Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-10-29
Aid TIC The KANSAS -UPrEREas
RELIEF MEETING.


day evening. .or tie purpo-e OF taking luitia
tory st-E, towards f. -ni-hng re- to th.
starving people Of ksn4as. and TO hear the tes
tiuory cf Rev Mr.. Reg 20 De, concerning The
true condition II affairs in that Territory a:
regard. tie wants Of the people
On motion of Hiram Price. the II eetii !, com
TO orier ) calling Bishop Lee 10 the chair and
appointed ID. \. Richard on ~ecretarv.
Ga taxi Z the chair Bisaop Lee ma !e ,e W
pre- iminary remarks as 10 the matter IL hand
the want. and snffernga of the people of
ksnsas he Lad been there hiu. self during the
season, AMI knew that the ease was TRYING
one. lie sated that effort. for their relief
were beiag and had already heen made in III
nois that out of thei- aburdan, crops the
people of portions OF tast State had co ne up
to the h 2 Of the snffrrlHg, and had senerahy,
Add l!ber@. J responded to GAIA for assistance
tie strongly recommended that gu eli rt now
be made alhong ourseives-that ucove be
made IN Iowa to ameorate the wants of those
In distree- aHd az Davenport had bees first
20 take tbs sep, he hoped tina. il would be
carried out eti-ciualiy, and that the good
ample thus given here wc-ii bs fo..ou ed
| through the state.
bishop Lee then intro 9uerd the REV. Mr
Reynolds, OF Lawrence K.n.4s, anl etatea
that he WAS there especially 10 mako SHOWN
the wants and condition Of the people OF IL
| sa.
Mr. ke1 lbs introduced Lis narrative Of
| the suiiesngs OF tie people OF Kansas hy
stating that there 80 0G0 persons in that
territory wanting assistance that the awful
drouth of ;he past year had cut off almost ev
cry sonrce OF su ssIance-ald dat they were
obig d TO call their friends il other states
! for succoT, or r,arve. lie then went tack to
review tie agricultural progress Of Kansas lyr
lew years back. Previou. to 81 but little
| impr wen at had beea made by farm ers III
AaGeas. - hat crops were Passed tnat year
we're quite -,ooj and on the openirg OF he
uecee,.ue ear IL. ieop.e We, % eolA With
cod wiH--iehceing IN cia.ps hr,..lug tie
-o'i aud vu.tng in seed ]. ,sai. Good cro;s
ollow ed, j the iuture leo-.I urieht; tut
With the fr. came h.!iiou- fever throughout
The Territory. Sicktees nni sui Eitz was
universal; whole fanl,les were stricken down
--neither brns able even 10 JllL. a glass c
"ate, Tor III. rtst. Gu .ccouut oi sickness
All earl, irosts that F.i., no; oue-fourtG of th
potatoe crop was harvested mcst OF
the lett out through the Winter. and
- plosl eets ahead looked. dark bat in The
u a i
webt TO vcrk With a viii. -1Az hzRs oi QtEl..
ag the rci. GOLD mines at Pixies Peak promised
tine atket on tie west, 50 they made plans
10 supply 1t with bread and meat, Up to the
time but little wheat had beet raise Ell III X n
sss They sowed libe.ally with Winter wheat
SOW ed aid nary eeted ali the land they could
lr-pare-farmers clubbrd together aud seit
oct agents - purchare lve Log---so NE ran in
dett-sGn.e aida ! were auxIous to be res
dy to sufply the great growing demand fyT
a4riculturni roducls.
In the after part OF summer the whea,
sosu look ] finely, though there had been no
ain since the the drs, OF August it looked
Well durinI the winter, hut on ;ae Isl Of Feb
raary II Zee Ine apparent tnat it az entire
failure. 1He absence of snow TO protect it, il
wat killed cut By fret. TIE glouu,! was plow-
v1-a soIne farmers turned their attention
70 putting II spring wheat, others to corn, Po-
tltoes, ETC. They supposed the usual fall OF
rain would take pace in May. but 10 rain
c4me the earth was literally parene wheat
amounted 10 nothing, and OF corn there wa
.ot Gushvl 10 the acre Then the t,rlners
i@rled their attention to buck wi eat aud tur |
nias-puttlng in large treaJth-hut Ia. sc
sha red The same fate-coMe To uothinc there
WIS 10 moisture in ths ground-no cror.-
Froa, Augad lst, 1859, up 10 The last SATURDAY |
Of SEPTEMBER. 81 D. there I'd been ouiy oas .A9ae-
tr II ra,n--G light one the second 5 ,db .fh f
jane last! Nothing had been raised except t
on the river upon some Tch bottoms, AM here |
been realized or anything upon which to i've |
except villa, little might have been saved from |
last year.
In oue ne shb1rhcul-B Blue Mound-contsin
ing rs FAM i,s, Of about FIVE to the family, up
o. investigation it was found there was ir that
whole country upon which to live through the |
winter, 40 bushels Of wheat und 500 bushels ei |
corn, all toli-no moreno pot-t toes as large |
as bullet, 40 corn, wheat, barely ~ e. noM-
ing !,
Sach the condition in every portion of /
the Territory south Of the Kansas kiver In
many counties north it was about the SANE
They must have help Stare. They had sold |
off their stock, sold and shot their hogs, a. d
are at the end Of their res ources ar d look-
ing for aid from abroad. This they must lave
or perish. H. had already heard reports Of
death By starvation, Tut could no, youch fer
their truth. That such calamitio. would ensue
there could be no doubt, unies help was sen.
them, as it sent to the Irish in 1877.
and TO the Greeks in their days OF want. M Il
read corrobora;ive letters, though We thiak his
statements required no corrobora ion. They
wefe evidently true.
Willard Barrows addressed the meeting lie
had been through Kansas this summer ; the
condition vas distressing did no, see but one
~h-a. field reaPei al ma,L oe sont, and that
pramp'iy.
t. Cock made a few remark. n which he !
ex res.ed =, mpathy for tue s,.tfer-rs nd tho't
davenport would uot fail To- respond hbe, ally.
md discharge faithfully n.r duty in It's ma.
.er
Willard Barr'ws moved that the chair al.
point q com ittee O! nine to 8 ,licI, ai1 IN ia