New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-22

borc ers Of the Kansss and Missour-are fine bottom
Iencs, covered with rich and most fertile SOL neeo-
~ but the plow to convert them into fruitful helos'
T6en follows prsire-beautiful, uDduIatibg Prsr
de-hcre and there q grove Of walnut me- anns,
~, oak, or sugar-maple, but Tor loe .,r LIZ.
ycching its yelyety surface Of grass as far IS tne
tsizon, decked too at the SprlDg seasonm "a snya
Nv it-with prsre flowers OF every huS, ola, md
0ith the hum OF insects 70 less varle ~ vi aa
1s)icste IN form. Let the traveller put nm-en Vn que
Xtbe ,ya oin,no the carav an Sane Re OF oregon
- Utah and b. Iney spend bis month or SIX weeks
mid the nonotopy of this sea OF grass as on an ocean
Soyaee traversDe the green waves OF is rolling sur
&c With . circuIar honzon always around him, till,
XVII crossed twelve AID half degrees OF longitude,
6n3s b;rn,eif at the foot Of the Rocky Mountains,
ID at length at the western boundary OF hansas.
ss and rtpass with tbeiI long wagons and innumer.
BE oxen during the summer months, the broad prairie
Xpds Of central and western Kansas left 10 the
&supaon Of the wandering tribes Of Indians, Of whom
has been estimated that there yet - 900 in the
enitory; while the beterwaiered, better wooded and
ore fertile lads in the east occupied by the 800
more bellieerent settlers o. our own blood Of whom
&e have beard 90 much.
Were thcio nothing ese to attract settlers than the
stty Of the land, the salubri,y Of the climate and
be commercial advantages II possesses, KaDsa, would
kfl have been sougbt out as favorable spot for
Western e;ne1uils. It's SOIL 30 far as had opportu-
kisy To obserye it, in the lands watered by the Kansas
md Missouri Rivers il rich ia any part Of the
yrhole West of the United States admirably adapted
pssturage suitable for Indian and other crops
Ind in some parts for the cultivation Of hemp to-
bsoco Its climate, hot in Summer 10 nevertheless
healthy end free, according TO all accounts, from the
fever and sgue 30 prevalent In many parts Of
Missouri. It's economical advantages are quite
|tecul,ar II is, by virtue Of it's situation, the key
Ito oil the vast territory which westward and north
vsrd opens out from the junction Of the Kansas and
Missouri Rivers. The Kansas itself is no inconsider
,ble stream IL receives into it The Smoky-Hl, the
|Grand Seine Soono n's and the Republican Forks,
IN ado malt firth lac 0apH n
tbgth and in the Spring very much larger In volume
than our own Thames. the g mad Missouri" although
having more than 100 miles 10 run when 1t passes
eavenwoith before it reaches the eel and having al
re dy trsvesed 500 miller since /. left the Great Falls
i for the whole distance open to steam navigation,
while above the Falls the stream may still be navigaed
nv smaller craft for hundreds OF miles TO yard its
source in the Rocky Mountains. But independently of
his prospective commerce the settler in eastern Kansas
already Possesses the advantage OF water cOmmunca
ion by which at once to forward bis produce TO the
southern market, and above all, an excellent market
At bis own door in the necessities OF produce and of
s.ok arising from the cons amt fitting out OF the trains
for New Mexico which make the cities on the Kansas
border then starting place and entrepot.
But with much in these respects to attract the SCI
ter Kansas owes, doubtless line rapidty of its settle
ment principally to the political interests which have
gathered around it. From the first moment when the
Eehrask X ansas act was passed which at once or
gained Kansas into Territory aud swept away all
former stipulstODs 10 the exclusion of Slavery, it
yss eved alike by North and South that the future
Of Kansas in relation TO Slavery aud with it probably
II all territories that might afterward be admitted,
must be determined by the nerical proportions OF s
population. A race commenced between North
End South, and that party was TO be the winner who
should send in the Target number of its adherens
whether FIeeStgte men or Pfo Slavery men, to deter
mine the law for the Territory Measures were
taken by the PIoSavery party To- prevent the allot-
inent OF lands to any but their own pattsans; and,
when FreeState still in, squatter meetings
we're held 10 Kansas by inha otants OF Missouri who
passed resolutions TO Inc following effect: That we
will afford protection TO no AbOlltionst as settler on
this Territory That we recognize the Institution OF
Slavery already existing in this Territory, and ad
Use ehodess to introduce Their property as early o.
possible.
To meet these efforts the part Of organizations in
Missouri Emigrant Aid Societies were formed in Boston
and elsewhere in tho Eastern States to promote the
movement on the side of the North and TO give fac
lies to settlers Intending 10 make Kansas their home
That these were bona 6de Settlers and not invading
xay of illegal voters like the MissOurians have
abundant proof Indeed il is idle TO suppose that
vent from Boston to Kansas, distance very consider
sly greater than from London to Naples, their expen-
ses lot being paid by the Society, merely with view
record their votes, and then return.
The two parties as might be anticipated, soon came
10 blows. Public MEETINGS mere perpetually being
Md secret committees fWmed political CLUBS organ
bed A single instance selected out OF many VIII H.
lssta.o the operations OF these hostile measures.
LAST wear having for s object to observe and report
Il ali such persons ss shall, by Inc exp essioh o.
abolition sn,imeIts produce disu bance to the quiet
Of tho citizens or danger TO tner Gonesuc Iea'ohs
and all such persons so offending shall be notified and
\ made 10 leave the Territory On tins committee
We're several members of the Legislature. The hrst
fsrson observed and reported by the committee as
Ietng TO endapger their domestic relations 10Y
~hicb delicate expression is meant the institution OF
kayery) was Mr. William Phillips, lawyer residing In
enwolth whose o0enie was that he had sworn 70
protest against the validity Of the election in his dis,
act in COM quence oil which protest Gov heeder hau
.nrdered A new election Mr.. Phillips was nothed 10
leaye the Territory He refused TO do so, whereupon
he was seized by party OF Missouri men 10 the mum
her of outet d. taken the river ana carried sew
kra miles into Missouri. They then proceeded 70 shaVe
Sut him through the horrible ordeal OF tarring and
Gathering This being completed, they rode him on
kaI for mile and half, and finally put nun up al auc-
Bon a pegro acting as aucuoheer, anu wen. .hiougn
he mockery Of selling him. not at the price OF slave,
ut for the sum of 81. Eight days after this outrage
snbo meeting was held, az which the following resou-
pn was unanimously adopted; "lhat we heartily in.
done The action OF the committee oil oIuIehs ina,
shaved tarred and feaihered, rode on ran ana had
sold by negro William Philips the moral perJurer.
be meeting was preceded over by MIR. kees, memoer
Council IN the kans Legislature ana the resolution
rs offered 10y MIR. Payne, Judge and also memoeI oi
q House OF Representatives! Tho outrage committed
snst MIR Philips was not therefore, the hasty act OF
lew muroerous rufans but one adVsedIy carried out
ID thereafter deliberately Endorsed by num0eI Oh
iZtns and members OF the Legislature MI huhPS
urnea 10 homework, but has since, according 10
coun,s recciv I'd few weeks ago, been shot.
.To r, turn however, from this DEPRESSION. 1t was out
elements thus disc1Clpt that the social life ot Kansas
I'd TO develop itself. The settler from the North
bought his shIewd intelligence and hard-worklng In,
hstTy; tho OF the South his fearless spult ana
waller independence. Both brought determination
conquer United, they might have made OF Kansas
arden Of plenty and al adVancc-post oi CIVILIZATION.
nt their work in the Territory was 10 oppose one
ho,her And although this might have been done 10y
n.sG. xat Il tt.arip xKlte they