The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-24

ate amount OF our capltal anu aOor IS
expended in travelling round this wild
ground, instead of going through and
over it, leaving the traces of teeming
and abundant growth behind The tide
of migration which advanced with such
rapid steadiness from the Atlantic to the
Kansas, and from the Pacific to the Sier-
ra Nevada, halts visibly on the eastern
and western threshold of the intervening
wilderness. The shining metal which
drew the settler over to the California
coast fails on the summit of the range,
and the navigable rivers which carried
the steamboat westward to and beyond
st. Louis are wanting beyond. Butwhat
is greater obstacle than all, the fertility
of the soil, which carried the restless Yam
kee from clearing to clearing, ceases at this
remarkable limit, and with it the arena on
which the lessons of Yankee tradition have
hitherto ayailed us. 1t has hitherto been
an open question whether we are more oI
an agricultural or more of trading na-
ton, but that We are either or both was
universally conceded. But here there is
no basis either for commerce or for agri-
culture; no natural highways and nc
natural fertility. Our skill at clearing,
improving, swopping, and bargaining, nc
longer sufices; we must either confess
that there is one thing, after all, which
the Yankee cannot do, or show that we
have the talents necessary for nomadie
life as well as fora SETTLING" one. Plains,
herbage, thin soils, and piping winds
command us to be Tartars. The horse,
the tent. and perhaps the camel must take
their place as national emblems, beside
the plow, the loom, and the anvil.
We have shown ourselves as a people
equal TO the fortune of gold hunting and
mining. Why may we not adapt our
selves to the partial nonladic habits ne.
eessary TO the successful prosecution
of sheep and cattle husbandry on the
plains?
| The government must soon adopt some
new course of policy IN reference to The
Indians that inhabit these desolate regions
Wild game, On which they have hereto
fore subsisted, is becoming scarce, ant
they must either starFe, become robbers
or learn to work. Why may they net b
taught to become shepherds I? The easy
wanderinglife which the pursuit require
is in unison with their natural nomadit
habits.
It is shocking to humanity to have Il
admit that these red men must be exter
minated. Shall We not make an effort t
succor and to save them from extinction
In this way we may save the poor In
dams from determination, and also la,
the foundation of the future vast wealt
of animal husbandry which time mus
ultimately develop in that now vast an
barren region.
These vast plains, seemingly barren
have been placed there by Providence 70
wise and useful purposes, and they affor
another illustration of the truth of tn
remark made by De Tocqueyille, that th
Mississippi valley is the most magniicen
dwelling place ever prepared on earth b
! God for mans abode.
Machinery in Farrning--Its Necessity
1t is not enough that farmers ava
themselves of all advantages which chem
istry affords in its application to thei
art; it is not enough that they learn t
save as much as possible of the manure
made on their premises, and the bes
method of applying these, and also pur
chased and specific manures it is nc
enough that they should know at whs
season and to what depth their soil shoul
be cultivated. They must perform a
many of the operations of farming b
machinery as machinery can be made
perform to advantage.
There is no other way in which ayr
culture can keep pace in respectability
pleasure, and profit with other arts
Without this expedient, it will be out
stripped by them, and sink steadily i
comparative rank.
By machinery, as we use the wor
here, wemean all Observation-Disclosures
/ which can be substituted for manual l.
Dor, and combined with manual labor S
, as greatly to increase Its productiveness
and the policy which we recommend il
cludes, also, animal labor. and as NOR
powerful eo-opera.or with it.
So far as a horse or OK can be made {
; do the work of FIVE men, the horse or o
earns the product of FIVE mems labor fo
the employer. If one man cultivates a
much corn, and cultivates it as vel
with one horse attached to cultivation
as his neighbor cultivates with ten hoe
: in the hands of ten men, it is easy I
see which is travelling fastest on the roa
5 to wealth.
: So in cutting grass, in planting an
: harvesting grain, in shelling corn, and
: various other operations on the farm, m:
: chimes can do the work for small pt
f eentage of the cost of manual labor
Aassricaa Courier.