The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-08-07
Letter from a Lady.

TWIN MOUND, K. T., June 9th, 1858
DEAR VANGUARD We have been in
Kansas nearly three months, and not a
week of that time has passed but I have
thought of you and your readers though
the ever present duties of wife and moth
er, IN NEW HOME, have prevented me
from writing. And then, my spirit has
been literally reveling in the grandeur,
the magnificent beauty that everywhere
surrounds me snd, for the time, I have
felt an irresistible inclination to yield soul
and sense to the intoxicating influence.
would attempt a description, but
others have done so before me !; and, more,
Kansas must be seen to be appreciated
The least, perhaps, can say in reference
to it is. IT SEEMS HOME Such home
as l have sought for years, but have
sought in vain elsewhere. / gladly greet
it as my home Beautiful, Happy, Free
Kansas! Free Yes, Free! To talk,
with anything like seriousness, of Kansas
becoming Slave State, seems to me out
of the question. | cannot fear it, for
there is no room for the vile reptile with
in her borders. If introduced here, it
might, perhaps exc out a miserable exist
ence of some few years but it would be
the existeLce of puDy, starving. A
million of Garrissonian Abolitionists let
loose on the South, could not be more
destructive of Slavery in the States than
would the very atmosphere of Kansas to
its shrunken and shriveled carcass here.
Why, all her winds would sing to the
slave of Freedom, and he would see Lib
erty, in robes of light, dancing among all
the shadows of her hills. Her very night
dews would dissolve his chains and he
would bury the remembrance of his fetters
in her streams.
And, besides, there are live men in Kan
sas, who have grown strong amid the strife
which has shaken her foundation. Men
with impulses too pure with purposes
too holy-with hearts too full of gushing
sympathy-too true to human veal, to
see this, the fairest portion left of Free
dom's heritage, given to the spoiler, or
dealt out piece-meal to the monster at his
feet Men who would sell their birth
right only with their lives yet who would
sooner wear the chains ofservitude them
selves, than help fasten them ON another's
limbs, or its badges on others hearts.
Nor is this all! Kansas has women as
well as men. Women with clear heads
and brave hearts, who would till her soil
with their own hands rather than suffer
it to be polluted by the sweat of the slave.
Women, the very flashing of whose eyes
would light him to Freedom and whose
example would beckon him to Indepen-
dence and the high destiny of his eternal
self hood.
And was the stakeholder ever known to
expose his chattel personal,-h living
walking, THINKING property to such COM
bination of influences influences so at
war with his assumed "Right of Proper
ty" in his brother? AsI have said can
not fear slavery for Kansas, but l would
not, in anywise, stay the effort to protect
her against the introduction of go terrible
a curse. The same human rights / de-
mand for myself / demand for every slave.
The same Rights Idemand for myself as
woman. | demand for all my sisters in
bonds. I would unchain the captive,
whoever and wherever he NAV be and I
would expunge the word slave and Its
synonyms from the English vocabulary.
And it will be done, for,
Ever the Truth comes uppermost.
And ever is Justice DONE
ELIZABETH III. T. DENTON.