University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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I Lawrence offers the urban environment while the pastoral setting is just a few minutes away in any direction.

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l'll i'2fQ'W2f in 1 :s.f2tf.wqw-W .rv wwf ' Wk ' I AV .ju l L . -Q-fl, awrence was born out of the want for freedom, and through its years has cherished and protected freedom in its many forms: freedom from slavery, freedom of speech, of thought, and expression. After the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, the settlers in the newborn state had the privilege of deciding whether their new state would be one of freedom or of slavery. Because the balance of free and slave states in the nation was already so close, the decision in Kansas became one of great concern in a nation already ripe with tension over the slavery question. The election in Kansas was the first open popular struggle in the slavery controversy that eventually erupted into the young nation's bloody civil war. n, When Kansas became a state, the territory was wide open for settlement, and the men and women who rushed in to set down stakes were mostly pro-slavery Missourians and people from other slave states in the South. From all appearances, Kansas was to become yet another slave state. But within a few weeks, some things began to stir in the Boston, Massachusetts area that were to change the history of Lawrence, and perhaps the history of the nation. Eli Thayer of Worchester, Massachusetts suggested the idea of an organized emigration to Kansas. He had already established the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Association. His idea was to fill the state with abolitionist voters and tip the national balance toward freedom. Amos Lawrence, a prominent Boston businessman from whom this city eventually got its name, was persuaded to become one of the trustees of the association. The organization then became the New England Emigration Company. Their objective was to provide cheap fares and good accommodations for the emigrants en route to Kansas, to advise them about an eligible settlement site, to secure temporary housing for them when they arrived, to provide a furnishing store, saw mills, machine shops, grist mills, and to