The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-21


"Osawa:omie was founded by a gen
leman. O. C. Brown, of Utica. D.. "
The General, as agent of the Aid Com
ipany, may have visited these eight points
and sketcled towns III his minds eye,
but made no further improvement, except
locating a mill at two of the places.
Lawrence and Topeka. mills thai have
done no good whatever as yet !" $.
Will the very truthful editor inform
his readers where Mr. O. G. Brown gets
his money to build his city with, and if
he finds that part or all OF it comes
from the agents of the Emigrant Aid
Company, vii he have the candor TO own
up? Certainly not, unless he departs
from his usual course. Ofcourse, if aid
has been furnished to any other place
except Lawrence or Topeka, the above
statement contains falsehood but then
a falsehood, although it would look bad
in Gen. Pomeroy, is in perfect harmony
with the Free State, and no one would
think itatall out ofplace. ANY man who
cares anything about his reputation for
veracity, would be very sorry to state
that these things were so, butt is not
to be presumed that The editors of the
Free State have any such care, for what
they say? They say that the mills
at Lawrence and Topeka ".have done no
good whatever as yet" What does the
writer mean by doing no good? If
he means that the mills have done moth
ing towards dividing the Free State party
OF for the introduction of slavery into
Kansas, he may be right; but if he means
that. they haze furnished no lumber for
the citizens of the Territory, or for its
improvement, there is about as much
truth in the remark as usually comes
from that paper when speaking of the
Emigrant Aid Company. During tie
last five months tie mill at Law
renee has sawed 10000 feet of lum-
ber, aud In all, since it started, about
100000 feet, according to the mill
books, and this has all been used for i'm
proyements in the Terri DRY. This is
something, and il it has done 'sno good
whatever" it must be an injury. No
doubt the editors ofthe Free State regard
it as an evil, for all that does not aid in
making Kansas slave State, is presumed
to be considered by them to be positive
evil. If not, what can they mean by
saying that the mills have ''dore no good
whatever 2" The mill at Topeka has not
been in operation as long as the one a
Lawrence. but am informed it is doing
a very good business. If these mills are
doing mo good whatever" what can be
said of other mills, for, bad as they are,
they have sawed as much lumber as any
mill in the Territory, SO far as can learn,
and am told that the mill at Lawrence
has sawed, since the other mills at tl.is
place started, as much lumber as both of
them, and the saving was much better
done. But these other mills are pulled
and complimented By the Free State as
great blessings, while mill that does
nearly OF. quite as much as both, is re-
garded as ''perfectnuisauce.'' -
Again he says
.'rhe mill here is a perfect nuisance.
The hotel, which has been building ever
since the Company had anexistence. still
fingers. 1t is now up one story, the
work having stopped, and the contractor
has taken his hands off, not being able 10
get his pay, and of course cannot go on
with the work."
The above statement, that the work on
the hotel has stopped, DC, is just about
as true as the rest of the article, and con-
tains not word of truth, as any one in
Lawrence may know.
Again: 1.-The mill and hotel are all
they have attempted here. and they have
done nothing at other points.
It.is unnecessary, TO say TO any one
here in Lawrence, that every word Of the
above is utterly false, ald the writer
knew it TO be false when lie wrote it.
Once more :.
''This hotel being delayed thus, has
been more injury to the place than all
other things combined. Hundreds of
persons have left our place for want of a
comfortable hotel to stop at. Yet tire
Company viii neither do anything itself,
nor give up the work 60 individuals who
would put it up immedia ely.
1--WE think that this powerful Company
has scared the citizens OF Lawrence into
acquiescenee, silence and submission
long enough. If you have any regard
for your OWE Pi;eesuniary interests, you
will no longer submit to their taniaHzing
hnmbugging operations. Let us have
hotel ready for the reception OF the i'm
mense emigration that viii pour in here
in the fall. 1t is suicidal for us to de-
pend on the Aid Company doing any
thing for Lawrence. or for any other point
IN Kansas Territory
Indeed This is deplorable. 1t is
remarkable that Lawrence, with this
Company iyuring il SO much, should
have grown at all. and perfectly astonish-
ing that it should be the first town in the
Territory, in point of numbers and I'M
'pT6ve1ieHts. The editor complains that
We do not give up the work % indisid-
uals who would put up the hotel Gimme
diately.p Well, we have done so, and
those individuals have bcen at work for
several weeks as fast as they could OBJ
tgin material to work with. The above
will do very well for talk, but until very
recently, If now, there has not been
ready money enough. that could be
spared, among all the people Of Lawrence,
including the editors Of the Free Stsle
and. all their friends, 10 erect-a hotel of
tho character and dimensions of the one
being erected in this place by the Emil
grant Aid Company. There may be
some friends of The Free State who can