The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1856-12-20
Communications.
Letter from london.
LONDON, ENGLAND, Nov. Oath, SO.

nuHHoeT VI your Ie-isSue VI the KANSAS
Herald Of Feeaom, from friend in
your far-off and distant land, cannot
refrain from taking up my pen, and
addressing you few words of SYM
pathy and cheer, such as must come
yelling up in the heart of every sim
cere lover of human freedom, and ad-
mirer of those who bravely bear the
brunt of that battle which everywhere
is waged against wrong.
l have had the pleasure of visiting
your lovely land, of feasting my eyes
upon its blooming prairies, when
blushing with the early spring, and
decked in the fairest garments that
ever came from the hands of the Gre
ator. / have seen it smile with ver-
dure, and have felt its warm winds
come to my delighted senses, laden
with the fragrant sweetness ofthe wild
flowers that everywhere made the
plains lovely beyond description
Here" thought / then, els the fttest
home have yet seen for the waiting
industry of the world, and here will
the toiling millions of the old world
come, and find rest and competence"
| had seen the sunny lands of the
South, from the woods of Kentucky
to the orange groves of Florida; l had
seen everywhere the blight and mildew
which the slave institution has cast
upon its whole extent, and when for
the first time l looked upon the beau
tiful and far-reaching prairie-sea, that
everywhere lay around me, when 1 first
stood upon the soil of Kansas, /
breathed a fervent prayer that it might
be saved from the dark shadow that
already was creeping over it. I saw
something, too, of the wild outrages
of the Border Rufians, having visited
Lawrence soon after the memorable
destruction of your hotel and printing
presses. My blood boiled within me,
and longed, when | saw those black
ruins, and viewed the scattered re-
mains of the printing offices, to take
up my abode in Kansas, and with
arms aid the gallant settlers, in the
resistance / saw, in their kindling eyes
and working countcnances, that they,
ere, long would make against the foul
crimes that run riot in their midst.
This, however, was denied me, but l
have watched, since my return to
"Fatherland," with the most intense
interest, everything relating to your
position. For time, / doubted the
success of the Free State cause; but
The arrival of your glorious sheet, has
revived my hope, and strengthened
my conviction that you would finally
triumph. l congratulate You, oh! so
heartily, on your release from the un-
just and irksome confinement that
you have endured the past summer,
and your assumption, again. of the
important post the times have called
upon You to assume. am gratifed
to find that your sheet will not be
likely to fail for want of support, and
that its welcome visits will be long
continued-that even here, I can keep
up the thread of Kansas news, and
trace its progress.
The keenest interest is felt here, by |
all classes, in the result of the contest, |
now waging between the progressive
and retrogressive clements, that, I'M
fortunately for the benefit of human
ity, are bound together in the Ameri-
can republic; and many are the ardent
prayers for your success, that have
gone up from the hearts of those who |
are struggling for the enfranchise-
ment of the masses in the old world
How keenly have the well-wishers of
and the strugglers after
liberty, on this continent, felt the icy
influence and chill, that the existence
of slavery, within the United States,
has cast upon the attempts to over
throw despotism, and crush out tyran-
ny, that have occurred so frequently
among the time-worn and crumbling
of Europe. How fire.
quently comes the sDeer, regarding
slavery, t. the lips of the oligarchist,
when your republic is pointed out as
the most successful instance of self
and the vilest despot, who
sits on the bloodiest throne that dis
graces the world to-day. feels encour-
aged by the accounts of the outrages
of the slave power in Kansas, and
knows that his worst acts, and foulest
crimes, will find apologists and paral-
lels in the boosted land of freedom,
across the Atlantic.
Thank God, there is, in the great
mass of the American peoples deeper
and broader love of Liberty and Pro-
yress, than these shallow theorists
give them credit for, and they will yet
redeem their country from the dark
loud of wrongs that now broods
over it. Go on in your glorious
The eyes of the world are
gazing upon you, and the sympathies
If the down-trodden and oppressed
everywhere are winging their flight
.cross the dim mist of ocean and land, +,
@ you in your prairie home. God
ipeed you! and may your triumph soon ,
,ome. The people OF England are with j
vou, and never have their sympathies a
,een so fully aroused, and their atten-
ion been so much excited, as in the
ssue of your present strife. There is i
much more general and intelligent |
inquiry into American affairs, than 2
yer before, and the result will be the :
uniting together, in stronger ties, r
# both nations. Q
At some future day, hope to take
Up my pen. and give you an account,
rom time to time, of affairs In the
Did World, so that my Kansas friends e
nav see how we are struggling in the {
anne path with them. Mighty events !
re about to occur here, and eonvul- a
ions and revolutions more fierce than v