The Nevada Democrat., 1856-09-17

Experience of Free State Man In Kansas.
M. W. King, of Racine, gives a most interest
ing relation of his experience in Kansas. After
relating the circumstances that led to his emf
grafton -his.arrival in Kansas city, in Missouri
with his famly-he writes:
"Leaving my family, l started for the prom
sed land.' | Travelled just one hundred and
eight miles, according to the survey, before
could find a sufficiency of timber to warrant me
in an attempt to build house. AT Pawnee
the capital as projected by Gov. Reeder, or ra-
ther within distance of five miles from thai
paper city, l succeeded in making claim OF
so acres, on which, after much severe labor and
privaton, | succeeded in raising q house that
would shelter myself and family. During al
the time of my struggle in the wilderness was
aided and assisted in every way by my neigh.
bors, Mssourians and, indeed, never even had
to wait longer for their help than they saw
wherein they could assist me.
My claim made, and my house, such as it was
completed, l started to Kansas city to bring my
family out. Judge of my feeling when learn.
ed that for nearly the whole time of my absence
my child had been laying at the point OF death
and my wife, the mother, among strangers, too
And remember, also, that these strangers were
all border rufiians OF course, l was anxious
questioned my wife, how did you get along
What did you do? Why, she answered me, no
people could be more kind; all took an interest
in our suffering and sorrow; | never saw amore
kind-hearted and generous people. | was as
tonshed, | confess it. OF course. | said but lit
tle--what could say? They asked me-the
border ruffans'-of my politics. | told them !
was an out-and-out Free State man. The an
swer was invariably-'Th right, Mr.. King.
vote just as you thiuk-we wish every man to
enjoy his own opinion
For many weary days walked around, wait
ing for the returning strength of my child, and
during these days ] saw many things that would
have been disbeleved by myself if stated to me
before left Racine. and while / was q reader
Of aud believer in, the New York Tribune.
saw many-very many poor families landed al
Leavenworth-sent on by the New England Aid
Society, who had not the means to bury the
dead Of their company. Men, women and chill
dren were there. sent on by these Aid Societies
without funds to purchase one meal of food af-
ter landing They came there, expecting no
one knows what but in as destitute condition
as ever emigrants landed at the docks of New
York
The men of Missouri, the border ruffians,
took them into their homes, they fed them-the
living ones-and buried the dead-they gave
in short, the part of noble, generous, Christian
men, and their reward has been abuse, contumc-
" and misrepresentation.
That the mon of Missouri felt and feel ag-
grieyed is not to be wondered at by any who
knows anything of the facts. They have been
flooded by companies sent on by aid societies,
of men who at home could rot command the
respect, hardly the forbearance OF the commu-
mites in which they lived; they have been
obliged not only to feed these men, but to listen
to their scurrilous abuse, and now, when they
have sought nothing more, as we'll know, than
an equal and just share of the advantages ofthe
newly opened territory, they are belied by press
and pulpit through thc entire North. AS | said
before, hate slavery, and never by act or word
will give it aid or countenance, but, hate it so
much that cannot bear even to see the msta-
ken, Though believe honestly mistakenly sup
porters of it lied about and abused.