The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-01

Minnesota, and Missouri, entered TINS IenWory
by crossing the Kansas river, about TIVE miles
above the city Of Kansas.
do not pretend 10 give full description OF the
natural resources Of the country. rather refer TO
the enclosed notes Of trip mp Kansa, rver, WHICH
this portion Of the Territory. viii connne myself
70 speak Of generd Appearances and genera
opinions. The hest portion Of the land IN the an
valley Ii held BY the Indians but almost every
acre Of this fine country Ia said to be susceptible Of
agricultural Improvement The climate Is general
y admitted to be remarkably serene and temperate,
beng well suited ID out door employment, but the
extensive prairies wlQespecially mako the railing
Of live stock the most profitable occupation.
The chief products are likely TO be wheat, oats,
and Indian corn. Wool growing Is also likely to be-
come a favorite emr loyment. The accounts respect
rect In those parts OF the Territory where timber
is lot In abundance, there are many substitutes to
replace IL. But the country seems generally to be
divided into timbered, opening and prairie. The
rolling prairie interpreted with openings mostly
prevails. The great range Of pasturage the prai
fien makes 1t an uncommonly fine grazing country.
sas there are innumerable smaller etreams and
branches running throughout the whole extent Of
the Territory, 80 that no portion Of 1t Is without
plentiful supply Of good and generally pure water.
The Eebraska Territory il less favorable for agr
cultural purposes. immediately, on the border of
the eetted Statessbe climate. however, is mild and
tenn crate but towards the mountains it gradually
| beck mes cold and bleak. But what Nebraska lacks
| In agricultural, il IL said to possess in mineral
| wealth.
AS az the political destiny of these now terri
tories u concerned, the general appearances are
| that neither of them viii ever como in as slave
| State.
| The coil OF Kansas may be very well fitted for
hemp, but even IL hemp should be cultivated
for the present Is almost out of the question: siuce
all settlers begin with the raising Of cornbut even
If by and by, hemp should be cultivated in Kansas,
+! this would not he sufficient to make slave labor
generally profitable. Nor can the few slaves who
| are brought here out OF spite by some stubborn
slavery propagandist, stamp 1t a. slave State
It Ia well understood here, that Kansas will be
essentially farming country. and that the hand
full OF slaves who DOW brought here are brought
here OF loes, not for any Industrial purposes,
but simply for the .fanatical and ridiculous pur-
pose Of giving to the North an exaggerated idea
Of their power to extend the institution. In the
instance Of Kansas the fanatcism Of the South for
universal slavery will wreck against the decree Of Pro
whence who. as If to a-sist all honest men in their
opposition to the iniquity, has unified thu soil Of
| Kansas or Nebraska for any labor witch Is not the
labor of freemeD. Let them therefore, bring their
slaves along. The miserable bravado will only hurt
the sbortAighted men who follow biindly their bad
ference TO their own benefit and to the benefit Of
their fellow men.
Their dictatorship in the territories, although
the Union, ard although sup soted BY the barracks
Of Fort LeayenwOrth and Fort Riley, and by all
these government employees whose conscience and
independence Of mind and thought are so elastic that
will nevertheless be only of shot duration. God
Almighty has decreed that Kansas and Nebraska
shall be tree soil. The soil is unfit for slave labor,
and those who attempt to force slave labor into Il,
will be ruined or crowded out by the superior
intelligence Of the emigrants from the East.
Those emigants have not arrived yet. In the
meanwhile the folly of the sham cmigrants who set
taiDly not free from mischief. They number al.
ready from three thousand to four thousand, chiefly
drawn from the most reckless characters of Mis-.
souri,. Mississippi and Kentucky. Men who cannot
every citizen, and who revel with delight in the
license which frontier life holds out to all lawless
tendencies. They are squatted all over the Terri.
tory marking ont tracts Of land, which they never
intend to cultivate, rowing about like ruthless
savsees. drinking like beasts swearing like furies,
converting savage meetings to proclaim slavery as
hesvenly blessing to q, so q slavery
tute and lntoxicatc the Indian women, and to drse
crate with their banditt presence the indispensable
beauty of the virgin soil Of Kansae.
Another OF their wild meetings Is to be held to
morrow at Walkarouge, the seat Of the Shawnee
Indians, forty miles northwest Of the city Of Kan
sas but the mischief Of all this is not as great as
| its Il oks.
Most Of those people are the very scum Of tho
worst class q SPECTATORS and REGULATORS Of their
respective communities. Here and there you find a
less indecent speculator from, Ohio or Illinois, but
even they don't intend settling here. AL they want
IS TO establish claim, and to make some money by
1cscling it.
In this scheme, however, they will find them
selves grievoUsly disappointed. No survey Of the
land has as yet taken place, and only the through
and through practical and experienced farmer
could, by 10 mere lock at it, tell whether 1t is
valuable.
the science Of farming. The majority of them have
no idea Of setting permanently A few of them in
teno to 90 go far to break the ground open, and
without even raising fences they endcavor to grow
| hr1f for ba N IN fho ami.
grants
In one word, they want to mako much money
with rs little work as possible; but recklcssness and
aziness bear within them the germs of destruction
ard all projects derived from such sources will fail
here rs they fail everywhere else.
But with all their vices, these men will be of be-
ncfit to the country: They pave the way for the
bona fdc settler; and although the way be spotted
with the mud OF their dirty passions, these spots
may soon be obterstcd, If, simultaneously with the
stream Of people from cast, and north, and south
tlE.y c .tian ministers, truly enlightened teachers
and truly honest and patriotic editors come to ncu
tralize the horrible influences unavoidably flowing
from the contact with the loose characters engrant
find here.
This is the time for patriotic and whoIesouled CT
tzens to lay sound foundations for the civilization
OF these new territories il they to be saved from
the religious, political, and social evils which
plainly perceptiblc in some of the new States, where
hands, who went out, not because they intended to
do good to The new country but because they never
could do anything good in the DID,
Let education Impress every child born in the new
Territory with horror Of the idea of traficking in
human beings, and LET the heart be educated stimuli
taneousy with the brains; let the Guild 30 trai ned
to love, and TO be kidd and generous as well as to
think how to make money, and TO be smart and 20
ahead.
Nothing is more common in the country than to
see the farmer, after having made money, look
down With contempt upon mis- poorer neighbor. Seeds
aristocratic feelings are thus sown-not In words
and manners, which are always cunningly savorins
OF democratic sweetness, but by facts and substance.
| aQgrandizenent.
The less intelligent and less wealthy feels not dc.
graded by being less rich and less clever; but princ
pally because the superior few separate themselves
fr the rest, instead of cleyating them, he sinks
doe into such discouraginQ view of his own capa-
| h1s;ca that iuefnod NJ sfn,u1o M a