The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-07-04

In all the Eastern States, in New Eng
land, and inssome.. of the Middle States,
there are hundreds of persons who are
not only not getting rich, not making for
tune, but are actually growing poorer every
year. And this is no fault of theirs. They
ue sober, honest, and industrious. They
work all day long. and every day In the
week: and This they have been doing fer
years and years But ooaspetitieii is all
around them, and in every shape. The
population is becoming dense. These per-
sons are married, and most OF them have
large families. There is another class, whose
fate is darker still. In all large cities there
are thousands ofyeung females, who have
been controlled by tle misfortunes of.
their parents, TO seek active employment
for livelihood. The great mass of them
earn scanty and prec;Tious subsistence
by the incessant laborof the needle. They
earn enough to keep body and soul to-
gether, and to cover themselves with scam
ty habiliments, and that is all. Is it any
wonder that when temptation comes in
the shape of promises ofcomfort and ease,
and relief from life of hopeless, sunless
drudgery, that they take the one fatal step,
and glide by degrees into that abyss of
shame and degradation that yawns forever
at their feet?
Now, these great evils may be remedied,
not altogether, indeed, but to very great
extent, and at the same time the West
will be greatly benefited.
There are thousands of thousands of
acres of unoccupied aud unimproved lands
in the States of Indiana, Illinois, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, and other States and
Territories north and west of us. This
| land, too, is the most fertile and lroduc-
tive in the world. The farmer, who in
sterile New England has been accustomed
to wrench with cruel labor from the un-
willing and rocky land ten or fifteen
bushels of wheat, or twenty to thirty
| bushels of corn to the acre, finds that here,
with one quarter of the toll, he can pro-
| ducc twice that amount. Nor is distance
from market any objection. BY an adj
mirable system of railroads, covering the
! West with a network of iron, and pene-
/ tra:ing to the remotest corner, market is
/ broughttO every mans door.
/ Nor are the agricultural resources OF
! tuc w tSL ibuDilC dttCli-
ton. Her mineral wealth is just begin
ming 10 attract attention. Its, as yet, I'M
I developed. but enough has been brought
to light TO demonstrate, beyond all doubt,
/ the existence, in Illinois alone, of mineral
| treasures to an extent that will make her
! the peer of Pennsylvania in the depart
ments ofmining and manufactures.
We want men 10 work our mines, and
to cultivate our unimproved lands. Let
the teeming East send us their hundreds
of poor larmers-poor, We mean in this
worlds goods, but rich in honest hearts
strong hands, and rugged health. Let
them come here with their wives and
children, their substance, whether gresi
or small, and if they have poor cousin
or niece who is wearing her fingers to the
bone in making shirts at ten cents apiece
or who is filling her lungs with the dus
of factory, let them bring her along
with them. Let the toiling laborer, too
! who works Mt 775 cents day, propel west
! ward. If he is honest and industrious, he
can do better than that on our new farms
/ or in our mines. and in few years will
/ find himself master Of home of his own
! There are hundreds of instances of mer
coming to Illinois poor. who. by persever.
ing industry, have become wealthy. AM
there is room for thousands more.-Nea,
s Z,eftei.