The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-04-26

a public meeting called immedlafely, ana
tile whole subject viii be discussed, and
brought directly home to the people OF
AItoH.- Rest assured that the movement
is fortunate one, AND WILL SUCCEED.
@ Very truly. g. w. BROWN.
ALTos, III, April IL. 1856.
DEAR READERs:-During my brief
stay in this city, l have made the ac-
guaintance of many of her most promi-
nent citizens, and particularly her busi-
ness men; and in private conversation,
learned their feelings toward the people
of Kansas. With a solitary exception,
all classes with whom | have conversed,
have expressed great sympathy for our
people, and are deeply anxious that the
principles of freedom shall be establish
ed there. AsI wrote in a former letter
they have seen the depressing infu-
ences of slavery, and they know it will
bear down and degrade any country
There is no more luxuriant soil or invit-
ing climate on our continent than that
embraced in the limits of Missouri, and
yet millions of the choisest land is ex-
posed in the market, year after year, for
twelve-and "a half cents an acre, and is
still begging purchasers; while across the
river, in Illinois. with many. disadvan-
tages, of which Missouri boasts an ex-
emption--a more plentiful supply Of
water and timber-wild lands command
from five to thirty dollars an acre. The
national land Offices in Illinois are closed,
for State purposes, for want of public
domain. while Missouri will boast of q
land receiver for another half century.
Alton men see the thousands of the
free sons of the North passing their city,
and vending their way up the Missouri
among innumerable difficult IS, to locate
IN Kansas, where they are compelled to
enactions from which humanity almost
revolts, passing by the productive one
TIT per acre lands IN Missouri, to settle
on those costing ten tissA the sum in
Kansas. They would give but little or no
reflection to the subject, if they were not
conscious of tile course Of this choice of
location. The people of Missouri sse
the cause, and they wish to extend their
biighting cure over our domain, hoping
thereby TO stop the heavy emigration
west oil them. and induce 1t to locate In
Missouri. -
A healthful moral and political influ-
ence peryades this entire community, and
furnishes a striking contrast 10 that ieel-
ing which controlled the population eigh-
teen years ago, which uitimated in the
death of the Rev. +. 2. LovEJoY. /
snail visit the grave of that first martyr
OF Liberty in the West, tomorrow after
noon, and will endeaVor to convey 10 ay
readers my reflections on the occs.sion.-
| have Just completed the reading of q
volume OF 383 pages, entitled "Memoirs
OF Lovejoy;" alsotwo additional volumes
touching the incidents growing out ol
that murder-one the ''Alton Trials u
The other IAN Account OF the Alton
Riot" of which were generously
donated me by my friend, JESSE WALTON,
bookseller OF this city, and for which be
will accept my hearty thanks.
The people here are conscious that the
murder of Losejoy, in their city, is the
cause of their depression. A cloud has
seemed to rest upon them from that De-
riod to the present, Notwithstanding the
efforts of her citizens to rise above the
surrounding gloom. Every pioneer
making his way to the Great West, in
passing through the city, involuutarily
shudders as he cast his eye upon her fine
buildings, and her energetic inhabitants,
and says to himself, 'sThere are the men
who slew Lovejoy, for attempting to
maintain the freedom of the press, and
he hurrieS ON board steamer, and rush.
es on to st. Louis to pay his money for
supplies to the people of that city. who
were the true authors and psrticipaters
in that outrage, and who inuagurated the
event few months previous by tearing
the Office down over Lovejoy's head, and
tofcibiy driving him from The city.
A similar feeling to that which charac-
terized st. Louis eighteen years ago, per-
vades that city still, although mol 70 so
great an extent. A free press which
should ''declaim the sshote counsels Of
God" could not exist there; crazy, ia
na,ical mob would re-inaugurate the in
cidents of Parkville year ago. Not so
with Alton. Those who sympathised
with that nob-with but few excep-
tions-haye passed away. Their places
have been filled with another class of
men-with better material-with those
who would die in defense of the press
They have paper there, the ALroS
COURIER, with daily circulation of sew
ersl hundred, large tri-weekly circula-
ton, and ogcr siz Thousand ceekiy pa
irons, which dares speak as freely on any
OF the great issues of the day Is Rev.
Mr. Loyejoy ever dared do. The editor
walks the streets of that city either in
day ume or night. erect In the image
God made him. noble specimen of a
man. and every where commands the re-