The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-01-19
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Nsw YozK, Dec. 90, 1855.

g. w. BRoTN d Co.-rESTs Your
paper. after weeks of its non-appearance.
has arrived to S. P. Townsend. and read
with pleasure; especially the Constitu-
ton the freemen OF Kansas. IN eonven-.
ton of the people. have sent forth to the
world. But I regret, with you, that the.
rights to properly of females is not more
respected byit But much more is it to-
be regretted that the question of the
rights Of man are rendered, in a major
ity of cases, nugasory byit, or will be,
as population becomes more dense upon
your beautiful Territory, By land limit
ing laws and homestead exemptions,
though this last would not be so essen
tial were the great basis9of land hnsita-
ton laid at the foundation of your insti-
tutions. s's - sgf a4
Slavery grew almost OF necessity from
the grants of large tracts of land to the
early settlers of the South, who, being
too lazy to work or too proud to beg. and
too sordid or ignorant to respect the
rights of others, made a dead set upon
the land and as the land would not
work itself no more than themselves,
why, ''niggers' must be coerced into
slavery, and thus create state of society
where every man notthe owner Of slaves
nor the favored of the crown, came in
time to besa dependent upon an acciden
tai providence Tor the means of support
ITO such providence as alone the sor-
did and graspngof our species viii ever
allow to event their white brothers, while
ever preaching the Christian duties of
self denial and honesty to the humble
and homeless of the earth as the sine qua
non of social life and duties.
Your Kansas friends will all recollect
that slavery grew out of the conditions
stated, and such of them as have travel
ed South will remember that all that vast
region is but thinly peopled, and the
land not only going to waste but not
half SO productive to the family of man
as the almost sterile soil of New Eng
land while the white population of that
region not owning slaves, and about as
numerous as their colored brethren, are
in a worse condition than the blacks
Observation-Disclosures it is not gentleman
" to work, and education and other So
cial blessings cannot come without it to
them, however much the STAKEHOLDER
can polish up his offspring to live use
lessly at the expense of the "nigger" and
the less fortunate white population,
whom even the 'snigger" despises as
not being SO well clothed, respected or
housed as himself.
Your Kansas friends will recollect,
too. of the "Anti-Rent wars of that
region, growing out of the large landed
proprietorships granted by the govern
ment of Holland along the shores and in
the region of the Hudson River and also
by the crown at England-which pro-
prietorships shed their baleful influence
to shis day-7the population upon which
being the poorest and least advanced of
the New Yofkers.
Man cannot grow, society cannot i'm
prove, where land monopoly can or does
exist; and the depravity so rife in New
York city, AID in every city of the land,
is the result of that laxity of morals, and
that absence of true patriotism which
must, of necessity, spring up where the
ownership of the soil-whether city lots
or farm lands--is in the hands of the
few. We all know ourselves to well not
to know that The poaoer to do sOro'eg begets
tie miH to do it-and the exceptions to
this rule are so rare as to clearly demon
strate that few men having the power to
| withhold brothers rights, fail To exer-
else that power and sanction all their acts |
of cupidity, either by existing laws or
by getting control of Legislators and the |
enactment of laws thas will. More than |
one half of our city population are mere
wanderers upon the face of the earth
tenants at compulsion of necessity-be- |
tween whom and their landlords there !
springs up a natural hostility. The one |
grasps all he can get of his tenants in
come-the tenant eyades the payment of |
all he can to his landlord, and hence COM
munity is demoralized, and all sense of
honor and humanity is lost between
them. Meanwhile home ceases to be a |
lovely place there Is no altar-no wor-
ship there. Half of all the working pop
ulation arcereceive enough from years |
end to years end to supply those COM
forts that are rendered absolutely neces-
Sary; for it is idle to say that the work |
ing man shall not have and ought not to |
want those articles of taste and those
luxuries that invite him on every hand,
while his do-nothing or de-little non-la-
borious neighbor may partake of them at
pleasure, and be the greater gentleman
tor his self indulgence. Who should
eat of the products of labor or wear
them, more than those whose labors are
the source oftheir production ? Oh the
sickening sense-the loathing with which
the true man contemns both the man of !
wealth who controverts the poor mans
right to his own creations to enjoy them
and more loathingly still the working
man who echoes this INSULT upon his craft.