The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-03-29

a large proportion OF which mas gone 70
your city, aud the trade of,our entire
Territory with your State thus far has
been nearly one million of dollars. This
circumstance alene has already raised
the prices of many articles of export in
your State fromtwo to five hundred per
cent, and youf city is extending her
levees and snhrging her warerooms in
anticipation Of our future trade. With
an area fout times as large as your whole
State, our prospective business must be
at least fully equal to that of any other
State. and our prosperity in commercial
sense, has quite as much to do With the
future greatness of your city, as any
constructive considerations it is possible
to deduce from your own State. Geo
graphically. st. Louis is the commercial
mart of Kansas for years TO come. or
until by dint of our own industry and
the richness of our soil. manufacturing
and commercial cities will be built up on
our own rivers, and even then, they will
ieciprocally add to your enterprise and
wealth. The chain of all our public in
terssts, therefore, becomes directly link
ed with yours. Our prosperity is
your, our adversely is yours, our in
vasion is yours, our conquest is yours.
For, if; by an unnatural, and coercive
policy on the part of any of your people,
we are induced to open new thorough
fares for trade with other cities, and
invest our wealth~in opening railroads
and telegraphic communications with the
same, the weight of your imprudence
will recoil only upon your own heads,
and in due time We will escape the frey
ordeal unseathsd.
Although the froward spirit of Presi-
dent Pierre, according to his message,
has not yet discerned anything in ou,
grievances that '.haye occurred under
circumstances, to justify the interposision
of the Federal Executive" We still hope
and trust that, SO far as the citizens ol
your Stats are implicated, they have oc.
Cured in such manner as will justify
yoar interposition and kindly Offices
Like great events, casting their shadow.
forwaFd--lhe fo-ebodings of the future
have produced general paralysis in all
departments Of business throughout the
Territory. Our trade is not one third
as large as itowas three months ago. me.
chanics, Iaborers of all kinds complair
alike of geteral depression. In the bor'
der towns Of your State, the same want
of enterprise is observed. Let this con.
tinus, and our remittances to your city
the coming season will be very limited
Emigration is retarded, consequently nc
new money is brought into circulation
and we are cursed, not with war alone,
but with "war, pestilence and famine"
| Our wish is to urge upon you these
considerations, and by virtue of your
commercial influence throughout the
State, ask of you, to intercede in oul
behalf, in staying the hand of evil doers
that we may go on developing our great
ness aud yours. and long enjoy tn.
pleasure of those relations we have mu
tualy found, thus far, SO profitable and
pleasant.
w. & W. HUTCHINSON & Co.,
HORNSBYS & FERRIL,
| l.. M. COX q Co.,
w. & G. DUNCAN,
| WOODWARD & FINLEY,
PAUL r. BROOKS,
]. ]. FARISS,
RAU & BRO,
G. STEARNS,
OTIS WILMARTH.
GAIUS JENKINS,
L. H. BROWN & Co.,
LYMAN ALLEN & Co.,
January 80, 1856.