The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-09-04
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SAco, SEPr, i, 1857.


as and spent some two or three weeks in
visiting friends there, and viewing different
parts Of the territory, I suppose some Of
your readers will expect to hear from mo.
The soil is quite as good as I expected to End
1t. 1 frequently run my cane at least two
feet deep into the ground on the heights Of
the swells and where wells or cellars had been
dug, | nowhere found the rich soil less
than two feet and u half deep. On the bot
tom 1t Is much deeper. The air seems very
pure and the climate think must be healthy
rs l saw no swamp or stagnant water dur
ing my travels there, and I felt stronger
when lcft than when l went. Mr.. Burn
ham ha, as good claim, a, Hamlin, as he
represented in his letter published in your
paper. Messrs Lsavitt and winslow, from
Paronsfeld. are very well situated and will
gather heavy crops this autumn. The
Mesrs. Whiting, father and son, and Bow
ker and Pike are already quite well Of.
1 should consider the situation and pros
poets OF all our Industrious emigrans to
Kansas very good indeed, If their political
difficulties were happily settled. But they
are not, and havingsutfsred so much here
tofore, the settlers feel an ineIpressible anI-
ie,y for the future. i do not envy any man
his temper who can speak jeeringly of"bleed-
ing Kans s" nor any man the quality Of
Of his ambition who would !jeopardire the
freedom OF Kansas for the p,ltry considera-
alton OF any State or County Office. No
man now could 90 among the people Of
Kansas and come home and object to Re
publican nominations or quarrel about the
mode Establishing Maine law. Itwould
DO like the man knew, who vigorously an
into burning house for his fiddle. while his
sister was in another room surrounded by
the flames. The free State men in Kansas
look for the sympathy and support OF the
free States. Any diminution in the Rcpub'
lican VOC Of Maine will lessen both their
courage and their hopes, and increase those
of their oppressOrs. While the accounts in
the papers of former outragcs in Kansas
were confirmed by hundred lips with many
details, | heard from the settlers many
stories of persecution, injustice and cruelty,
pcrpetrated upon individuals, male and
female, which were never published.
To the people of Kansas the future looks
extremely perplexing. When Gov. Walker
went to Kansas, he declared that "the whole
people Of the Territory should vote at the
October election, not under the act Of the
Territorial legislature, but under the laws
Of Congress" This declaration was made
without qualifications at public meetings,
and to many individuals who called ON him
and on whom he called. Thousands can
testify to it. The people took heart and
went diligently to work at their trades and
upon their farms IL should DO remember
ed that the October election is that,at which
q new Legislature is to be chosen to succeed
the Missouri bogus one, they have had.
The above declaration was made so posi-
lively, so publicly, to.so many persons on
so many occasions, that no one saw, except
Lassalier, Il can't spell the name) doubted
that Walker would fulfil it If he could Ii
was the fear ofhis want of power only, so
far US learned, that caused The FREQ State
mea to continue their State organization.
II would not be well, they thought, to aban-
don their deienses until the danger had
wholly disappeared. So a majority conclud-
ed to go through the forms of choosing Of.
fcers under their Topeka Constitution at
the appointed time in July last. If the
promise of a full and fair election in October
should be realized, these officers would have
nothing to do; If il should be broken, they
might lie Of use. At the same election, the
people were to vote again for, or against, the
Topeka Constitution. After this conclusion
was come to, emissaries in the gulse Of Free
State men, went all over the Territory try
ing to persuade the people not to vote, asSur.
ing them that Walker would give them all a
chance in October. And very many did not
vote. Before arrived at Iamlin, the peo-
pie had met, and under the advice OF one Of
these eruissaries had resolved 10 take no part
in the election. But on the Saturday pre-
yious to the election on Monday then next,
another meeting was held and IASsalier ad-
dressed il, and advised them 10 vote. He
reminded them that the Administration had
appointed woOdson, who had originated all
the inyasions Of the territory and enrolled
the invaders Us Kansas Militia; whitefield
who had led bodies Of the ruff ms into the
territory, and had assumed against the
known wishes Of the people TO represent them
in Congress, Clark who murdered Barber,
and Freloric Emery, who with a mob of
Mlssourians, had driven out the people Of
Leavcnworth, and destroyed their property,
and who with the same mob had literally
hacked poor Brown in pieces, and sent has
expiring body home to his wiie,-to the best
Offices in the Territory, and that walkerlwas
appointed by the same Administration and
was under its orders. lie alluded to Walk
er's arifal altOmpts To divide the Free State
men as Satan did our first parents in the
Garden Of Eden, going to them separately.
lie said Walker had made fair promises il
was true, and held himself out rs all but
good free State man, but he did not believe
him, and told the following story. A
ground hog who had been out one day
among the clover, on returning found a
skunk enseonced in the bottom Of his hole,
and said to him "who arc you ?" The