The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-08-15

weeds of mourning are worn, tell them
that your wife's delicate frame and chill
dren's youthful constitutions yielded to
the miasmatic blasts of that disease stIick-
en- country, and that you left them beneath
the flowers of the prairie. Yes, tell us
these things as you come back to end
your shortened days among the scenes of
former years, and we will tell you that
you, with your westward thirst for lands,
for ague swampS, and mosquito marshes,
caused the hard times of 1847 throughout
your own Buckeye State, and that to this
undue thirst for wealth, by yourself and
Others, many good and promising man
was ruined in his business, many a low
ing wife covered with the sods of the
prairie, and many child bud transplant
ed to bloom in heaven.-Gnernsey Times.
Westward Ho! Yes, away to the great,
the fertile, the beautiful West-sever the
bonds of misery, poverty and hun
ger, the present from the future
cut assunder the ties between
yourself and grasping landholders, hoary
misers and usurerS, exacting task-masters,
dependence, poverty and misery-tear
aSunder the bands that bind you to unre-
Quilted toll, sterile lands and future pros
poets of penury and want-break from the
circling whirlpool of servitude and poverty
endured by your poor, self-sacrificing
parents; forget the place and associations
where you and they have suffered pain,
sorrow and want, and hasten to the YER
dant gardens of the West. Forget the
careful advice Ito stay at home) of maiden
aunts and old fogy uncles, and haste to
your future home in the glowing, flower
clad West; forget the wrongs heaped
upon you by your oppressors, your land
lords and your tyrant master poverty, and
remember only the bright hopes of future
honor, wealth and independence.
! Forget the miser's biting grasp for gold,
and the taskmaker's demand for your
strength, your flesh and blood, that took
from you your dear mother and sisters
for moment forget the hollow cough, the
sunken eyes and the pale and emaciated
forms as they were borne to their final
resting place, and haste from the land so
cursed by the blight of sterility and ghast-
I ly consumption. Yes, with firm, strong,
manly hearts, grid up the loins of young
manhood, determine to endure some nc
cessary fatigues, hardships and privations
i a short time, that you may attain indc-
i pendence, comforts and abundance.
Blind your eyes and shut your ear;
and steel your heart against the sneers O
monied monopolists, and those who wotilt
wish to keep you in misery as deep. q:
themselves. Yes, leave your natal hills
crowned with hemlock forests, huge rocl
and the sweat of your fathers-leave tn,
povcrty-stricken soil of yoir sires, where
you have to blast holes between the rock.
i to plant your corn and import earth tt
cover it, where the noses of YOU
sheep become sharpened by constant
feeding upon stray stems of herbage among
the rocks, where it takes two fat hogs t.
make shadow, and You arc obliged tt
labor one-half the year to obtain thC
means of subsistence for your poor ema.
ciated stock the remaining six months O
winter. Yes, leave all these miseries be-
hind and hasten to the prairies, the para
disc of the earth, the Eden of plenty, a lant
flowing with milk and honey, and tn,
richest fat of sleek kline. Yes, hur,
away to the richest lands the life-givin:
sun ever shown upon, where the huge for
ests have not first to be removed, an,
miry swamps drained, but where an abund
ance of open land awaits your plowsharc
and thrifty timber, and sweet coolin
water, is everywhere profusely distributed
and where the wholesome balmy brcat1
from myriads of flowers fans your burnish
ed brow as it gently ripples the silver
lakes.
Yes, pack up your seanty wardrobe, ant
hastily migrate to the great, glorious an
grassy West, where your herds and flock
will need little or no attention. willis
they will increase like JacohPs of old t
innumerable nlultitudes, where the broa
vallies are your pastures and meade,
lands, and if you want feed for your ten
der stock through our mild and usual
pleasant winters, YOU have only to ste
out of your pleasant prairie house, and Gu
it as free as air TO all.
| Yes, in Your manly detestatioh of nov
serty and love of enterprise ahd pient,
take your darling faiiiils with you, to tn
enchanting prairies, to live in a swee
home, surrounded by grassy lawn an
gentle smiling wild flowers, there to in
hale the nower-kissing zephyrs aIs. &c
come robust and healthy, and with cheek
!, tinged with the dye of health, counte
nance Illuminated with happiness, wit
comfortable raiment, fine carriage an,
prancing steeas, and pockets lined wit
. H., - "
of clay, rock, laurel end hefalock forests
go once again 10 that poverty-stricker
God-forsaken country, tell your friend
there is life, health, wealth and blessin
in the prairie land. Take up your poul
toil-worn parents, brothers ami sister,
and hasten back to sodr well-earned
tastefully gafnished mansion, or cottag
in the vale, and help them, too, to know
and feel there is happiness in this col,
world-but ere for the last time you leay
the scenes of your childhood and tn
home of your youth, from your vel
filled purse mark the spot where rest
your many dear friends in the old gray,
yard, with monument of marble, ant
engFaye thereon-"fietims to Poverty
Monopoly and Consumption"
Yes, tell all your friends and neigh
bors, that in going West, you have fount
health, wealth, honor and happiness, ans
beg of them to break from the bonds o
toll and poverty and oppression, and Sc
and be happy. Bid the landlord to fms
other tenants-the factory task-n1aster tc
find others more tame for slaves, and the
tricky merchant and speculator to find
other customers more green, or break and
go TO ruin, or emigrate to other fields fol
enterprise, whilst you return with nu-
merous and hopeful band of friends to
make happy in your delightful and pros
porous prairie home.
This is a picture that may be true to
life, and in thousands of instances is so.
There are few weak-minded, lazy, mis-