The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1856-12-27
Communications.
what Think Ye Of Kansas?

e2sANREECE, Kansas, Dee. 70, 90.
sNhat would q New England butcher
think, to see his customers selecting
bis poorest pieces of beef, and COM
planning that it was too fat? Yet our
people often do this. Do you stare,
stall tenders? The best of beef steak
has been sold at six cents per pound.
at LeavenwoTth City, all through the
last fall. Does it make your mouths
water, We Bostonians, who go without
breakfast and supper. that you may
gormandize good dinner? Come and
see-you'll find my words true as
preaching.
What think ye, farmers, who can
not nett one peck of corn per day,
by working your farms; while our
farmers can raise from ten to twenty
bushels for every days labor perform
ed? "But," says one. "twenty BUSH
els of corn is great pay for one days
labor" Well, come out, and you
may find stranger things than that,
before you have been long in til, Ter
ritory. How do you feel, after you
have worked hard half the summer, to
obtain food for your cattle, and spent
half your time in winter in tending
them, to see some of them die of star
vation, and then think that farmers on
our Neosho are not obliged to feed
their cattle in The winter. d
What think ye, who sell chalk and
water at five cents quart-good milk
is ten cents quart, in Lawrence, and
scarce, at that; while the poor COW has
no shelter all the cold winter. Our
farmers are obligedto cheat the poor
cows. If you come here, you can
cheat both cows and customers.
What think We, money Lenders. who
are obliged to tell white lies, to obtain
twelve per cent? Our people walk
up to forty-thank the lender-and
make money at that. f.,a
What think We, manufac acturers of
tin, who are obliged to send your wares
tafl over the country, and take pay IA
old rags, and sheep skins? Our tin
men can sell at round profit, at their
shops, all the wares they can make.
What think We, cabinet makers who
toll hard to make furniture, and then
/ work hard to sell it, and work harder
to obtain your pay? There is not a
table or chair for sale in Lawrence. /
1 write from experience; for l could not
purchase either-and am penning this
! article sitting on a firkin, with book
on my knee, in lieu of a table. Come,
then, to Kansas. There will be a
Iquiek market, with high prices and
ready pay, for all that scores can man
ufaeture, for years to come. Chairs,
such as / have seen retailed in New
England at forty two cents apiece, sell
here, when they can be found, at a
dollar and fifteen cents Come to
Kansas, sons of Connecticut. Leave
off making wooden nutmegs and horn
| gun- -hints, (Sharp's rifles do not need
hints. You can do much better to
make us clocks, for which we will
pay you good prices.
| Listen, We plow makers, while | tell
you that many of our plows are made
| in the old Bay State. Now, timber ID
plenty, and iron in St. Louis bears
about the same price as in Boston,
If Nourse & Co., of Worcester, Mass,
would establish branch of their bus
mess here, they would find it very
profitable. Come, then, you good
free soil, ten-hour men; help your
selves, and help Kansas.
Come, We paper makers. am told
there is not paper mandatory in al
the West; and / believe it, for / an
taxed awfully high. when compelled
to buy paper.
Come, harness makers, and wheel
wrights. You will be wanted by hun.
dreds. e
/ Come, We. ,blacksmiths. You vii
be wanted by thousands.
Come, carpenters, masons, anc
painters. There will be houses t.
build, to plaster, and to paint.
/ Come, ye poets who boast of th,
Highlands and Palisades, of the Lin
denwalds, the Idlewilds, and Sunny
Sides. on the Hudson. The bottom
lands of our Kansas will in few year,
be covered with gardens and vinerie:
much more interesting than your High
lands and Palisades; and the bluff
along its borders, already prepared BY
nature, win be adorned with residence.
far more delightful than those cost,
retreats which you are trying to i'm
mortalize by verse and by song. By
the power of wealth, you can enrich
, yOuI SOn, DuS uO nVaitA -OaA O4AAi y
your drizziy cold days, and your dark
! foggy nights, to our warm, sunny
days, and bright, starlight nights. 81
Come to the land where the sun shines clea
and bright.
And the moon and stars look down sweet,
b. At night. al. ~ 81 saas 81
i And last, not least, come, We faiI
maidens of the North, who sigh for /
loving heart to press against. and cur,
| the palpitation Of your own. Conn
Ito Kansas; here you win find thous
lands of bachelors. who are treablet
like yourselves: and as want is said 4
i be the mother of invention, two want
. Ief the same kind viii be likely to ID.
vent speedy and permanent cuEe.
- JcHs B. WooD.
i P. SIN my Communication o.
last week the word abonds" shouls
| read ..lands'' s''-making it read Glands
4 In the slave States will not sen, !" DE.
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