Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-11-30
The Kansas Settlers.


The following article upon emigration TO
Kansas Territory, which we copy from the
St Louis Herald of the 9th inst, embodies
to our mind the most sensible views we have
yet read on that subject in the newspapers.-
We think it should be copied by the Press
generally
Advice from Kansas still reports large
emigration into that territory Nissourians
are constantly moving in TO lay their claims
there, while numbers from Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and Indiana, are making their. homes
alongside of them. New England and more
northerly emigrants, including those sent out
by Aid Societies, form, it is supposed, about
the fifth part of fthepopulation. 1t isremark
ed, however, of the emigrants last referred
to that they turn back disguised and disheart-
ened-in larger proportion than the cmigrants
from other quarters. We are not surprised
at this circumstance The emigrants from
the Western States are true pioneers. They
are in the most part hardy farmers who have
been used TO things in the rough. and are pa
tient under toll and exposure. 1t Is only
such that can stand up against the privatlons,
diseomforts and hardships incident TO break
ing in new country. They endure solitary
labor without murmur. The excitement of
crowds, gossip. lectures and discussions, is
not necessary to their existence. But aforced
emigration of such materials as would be
likely to offer to the Enigrant Aid Societies
from the restless, excitable inpatient, mercu-
rial part Of the population of New England
village, is of quite different character
The appearance en- the Missouri river of 2
company of these aid emigrants, with band
of music, fddling and dancing on their way
to the promised land, remind us Of a similar
apparition in Louisiana, some ten years ago.
At that time company Of French Socialists
were marching musically on their way for
Texas Perhaps they thought they were
about to realize the fable of 0rpheus, and to
melt down the clods of Texas without plow
or harrow, simply, through the sweet sounds
elected by drawing cat-gut over horse halr.
| OF that company there is nothing left but the
memory of their musical tour. Texas never
had the benefit of their labors, nor they the
honor of developing Its resourcesg
Emigrants focking to q country entirely
new. with the faintcst idea of making holi-
day sport of telling timber. breaking up prai-
ries. building cabins, fighting fever and ague
or winter typhoids, with the doctor ten miles
of. the blacksmith twenty, and the mill thirty
with evry other accommodation equally unhan-
DIV. and no chance to talk with aneighbor un-
less by miles walk on purpose, win int
themselves egregiously mistaken 1t is ;
kind of life so utterly opposed to anything
known in the cities and villages of long set
tied countries that we are not surprised tc
find some of those who have never before beer
out of those coties and villages, content witt
a very brief trial oft.
| Still. opinions differ as to the question
whether slavery win be permitted in Kansas
/ In the territory itself, and among the settlers
/ very little is said about slavery Nearly al
there feel that the discussion of it would, b.
leading 10 useless agitation. be injurious