The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-12-10
I,lTE AVID IMPORTANT FROM
KANSAS.
Blowing up of the Emigrant En-
terprise.

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che F~usionists during the late Campaign,
finds it impossible to play the farce any
longer, and comes out with the following
facts, as furnished by a correspondent
in the Territory. The editor says:
We invite attention to some very i'm
portant disclosures, which will be found
In smother column, of alledged frauds
which have been practiced by the So
called Emigrant Aid Societies of the
North upon those who nave entrusted
them with donations to relieve the me-
cessities and sufferings in Kansas. For
some time past we have heard various
complaints and accusations against these
as specializing concerns, all pointing to
the same abuse of trust, and the same
in6delity of agents, who have only ap-
pealed to the Benevolent friends of Kan
sas in order to pocket for themselves
the funds they may thus collect.
We have never approved of these Aid
Societies either at tie North or the
South. We have believed that it YVES
n vicious principle of emigration, and
not calculated to be of benefit to our
western Territories ; for those whom a
paltry advance could thus induce to 20
into Kansas or Nebraska were scarcely
che material of which to make hardy
pioneers or industrious farmers. If,
however, it shall turn out, in addition
to all this, that the Aid Societies are
uufaithful and avaricious, and fraudu-
lent besides, we shall have even still
more powerful Incentives to discourage
and discountenance their. We COM
mend the communication to which we
have referred, and the many sigma
lures attached to it, to the attention of
those concerned, and demand 10 the
name of the destitute and impoverished
men and women who have lost their sub
stance in the late distressing collisions
in Kansas, that the agents who have
made collections for their relief be held
TO strict accountability, and that the
aims and character of these Aid Secie-
ties be more closely examined into. If
they shall prove to be mere associations
Of the benevolent, we have nc right to
question the proprieIy of their formation,
but if they be merely banded pigeon
choppers in disguise, it will become the
duty of the press to expose and uproot
them The happiness of a people has
more claim upon the sympathy of the
public than the success of spectators in
charity. Nor in this language do we
wish to cobfine ourselves exclusively to
those associations which have been
formed in the North under this title.
Equally severe examinations have been
passed time and again in our hearing
upon similar schemes in the South, aud
we have no doubt but that what our cor
respondent says of the desperation to
which many were reduced by ~disappoint-
ment in fulfilling the promises made to
them before emigrating, drove them in
to scenes Of plumber which disgraced the
Territory during the past summer. We
have already published some Of these
charges in the cases of complaints
against Buford, Wilkes and others from
the South, and now perform our duty as
an impartial journal in giving promi-
hence to the present disclosures concern
ing the Aid Societies of the North. In
the shape in which they come and en-
dorsed as they are by many resident set
tiers of Kansas, it will not do fol this
matter to be passed over, in silence, and
we shall await with some anxiety to see
the explanations that may come from
the companies and individuals implica-
ted.
The following is the card of the VIC
Exposition of the Kansas Aid
Bob Society.
LAWRENCE, K T., Nov. "a, 1856.
Mr.. EpITeR-As 1 am interested in
the fate of this Territory. 1 would say
to those who intend coming to Kansas,
ceme on your own responsibility, and
then you know what to depend upon, for
you cannot depend upon the assistanc e
which is promised you, if you start un-
der the promise of the Kansas Aid So
oiety. That is aething more nor less
than q specializing operation, from be-
ginning to end, which originated in
Yankeedom, and it is time that the hon.
est donators should be duped no longer
for bleeding Kansas. There is no doubt
but there are people who need aid, and
I would advise those who give aid to
send it to some person or persons the
may know, and hen what they
send or give you will know is distribn-1
~ W ~ hCOCcclbO0o-
I may state for instance that the
original Chicago company never fulfilled
their contract with the company that
left there in June last, and which has
seen more hardships than any other
company in the Territory. The COM
mittee was to give them assistance en-
their arrival in the Territory, and also
find them in provisions for one year,
bas not been complied with. If
you say anything to them, they reply it
IS all left to the National Committee,
and when you mention it to them, they
say,y are a seperate concern, we have
nothing to do with you. That is the
way you are treated, after being induced
to leave a comfortable home, to endure
privations and hardshiFs for the Aid So
ciety to speculate from. For a sample
the committees generosity. l cite
you y circumstance among a hun
bred that happens daily: A DIR. Be-
dose, of Rockford, had lost all his cloth
ing at the battle of Ossowatomie, and
on his return Mr.. Whitman gave him an
oyer shirt (of blue flannel which is gen.
orally worn here) he had worn the shirt
uoms two months, and as there had quite
. quantity arrived for distribution, he
to Mr.. H., Zone of the COM
for one, The answer Ras-WeI