The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-12-13
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For the Herald of Freedom.
Missouri RIVER, Nov. 81, SO.

On board Steamer australia.
FRIESD BRowN = Your correspond
ent promised you, on leaving Lawrence
on Saturday last, letter from Leav-
enworth City !; but his time was too
much occupied until he left the Terri
tory, on Tuesday morning, to allow a
moment for correspondence. You are
already advised of later intelligence
from the sale of the Delaware lands
than this letter can give. On Mon
day last, the first twenty-four sections
of township nine, range nineteen, were
sold. OF the unoccupied quarter sec
tons, sixteen were sold to persons
from free States, three to persons from
Washington City, and ten to bidders
from Slave States nine of which last
were knocked off to William H. Rus
sell. On some previous days, CAPT
talists from slave States had made the
largest purchases, but many of them
were in favor of making Kansas free
State, so as to secure a better return
for their investments: Capitalists from
free States operated quietly through
the settlers, buying their claims or d.
viding with them. In such cases, the
settlers bid off the tract, and thus
far, the capital from the free States,
invested, probably preponderates.-
Among free state purchasers, Penn
sylvanians and Ohioans are the most
numerous. Your correspondent is one
of the only two from Illinois, who
made any investment. He bought the
north east quarter of section nineteen,
township nine, range nineteen, about
three miles from the Fort Riley road
and not far from Hickory point, for
52.S5 per acre The prices on Mon
day ranged from 81 30 to So 3d.
One fractional quarter, of sixteen acres,
near town site, was run up by com
petition between II. r. Dickey, OF
Ohio, and w. HI. Russell, to SO 30
per acre, and knocked off to the latter.
The number present at the sale on Mon
day was about one third of that pres
ent a week before. The sale, on the
whole, is favorable to the Free State
cause. 1t will, undoubtedly, moderate
the asperity and, in many cases, change
the policy of men hitherto violently
pro-slavery, who will desire peace and
even acquiesee in the triumph of free
dom, which can alone secure for them
a rich harvest for their investments.
| left Lawrence delighted with my
visit, and bearing away pleasant mem
cries of its citizens, and, especially,
of its ladies. The Thanksgiving fes-
tival ! shall be glad to remember. 1t
carried me back to the ancestral hearth
stone, and to an anniversary which is
one of the many glories of New Eng
land. The sturdy virtues of persever-
ing resistance to tyrannical usurpa-
ton, and of loyalty to freedom, nurs-
ed for many generations in my mother
commonwealth, l found transplanted
on fairer soil, beneath kindlier sky
and yielding a richer harvest. Among
such men and women, with such festi-
walls and traditions, the institution of
human bondage can never obtain a
foothold. | went to Kansas with a
doubling heart, feeling that slavery
was more likely than freedom to be
her lot ] leave her soil with the set
tied conviction that she is to become a
free State, and a glorious free State
too. When that consumation shall be
reached, among all the sisterhood OF
States there will not be fairer one
than she, for her Jewels will be the
records of gigantic wrongs, meekly
and bravely borne. On your Thanks
giving day, | heard some one remark,
that he knew not for what the people
of your town had to return thanks. If
since the American Revolution, there
has been one region, in one spot where
on, more than any other, liberty has
waged her sternest warfare with OPP
preston, that region is Kansas, and
that spot is the town of Lawrence
The people may, if for nothing else,
well give thanks, that it has been their
high privilege to stand up before man
kind as the heroes of such contest
There is one fact which came under
my notice, on my way from Lawrence
to Leavenworth, on Saturday last. /
met fourteen heavily laden wagons of
merchandise, each drawn by three or
four yoke of oxen, or by six or eight
mules. | was informed that, nine
months ago there was no travelled road
from Leaeenworth to your town, and
all this trade then went to Kansas city.
Since the Free State men have been
abused and mobbed in Kansas city,
they have ceased to trade with it, and
decline the solicitations of its traders
TO return to them. Such is the suicide
of Kansas city, in which also West
port and Weston share. God be prais-
ed for such poetic justice! 1t is con-
selling to their sense of right and wrong
to see how righteous retribution is
visited on rufianism in this life, to
say nothing of its doom in the next.
Yours very truly,
E. L. p.