New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-24
KANSAS.
THE PROSPECT OF TO-DAY.
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Z I'd. LAWRENCE, Doc. ., 1000.
a. ..ve tAs soil 10 Freedom, take it 10 The OBJ
M Of the great upAeavd Of the North. To this
e,l men are needed here, and enough Of them to
prsSppt the soil Permanent men are needed;
svheneral men had better say away. The most Of
these Who came 10 bsve already departed. Thirty
I've men present themselves to me- asking for lit
te assistance IN order to go upon CLAIMS: the very
Hhps needed at this crisis. These men are here;
1Aey must be either supported outright, helped to
support themselves. / judge the latter the true
POLICY. am examining into their characters, ana
h satisfactory, shall vote to aid them. By Monday
next hope to see them 90 their way SOUTH some
fffeep or twenty miles below.
Things look more cheering to me here thsh 'ney
did at home; j find more ability to weather lne
storm than had anticipated. The proportion vi
umtiga,ed distress is not so great as had sup
posed There is enough though, ana suihcien.Y
heart-repding. But I thank God the eItreme ois-
tros is not so universal as ] had Thought, nee.
The IS above alluded to are part OF tue nii'l''a
recently disbanded. Poor fellows aiter al 'ne yer,
vice they have rendered; after the sacrinces al U,
them have made; after their perSonai Pe.n' aii
d<priystions. il seemed TO them very hard 10 Apply
20 tbe Relief Fund sent by the N)rth aud be buhed
ar in n rude and unfeeliDg manner. fou can Judge
of their feelings from the following testimony OF one
of them. He says:
az vss one Of the militia under Col Harvey; Our
psp are badly off. We have been IN oil the battles
aisce the middle Of August: Some OF as, VINO needed
help applied to the Committee for relief AMI got none.
Ile manner Of treating people who applied was I'M
civil: go much that no one who could avoid 1t was
willing to apply. There was great feeling egaiost
the Con mittee Rooms and il change had not taken
plsee il would have been broken into. have been
resf Mt in ,be camp where hundred men discussed
measures and passed resolutions against the Commttee
Thipes were about ripe, when Col. Harvey got them
ouiet by telling them that things were going to 90
right as ,be National Committee had sent to have
an investigation, and to OrerhGut these burgers ~
II is pretty serious business to bring order out
Of chaos, but we are attempting it. We are nves-
tiRatipg all complaints, and striving, while doi0g
nv pai tial justice, to give satisfaction. Women
now are not left to stand out OF doors IN the cold
aAd storms. Their wants are kindly inquired into;
they are made to fee that they are not beggars; In
short they not insulted.
have often heard "where there is will there
In ways" but until coming here did not know
hsw much one energetic will could accomplish.
Bead the following:
al have resided in Kansas two years; came from
New Hampshire; am Methodist preacher; my claim
IL on the Wakeruss; have wife md three children.
i stsred from New Hsmpshue with $40 leftmy
family at Parkvie, No while selected claim and
built cabin. This was q poor plsu would not ad.
vse any one ese To do t. They charged 75 ceos per
the children. So with this and other expenses and
nfbaps when got us all together the claim had
only $40 in my pocket Bat never YET was IN tx
thar couldn't work myself out OF. When would go
deem Of q morning to the spring, L TOOK my gun
upon my shoulder and shot ducks rabbits prairie
ehickene, squirrels, and so That Winter we mad
moe meat than could cot. Without any assistance
and without running in debt, got rails made during
Winter, and many things done, partly by swapping
hbor; neighbour would do something for mo that
wanted aud would pay him back in some other kind
Of labor and 80 got aong and the oilo sing Spring
bTcke five of ground aud planted it <l cora aud
other things. will tell you how, with only $40 in my
pocket and with one to help me, built my eabiu.
took six poles and stuck them in the ground, three
each Size lee ming them together at tue top In pars
shsped like the letter A. nailed to these poles cross
pieces about two feet apart and then to these nsed
ihreS-oo boads rived out of oak, like shingles. Ia
lhs inside run pole underneath the ridge and little
distance frOm it, and over this drew hung of cotton
elob extending 10 the nsde edges of the cabio,
thus forming an interior Appearance Ike tent while
The outside of wood and an air space between the
two live 10 t,is cabin yet and 1t Is pretty comfort
aha though should like better one. IL is not 80
warm in very cold weather as should like; but We
- better thai sOms Others.
The story of this pioneer fighting preacher is
very interesting and instructive one. 1t teaches
me that, with proper discrimination on our part
and a proper economy on the part OF the recipi-
on,s the gifts Of the North may be made to relieve
eyery case of actua distress in the Territory.
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preparations the funds may not be intrdsted to any
s'Kapsas men," The genuine ones will not covet
fhe handling of dollar. They know that to every
dollar is attached curse, and they do not crave so
thankless positions while the kansas men,"
whore palms are itching for such trusts, are not
the men to be trusted AS you love the cause, see
to this.
Out of the mass of personal narrative which l
can colectiog l suppose that the wisest of nur
f.iends at home, who are giving and collecting
funds, may be able to digest the proper mode of
relief or assistance for this people, regret that
must return home and conEde this in part to other
hands But l am satisfied that no plan equal
TO this can be adopted to reach practical Con-
clusions. Let me give you an example. A
oem,nittee waited on me from a nelghborng settle
nent. They had great complaints to make about
the distribution of things. l listened; treated
them courteOusly; told them all grievances should
he rectifed; and then asked for their individual his
tories, which l wrote down. The result of this
was that they all saw that their cases, with but
singe exception we're not such as 10 require that ex
tansiye division of the spOils which they had sup
posed to be their share In fact, one of their num-
Der confessed that "pretty much all the settlement
~were as well off they were, and they could get
sslong ithoat suffering, but then they thought they
"might a. well have their share"
With the promise of moderate supply Of flour
for their neigbborhoOd, think they went away eat
is6ed 70 leave the bulk for absolute sufferers, and
sOncurring in the wish that only those should get
The supplies.
You remember our New-YOrk experience last
Winter, or was il "a forget. Scion will re-
member it. Well, Kansas and New-York are more
allie than some people think. What We want after
Or in addition to relieving the actual distress of
nose who try to help themselves, lie to apply means
indiciously to the stocking of this soil with families
20 well crcumstanced at the East, OF possessing a
heroism like my fgatng pre- icher, as that the
holaing out of premium will, with other induce
4aua.,A tharn 10 th;s land of hnauiY and of