The Kansas Financier from Topeka, Kansas • 3

i 45 7 jT-nf it w-as i r-rfilffli 'ftingifaJAj nj---i m-jrrf" 'iiTvn? Dtiinrr BnawneSBBUGBi THE KANSAS FREMAN: INDEPENDENT. The Future fof Kansas. The all-absorbing question in tlio ry can expect to recoil an reliable benefit from advertising or job work. thile it is our higlrej ambition to to move our cause. The associations of our early home our education religious instruction conscience and Die i)ss Freciw.

B- C. K. QAltVllY EDITOR. Topeka, k. -r.

SEPT. 2f, 55. Sucli pereona tboee who have charity for their neighbors opinion we cannot expect to stand with us upon the Platform of the Big Springe Convention. The cool determination, practical wia-dom, and firmneaa evinced in the discussion and settlement of the many grave questions that claimed the consideration of the Convention, cannot but strike terror into tbe ranks of the pro-slavery party with States is: Will will tbe Black Pc through violence! and fraud the mosl cha in able that ever ized coun' I'M ti OoavMtian. What hit canted hit ip-tti cormaoMon.

Tlic country tUrougW We bed the pleasure of attendifig the Free State Delegate Convention, held at Dig Springs on the 5th and Gth inst and truly, like the one in the Scriptures, it was good for us to be there. Such an outpouring of tbe free and intelligent citizens of Kanaaa has never before taken place, and it cannot but result in great sas be free? Or or finally succeed fraud violence aring and damn-acterized a civil-resting tho land labor for the freedom of Kansas! yet reason all arc on the side of free-ambition will not feed the hungry, dom and against slavery whether of clothe the naked, pay for labor, buy the body or the mind of man. Be-paper and ink, wooded incidentals, sides that, we have fully identified our Ambition to be successful, even in a good cause, must rcceivo due encouragement must entertain hopes of a interests with the destiny of Kansas. Our homo is bore our family is here and here is our all of worldly FOR DELEGATE TO COSGRFSS. ANDREW H.

REEDED. LBOTIOB 6SCOND Tl'CSDAV Ok' from freedom, andfxing forever upon these lovely plainthe dark curse of lock and store; and finding free-1 human bondage? manufactured, or from which it emanates, in tbe Territory. Fourth: And perhaps the most significant of the four. As free State citizens come into the Territory, proslavery citizens go out; so that there are actually fewer of the latter at the present time in Kansas than there were three or six months ago, and their number is daily becoming less. Are not, then, our conclusions concerning the ultimate destiny of Kansas drawn from reliable and well founded data? Is there a possibility of Kansas becoming a slave State when so many powerful influences are working against it? No! Reason answers no! Common sense answers no! Nothing but tbe inertness, the inactivity, the want of proper action on the part of good and true free State men to come up speedily and possess this, the most beautiful, healthful and fruitful of all the lands that the light of Heaven shines upon will tUe hands of thV slave to fall into good to the free State cause, and thereby I respect to the future of Kansas.

They to the interests of the Territory at large. I must sea by this time, if they are not wil-It was the first assemblage of tho kind in I fully blind tothe moat stubborn facts, that which the entire Territory waa Airly and slavery can never be implanted in the fre fully represented. Delegates were in at-1 soil of this Territory. The voice of the tendance who, true patriot as they are, I people is against it and the voice of the had left their wives and families, the com-1 people, in the settlement of this question, forts and conveniences of home, and trav-1 will emphatically prove to be the voice of eled their hundred or more miles in order I God. At the same time our neighboring to join their influence, both by their pres-1 States of Missouri, Arkansas, fcc, must ao-ence and their voice, in the overwhelming knowledge that the action of our Free State concentration of the entire free State senti- I Convention has been highly just and hou-ment of the Territory upon the momentous I orable to them, by erecting a barrier upon questions which were expected to come 1 0ur common border beyond which their before the Convention.

I slaves may not pass and thus put forever When it is remembered that the Con-1 at rest the oft-repeated slander that we wish vention was a delegated body that it was to interfere with slavery in the Stales by timynerk their dlllv I1'11' iu a 4 w't osentatnes it cou la no beT err enter facilities in tiio -instruction of We hope the CO.U oo. fTgSto, facilities fa th. toMtmaioJ-of otherwise than that its deliberations would underground railroads. suitable reward. We dont intend, reader, to bo eternally boiing yj with begging editorials; we therefore ask you those of you who have, or profess to have, the true interests of Kansas at heart wo ask you, once for all, in a straight forward, manlj, business-like, manner, to send along not only your own subscription Ith the two dollar Hccompaniament, ljut, also, to intercat yourself with vour neighbor in the Freeman's behalf.

If we have tbe freedom of Kansas so much at heart as to risk four thousand dollars and our tjme and cnejp 4. voeacy, 'sureiy ydurfl-iAus ot Kansas, ought ta feel, at least, a two dollar interest as to bow her institutions may be shaped. But remember we do not ask jour subscription as a gratuity as a char, ity. On the contrary we expect to furnish you a large sized, first class, family newspaper, richly stored with such a variety of facts concerning the agricultural, mineral and other resources of our Territory; the moral political and religious condition of our people, together with the current event9 of the day, as will render it, we believe, a welcome visitant to the fireside of every family in the land dom, with its innumerable blessings and privileges, not only more congenial to our nature than slavery; but believing it to be better for ourselves; better for our family; better for our property; bettor for our neighbors their families and their property; better for the Territory at large and for the world of mankind etary wpre, the Freeman will, by all post and honorable means and with all tbe ability it yan command, labor to make a free State of Kansas. Penarivnni Settlement at Washington.

W- a day with the Pennsylvanians at Washington a short time since; and although m7 admiran has long been our maxim touching the affairs of this world and the present age, yet we were certainly astonished at the evidence of thrift and prosperity there seen. Tho settlement was made in the latter part of last April. At the present time they have a number of fields varying in size from ten to forty acres, upon which may be seen as fine crops of corn and other products as are to be fouud in the Territory. W. Y.

Roberts, has about power, or fasten upon its lovely plains the blighting curse of human ibilitp action of the Big Springs vunuon naa and marked and courteous demeanor on tbe nailed this slander to the counter forevAr part of tho cotnpoaag fa Itth, the In point of true dignity, manliness, and I has certainly been the genfiemanJy bearing of the members, each I demonstration of the Free to tbe other, and the prompitude and ac- that has hitherto taken place in curacy of their proceedings, the convention and must have a most controlling wou compare favorably with any body upon the destiny of -lmilar in kind and size that we have ever I rising Territory bm. pormiCfad i tL 0lJm Thoie of who tru. tes. Many of the members, without State citizens, by whatever political distil coming invidious by mentioning names, tion you may be known, wHsk your when depictioff the cross wrnna OBS7oar convention. and perfidious conduct of the National connection therewith wa a i.

I ucrewiini we ask you to read a quently burst forth in passages of most I to our mast head, and i I Jmllinrr slnniumna i vAU, QCD with 8 Zeal WOf- subjects, fre- ard-bearer which we have this day nailed tost thrilling eloquence, keenest, I To citizens ojFansas these questions have entirejjflost their significance. They coufC upon the future of Kansas in this respect with as much certainty as they count upon the rising of the morrows Sun. To them there is no question what the issue will be; they already regard it as settled, that Kansas is now virtually free and destined irrevocably to remain so. In the minds of the people of Kansas this event is just as definitely fixed as any event can be which has not alyeyhactually transnature of things," place. To them it is not a mere whim a mere impression a mere belief -tho the wish being father to the belief but a reliable conclusion clearly de-ducible from the most logical premises a result clearly referable to undeniable causes.

The premises the causes, in jart, are the following: First: The is not in a condi tion to be made available to slave labor. Being, as yet, unsurveyed, no person can legitimately claim more than one hundred ahd sixty acres or one quarter secticu! Slavery must have more extensre tracts than quarter sections upott which to operate and flourish. Sojloog then, as the lands are not putihasable, but only open to the squatttr or pre-emptor the slave interest ci acquire no re liable foothold in Rmsas. This is an important consideration and free State men should thin! of it and act ac cordingly. In otjer words, citizens of the free Statesr-who have been and now are, desijusof obtaining a home in Kansas nd such a home as they can obtain jo where else; but who have been deferred from coming here under the iipission that the land was already txen up, or was rapidly being takeiyjjby large plan tations of slaves squhave no fears on that score either br the present or for some time, tehaps years, to come.

But again-yfaat particular kind or quality of Vd which could be rendered availably 0 slave labor in the cultivation of lemp and To bacco for these are he only pro ducts of slave labotKansas will produce has already ten nearly, if not quite, all taken tp md now occupied by actual setttr and it would be folly in the cxre for slaveholders to bring on th hordes of slaves for the purbso of raising Hemp and Tobaco ol high and rolling prairies. Wholders are too sensible for thishd will not be likely to engage in i enterprise so perfectly Second: Thelarrepondcrance of free State citizentlready in the Territory, to say noiig of the larg it of by it the the for the burning satire, thy the or deepest pathos. This need not be the country we have odontic wondered at, when we reflect that ex-Gov- pted ur homa nuuucreu hi, wnen we reflect that ex-Gov- worthy our wive, Cor Motto. The brilliant and conspicuous associations connected with the motto we have choseu for the Fretman entitle it to a moments consideration. Moses the highest authority in legis lative matters that the world has ever produced, whether considered as the originator of the Jewish code, or, as the instrument in the hands of the Almighty in the preparation of that code for the governance of his chosen people specially ordered that upon every fiftieth year, forever, the priests should be required to proclaim Liberty throughout all the land un to all the inhabitants thereof.

This was the year of jubilee. Again: Lest the reference we have made should be considered rather antique and unworthy the respect of the remarkably fast people of this remarkably fast age, we have another instance to note but little inferior in authority none in patri otism. Once upon a time, a body of men assembled together in a building called Independence Hall in the city of Philadelphia. A bell hung upon that Hall, and upon that bell was an inscription. Here is Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

Immediately after the conclusion of the reading of the Declaration of Independ ence a paper there and then prepared which ceremony took place from the steps Independence Hall, the old bell, as if inspiration took up the theme, and was the first to proclaim the laud free rrom the shackles of despotism with which had hitherto been enthralled. What better motto, then, could the Freeman adopt than the one we have se-ected, coming with all the force of a direct injunction from Heaven, and associating troubles of these present times with remembrance of the times that tried mens souls, and so The Freeman will contend valorously the right under the motto, Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all inhabitants thereof. Ourselves. Apolofttical Bxplaaatorr Fromsicry. We dislike apologies.

Who don't? They generally neither pay for the writing nor perusal. This is the first with which we have been compelled to inflict the reader. We trust no occasion will occur for the infliction of a second. But brief statement is necessary concerning our affairs and this is the most opportune occasion on which to offer it. Will yon read? When we commenced the publication of tlfo' Freeman, our type and other office material had arrived in advance of our Proos, but expecting It on everyjhiyiwe prry beVoF the paper and had it -at an office in a neighbori-never doubting for a moracT our own Press would a- season for tbe isBue of number.

With this undere the principal proprietor of the man left for Milwankie, Wisconsin, in order to make a final disposal if his business there and bring with him his family to his now home in Topeka. No Press, however, arriving at this place, and being unable to hear any tidings concerning it, and finding it too inconvenient as well as too expensive to attempt to continue the publication of the paper at an office thirty miles distent, it was deemed best to discontinue the publication of the Freeman until the press should arrive. As soon as the principal at Miiwaukic was made acquainted with these facts, Tolling, no doubt, deeply chagrined that his best laid schemes should be thus thwarted, immediately purchased an elegant and powerful Cylinder Steam Press of tho first quality and started in company with the same for this place, determined, at all hazards, to see it delivered at its proper destination and in thorough working order. Last week Press and Principal both arrived; and while we eant speak so positively of the latter, we can truly say of the former that it is in fine condition, ready to perform any amount of labor we may command, and, judging from its powerful frame and iron constitution, calculated we should think to last forever. We will issue this our second number on Wednesday our regular publication day and will thereafter regularly continue the weekly publication of the Free- -n.

Upon our punctuality in this roj ct our friends and subscribers may ully rely. And now a word to the public concerning our enterprise. The Press, materials and incidentals connected with the publication office of the Kansas Freeman, involve an expenditure direct, on our part, of about four thousand dollars! To us, under the circumstances, this is a he ivy outlay of means in defence, and behalf of tho Free State interests of Kansas. We might readily have found opportunities of investing our funds in the Territory which would hrve yielded a handsome income on the amount invested. But having looked tho Territory over, being satisfied cf tbe superiority of the country around Topeka; that Topeka itself as a place of residence is unsurpassed by any other in the Territory! and that varied and rapidly growing demanded the establishm per here! and that by ve would be enabled to exer influence in building up free in Kansas, we concluded crow aside all minor consideration and eraors, ex-J udges, ex-Senatorand ex-Rep- hearths and household eodl otfhT resentatives of many of the olden Stat religious faith.

and who had come hither influenced by patri- Tuday of Octnh otic motives, or a desire to establish their ani triumphant homes and buili up their fortunes in this I ree tate victory fair and fertile land, constituted a large I The hZnf ala'ioa- iroportion of tht Convention. stat i 1 nd trua The utmost larmon, and gooj feeliug siofa must hlveTtlnT111 "i01 rM thhout the entire proceed! I ofenthmMm Big Spnng, Convention rrhit th. hts brotner-delegate to see who could best Andrew H. Keede, wss uroprwed th! work and who best agree. Ambition was I nominee of the Free State Partv for i there; not that hideous and deformed am- gate to Congress.

It was not the svstT bition which gloats at the spectacle of its matic cheer following cheer but one bleeding, agonizing and prostrate victim prolonged, unbroken and deafening shout but that nobler ambition which glories in that rent the air, as His Excellency took the success of the cause it advocates, from the stand and accepted, in the most hand- 150 acres of corn in one enclosure, most of which will yield him from 40 to GO bushels per acre. His potatoes are very superior both in size and quality; while for his melons, pumpkins, squashes, cucumbers, and garden truck generally, he has, as yet, arrived at no method of calculation. All this is the result of some four or five months effort upon new land in Kansas Territory. Mr. Roberts informs us that this fall he will sow 200 acres of wheat, and next spring will plant about 600 acres in corn.

Let the East and North understand that this is the way things can be done in Kansas. And let Missouri and the South under, stand that all this has been done and will be done through the instrumentality of free white labor alone. Success to the Pennsylvania Settlement, say we. To Correspondents. We are desirous of procuring able correspondents in every portion of the Territory, in order to furnish, through the medium of the Freeman the most reliable information upon all subjects of public interest that may from time to time arise.

We therefore solicit those friendly to our enterprise and the cause we advocate, to apprise us at tho earliest moment of any and every thing of a public nature that may transpire in their respective localities. wish to produce a paper that will compare favorably with any published in Kansas; and wc, there fore, desire to havo it represent the interests, not of a particular locality; but of the whole Territory. Will our friends bear tbis in mind and keep us advised from day to day what the signs of the times may be witlijthem? Send along your contributions J55T We would call attention to Dr. Cranes card, and patent Lime Kiln. A model of the Kiln may be seen at this office, and we learn that he is in possession of drafts and full specifications for their erection, and also documents to show that his deed and title to tho patent are recorded in Washington.

These Kilns will soon be wanted in every settled portion of the Territory. Buildings will necessarily be erected pretty generally of either brick, stone or concrete for either of which Lime must be had. These buildings are much the most pleasant being cool summer and warm in winter. Rights may now be secured for a much less price than they can be after a year or two have passed gST Rev. G.

W. Hutchinson, of the firm of Hutchixsoj, Harlow Co, Lawrence, K. purposed starting East Inst week with the intention of purchasing some $10,000 worth of goods. The firm have a large and commodious store house, and have been' selling goods wholesale and retail, at a slight advance on cost. Mr.

Hutchinson informed us he intended bringing bis family with him to the Territory on his return. C. O' The Constitutional Mass Convention is in session as we go to press, and Messrs. Roberts, Lowiy, Mallory, and other prominent speakers, are now addressing tho people. Our Position.

As this number of tho Freeman will doubtless fall into the hands of many who have not had an opportunity to examine a number of our former issue, we deem it prudent to redefine the position that we have taken on tho great question of the admission or inhibition of slavery into Kansas. We, more especially, feel ourselves called upon to do so from the fact that some regard our prospectus as being slightly equivocal, or, at most, not sufficiently clear, upon this important matter. The Freeman, then, will, first and foremost labor to inform the minds, elevate the morals and improve the physical and temporal condition of the people among whom it has been established, and from whom we eynct it will receive its principal To this end it will seek to occupy liberal and comprehensive ground upon all the great subjects of popular reform cf the day. Prominent among them may be mentioned the Temperance reform. Believing, as we do, that a great majority of the crimes of the present day are committed under the immediate or mediate influences of intemperance; and that a large proportion of the sufferings and ills with which humanity is directly or remotely afflicted is traceable to the same pernicious cause, the Freeman will occupy advanced ground on the Temperance movement, and resist mildly but firmly, all attempts to establish the traffic among us.

Whatever may be true with respect to education in Monarchical or Despotic Governments, we are well convinced that tho permanency and security of Republican or Democratic institutions must exist in tbe exact ratio that its people are intelligent; and that the greater amount of intelligence among a people the more secure will be their liberties, and the greater the amount of happiness they must enjoy. We will, therefore, encourage every enterprise calculated to promote education, and disseminate intelligence among the people; We will labor Ao build up for the Territory a sound system of Common Schools; encourage the establishment of Acadamies and Colleges; and in every other manner so seek to elevate the educational interests of the Territory, that they will prove to be not only matter of benefit and pride to our own citizens, but will also be an object for the ad- miration of others. The Freeman will labor by all just and honorable means, and with all the ability it can command to establish free institutions in Kansas. In doing so it will endeavor to present such an array of facts and argument as to convince the judgment that the great good of the Territory rests in the successful issue of the free State influence. Argument, not assertion; facts, not theory will be the lever with which we shall expect accessions confident expected this Our Colnms Shall at all times be open to tbe free discussion of any subject calculated to en-ghten the public mind concerning the resources of the Territory, or the condition of the people.

Almost every person who comes to Kansas has promised to keep his friends in the States advised of the movements and condition of things here. This can be done in no way more satisfac tory than to publish from time to time such information in the Freeman, and transmit copies thereof to those desiring such information. This course will prove a saving of much time to the writer, and be more satisfactory to the reader, by giving him not only the communication of his friend, but a paper well stored with general information concerning the Territory. Copies neatly done up in wrappers and prepared for mailing, can be procured at this office at five cents per copy. ASTOur friend Mr.

a full and complete assortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, See his advertisement, and remember he is always ready and accommodating with bis customers, and has jood Goods. the fact it is convinced the success of that some manner, of the nomination tendered cause will contribute most to the prosperi- him under such peculiar and gratifvinir ty of the country and the happiness of the circumstances. Following in a speech of peoPje the loftiest eloquence he defined, to the Of the many important matters that oc- satisfaction of all present, his position upon cupied I the attention of the convention, the the great questions agitating the public following may be mentioned as among the mind in this Territory. The thundere of most prominent The repudiation of the applause which greeted him at the conclu- acts passed by, and the authority of, the sion of his remarks, and the hundreds of Missouri mob Legislative Assembly; con- hardy squatters true sovereigns of the structionof a Free State Platform; propri-1 soil who crowded around him and join ety of the organization of a State Govern- ed in the general congratulations, fully con-ment designation of a separate day for vinced us that every person there assembled tbe election of a Delegate to Congress regarded Reeder not only everv inch a dication of Gov. Reeder in his Half Breed Kaw purchase, in a series of resolutions containing a simple and succinct statement of the whols transaction and the nomination by acclamation, of His Excellency, Andrew H.

Reeder, to be the standarc bearer of tbe Free State Party in the coming contest for Delegate to Congress, Of all, or most of, the doings of the convention, we shall have occasion to speak in detail hereafter. The Platform is sound and liberal. Sound in exhibiting in all the material of winch it laccuHposod the one great purpose of giving free institutions and a free constitution to Kansas; and liberal in being so broad that all will cheerfully take their stand upon it, save the wildest and most inconsiderate Abolitionist. The platform is sound. In all its elegant and symmetrical proportions tbe intolerant and dark spirit of slavery is nowhere recognised.

It is liberal in being so constructed that every true lover of Kansas, and who is desirous of making it a free State, will most cordially give it his support, and can do so, as we think, without any sacrifice of principle whatever There are some things in the platform that we might wish to see excluded therefrom; there are others that we might wish to see incorporated; but a large majority of the people through their proper representatives, said they would have it as it is, and for the sake of union and harmony we cordially acquiesce in the will of the people, and shall give the platform our unqualified support. Yet all will not acquiesce. There are some, and they profess, too, to be good free 5 tate men, who either will not or cannot make any concession to their neighbor. In politics, as in everything else, their opinion alone is right, and that of every other person wrong. They question the infallibility of the Pope, but purtenaeiously assert their but tbe man thoroughly capacitated in all respects physically, mentally, morally for the times and the Territory in which we live.

We are gratified at the result of Got. Reeders nomination. With him as the leader of the host the Free State' party will present an undivided column to the opposition. While the effect of his nomination will be to harmonize the friends of freedom throughout the Territoiy, in the States it will have, if possible, a more important bearing. There it will be regarded as a vindication, by those best acquainted with Reeder, of his character as a man and his integrity as a Governor.

It will be looked upon as throwing the lie directly into the face of the Administration for the specious, shallow, absurd, false and wicked reasons given to the people as tho grounds for Reeders removal; and place it in its proper light, as the entire subserviency of a rotten and corrupt government to the behests of the slave power. What will be the effect of Reeders nomination on Pierce remains to be seen; we think, rnwever, it will have a tendency to so increase his shakes as to place him beyond the curative properties of the White Sul-)hur Springs. If Belshazzar trembled when he only saw the hand-writing on the wall, how much more ought Pierce to shake when he can read in unmistakea-ble characters upon the signs of the times everywhere that he has been weighed in the balance and found wanting Unless Pierce is dead to all the finer sensibilities that animate our common humanity deaf to the voice of popular indignation utterly blind and regardless of the startling events that in rapid succession make up the history of his administration and of the com, try, and by an insane and diabolical purpose of mind, when fame is no longer poa, ible, he haa fully detetmined on fall, has virtually dc ed the issue in favor of free dam. have reliable information that erj district in the Territory has withits limits a wa jority of free State kes while the districts, in passing in the Missouri river back into thinterior of the Territory are settle! almost exclusively by freqtjtelizens. Some, and those, too, who ght to know from their extensiv acquaintance throughout the Teriry, state the ratio of free State zens to slave State citizens as eigl ten to one.

We are confident we upon the side of safety when we pi i it as three to one at least. Third: While oui ighbors from Missouri make an isional foray into the Territory, ir voting for us and elect a set of principally from their own State, iogo through the farce of enacting lws that the few pro-slavery citizt in the Territory, themselves, don ven dream of regarding; the free citizens are quietly going on witl eir improvements, locating and ivating their farm claims, building uses, making fences, accumulating ock, plowing and sowing and gatl ng the product of the land; oth again, are founding new towns, icting mills, building churches am hool houses, and establishing piin offices; and thus at the present tin le free State influence controls aim every prominent point where opinion is We would call especial attention to the establishment of Messrs. Allen fc Gorden. These gentlemen are daily receiving goods in their new stone store. Their advertisements being handed in aa we go to press, as a matter of course has to ie left out till next week.

Give them a call. engage soul, mind and strength in lie publication of a Free State paper. We are four thousand dollars out of pocket at the commencement of the publication of the Freeman. It remains for our friends the friends of freedom everywhere to say how much more we shall be out from week to week in continuing its publication. By reference to another column it will be seen we Lave taken a firm and decided stand on the great issue of the day the admission or inhibition of slavery in Kansas.

The Freeman, therefore, can neither ask nor expect sympathy or support from the pro-slavery party. It must look to the friends of the cause it advocates for that support. Some time must eUpse before a paper in the Territo- Our sense of modesty all but us calling attention to the superior stock of Goods on hand at Commercial lead Quarters. Reader, look in at them -i Advertisements should invariably handed in as early as noon the day irevious to publication to insure an insertion. Pleqae remember this..