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

We an excellent idea Of the principal features Of
this portion Of the Territory ! viii conine myself
70 speak Of general Appearances and general
valley is held BY the Indians, but almost every
acre of this fine country Ia sad to be susceptible OF
agricultural Improvement The climate is general
ly admitted to be remarkably serene and temperate,
being well suited ID outdoor employment but the
extensive praires wilsospecially n,ske 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-
ing the scarcity of timber are not substantially COR
rect In those parts OF the Territory where timber
is lot in abundance, there are many substitutes to
replace II. But the country seems generally to 30
divided into timbered, opening and prairie The
rolling prairie interpreted with openings mostly
prevails. The great range Of pasturage on the prai-
fies makes 1t an uncommonly fine grszing country.
The water power IL admirable. Besides the Ka0-
sas there are. innumerabIe smaller streams and
branches running throughout the whole extent Of
the Territory. 80 that no portion Of II IL without
plentiful supply Of good and generally pure water.
The NebrasEs Territory is less favorable for agri
cultural purposes immediately, On the border Of
the settled Statessthe climate, however is mild and
TEMPERATE but towards the mountains 1t gradually
bect mes cold and bleak. But what Nebraska lacks
In agricultural, it IL said to possess in mineral
wealth.
As far as the political destiny Of these new terri
tories Il concerned, the general appearances are
that neither Of them will ever como in as slave
State.
The coil Of Kansas may be very we'll fitted for
hemp, but even il hemp shoula be cIlhvcted-which
for the present is almost out OF the question, snce
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 ont Of spite by some stubborn
slavery propagandist, stamp 1t % slave State
1t Is well understood here, that Kansas will DO
essentially farming country, and that the hand
full OF slaves who are now brought here are brought
here at a loss, 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 fanaticsm Of the South for
universal slavery will wreck against the decree Of Pro-
violence, who, as If to Assist all honest men in their
opposition to the inquiry, bias untitled tho soil Of
Kansas or Nebraska for any labor which Is not the
labor of freemeD Let them, therefore, bring their
slaves along. The miserable bravado will only hurt
the short-sighted men who follow blindly their bad
passions or their rotten political lesdt rs witrout
terence to their own benefit and to the benefit Of
their fellow men,
Their dictatorship in the territories, although
the Union ana aitSspeh sup ao.ted BY the barTacks
of Fort Leayenworth and Fort Riley, and by all
these government employees whose conscience and
independence Of mind and thought elastic that
they give way under the pressure Of scanty salary
will nevertheless be only Of shoit 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 it,
viii soon be ruined or crowded out by the superior
! intelligence OF the emigrants from the East.
| Those emigrants have not arrived yet. In the
meanwhile the folly Of the sham emigrants 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 reyel 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
savaees. drinking like beasts, swearing like furies,
converting savage meetings to proclaim slavery as
heavenly blessing, to denounce opponents Of slavery
extension criminals fit for the gallows, to prosti
tu.e and lntoxicate the Indian women and to drse-
crate with their bandtt presence the indispensable
beauty of the virgin soil of Kansas.
| Another OF their wild meetings Is to be held to-
morrow at Walklarougc, the seat Of the Shawnee
lndians, forty miles northwest of the city Of Kan
sas; but the mischief Of all this is not as great
/ its oks.
Most Of those people are the very scum Of the
worst class Of SPECTATORS and peculators Of their
] respective communities. Here and there you find
less indecent speculator from Ohio or Illinois, but
even they don't intend settling here. AL they want
- TO establish claim, and to make some money by
| fCkclng it,
| In this scheme, however, they will find them
selves grievous'y disappointed. No survey of the
and through practical and experienced farmer
could, BY tie mere lock at 1t, tell whether It is
valuable.
Most Of the fellows who arc here, are novices in
the science Of farming. The majority of them have
| no idea OF settling permanently few Of them in
teno TO 60 go far as to break the ground open and
without even raising fences they endcavor to grow
some wheat, for the purpose OF selling il to the emf
grants.
In one word, they want to mako much money
with as little work as possbe but recklcssness and
lazness bear within them the germs Of destruction
Toll fn;t
here rs they fail everywhere else.
But with all their vices, these men will be of be.
ncft to the country: They pave the way for the
bona de settler and although the way &c spotted
may soon be oblterstcd, If, simultaneously with the
stream Of people from cast, aud north, and south,
truly tan ministers, truly enlightened teachers,
and sIu b and RasOs eaos come 70
from the contact with the loose characters engrans
find here.
This is the time for patriotic and whole-soued c
tlzens to lay sound foundations for the civilization
the religious, political, and social evils which are
plainly perceptble in some Of the States, where
the puI it, press and education have fallen in bad
hands, who went out, not because they intended to
could do anything good in the old.
Let education Impress every chtld 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 90 trai
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 faimer, after having made some money look
down With contempt upon MS poorer neighbor. Seeds
% aristocratc feelings are thus sown-not In words
and MANNERS, which are always cunningly savorinS
as hard as iron, and az repulsvc a. Unsuitable self
| aegrandizenent
The less intelligent and less wealthy feels not de-
graded by being less rich and less clever; but princ
Daly because the superior few separate themselves
| fr I'm the rest instead Of clevating them he sinks
dos into such disc0uraging view Of his own capa-
bilities that, instead Of stimulating his power By
healthy ambition, he generally drudges his life mis-
! cisbly awsy.
| Let education in the new territories look to the
heart a. well AZ to the brains, and thus warmer fco
inss Of sympathy between man and man win be