The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-04-18
eoMMuQicatiops.
North of the Kansas.

OcENA. KANSAS Ter.


I have been content that your cores
pondents should puff into notoriety
their respective localities, confident
that Justice would ultimately be done
to my own portion of Kansas. But
it would now seem due to the very
large emigration that is coming into
the Territory, to make few. sugges-
tions.
Before they resolve to go far into
the Territory, would suggest TO them
the propriety of examining that por-
tion OF Kansas lying along the Mis-
souri, river. and extending from Leav-
enworth City TO the Nebraska line,
embracing the Delaware. Kickapeo.
and Iowa lands. would invite
them TO examine, spade in hand, both
the soil and sub-soil, and compare it
with any other portion of Kansas, OF
| witht the prairie lands of Iowa or Hi
| nois. Or let them Judge of the quail.
ity of the soil by observing the growth
and quality of the Prairie grass--or
by observing our erops-or by COM
pairing the hemp raised here with the
product of the best hemp lands o.
Missouri. Or, let the effe.ts of a
drouth here be compared with the
effect of similar d. louth in the more
interior and more Southern localities.
| will not take upon myself to say that
this is a bitter body oil land than any
other, but will say that it will COM
pare favorably with any oher.
Our advantages are-irst, the pre-
Sence of the Missouri river Freights
are brought from ST. Louis at fifty
cents per hundied, aud under keen
competition could be brought for
much less than that.
We are better supplied with timber
than any known portion of the Terri
tory. There is a heavily timbered
bottom along the Missouri river from
| he Nebraska line to the mouth ol
the Kansas, averaging perhaps fou'
miles wide, and densely covered with
walnut, sycamore, linn, blackberry,
oak, locust, mulberry and coffee. bean.
The contiguous bluffs in the State OF
Missouri, in the counties Of Platte.
Buchanan, Colt and Atchison, are al
50 heavily timbered. There is nothing
in any other part of Kansas like this.
Even the timber on the Kaw, if it
were not locked up in Indian reserves,
would bear no comparison.
Third. any railroad coming into
Kansas from any quarter must pass
through this body Of lands, or along
their border. Trade. whether in the
shape of imports or exports, must al
20 take the same direction.
Cool water ard good stone are
gene rally diffrsed over the Territory.
Kansas is the best watered prairie
country ever saw.
Free State men have not generally
had their attention called to the value
of the hemp crop. A good crop o.
heat is only worth twenty fva dollars
an acre. while good crop of hemp
is worth fifty dollars per acre. These
lands are genel ally good hemp lands.
| conclude that this region otlers
better inducements to the settler than
any other portion of Kansas. On
the Kickapoo lands are many hundreds
of claims embracing the finest prairie
lands in the world vet open 10 settle
ment. OF thesc claims some have
been already taken bnt have not been
improved Others have been i'm
proved by sort of nonresident squa-
ters whose pre-emptions are q sham,
and who never intend to live on their
claims. This burlesque on the pre-
emption laws, by men who intend to
cheat both the government and the
people o! Kansas, ghs not to be en-
iured
would. Sir. particularize the
places where very desirable locations
may yet BE found, were it not that /
might be suspected of seeking TO pnfl
my own pai ticl lar neighl oil ood in
to notice. l might also point out the
route over which the railroads FIRST
constructed will, in my judgment.
pass. were it not that you have re-
marked that every man expects rail-
road to pass by his own door. AS il
is. / forbear.
1t is true, sir. that for the last two
years this region has been under a
clnud. Ii has been looked upon as a
land OF bowie knives and border ruff
ans. of revolvers, pistols. tar and iea
theirs, cotton wopl, and Missouri river
rats, whereon defenseless preachers
are shipped to the Free States. Ii
was on this dark and bloody gronnd
that Collius and Clarke were killed,
that Brown. Phillips. and Hops
were murdered. that the people o
Leavenworth were hunted ont like
wild beaats, and in which the town oil
Atchison has gaine,i such an menyia-
lie notoriety by its ieais OF Border
Ruffianism. "Ihose who SOW to the
wind shall reap to the whirlwind. /"
During the past winter in the county
Of Atchi.en, one man near MoHnt
Pleasant was murdered for money, OF
in quarrel. There is the residence
of Hayes. the murderer of Bufiun. a
man named Coke was shot with re-
volver once in his ankle and again In
his hip. Two boys have recently
been shot in a qnarrel about claim.
| a man named Cline has been mur-
dered. and only two days ago another
was shot dead in the town of Atehi-
soR.
All this only proves that either. we
need better laws, or better efficers, or
better citizens to uphold the laws.
am, very truly, in hope of a
good time coming" your friend.
PARDEE BUTLER.