The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-05-10
The 1efaio Of Freedom.
Lawrence, Saturday, May 10, 1856
Editorial Correspcndence.

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LAKE VIEw. HOUSE, near Chicago,l
80 April "a, 1885,
READERS HERALD OF FREEDea:-I ana
stopping at the Water Cure establishment
five miles north of Chicago, to recuper-
ate my health, which failed me a few
days ago. 45s eaa
On Monday evening lastI wa.s in Rock
ford, ILL.,, and spoke TO Crowded house
on Kansas matters. l find we have many
devoted friends in the city, and but very
few who sympathize with our enemies.
The presses there are Republican, and
keep tbs people fully advised of the
.wror.gs we have received from the hands
5l the pro-slavery party, and the powers
that be.
Rockford is beautiful town which has
grown up in about ten years, and num-
bers some ten thousand inhabitants. 1t
is destined to be prominent place. The
city is situated on the Chicago and Ga
lena Railroad, and is only four hours ride
from Chicago, oraboutone hundred miles.
The road is good one, and one of the
best paying in the United States. Its
stocks are worth 100 cents on the dollar,
and difficult to purchase at that. had
no conception of the vast amount of bus
mess done here until i saw it with my
own eyes. ..szea :. -. !. '.l.5.-s. = 2
| returned to Chicago on Tuesday
evening, and though sick, and hardly
able to hold my head, spoke three-fourths
of an hour. in reply to the following In
terrogatories lis5i 7-a s.
What are the prospects ofmaking Kan
sas Free State
What is the present condition of soci'
ETY.?
Is the country adapted to the wants O
Northern pioneers? -
What aid do the friends of freedom il
Kansas require at the present crisis from
their sympathizers IN the STATES?
The meeting was well attended, anc
deep sympathy was shown in our favor
1t will be remembered that our friend:
there subscribed some two thousand dol
lars in one evening, for the aid of Kansas
This shows. that they are with US, were
other evidence wanting.
diseoursed briefly upon the necessity
of direct communication with the Fret
States, by line of steamers to Alton
= At the close of my remarks DR.. DYER of
fered the following resolution, which wa
unanimously adopted
RssOlred That the movement on the part o
our friends in Kansas, Tor the establishment of
direct trude with Alton, receives our hearty ap
proval and for its Success We pledge our earnes
efforts, entertaining, as do tile conviction tina
such movement is not only dictated by self i'll
terest but by self-respect
AS soon as [ am able to journey again
l shall visit Alton, in connection with th,
steamboat business, and after completing
arrangements there, shall visit Cincinnati
and Pittsburgh. The people are every
where disposed to lend us all the aid il
their power, in furtherance of the project
] trust our friends connected with mer
camille houses in Kansas, will visit Alton
and if they can buy goods as cheap anc
as well there as in st. Louis, do thei
business there in preference to the latte
place. There are nunlberless reasons WIN
we sh,uld build up point at Alton, ant
10 argument whatever against it. The
people there are ready to receive US witt
out-stretched arms, and are desirous o
making it to our interest to form an &C
quaintance with them. Let US recipro
cate the movement as far as it is in ou
power.
find the people wherever have been
decidedly on our side in political matters
They feel that the great struggle betWee
freedom and slavery is in Kansas, an
that there the question has to be settled
Thus feeling, they are alive to ever
throbbing OF the public pulse, which III
dicates in the least the result.
Very truly, G. w. BROWN.