The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-11-08
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Wakarusa, Kansas Territory. It is about
the size of our " paper, and printed
on new type. It is we'll filed with in
teresting reading matter in regard to the
Territory, and is edited with decided
ability. We advise all those wishing
information.in regard to Kansas Terri
tory, to subscribe for the Herald. Terms
81 per annum, in advance. Address,
G. w. BRowN & Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Herald is devoted to the cause
of freedom, and the editor manifests a
firm determination to stand upon his
rights and maintain them. He says -
" Our great object is to make Kansas u
free State; and to that end we shall Ia
Dor by encouraging emigration. 1t is
not our purpose to engage in a crusade
against our southern brethren, nor upon
their institutions, so long as confined
within their legitimate sphere. Our
field is KANSAS, here we shall labor, and
here shall erect anew the altar of LIB
ERTY." Speaking ofthe meeting at Wes-
ton, Missouri, at which certain citizens
of that place proffered their assistance in
removing any Emigrants who might go
to Kansas under the auspicies of the EN-
igrant Aid Societies of the North, the
Editor talks after this fashion :-"We
have no purpose of waging a war on Mis-
souri,, or of invading any of their guar
anteed rights, neither shall We submit
to any invasion of ours; and as to being
"reneoUed," from this Territory, we
have only to say our business detains
us. here, and it will be exceedingly in
convenient for so many to leave at the
same time consequently we shall wait
our own convenience before perpetrating
such a piece of folly. The truth is, the
country is too rich, Eand quite too valua-
BILE to be surrendered to any "remov-
ing" party which may come among us,
desiring the homes we have selected along
the banks of the Kansas and its tributa-
ries, and zee shall not giOe them up.
That fact may as well be understood at
the outset" After reading the above,
who can entertain a doubt that Kansas
will be a free State? 2
We regret that we have not space to
give extensive extracts from the paper
before us. We have only room for the
following well written article, which is
replete with information which cannot
fail to interest our readers:
SETTLE IN KANsAs.-Five hundred
thousand settlers can be accommodated
with the best lands in the world by To-
eating Immediately in this Territory
The soil is of the richest character, vary
ing from eighteen inches to five feet in
depth; the climate is salubrious, the
thermometer rarely or never rising above
los degrees in the shade. In Penn
~sylvania, where we resided during the
last summer, it stood for days in success
sion at LOG deg. from ten o'clock in the
forenoon to three in the afternoon. The
winters are comparatively mild with US,
though subject TO frequent changes, on
account of the high altitude of the coun-
try. The productions of Missouri,
Kentucky and Ohio, grow here in great
abundance. Apples, peaches and pears
seem we'll adapted to the soil. Mr..
WALKEP. the provisional Governor of
the Wyandot Indians, and formerly
from northern Ohio, says he raises
annually the most luscious peaches he
ever saw. Melons grow of mammoth
proportions.
"The ag~riculturist who seeks a new
home in the West should not stop to
make a location until he has visited this
Territory. The organized emigration of
the world isnow turned towards it, and
it possesses advantages on this account
which are not offered by any western
State.
"In December last, the Superintendent
ofIndian affairs for the Indian territory,
in his annual report, said, in substance,
"Aside from the government agents,
troops and missionaries, there are not
all that region lying west of the Mis-
souri,, and embraced. in the limits of
Kansas and Nebraska. but ten months
nave passed since then, and now, instead
of a population enumerated by a mono
syllable, there are many thousands set
tied all over the country, and hundreds
are pouring in daily, selecting and
stalking out farms, on which they pur-
pose locating with their families.
"We confidently predict that in less
than a year from this time, we shall
number fully one hundred thousand
souls. The times indicate it. In all
the northern States indeed, in nearly
every county, there are movements
Kansas-ward, and frequently the num-
bers are so great as to deteriorate the
value of property, particularly real es-
tate. And whynot =? Lands in many
parts of the north, not favorably located
for a market, or peculiarly productive,
command from thirty to fifty and seven
'ty-ive dollars per acre.
"Here the government price is but one
dollar and twenty-five cents, and the title
deeds are from the government, hence no
question as to their validity.
"The cost of turning over the prairies
ranges from two to three dollars an acre.
The first crop-usually of corn-will
pay the expenses of culture /; then the
farmer with his hundred acres of the
richest and in the world, perfectly sub
dued, and capable of raising any species
of vegetation, finds it costing him but
from three hundred and seventy-fve to
four hundred dollars. It is in a condi-
tion which twenty years of hard labor in
a timbered country cannot make it and
he finds himself enabled to produce a
luxuriant crop of vegetation with nearly