Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-13
From the Boston Atlas.
The National Kanzas Committee.

me- NatEOnAI Is auZuB committee
[The writer of the following letter is gen.
tleman of Concord, Mass, and the efficient
Secretary OF the Mddlesex Co. Kanzas Com
mittee. He gives the information that has
been desired by many since the formation of
the above organization.
CHICAGO, Aug. z, 1856.
AS the friends Of Kanzas in Massachusetts
and the rest of New England, are not perhaps,
generally informed about the action which the
National Committee, located here, are taking,
it may not be out of place to state through
your journal, who they are, and what their
action is.
This National Committee was appointed by
the Buffalo Convention, with power to fill va
cances, aud as some new members have been
appointed in this way will give their names
as they stand at present.
J.ID. Webster, Chairman H. 3. Hurd,
Secretary; George w. Dole, Treasurer; ].
Il. Scammon, Of Chicago, Ill.
DIR. S. g.. Howe DR.. Samuel Cabot, Jr.,
Boston, Mass.
w. H. Russell, New Haven, Ct
George w. W. Hoppin, Providence, RI.
Thaddeus Hyatt, New York city.
Alexander Gordon, Pittsburg, Pa.
S. S. Barnard, Detroit, Mich.
Hon. l. A. Tweedy, Milwaukee, Wis.
w. Penn Clark, Iowa City, Iowa.
VIM. II. Stanley, Cleveland, Ohio.
John w. Wright, Logansport, La.
w. F. M. Army, Bloomington, Ill.
F. A. Hunt, St Louis, Mo-
5. w. Eldridge Lawrence, Kanzas.
This city is the working point of the Com
mittee, and the Chicago members are therefore
the most directly engaged. They are such
men as would anywhere command the conf
dence of the community. Capt. Webster is a
New Hampshire man, and was for fifteen
years an officer in the U S. Typographical
Engineers, but resigned his captaincy two
years since, to take charge Of important works
here. Mr.. Hurd is prominent lawyer; Mr..
Dole Is water commissioner for this city, an
Office of great trust and Importance; Mr..
Scammon is President of the Marine Bank
here, and Mr.. Army (who resides here tempo
rarily) is the editor of the Prairie Farmer.
All are practical business men, and devote
themselves to their work.
The Committee met here on the 30th July,
and perfected their organization. Besides the
Chicago members, DR.. Howe and Mr.. Hyatt
will reside here and work with them. They
have agents on both the routes through Iowa
(by Iowa City and Mount pleasantly and are
rapidly perlecting all the necessary arrange
ments for sending aid and emigrants to Kan
zas. They are in constant communication
Win the fFee OlaLe men OF hanZaS, and the
various committees in the North-and if little
has been heard of them, 1t is because thew
have had the prudence to work without noise.
They are prepared to act, and are acting, eff
tectivelyfor these two obiects-the support of
the Free State men already in Kanzas, and the
sending of actual settlers. All that they need
to accomplish these objects so thoroughly that
freedom shall be secured there, is liberal con.
tributions from the free States. Fellow citi-
zens of Massachusetts,, will you not see that
they have the means to carry on the work
they have SO well begun: F. B. SANBoRN.
We learn, in addition to what is stated
above, that the majority of the Chicago mem
bers OF the Committee are men of large for
tunes. Mr.. Dole is doubtless well known to
many New England merchants, and in the
West no man has better business reputation,
and none is more popular in Chicago. He
was elected to the office of Water Commits
sioner by great majority, though the rest of
the ticket on which he ran was defeated. One
cause of his great popularity is his conduct
some years ago, when, being flour dealer in
Chicago, he resisted a combination Of the 9th.
er dealers, and kept them from holding np
their flour at starvation prices. Mr.. Army is
of Germs birth, and is a man of great infu-
ence in Southern Illinois. Altogether they
are committee worthy of all confidence.