The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-12-26
To ,lns West. To the west.

While looking over our Eastern exc
changes, our attention is called to the fre-
quent notices relative to the fever which
has taken hold of the people for emigra-
ting to the West, since the financial pam
ic in the commercial world of the East,
has created such q rafting among the
dry bones. We are not at all surprised at
seeing these paragraphs, as we have long
since come to the conclusion in our mind,
that our own free West is the land Of
promise, which our Eastern and Northern
friends look upon as the only place Of ref
uge, where opportunities are afforded
them of recuperating from the disastrous
effects produced from the present
pressure in the monetary market OF
the east, which has so grievously opera
ted against their present as we'll as future
prospects in life. We cannot wonder at
| the people of the East becoming dissatis-
| fed and restless, when they look at the
| financial revulsions and misfortunes which
the failures of their banks and business
men have created that they should look
with longing eyes to the West, which has
stood so firmly amid all the monetary
crashes which have taken place, is not
surprising to us. We do not pretend to
deny that we have had few failures in
the Western States since the Eastern PAN
ic commenced, but that they amount to
anything serious, we certainly do deny,
as the statistics of the failures in the coun-
| try for the week ending the 10th inst,
will prove to the satisfaction of every
reasonable business man, that we are cor
rect in making the foregoing assertion,
there being but one or two failures in
Iowa, none in st. Louis and only one in
Chicago.
| These undeniable facts are well known
to the public, hence the reason why the
people of the East are looking so anxious
| ly to the West as the only reliable part of
the country where they can build up their
future and make ample provisions for
their children. Since the crisis of affairs
have become so alarming in the East,
hundreds of families, who have never
dreamed of ofseeking their fortunes in the
"Great West" are now turning their un-
divided attention to it; and well they
may, as there is no telling what the end
of the beginning may result in. It's for
the purpose of avoiding the danger which
threatens them, that they are so anxious
to leave their own homesteads and settle
down upon our broad and rolling prairies,
where they know there is
| Home for all honest labor"
An Eastern exchange tells us that the
mania for coming West prevails chiefly
among this class of society, hundreds OF
whom have suffered from the failures and
suspensions of the last month. 1t is this
class of our Eastern brethren who, by
their industry, had raked and scraped TO-
gether small amounts of money and de-
posted for safe keeping in banks which
have "gone up" that suffer the most
This being the case, which no one will
pretend to dispute, there is nothing re-
markable in the fact that they should
look to the West as the country for the
poor man, who is willing to work for an
honest living. We say to our brethren OF
! the East, pull up your stakes and start
for the West, we have plenty of room for
all who wish to come. We have q few
! failures. but we can assure our Eastern
| friends that they amount to small "row
of pins" Our march is onward and we
have no fear for the future so come to the
West, where you can always make liv-
ing, we care not how tight the times may
| be.-D,sbuole Tribune.