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The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-24
Ruman Correspondents.

We have received slip from the
Richmond, Ind, Jefersonian, contain
ing letter from Hiram Hoover in re-
gard to Kansas affairs. 1t abounds
with falsehoods and mis-statements oi
facts and is just what would be expected
from the author, whose sympathies
have been with the border ruffians since
he has been in Kansas. A gentleman
WHO accompanied him to the Territory
informed us that all through Missouri,
on his way here, he expressed himself
faF orable to the introduction ofslavery
iniKansas, and wished he owned farms,
which he pointed out along the way,
well stocked with niggers. AS spec
linen of his letter, and proof that he is
dyed in rufianism, we copy the follow
ing, which he dates from Neosho Riv-
er Valley, Nov. %, '56 -
81 must not forget to tell you of the
special aid that the people of this
neighborhood has lately received. The
people got quite clamorous about the
doings of those who have been off beg.
ging for the sufferers in Kansas, and
began to manifest a disposition to en-
quire into the doings of their agents,
| 1.-THE head men about Lawrence, )so they
sent agents to the different parts of the
Territory to enquire into the wants OF
the people, and to appoint sub-agents
to distribute the valuables to the ac-
tual needy, excluding all but Abolition
lists, as l understand, for l did not go
near the meeting that was held mol
would have no part nor lot in it. They
appointed Superintendent and estab-
lished Poor House, and straightway
they sent three heavy OK teams to Law
renee for the valuable aid. The teams
returned loaded with boxes, bags and
bundles the poor sufferers flocked in
buoyant with hope the boxes, &C.,
were opened, and such an array of old
clothes was scarcely ever seen. Old
coats, one half and three-qusrte-s W orn,
old shirts with the collars and wrist
bands worn off, old sheets with nothing
but the edges left, and SO on. Itwould
have made paper-mill laugh to have
witnessed the novel but ragged sight.
SO much for the aid our neighborhood
has received. Quite a number were
in favor of making bonfire of the
whole of them"
The pro-slavery party call all per-
sons in favor of making Kansas a
Free State "abolitionists." It seems
the Free State Committee in the Neo-
sho Valley, excluded Hoover from re-
lief, also knowing his character and
hence his falsehoods in regard to the
facts here as an Offset.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-24
More Good News.

II. j. Lsaeks, the District Attorney
of the United States for Kansas, has
sent his resignation to Washington.
He is the man who drew up the in.
dictments agsinst as and our fellow
prisoners. for high trsasoa! Hs has been
the accomplice of Judge Lecompte.
alias JefTeys, in all the villainous
outrages in Kansas, and no doubt was
advisory to the same. Through the
smattering of legal knowledge pos
sessed -by Judges Elmore and lie.
compte, and Attorney Isacks, Kansas
Territory has been cursed with the
Legislation such as has been imposed
upon rs. These men were the master
minds at Pawnee and Shawnee Mis-
sion. They directed the legislation of
that body; and they were the men
who conceived the plot, and through
such persons as Stringfellow, who
were merely seats paws to perform
the acts which the others were ashsm-
ed or afraid to do, the work was con-
sumsted.
i Walker, in his I" Introduction to
American Law" well says so
Beware of the successful pestifeg-
ger who prowls in Courts of Law for
human prey. They are the most de-
testable of their species-their very
knowledge is knavery."
Who viii not say the knowledge of
Elmore, Leconpte and Isacks is
"knapsrye" They have applied their
|, knowledge to knavish purposes from
their first inception into the Territory.
by attempting to enslave the people
over whom they came to preside as
impartial jurists. They have shown
that they were only "pettifoggers."
by their disgraceful legislation; for no
lawyer, we'll schooled in his profes-
sion. would have been guilty of foist-
ing upon the country the acts which
a grace the so-called Kansas statutes.
! If ever men deserved impeachment
from Congress, it is these-not one,
: bat all. Though Elmore has long
since been removed from the bench.
!, yet he haa continued one Of the evil
geniuses of the Territory. and has ever
e been at his post to aid and direct his
, coafreres in their war upon the liber-
ties of the people. We desire record
: of those men, in chapter embracing
3 eighteen or twenty foolscap pages, for
our HISTORY OF KANSAS. Who will
write il, and transmit the names OF
these men to posterity alengside with
the infamOas judges eff former period?
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-24
Going West,

The Ohio Farmer has an article
headed "Emigration to the West
Who should go?" After telling who
should not go. including among this
class the aged, the invalid, the wealthy
who are not willing to sacrifice some
of the present comforts of life for
prospective advantages, closes with the
following, which we heartily endorse:
The emigrants should be mostly
young. By colonizing a young mar
ried pair. you eolonise, by antieipa-
ton, all their children. They should
mostly be vigorous and hardy persons.
They win THIS be parents of . robust
race, fit to achieve those heroic enter
prises that lie sleeping beneath the veil
Of the future. They should generally
be persons of moderate property; for,
at the West. small capital viii go :
great way. A thousand, well invest.
ed, will become ten thousand in . few
years for where every blow that every
man strikes, helps ell his neighbors Is
much as himself, the development OF
capital is most miraculous. And
where necessity aud hope combine to
quicken the industry of the people,
their success is next to certain. Rich
men do not improve new country as
fast as men Of more moderate means ;
for they consult their ease more, and
do not feel the good of necessity so
much. Those who go West should
also be philanthropic and fsr-sighted
men. It is with communities as with
individuals,
Just as thetwig is bent, the trees inclined
The first settlers decide the character
Of 3 community for fifty or = hundred
years. We could quote proofs of this
in the East, and in our own State, by
the score; but it is needless; every
man sees that it must be so.
with such men as these to found
new States in the West, their pros
perity is assured. Let Euch. and only
such co."
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-24
Kansas ousragss upon Missouri.

The st. Louis Democrat gives the
following account of the evils which
have been brought upon the trade Of
Missouri, by the violent interference oi
citizens of that State in tie affairs ol
Kansas
ga thorough and absolute estoppel
has been placed upon all attempts to
supply the Free State men of Kansas
with provisions, clothing, and other
necessary articles, by means of the
transportation on the Missouri. How
shall we begin to estimate the losses
inflicted upon the steamboat interests of
the Missouri by this unlawful interfer-
ence with their business? How much
would they have received from twenty
thousand passengers, who have in effect
been driven from their boats and sent
through Iowa. or deferred from going
to Kansas altogether, and who would
otherwise have gone on the Missouri
| river packets? This number is not un-
reasonably large-a greater number Of
persons have gons into Minnescss inone
year alone. whilst more than double that
number of settlers have gone to Iowa
within the last twelve months. Esti-
mste, then, the price Of passage from
St. Louis to Leayenworth ct SIS, and
this multiplied By 20, ,000-the assumed
number Of fpassengers--makes $500, 600.
and represents approximately the In
| Jury inflicted By Atchison and String.
fellow. backed up by the Missouri Re-
publican, upon the steamboats, upon the
Missouri river, in this one item alone.
If these people had been permittsd to
settle in Kansas, they, As well as those
now there, would have been supplied
with provisions, groceries, clothing,
household furniture. building materials.
and all of these would have paid freight
to the steamboats,. How much? It
cannot be estimated at much less than
$500, 900, because freight on such az
ticles are high on this river, and being
indispensable to the settlers, they would
have paid any prics. Here are tive
items Of loss inflicted on the steamboat
interests BY these reckless demagogues
and their eoadjutors Of the press.
amounting to more than half ; million
of dollars. It is safe to ssy tbs. each
steamer plying on the Missouri rirer
woald have paid for itself in one ysar.
by the profit it would have derived
from the free white immigration INTO
Kansas, and vhicrhss been lost By the
illegal and outrageous interfeEsnce ef|
Atehison sad bis scconfiscss With thsirl
bnsiness."
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-24
RsplY 70 q corre..onasnt.

4 gentleman IN Providence. Z. l.,
desires to know how far west the
surveys in Kansas have been made;
when the land Office viii be open for
pre-emptors to prove up their clsims;
and when the Shawnee lands will be
thrown into market; with other in
terrogstories.
Ali of these questions are difficult,
and in fact almost impossible for US
70 answer. It is understood, however,
that the surveys have been mostly
Ieompieted.to the guide meridian, from
six to eight miles this side of Man.
haitian, and embracing ell the Territory
lying east of that line and north of the
Kansas river; as well as all that por-
ton extending south to the Neosho
Valley.
The great question which all per-
sons here desire answered is the same
which our friend propounds, "When
will the Land Office in Kansas be open
for business?" The general impress
sion is, that it will be at an early day
in the spring-some say as soon as
the sales Of the Delaware Trust Lands
are finally closed. The last is our
opinion. Others think it will not be
until the 1st of July.
The Shawnees have ninety days af-
ter the surveys are approved. in which
to make their selection of 200 acres
to each member of their tribe, from
their reservation. The surveys are
not yet approved, hence ninety days al
least must elapse before the lands are
open to settlement. When the sur
veys will be approved is uncertain. as
it depends upon the caprice of the De.
partment at Washington.
| Our friend states that complaints
are made against some of our leading
men, charging them with misapplyine
the funds donated for the relief of Kan.
sas. There may be truth in some Of
the charges made, but we do not be-
Ilieve it in the case to which he refers
Indeed, we have our doubts of thost
charges being true in single instance
when made against leading men il
| Kansas.
/ For the future, we advise the entirt
public who wish to aid Kansas, t.
send their contributions to the Kansas
National Committee at Chicago
Their officers have been upon thu
ground, mingled with our people and
| the sufferers, know our wants, aud
have the heart to relieve them. Give
Ino money to irresponsible itinerant
lecturers, who profess to be clothed
with authority by some self-constituted
and equally irresponsible body. II
lecturers Rish to talk on Kansas af.
fairs, give them patient hearing. take
Iup subscriptions, if thought desirable,
to aid the destitute, and when this il
done, forward the amount as above In
dicated. 1t will then be sure to reach
its destination, and will give the re-
lief contemplated.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-24
Nre-Eating Organs.

The Boonville Observer has long
article on Kansas affairs, mostly in re-
ply to an article in the Sqaatter Sorer-
eign. 1t remarks as follows in regard
to the Sovereign -
1.-THE complaint of the .Sovsrs;gn is
near a column in length, and, If the ef-
fort had any literary or political merit,
and the paper any weight with the pat
riotic and law-abiding of any section
north, south, east or west-we would
give it an extended notice. As to The
ability which marks the history OF this
riprorious sheet, unless impudence be q
demonstration of spirit, and lawiessaess
of force-as its conductors imagine-it
has no character worth earning. Il was
the advocate of civil war and disunion.
before Gov. Geary went to the territory.
and is yet but its reasonable malig-
nifty has been too crude and undisguis-
ed politically, in newspaper sense, TO
be formidable. Occasionally, some
nomad secessionist msy have illumined
its columns, in not inelegsnt phrase. con
cerning the gentility and mettle Of the
renowned Palmetto Chivalry but its
legitimate corps editorial commit near
rs m any sins against Lindley Murray as
they do against good manners and the
patriotic instincts Of their bettsrs."
The editor Of the Obseryer closes his
remarks by saying -
1--WE have given our money aud
counsel towards making Kansas slave
State in . fair, legiiinzis way, The only
way practicable: But as have sos hssi-
taisd to proclaim against that lawlsss
destruction Of iih saa property. which
hss kept slaves ont of Kansas. end fur
nished abolitioaisss with thsir most ss-
tsemed argunsnsasGainst us. We have
nothing TO d wita Ehs editors Of he
Sqsater Sosk7s;sa, except q eosdae-
tors Of ; public curnsl We do net
know them. snd have nczhisz gerspH-
ally against them; bst ss csn szsaEe
them, individually sud eoliectsely,
that politically, we do not cosef fbsis
good opinion, nor do We eEjoy any SYM
pathy with those who do.
We observe that the entire press OF
Missouri has changed its language to-
wards Kansas. I. is only such fre-
eating journals IS the Soserfign and
the Lecompton Union. which are Bow
clustering. As We predicted. IN regard
TO further disturbances On tho border.
The Sssrcf EHptys. Henry Clay Pats,s
paper--formerly the Border Ra6EaH-
has entirely changed is tone. and has
ceased its thseatenings upon the psopls
Of the Territory. So have both shs
Isavensorth Hs1atd aud Journal. sud
ths Kansas City EalzYriss. There srs
5 fsv frs-satsrs. The rensins Of Bu-
lords 6ilibastsFibg ezPedisics. s:iil b
IL Tsrzisezx:: .asy ped e cssns -
hkfss ss5 3 szs asbsoazesls silszss -.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-24
The Tyranny of Slavery.

SSAotoA OiSAcA' VA ACnASy A'oAAo1
said, in arecent speech, that The
interests of half q million Of slave
holders could not supercede and over
ride the interests of twenty five mil
lions of ofnon-slavehoiders."
The interests of these millions
must be considered and secured by
their own efforts, or they must be sac
rifced. A few strong-minded, selfish
men have always managed so as to en-
tangle the masses in laws which they
could not understand; and by using
one portion of the community to sub
due the other, have succeededin living
in affluence and ease, off their unre-
Quilted labors. From the earliest his
tory of mankind, we have accounts
Of men struggling to free themselves
from the bondage of arbitrary power.
But so far, they have struggled in vain.
Intelligence, office and wealth have
always been an over-match for igno-
rance, poverty and numbers. If the
powerful. by some chord of unity,
sympathize with the weak, and thus in
some measure become their protectors
or leaders, they for time become a
free people. 1t was thus in the first
settlement of America, and in the
American Revolution. A general
sentiment of liberality and freedom
pervaded the whole country. When
this spirit was in the ascendaney. and
all classes under its influence, our
glorious Declaration of Independence
was produced, and ratified by the
whole people as guaranty and safe
guard for all time. Trusting in the
truth of this declaration, and the sin.
cerity of those who made it basis Of
unity, all parties retired in confidence
from the arena of strife, to follow the
peaceful pursuits of intellectual and
moral truth, and develope the latent
agricultural and mechanical, com,
mercial and manufacturing resources
Of the country.
Shareholders, by combining leisure,
wealth and learning, have proved
themselves superior to the laborins
class, and have forced themselves into
positions of place and power; and
they have used this power so as to at.
tach to themselves large number o.
the ambitious and poor, who are seek
ing living by other means than hon
est toll and industry. On plea Of
an equal distribution of the powers Of
the government, they at first took
modest possession of the power put
confdingly in their hands by the non.
Shareholders. Gradually, little by
little, their numbers have increased,
and their arrogance increased, till
they have become tyranny too odi-
GUS and oppressive to be longer borne.
They have come to look upon all Ia
boring white men as they do upon
negroes, and now urge that condition
makes the slave, and not color or race.
'Tis thus, step by step, that slavery
shows itself. 1t first corrupts the
master by corrupting his moral ma
ture, and then ruins the community
in which he lives by subverting or
obliterating all sens, of right and
wrong, and all knowledge of natural
law.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-24
lice

niittee have, at the
h their possession,
-om the National
;ch they were in
stnbute provisions
.nsas. Il is hoped
itory will see that
opriated, to relieve
been made with re-
zeal appropriations
cen deemed neces-
contributions that
he National Com
viii equitab!y dis
tended. We have,
STEARNS, ESQ.,,
undersigned in dis
contributed d By the
East; and Rev. Z.
c. HLoyejoy, Rev
W Wattles, Esq, have
20 enquire into the
i've orders for their
ointed by THAD-
he undersigned. as
] people in the vari-
70 report to tho
which may require
ighborhoods, and,
stify, they win be
$c.
worth of clothing
ational Committee,
Fe been detained by
navigation. Every
them in the Terri
ceived information
been forwarded To
. COMMITTEES. and
b, are requested, in
Hgned, 70 eommuni-
may have in re-
Fitehinson, 81 Law
measures 10 have
soon as navigation
E. II. Army,
st. Kansas Com,
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-24

e. A gentleman writing us from
Lawrence, Mass, inclosing a large
list of subscribers, with the cash, con-
cludes by saying
1--WE like your paper, pluck. prin-
ciples, and all"
We hare nothing to add.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-24

sgLast Sunday morning Vas the
coldest of the season. Ths thsEmom-
etey ct ee'cieek fen TO I7s bslcR Ssre
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frritery:

II take this method
q candidate for the
bet. to fill the va
designation OF Ed
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know the position
since i have beea
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Kansas Nebraska
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DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
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TESTIMONY FROM LOUISIANA.
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Your German Bters have become very popular here and
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Ysb 0tlealrs 9ailg Grsstent.
4ebiem uf The Nark4ts.

sUGAM AND AoLASsEs. The sales Of Sugar comprised
100 hhds Cuba at and 90 Louisiana at H@zc
Nolasses heard Of no transactions.
FLOUR The market rsry quiet ard ~ noticed sales
only small ss 70@s6 s. y Dbl for superhne
Of 80 bbs Ground New Wheat was received from
Memphis eagle Malls the hs arrival Of New Flour this season
GRAIN Corn Wa frmsr with sales Of 400 sacks Primo
Mixed at soc 5000 from dor shpneAp at the same and
800 Prime White CSC y bushel Oats were higher and 800
sacks st. Louis were sold y bushe sales Of Bran
were confined to small lots Il u p HOO Ds.
PROVISIONS Ness Pork wn still retailing chiefly at
s2s 90 bit 40 bbls sold IS So but 200 bbs sold
at SO Dbl OF 10ecasks Ribbed Sides taken at
l21sc Sd casks and IL At l0c y Lard
in good request ses Of 800 tisrces Prime at 5c 12s
q 200 kegs At lb and Saturday 1000
kegs also II Ike q p. ss ijss s8.i3s Il
The demand fair with sales Of 375 bags
lo1c, $50 st1OK S5l0sSs. and 100 tlIc n
BAGGISG There speculative demsnd for India,
sales 100 bales at 1sHc Sst l3 and 500 mostly
same holders a. tfs close asking 14c y yard.
GUNNEBAGss...Ws heard of $50 bales sold three
days since at IL tSc for medium weight.
LARD oI About l5o bbls sold by party mostly
for export at 81 lo@sl l21z y gallon. Fl s.ft IL q
WHISKY We noticed sale Of 600bbls RectiHed and
Raw about half Of EACH 1t the c gallon
for the latter. 49,. IS 80 II a5i r.
FREIGHTs. The market very quiet and did not
hear Of transaction. srTg5 ~ sesg.s