The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-19

seems An appropriate occasion ioE saying Sm "otus
concerning Kansas arrest the attention OF those who
read and reflect.
What Kansas IN 1854
On the 3Oth OF May 1854 Kansas portion of the
far West not included within any State jurisdiction
territorial government though within the region denomi
natsd athe Indian county,, portion of which
within the treaty mts Of certain Indian tribes The cli
mate rather mild and agreeable though subject to the
occasional dry and piercing winds sweeping from the
frozen and snowy regions of the Rocky mountains over
the reelsss and barren plains stretching from them to
the Mississippi Timber being found only the margin
of the and few other places it offered little game
TO attract the red of the forest material for building
and ienoes so essential the ayocaons and comforts
ais white brethren. Without the of acquiring
title to the SOIL few white had settled in Kansas
probably less than three hundredwhen the law pass
ei to organize Kansas of Territories !
The Indians had ceded the land to the United States
serving to several habreed Indians mile square each
and nations selected locations for their future
homes The supposed scarcity Of water fuel and fencing
materials had deferred the whites from making vigor
Gus efforts to acquire the right to SETTLE upon and con-
troll Kansas But for the moveme at to give laws and
government to Nebraska Knsas might have remained for
long years domain in its native state with
pancy shared he red of the forest and his game
Kansas from 1854 to 1885,
On its organization four classes of persons had their at
tention turned toward Kansas:
l. The bona de settler who looked to the settlement of
enc Indian the rivers and those prares which
could be supplied with timber from the scattered groves.
O. The land specuator who hoped to grasp everything
valuable there including the water power
3. The politician who dreamed of Offices from psta to
judges governors and in both branches of Congress
Political aspirants in several States who hoped
1t for purposes creating excitement and ladder r po-
liticsl elevation.
The first and mertorious class aas been the victim of
the other three The piorc.s in and uncultvated
country have natural hardshps encounter which often
PROSTATE their physical energies before their homes
become the abodes of and plenty Men of wealth sell
dom them This class has been the prey of the
greedy specuator and been deprived of the legitimate
fruits of its manly bodness and perseverance under hard
ships The avarice and skill of the Spectator has and
will deprive many honest ronterman Of his rights and
his and hardearned home The oiceseeker in Kan
sas, encouraged and urged by those outsiders who
sought to produce confusion alarm and fear of danger
has allowed the peaceful honest settler neither rest quiet
comfort Things not permitted to take their
usual and natural course but stimulated and forced
emigration was pushed thither under circumstances
which caused them to meet not as brethren, encoun-
tering and sharing common dangers and hardships
and sympathizing with each other but fierce enc
mics, each making merit to annoy and injure the
other. Feelings thus impaired produced their natural
sult-enmy, hatred, strife quarrels and finally blood
shed To the authors of these untoward results which all
good men must depore these ghu consequences seemed
TO give hope and encouragement filing them with ecstasy
Not content with recording the unhappy effects naturally
flowing from their meddlng agency the authors and
fomenters of these difficulties and crimes caused them
be magnfed tenfold and falsely charged wholly
mtted by those who differed with them the question
Of the presidency. To such extent these msrepre
sensations carried that separate the fiction
from the simple unadulterated truth From whatever
cause wrong might be perpetraed, it charged to
political account Violations of law encouraged and
applauded they supposed to have political bear
ing New government essayed for the same unhal-
lowed purpose Elections partook of the fell spirit which
engendered and pushed forward the emigration
and characterized by only exceled by
the barbarism perperated and remaining UNPUBLISHED in
Louisville and Baltimore Some of the legislation that
followed sully code otherwise characterized by lberaity
and the hunanizng spirit of the age The wrong
side hailed by the other political god send
aording the coveted material for excitement and IA
nsticA prejudice Kansas became the theatre of arms and
civil war; waged mainly for political effect in those quar-
tiers from whence men, arms, and ammunition were sup
piled. She became camp, when she should have been
converted into garden and the happy home of peaceabe
and quiet citizens
Kansas after the Prudential Election.
The election being over Kansas substantially restored
to order and quiet there being further political
sy for continuing there which every Christian
patriot must deplore Men, willing and able do So are
permitted to engage in the pursuits in life The
rscnpsrative qualities Of countymen being dis
played her plains. The fears that filed women and
chdren-nay the stout hearts Of men-wh terror are fast
giving place confidence Instead of feversh sleep and
dreams of the scapng and horrid deaths families
lie down and enjoy refreshing sumber perhaps dream
Of friends and the Edens they attempting create
about them When they go out instead of encounering
the demon in human form, they meet fellow-men with
hearts filed with sympathy for those sharing with them
In hArdships incident to frontier life That few may
yet remain strangers their duty under both human and
Divine law proves that the consequences Of wrong and
crime may lpgcr long after the pretor and motives for
their commission have passed away Kansas left to her
SELF unsrsycd by politicians and encouraged by those
who ought to cherish her prosperity will become
nourishng and happy Territory. She win increase in
numbers In wealth and all the elements Of greatness II