Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-22

the East, and Illinois, Indiana and Ohio Will
double the emigration from the East. IL is
important that there should be no delay in the
preparatory steps for calling attention to the
inducements to emigrate to Kansas. lntelll-
gent persons from the western partof Mlssou-
ri, who have been over the territories, de-
scribe the country in the valley of the Kan
sas and Immediately west of the Missouri, as
of unsurpassed beauty and agricultural rich
ness, with an abundance Of coal, stratiied
limestone and clay for building; while the
frequent pure springs, gushing from both free
and limestone rock, with the great purity of
air from the elevated plains stretching tow
ards the Rocky Mountains, ensure health to
the inhabitants to remarkable degree. The
only drawback, as new country is found in
the comparative scarcity of timber, of which,
however, thore is suficiency for some years.
For fuel, building and fencing purposes, the
deficiency is fully compensated by the sup
plies of coal, clay and limestone and the o.
age orange, or toiS dar,-the cheapest fenc-
ing material in the worlds there indigo
nous Yet the wide spread publication of all
this may not save Kansas to freedom, and the
Importance Of this salvation can not be over
estimated. If Kansas becomes a slave State,
slavery will surely 60 westward, on the line
OF the Pacific railroad to New Mexico, and
most likely to California. Rut, save Kansas
from this accursed fate, and it will be an i'm
prcgnabe barrier to the westward extension
OF slavery, and, in all probability, prevent
the territory south OF it from ultimately be-
coming slaveholding State.
q" In ennnaaiion- with the. exploration and
publication of facts useful to the emgrant, let
the proper business measures be taken, and
then announce that in the government do
main in Kansas, with the extinction Of Indian
titles, there arc millions of acres which will
grow the best hemp in the world from the
first year, and, as hemp is not an cxhaustlng
crop, it can be kept on the same land Tor thlr-
ty consecutive years without deterioration.
That one smart hand, with moving machine
rigged to cut the crop, can cultivate, gather,
rot and cart three or four miles, Il twenty
acre hemp crop. Ten acres to the hand is the
standard Tor slave labor, and the crop is cut
with hand hook, at the rate of half an acre
day, while a moving machine, rugged for
the purpose, and used the last two years on a
solitary hemp farm III Illinois, cuts ten acres
in a day. Without labor-saving machinery,
the best hemp farms in Western Missouri this
year will net $40 to $50 to the acre, and the
current price for hand breaking hemp is $50
per ton. Let it be announced to the emf
grant that central hemp dressing establish
ments will be located in the territory, around
which the settlers will make their entries of
and, and where their hemp will be purchased
in the stalk, at the market price, less the cost
Of hand dressing.
"If an emgrant aid fund Of one million
dollars can be raised at the East, appropriate
one hundred thousand Of it in equpping TWEEN.
ty hemp establishments in Kansas, and, be-
sides being the most importantagcnt in induc-
lug large free emigration, the outlay will
pay % to 40 per cent on the whole fund
One or two machines in place might do the
first year, with small portable engines which
will be supplied with fuel by the shiyes of the
stalks, and would furnish extra power for
saving and grinding"