The Kanzas news., 1858-02-13
Tha Rush Westward.

Inc constant aIl0 immense em1SraliOn
from the older States, East, North and South.
for the last few years, seems finally TO have
awakened great alarm in the minds of the
guardians on the watchtowers of their eoun-
try's best interests, and forthwith the cry
of bankruptcy and starvation in the West
has been sounded and re-echoed through
out the length and breadth of the Union,
from the rostrum, pulpit and editorial pen.
The public have been warned that the peo-
pie of the West are starving, their lands fail
to produce, their stock freeze In the winter;
their cities and towns are becoming desert
ed and depopulated; their lands are up to
extraVagant prices to the ruin and bankrupt
cy of those who have invested in lands or
town lots. That the country is in every
way overdone and must inevitably engulf in
whirlpool of ruin all who are concerned
with Western interests peeuniarily.
Now, let US look little deeper in this
matter and enquire into the cause of this
great hue and cry against ''going West, !"
what are the arguments against the change
of domicil from East to West. who are the
"seare crow parties, and what their OBJ
ject. '.'
The newspaper press complains that the
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being deprecated; that manufactures are
declining: that the price of labor is advan-
cling; and that in fact their most intelligent,
skillful and industrious population is thus
) being drawn of.
Now, the case is plain one to us; all the
real and tangible objections seem to be sim
ply, view to the good and prosperity of the
country from whence emigrants are remov
ing, whilst little is cared for the good, the
welfare or advancement of those whom they
would deter from lettering their conditions.
Capitalists and manufacturers wish to profit
l by their labor; merchants and tradesmen
wish to keep them for customers and con-
sumers. Ministers require them to swell
their congregations and contributions, and
editors must have subscribers at home for
their papers and patronage for their adver
tising columns. This, then, is the real cause
of all the great bugbear stories of starva-
ton, bankruptcy and ruin that has of late
been reverberated all over the country.
The truth in regard to the West Is quick
" told. The prairie country was never in
so flourishing, so healthful, so prosperous a
condition as at this moment. The hue and
CRY of interested parties against migrations
have been heard, laughed at, forgotten.-
Towns and cities are rapidly being reared,
and wide agricultural districts are being
opened. Manufactures and commerce are
increasing to an extent that surpasses belief.
Men of energy, sense, discretion and good
judgment, have not been effected by the
great noise against the West; but have in
vested their monies, whilst the poor and Ia
Boring have spent their strength; and the
result is avast trade; populous and busy
cities and villages; numerous herds of stock
and crops of grain and vegetables, far sur
passing that of any previous year sincethe
settlement of the country. We have most
healthy and delightful climate. The soil is
rich, productive and easy of cultivation as
was ever turned by piowshare; water the
most pure and abundant; timber In reason
able supply and rapidly increasing in guam
tity; useful and valuable minerals; naviga
bic rivers, and every facility for building
railroads; and, in fact. every necessary in
gredient for one of the most important and
prosperous countries on the globe. The ell
ements of Its greatness are within itself and
only requires the arm of the sturdy yeoman
~, the miner, the mechanic, the artisan,
the laboring man and the capitalist, to has
ten and mature its development.
Who dares to say that before two score
years shall roll around, the Capital of the
Union viii not loom up above the bluffs of
the Missouri. 1t is destiny. 1t will be so.
The poverty of Eastern lands and the mar
rowness of the country is becoming too per-
ceptible to close ones eyes against the facts;
and the great stream that divides the Amer
ican Continent, mid way, viii yet boast of
huge cities upon her banks, that will be cen
tral marts of commerce on this continent
Upon the amount of ground required to
produce one bushels of grain in the East
we can easily make three here Then Why
viii not lands in the West be really worth
as much or more than Eastern lands? So
soon as we have railroad facilities, thus hav-
ing market for our produce, they viii.