Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-06-21
Gge 9ailp Spy
WEDNESDAY, JUNE n, Iss4.
Kansas and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In-
formation.


Kansas and acknowledgements IR-
formation.
We are permitted, says the Springfield Re-
publican, to extract the following passages
from private letter, written by an eastern
gentleman, now resident in Missouri, to q
friend in this city. We know the gentleman
we'll, and his statements are entirely reliable:
al am informed that the adjacent terrific
ries of Kansas and Nebraska, to the distance
of two hundred miles westward, furnish hemp
lands, equal to the best in Missouri, Already
hundreds of hemp growers have made their
selections of new farms in these vile-born ter
ritories. And yet we have heard that kansas
and Nebraska are unsuited 70 slave labor =
Accountable treachery to freedom / can
think of but one way to forestall the guilty
designs of the repudiated land traitors. Let
there be immediate organization to settle Kan
sas, with twenty thousand true men from the
Eastern and Middle States, one fourth of
whom should be on the ground this autumn,
to prepare for the spring emigration. Save
Kansas, and Nebraska is safe. Committees of
the right men should Immediately proceed to
Kansas, and make a thorough exploration of
the territory, and publish full report for the
benefit of emigrants. An emigrants guido
for Kansas, rightly prepared, would have an
immense circulation at the West, as well as
the East; and Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio will
double the emigration from the East 1t is
important that there should be no delay in the
preparatory steps for calling attention to the
inducements to emigrate to Kansas Intelli-
gent persons from the western part of Mis-
souri,, who have been over the territories, de-
scribe the country in the valley of the Kansas
and Immediately west of the Missouri, as of
unsurpassed beauty and agricultural richness,
with an abundance of coal, stratatied lime
stone aud clay, for building; while the fire.
quent pure springs, gushing from both free
and limestone rock, with the great purity Of
the air from the elevated plains, stretching
towards the Rocky Mountains, ensure health
to the future inhabitants to a remarkable de-
gree. The only drawback, as new country,
is the scarcity OF timber, of which, however,
there is sufHcieney for some years. For fuel,
building, and fencing purposes, the deficiency
of timber is fully compensated for by the sup
plies of coal. clay, and limestone. and the
Usage or 60iS d arc-the cheapest fenc-
ing material in the worlds there Indigenous.
Yet the wide spread publication of all this
may not save Kansas to freedom, aud theim-
portance of this salvation can not be over
estimated. If Kansas becomes slave State,
slavery will surely go westward, on the line
of the Pacific railroad to New Mexico, and
most likely to California. But, save Kansas
from this accursed fate, and il will be an i'm
pregnable barrier to the westward extension
of slavery, and. in all probability prevent the
territory south Of it from ultimately becoming
a slaveholding State.
''In connection with the exploration and
publication of facts useful to the enligrant, let
the proper business measures be taken, & then
announce that, in the govern -nent domain in
Kansas, with the extinction of the Indian
titles, there are millions OF acres which will
grow the best hemp in the world from the first
year, and, as hemp is not an exhausting crop,
it can be kept on the same land for thirty con-
secutve years without deterioration, but
one smart hand, with moving machine
rugged to cut the crop, can cultivate, gather,
rot and cart three or four miles, twenty acre
| hemp crop. Ten acres to the hand Is the
| stanCSgsd for Gave labor, and the crop is cut
with hand hook, at the rate of half an acre
! day, while moving machine rugged for the
| purpose, and used the last two years on SOL
itary hemp farm in Illinois, cuts ten acres in
day. Without labor-saving machinery. the
| best hemp farms in Western Missouri this
| year will net $40 to $50 profit to the acre,
| and the current price for hand breaking hemp
| is now $50 per ton. Let it be announced
to the emigrant that central hemp dressing es-
Establishments will be located in the territory,
around which the settlers will make their en-
tries of land and where their hemp will be
purchased in the stalk, at the market price,
less the cost of hand dressing.
If an emigrant aid fund of one million dol
lars can be raised at tie East, appropriate one
hundred thousand of it in equipping twenty
hemp establishments in Kansas, and, besides
being the most important agent in inducing
large free emigration, the outlay will pay rs
to 40 per cent, on the whole fund. One or
two machines in a place might do the first
year, with small portable engines which viii
be supplied with fuel by the shives Of the
stalks, and would furnish extra power for
saving and grinding"