The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-02-23
Original Correspondence.
Fer tie Herald IF Freedom.
a Good Man Gone.

2 GOOD Man Gone.
Mr.. GEORGE III. EVANS, formerly of
this city, died at Granville, N. j., on Sat
urday last, aged forty-eight. Mfr. Evans
was known here as aprominentadvoeate
of Land Reform and other humanitarian
movements, and published at various
times papers devoted to the furtheranee.
of his yiews-among them The Man, 2
Z" Young America, and the " Working
mans Advocate
The New York Tribune thus announ-
ees the death-and almost coldly an
nounces 10th best, noblest, and tru-
est of the men of our age and country
and of one, too, to whom, almost more
than to any other man of our times, we
are indebted for the ideal initiation and
advocacy OF our existing and reformato-
~, governmental, social, and civil ideas
and measures. And you of the great
West, if your institutions shall ever cul-
inmate into practical freedom-into free
dom of the soil from the tramels of slave
ry, wealth, and power, or into freedom
of the individual from the curse of de-
pendence upon the ipse dira of landlords
and land speculators, East, North, and
South-will be more indebted to this
humble, but indefatigible reformer, than
to many an other man whom to-day is al
most worshiped, or held to be the cynos-
ure ofall eyes, and mirror of all that is
noble and patriotic. Yet, how few of the
mighty multitudes rolling on, and over,
and settling the mighty regions of the
West, have ever even heard the name of
George II. Evans, or have know or cared
if he lived or died? To him and his
publications, and to the reformatory spir-
it that followed his lead, is our country,
and the West especially, most indebted
for those ideas and arguments, and those
measures in the abstract that, adopted in
thought and legislated into form, can
alone save US. as people, from being
devoured by the rapacity of four own chill
dren-our own strong, unscrupulous
capitalists, and self-elected leaders. Even
"Squatter Sovereignty" rightly under
stood and carried out, but contra-distin-
guished from that species avowed and
sought to be practiced by your " Border
Rufians," owes its first ideal initiation
and popularity to his gifted pen and in
spirations, and the facilities he afforded
to its propagation. May the Great West
build and be his monument, as it should
have been his burial ground, by estab-
fishing in all her State Constitutions that
great fundamental truth demonstrated bv
him, and without which she cannot sub
sist as thriving and hopeful race and
people beyond the period when her soil
is absorbed by spectators, to wit LAND
LIMITATIoN-or, In other words, set
bounds TO the quantity of soil any
man may acquire by law, or otherwise,
and let thatquantity be limited by the ou-
erdge capacity of men Individually to
cultivate and enjoy it as heads of fami-
lies, so that all may have homes of their
own, with none to monopolize that, with
out which no man can be free and dis
posed of which, or of the chance of OBJ
tanning it readily, all are slaves to, or
dependent upon the wealthy, sordid, and
unscrupulous .few-and with each sue
ceeding decade of our lifetime, and as
people and as states, destined more and
more to become so. We must begin
now-To-DAY-to establish this princi-
pie, or it will require no prophet to fore
tell our destiny-our shameless, and not
very remote serfdom to accumulated
wealth, soulless-eorporations, and land
pirates of every varied shade, strength
and tyranny. VIM. J. YOUNG.
New York, Feb. 9th, 1856.
p. S. Please tell yours reader that Ell
ther or you have made a mistake, or an
omission, in my letterof Dec. 28th, 1855
published in your paper of Jan. 18TH
In line fourteenth, the sentence should
read "by the omission of land limiting
laws, &C." WY.