Kansas weekly herald., 1854-12-29
Oes,. Territory.

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| TRUTH FROM AN UNEXPECTED QUARTER.
That Kansas must become d slave State,
we have never doubted. The peculiar a
daptation of the soil and climate to slave la
Dor and the utter impracticability of reducing
our extensive prairie lands 10 profitable cul-
tivation by any system of hireling (miscall-
ed free) labor, utterly forbid any other con-
clusion. That Kansas at this moment pre-
sents more profitable field for slave labor
in the production of our great western staple
hemp, than any of the southern States do
in planting Cotton, is fact known to every
intelligent and unpreju JUDGED man in the Ter
ritory. H se
However palpable these facts are to every
unbiased man here, we have not expected
to see them admitted and proclaimed abroad
| by the leaders of the miserable dupes ofthe
Eastern Emigrant Aid Societies, their pro-
mitigation being lily calculated to promote
their mischievous schemes for abolitionizing
the Territory. But, we find ourselves for
once mistaken. A late number of the
Cleaveland (Ohio Herald contains most
doleful letter, from one J. H. Howe, the lea
der. of an Emigrant Aid band, that left
Cleayeland for IZansasson the 23d of Octo-
ber,, dated "Steanser on .1lissou1i River
(down), November 10Th, 1854"
After giving avery sad picture of the
great disappointment of those committed to
his charge, their entire ignorance of the
country to which they had been shipped,
and utter destitution of money, many of
them having little more than enough to pay
their passage to Kansas City," this Mr.
Howe, says:
81 made very thorough exploration of the
country 1t is one vast and almost unbroken
prairie, almost destitute of timber-but the soil
| is OF the richest character, Water abundant
and plenty of stone, with some evidences of coal
Time and money ariU enable men of the right
stamp to possess these lands, sWbdue Gqld cutiuate
them, and conUert the couat,y into O. Uery gcrden-
a farming pGradise.-Men lcithoat means can do
nothing there at present. THE COUNTRY IS
EMINENTLY ADAPTED TO SLAVE La
BOR. WEALTHY SHAREHOLDERS CAN
GO THERE WITH PLENTY OF .HELPp
DUNG AND CULTIVATEING THESE
LANDS.
s'They will do so-and despite all efforts vet
making means yet adopted by the Free States
to prevent it, KANSAS is SURE TO BE-
COME A SLAVE STATE!
The Emigrant AID Companies Gas they are
termed( are doing very little indeed to accom-
plish their object. They have encouraged hun
dreds of poor wellmeaning and honest people to
leave their homes and rush into the Territory.
without means to sustain themselves there who
must suffer everything but DEATH. and many of
them that If they remaIn-or leave the, country.
and go where they can provide for their families
Here is much truth compressed into
small space. and we cannot believe was de-
signed for publication by the writer, for we
find the letter was addressed to a private
individual, one MIR. John Reed, Of Oberlin,
Ohio, and doubtless designed for private
use-otherwise the presumption is, it would
have been addressed directly to the editor
of the Cleaveland Herald or some other pa
per. The facts stated, however, are none
the less deserving of extensive publica-
ton, as knowledge of them may prevent
many other poor but misguided individuals
from being duped as it seems Mr. Howe's
party and hundreds of others have been.
The truth is, SO apparent are the facts
stated to those who are here, that quite
number the most intelligent and sagacious
Northern men in the Territory-some even
from the State of Vermont itself-consult-
ing their own interest and the prosperity Of
our infant Territory, are among our most
decided pro-slavery citizens, and SO we doubt
t,all inthe course Of time will who are
not blinded by enthusiasm or fanaticism in
their devotion to a spurious philanthropy.
So mote it be.