Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-06-18
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sEIk Horn and ssLoup Ecfk. stretching mr.
away to The north land; hot TO mention the NJ
obrarah and White Earth rivers, and other large
tributaries 10 the Missouri river further TO the
northward; nor its creeks and streamlets al
over the Territory. kept flowing the whole year
by out.gushing springs II their sources nor
its salt springs and rivers BY the same name
whose waters before long win supply the people
of the whole West with salt.
Barren does he says Look al its stone
auarries and coal fields, its groves of timber up
on every creek, and, more than all, its soil, un-
surpassabie in richness and fertility, yielding
rich grasses which from time immemoriai have
supported immense herds of the wild buffalo.
Can a country be called barren which has all
these things and supports such immense herds
of buffaloes as Nebraska doess ltmay be called
such but not trnihfully.
As to facilities for transportation, has not Ne
braska the Missouri river washing its whole
eastern border, navigable for steamboats, the
whole distance What other or greater facilities
of transportation has Kansas than this same riv-
err None whatever. Then why claim superi-
ority over Kansas in that respect
Nebraska, it is true, has had some Indian
troubles. What new country has nots few
United States troops were butchered by the
Sioux at Fort Laramie nearly two years ago, but
that is all over now; .',he tomahawk is now
buried, )" ''the calumet has been smoked" andwe
are now at peace with them.
Not 30 in Kansas with the marauding Chey-
ennes and Camanches Besides the internal
strife and bloodshed in Kansas, these blood
thirsty Indians are continually lowering on her
borders, and, with hatred to the white man OF
long standing, shat the memory OF man run.
meth not to the contrary" they are killing and
robbing all who fall in their power.
But, again, in geographical view, how does
Nebraska compare with this boosted Kansas!
Its southern boundary is the 4oth parallel OF
| north latitude. 1t lies to the west OF the north
western spart of Missouri, the State of Iowa
and the Territories of Minnesota and Kansas hes
to the west ofthe State of Missouri.
Nebraska lies in the same zone of enterprise
with Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
Pittsburg, and Chicago, whilst Kansas is too far
south for it. Nebraska will soon be connected,
by four railroads across the State of Iowa, with
all these places; and when, if ever, can the
same be said of Kansas?
Emigration to the Pacific, whether it went
| from Chicago or st. Louis. whether it rendezvous
| at Independence or st. Joseph, old Fort Kearny
| or Council Bluffs all have to pass through the
heart of Nebraska, up the valley OF the Great
| Platte river, to reach the "South Pass" Yet
| Nebraska is 'barren inaccessible region !"
| Perhaps the falsity of this comparison in the
| ssUnion" of the two Territories could be shown
also to exist politically as well as in other re-
spects; but we refrainSrom going fully into it
and showing that, whilst politically they in Kan
sas have all storm and darkness, in Nebraska
| there have not been all Gains and sunshine.
| Perhaps we could show that if Governor Reeder
was promptly removed from Office by reason Of
his "land speculations" in Kansas, we also have
suffered outrages which were published in the
public journals of the Territory at the time of
their occurrence, and which better define tyran-
ny than the government of community where
''squatter sovereignty" was to be the ruling
principle and the especial enjoyment of the peo-
pie. @
No, Nebraska is not without its just cause Of
complaint. 1t has been ridden by executive ap.
pontments, and has been subjected to outrage
upon outrage by them, by which the people,
had not they sheen disposed to suffer while
evils were sufferable," would long since have
| been melted to open rebellion. And it il Q
great mistake to say that the people ofNebraska
are aceW content with the administration of their
laws by their Executives, or that their so-calleC
''great principle" of squatter sovereignty has
had any thing to do in their government. If il
has, if am mistaken to its presence in thai
Territory, and lift really has been orking there
all this time under the advice, control, and di
rection its fathers and founders, then God
save me from it! Let us judge the tree by its
fruits and name it from its kind of fruit, and ir
Nebraska as well as Kansas call this great prin
ciple" sq~atter subjugation, by the effect it hat
on the people, rather than "squatter sovereign
ty," what is promised to the people of these two
Territories.
But will not prolong this reply to a gros:
Misrepresentation Of the advantages of Kansas
in comparison with Nebraska. l have perhaps
said enough to show that the wrong causes were
assigned for the prosperity and quiet of Nebras
ka. 1 might go OH and show that the wrong
causes have also been assigned for the troubles
in Kansas but desist; that will be developed
perhaps before long by 'legal testimony" anG
l will close by saying that Nebraska, from ita
naturrl advantages and political quiet, offers far
greater inducement to the peaceful husbandman
than Kansas does or ever did
| ALIENS.