The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-16

published at Leavenworth, Kansas Terrific
ry. 1t contains several interesting articles,
to one of which we desire to call the especial
attention of our readers.
The article commences by declaring that
the editor had never doubted that Kansas
must become a slave State the peculiar adap
tation of the soil and climate to slave labor
and the utter impracticability of reducing its
extensive prairie lands to profitable cultiva-
ton by any system of hireling lmiscalled
free labor, utterly forbidding any other con
clusion. THAT Kansas" says the Herald
"at this moment presents more profitable
field for slave labor in the production our
great western staple, hemp, than any of the
Southern States do in planting cotton, is
fact known to es cry intelligent and unpreju
diced man in the territory
But the Herald had not expected to see
these facts admitted and proclaimed abroad
by the leaders of the miserable dupes of the
Eastern Emigrant Aid Societies. "But in
this says the Herald, 1--WE find ourselves
| mistaken. A late number of the Cleveland
| (Ohiol Herald contains most doleful letter
from one j. FL. Howe the leader of an Emf
grant Aid band, that left Cleveland for Kan
| sas, on the 23d of October, dated Steamer ON
Missouri River, down,l November 10th,
| 1854
After giving a very 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 restitution of money, many of them
having little more than enough to pay their
| passage to Kansas City" this Mr.. Howe
says:
II made 3 very thorough exploration OF the
try. 1t is vast and almost unbroken prsirie al
most destitute of tinber-but the soil is OF the rich
est charseter Water ebundan and plenty of stone,
Slime and money nil enable men Of herigAt stamp
10 posess these lands sabdue and ca!irste them, and
conreit The country into pery gdrdea-a farming pa
resent ,"s The CoGNTRY IS EMiNENTLY
ADAPTED TO SLAVE LABOR. WEALTHY
P PIE nr'i OF HELP HE AND Me Ans AMI MAE
MONEY. BY sUBDUING AND CULTtvATING
'They will do so--and despite all efforts yet
ding, or means vet adopted by the Free States 70
g TIesysSTnt it sa KANSAS IA is SURE TO BECOME
| THE Emigrant Aid Companies las they term
ed are doing very little indeed to accomplish their
i
| well-meaning and honest people leave their
homes and rush into the Territory, without means
to sustain themselves there, who must suffer every
thing but death, and many of them that If they re-
| maln-or leave the country and so where they can
| provide for their fames'
In another column Of the paper we find
another cheering sign of the progress OF
sound sentiments in Kansas. The Herald is
disputing with another editor III Kansas as to
which published the. first pro-slavery paper IN
Kansas. This is one of those Straws which
show, in the most unerring manner, the di-
rection of the tide.
| Another fact The Herald says that the
| facts it has stated in regard to the peculiar
| adaptation of Kansas for slave labor, are so
| apparent to its citizens that quite d number
| of the most intelligent and sagacious North
| ern men inthe Territory-some even tromthe
| State of Vermont itself-consulting their own
interest and the prosperity of the infant Ter
| ritory, are among the most decided pro-
slavery citizens Of Kansas.
In this connection, we may mention q let
ter published by the Washington Sentinel
addressed by General Stringlellow, of Mis-
souri, to several members of the House Of
Representatives, who applied to him by letter
for such information as they desired, rela-
tive to the settlement and ultimate destiny of
the new Territory of Kansas. The facts and
opinions contained in Gen. Stringfellow's let
ter are stated to be of an authentic charac-
ter. He is said to be not only gentleman
of great intelligence but from his long resi-
dence in Missouri, just on the border of Kan
sas, enjoys opportunities of acquiring infer
nation accessible to but few
Gen Stringfelow states it as his settled opi,io,
that Kansas must and will be slave State Ths
he gives for this opinion are Of the most CON
Vincing and satisfactory character He saws that
farms must of necessity be made in the prars. thai
the timber for fencing and fuel is scarce and 64icnf
TO obtain; that il will have to be hauled bv means Of
teams from distance, and in cases from snch
distance to render fencing costly for ttI sJds
Again. be says that the greatest difficulty ia the rst
cost OF breaking the prairie This requires two bsnds
and at least six yoke of If hired il woud cost
at least three dollars acre; but cannot be hired
IN Kansas for yesrs, since every man there " i'll have
his own land to break Each settler therefore r1ust
have his own team and his own ploughmen These
things have already driven the abolition NJ
the Emisrant Societies out of Kansas in large nun
oers and these things show connection with others
stated by Gen Strlngfeliow the great need of slave
labor in settling Kansas