SANDER.
TRIMMER.