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peopling of a Territory, and argued that the etfort would 
weaken the South at home.^^ 
The Boston Journal complained that one of the most 
prominent administration papers had sneered at the idea of 
settlers being induced to go to Kansas for any other reason 
than self-interest, and predicted greater results in free-state 
emigration than ever took place before.^^ The predicted 
migration never occurred. The scheme of Eli Thayer and 
his associates to place large numbers of easterners in Kansas 
failed.^® While the Aid Society was supported by many New 
England journals, there were those that failed to mention 
Kansas when setting forth the advantages of young West. 
Said one of these: 
In the New England States it now requires a great mental and 
physical effort to gain a comfortable subsistence. Our population is 
dense. We stand in each other’s way. All the existing employments, 
agriculture, commerce, and the learned professions are overflowing. Our 
young men are placed in that peculiar condition when emigration to a 
country or vicinity less occupied is imperative. ... It seems obvious 
that the great fleld to which our young men should emigrate, is what 
we term the northwestern states.'*' 
Another paper, tho mentioning Kansas as a “new land of 
promise”, set forth the advantages of Illinois, Iowa, and 
Minnesota, encouraging the “long caravan” moving to the 
prairies in search of fortunes with a friendly expression of 
good-will : 
We sympathize with prosperity, let it come in what form it may in a 
whale-ship or an Illinois farm, and we trust no disastrous revolution 
may tread in the path of the western army.^® 
After surveying the entire westward movement of popu- 
lation, North and South, the Newhuryport Herald, in April, 
1855, summed up the situation in a paragraph that reveals 
a rather keen comprehension of the meaning of the extensive 
migration and of the significance of the frontier : 
Charleston (S.C.) Standard, quoted in the Daily Republic, April 24, 1856, clipping- 
in Webb, Kansas Scrapbook, XI, 153. 
3* Boston Journal, June 22, 1854, clipping in Webb, Kansas Scrapbook, I, 28. 
Hampshire (N.H.) Gazette, February 13, 1855; and Nerrthampton (Mass.) Courier, 
February 13, 1855, clippings in Webb, Kansas Scrapbook, II, 249-250. 
37 Vermont (Vt.) Journal, April 27, 1855, clipping in Webb, Kansas Scrapbook, 
III, 188. 
^^New Bedford (Mass.) Meroiiry, April 10, 1856, clipping in Webb, Kansas Scrap- 
book, XI, 60. 
