Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-10-04

Sas.
The benevolent Thaddeus Hyatt ha:
been on a tour through Kansas to learn fol
himself the present situation of that inter.
estipp part of our country. He has writ.
ten for the press long letter descriptive
of the horrors there felt and dreaded, ow.
ing to the unprecedented drouth of the
past season. He states that the desola.
tion of Kansas cannot be told; the half i.
not yet known. The people have no wheat
to eat, none to SOW, and no money to buy
it With. Kansas has no seed corn for the
coming spring, and in al. her borders has
not old and new corn enough to sustain
her present population beyond the month
of March next. The crops generally this
year are dead failure" Potatoes and
other vegetables as well as prairie grass
have been cut of in many sections, and
they who in Kansas have bread for them
selves have none for their neighbors.
The people of Kansas have been pio-
neers in settling the wilderness and estab-
fishing free institutions in the broad gate
way to the Southeastern slope of the Rocky
Mountains, and their sad case, growing out
Of causes which no human prudence or
foresight could avert, gives them peculiar
claims on the active sympathies Of their
countrymen in the older and bountifully
blessed States. Mr.. Hyatt says:
Let the country hear me. At this NOR
tai hour, as l sit here penning these lines,
people are starving! Whole families have
literally nothing to eat. Other families
are subsisting wholly on mere bread and
water, and corn bread at that; and death
from starvation has actually occurred The
hunger 6end sits enthroned in Kansas. l
asked the census-taker, what of Kansas
And be ereplied: Now listen to what the
census-taker, man who has visited every
cabin in the country, says: man who for
two whole days travel had for his horse
only parched grass, and for himself nothing.
In Walker Township, Anderson county, be
found family that had nothing to eat;
their drink was the milk of one cow-this
was all their subsistence. In Ozark Town
ship, on single section, be found five fam
lilies living on corn meal and water. An
other family of four living wholly on the
milk of their COW; not a crumb of bread
in the house-nothing whatever to eat.
And be found one death from starvation.
The ueighbors have sorrowful testimony
to the fact, accounting for it on the ground
that they were all circumstanced so nearly |
alike-all SO near starvation, that they did |
not realize the poor woman's actual dam
ger until she bad got beyond the reach of
aid, and beyond the need of it.
ALI that can leave are fleeing from the
country. Mr.. H. represents the emigrants
from Kansas during the month of August
at the rate of two hundred per day. But
there are some that cannot leave. THey
haze neither money, nor food, nor strength
to migrate.-Mr. Hyatt continues:
/ asked the preacher of the gospel, what
of Kansasl Hearken to what the preach
er says: II have preached three months a
long the Neosho Valley; the people on the
circuit are responsible for my support
This year they are all poor; their crops
have failed. L had not the heart to ask /
for my salary. All 1 have received for
my twelve weeks labor is this two bits"
And the preacher took fom his pocket
and exhibited in his hands exactly twenty
five cents!
The preacher talked of leaving. but his
poor parishioners wept. They told him
to stay. That though they had no money |
and no food scarcely, yet if he would stay
they would hunt buffalo meat for him, and |
pay him with that. The preacher consen-
DR.. Samuel Aver was enquircd of as to
the causes of his calamity. Among other
things he replies:
In the west portion of the country
where the lands were last year ordered TO
be sold, the destitution is peculiarly great,
because the people have no money, and
they have no money because they acre
tast gear forced 10 pay for their lands!
Many of the poor settlers had no alterna-
tire but to mortgage their claims to raise
the money demanded of them by the Gov
The druoth has come. and pay
day has GOMEZ These poor people unable
to subsist, will be driven from their claims,
and lose all! Had We Homestead bill,
this state of things would not exist.
Mr. Hyatt closes:
Friends of humanity, wait not, O, wait
not, | beseeh you, until the opened heav-
ems shall food the land with rains that shall
add sickness to poverty. For then what
shall these poor people do! Delay not
your work of mercy until drifting SHOWS
aud drifting sleet shall intensity suffering
already too great TO be borne. For the
love of God, l pray you postpone not phi
lanthropy an hour. Believe me there is
no time TO spare. Let not the wailing
winds of March bethe requiem of the dead
who shall have persisted for want of your
limely aid.
French Aid To The PODe.