Freeman's champion., 1858-03-04
Come to Kanzas.

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ica'' and build permanent fouuda-
ton for life'S vicissitudcs.
You mechanics, solely dependant
upon your own resources, living from
hand to mouth and eking out but
half an existence, come and locate in
one of the thousand towns springing
up in the Territory, and pursue your
vocatjons of your own accord-be
the employer instead of the employee.
Everywhere you will find the hand Of
welcome extended to you, and, if re-
quired, pccuniary assistance to enable
you to engage in business. m
You poor laboring men, with fam
lilies that are depending upon your
daily labor for life's sustenance, come
to this land Of promise, and secure
for yourselves comfortable homes
With henergy, industry determination,
light hearts and buoyant hopes, in
two years you can attain a more in =
dependent position than you can du-
ring a whole lifetime where you are
now. Kanzas is emphatically the
poor mans paradise.
You philanthropists, expounders
Of Divine Truth, educators of youth
and friends Of universal Freedom,
come and aid US in forming our insti-
tutions, in marking out our line of
progress and in shaping our course.
We need your counsel and instruction.
All! what a noble field is here for
you to work in. Society is yet to be
formed; characters are to be moulded;
our minds are to be instilled with
principles; all the elements essential
to constitute a moral, intelligent, be-
nevolent, noble and God-fearing peo-
pie are yet in an incipient stage.
Ladies-no, sOomen; that is the
word-we want the light of your
cheering presence. We want your
word Of cheer, your friendly encour-
agement, your afectionate sympathies
and your timely advice, to stimulate
Young men to action. No where
else is the worth of your sex SO high
ly appreciated. At least four-ffthS
Of our inhabitants are single men,
most of them comfortably situated
with permanent homes, and they arc
now solicitous to obtain partners oI
their bosoms" to participate with
them in their bounties and to rcndel
their lives more felicitous. You can
situate yourself in any capacity you
desire--as tutoresses, servants OF
wives.
Farmers, you who are grubbing
among stumps, plowing among stones
and tilling soil that requires the on
erouS labor of manuring, double and
treble plowing, narrowing, and in
cessant cultivation, and who realize
barely enough avails to. comfortably
maintain yourselves, como with your
means to Kanzas, and secure an i'm
mediate fortune. One-half of the
capital and labor required to till sc
acres Of land where you now reside
would be sufficient to cultivate l6(
acres in Kanzas. You can locate or
q prairie fre h from the hand of ma
ture, and in two years make it have
the appearance Of an old cultivated
farm. The soil is rich and Yields
bountifully, this staples of life are a
high figures, and will be for years t
come, and good markets are accessible
Merchants, mechanics, farmers
school-teachers, ministers, lawyers
physicians, laborers, old men, young
men, fathers, husbands, brothers, low
ers, mothers, wives, sisters, sweet
hearts--rich and poor, high and low
educated and illiterate--come to Kan
zas with your means, influences, tai
ents, ,graces and accomplishments, ant
aid us in making this the most pros
porous, the most influential and tn
most exemplary State in the con
federacy. ,il .hr nrlg uaa
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