New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-05


ard increased. AS yet, nothing has been done
compared with the extent and urgency Of the
need. or the 100000 people included within
the State lim!ts of Kansas, perhaps 9th hsve
fled from starvation To temporary shelter with
friends a'd relatives in The older States intend.
ing to return to their cabins and quarter.sea.
tons In the Spring; perhaps twice as many have
resources which will enable them 70 wor,,
through; while the remaining forty thousand.
unable to get away destitute Of food and means.
must be relieved or must starve Which shaU it
be! The acts rather than words Of the people
Of the older States must speedily determine.
| The amount actually needed to rescue those
| forty thousand unfortunates from the jaws Of
imminent death is not less than 81, 0CO, eco,
whereof not more than 100000 has yet been
contributed and this mainly in Grain by Illinois
and Iowa. From the Slave States, scarcely any
thing has been or will be realized; but why the
Democratic press and people Of tbs Free States
shOuld stubbornly hold back, We Cannot imagine.
The relative strength Of the two grea. parties in
KaDaas is about four Republicans to three Demo.
Gratis, and airy one can judge as Web as We
whether majority Of the two 6lihs Of the people
of Kansas who must be saved from starvation
By charity is not quite as likely to DO Demo-
cratic as Republican. If it be paltry to 70.
7iye party distinctions in view Of such COM
EAon and fearful calamity, LET the blame fsH
whfre it ought. To every observer it is plain
ceptions Of cOuTse--are not only Withholding con-
tlibu.iOns for KaD3as, bat ars discouraging tho
movement for her cOEpreheBfve relief. One Of
item starts and others circuiEse tho manifeetiY
yillano1s lie that provisions ure distributed to
Republicans only, when in fact al who come are
served alike, aud no questions spked regarding
politics. Ger. Harvey Officially etayts and thou.
sands eagerly circulate the atrocious insinuatioa
that MONEYS contributed for the rdief Of the
starving harc been perverted 10 tie purchase Of
arms and munitions for Msnfgomerys bands
when in fact nothing Like arms has beca distrib-
uted or bought, and but very liSle eTen of pro.
visions, has yoS been sent to Bourbos and Lina
Counties, where alone MOntgomery's mss are
found. But We waste words on saese mieerabIs
,alumnies.
People Of the United States Yor gave freely
Or devastated Grcece, Tor starving I6.auo, rF
he Cape de Verbs, for Madeira, ard (more IT,
,ently) for the victims Of the Syrian massacrcs.
This was rght---t vYas nOble-ycu did not give
nc dollar too much --and you are not this day o
rsrthing poorer for It al. Well: here ere forty
houssnd of your fellow citizens suffering, fau,ish-
ny, dying, yet you have done little-far 200 little
-t,aasYc them. They mast have bread ard seeds
hey should have at least 10000 bussels Of
1hest 70 COW in February and March, and 10
,ugtt 70 be going forward at once. 1t 10 noe
heir fallt, it is your geod fortune, that the
blight ms fallen on them rather than yOui end
you shoald, you must, hel, TO bear what 10 CO.
sentiallz public calamity. BE entreated, then,
to hold meetings, appoint solicitors, and thor
ounhiy canvass your se7eTai localities forthwith,
and see th9t it is no pcayane business either.
And be 9Ieased TO consider that whatever money
Is collected is to be tranersit;ed, not to us, but
to the duly.eommssioned treasurer Of tho general
movement, John +. Williams, President Of the
Bank, New.Yo-k.