Other use in 1849 appears in a short-lived journal in support of the candidacy of "Great Compromiser" Henry Clay. In a piece authored by "J" (presumably the journal's then editor, James Davenport Whelpley):
"American hands are ever open, American hearts are always warm; let the industrious victim of bad legislation come to and pitch his tent with us. Our kindness is free, in all proper freedom, as the winds that flow over the fertile prairies to whose occupancy we admit him."
https://books.google.com/books?id=o95PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA567&dq=%22kindness+is+free%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRvdTCyvyPAxVGD1kFHSMHEjgQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=%22kindness%20is%20free%22&f=false
In addition to qualifier ("in all proper freedom") echoing "kindness is free of…" of earlier decades, sit with the settler mentality of this statement ("whose occupancy we admit him").
This comes in a critique of application of communist analysis ("proletariat") to the American working class: "The broad shoulders of our laborers are bent to other burdens," thus "If a foreign laborer is crushed by hopeless poverty…let him take counsel of those heroes of our [1776] revolution".
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