The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-04-05
The Kansas League.
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229 BRoADwaT, n. Y, Feb. 9.
You have seen erroneous representa-
lions of the objects, plans, means and op-
eralions of our Association, and we deem
it proper to give you brief account of
the facts, which the books and documents
in our Office must fully prove.
We have been accused by pamphlets,
newspapers and public speeches, in south
ern portions of our country, with hiring
men to go to Kansas, paying their expen-
ses, DC, and the Government Gazette,
the Washington Union, has accused
US of illegal acts. The President of the
United States has said, or intimated the
same charge in his Message to congress,
but without stating what acts are refer
red to. We have already denied the
charge made by the Union, and called on
its editor for his evidence, but we have
not heard any reply.
Even if we had hired men. and paid
their expenses, there would have been no
illegalily in the act; nor have we made,
or heard of any objection to the efforts
now making in the South, to ID the same.
But our company have never paid a dol
lar fer any such purpose, limiting itself
entirely to furnishing Information con-
cerning Kansas, and procuring through
tickets for all applicants at the lowest
prices, and with careful arrangements for
their safe and commodious travelling
No applicant has ever been rejected; and
the sentiment of multitudes we have
neither known nor enquired for. Our
correspondence now forms six large vol
umes of letters from all the States and
Territories in the Union, and is daily and
rapidly increasing. Those going, like
those who have gone, are intelligent, ed
ueated, industrious, peaceable men of
character, and more or less property,
chiefly friendly to free soil, but opposed
to any illegal or violent proceeding
Many of them are now there with their
families. engaged in laying the founda-
ton of new communities in Kansas, on
the principles of good order, religion and
rehnements, to which they have been
accustomed. In town settled chiefly
from New York, church, sabbath and
day school, have been formed for months,
public library has been founded, and
during this winter, course of literary
and scientific lectures has been provided
for. The only irregular proceeding
which has occurred there, happened at
the first election, when the population
was comparatively small. Two hundred
armed men from Missouri then entered
the quiet settlement, seized the polls, vo-
ted in a candidate of their own, and re-
tired, and have never returned. The
settlers soon after held an election of
their own. Such is the general charac-
ter of the men who have gone to Kansas
from us; and we have never heard of an
instance of illegal conduct by them,
Intimate acquaintance with the subject
and abundant evidence in our Office, en-
able US toassert. in the most positive man
ner, that our Southern fellow-citizens will
find those who have gone to Kansas in
our connection, ready to receive with
cordiality all good men, and to co-ope
rate with them in the establishmentof all
that is excellent in the best aud most or
derly American society, and prepared to
submit in peace to the lawful decision of
the people, made at the proper time. and
in obedience to rightful authority.
With these views. plans, aud sesults,
the New York Kansas Lesssue has been
acting year and .laiii, being the only
established Company in the Union, ex'
eept one; and with them it is proceeding
with growing prospects.
THEoDoRE DwIGHr,
President n. 7. Kansas League
GEo. Waller, Gen. Superintendent.