The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-05
BALTIMORE.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ;, 1860

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ), 1860
There is always something going wrong with
Kansas. Other territories manage 10 pick up some
crumbs Of comfort under the most adverse cir.
cumstances, but Kansas is inconsolable For
awhile she presented herself persistently before the
public as 'bleeding Kansas, " and extorted in some
quarters good deal Of sympathy in her behalf,
which she managed to turn to profitable account.
Glowing descriptions of the topography of the
country the salubrity of the climate and the fer
tiliy Of the SOIL were circulated literally through
the States, and much money was obtained from
credulous capitalists, on the promise of extraordi-
nary of interest for the purpose of specializing
in the wild lands of that Western Paradise Was
not Pixies Peak within its limits, and was not
gold to be had there for the gathering? Did not
two great highways one to California and another
to Oregon, traverse its entire length? A healthy
climate, rich soil, gold placers and two emigrant
routes to the Paciic-what more could Kansas
want that any new territory should have?
Let Kansas be what she may, she yet lacked one
thing, without which all her assumed advantages
like the fairy gold of Irish tradition melted away
an industrious and contented population 1t is
not an easy task to transform the members of a
turbulent community into peaceful and aw-abid-
ing citzsns and where factious opposition at
home begets iactious support from other quarters,
it is more profitable to invent troubles and ina
CINE grievances than 10 settle down quietly and
make the best of things they are. There is a
vast amount of charlatanism in Kansas, and it
arises from the fact that she has found charlatan-
ism lucrative. She bed as long as she could
and now that her wounds are staunched she has
taken to weeping. 1t is the old face under a new
hood. The slavery grief has been abandoned
The complaint is now of the crops. "The Terri
tory has been visited by drought of a most
" disastrous character wheat, corn, potatoes
g'rden vegetables, hay and fodder; all these
are reported to have failed. The accounts
are lugubrious in the extreme ''There
els say the letter writers, every little work
'to be had Cattle and hogs are valueless, money
''scarce at from four to five per cent. q month
Credit impossible This, if true, is certainly
very deplorabe state Of things; but seasons will
occasionally prove adverse, and we know of no in
stitutions, whether free or slave which will cause
the rain to fall the sun to shine at the exact
places where it is most particularly wanted or at
periods which would actually suit individual con-
yenlence If such brilliant discovery We're made
1t could be turned to no useful account for the
farmer who wanted rain would be brought into
conflict with the traveller who wanted fair weather
and the only possible compromise would be a
cloudy atmosphere. But the people of Kansas
certain portion of them at least-think differ
emily. Hundreds of worthy men," we are told,
care almost reduced to desperation in view of the
approaching winter" and for these difficulties
short crops-"the mass of the people are inclined
'to blame the General Administration and the
''party in power What admirable intelligence
this evinces For two successive seasons the great
grain-growing States of the North West suffered
grievously from the same cause, yet we never
heard that they charged the misfortune which
had befallen them ''upon the General Admin
''istration and the party in power" On the
contrary, they bore up as manfully as they could
under their reverses, economical the little means
which remained to them, ploughed, narrowed and
planted anew, and have at length reaped the re-
ward OF their perseverance in n luxuriant harvest
and high prices for their surplus products. The
mass Of the people Of Kansas are said to attribute
their disasters to their territorial condition. whilst
Minnesota was so enamoured with being free of
the charges that would follow her organization
as State that, notwithstanding her ample popu-
laton, she very reluctantly consented to apply for
admission into the UNION. 1t is not difficult
however, to find the kay to this, the latest Kansas
grievance. Territorial Kansas has but little,
II any, public money III her eychequer and the
dominant party there have been long waiting for
the period to arrive when eager aspirants could
be indicted into offices for which they are now
clamoring, and lean purses could be filled by
means of FIT jobs and liberal contracts
clad Kansas been admitted at the last
'isession of Congress, with the usual grants and
donations for roads, public buildings, &C.,
measures of relief would now be in our power
So writes Kansas man 10 the New York Times
and thus betrays his own longings and the secret
cause of the discomfort which prevails among others
ofhis faction tits admitted that Kansas, at the time
of her organization, received from the General Gov
eminent some fifty-fve thousand dollars for terri
torial purposes, less than sixteen thousand of
which were legitmately expended-the remainder
being subjected to that law ofappropriat;on which
seems to have become favorite with officials
everywhere and Of almost every grade But the
friends of Kansas are now morally certain that
any grants and donations which might come to
her would not be misapplied-that crops would
not then fail--that labor would be in demand
that the tax-collector. would not be put to the
trouble Of calling a second time--that mortgages
would be taken up before they matured, and that
instead of going off to the mines and getting moth
ing for their pains, the people would stay at home
and grow rich at their leisure. All these happy
consequences are confidently predicted if Congress
would but admit Kansas into the Confederacy of
States with a dover sufficiently ample to put the
machine in motion. This is q novel remedy for
all the ills that Kansas has fallen heir to, but
whether it can be regarded as panacea is another
question.