The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-03-27

Annezaiion Of South Flzns, Nebraska, TO Kansas.
/ We find that this question is row aoi-
tatlBg the minds of our neighbors in the
/ Sister Territory. For our part we can
1 nave no particular objections to the an
nexation, and therefore, be it known that
/ se place ourself upon q plank Of the said
Platform. We firmly believe, from what
little observation we have had since being
IN Nebraska, that the future prosperity
and interest of South Platte would be far
better realized IN connection with Kan
sas. We have no fault to find with the
/ citizens OF North Platte, bat we notice
from the geographical location of the
two, that the interests do not work toseth-
er as they should. In view of this fact
we should go where our feelings would
coneiliate with ouF future interest We
may take occasion to speak of this again.
Lass County Sentinel,
The Ne,us, published at Nebraska Gity.
n. Ts speaking of that portion of Ne
braska lying south of the Platte, re-
marks -
That portion of Nebraska which we
call the South Platte country, extends
| from the Platte River to the Kansas line.
distance from the mouth of the Platte to
the line, seventy-two miles. The gener-
al surface of the country is rolling prairie,
interspersed with groves of timber, and
irrigated with plenteous streams of run
ming water. There is scarce quarter Sec
ton that is not sceU ioatered, either by
eprings or small creeks. Rock for build
ing purposes is also in great abundance
After showing that it is healthy coun-
try, free from swamp lands and stagnant
water, and that the atmosphere is dry and
charged with electricity, which adapts it
TO those effected with pulmonary COM
plants that the soil is of the best quail
| ity, it proceeds
The South Platte country is, in reality,
the garden of Nebraska, and forms the
most valuable portion of this vast extent
of Territory that covers more square miles
than the original thirteen States, is fact,
we believe, generally conceded. Indeed,
had the country south of the Platte river
been portion of Kansas, or organized
into Territory by itself, instead of being
Joined to the frozen carcass that stretches
| its huge length along British America,
this fertile and productive country would
have been settled at an equal pace with
Kansas.
The odium attached to the "bad lands''
| of Nebraska, united with the supposition
that all Nebraska was possessed of a cold
climate, has undoubtedly operated to our
injury. and prevented settlements here,
and it is uuquestionably fact that hun
dreds have settled in Kansas who would
have come here had it not been for the
causes just mentioned.
II We see no hope for our neighbor only
to join her to Kansas, even at this late
day. 1t is well she was shut out from us
in the past, as We have had less border to
defend against the inroads of slavery, and
by uniting our strength we could resist its
encroachments the more elfectually.-
While this has been the case in the past
there is no necessity for this position any
, longer. 1t was a part of the plans o.
Atchison and his confederates, to over.
shadow Kansas, but like every othel
i movement of theirs, to blight Kansas with
the peculiar institution" it has worked tc
, their detriment.
OT The Boston Journal, leading Re
publican newspaper of New England, o
the 18th inst, says:
: There has been story generally cur
rent for some days, that G. w. Brown
editor of the Kansas Herald of Freedom,
had given in his adhesion to the Lecomp
r ton iniquity, and that the price of his in
:. fiuence in that direction was 1921 adyer
tisement. Whether he has had the gov
> eminent advertisement we do not know