The Kansas herald of freedom., 1854-10-21
Correspondence.
Kansas and the Compromise of 1870.

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CHTLLIcoTHE, o.. Sept. 8, 1854.
G. w. BRowN, Eso.-DEAR Sra
In describing the Territory of Kansas
which is large enough for two full sizeC
States, it is proper to conRne nv remarks
to the eastern section bordering on the
State of Missouri, and extending west uT
fthe valley of the Kansas and. Arkansas
! rivers three hundred miles to the western
boundary of the incoming State of Kan
sas. This new State, upon looking at the
map of the United States, will be found
central to the area of the whole Union
Eaaa central in latitnda and longitude o
the United States; consequently forming
the halfway house between Boston and
New York on the Atlantic, and San Fran
cisco on the Pacific.
Bounding upon the farms, as this new
Territory does, and in sight of the towns
of Missouri, with steamboat navigation up
TO its very center, with railroads from st.
Louis and Hannibal on the Mississippi,
each pointing to junction at this center,
and To be finished within the next two
years thus far toward the setting sun, no
State or Territory yet inhabited has been
SO accessible, or can be populated with so
few of the difficulties incidental to the
settlement of new countries as this. And
here il is, when, for the first time in this
world, marking an era IN the progress of
the human family, that-unlike the chill
dren Of Israel lost in the wilderness
highly favored people of this western
world, upon arriving on the borders of
their ideal wilderness, are to find great
roads already opened into II, and carried
forward with the velocity Of lightning, on
a fiery charger which would have filed
Moses and the children Of Israel with more
astonishment than the sublime miracles
that were intended to confirm their faith
and insure their obedience.
Situated as this new Territory is be-
tween the 37th aud 4oth degrees of north
latitude, it IS in the very climate where
bread stuffs grow in the greatest album,
dance; it is also midway between the ex-
treTnes of heat and cold. Like Illinois
and Iowa, it is a great prairie State; a
great natural meadow and pasture, and
those who do not wish to break their
backs cutting and rolling logs, and grub
bing hnshea, viii find excellent timber,
bituminous and anthracite coal, and lime
stone in sufficient abundance for all the
purposes Of life.
As to the soil the testimony is all on
one side; that il is equal to the very best
Missouri and Kentucky land-much cas-
Ter worked, and every way more preslue-
tive, especially in the article Of hemp,
which is q great ssapleerop Of the middle
western States. As a wheat growing
country, with proper culture / hsse no
doubt it wal excel any other portion of the
western country.
As to health, the high, rolling, we'll
drained character of Kansas is the sure
guarantee that it will be more healthy
than any other State bordering on the
Mississippi or Ohio rissrz. Rat every
sohere, those who occupy how, rich, bottom
lands, must, for their superior productive
ness-unless they keep unusually clean,
dry and sober, and live 10 houses not built
down IN the rich vegetable mould, and
sleep in well ventilated apartments,-ex
pect TO submit to the deduction Of chill
and fereE.
Notwithstanding the yast extent Of un-
occupied domain belonging 10 the Ameri-