Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-03-08
Letter from Kansas.
WYANDorrR, FEB. %, 1876

X. DIANDARD - Is liue ludl htlh
sas ia now a SOY ereign state in name, bu
still no advantage can be expected to re
suit until the goyeramcn: machinery il
set in motion, and this Of necessity take
some time. BY the provisions of oui
constitution, cur first legislature can b.
allowed 10 earn S240, each man, or $24
600, in the aggregate, and Of course j
viii occupy considerable time to do al
that. We, therefore, can hardly expec
immediate relief from Federal rule from
that quarter. 1t is more difficult TO leg
islate where every thing is new, As vel
the machinery as the subject matter and
the operators, and consequently we may
expect from three to six months legisIa-
ton in the first year of our sovereign ex-
istence. Though Missouri has given a
large conditional Union vote, still the
monster, slavery, is crushing out her free
state men. Only a few days since, | call
ed on our resident Methodist minister,
and there found the Presiding Elder OF
the District opposite Us in Missouri with
his little family, refugees from slavery
oppression. | inquired why he left bis
charge. His answer was that he /" left
to avoid personal violence with which he
had been threatened lie seems a de
voted man, retiring aad unassuming in his
manners, and tie last man one would
suppose likely to offend any one. But
slavery must be obeyed.
With great confidence and assurance,
it is anticipated by many whose position
gives them better opportunities to Judge
than have, that Immediately after the
fourth of March this locality will be lite
rally a warlike camp, filed with barracks
and soldiers, and that an invasion and
collision is inevitable unless Kansas falls
back into the arms of Missouri" as Sea.
ator Green has predicted that she will.
But l take no stock at all in those state
ments. l think Missourians are fully
satisfied of the pluck spunk, and military
proves Of the frec-state men Of Kansas,
and that tie last act they will DO before
committing suicide will be to enter this
stale with hostile forces.
Montgomery is host in himself, and
his name is terror to tyrants. They
know full well that Jim Lane, as he is
called, is every where present as much as
a human being can be If they come
here They will find our arms in better or
der than they wish to see them, and more
Q. them. But still, men of weak minds
are fearful and uneasy, hardly sleep qui-
city nights, from fear Of these murder
Gus wretches. Pro-slavery Democrats,
Of which we havca few, are as fearful as
any others. But enough Of this.
A week or more since the wind began
to boom up from the sau'h roaring and
believing; and although it brings with it
no secession feeling, still it brings the
balmy breezes of spring with its soft bland
and has opened the ground
so that plougbs are running, boys are
barefoot in the street, and fires for COM
fort are among the things that have been.
Everything is cheerful and all nature
seems inviting tue immigrants from the.
East to come and possess the land
No immigra's need fear on account.
Of the starvation statements published By
Hyatt as, Notwithstanding all the state
menis, | bought to-day as good steaks as
can be found in Vermont for seven cents.
Butter Is worth twenty cents, flour seven
dollars, corn sixty cents per bushel, pork
eight TO ten cents potatoes one dollar and
dried apples two dollars per bushel. BE-
Ibis | do not intend 10 say that there is
not offering among the poor, but persons
with means eau live as cheaply here as
they can in Vermont There is no diff.
Guilty in obtaining all the necessaries of
life and many OF the comforts here, as
well as in other places. Labor is worth
more here than in New England, and
there is really less of suffering where
people are willing TO work than is repre-
sented. Indeed, / believe, and / think
know, that the statements are untrue
| think Pomeroy is honest, but have no
doubt but Hyatt, Winchel, and many 9th
ers are making money out Of the matter
No man here can be made to believe al
''he Of the statements that are publish |
ed, aud it is with Us a very serious enau- /
= Whist has been done with the money
We see every few days an
lccoun. OF the distribution Of relief goods.
but 10 one has yet seen any published ac-
count Of monies disbursed; at all events,
40 such account has appeared in the To-
'al papers in this state. | think these ex-
'gerated statements tend TO retard immi-
ration and, Of course, the prosperity OIL
Kansas. But emigrants may be sure
hat no bettersoil can be found, no bright
sr sun shines, and the earth is now full
IF moisture for an abundant crop, which