New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-22
THE COLONIZATION OF KANSAS.
ADDRESS OF THE REV. MR.. STARR

sas last evening in the Tabernacle. His address was
Illustrated by large map of the country. He said:
| LADIES AND GEsTLExrs: appear before yo- to-
sight according 10 announcement to speak on the est-
lsment Of Kansas. do II With grsut deal of pleas
me, and az the same timewth groa: dSl Of regret;
with regret for the fact that the country Weeds to have
anybody speak on This subject and with pleasure be-
cause il II great qualification for me to- DO anything
that cen assst in getting the country night on this
question In the year ifsO IN The month 81 January
started from the State OF New York ia orer nd
place in the Wet where might labor Minister Of
the Gofpel Travelled some 5000 miles in lae West,
ard after locking n every direction and q. various
place., came 10 place wiieh seemed TO be God
town in almost every respect, and yets town
that was The center Of interest, and which recent
events have shown to be very near the center Of the
United States m more respects than one. Abcet 80
miles up the Missouri River from where tie state line
strikes IT, we come TO Fort Lenyenworth in kausas,
tie srr est miary station in the United States The
POPULATION of FoT Leavenworth s sometimes as high
20 LEO persons all lin; IN the the employ no OF tie
the other side Of the Missouri River Is the
City of Weston, the place which | chose fsr
ms locstion and wheP have resided ever since. Yos'
must Understand that every place in the State of Mis-
souri, that has 500 inhabitants is city with all the
coporste powers belonging to a city. Weston has
alou, 5000 Inhabitants. Platte City, six miles and
half ON Weston, he's only about 900 or 500 inhabit
tnts; ard Parkvie is another city some distance
dow the river owned by Mr.. Park, whose press was
tilown into the river few weeks since. In Platte
CITY resides the notorious David K AtchisOn, late
yice-presideni Of The United States, Attorney and
CounseIor-aLaw. There, too, lives Benjamin String
fellow. II is notorious place. that Platte County.
Persons have but slight idea Of the nature
of that country and its its Importance. Popu-
lation ALWAYS flows in the West the line
of tbcse great rivers. great many years ago
population had passed TO the old line of the State
Of Missouri. But Platte County has been open to
settlement only some seventeen or eighteen years.
Now next 10 St. Louis Platte County is the wealthest
County in Missouri. 1t has population Of 20 900,
and over 5000 slaves. went to Weston, and during
the first six weeks was there saw the California
emieraon Of 1850 pass over that County. The best
starting place for California Is that same Weston. All
the military roads center there. The soil of Kansas is
net as good ns the soil of Northern Missouri South
ern Iowa but il is better than Illinois, and as for
the State Of New-York it does not come any
nearer than about LOO miles of il. 1t Is
not level prairie When you get west of the Missouri
The country is broken. In none OF the cities OF the
Union that have Travelled In have ever seen coun
aid tel this story, men think the country will look
like New-YoIk or Massachusetts. Now the day that
Adsm made, he put into this world and 1t was
fixed up TO his hand but If you could take HIM and
pluup him down into the world after the curse had
come upon il, ard its uxuriance had grown up into
bushes, it would be something like putting man
into Kansas. Up to last year there were only
Indian Agents traders and sOdieB there; the re-
suit of il is that the country is just as new
os il was the frst year OF the world, Just
exactly and when talk about its being beautiful
country and fine country, you must not expect II
10 have such fine farms there are over IN Platte
County. Many emigrants have heard people say
was the finest country they ever saw, ana are sur
lrifed to find that there are no hne farms there
heard story Ia reference 70 ihat anoul M arr au
They were at work on the Big Blue, stream about
one hundred miles from the mouth OF the Kansas
He and this nun had been cutting logs to build log
house. The man said one day. -" don't Ike tins
country; amt going to stay" "Wby, what's the
matter said Park. 9" don't ike the way they 40 things
here; where came from they have bell that rings
in The morning for YOU to get up, and then rings
at break fast and we go breakfast and do MT have
20 think about eating again until the bell rings for
diner, and then it rings egnin for supper and then
apf In 10 90 TO bed But here IN this country man
has got get up when he wakes up then has cook
bis Jolk and homin hog and hominy they call It out
there and he has TO 90 out TO work, and work and
work TIL be gets so hungry that ne can u WORK any
longer ard ten he has 10 90 to work and cook some
more hog and hominy, and IL he wants to know what
tine it is he has to look at the sun and guess at
II. Now l don't like that are, and l. We got $40
and can get home TO Vermont on that. When
they cot through hauling that load of logs the YER
n OF ter inquired, (which is the way to Vermont T.
Park said that way, and the last he saw OF him was
on one Of the hills away TO the East. The truth Is,
we have too many settlers who have bells TO tell them
when to get up and when TO come to breakfast. But
IL n man goes out there he must expect 10 1--we on
bark and chips and for about year. and then he
will find that be has got farm oil about 2oe acres ano
cash income of thousand dollars year, and every
wear bis land is rising in value. II very sad thing
tbst we have lad go many emgrants so out there
who have not s'aid. When came down the Missouri
kiver six weeks ago there were SIXTY persoos coming
from Kansas. Tie trouble OF It is that after ali the
fuss and noise we MADE about what we were gongto
do we have done but very little. The instant the
KopsasNebroska Bill passed last year we had great
demonstration made at Boston, and they said they
were going 10 raise capital OF 3, 600 600 to send
90 COO men of grit and pluck to Kansas. L don't
know what has become of the 3, 900. But when
tley talked about IS 900, coo and 10000 men, that
sounded large to the people III the State
of Missouri, and this is Slave State, and men who
Si5nt want to have their property deprociate IS per
cent or SO in the of couple OF years, and they
took alarm at all this big talk, which by-the,way
didn't mean anything-was nothing but gas. That
Kind of talk led tie State of Missouri to says "Who Is
ooino 10 take that Kansas If they've got s5,OoO,
&" Geo. we've got $50 O00, 000 There's one thing at
any rate we can dove can out bully them and out
" feLt them" For they all have the idea that one
Southern man can whip fifteen NortherneTs. 4 nave
friends there who have Just this idea that Northerner
can't foht don't know how TO fight, hasn't got any
blood In them to fight, ard that one OF them
is eousl TO fifteen Northerners any time IN anything.
PeotIs at the North talk all the while about southern
cb;yairv as though there was not any there; they
tiuk that when they come to talk night up 10 SCUM
erper he viii come down. At the South they say the
NortLerrers do nothing but ges all The while. NOW,
10 nv mind they are both badly mistaken. Ia Inc
SontL lsre l. an utter recklsssness about which we
know nothing at the North they are always ready 70
falt at the drop of hat They had just as lief die
about fi1pence as about million of dollars when
tleir blood is up. Here at the North men are
of different temperament. In the o1uIn
tel man lie lies and he will say Il want apology
"or III Xii YOU, and he is taught to keep excited un-
iii lie viii Kill you. He1s at 6r North tel man lie
lies ard he is very much obliged to you, but until you
prove il il is merely assertion. suppose men
Norlb can fight just 90 wei men South, but when
Tie Norh thilks tie South have got 10 pluck they
sle inst badly mistnken. The Nostherner hghis
froma feeling Of du:y; the Southerner from e1c,'e