The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-03-01
Crrespaadenee af tks Christian Iaquiner.
General Pomeroy in Boston.

from Kansas. lie met his trends OF
Thursday afternoon in the rooms of ths
Emigration Aid Society, and on Thurs
day evening addressed the public in ths
fremont Temple.
] Gen. Pomeroy is plain. honest. prac
teal man. full of energy and sagacity.-
he is just the right sort of man for the
place he occupies. Indeed, it seems as
If Providence had sent to US at this i'm
portant crisis exactly the sort of mar
we need to fight the battle of freedom or
our frontier. All the leading men oon-
neeted with the Emigrant Aid movement
seem to have been selected for theil
work by wisdom superior to ours. II
needed all the energy of Eli Thayer tc
originate and carry forward the Emf
grant Aid Company. Had it not been
for the Emigrant Aid Company, the
town of Lawrence could not have been
built; or if built, would have been weak,
and unable to afford a rallying point to
the free cause. Had it not been for the
resistance thus made to the slave power,
Kansas would have been overwhelmed
by it. The scattered settlers could have
done nothing to oppose it. Without
combination, without leaders, they would
have been an easy prey to the organized
troops from the borders of Missouri
But Lawrence was built by means of the
Emigrant Aid Society. Such men as
Thayer, Robinson, and Pomeroy, were
raised up by Providence to superintend
the enterprise, and the result has been
that the first decided check to the extern
sion of slavery in the United States, has
been given at this little New England
village in the heart of the prairies. Oh
course, those who, like Rev. Nehemiah
Adams and Rev. Dr. Lord, think slavery
good thing will lament this result. But
all who love justice and humanity will
see in it the finger of God.
But what will those men say who re-
fused to aid in this movement from fear
of reaction? men who always decline
doing anything for the right, lest they
should provoke some one to greater exer-
tions in behalf of the wrong? There
were hundreds of rich men in Boston
who professed to wish that Kansas
should be free. and yet declined helping
Eli Thayer to make it free, lest the Bor-
der Rufians should be provoked to
greater efforts on the other side. They
lost an opportunity of helping the
men of Lawrence in struggle which
will go down to posterity with the pass of
Thermopyl@ and the valley of Balakla-
va. Never was money better laid out
than the few thousand dollars given
for organized emigration into Kansas to
build up Lawrence, and to put saw-mills
into the principal towns. That little
seed has already borne its first harvest,
and there are more to come. The mere
knowledge that Massachusetts, was send
ing emigrants to Kansas, led hundreds of
others to GO from the free States of the
West, who otherwise would never have
gone. Then the Massachusetts, men were
a nucleus and an influence for the rest.
Those who have gone there are evidently
picked men men with good percent
age of Plymouth Rock in their compost
ton; men of cool heads, large hearts,
and determined will men who can
neither be cajoled, scared or heated.
From all we have heard, the defence
of Lawrence was attended with incidents
of the deepest interest, and was conduc-
ted in the most admirable spirit. Men
and women united in devoting all they
had to the defence of the place. The
women who could not fight sent their
sons, lamenting like the Spartan mothers
that they had not more to send. The
Unitarian Missionary, as did those of
every other denomination, went out with
their rifles to join the church militant, and
to smite with the sword of the Lord
Houses and hotels opened freely for the
accommodation of the troops who came
in from the country to aid in the defence
of the place. The expenses of the de-
fence were very great, and came upon a
people who had nothingto spare. These
expenses ought to be repaid them, for
they have been fighting our battle. 1t
will be too mean if the people of the
North do not contribute gladly to pay the
expenses of the defence of Lawrence
But is this all we will do? The first
battle has been won by the prudence and
wisdom of the leaders, by the devotion
aud courage Of the people. But the end
is not yet. A new struggle is impend-
ing. The slave power must be beaten
more than once before it will relinquish
the broad fields of Kansas. No doubt
the same men who refused their aid last
fall because it would do harm, will refuse
it now because it is not needed. There
is no more danger. they viii say. Kan
sas is now safe for freedom. This is
one of the most charming and popular
excuses 10 be found for inaction, and We
already hear it on all sides. But such
is not the testimony of Gen. Pomeroy.-
He anticipates more trouble next spring.
And now we say to our friends the op-
timists and Quietists-What do you pro-
pose to do Will you say, ethe cause
of freedom is safe, we will do nothing?'
The Sharp's rifles which you refused to
give, lest it might do harm, have pre-
vented bloodshed. instead of causing it.
This is clear. Now provide the people
of Kansas with the arms and ammunition
they need-Iet it be understood that they
have enough cannon and rifles, and there
will be no bIoodshed next March. But
continue your usual commonplaces. and
you viii be held responsible before God