The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-11-17
Missouri vs. Paupers.

Missouri vs. Paupers.
A low estimate places the amount Of
money expended in Western Missouri,
In consequence of the heavy Eastern
emigration to Kansas, at $1,000, OO0.-
This money has been expended for pro-
visions, cattle and horses, for labor with
teams, &c, and has become the eircula-
ting medium along the border, and pass
ed from hand to hand, adding wealth to
every person who has had the handling
of it. Whilst the commercial cities, and
in fact all parts of cur extended country.
have felt the pressure of the money mar
ket, times have been comparatively easy
in Western Missouri. Provisions have
commanded double the price ever known
before, and home cash market has been
found for everything produced.
There is not an intelligent person in
the country who is not willing to ascribe
this condition of things to its proximate
cause and if he will divest his mind of
party prejudice, he will thank heaven for
so pleasant result. But while the facts
exist, and are obvious to the casual OBJ
server, and the treasures are literally roll
ing into the laps of our neighbors, they
are stigmatizing the people of Kansas
those who have saved them from bank
ruptcy during the general crash-with
being ''paupers, and the filth and scum
of the eastern cities" Their press have
been profuse in language of this descrip-
ton. and it has been caught up and re-
peated by the people, and passed from
lip to lip, until many have almost been
induced to believe the statement true, al
though the gold of these same paupers
We're jingling in their pockets while they
repeated the slanderous allegations.
There are now in Kansas between 35,-
600 and 10000 actual settlers, and these
are increasing at the rate of 1000 per
week at the present writing. Seven
eigbths of this population are ranked by
our neighbors as "Abolitionists," and
all who are classed under this head are
repu6ed by them as "paupers.
These paupers are preparing, as rapid
" as their circumstances will admit, to
place themselves in a condition in which
they can be independent of those thus
disposed to SANDER them. Many of them
have grown good crops of corn aud po-
tatoes during the last year; and it is
estimated that enough of the former has
been raised to meet the home demand
the present season. Ifsuch has been the
ease Che past season, with the innumera-
BE difficulties which surrounded them,
what viii be the case the ensuing year,
when thousands of acres have been fitted
for cultivation The middle of May
last found us with scarcely an acre broke
with the plow, and hardly a rod of fence.
How changed are the circumstances to-
day, and how much easier will it be for
the pioneer during the ensuing season.
Our Missouri neighbors may enjoy
themselves in their abusive eplthets Of
us. While they are doing so we will en-
deavor to place ourselves in position al
as early day as possible. by which we
will be entirely independent of them
They will soon find that instead of being
the consumers of their produce We shall
have heavy surplus quantity for sale
and the rich harvest which they have
reaped by furnishing government sup
plies, for overland trains to Utah an'
California, and to the pioneers to tn
Territory, viii be supplied by the pau
pers whom they have been so liberal il
stignatizing. Then they may seek 81
Louis, New Orleans, or any other part @
the world for market, and learn tina
their own insulting treatment of the PEG
pie of Kansas has had powerful effec
in bringing about the result which coole
headed men in their own State most dep
recate.