The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31

AS~S4Aes A4ANA4 oiilNS VIC A<sfS OSSAA t-a
the Territory. Everywhere the roads are
smooth. dry. and hard but we do expect
a different state of things when the spring
rains begin to fall. The atmosphere is
clear, healthful, and invigorating. We
have in the sun an almost constant COM
panion. An Indian-like summer seems
10 prevail most of the time through the
fall and winter. Up to the 26th of Janu-
ary, our winter hadnot set in. February
/ has given us some cold weather, accom-
panied with sharp and piercing winds,
and for few days only was the ther-
mometer below zero. The weather is
now mild, (20th March, balmy as May,
and soon the plows will be started. Al
together, We deem the climate much mild
er than the southern part of the State of
Ohio. But as there is nothing perfect in
this World, we have also to state that we
are subject to strong and high winds,
which sometimes are very unpleasant, but
seldom cold.
Lands In Kansas are not vet purchase
bic. They are acquired by making a
residence on them and improving them,
which entities the occupant to enter them
at government price in preference to any
other person. The first settler on aquar-
ter sectionis the one that will be permitted
to pre-empt. This occasions the erecting
of cheap and temporary houses, which
must give way to more costly and COM
modious ones as soon as the lines are run.
The timbered lands in this part of the
Territory are nearly all claimed, but tim
Der can be obtained reasonably, and there
is yet much timbered land in the south
and western parts of Kansas unclaimed.
We have plenty of choice prairie that
is waiting to welcome the newcomer with
her blandest smiles and gayest attire, pre-
senting everywhere cheerful face and
bosom, ready and willing to yield back
with ample interest everything confded.
There is enough for all that may choose
to come for the next three years, and we
believe that all may be suited, save only
in the matter of timber. Nevertheless,
it is important to come soon, as no man
ever made anything by delay in investing
in a new country.
Asmanypersons of all classes, from the
day laborer to the capitalist, may be look
in. Kansas-ward, and all anxious to know
what their chances will be, we would
simply say-if you are able and willing
to qOOrk, you may safely come, though ii
you have not dollar when you get here
yol can lay the foundation of competen-
cy, if you like; or you can be thrifLless
and penniless here as easy as you can at
home. 10 the man of moderate means
We would say, come along. You can
thrive best when in race with even COM
panions, free from that discouraging dis
tance in point of wealth that exists in most
of the old States.
To the capitalist we need scarcely say
word; for what moneyed man is there
who is not aware of the proceeds of cap
ital invested in new States. Kansas is
to be settled, and that more densely than
any other western State. Ali other States
have been in market with their lands be-
fore they have been much settled, and
large tracts have for years been precluded
from settlement by the unholy appetites
of land gourmands.
Not so with Kansas. The sordid gripe
of speculation cannot fasten upon one
acre of her soil, for (thanks to the pre-
emption law long ere her lands will be
exposed to public sale each quarter Sec
ton of desirable land will have its occu-
pant. Then imagine a country like Kan
sas, with yeoman upon every quarter
section of choice soil, and what State
can produce like spectacle. Will not
suchacountry require innumerable towns
and cities, the germ of whose great
ness may now be planted by any eapi-
talist disposed to accept the proffered
boon? Mills and factories Of all kinds
required in new countries win pay well
as soon as settled With saw-mills we
cannot be oyer-stocked.
Stock-raising. either on large or linn
tied scale, can be made profitable here,
from the factthat the price of all kinds
of stock. compared with the expense of
raising them, viii contrast favorably with
any other State.
In short, there is an opening in Kan
sas for all matter-of-faet and operating
men that can take hold and lift Justify at
the wheel. But, above all other things,
we would caution the blanc mango nurse
lings of feather beds to eschew Kansas.
She has suffered enough in repute.
But we wish to speak further ofthe fu-
ture prospects of Kansas. 1t needs not
much prophetic ken to predict for her
a glorious future That the present emf
grants in Kansas are superior class oi
| persons to those who usually pioneer new
countries, cannot be denied by any tina.
are acquainted with the facts. Time was
when stolid men occupied the frontier
but now intelligence and sagacity seems
first to plant itself on the silent western
prairie. To our Ohio friends, we would
say, have no fears of plunging your
selves into barbarism or obscurity in COM
ing to Kansas. Lying near the center Of
the destined eonfederacy, soon she will
pass from border to middle State, hav-
ing the Missouri On one side, a anavigable
river through the interior, and almost in
direct tcomnunicationby railroad with the
Atlantic cities, lying along the great high
way of the continent from ocean to ocean,
/ who can doubt for moment her destiny
We are neither, then, out of the world
nor on the borders of oblivion. Many
of you remember the hardships, tolls, pri-
vations Of the early settlement of Ohio,
and instinctiyely shrink from the pros.
pect OF enduring them again in new
country. But new countries are moi
settled new as they were then. Instead
OF the slow process of years, you find
yourself surrounded by neighbors the
first season; and the revolution of sin.
gle month aceomplishes as much as the
revolution of a year did in Ohio in early
times Your children will scarcely
have time to unpack their books ere the
scheelhouss viii bs ready 10 receive