The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-11-13
STARVATION IN KANSAS.
80, 900 People wanting Feed and
Cscthing.
AN APPEAL TO THE BENEVOLENT.

FRrKxps: have visited Kansas, and | tell
you that it's poor people are starving and
need your immediate aid. The particulars
Of the condition OF tho suffering people YOU
will find in my pamphlet letter TO President
Buchanan
Kansas 10 now thoroughly organised to re.
oeive relief through County and Township
Committees OF the peoples own choosing,
and General >. G. Pomerov, at Atehison,
Kansas, is IN daily correspondence with these
committees, and 10 sending them all the re-
lief he can lie writes me under date of the
29th OF October, as follows ''The East need
not buy bushel of grain. The Western
States will give 1t, if the sacks and freights
can be paid for ~
Judge Arney 10 soliciting food 10 Illinois
and other Western States. Both these gen
tlemen are exerting themselves to the utmost
to save starving people, and they write me
the most beseeching and affecting letters
Car loads OF provisions are daily arriving at
Atchson, but my friends have no money to
4 pay freights.
/ Judge Army, under date OF October goth.
/ says: "We have used up our IN cans and our
credit to buy SACKS and pay freights please
move in the matter, and relieve us ~ soon
as you CAM
4
now som. ST. 500, and vour help 10 needed
These good men, Pomeroy and Army, ought
not 10 be left TO struggle as they are. Will
you aid W., or must the poor people in Kan
sas perish
| woald prefer that no money be sent to
me. Send il direct to s. g. Pomeroy, Ateh.
ison, Kansas; not in bills, bat in drafts TO
his order or remit to this place to Amos A.
Lawrence, DR.. 8. G. Howe, or the Hon. s
h. sewall. These gentlemen are all well
known to the country, and the friends OF
Kansas need have no anxiety as to their con.
tributions. kansas 10 now organised by the
Q people themselves in their townships and
counties, and this time without the interven.
tion OF selfish apoilsmen and heartiess poll.
tioians, and ! here and now appeal
TO rHK PREss OF THE COUNTRY,
To let their readers know the fact that .
: dreadful famine exists in Kansas, and that ,
o way, as indicated above, ia opened to Get re
/ lief TO the suffering. Three things are want
ed:
/. Cash. :. Boots and shoes (ready. m ade.
especially for women snd children 3. Cot
/. ton cloth suitable for meal sacks; also clotl
OF all kinds, 10 be made into clothing. TIL
= poor people are badly in need Of clothes: bu
u old garments don't pay TO send--freights ar
10 too heavy. Send only new cloth, 1T to b
made into garments.
iHAppKus IiYArr,
e. In behalf Of 90, 0aO starving Americans.
- Boston, Nov. 5, 1860.
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The pamphlet letter to President Buchanan
,r published ~ hsyer a Eldridse, Boston, prints
and matted for nine cents. Ii gives tho terrib
ssofs In oe1aii- /. LII.
IN The Montgomery Advertiser (Breokir
ridge paper) Says:
ia TN Thursday night, the Little Giant a,
= rived, and was met at the depot by ID 5up
lac procession, consisting OF the entire VI
C. ting strength OF the Confederation Office fe
AZ IN earrisees, five musieinns, couple Of dor
al en- niggers bearing torches, and some fit
"a charitable Bell men, WHO kindly volunteers
io assist their friends in distress. We r.
greet that some persons unknown, said In h
LADIES' on the sidewalk, discharged a few RI,
~ ter eggs at the procession AS IL passed. Tn
d. citizens OF Montgomery doubtless feel tha
A. the visit OF this Freesoier to our city nj IN;
TIME 10 wanton insult, but it would hav
y been better TO have LEI the little dama poeu
pass by unnosiced.