But we labor under a great many disadvantages, for instance, our mail only comes once a week and our towns are too far off. Our nearest town of any importance is Lawrence, forty miles from here, but it is a real live town, and Leavenworth is eighty miles from here. We buy our things at one of the above named places. I know it is the country as the Supreme architect left it, and we will not complain for we know God might have mad a better and more beautiful country, but I think he never did. I have not voted since I have been in Kansas.
Parties are verry unequally divided here.
There is not more than one Democrat to every ten Republicans, but understand me correctly, there is but verry few Abolitionists. I look upon a horse thief and slave stealing in the same light. We hang the horse thief, and in Missouri they hang the slave stealer. Had I better say anything about our National difficulties. I will risk a few words.