, 1879-05-03

go 10 SCHOOL, anu tly 10 oe uSelu IN llaG. 1nE SAyk
she expects 10 marry before 'onr.
Trusting shiss will tnd pit we'll, and tell Ann'
Polly Helms howdlc, AM, her mother is sick.
Answer soon, aud tell alt tue friends howdie.
Yours. ETC., ENMiLlkE ScorT.
DIRECT your letters to st. James Hotel, Kansas
City. Mo,
r. s.-Please tell Elder na;is that we are moi
starving TO death. nnd, 1t he comes out here hi
can 9et line back-r1de ont Uf my money The
ileR IN the Raymond Cd@fftr. By Mike benjamin..
are s1ln democrat lie. and Davis shoud he ashan}c
to have such patlishcd. eat frcshs mcat anu moi
Eds and don't Ike The log cabins that the South
Affords. EMlLlSE ScoTT.
Elder Davis seems to have acted like menv
other colorcd pastors in attempting to Keep his
congregation here, The fourth letter tcstl6cs
more explicitly than any Of the others to cxpe.
rience of bulldozng In Kinds County:
DEMOCRATS AS SCARCE AS RICH BLACK MEN.
WYASno1TE, Kan, Noy. IT, .1s7s.-Nr. Gilbert
Smith, Eduards, liss.-DxAn S1n AND FnlENn:
Having q few spare moments, and thinking OF what
foa 50 often told me about coming 10 Kansas. =
Concluded to write you q word concerning tou
country; learned few days ag9 from 'elter nr
that Bill Malone got from John Fox. that your
daughter, Miss Mary, had the yellow fever, ou1
an plcased to learn from the letter your little Car
re GENT Ellen That .ull arc we and ,s nesr'nS n
doing we'll. and am in the free State OF hansas.
God knows. Gilbert this is the garden SPOT oi sho
woEld. the Paradise OF America Tor inc olack
man," Smith, tell Nimrod Price to conc to ta1s
country, aud he can make fortune with MS V1o-
lin. Le, me tell you, Smith. rou can see moro
good land cheaper goods. better food. hetter pep
your life Jacob Barlow, Henry HEma'. and
Uncle Peter Neson have got them good home
and they are On the places. building then houses:
They intend to bu1id tor themselves home that
they can call their own in reality, and not nom3-
nally. Smith, you can buy lind, well nbered,
well-watered, with plenty Of coal. and close TO 2
gise you from three to five years 70 pay for j.
Again. you can rent farnast all improved with
houses, barns, sheds, and cribs, ut very cheap
md societies, rhc coorcd and white all mix to-
ccther and there fs' no difference. The placo
where the Missiselppians ought 10 20 Is n Franz
lin county, near ths Town o. ulta"a: u Ihis IL =.
black men, Gilbert, will find you good homo
if you viii only let ME know when you VIII come.
Bring little money and efeIythlns you Posscss' s
do you make The boys leuye these daYs. as you
used 10 make me? You thirk you haye large feet,
but there arc people here who can lay over you.
Try and persuade Mr., Harvey ~ come in the
spIiuE. This is Republican State NhAt in the
name Of COD are the white people killing al the
..cooRs" for! Because they want to come ~t'
you sure Has S. D. Currie settled that cotton
account yet. Hold things Level, and don't talk
much; but watch and gel ready for Kansas. May
etny there; but will take mine here. Tell Billy
Graham to answer my ietter.e Truly Tonrs. etc.
These letters, 1t will be admitted, are credita-
Bile to the writers, and show degree of intel
ligence among the black men equal to that Of
any agricultural labors in the world. ! have
generally found the negroes here intelligent.
Many OF them can read and write, and all are
Quick to catch an idea In conversation.
About The state OF affairs in Kinds County,
and particularly at this station, which was
nearly stripped Of 1aborers, an.l suffered more
than any other town i'll the South, something,
will be said at another time. r. W. P.