The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-02-06
Kansas anCa TdiuuesOti.

Oar Territory ID the comm > ring cnii
cation, has bti one riyai--kausas Y bras
Ma IS ut oi ;Ae question; t1t mo Of Da
ko!a Is N re- arNolatc With great ws,crleSs
ire'e-a pralr.tS. than ever was illinois itl
; Ter fertility, and Wisconsin and Iowa Lav,
assumed the position Of Old >eitI, d States
The cnisrant will Hesitate between Mmnaso.
Ia AMI Kansas. The choice should not Ion.
he matter of doubt. Political and section.
al feelings have given Kansas an Importance
and success that do not naturally belong to
her. The battle field between the hosts OF
freedom and slavery, the noise Of the war has
attr ,cted crowds to settle in her borders and
take part in tie contest. Leaving out this
accidental advantage, she is not the land nat
ural for settlement by Northern em,grants.
She is be ow that great line south of which
enterprise and great mental activity do not
10. She is back of Missouri and Arkansas,
and is subject to those climatic influences
which dcplete men and evervate nations
She is on the border Of tn" great PIains-she
is part of the great PIains-those wastes
of untimbered, unwatered land whose future
Is yet problem, and whose surface, howev-
er much they may be adapted for a pastoral
population, are utterly untitled to enter into
competition with great agricultural commu-
mites.
She is moreover greatly cursed in the
worst of all infictons, ill health!
We have lately seen private letter from
Topeka saying empha ically that nearly all
Lee 'mpton, Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas
City were 'down with bill US and intermit-
tent fevers." We have also seen private let
tiers from Ohio, stating that large emgra-
ton from. that State consisting in part of re-
turned Kansas emigrants, were preparing to
start for Minnesota with the opening Of
spring.
The American people may be carried away
by excitement for time, but they cannot be
permanently blinded TO their own interests.
Kansas will: undoubtedly, aside from all DO
l't'cal Influences, increase in population and
Importance in common with the whole great
West. Without the emigrant aid societies
and the politica! interest which sent Northern
peoIle there, it would probably have been
peoped by a class similar to the occupants
of lower Missouri and Arkansas, men who
don't recognize fever and ague as disease
but take their shake as regularly as they
take their brandy and water men who re-
gard the bowie knife an revolver more es-
sential ingredients in American lnstltu; ions
than the school house AMI church. Go,er-
nor WALKEt jnst befnre leaving Kansas de-
nornce'i the Southern wing OF the Democ
rae, ,eIresented IN that Territory hv such
p."t.lc As . Is ruliians AM a,Sassi,s -
tAc term are rather strong b Il wc tioab
not cu'la:ly des,r ptlve.
ii.' nct'er cin>> "f cni.rantS. men # in
rcll @cncc and information when free from
KEN sent aud vie xiug things calmly. will
-cEk ilsirc boftllein iatituua, ali / IN Mlnuc-
sofa they will find rich soil, ealth O. vim.
climate in ut least eight mill Is OF arr,s #
land, lying I, ady FIR ,he,n-
Onr p"re air is as a tonic to autnd and h,dy,
and instead Of sinking leb!ltated under th
fell inhu noes of bilious disorders, our citizens
all g' rth to their daily tasks with a vigor
and clearness of mind that cannot but insure
our success as people and Community.
Unnatural forces must always produce
eventually revulsion, AMI the high pressure
which has been applied to drive population
into Kansas. once withdrawn, as it sooner or
later must be, by the settlement of the diff
ruIties through tho triumph of the Free
State people, and we will see that tree-less
AID bilious Territory disgorgag It. a.
co;ntod thousand, .,oap-
:. will seek new homes
N'" S,enial climes.