The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-01-12

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state the truth.
| In the published resolutions of the
Convention, lately held at Lexington,
Missouri, we find Measurements in re-
gard to our enterprise which we desire to
correct. This Company is the only In
corporated association known to US in the
United States, which has for its object
both assistance and organization for west
ern emigration. We must therefore in
fer that we are referred to in the resolu-
tons which allude to "monied associa-
tons under the patronage of sovereign
States of this Union
The resolutions charge the Company,
then,
l. With recruiting armies and hiring
fanatics to 90 to Kansas.
Ii. With fanatical aggression on Mis-
souri,. with the intention of putting the
torch to the dwellings, and the knife to
threats of its people.
III. With sending persons to Kansas
who do not intend to remain there, but
who only go there to interfere with and
control the actual settlers.
1t is easy for us to show the entire
falsehood of every one of these charges.
1. To the charge of recruiting armies
and hiring fanatics to 90 to Kansas, our
answer is very simple. We have never
hired man to go there, or paid the pass
age of a single emigrant. Every settler
who has gone out under our auspices,
has himself provided the means of his
passage.
Its possible that you in Missouri may
not have before observed how large is the
regular emigration from New England,
to the new States of the West. Every
year, the sons and daughters of the
northern States, numbers to be counted
by tens of thousands, choose to emigrate
to those more fertile regions. They do
not wait or need to be 'hired." They go
with their own means, make their own
selections of a new home.
The favorable accounts which reached
us of the soil and climate of Kansas, and
the advantages which it offers to the set
tier, turns the attention of thousands of
such emigrants to that Territory. They
resolved to go there, and were eager to
obtain every information as to the best
means of going and forming permanent
settlements in that country.
The fact that such persons were will
ing to go, rendered it possible to form
this company, whose objecti is to facilitate
their organization, render their journey
easy and safe. by the erection of mills
and hotels, and by the promotion of such
other enterprises as are found conducive
to the common good. No company on
earth could hire them. 1t would be more
proper to say that the existence of such
men, and their resolution and intention
to 90 to Kansas created and sustained
this. company.
To speak of such men as "paupers,
"mercenaries," and SHRED adventures"
is simply absurd. They are American
citizens, who have the enthusiasm which
all their countrymen have for colonizing
new regions, and bringing them under
the sway OF man.
They carry with them their education,
their skill, their money. They are erect
inai n Kanias their steam engines, their
m mime shops, their factories of wood,
paper, iron, and all things useful to men.
They have gone there because they had
right there-because they choose togo
because they had the means to go, and
because they believed that by SO doing
they could better their condition, and
perhaps do good service to God and
man.
That they might go conveniently and
cheaply, this Company has been organ
lied. 1t is one of the customs of New
England for men to organize themselves
to work in cooperation for any object
which they can achieve thus better than
as separate individuals. This is one of
our institutions to which we are attached,
and to which We owe much of our pros
perity.
2. The resolutions of the Convention
c barge us with "fanatical aggression On
Missouri" We have looked in vain for
the first detailed specification by which
this charge can be supported. It is our
earnest wish that the emigrants who so
under our auspices, should maintain the
kindest and most friendly relations with
all whom they meet on their way, wheth
er in Missouri or any other State. We
have every reason to believe they have
done SO, and until some distinct case of
''fauatical aggression" is made ont and
sustained by the citizens of those towns
where these emigrants meet your people.
we must entirely deny the truth of the
charge.
By the accidental conditions of travel
at the present time. it happens that
many of the northern emigrants pass up
the Missouri river, on their way to their
new homes. If this be a grievance to
you, it is none the less an inconvenience
to them. 1t lengthens their journey to
Kansas more than four hundred miles
We venture to say however, that they
have borne this inconvenience so as to
give no serious ground of complaint to
those with whom they have had dealings
in your State. So soon as the rapid adj