The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-03
Donations for Kansas.

asperS1ons, and the Ill Will OF envl0us
men, the Yankees still keep on in the
even tenor of their ways. What their
ealumniators spend in whiskey, tobac-
CO and other vile practices, the Yank-
ees lay up for time of need. We
know, from more than twenty years
observation, that no section of the u
nited States has given as much to char
liable and praiseworthy objects as these
same miserable ankees SO despised and
so abused by the whiskey drinkers Of
theSouth andWest. Few large church
es are built in the West but some por-
tion of their funds come from the East.
But few colleges are founded without
appealing to New England for aid. No
extensive calamity befals any portion
of the inhabitants of this earth, that is
not to some degree alleviated by New
England charity. She always drops
The tear of sympathy over the suffer-
ing, and stretches out her hand to help
the needy. Millions of dollars are Civ
en- yearly by her inhabitants for relig-
ious, educational, and charitable pur-
poses, in other parts of the world
When pestilence, famine or war visits
the land, New England aid and sym
pathy is always present, to cheer and
to heal. Look to Norfolk, in the last
dread visitation of the pestilenee, or
to New Orleans, or the Cape de Verd
Islands, or to Ireland and now look
to Kansas. Massachusetts, alone has
shipped to Kansas twenty tons of cloth
ing, bedding, DC, for the relief of the
needy. The Boston Weekly Nessen-
ger says -
"The history of this whole move
ment for the supply of clothing ON a
sufficient scale to the destitute of re-
gion at great distance, is the history
OF most remarkable act of Christian
liberality and wisdom. We trust that
some person, who has had an opportu-
nifty of noticing the details which unit
ed IN result SO remarkable, will pre-
pare a digested account of those de-
tails,-signifcant as they are in every
point, ami to the highest degree cred
liable to the executive ability as well
as the kindness of feeling of the wo-
men of New England. From the aged
blind woman, who sends her pair OF
stockings, to the energetic Committee
of the Church Of the Disciples, to
whom DIR. Cabot makes his acknowl-
edgments, the spirit OF the work has
been the same. And, in the rapidity
and promptness of its execution, there
has been left nothing to desire.
1t ought to be remembered, that in
the midst of such energetic work of
New England women, to clothe naked
women who had not, for want, left
their cabins for weeks, and children
who would freeze to death if winter
surprised them without such relief, E.
they were surrounded with words of
Encouragement, and sneers at their
charitable Intentions. Men of charac-
ter were not ashamed to say that Kan
sas would be forgotten after the 4th of
or to warn them that their
clothing would warm the Missouri bor-
derers. In the face of such sneers they
worked on. In the face of them they
succeeded. The committee who called
for their work proved to be true advis-
ers. Every mail from Lawrence brings
the eager thanks of those who never
begged and never will, from all parts
of that virgin territory, for the relief,
which is more than ever precious, be-
cause it is the voluntary work of wo-
men who only cared to know that there
was need which they could relieve.
1t was late in September before this
call was made. 1t was scarcely two
months before it was well circulated,
when DR.. Cabot was able to present
the triumphant report of Nov. 2Sth.-l
In the meantime this supply of cloth
ing had been gathered, despatched and,
in part, reached It's destination, half
way across continent, passing the
brigands who would not have hesitated
% intercept it, aud relieving the want
for which it was destined. To the ex-
scutive power and devotion of the
Committee of one, to whom the State
Committee entrusted it, and to the wo-
manly zeal of which we have spoken,
he community owes so distinguished
. success.
We compare it, with some pride,
With the effort which the government
IF England made two years ago to
,lothe its soldiers likely to freeze in
he Crimea. The problem there was,
With unlimited means, of money, of
and of work, to clothe an
army of forty thousand men at fifteen
hundred miles distance, of easy navi-
cation, with no enemy between. Six
passed before the problem be- |
,an to be solved. In this case, the |
amount of work to be done was less
But the distance was the same the
;arriage was over a continent an en-
my lay ready to intercept the stores !; |
nd it was nobody's business to attend |
o the duty. Two months saw the or
,anization effected,-the clothing Gre
'ted,-the transportation carried thro'
nd paid for the enemy foiled, and |
he naked clothed, ,heforewinter came"
We venture the prophecy that the
unds which win build the first Col
ege in Kansas viii be contributed by |
sew England-that the valuable church |
diEces now being erected in our midst |
re supplied with funds from New |
that for the next ten