The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-03-14

Hotel, before the Lawrence Lyeeum.
The debating society held weekly
meetings in the school house. All
the machinery of enlightened society
wasp put in motion indncing TO highe,
intelligence and brighter virtue, and
giving a foretaste of the pleasures
which the wise and the good enjoy in
the perfection Of human reason.
The public accommodations were
both amusing and novel. Charles
Stcarns kept the Republican House. -
This was sod house, supported by
posts. 16 by 20 feet, and covered with
a roof of cotton cloth. In one corner
of this house. partitioned of by bed
quilts, boarded family. In the re-
naming part of the house were twenty
other boarders. The floor Of the loft
was made of small cottonwood poles
In this apartment twenty lodgers
slept, and often the dining room was
full below. The "St. Nicholas Ho-
TEL" kept by Kennedy & Fry, was
considered rather aristocratic, as it
had q floor of saw dust, and some
other luxuries not enjoyed in COM
mon. But as an offset for this, the
wind would sometimes blow in at
meal times and raise dust which
would most thoroughly powder the
viands upon the table. This and the
"Pionecr House" " kept from one
to two hundred boarders.
The Aid Society built large
church of the same material. They
gave the use of this to emigrants to
lodge in and store their tents for one
month after their arrival.
/ On the Goth Of October, Mrs. Garter
gave birth to fine boy, the first born
in Lawrence, and so far as now known
the first born of emigrants in Kansas.
The event caused sensation amongst
the inhabitants, who assembled to
welcome the little stranger and give
him q name and town lot. He was
christened Lawrence. after the town,
and a decd of one of the best lots was
made to Lawrence Carter as a birth
day present.
Moses Pomeroy, aged %, died on
the 10th of October, it being the first
death Of an emigrant.
The first sermon was preached in
Lawrence on the oath of September,
by the Rev. S. Y. Lum. The first re-
ligious society was founded and
church organized on. the 18th of Octo-
Der, called the Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church. There were, during
the fall and winter, eight clergymen
of different denominations, who preach
ed in Lawrence and vicinity.
The Aid Society erected saw mill
which commenced operation the mid
die of December.
Mr.. G. w. Brown. who came with
the Pennsylvania Company, brought
with him an extensive printing Office,
with power press. he had for sew
eral years been publishing the Come
autville, Pa, Courier. The first num-
Der Of the Herald of Freedom was
printed in that Office in Pennsylvania,
ON the Goth of September, but dated
October Goth and sent to Kansas for
distribution. Twcnty-one thousand
copies were issued and sent gratuit-
ously to all parts of the country. 1t
was dated at Waka,usa, as the name
of Lawrence had not then been adopted
by the Association. The second
number was printed at Lawrence, and
made its appearance on the Sd of JAN
nary. 1855. though dated on the 9th.
1t was continued up to May, 1856,
when it was destroyed By pro-slavery
mob. 1t was subsequently revived
on the lst of November. 1856 the
editor having been held, in the inte-
rim, prisoner. charged with high
treason, for having dared to oppose
the introduction of slavery in Kansas.
The sentiments and character Of the
paper may be Judged Of by the leading
editorial in the first number. itis as
follows
Wa have no promises to make,
nor no lengthy programme to give the
public, other than the fact that we have
published an ind pendent paper for the
last seven years, and in undertaking
1.-THE entire supervision of the Herald Of
Freedom, with snch assistance as the
circumstances may demand, We expect
to remain untrammelled. In favor Of
the greatest amount of human freedom,
and opposed TO wrong in all its forms,
it is expected that our views will oe-
casionally conflict with these who diff
fer from US. In all our differences,
however. we will labor to avoid un-
Iplcasantness in everything which par
takes of a malevolent spirit.
"our great object is to make Kan.
sas free STATE and to that end We
shall labor by encouraging emigration,
| It is aot our purpas, 10 engage in q
crusade against ouI southern brethren
nor upon their institutions, so long as
confined within their legitimate sphere
IOnr field is Kansas, and here we shall
labor. and here shall erect anew the al
tar ofLlEEaTy. With the Declaration
of American Independence in one hand
and the Constitution of the Republi,
in the other. Te engage in dsfsnssc'