Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-01-08

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The Missouri Democrat, the main or
gan and general news transporter for
the fusioHists during the late campaign,
finds itsimpossible to play the farce any
longer, and comes out with the follow
ing facts, as furnished by a correspon-
dent in the Territory. The editor y
We invite attention to some very i'm
portant disclosures, which will be found
in another column, of alleged frauds
which have been practised by the social
ed Emigrant Aid Societies of the North
upon those who have intrusted them
with donations to relieve the necessities
and sufferings in Kansas. For SOM
time past we have heard various com
plants and accusations against these as
specializing concerns, all pointing to
the same abuse of trust, and the same
infdelity of agents, who have only ap-
pealed to the benevolent friends in Kan
sas in order to pocket for themselves the
funds they may thus collect.
We have never approved of these aid
societies, either at the North or the
South. We have believed that it was a
vicious principle Of emigration, and not
calculated to be of benefit to our west
ern Territories, for those whom n paltry
advance could nus induce to go into
Kansas or Nebraska were scarcely the
material out of which to make hardy
pioneers or Industrious farmers. If,
however, it shall turn out, in addition
to all this, that the aid societies are I'M
faithful and ayarieious, and fraudulent
besides. we shall have vel still more
powerful incentives to discourage and
discountenance them. We commend
the communication to which we have
referred, and the many signatures
attached to it, to the attention OF
those concerned, and demand, in the
name of the destitute and impover-
ished men and women who have lost
their substance in the. late distressing
collisions in Kansas, that the agents
who lave made collections for their re
lief be held to strict accountability, and
the aims and character of these aid soci-
cites be more closely examined into. Ii
they shall prove to be mere associations
of the benevolent, we have no right to
question the propriety of their forma-
ton, but if they be merely banded pi-
geon-droppers in disguise, it will become
the duty of the press to expose and up
o them. The happiness of a people
has more claim upon the sympathy OF
the public han the success of specula-
tors in charity. Nor in this language
do We wish to confine ourselves exclu-
.,oI,,f ~ EAAe0I k1ona uyh.nh have
been formed in the North under this
title. Equally severe ordinations have
been passed time and again in our hear
ing upon similar schemes in the South,
and we have no doubt but that what our
correspondent says of the desperation to
which many were reduced bydisappoint-
ment IN fulfilling the promises made to
them before emigrating, drove them in
to scenes of plunderw which disgraced the
Territory during the past summer. We
have already published these charges in
the case of complaints against Buford.
Wilkes, and others from the South, and
now perform our duty as an impartial
journalin giving prominence to the pre-
sent disclosures concerning the aid So
cieties in the North. En- the shape in
which they come, and endorsed as they
are by many resident settlers of Kansas.
it will not do for this matter to be pass
ed over in silence, and We shall await
with some anxiety to see. the explana:
tons that may come from the companies
and individuals implicated.
The following is the card of the vic
TINS ny
LAWRENCE, K. 7. Nov 24, 1856.
Mr. Editor:-As I am interested il
the fate of this Territory, L would say t
those who intend coming to Kansas
come on your own responsibility, an
then you know what to depend upon
for you cannot depend upon the assist
ance of the Kansas Aid Society. Tho
Is nothing more nor less than a Speculation
operation, from beginning to end, 1ohic
Originated an YdnkeedoB., and It is tin
that the honest donators should be dupe
no longer for bleeding Kansas. There
no doubt but there are people who nee
aid, and / would advise those who Civ
aid to send it to some person or person
the parties may know, and then VIII;
they send or give you will know is di
tributed to the necessitous.
Imay state, for intapce, that the or
ginnl Chicago company never futile
their contract with the company tn;
left there in June last, and which h;
seer more hardships than any othC
company in the Territory, The con
mittee was to give them assistance o
their arrival in the Territory, and ais
find them in provisions for one yea
which has not been complied with.
you say anything to them, they1eply.
is all left to the national committee; an
when you mention it to them, they 50
you are a separate concern, we ha'
nothing to do withsyou. That is tt
way you are treated, after being induce
to leave a comfortable home, to endu,
privations and hardships for the a
Society to speculate from. For a sar
pie of the committees generosity, / CT
to you one circumstance among a hui
dred that happen daily: A Mr.. Bedo
of Rockford, had lost all his clothing
the battle of Ossowatomie, and on b
return Mr.. Whitman gave, him an Owe
shirt, (of blue flannel, which is genera
lY worn here he had worn the shi
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