The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-08-21
NUMBER 4.--VOLUME 4.
Who Ought 10 Assist IN Building .o.a~o.ousis.


A great deal has been said lately about
the growth and progress of our town,
and We feel assured that all who have an
interest in it, will bear with US while we
call attention to a subject so intimately
connected withits growth. A disposition
has lately been manifested to get possess
sion of ali the property possible. Get
property at any price, seems to be the mot
TO. and so eager are many to secure it,
that it is Sometimes obtained in manner
which would induce us to caution all, and
particularly the poor man who is liable to
get "hard up" to look well to his little
all, before ne finds it absorbed in the
meshes of some scheming speculator.
With due caution, then, to those who
have lots to hold on to them, let us pro-
ceed to examine the question of our be-
coming town.
In the first place, with the traders and
merchants rests great deal in the appear
ance of town. Where You see good,
substantial, tasty store rooms, you can set
it down that there is permanence about
the merchant !; that heis not mere ad-
venturer, who only intends to remain
with you so long as he can make money,
but is interested in the growth of the
town, and viii contribute to its social as
we'll as business interest-one who will
deal fairly because he hopes to establish
himself in permanent business. To such
men we say, we look for a large share OF
improvement in building up 0sawotomie.
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substantial storehouse, we don't care
where, on the old town site, or in the ad-
dition, fill it with goods, and then go to
work selling them, and he becomes the
more deserving of patronage than he who
only sells goods to put the money in his
pocket, or uses tin speculating on those
who have embarrassed themselves by
building what they have.
The mechanics, the workingmen, have
erected feur-fifths of all the buildings put
up in Osawotomie since the first of last
December, and only one storehouse includ-
ed in all. How does that look ? They
are not the men who make the most mon-
ey. It is the merchants, the specu-
lators; they are the ones who are to build
up the town, and We now wish to call their
attention to one fact. They may by lot,
and by acre, get possession of the whole
town, but unless some one builds on them
their lots will be but good cabbage
patches, and their town be dead letter
1t won't build itself.
Osawotomie has history-replete in
the struggle for freedom in Kansas Hel
history is written in plumber, fire and
blood, and is strong in the affection of
every northern man whois converted with
he position she has occupied ever since
her founding When it was dangerous
she did not hesitate to take her position
and there she has stood, through fire
| blood and smoke, and to-day look at hel
record two hundred and twenty-siz
AGAINST and three for Lecompton. Bare.
ly enough of the pro-slayery element, tt
show that our people are tolerant as they
are consistent. Is not our political course
consistent one, and cannot we rest as.
sured that we have no prejudices to over
come ? Why, then, cannot we be town.
five are true to ourselves we can, and
once good substantial, prosperous town,
there is not man among US, or who
would come, that would entertain the idea
of making "pile" and then leaving US
We say again. who ought to assist in
building 0sawotomis Let us see some
permanent improvements begun by those
who have the means, and we shall give
them the same credit we have to the me-
chanics and workingmen who have done
go nobly by our town. 0sas0otonate Her.
aid.