The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-11
APro-slsvsrx Letter.

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| A Pro-slsvery Letter.
| LAwRENcE, X. T., Aug. 7th, 1856.
Mr.. EDITOR While others are so
6usily engaged in writing to their friends
in the North. of the political advantages
to be gained by home in Kansas, per-
NIT me to address word to the men of
both the North, East and South, of the
pecuniary advantages TO be gained by q
home in Kansas; and to call particular
attention to our own flourishing city OF
Lawrence.
Our town is beautifully situated on
gentle eminence, in the midst of one Of
the most delightful prairie countries on
the face of the globe. The soil of the
country is very rich and deep, being on
bed of limestone, which insures its
permanency. The country is well aLap-
led to the growth of corn. while all kinds
of small grain can be raised in abundance.
1t viii also yield fine crops of hemp.
which makes it particularly inviting to
men from the South, who have slave
property; and can make it profitable to
engage in that lucrative branch of inter-
| nal commerce.
But its greatest advantage is in stock
raising our boundless prairies, covered
with long and nutricious grass, affords
excellent pasture for thousands of cattle,
and mules, six months in the year. 1t
has several advantages over the ''far
famed Platte Country in Missouri" be-
| ing further south, il is not so cold in win
ter for stock, and we have grass two
months longer in the summer-one month
earlier, and one month later-besides our
prairies being high, dry and rolling. We
have delightful breezes Of pure and
healthful air in the summer, rendering
that "Plague of the West" ehiNs, almost
unknown in our country. A ramble over
our prairies in the summer months is one
of the most delightful sights that mortal
eyes ever beheid. The landscape, as far
as humans vision extends. resembles q
vast ocean of waving bloom, covered
with tall green grass, and beautiful flow
ers, of every hue, from the delicate dew
drop to the crimson rose, plain, yariega-
ted, striped, spotted and speckled, whose
delightful fragrance fills the air, which
makes stranger imagine himself in the
midst of some grand flower garden.
This is the only country which ever
saw that suits the description of the
''Land of Canaan - land Glowing
with milk and honey" The vast plains
which every where abound, covered with
wild-fowers, where the little .sbusy Bee''
may Gull the sweet nectar in such guam
tity that it might flow in streams and riY-
ulets and the rich, green grass on which
the .'cattle on thousand hills might
herd, affording enough of rich and pure
milk, that ght run in rivers through
GU. the landS4Fuly, it may be said, "a
land flowing with milk and honey"
Our town is also worthy of such
country Its inhabitants, in point of
morals, can compare favorably with any
town in the United States, It's population
at this time being about eight hundred.
We have nine lawyers, eight doctors. and
about the same number of ministers, so
that we have regular divine service every
Sabbath. three good boarding houses.
and one large and splendid hotel. in the
course of erection, and now nearly COM
pleted, fifty feet front by seventy feet
deep, three stories high, with basement
which, when finished, will be ono of
the finest buildings west of st. Loais;
three printing Offices. Free Dirters D
four steam saw-miils, three IN full opera
ton, snd enc IN the course of erection;
four dry goods stores two grocery snd
provision stores and nearly. every class
of Mechanics is represented in our city,
and are busy at work 10 erecting houses
for the coming winter. We have 8 post
Office. anda tri-weekiy mail stage running
to Kansas City. Missouri, carrying pass
engers to sad from that city. Although
our country, nine months AGO, was a
bowling wilderness, iahsbited only by
The deer and wolf and the few strsgeliDc
Indians scattered over It's extended sur.
ace, It now has the appearance of xn
,id settled country, houses and farms
dotted over the boundless pEairies, With
'arge crops Of corn, promising rich re-
ward 20 the industrious and entsrprisirso
srmer. Our town dificrlfies having
BEEN anieahlz settled, our citizens ere
beginning tad1proEe In , manner uor-
ny the spirit of the age
Peemigralts at adissance, bsth North.
East sad South, who wish to get home
or themselves and their ebfl3sen IN q