The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-17

the bonetlts conferred On emlgrants by
the Aid Society. They sent out ex-
plorers, in advance of emigration, who
visited every portion Of the Territory,
described its resources, climate, soil,
AMI productions. These reports were
published. and gratuitously circulat-
ed; thereby saving the emigrant a
seasons time, besides expense and
trouble They also erected, in ad-
vance of emigration, saw mills, hotels
and school houses; enabled the emi-
grant 10 procure tickets at reduced
price, and take with them the teacher,
minister and editor. They went, not
as pioneers, but in communities-not
merely to make money, but as mis-
sionaries of Freedom, with high and
patriotic purpose. AsWhittier says
We go to rear wall of men
On Freedoms Southern line,
And plant beside the cotton tree
The rugged Northern pine.
We're flowing from our native hills,
AS our free rivers flow;
The blessing Of our mother land
Is on Us, as We go.
r Ne go TO plant her common schools
/ On distant prairie swells,
And give the Sabbaths of the wild
The music Of her bells.
Upbearing, as the ark of old,
The Bible in our van,
We go to test the truth of God,
Against the fraud Of man.
An organized emigration had other
advantages. 1t enabled emigrants to
have constant communication with
their Eastern friends. Pioneers, hith-
erto, hare been cut off from the East
ern world. They wander here and
there, and are soon lost sight of. If
they need help, none reaches them
How is it with the emigrantS now?
Let the Reports of the Benevolent
Kansas Aid Societies answer. Their
property, also, rises in value instantly,
when they settle in communities.
Their spiritual interests prosper. The
church is with them; the school house
and the printing press. Hitherto, they
have been compelled to do without
church, school, and press, for years.
Under such circumstances, ignorance.
infdelity, and bigotry flourish. In
fact, organized emigration has thou
sand advantages, while it has not a
single disadvantage.
If this system was universally
adopted, the West, instead of being a
receptacle of religious and educational
influences would be afountain of such
influences.
Every eminent man to whom this
scheme had been explained, approved
it.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said that
this scheme comprehends within it.
sele, all of the most important benev-
olent and religious associations.
Dr.Bushnell remarked: ga few wears
ago, l wrote a sermon, to show the
tendency of emigration, in this coun-
try, to barbarism. I am now ready
to write another, showing the ten
dency of emigration, conducted in ac-
cerdance with this plan, to higher
civilization than we have ever wit
messed"
DR.. Wayland said that it was one
of the grandest combinations ever
developed, and capable of doing all it
was intended to accomplish.
1t had been applaudcd by the lead
ing spirits of the press, foreign and
domestic. The London Times, for
example, pronounced it thu greatest
American movement of this age; and
so of the North Ame7fcan Repiew.
1t was but candid to say, however,
that some men. high in station, de-
nounced 1.-THE President of the Uni
ted States, for example, who opposed
it because it had tendency to prevent
the spread of Illinois Egyptian De-
mocraey. But, said the speaker, it is
not my purpose, on this occasion, to
speak evil of dignitaries-especially,
of that man whose popularity has in
creased to such an extent, that, al
though he came into office with very
little opposition, he goes out of it
with none whatever. Roars of
Laughter The President charges us
with having created all the disturb
ances in Kansas, which is but reit-
Grafton of the charges made by Atchi-
son, and the Border Ruffians of West
ern Missouri. We admit it. 1t is
because we constructed our Free State
dam before the advancing tide of slav-
cry, that we occasioned all the hiss
ing, and foaming, and tumbling of its
black and pestilential waters. We
admit that there would have been
quiet IN Kansas-but it would have
been the quiet of death. Does the
President deprecate excitement, with
out reference to its cause? What
great reform was ever effected without
excitement? Excitement is the tri-
umphal car of Truth. The Lion of
the Tribe Of Judah-did he not create
commotion among the scribes and
Pharisees, and Saddueees? Were not
the Apostles denounced as '.pestilent
fellows?" Was he of Germany, who
drove the bulls of Leo X. from the
rich pastures of old saxony, believing
all the way home to their stalls in the
Vatican-was he quietist And
what of the men who caused Charles
the First to lose his head, and George
the Third his Colonies? All great men
have their mission, the accomplish
ment Of which is crowned by some
great and heroic achievement, by which
they are remem bered in history. John
Adams was the defender of the Deelar-
alton Of Independence: Webster. the
defender of the Constitution; Frank
lin Pierce-the tradueer of the n. E..
Emigrant Aid Company. Laughter. I
l fear my report is already too long.
Let me, as eonciseiy as | can, glance
! at the rom iutpcy r,oiy,fe aud f,at-,