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8. What was done with the Indians in Kansas?

THE SONG OF THE KANSAS EMIGRANT

We cross the prairies as of old

The Pilgrims crossed the sea,

To make the West as they the East

The homestead of the free.

Chorus:

The homestead of the free, my boys,

The homestead of the free,

To make the West as they the East

The homestead of the free.

We go to rear a wall of men

On Freedom’s southern line

And plant beside the cotton tree

The rugged northern pine.

We’re flowing from our native hills,

As our free rivers flow;

The blessings of our mother-land

Is on us as we go.

We go to plant her common schools

On distant prairie swells,

And give the Sabbaths of the wild

The music of her bells.

Upbearing like the ark of old,

The Bible in her van,

We go to test the truth of God

Against the fraud of man.

No pause, nor rest, save where the streams

That feed the Kansas run,

Save where our pilgrim gonfalon

Shall flout the setting sun.

We’ll tread the prairies as of old

Our fathers sailed the sea;

And make the West as they the East