The Kanzas news., 1857-09-26


the heart of the North American continent,
and dot the beautiful and fertile prairies. all
over with delightful homes and thrifty towns,
where should reign competence and peace.
The object of the Rufian party is the OPP
posite of all this. They would degrade Ia
Dor, on the honor and prosperity of which
/ the worlds redemption rests The magnif-
icent resources of Kanzas would be forever
locked up, and the people be doomed to
landless poverty. Fraud is their means of
accomplishing all this. Freedoms poet, the
great Whittier, has drawn the two pictures
with masters hand.
The Missouri invasion is justified on the
score that Emigrant Aid Companies in the
Free States sent men to kanzas to vote
against slavery. The lecturer defended the
| idea of organized emigration as illustrated
/ in the settlement of Kaazas The though,
of organizing emigration, of planting in the
wilderness the comforts of the highest civ
lization for the benefit of The pioneer, was
| grand idea; AMI whoever puts such in
strumentalities into practical working order,
ont in our western wilderness, is truly a
benefactor of the race. The scheme of the
organization of emigration is one of christ
ian grandeur.
The lecturer spoke of the inevitable hard
ships of pioneer life, and their multiplied
ZION in tie case of the pioneers of Kanzas,
by the invasions from Missouri.
The towns and cities of Kanzas offer an
I important illustration of the whole slavery
question. The pro-slavery men had posses
sion of the best natural points for towns last
year, but have been compelled to sell out
from their inability to compete with free la
Dor, even when laboring under the disad-
vantage of inferior position; and to-day
there is but ONE town in Kanzas where their
ascendancy is unquestioned. This is Lee
compton, where
! Gail the vices which like birds obse ne
Batten slavery, loathsome and unelean,"
are found in perfection. l. is the picture of
slavery. The Free Safe towns are growing
with wondrous rapidity. and daily multiply
| ing.
| The outrages committed in Kanzas have
not been exaggerated. The half has not
been told Several incidents illustrative of
the cruelties practieed upon the people of
Kanzas last season were related. The rush
of emigration prevented repetition of them
! this season.
The soil of Kanzas is marvelously rich.
All along the numerous creeks are belts of
forest and bottom lands of remarkable fertil-
ity. The principal streams, and the towns
along them, were next alluded TO, and mi
mute descriptions of various portions of the
country, the character of the settlers, edu-
cational advantages, etc, were gwen. Tim
Der is at present scarce, but the rapid settle
ment of the country woull tend TO prevent
those devastating prairie fires. and it. would
increase in quantity. Stone is abundant,
and coal has been found in many places, and
it is believed that the supply viii be suffi-
cient to meet the demand The climate of
Kanzas is one of the best in the world
The heat of summer is tempered ~ constant
cooling breezes. The whole influence of tie
climate is invigorating.
Tie Young man should emigrate to Kan
zas, where couple of years of labor would
ensure him a competence. The hardwork
| ing farmer, who finds it hard work to keep
out of debt, should come to Kanzas. The
I Il. Il
wives are in demand here, and employment
sure. Those who are at all preiisposed to
consumption should come to Kanzas, and
find one of the indispensable conditions
of happy and useful life, robust health, the
stamina and nerve of life. The city me-
chanic should come to Kanzas. In few
years he can see his way to social comfort
and competence, which the crowded East
will not afford him. All these classes, and
all who can brave the bardships of pioneer
life, should come to Kanzas.
The lecturer concluded by few words in
regard to the duty of anti-slaveIy men to
give such direction to the great currents of
emigration as they may easily do, to secure
the abolition of slavery in our country at no
distant day. The Indian Territory on tie
south will be opened in short time. The
tide of emigration which is setting into Mis-
| souri, bids fair to remove the curse of slave
ry which is locking up her rich resources.
Organized emigration has commenced its
work in Virginia and other slaveholding
States. But The new Territories offer the
best field, and should be occupied at once
by the advocates of free labor.
The lecture was listened to with marked