and will be able, it is thought, to make the
small purchase payments on the land as they become due.

"If our inquiring Statesman is interested in observing in what
spirit these refugees receive the aid which has made existence
possible here during the cold winter months, he may be profited
by spending a few days in looking about the city of Topeka. There
are in Topeka alone over 3,000 refugees, and nearly all of them,
paupers when they came, have found means in some way to make a
living. In many cases it is a precarious subsistence that is
gained, and in not a few cases among late arrivals he would find
evidences of want and destitution, but, compared with this, he
cannot but be struck with the small number of applicants to the
Relief Association for aid. Only 213 rations were issued outside
the barracks last week to the 3,000 refugees who came here only a
few months since without money, and frequently without clothing,
to undertake what seemed under the circumstances the desperate
purpose of making a living.

"The dangers and difficulties which beset the refugees' departure
from a land where even the right to emigrate is denied him are
great. * * * He may learn (Mr. Voorhees), however, from copies of
over 1,000 letters in the Governor's office, that Gov. St. John
has never, in reply to their appeals, failed to warn them of the
difficulties that would beset their way here, and has never
extended them promise of other assistance than that implied in
the equal rights which are guaranteed to every citizen of Kansas.
Further than this, however surprising it may be to Mr. Voorhees'
theory of the causes of the exodus, it is nevertheless a fact
that this very association, which is charged with encouraging the
exodus, has sent the Rev. W. O. Lynch, a colored man, to the
South to warn the colored people that they must not come here
expecting to be fed or to find homes already prepared, and to do
all in his power to dissuade them from coming at all. Still they
come, and why they come the country has determined long in
advance of Mr. Voorhees' report. * * *

"While we have Mr. Voorhees here we would be glad to have him
glance at a State document to be found upon Governor St. John's
table, which bears the Great Seal and signature of Gov. O. M.
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