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

/ Our Territory, ID the coming Spring emf
cation, has but one rivai--Kamsas Nsbras
ka IS cut OF the question the mo t of Du
koIa is more desoatc with great wateress
rre'e-s prairics, than ever was illinois " i'll
! her fertility, and Wisconsin and Iowa tav,
assumed the position Of old settled States
The cInigrant will hesitate between Mnneso
ia and Kansas. The choice should not lon.
he a matter of doubt. Political and section
al feelings have given Kansas an importanc,
and success that do not naturally belong tt
her. The battle field between the hosts o
freedom and slavery, the noise Of the war ha,
attr acted crowds to settle in her borders ant
take part in the CONTEST. Leaving out tbi.
accidental advantage, she is not the land nat,
ural for settlement by Northern em,grants
She is beow That great line south of which
enterprise and great mental activity do moi
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, howey-
er much they may be adapted for pastoral
population, are utterly untitled to enter into
competition with great agricultural commu-
mites.
She is moreover greatly cursed in the
worst of all infections, ill health!
We have lately seen a 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 en;gra-
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 po-
lit'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
people there, it would probably have been
peopled by 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 lnstItu ions
than the school house AMI church. Cover.
nor WALKER Just before leaving Kansas de-
nouncel the Southern wing OF the Democ
racy, represented IN that Territory by such
people as = SITS, rulians AMI assassins -
The terms are rather strong bat we doab
not equally descriptive.
The better class Of emigrants, men If in
ell gence and information, when free from
xcs'euent, and viewing things calmly. will
eek more northern latitude. AMI IN Mime.
sofa they will find a rich SOIL lealtI, g vim.
Innate an at least eight mill ~ of acres If
land, lying n ady fer them
)ur pnre air is as a tonic to mind and hodv.
md instead Of sinking debiitated under til s..
ell infu noes Of bilious disorders, our citizens
Ill 60 nth to their daily tasks with vigor
md clearness of mind that cannot but insure
'ur success as people and Community. i
Unnatural forces must always produce
revulsion, AMI the high pressure
which has been applied to drive population
nto Kansas, once withdrawn, as it sooner or
alter must be, by the settlement Of the diff
ult'es through tho triumph Of the Free
State people, and we will see that tree-less
I'D bilious Territory disgorglag 1t. a.
,o;ntod Thousand, -,oap-
!, NOV. will seek new homes
oenial chimes.