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The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
For the Herald of Freedom


Ma. EDITOR That subject referred to
by SUFFERER" in your paper of the 9th
instant, is one of great Importance to the
people of Kansas, and demands the i'm
mediate attention of the Legislative As
sembly.
That stock raising is of importance, no
one will deny; but there is no industrial
pursuit equal in importance to that of cul-
tivating the soil, since upon its produc-
tons we more Immediately depend for
subsistence than upon anything else, and
the favor of legislation should be extend
ed to that instead Of raising live stock, to
promote the best interests of the people.
The value of crops destroyed in Coffey
county by cattle and swine, within the
last two years, would more than have
supplied her citizens with meat during
that time and the few who have suffered
their horses, cattle and swine to run out
side of enclosures during that period.
have, if the value of the time they have
devoted to searching after them be added
to the value of stock lost by straying or
accident. lost more than twice the expense
of an enclosure within which their stock
might have been securely kept, prevented
from doing harm to others, and always on
hand for use. So
That abominable 83d chapter in the
Statutes of Kansas. entitled Gan Act reg
ulating enclosures has been source Of
mischief to the people in our Territory,
and ought to be repealed.
At common law every intrusion upon
the lands of another, without any author
ity, is sufficient to sustain an action fol
breaking the close, whether such lands be
actually enclosed or not. The 9Th article
of the amendments to our National Con-
stitution provides. among other things
that aprivste property shall not be taken
for public use without just compensation
but that chapter gives any person the
privilege of entry, by his horses, cattle
and swine, upon the lands of private per
sons, TO destroy anything of value grow
ing thereon. and expressly denies redress
to those who may have been thus injured
unless their lands, at the time, be enclos-
ed IN some one of the ways prescribed by
thatacs thereby not only trampling upoE
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
htSpeCtIuIIy, UU.,
THOS. A. HENDRICKS, Com,r.

o. From all parts of the country, we
have intelligence of mild and pleasant
winter, such as has seldom visited the
United States. This is Godsend, fol-
lowing, as it does, a crisis which has
thrown large bodies of the laboring classes
out of employment, and thus deprived
them of the means of support. Kansas,
too, has suffered to great extent from
this depression, nearly all her capitalists
depending upon Eastern funds, the pro-
ceeds of property sold, or debts due them,
which they have been unable to collect.
Scarcely anything having been produced
in the Territory, it has been continual
drain upon her people ard we now find
many of them without means, and with
out employment. The Spring emigration
with its capital, will benefit such, and on
it is our great reliance.
There has been nothing what we would
term Winter, in this region, as yet: hence
no suffering has been experienced from
exposure. The sapis now running in the
trees, the grass along the streams is peer
ing through the ground. affording pretty
good pasture, and all the evidences that
there will be an early Spring. Kansas
has been favored, and we hope that our
settlers here. will be, by another Winter,
fully prepared to enjoy comfort and inde-
pendence.-O Osas0atoBsse Herald.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
SCOTT j. ANTHONY.
From Washington.

Our special dispatch from Washington
this morning states that the Administra-
ton party in Congress have not at all re-
laxed their purpose to force the admission
of Kansas under the Lecompton Consti-
tuition. They are doubtless somewhat
encouraged by the difference between the
actual proceedings and spirit of the Indi-
ana State Convention and the report
which first reached us from Indianapolis
It seems that, instead of being controlled
by the Douglas wing of the party, it was
Mr. Bright who packed and managed the
Convention, among whose members, it is
said, there were no less than sixty post
masters Whether the whole power of
the Administration viii suffice to carry
the Lecompton fraud through Congress
may be question; but we think it will
That, however, will not be the end of the
matter BY a great deaL-N 7. Tribune,
Jan. Is. t
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
rbs Psoule win vo,..

The radical mistake of the Free State
party in Kansas, has been its refusal TO
participate in the elections. The plea
that frauds would be perpetrated and that
it would thus be beaten, has been no JUS
tifcation of the non-yoting policy. The
same excuse with the same truthfulness,
might often be made by the opponents of
the Democratic party In the States, yet
no man Of sense ever thinks of thus max
ing himself ridiculous. "By trial all
things may be done,p and without it moth
ing viii ever be accomplished. It was
this that urged the nomination and sup
port of the Free State ticket in the last
election, and it was this that gave US the
victory.
After this it will be perfect nonsense
for any man to attempt to keep the peo-
pie from the polls when there Is anything
at stake there. And had 1.-The a.old g;iard''
at the Lawrence Convention had the least
iota of sagacity and foresight, they would
have known thatitwas impossible to keep
the people from voting for State officers,
provided a ticket was presented for their
sufrages. They ought to, have known
that the voting policy iDaugurated by the
Grasshopper Falls Convention had been
too successful in October, to be 50 soon
repudiated by the masses who seek a
peaceful solution Of this question, in pref
erence to the success Of any particular
measure. The fanatics of Lawrence may
pack and control Conventions called IL
their midst, but they cannot longer rule
the people.
The question hereafter, that viii come
before our Conventions viii not be, shall
we, or shall We not vote ? but w hl
shall we vote for 2''
It is now settled, that the masses viii
vote when there is anything to vote for q
on, and If the 'soid guaFds' wishes to re
tain its popularity, twill no longer object
If not, there is this much abou. il th.
people can get along without the Aoid
guard" !" but the s'oId guard cannot ge
along without the people, .D- Kansa.
Leader.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
Es,n,,. D.I,e.ev

Above al other features which adorn
the female character, delicacy stands fore
most within the provinces of good taste.
Not hatdelicacy which is perpetually in
quest Of something to be ashamed of,
which makes merit of blush, and simp-
ers at the false construction its own inge-
nuity has put upon an innocent remark |;
this spurious kind of delicacy is far re-
moved from good sense but the high
minded delicacy which maintains its pure
and undertaking walk alike among women
and in the society of men-whioh skrinks
from no necessary duty, and can speak
when required, with seriousness and
kindness, of things at which it would be
ashamed to smile or blush-that delicacy
which knows how to eorfera benefit with
out wounding the feelings of another
which can give aims without assumption,
and which pains not the most susceptible
being in creation.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30

Leayenworth, although one would nat
,Irally suppose that the intense political
excitement that has pervsded recently
every circle, would have the effect to
PROSTATE totally every department Of
trade, yet evinces evidences Of prosperity,
if building and preparations for building
constitute such evidences. We are pleased
to be able to record the fact that every
where is heard the ring Of the trowei, the
sound Of the hammer and the music of
the saw; all indicating continued pros
perity for the Young Giant among West
ern cities. Such enterprise deserves sue
cess and will win Il. Success to Leayen-
wortY Gity. ~ -Lsaveascorh Journal.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
NUMBER 25-vOLUME 8.

the results of the elections ordered in
Kansas, is abhorent to the majority of
its people, and ought to be rejected by
Congress. As to any violence or secession
on the part of the Shareholders, should
such an act of justice be done, nobody in
Washington dreams of it; and he must
be very Seak.member of Congress, who
in making up his mind to vote, thinks of
such an absurdity. One thing may be
certainly predicted: Should Kansas be
dragged into the Union as a slave State,
under the Lecompton Constitution, there
viii be formidable and fatal secession,
not of the shareholders from the Union,
but of the honest Democratic voters of
the National Democracy" so called,
which has been subjugated by the Slave
Power, and is ruled for its aggrandize-
ment.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
Pre-emptcn Instructions
GENERAL LAND 0FFIcE,l


SR-Your letter of 9th uit., in refer
ence to notice to adverse claimants, has
been received, and have to reply, that
the notice required to be served upon
adverse claimants in the instructions from
this Office, dated 18th September, 1641,
does not apply to persons who have par-
chased land at private sale or location,
subsequent to the date of settlement by
pre-emption claimant On the same land
but to those only who claim it by pre-
emption.z
If q person enters at private sale or
location, parcel of land after the inchoate
right of pre-emption has attached thereto
in virtue of bona fde settlement, he does
so at bis own risk, with full knowledge
of such pre- existing right, and his entry
is merely conditional, and of no force or
validity, except upon the failure Of the
pre-emption claimant to consummate his
claim. If such pre-emption claimant
proceeds in the usual manner to bring
himself within the legal requirements, he
is entitled to make his proof ard payment
without being required to give notice Of
time and place to any subsequent purchas-
er by private entry or location, whether
he be resident or nonresident Of the
State or Territory where the land lies.
Should two or more persons claim by
pre-emption, and file declaratory state
ments for the same land, they are the
adverse claimants contemplated by the
instructions aforesaid; and when one seeks
to prove up his claim, he should be re-
quired TO give to the Others due notice of
the same, or show by satisfactory proof to
the Register and Receiver, that his adyer-
saries have abandoned their claims.
Respectfully, &C.,
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
TERMs.--sa.so PER ANNUx. IN ADVANCE
Too Triaina.

Our attention has been called to the
following resolution published in the Leg
islative Daily Journal of the ed inst,
adopted at the evening session of the
House of Representatives of the Terrific
rial Legislature for that day. Theresolu-
ton was introduced by Mr.. Elliott of
Lesyenworth county:
RESOLVED, That the courtesies of the
House be most cordially extended to Hon.
Ligarius S. Bacon, L. L. d., of the firm of
Bacon, Cook & Company, and that the
Sergeant at Arms be instructed to furnish
him seat within the bar of the House
What the object was in thus titling
Mr.. Bacon, and in numbering up the public
journals with such a record, We leave
others to infer. We are apprehensiye
that some fen of the members of that
body may not have proper appreciation
of their position, and that they are not
conscious that their records, as made, are
not those Of a Lyceum, but those of a
great Territory which another generation
will have occasion to review. Mr.. Bacon
is only humble citizen, without title,
other than that to which he may have
claim as recently admitted member OF
the bar. The freedom with which some
few members of the Legislature have put
on the air of Honorable may justify the
appellation on the same principle to Mr..
B., but the suffix of L. L. D., looks quite
too trifling to become body of grave
Legislators who are representing the Ter.
ritory of Kansas, and have its institutions
in their keeping. Their session is limited
by law to forty days. A greater part Of
that period has expired, and yet mem
ber is willing to trife, in the manner indi-
Gated, with the time of that body. Mem
berS who have important public business
to transact choose to remain silent to get
the subject out of the way as soon as pos
sible TO make room for other business. II
such resolutions are to come from mem
bers, it is proper they should be intro
duced by gentlemen who favored and
voted for the destruction of legal Leg.
islature to make room for one of the char
acter of the Topeka government. The
men introducing such resolutions, it seem:
by their action, cannot distinguish be
tween a dignifed legislative body, and ;
mere quasi legislature, met for improve
ment in Parliamentary usages.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
For the Herald Of Freedom.
Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON CITY,l
Innnaru 11fh 1879

January 11tH 1000.
In the Senate this morning the order
of the day was taken up, being the Kan
sas question, and on which Mr.. Brown of
Mississippi was entitled to the floor; but
he observed that the subject had passed
to some extent from the minds of the
public and had undergone several phases
since it was last before the Senate. and as
he desired when he addressed the Senate
to speak on some practical issue, he should
defer bis remarks to future occasion,
and allow the pending motion to pass
from the body.
Mr.. Hale opposed that disposition of it
now as he desired to address the Senate
upon it, and on his motion the further
consideration of the subject was deferred
to next Monday.
Considerable excitement prevails here,
among the politicians, in consequence of
the position of Gov Wise on the Kansas
question and the policy of the Admins
tration. 1t is believed there is a deep
political Wise and Douglas movement
against the President, which will certainly
injure the Democratic party.
The Democratic convention held last
week, by vote of 378 to lis, declared
in favor of submitting to the direct vote
of the people the constitution of every
Territory applying for admission into the
Union.
The Democratic caucus of the Ohio
State Legislature has unanimously deci-
ded to instruct the members of Congress
from that State to vote against the Le-
compton Constitution.
The post Office department have issued
proposals for the great annual mail let
tings which are to commence on the LIST
of April next. The Postmaster General
announces that all the decisions will be
made by the Oath of April next. There
are sixty-seven routes in Kansas and sixty
| five in Missouri, amongst which we notice,
From Cole Camp, Mo-, by Clinton and
Johnstown to Butler, Mo-, 67 miles, once
a week. Proposals for two and also three
| trips week.
From Butler, Mo-, by Moneka, Hyatt,
Hampden, Burlington, Ottumwa, Califsr-
mia, Florence, Emporia to Council Grove,
$50 miles, and back once week.
From Lawrence, by Bloomington and
Richardson, to Emporia, once week.
From Topeka, by Brownsville, Will
mington and Kansas Center, to Emporia,
| once week.
From Lawrence, by Prairie City, Otto
| wa Creek, Ohio City, Hyatt, and Cofa-
chique, to Humboldt, once a week.
On the above routes bids to run twice
and three times are invited.
From Kansas, Mo-, by Wyandott, Quin-
daro, and Lawrence, to Lecompton-bids,
to run daily between Kansas and Wyan-
dott and once week the residue, and
run daily on the whole route, and to con-
vey the mail in four horse coaches, are
| invited.
Bids to end the service at Lawrence
] will be considered.
From Independence, Mo-, by Kansas,
the settlement Cat the mouth of Huesfona
on the upper Arkansas,) and Little Salt
Lake settlement, Cat the head of the
Nicolett river,) to Stocton, California
2,400 miles, and back once month.
Bids to commence at Kansas, omittine
Independence, and to pass other points in
lieu of those named in the route, so as to
convey the mails in the shortest time pos
sible by proposed schedule, will be con-
sidered FREDERICK.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
rharmm

The New York TEnses, speaking of the
resolution of the Sloths in Kansas keep
ing aloof from the late election, wei re-
remarks:
If the ultra Free State partisans were
acting under instructions from Jefferson
Davis and the Charleston Macury. they
could not play into their hands more d.
rectly, or promote more efectually the
ends at which they aim.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
Prom Kauza,

The notorious II. Clay Pate, the Bor-
der Ruhfan correspondent Of the Missouri
Republican, writing from that Territory
under date of the 22nd, says -
1.-THE returns from johnson county are
imperfect ; at Shawnee the pso-slavery
vote was seven hundred and sixty-fve /;
at Olathe two hundred, and about the same
at Lexington. No election news came
down tonight from Lawrence and Le-
compton; when the expresieit the form
CT place, several hundred men were about
leaving for Leeompton to demand, snd if
refused 10 take by force, the Territorial
arms at the Governors disposal.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
For the Herald Of Freedom.
Letter from the I,over Neosho.

EDONIA, ALLEN Co., A. I.,t
January 11th, 1858.
EDITOR HERALD OF FREEDOM Il avail
myself of your request, that persons of
different localities of the Territory should
write, setting forth the advantages of their
particular section, &c. 5
Spring will soon be upon us. when there
viii no doubt be much larger emigration
to Kansas than has before been known in
our history.
Emigration has hitherto mainly stopped
in the north and eastern portions of the
Territory, but as those portions of the
country are nearly filed up, emigrants
must push on West and South
Without detracting from the merits of
any other part of Kansas, (for am proud
to believe that in fertility of soil, health
fulness of climate, beauty of scenery, and
its mineral resources, it has no superior, if
an equal, in the Union,) Imay be permit
ted to say that the lower Neosho holds
out equal, or superior inducements, to any
part of Kansas, for settlers who wish to
make for themselves cheap and pleasant
homes. This country, though advancing
rapidly, is sparsly settled. There are hun
dreds of prairie claims, near largo bodies
of timber, unoccupied-stone for building,
and coal for fuel is abundant. The soil
is very productive, and the climate most
genial-at this time (Jan. 11,) we have
had no snow, and the mercury has not
been lower than IL . above zero. Where
but one year ago there were but a few
squatters in the county, now the popula-
tion must. be near 1000. Towns are
springing up in different parts-mills are
in operation, or in course of erection in all
portions of the county-and best of all a
company is organized to build Railroad
from Leayenworth to Fort Gibson, which
will pass through this county The peo-
pie are all right also in the cause of free
dom for Kansas, as the vote on the 4th
inst. will show-about 200 against the
Lecompton usurpation, to or in favor
of it. as
Edonia is new place, laid out in the
center of Allen county; it is located on
| Coal Greek, about miles from the Neosho
river. The location is one of peculiar
beauty-on high prairie which gradually
slopes to the Creek, which always affords
an abundance of clear pure water; in the
center is the square which contains 10
acres; it is on the highest part of the site
from which view of the surrounding
country for many miles may be had
The two principal streets cross in this
square, one of which is 100 the other 100
feet wide-all other streets 80 feet-alleys
90 Lots are very large, some of them
containing an acre of ground. The de-
sign is not so much to make city as to
build up community of intelligent, tenn
perate and industrious citizens-to such a
4 good lot will be given for residence OF
place of business. It's location, so far
away from the malarious influences ofthe
river, will give it advantages as health
full place.
We ask that the Spring emigration
may be turned in the direction of the
lower Neosho, feeling sure that it will
find the desired haven. Respectfully,
WATSON STEWART
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
For the Herald of Freedom.
TO Ny Brothers on Departing for Kansas.
By VANILLA VINE.

Dt VANILLA
Though sigh should escape us, as now you
depart,
You may know, dearest brothers. we'rs cheerful
at heart;
Though we weep at your absence, We hope for
the best,
10 build, in that beautiful land, home,
Where the wolf and the buffalo still love to roam;
Where the Indian glides over the deep water
blue, afG -
As he iOyfully paddles his own light canoe.
Where the feet-footed deer finds quiet retreat.
10 place her young offspring from wanderers
secrete-
Where the cotton trees bend Ger the clear streams
below,
They all are inviting you-hasten and go.
ies! hasten and go to that beautiful land
Aid. all in your power, the brave little band
Who have gone. long before you, through hard
ships and toll,
To implant freedoms flag on that rich fertile
soil.
They have left proud New England. the home Of
the brave,
Where. surrounded by comforts the daintiest
would crave,
They might have lived ever in luxury and pride
but their true, noble hearts could not help bui
be tried.
at the thought that the tall grass forever must
Yer the chains of the wrotched. poor heart-bro-
ken slave
as ae tolls on. with no object in view,
o0t to pass of the time which is tedious and
slow.
iass have sacrificed ail-friends. country. and
home,
ana Buckeyes, and Hawkeyes, and others hay,
come,
OSe worthy assistants, and throw in their mite
Au u'eir lives. if It's needed. fer freedom and
right
noble example-go, follow ii then
-a heip them restore bleeding Kansas sgain-
usaeefiul and joyous, for surely you see
green hills and valleys are bound to be free
As0kuk County, Iowa, May. 1857.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
Land Agent tcgden.

We invite the attention of the reader
to the business card of j. q. PARRoSs,
Esq. who has opened land office at Og-
den, in Riley county. We believe he is
the only decidedly Free State Land
Agent IN that region. His connection
with the Land Office, makes him very
suitable person to look after the interests
of claimants. Those having land war
rants to locate would probably consult
their interest by corresponding with him.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 80. 1853.

the just and humane provisions of the
common law, but assuming to take private
property for the public use upon other
terms than those only allowable by the
Constitution of the United States. That
the chapter in question conflicts with the
Constitution, and is, for that reason, void,
is certain but that it will do no harm if
not repealed, is not equally certain, since
our inferior courts are not more learned
or wise than they should be, in many in
stances wholly incapable of bringing any
thing to the Constitutional test-hardly
to the standard of common sense. And
still further: those whom that chapter, if
not repealed, will most injure, are those
generally the least able to carry any liti-
gated case, under its provisions, through
to court of dernier resort.
Will the Legislature repeal it? We
shall see. SUFFERER NO. 2.
January 18th, 1853.