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Kansas Letter.

Kansas Letter.
Tie following extract from letter .";
from friend and old subscriber in AL ,nn.a:
who has just returned from visit to .:a....,
and Nebraska will be read with intcr.. il
will be seen that he adds his testimony T. ;ha:
of others with whom we have converse .i,.
Kansas is destined inevitably to become free
State:
81 have just returned from jnunt to .-a.t.
sns md Nebraska spent most of my d..
the latter. You can form no conception, "itlr
out seeing for yourself of the fertility ,i,'
soil in MI the great Northwest, and the - Il
hcnd-itivencss of the "etcrnal Yankees. va
much hettcr pleased with them than e, = 4x
pectcd to be. They have very erroneous ,.;'iu-
ions of our domestic institutions and and of IT,.
muners. morals md sentiments Of our sect >"
and had many conversations with the,
the subject. They treated me with i~t:,
gushcI considerations invited ME to deli 81, n
lecture on the subject which respectful
clincd as not i'll my line of business, nor
ded in my programme of travel. I was the
first Southern TINT many of them IN Ne
braska ever saw, and when | told them TINT
had never wringcd my fellow in rencounters or
duel with pistol or Bowie, they could scarcely
realize its truth. The fact H. TINT through the
influence of the pulpit, press. and school house,
(the.great engines of good or evil. we have been
lied out of MI respect of the honest, ignorant
masses of the North, and many of them hon
estly thank God oil the day long that they are
not rs we nrc.
am satisfied Kansas will he free State.
One of the rroslavery delegates to form the
Constitution, told me in confidence, it would
be so inevitably. did not press him for his
reasons, as had but short time to converse
with him. but saw enough to satisfy me. The
law or principle of interest-spcculation. will
settle the destiny of Kansas as free State,
and Oh this point there is greater unanimity
of feeling between pro and anti.slavery than
any one would suppose. We of the South do
not calculate the difference in the price of
Inds in the sections. For instance, in Illinois
'ands are worth three times the price of those
in Missouri, and so of the sStfled portions of
Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. If Kansas should
(which nobody there expects) be n slave State,
lands will decline in value-ff a free State
they will, as is the case in all the new Terrific
ries, be worth double and trcbble in two to fl i've
syears. The density of population increased or
diminished by the two conditions makes the
difference-the prejudices of Yankees and for.
zegners ogaina the competition Of negro labor is
sShe corner stone ofnpparition and acquiescence.
We of the South have been badly gulled by
"spcculatonr." 1t cost me only $50 which
don't regret as my motive WIS good, and
never had much faith in the patriotic enterprise.
Sc e you have not forgotten the ''musqui-
toes in Florida" Of which yet entertain n
feeling remembrance. 1t would require a
shorter memory than mine ever to forget that
conflict which we had shoulder to shoulder
with the gallinippers near Gadsden's point
Some Of our party considered us badly whipt
but always thought it drawn battle.
Our elections, (bless God are over) the Dem
ocrats all elected to Congress, and mostly so
to the State Senate and Legislature. Samuel
Adams, Esq, Formerly of Abbeville and son
Of old John) is elected to the Legislature from
this (Butler) county, having headed the ticket
Piease notice this az he is subseriber of youra
good fellow too and It ,cill please his Kin.
Crops of all sorts will be good here. It was
sthought that the abundant rains which we
have, had and which ore not yet over. would
cause cotton to drop its bolls but as yet hear
no complaint"