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

lparties, that the true citizens of Missouri
do not feel this passage of emigrants
| from other States along their magnificent
river as any grievance at all. We be-
llieve in the brotherhood of all the States
in this Union, and in the hospitality of
1.-THE people of Missouri We are conf
| dent they viii cordially welcome travel
lers from New England as citizens of the
same great country. and will bid them
| God speed on their way.
| 3. The remaining charge against US
is that of sending persons to Kansas for
political objects. who are not the bona
| tide settlers.
! The entire injustice of this charge will
be evident from simple statement Of
what we have done and are doing for
eEigrants in Kansas. The whole action
of our company is based upon the pre-
sumption that they are to be and remain
there as actual settlers.
Our FIRST object is to aid emigrants on
their journey. This we do, not by pay
ing for their passage, but by purchasing
tickets at wholesale and furnishing them
to individuals at the actual cost; by COM
bining our parties SO that friends and
neighbors can travel together; by APP
pointing for each party conductor ac-
quainted with the route; and by making
it for the interest of rival railroads to
carry them comfortably, safely, and
cheaply. We thus reduce for the settler
the cost of his journey, guard him
against frauds, and bring him to Kansas
with the utmost expedition.
On his arrival in a new country the
CHEF difficulty of settler, is the want
of capital. This want is particularly
| ielt in Kansas. One of the resolutions
of the Lexington Convention expresses
regret that the settlement of Kansas was
not left to lonely pioneers like those who
settled Ohio and Indiana. We refer you
to the letterof Gen. B. T. Stringfellow to
Messrs. Clingman, Brooks and others,
for the opinion on this point OF one who
knows that country.
Gen. Stringfellow assures those gen.
tlemen that such a settlement is impos-
sible that such pioneers as have hither-
to leveled the forests and broken up the
"plains of the West cannot do the same
work in Kansas. His letter shows that
such labors need the resources of capt.
tai, and that capital may well be en-
barked in assisting them, to the mutual
benefit of all concerned.
So soon as it was evident that the
westward emigrants from New England
intended 10 move in large numbers to
Kansas, it became clear 10 US that their
most urgent need would be for those i'm
provements which capital and that only
can supply. They must have first of all,
comfortable houses, school-houses, and
churches. To supply sawed lumber for
these they must have aw-mills and other
conveniences, to secure which their own
capital was necessarily inadequate. We
at once, therefore, connected with our
undertakings for the assistance of emf
grants on the way, such investment>of
capital in Kansas, as would relieve
some of these first wants of the new
settlements. Our intelligence from the
Territory, shows US that we judged
rightly, and with the daily increase of
our capital we continue our investments
in this way. They are expenditures of
advantage to every settler whether he
goes from us or from you.
You will see at once. from these state
ments, that it is directly for our inter-
est that the emigrants to Kansas should
be actual settlers. We advise none 9TH
ers to go there, and We encourage all
to stay. We try to make their condi
tion there as comfortable as we cam
When a home-sick boy comes back to
say that the hrd is barren and worth
less, it is quite as much matter of re-
greet to US as it can possibly be to you.
We join you heart and hand in the
wish that Kansas may never see any
settlers but bona tde settlers. We have
done much 10 induce all who go to
remain. With our increased facilities
for promoting their comfort, we shall be
able to do more.
You will observe that our plan in
wolves no control, whatever, of men
who go to Kansas with passage tickets
obtained by our Intervention. We ask
no questions of those who buy. They
are pledged to no party. Ii they are
fanatics" it is no fault of ours. If
they are spies upon our transactions, it is
a matter of indifference to US. All we
know is that they want to go to Kansas.
and we aid them by all the means in our
power.
We are perfectly willing, however,
what you must already be aware OF, that
when we organized ourselves to extend
such facilities to the emigrants fom the
East, we knew that they would be men
who meant to live In Free State. They
are men who live by hard work, as we
all do; and they wouldn not so anywhere
where they thought the permanent In
stitutions of the state would make hard
work disgraceful. They know that by
the principles of the Kansas-Nebraska
Act, the actual settler must control the
institutions of Kansas and Nebraska
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