Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-22
FROM KANSAS lERR1roRY,
WEsrpoRr, JACKSON Co., Mo

July IL, 1854.
To the Editor Of the National Era.
Presuming that you, as well as your numer-
GUS readers would read with pleasure line
from this far-of Territory, seat myself for the
purpose of keeping you posted on Kansas mat
tiers. Since writing to you last have spent
about ton days in the Territory, have been
over much Of the country south ct Kansas
river, and must say that havs viewed, to my
mind, some of the best as well as most beauti-
full places in the world. Prairies could not be
richer, nor scarcely better watered; it is true,
in places timber may be scarce, yet limestone
exists in abundance, enough to fence in the
whole country. Stone-coal am satisfied, ex-
lists in abundance. The want Of timber will
be but trifing, even where it does not exist.
migrants are pouring in from all parts of
the country, great majority Of whom are
non-slaveholders; yet great Ignorance prevails
among them on the Slavery question. Slave
holders finding, with all their threats and bull
lying, that Northern men could not be scared
or kept out Of the Territory, are now trying to
control the public sentiment, and contend that
we have no right to exclude slave property
from the Territory, but that it stands in pre-
oisely the same relation as other property. By
this means they are gaining foothold here,
which, / fear, it will be hard to rout them
from.
Would some one, who is capable, write small
tract showing the true relation between master
and slave, asserting that Slavery is local in
stitution, sustained only by positive law, and is
without foundation in common or natural law,
consequently cannot exist in Kansas without
positive enactment and the danger Of letting it
get foothold; and then write another, giving
a general comparison Of the slave and free
States, together with the expense Slavery is to
the Government--Iet these two tracts be circu-
lated over the Territory, and to my mind the
work is done. Will not some Of our Anti-Sla-
very-extension friends in the States take hold
of this matter, and furnish us something on
this subject at once whilst the public mind is
furnishing for food upon this subject?
It is really question which here takes pre-
cedence Of all others, and will our friends In
the States but furnish US the matter, VIC will
distribute it broadcast over the whole Terrific
ry, and wake up feeling that will die only
with Slavery itself.
To members Of Congress would say, all the
matter you can possibly send me, calculated
to throw light on Slavery, shall be faithfully
distributed among the Kansas settlers.
To emigrants from the North would say,
after you get into the slave States, believe
nothing you may hear about Kansas. Every
Misrepresentation imaginable will be told, to
discourage you from coming here; and even
after you arrive, find Anti Slavery men, as you
will learn nothing Of the Territory by inquiry
Yours for the right S. N. WooD.
10 The hotels on the island at Cape May
are nearly oil full, the number being estimated
at over 5000.
DIsGRAcEFuL.-A despatch from Buffalo, Of
yesterdays date, states that the paupers in the
aims house were discovered TO be suffering and
dying of cholera in large numbers, and that
flthiness and improper diet were found to be
the probable causes.
MARRIAGE.
On the goth instant, by the Rev. Mr.. Gross
Mr. SYLVESTER MUD to Miss JoANNAH PEAKE
both of this city.
DEATHS
Thursday afternoon, Mrs. MARGARET d.
LITTLE, wife Of Samuel /. Little.
On Wednesday evening, 10Th inst, at eight
o'clock, Mrs. SARAH CHAPLIN, relics of the late
Rev. Stephen Chaplin, d. d, aged 10 years.
On the 2lst instant, JOHN NJ. FARRAR, aged
81 years.
In this city, on the 10Th instant, WILLIAM
DENT, infant SON Of Major James Longstreet
U. S. Army.
At Cincinnati, Ohio, on the l3th instant
ANDREW JACKSON PORTER, late of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania