New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-04
BIBLES AND RIFLES IN KANSAS.
INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE COR
PFSPONDTNCE
ufAt ~ a A4AAtiA-hE Aa"N aAS''
Changing into grsy,
Men Of thought, and men OF action,
Clear the way"

TIE REV. II. W. BEEcHER TO THE SEw-HAVEN
CoLOSY FOR KANSAS.
BRooHYS, Friday, March %, 1856.
C. B. Liner rag, Neo- Harsn, Conn.
DEAR SIR: Allow me to address you, aud through
you the gentlemen of your Company, on the eve OF
your. departure for Kansas. hope and believe that
YOU will find settlement there to be means of great
personal prosperity. You are not like the early
settlers of New Haven going upon doubtful enter
prise to poor soil, in climate, the ocean on
one eide and the wilderness of Continent on every
other side. You viii not 90 far from us. In our day
We by time. rather than distance by hour-,
not miles. You will not be a. far from your Old homes
Sabbath l. from another And yet you go upon
ar erand not uhH less Christian anu less
heroic than that of our common ancestors, who
founded New-Hayen. You are pioneers OF lo"hs
and cities; you are the seed oil Chrisushi'y-tHe
germs Of civilization. You viii put down your teet
in a wilderness, In year il will be popuous pisce,
And where the morning now Uses upon herds OF
wild buffalo, cOuched deep in wild grae, IN your own
lifetime II viii bring forth the cry OF mnlutudrs anu
the noise of city Nevertheless such penis have Oeeh
cCed about the young State OF Kansas that IL Is an
act Of courage settle there, if man goes with the
true spin, OF American Institutions IL othere deter
mined to transplant To its soil that tree oil Derl whlcn
under God has in older States borne ana NOOK op"h
from iis boughs all the traits Of an unparalleled pros
perty, requires heroic courage. Ii Isl pleasure ana
honor TO u TO be in any way connected with sncn an
enterprise by furnishing To the emgrant material OF
raj aid. have personally felt double interest In
your company because ii springs from New-HaVen,
ny fathers birthplace and home Of my ancestors
\ friend and parlshieuer A. Studwell desires me
to present 10 you twenty five copies OF The Bipie;
Tbs il the charter Of al charters, the constitution Of
all constitutions the aud spring OF Christian
maulness. The book vii be at the DundAIson OF
your State II will .each you 10 vslne ygnri tishte
and inspire yea 10 defend them. The donor mas caused
10 be insc ihsi upon them: BE ye stesdfa9t and IN
movable 1t Is shame that, in America AMIDST our
fee Institutions ANYTHING else should b. needed DuI
moral n.truUientaiiies. But yoa do need more lou
will be surrounded by men " have already colne'i
the vseke wrobs and the mott atroeious erit'
They viii scrupe at nothing BY which slavery may De
fsstene1 upon the Young State. 10 send iof'h c'ip
Lies Cf men with their families amid those VINO no,
been bred TO regard helplessnes a. s~iul prey %
strength would be piece OF uniusiliaoie cruelty:
send to you therefore as mised, the arms REQUIRE
for twenty-five men. | have not the ie1st II a
that EuI dred men bred under New-Eng an'
| il fuences will be too eager or too W'.rike
You have been taught to create wealth ana no. TO 70
H. 10 rely upon intelligence and Teettute To- defense
And YOU rot be in any danger Of enlng on the sid
If violence But you seht for the oer nse OF gfea
rights You have no liberty to beiray the by coward
ice There are tmes when seli-deteyase is religion
duty. II tia, duty was ever imPeTs'.ye !. no" a.