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APPENDIX A.

THE WORCESTER CO. KANZAS LEAGUE.

It has been thought that the following constitution and plan of organization may be useful as a guide in forming other societies with the same object.

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE 1. Any person may become a member of this Society, by signing his name to this Constitution, and paying to the use of the Society the sum of one dollar, and shall continue to be a member so long as he shall pay such sum annually.

ARTICLE 2. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice President, seven Directors, Treasurer, and Secretary, who shall be Master of Emigration,— to be elected, in the first instance, immediately, and thereafter, on the second Monday in March, annually, at a meeting held in Worcester. The President, Vice President, and Treasurer shall be, ex officio, members of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE 3. The officers shall perform such duties as shall appertain to their respective situations, and such, also, as shall devolve upon them under the By-Laws of the Society.

ARTICLE 4. It shall be the duty of the Master of Emigration to receive and keep the names of all persons desiring to emigrate to Kanzas from Worcester county; to agree upon the time and conveniences for their departure, and to confer with the Emigrant Aid Company, so as to make the best arrangements for their conveyance to Kanzas, and their location there.

ARTICLE 5. The moneys of the Society shall be appropriated to promote such emigration into the above-named territory as shall be opposed to the introduction of slavery into the same; or, if slavery shall be introduced, as shall be in favor of repealing all laws tolerating the same; and also for such means of promoting free emigration as the Directors may select. Provided that nothing shall be done, in

virtue hereof, in contravention of the Constitution, nor in conflict with the existing laws of the land.

ARTICLE 6. Suitable By-Laws shall be adopted, at the first meeting of the Society, and the same may be altered or amended at any annual meeting.

ARTICLE 7. It is the design of this Society to coöperate with the Emigrant Aid Company in the colonization of Kanzas with freemen. ARTICLE 8. The Directors shall have power to fill any vacancies in their Board, or in the list of officers, antecedent to the annual meeting of the Society.

BY-LAWS.

ARTICLE 1. A majority of the Board of Directors shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, and a majority shall reside in the city of Worcester.

ARTICLE 2. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to keep safely all moneys of the Society, and to pay the same over, from time to time, on the order of the President, or, in his absence, of the Vice President.

ARTICLE 3. Neither President nor Vice President shall give such an order except in pursuance of an appropriation by the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE 4. The Secretary of the Society shall also be Secretary of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE 5. The compensation of the Master of Emigration shall be determined by the Board of Directors.

OFFICERS OF THE LEAGUE.

President - A. H. BULLOCH. Vice President

WILLIAM T. MER

RIFIELD. Treasurer — P. L. Moen. Directors Henry Chapin, Chas. Thurber, Horace James, Wm. H. Harris, Edward E. Hale, William A. Wheeler, Oliver C. Felton, P. L. Moen.

We, the undersigned, citizens of

pledge ourselves to

pay the sums affixed to our names, to constitute ourselves members of the Worcester County Kanzas League, and to promote the objects set forth in its Constitution :

SUBSCRIBERS' NAMES.

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APPENDIX B.

THE following extract from a letter by George S. Park, published by the Emigrant Aid Company too late to take its place in the text, describes the most interesting parts of the valley of the Kanzas and Smokyhill rivers:

"From the Pottawatomie line to its mouth, the Kanzas river presses on the southern bank, touching the uplands every four or five miles; while on the north side, from a point just below the mouth of the Blue, down some fifty miles, there is a continuous bottom, four or five miles wide, larger and more magnificent than the far-famed American Bottoms, below St. Louis. Here excellent corn has been raised, by the Half-breeds, for many years. The soil is a black, sandy loam — kind, warm, and quick; and produces much earlier in the season than farms in the same latitude east. Emigrants to California and Oregon, who are aware of this fact, prefer to cross the Missouri river, at Parkville, and take the great road up the Kanzas valley, on the north side, on this account. They find most excellent grazing for their stock by the 1st of April, often earlier. We have not seen a swamp or wet slough, nor any stagnant water, in the valley drained by the Kanzas river. The streams generally speaking flow over gravelly beds; most of the bottoms are high; the few that are low are of a dry, sandy character, and the prairies are rolling enough to drain off the water freely.

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Passing the west line of the Pottawatomie nation, we entered upon ɔpen prairie, often reaching the river on both sides; now and then a small grove and a light fringe of timber on the banks. On the right, in a great prairie bottom, in a bend of the river extending back to Rock Creek, Mr. Perry has made a selection for a stock farm; little way above his claim there is another great bend, offering a tempting inducement to some other enterprising farmer who has a taste for stock-raising. Beyond this we passed a large grove of timber on the right, and then passed a most appropriate bluff for a town site — the first we saw for several miles. Here we saw Blue Hill,

which is a prominent landmark overlooking the mouth of Blue river. From this point upward the bluffs are higher and more abrupt, and the country back more elevated and broken. Here we saw a large eagle nest, out of which the old bird looked angrily at us, for intruding on its preemption; but she, too, must give way, with the red skins, to manifest destiny. A little way above another huge buffalo floated past; he may have been anxious to slake his thirst in the Republican or Smokyhill, lost foothold, and got carried away by the rolling flood.

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Passing the mouth of the Blue, which comes in from the north (as nearly all the tributaries of Kanzas do), and appears to be navigable for some distance, we were pleased with its fine bottoms and long streak of timber; while, on the left, were conical bluffs and high prairie mounds, with figured lines and steps rising one above another in the distance, contributing to the scenery a very romantic appearance. Immediately above this important tributary, there is another beautiful prairie bottom, sloping back northward farther than we could see; and, on the left, still another, containing more than two thousand acres, in a bend not more than three-fourths of a mile across the neck. The enticing features of the latter are —a little grove of timber on the height, a cool gushing spring, and plenty of rock at hand in the bluff, with which to raise an enduring fence over the narrow isthmus. The world does not present a more excellent situation for a stock farm; indeed, the whole line of the main river and branches, from here upward, may be said to be adapted for a continuous series of such farms. On the right a bluff comes into the river, the first above the mouth of the Blue, offering an appropriate town site; and we saw stakes set on the slope, as well as a tent or cabin back on the high prairie, indicating that our countrymen were there. Just above, there is a clear, running stream, and a line of timber reaching far back. From this to the fort, the river winds like a natural canal through green, flowery meadows, with similar scenery in the distance. On the left we saw some splendid country for farms, up the valley of a stream, the name of which we do not recollect; there were fine groves of timber and rich valley land. We understand that several claims have been made there.

"On Monday night, just before reaching Fort Riley, we were over

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