The Exodus

Correspondence of the Post aud Tribune. Again we come to each city and townsbip n our State, Michigan, with an appeal, and will you not hecd the cry for bread, shelter and warm bedding and clothing of the 400 or 500 out of the 20,000 refugees who have come to Kansas within ten months past? They are ecattered all over the State but appeal to headquarters at Topeka for aid. At Parsons 2,500 arrived within two months. Many brought teuts, but they were insuflScient to keep woinen and cbildren from perishing. A citizen who has done much for the sick and destitute, 16th uit. writes: "Saturday there were 75 persons called for help ; one of the pariy was a wotnan with ten children. She has washed dishes at the bótela for cold victuals to keep thetu from starving. Another woma,n with three children, as white as any woman in Topeka. They come to my house, to my offieo, and hail iuo ou tKc stroet for somethiug to eat. ïhere is a Texas man here offerine free transportation and homes if they will return. They have to uiake a contract before they go. He wants to get a carload right away. I know of but one yet who wants to return." A Quaker friend who is also engaged in looking after the most destitute atnong them, writes from Independence : " Wife and I spent iburdays about Coffeeville and found many trjing cases; several fainiliss catuped in the woods. No house room for them ; some women and children barefooted with frozen f'eet. They were in mourning! Five of their conipany were frozen to death in coming through ! We gave to them and others the last we had of clothing. ' It seems hard for people to suffer witl hunger and children cry for bread, as they do to-day, whcn there is an abundance o corn for 25 ceuts per bushel in Kansa But a very largo majority of the people in that young State are poor, and yet they gave for the relief of poor refuges from April 20 to October 13, $684.28; while Michigan, more than three times its age and wealtb, gave in the sanie time $147.50 Let us bear in uiind that Kansas strugglec into lif'e with border ruffiuns; and before she recovered from that conflict the wa gave her another sweep by throwing upoi her 40,000 poor, dependent people an equa nuuiber oi freedmen aijd poor wbites The loud cry of the hungry and naked wa heard, and Michigan made me the almone of her rich gifts of $2,000 in nionoy, an more than $8,000 in clothing and drie( fruit for the sick. The many scènes of sorrow witnessed in 1864 5 in young Kansa teem to be reproduced to-day in many localilies. From Fort Scott, Leavenworth, as well aa l'arsons, Coffeeville, Manhattan, Independente, Wabaunt.ee and Dunlap aoloniet, all are louking toward Topeka, for more or less aid, arui these are our nation's wards. They say : " If you can give us corn bread and water we'll bc Mititied till spring opens the door of woik for us." Notwithstanding all this (uffering, they continuo to write back for their f i ion is to come, and the incleuient feasou bas no influence in checking this rising tido of eniigration. They come daily in groups from 25 to huudreds. An appenl in Chicago papers caused her citizuns to oall a meeting, appoiot committees, aud within four duys a carload of luuiber was on the way to Topeka for a hospital, and another carload of warm bedding and clothing of every det-cription. And within three weeks a second carload of lumber was tent for shelter; alsj the second carload of clothing has been sent. All of which is gladdening many hearts. Will not Detroit, Grand Hapids and every city in Jlichigan and elsewherc go and do likewise in this hour of sorc Deed. Will not open hearts and and wilüug hands put shoulder to the whuel and come forward to the trout, and bring up tho rear? iSurely our noble State of Michigan will not falter or lag behind. Let every business man give the pi ice of a few buslicls of corn at least, and every woman drop the prioe of extra laces and Jewelry into tho trtasury of the Lord, and Ilis poor will riso up and cali you blcssed. Will not ministers of the gospel more closely follow the footprints of the Lord Jesus in preaching the gcspel to the puor? And is not a portion of the gospel plan to deal our bread to the huogry and cloihe the hungry? Please take up collections in your own way, and reniit immediately to KÜzabeth L. Comstock, Topeka, Kansas, and b come instrument n tho Lord's hands ol' fwvirig scores oí' lires. Send all packages of relief' goids lo E. L Comstock, Topeka, Kuass. !rcct to II. N. Itust & ('o., central warehouse, corner Rush and K inzie streets, L'bicafto, III., via Michigan Central railroad. All is free transportation to Kansas. Gov. St. John says, Feb. 1, that 900 families are on the way frcm Mississinni to Kansas. Secretary K. F. R. A. Englewood, Cook Co., 111,. Feb, 3. 1880.