The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-11-08
Correspondents Of the Telegraph.

Kansas and her Railroads. The Union Pa
cifc Railway.-Politios of the far West.
The following, though calculated for last
weeks Telegraph, contains SO much interest
ing information, that we give it entire this
week. 1t came to hand, just as we were going
to press last week.
WYANDoTTE, Kansas, Oct. 20, '66.
Editors KeDosha Telegraph Gentlemen =
Thinking that brief sketch of matters here
away, might interest some of your readers, I
will jot down few Lines while awaiting the
train for Leayenworth.
This is the initial, or starting point Of the
great Union Pacific Railway-now in opera
ton via Lawrence and Topeka to Junction
tCity, GAO miles due west,) which latter place
| bids fair to become a town of some Importance
being at the confluence of the forks of the
Kansas (or Kaw) River, in fertile region of
country, now rapidly filling with emigrants,
road takes the Smoky Hill route bearing north
of west, and will probably reach Denver within
two years, and form junction with the Cen
trail Pacific Road, somewhere near the base of
the Rocky Mountains
This line is now undervery efficient manage
ment, and is doing large passenger and freight
business, which is bound to grow to enor-
nous proportions as the country through which
it passes becomes improved, and its agricultu-
raj and mineral resources developed. But this
road, in connection with the Missouri&Pa ci fc,
la revolution in the commercial status of the
Missouri River towns which have for five OF
six years past, had almost a monopoly of the
} trade of New Mexico and the mountain Terri
tories. Loavenworth and Kansas City are al
ready suffering from the loss of that trade, and
st. Joseph, Nebraska City and Omaha, will be
similarly affected when the Iowa division O
the @. 81 N. w. r. r. reaches the Mo. river al
Council Bluffs, thus with the Central Pacific
Road constituting a direct through line from
f Colorado and Montana to Chicago
Those roads, of course, are of incalculable
Importance to the vast regions which they
! open up to improvement, but one of the inevi
table results is to concentrate trade at the
: great commercial centers, and Chicago and st
Louis are to reap the rich rewards to which
, by their commanding positions and their in
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Kansas, as every one knows. is decidedly
Radical, and when all are one side, there il
small chance for discussion and the 'ides O
, November will demonstrate that the free mer
| of the west, who shouldered the musket ant
Responded to their country's call, when trea
, son andIrebellion in martial array'andiwith de
faint front, threatened the life of the best gov
no ut nh Lot
4 the bluster of the vile apostate, who by the
grace of Wilkes Booth temporarily occupie:
: (and disgraces) the White House, and that they
understand the issues of the present hour a:
clearly as they did those of the dark days, whe1
2 the fate of the nation hung trembling in the
scales.
In Missouri the case is different: Parties are
more equally divided, and the excitement is
intense. The ex-rebels and bushwhackers are
terribly incensed at being disfranchised, and
declare their intention to vote in spite of the
New Constitution and the laws, and Frank P
Blair and other leaders of the reactionary par.
lty, in their incendiary harangues, tell them
to "organize and arm themselves to the teeth
and to be ready to enforce their right to the
ballot if they have to wade in blood ankle
deep" In some of the hot beds of treason, vi
olence and blood-shed will no doubt result
from such incorporate and incendiary teach
lings of the Johnson leaders, but they calculate
on his support as did Mayor Monroe at New
Orleans, and the Republicans being equally
determined, hardly see how collision car
be averted.
1t is astonishing that any Of the people O
Missouri can be so blind to every interest O.
the State, as to oppose the progressof liberia
ideas,-the establishment of free labor, free
schools and free speech, and thereby turr
away from her inviting prairies the emigration
which is now pouring into Kansas. But there
is no blindness so dark as that begotten ofprej
udice, and no prejudice so stupid and debasing
as that engendered by the accused institution
of human slavery.
Should the Constitution party, as they style
themselves, gain victory at t ais election, it
will be a blow to the material prosperity Of
the state from which she will not recover fol
many years. / trust that Wisconsin will dc
her whole duty at the coming election, and by
lgiving an increased Republican majority-pro
nounce an emphatic rebuke, not only to the
usurper at Washington, but to her own recre
ant sons, who, dazzled by the glitter of execu
tive patronage, have turned from the true
faith and are following after strange GODS
Yours truly, 0,
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