Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-07-26
FROM KANSAS.
BLOOMINGTON, Kansas Territory, I
July &. 1886. (


MARtUs R.. RopINsoN-Dyar Sir: l have been
Il settler Of this Territory since the Goth of April,
during which time it has been invaded by hun
dreds of armed Southerners, many Of whom are
respectable and well meaning men, but they have
believed the horrible reports circulated against the
Yankees and Abolitionists, and have COME as they
supposed to protect the women and children of
their pro-slayery friends, just as hundreds OF
Northern men would do under similar
ces. But the great majority OF them have been
gathered up from the hotbeds of vice and sinks of
~iniquity, who willingly do the bidding of their
leaders and employers and in some instances have
more than filled the bill. Hundreds Of men, have
been robbed and plundered of their horses, money,
goods and provisions. And numerous murders
have been committed many of which will never
be broughs to public light.
All of this is chargeablc to the cringing servil-
ity of the North, for had the North presented a
manly, bold and unbroken front for unlimited and
nire1Sal FREEDOM, the South would have long
since submitted. But it is otherwise. and we are
the sufferers. And, inasmuch as most of the out
RACES committed here were either authorized or
permitted by the United States authorities, | think
Ill uulhhSeo suOuiu pO fulu OuI "a NS SHiE'N
States Treasury to the utmost farthing.
We have n delightful country surrounding this
place Bloomington for miles, with q considerable
amount of good timber, are about ten miles from
Lawrence, and as near as practicable in the exact
centre of Douglass County, which is bounded on
the east by the Shawnee reserve and on the North
BY the Kapsas,rjver, and is destined to be one Of
the richest and most populous counties in he Ter
ritory and Ithink one Of the best places 10 start
a Manual Labor School on an extensive and APP
proved plan. If the friends Of reform in Ohio
and Indiana will give us their assistance ard en-
couragcmcnt, it will not require a great effort to
establish here one of the best schools in the States,
and at the same time do more towards building up
unlimited and universal freedom in Kansas, than
anything else.
The convenience for saving and grinding at
this place will soon be good. perhaps the best there
is in the Territory. Ike saw-mill machinery is
here on the ground, and we are erecting a large
commodious building for saw and grist-mill. We
intend to keep up with the demand Of the neigh
borhood which is very considerable now, for it is
quite thickly settled. AS far MS my acquaintance
goes, fOur.ftths Of the settlers are Free State men,
a number of whom are Radical Anti Slavery men.
There are not less than three or four classes of
Free State men here. Some profess to be Free
State men, because they hate Missouri mobs, but
they spare no pains in making public the fact, that
they hate Abolitionists worse. Many are anxious
to have Il Free State but they want the myers kept
out. Others are loud in their professions for a
Free State, most especially if it will secure them
the nomination and election to some Office in the
gift of the dear people, whilst the greater portion
of the Free State men will | think go for Freedom
IN tile Territory though lie Union should be diSsOio-
ell. But it remains to be seen whether enough
of these would act in harmony to defeat the pro-
slavery citizens, aided by the government from es-
tablishishing either Slavery, or its twin sister, the
black code in the Territory.
Let me say by way of encouragement to all
people who would come to Kansas, that
close on the heels of our Southern invaders as
they leave the Territory, are following many of the
pro'slavory settlers, those who took the most active
part in arresting, imprisOning and robbing the
Yankees, one or two have taken their slaves back
to Missouri, Others are moving back with their fam
lilies. The horrible reports circulated in Southern
papers have utterly closed up all emigration from
that quarter, for what woman of the South will
dare to come here with her children if such re-
ports are true, whilst Northern people if they have
energy to make themselves useful here need not
hesitate to como, for there certainly is 10 danger
now, except there may be a few highway robbers
who occasionally rob an unprotected man, but they
soon follow in the wake of their leaders down
So come along and help us 20 build up
unbranded and universal FREEDOM in
Yours, for Human Progress.
HENRY HIATT