The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-11-29


We have received a most urgent cir
cular from Thaddeus Hyatt, calling up
on the people of the country, to furnish
food and clothing for $4,000 suffering
people in Kansas. There is no doubt
unless the people Of the States, who
have enough and to spare, contribute
of their abundance, unexampled want
and suffering will be felt by nearly one
half the people in that Territory.
Of the restitution that already pre-
walls there, Mr.. Hyatt says:
"Of over hundred thousand peo-
pie, upon Kansas soil six months ago,
at least one-fourth or one-third have
left; of the remainder it is safe to say
that forty thousand at this moment see
nothing bat erodus or starvation at the
end of the sirty days noac Just before
them from ten to twenty thousand
look with only despairing eyes upon
November; thousands cannot subsist
a month longer unaided; other thou
sands are living upon the little which
the neighbors deprive themselves of to
give to them-neighbors equally uafor-
tanate, and with whom, the starvation
Is merely question of bat a fen days
lonqer while still other thousands, if
not at once relieved, must perish from
hunger, or the diseases that follow in
its train. Some haze already died, 9th
ers are daily dying }. while the hours
grow darker and the days wax longer
for the living, to whom relief comes
not, and whose eyes are aching with
watchings for the succor that delays"
In the circular referred to, Mr.. Hyatt
also gives information as to what tc
send and the manner of sending it, al
follows:
, "Cash may be sent in drafts to Atch
ison, to order of Gen. Pomeroy; but
advise the sending of no bank notes
Small amounts had better be sent herr
4. to Hon. S. e. Sewall, Amos A. Law
D renee, DR.. S. q. Howe, or William
} Chaplin. These gentlemen are wei
D known to the country. The friends o
Kansas need feel no concern now as t.
their contributions going direct to tn,
suffering. We have taken the precau
i ton to have Kansas organized by town
;. ship committees, and these appointe,
I. by the people, themselves, without TIL
y aid of pretentious ''Mass Conventions,
Central State Committees" wire-pu
y ling demagogues, and spoilsmen gene
a rally.
IS 81 am spending, and am willing t
r. spend my own money in getting th
condition of Kansas before the coun
{ try; but prefer to have no contribu
b tons sent to me. Let them be sent a
!. above Indicated"
It The circular also contains sewers
h extracts of letters from other respect;
g BILE persons, showing the absolute nee
d of the people in that Territory-tl
is drouth of the past season, having, in
j. large portion of the country, prevente
Dr. the raising of anything with which I
lie sustain the physical energies of man
n beast. The condition of the peopl
d. therefore, calls loudly for relief; an
Id we know that Michigan will respor
of cheerfully, generously. What shall !
&c done in our immediate vicinity?
st every other section of the count
something is being done, and relief h
been sent forward to some extent, b
the restitution is wide spread. W
Sc appeal to our citizens to move in tn
tn matter, and no better time will be four
" than at the different churches to-day