The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1859-02-05
NUMBER 27---vOLUME A.

bat the fast advancing tide of civilization
will make them known. There is already
a movement afoot which will have the
tendency to send to the AMOR millions
of settlers.
The Frazer's river region is unquestion-
ABLY a continuation Of California, and will,
in time. contribute its full share to swell
the wealth Of the world. But most promis-
ing of all, for the present we have the
Pixies Peak region. The most careful
examination of the very copious accounts
of this country, which are now appearing
so fully in Kansas papers, indicate, beyond
doubt, that this latest gold field is not
only enormously rich and Of vast extent,
but also far from being sterile or desolate
country. Game abounds there; it is well
wooded it is fertile; in short, it seems
that, like California, it will, in few years,
be 60 well settled that, should the gold
give out, it will advance on its other re-
sources. BY next fall there will be one
hundred thousand persons drawn into
Kansas by its gold region. The whole
country around is moved TO its very heart,
and Kansas will be made to bleed indeed
but it is to be gold this time.
1t has been well shown that nothing is
socially or practically worse for country
than to have all its capital and population
continually attracted to single centre.
This is Capitalization and it is ruiIOus.
1t is like drawing all the blood to the
head. Paris is France, and the result has
been that the rest Of France is two full
centuries behind the rest Of the civilized
world. The rural districts of France are
inferior, as regards agriculture, education
and general enlightenment, to any part Of
Europe except Austria, Russia and South
ern Italy. A number of points, each con-
tinually strengthening itself and establish
ing relations with the rest, makes country
strong beyond any other cause. Towns tciR
spring up along the line of railroads, aud
distributed strength tends to strengthen
the whole.
Our gold discoveries have contributed
more than their export to enrich the coun-
try. The gold which has been dug from
the mines of California would not now
purchase the farms, and stock, and houses,
or the internal improvements OF the State.
The Pacific railroad will add century-to
tho development of the country. Kansas,
with one hundred thousand additional
settlers, will build up bulwark of free
labor impregnable to all possible assaults,
and attract the worlds emigration again
to the West. The Frazer river mines will
stimulate the carrying trade and do much
toward aiding the tremendous future COM
merce of the Pacific. The child is now
born who will see all the shores Of the
Silent Sea musical with the hum Of busy,
civilized life, and the far isles Of the South
studded with shining cities. To the Ger
man song of Forwards! which urges on all
the countries of Europe incessant advance,
we may now add China, which has sat
immovable from the worlds earliest age,
and quaint Japan, ringed with steel and
death. Budha has risen from his primeval
seat, where he Tapped his soul in infinite
calm, awaiting Nirwana or endless rePose.
The lotus falls from his delicate hand, the
symbols of ever returning, never advanc-
ing nature lie scattered around; the dove
like eyes, which knew no movement,
fash with amazement as the iron horse
snorts like flying fiend along the track
of the sacred cities. Forwards China /!
Japan, forwards
Nothing is contributing more to this
universal movement now, or to the ultimate
strength and wealth Of the country, than
its gold. Gold is our guarantee that our
country, of three thousand miles extent,
will in few years be settled from ocean
to ocean.-Phladelphia Bulletin.