Nebraska advertiser., 1858-12-30
The ADVERTISER
IA NJ. FURNAS. EDITOR.
THURsDAY EoRNINe. DEC LEE.


posed the annexation of South Platte to !
Kansas.
The great burthen Of their song, as
vel as all other opponents, to the meas
uFe Is aKAnsas debt = aud the-enoFmeas
taxes which would in their opinion neees-
sariIy ensue fcm annexation. This scare
crow falls to the ground, when the facts
are exhibited, as seen by Secretay
Walsh's letter, and the extract from the
G~omPFOleras repOEs, as published inHns
ether column. sgo1t q Il - sf
Our correspondents last week were
feaffuIly exercised by the discovery Of
ianunerable hoofs and horns" and
terribly frightened by the ghost Of poor
ADred Scott" that "ancisnt colored In
diTiduaI. who departed this life some
time since, and has taken up his abode
inthat gOOdly land prepared for all Pi-
Gus callnd pusons." an o.
Suchremarksa as "Re-Opening the slave
trade" "BHl English slavery propa-
gandia," "LecOmpton-E English Bill lad
niuistrahOn," &C., are perfectly ridicu-
l0us because entirsiy foreign to the ques-
ton, and are only wrung in for personal
political buncOmb. Upon the principles
involved IN those issues in a practicalform,
or cat the proper time and place. there
Is not difference Of opinion sufficient
among our citizens to create even discus
siOh. Among the advocates for annexa-
non, are 70 be found jealous politicians of
'anparties, who, hooking beyond individu-
al agrandizement or paltry political dis
tipctiOn, are governed by desires to pro-
mote the best interests of the country.
The fear Of lands granted for the uses
of the new State, being held "aboEe Con
gress price, so they can neither be claim
or entered by actual settlers" is purely
imaginary, and evinces great lack of in
formation IL the subject. Are not the
lands when donated, placed Immediately
a the dipOsal and management Of the
people of the new tatel Most certain
ly they are. If increased prices are
placed upon the lands. the people interes.
ted wsh dot; and we rather think they
viii be wise enough to pursue a very elf.
ferent course. What has been the cours;
generally adopted by new States in re,
.gardto the prices Of their donated lands
They have universally decreased tKt
prices below that fixed upon by Govern
ment. Within the last eighteen months
as good bottom land as ever a plow wa.
put into, has been sold in Missouri, jus
opposite this place, for One-half the prict
pre-emptors can obtain it in Territories
Railroad Companies are offering thei
lands. in Iowa and Illinois, far below gov
erument prices for cash; and when ad
vaDced prices are required, zen, fifteen
and twenty years time is given. w,
E0uld much rather every foot Of our va
cant lands were donated to US as a nev
State, for internal, agricultural or educa
tionai purposes, than to be exposed to pub
lie sale, and fall into the hands Of non
resident spectators.
Is it not really diverting TO witness th
~magnanimity or philanthropy exhibited i
in the fear Of "slaughtering Nebraska,
BY taking about sixty miles off her south
erR boundary, and yet leaving s%ufficier
terriioFyso make a half dozen States a
lArgeas Kansas, and South Platte added
VIII be3
As to that classical anu welLfounde
expression, taking ourselves out Of th
. center Of everywhere, and taking up OF
position (almost) on the edge of NJ
where" we suppose the writer indite
his whole article more ~jocularly than 81
riOusly, and this was intended to be "doW
right funny" But we viii give it a mol
serious answer, and will do so by invitir
q look Al the map of the country, whe
L viii be found that as we now are, y
occupy q position on the "edge" of a va
country, extending from the 10th deg.
north latitude, to the British Possessions,
distance of GAO miles on an air line!
there no danger of one day '.being sws
lowed, feathers and ALL" and that to
rifhOta "~greasing poi sloosing o
controlling position ?p-"Our strength
ever control Legislation to our own be
eft Pour identity 3" Although a
parentIy jOccse, we PROFOUND these que
tons in all seriousness. BY a~nnexatio
we do not, II is true, change our bOrd
posiion-we viii still be on the "edge
butare not our prospects Of occupying a
maintaining an influential position greai
enhancedby exchanging a border posih
on an extent of country containing fo
hundred and ninety thousand squa
miles, TO one of but one hundred and ffi
fonr thousand EIGHT hundred square mile