The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-11-10
SOUTHERN KANSAS.

have oHered TO carry lrelSht Iof the same
purpose, free of cost.
SOUTHERN KANSAS
We have had occasion, once before, to
allude to the despicable spirit which prompts
certain class of people to speculate out of the
drouth that has fallen, ike blight upon
our neighbors of Kansas. True, this is all
among themselves, and we might be pre-
sumed, by some, to be intermeddling where
we have no business but we would remind
those who are disposed to think thus, that
it is something of our business We have
an interest in seeing fairness and Justice pre-
vail. in Kansas as well as elsewhere.
The first speculation which we had occa-
sion to rebuke was that of soulless Rail
road corporation that sought to make the
restitution of portion of Kansas the means
of building Railroad which those people
had no interest in. There is now another
speculation scheme seeking to base itself
upon this drouth, which is equally unjust
and unpri ncipled and which deserves de-
nunciation at the hand of every fair minded
journal, whether in or out of Kansas.
The justice of which we speak is that
praeticed by certain journals of Central and
that the present season has demonstrated that
Southern Kansas is not SO desirable por
ton as Central and Northern Kansas that
that the soil is neither so deep nor 80 rich !:
that it does not stand the drouth so well !;
that it is more subject to these drouths. and
that in every respect it is an inferior por-
ton of Kansas, and that the settlers who
are now leaving the Southern counties on
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them in consequence of the present seasons
drouth, had better not return to the States,
but come and settle in Northern and Cen
trail Kansas.
Those who have gone to the States to
winter are advised not to return again to
Southern Kansas, and new emigrants, as
well as those in the States who design at
some future day to emigrate to Kansas, are
cautioned against going into the Southern
counties. and the present seasons disastrous
drouth is cited as warning against settling
in that section.
Now this attempt to build up their own
towns andc ounties by trying to pull down
their neighbours, is simply despicable. So
far as the present drouth is concerned, all
general all over Kansas. Those counties
W ulCh nave lS"SI duu less tlLuOSE
have suffered in an equal. degree, whether
in Northern, Central or Southern Kansas.
In some of the counties on the Kaw River,
some tolerably good crops have heen raised.
But there are just as many, of this kind on
on the Kaw, or any other stream. In some
of the localities on the northern line next to
Nebraska. there has been little more lain,
but might not this case be exactly reversed
the next, or any subsequent season
So far as the soil is concerned, all Kan
sas is good-there is no better anywhere on
the face of the earth than any of it. All of
it stands the drouth equally well, nor is one
section any more subject to drouth than any
other section. But every Missourian, every
man on the border, every traveller who has
seen and examined the whole Territory,
well knows that if there is any difference in
point of depth, richness and durability of
soil, in the general lay of the land, or in
point of climate-and every one knows that
there is in the latter Southern Kansas has
It. The Maries-de Cygnes, Neosho and
Verdigris countries are not surpassed on
the face of the earth, either in salubrious-
ness of climate, or unexceptionableness of
soil. Thousands and thousands of cattle
and other stock live out all winter without
any other feed than what the range affords
them, We believe there is no portion of
the earth where a man can secure such
abundant crops with as little labor. We
have travelled over almost all of Kansas, we
have seen the finest portions of Illinois, To-
wa and Missouri, and nowhere has a rich
er, healthier or more beautiful and attrac-
tive country, in every respect, met our gaze
than Southern Kansas. No better proof of
this can be offered than the fact that the
emigration into the counties South of the
Kansas River in the last three years has
more than guadrupled that into the North
ern counties, and every man on the border
knows it. The Neosho and Usage counties
has caught the greater portion of this. 1t
looks very much like an acknowledgement
of this fact on the part those central and
| Northern papers who now wish to make use
of the present drouth to frighten into their
counties that heavy emigration that has
heretofore gone Southward.-Honsos City
Journal Of Commerce.
We had intended to notice the conduct
of some of our Northern contemporaries who
have been guilty of such gross libels upon
Southern Kansas, but the above article from
the Journal relieves US from that duty
having fully vindicated the character and
claims of the South. stating in regard to
the soil and climate, what every one knows,
who has travelled over this section, that they
are second to none in the Union.
| We ask an attentive perusal of this article,
particularly by our Eastern subscribers.
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| PEV AETynNV Review
! sIs aERnER BIZ FRo-sLAYERY MOB CONFIRMED.
Rev, H. w. South, clergyman of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, writes
the Texas Christian Advocdte as follows,
fully confirming the report Heretofore de-
nied) of the murder of the Rev. Anthony
Bewlev. of the Methodist Episeonal Church.