The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1864-01-23

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Is or friend, D. II. Bailey ipfo{ be I thu
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is in New England, is of the South, and he
thinks that the emigration into its sunny
fields, will be ppprecedently laree;jq yrs
The Governor notices this fact, the FIRST
statement of it se have seen, aud the mail
lust received bring US comments upon it
| from some of the leading journalsiof ihi
East. One of the ablest Of them, the Post
Of New york, devotes an article to the
subject, and does 80 with much elearness
and yiSor. So ri - sa1as e'ii -. t'F''si o5l
- Yet what is very snosusl with it, Il
commences its remarks With palpable er-
ror: =" In Kansas, it says We are main
timing somewhat doubtful controversy
with nature, which claims 'as her own the
7reat lAnericaa dsseft-s' country four
hundred miles in width on this side of the
Rocky Mouutain.n There is no suck des
ert, Il ia . fiction of the old maps, and
simply, because it was uninhabited.5 Hcs,
pray is the immense emigration across the
plains fed . Every ten miles there are
ranches, and If the demand warranted It,
they would dot the line Of travel in close
neighbothood. Herds Of Buffalo txead
these plains, ond they would not be there If
there we're no grass. Settlements are in
creasing rapidly on all the main travelled
routes westward, and there is no difficulty in
raising whatever is needed to supply the
wants OF necessities of man and beast. Let
this idea Of the J" Great American Desert"
be bapishedafor it docs not exist.
The Post, speaking Of the regularity Of
the tidal sweep Of the waves of population
westward, refers to the change that came
from the South to the North, in the person
Of the escaped fugitive, next the opponents
Of slavery, then the Unionists, who had
hoped, by sacriiciog the other two, to es-
cape, as If the tiger could be made gentle
by throwing it . morsei of meal. There
are, it is computed, over twenty thousand
Of this class in the city Of New York alone,
and at least half million Of exiles scat.
tered over the North. But the second
change is from the North to the South the
great stream Of Humanity will set, hence
forth, strongly Southwark. The Post says
i"Tens of thousands Of our sons have
gone to that region as soldiers, and, finding
the soil to be naturally prolific, have made
arrangements to settle on it. The banyan
tree IN Hindostan is not more ready to
strike its boughs into the earth, to make
new stems and roots, than the North Amer.
ican is to fasten upon the soil wherever it
will yield him the competence he requires.
Our volunteers are the pioneers Of hundreds
Of thousands who will follow them from the
North and from Europe, until every hsbit.
able spot in the Southern States is made
the scene Of new civilization. ~
"In this migration of Southerners to the
North and Of North srner to the South, this
comming Cling and blending together of those
clements which have been. growing more
diverged aud estranged from each other
year BY year, We find one great hope Of .fu;
ture union and tranquility. We shall. re-,
ce;ve and profit BY whatever Southern men
have to impart at the same time Northern
ideas and modes Of life, slightly modified
by local conditions, will be adopted general;
y throughout the region at present; in in-
surrection. Europe will continue 70 send
over her toiling masses, and these, hitherto
debarred from the region lying beyond Na,
con and Dixop's line. will now rush in with
loyal Americans to gil the newly created
void. Thus it happens that when the door
to future progress toward the West appear
ed to be closing, another is opeacd toward
the Gulf of Mexico. Sufficient 70 admit all
the surplus population which the North
shall have to spare for the next century at
least. We shall probably search modern
history in vain to 6nd, in any other State
claiming to be civilized, movement Of the
population on 50 vast scale, and connected
with so radical revolution in the social
condition Of its inhabitants. -. '..-e
Nov, this is . subject (both ~ presented
BY the Governor and BY the, fPost) worthy
the consideration Of the people of Kansas.
It touches them closely. 2 It comes right
home to their present, and concern. directly
their future welfare. ii iii zoo ,as.lasltsi
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o. Foreign News. 70 s4rr II
A searching inquiry into the equipment
and departure Of the steamer Rappahan-
mock, from Chatham, exonerates the officials.
All mechanics and iaborers engaged on her
have been dismissed Precautions 'were