Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1855-01-12

====
This will, doubtless, seem an extravagant es-
innate; yet the quotations of the markets will
show that the maximum prices are less than
the present market prices. Hemp has sold
during the past season for $3.50 per ton. Wheat
is worth ST Is per bushel, and corn So per
barrel. The yield, too, is often greater than the
highest. But it is not less true that the greatest
yield and highest price are not often together.
My object is rather to show the least yield and
the lowest price. Negroes-feld hands-have
hired for some years in Western Missouri at
prices which could not be paid, if their labor
were less valuable than as above stated. Men,
at from $3.50 to $3.50; women, at from $50 to
$50 per annum, the hirer paying all expenses
and losing all time Of Sickness the owner at
no charge. A woman, with two children, will
bring from $50 to $50; and girls, from ten to
thirteen years of age, from $40 to $50 per an
mum. now pay for one, about ten years of
age, Sc per month by the year. ] need hardly
say that negroes must be healthy and pro6ta-
bic, or farmers could not pay such prices.
3. is ii safe to take slares to Kansas no1?
OF this there can be no doubt. They are
less likely to escape than from Missouri; are
further from the underground railroads and
hiding places Of the Abolitionists; while the
people of the Territory are more on the alert,
and watch more closely those who would steal
them.
From the law there can be no danger.
Slaves are now, and have been for years, in the
Territory, so that slavery, in fact, is already
established. i need not say to you that no
lawyer, unless he be an Abolitionist, will pre-.
tend that any positive law is necessary TO make
slavery legal But, "to vindicate the truth Of
history" ought to say, that the veriest school.
boy must know, as a matter OF history, that al
though slavery existed in all the old States, in
not one was a law ever enacted to establish il.
Laws have been passed recognizing its exist
ence after il had an existence; never TO estab-
lish it before il existed. Ithas been abolished,
not By the repeal OF laws establishing or per
hitting il, but by laws positively and expressly
prohibiting it. Without such prohibitory laws,
Il would now exist in every State in the Union.
Until such laws are enacted by some compe
tent Legislative power, slavery is legal in Kan
sas Such laws will never be enacted What
ever might have been the result If Abolition.
lists had not attempted to force the people Of
the Territory, their movements have fixed
the fact" They cannot harm us now.
Land Offices are already established, and
the land will be surveyed Immediately; they
will be offered for sale in some IL or l6 months
at most. In the mean time occupancy gives
| title by pre-emption to l60 acres. When ready
| for SALE the pre-emptor enters il at one dollar
and twenty-five cents per acre. We can esti-
mate its then value by the present value Of
| land in the border counties Of Missouri. In
the counties on the Missouri river, adjoining
| Kansas land is worth from $40 TO $50 per
acre. In Platte, the county in which reside,
land within fifteen miles Of Weston, cannot be
bought for less than $25, while much Of il will
bring $50 per acre There is no reason why
land separated from ours by river, or only an
| imaginary line, should be less valuable To
distance Of $50 miles west, the soil is but
| little, if any inferior to that Of Missouri It's
| great staples must be hemp and tobacco
articles for the cultivation Of which negro
labor is almost indispensable. | need hardly
say that the grains and grasses will all succeed,
where hemp and tobacco can be grown.
have said that Kansas was not suited 10
the poor man only intended to refer to those
who design 10 till the ground. But TO the poor
mechanic il offers great inducements. To all
carpenters especially, and to stone and brick
masons it will give constant employment at
high wages. The rudest beginner receives
81 so per day--good workmen, as journeymen,
receive in regular employment from 81 to 80
per day. Their expenses are light the cost Of
living being low.
To all mechanics who are not abolionists
I will guarantee ample compensation.
Those who have more slaves than can be
proftably employed in opening farm, can, in
the mean time, hire out the remainder, in
GLIDING the women and those too young TO
render much service in the fencing and break.
ing the ground, at the prices have stated, in
Kansas or Missouri. Thus, by the time they
will need the money to enter the land, they
can realize enough TO enter all they may need.
The great facilities now afforded by railroads
and steamboats, render n removal TO Kansas