The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-04-26
LETTER FROM KANSAS.

Rev. W.. K Marshall, 0 Atchson.
wrote the following to the New YorL
Methodist:
Kansas is perhaps the most progressive
State ir the Great West. She is keeping
pace with her mother, Massachusetts,, ia
everything that pertains 10 the rights Of
manic God and to the elevation of the race
The present Legislature is, in many res
poets, model. During its recent ses.
sion it passed several measures which
reflect credit upon our young State. 1t
has made large appropriations for the
cause of education; It has also submitted
to vote of the people proposition to
amend the Constitution by striking out
the word white" 30 as to enfranchise
the~negrc /; and also another proposition to
strike out the word ''male," and thus put
the ballot in the hand of woman.
Our Legislature has likewise taken a
giant stride in the temperance reform. by
passing law which provides that no per-
son shall be granted license to engage
in selling Intoxicating liquors without the
consent of majority of all the residents,
male and female, black and white, twenty
one years of age and upwards, OF the
ward, district, or township in which II is
proposed to establish such traffic. This
bill passed the Senate by vote of IS to
5, and the Honse by 72 to 10; being al
most unanimous in both Houses. We
venture the assertion that no other State
| in the Union is composed of such staunch
temperance material as ours. Lieuten-
ant Governor Green, who is a minister Of
the ME-. Church, and most earnest and
able advocate of all progressive and
reformalory measures signed the bill with
chirogrsphic characters as much larger
than those made by John Hancock, when
I he signed the Declaration of Independ
ence, as the present period is in advance
of that which witnessed the birth Of that
noble protest against British usurpation
| The Governor of our State is also an en-
terprising temperance man. Messrs
Pomeroy, Ross and CLARK, our Senators
and Representative 10 Congress, are all
active friends of this great reform, and
have associated themselves with the Ma
tiousl Temperance Society, organized in
Washington on the 18Th of FEBRUARY
! The Kansas Legislature, therefore, sends
greeting to her Representatives in Con
gress; and the young Massachusetts oil
the West" located on the very border of
Western civilization, halls with the most
unfeigned qualification. the arising of the
star of promise from the Capitol OF the
Nation.
Kansas has a bright future before her.
Her lands are rich and cheap; her climate
is one of the heallhiest of the Western
States; her soil is apparently inexhaussl
bic, and will produce pIentifuily all kinds
of grain; nearly every species of fruit can
be cultivated; water is abundant and good
Timber alone is scarce; and there is SUIT
6cient of this TO supply all the demand
for fuel. Coal exists in large Quantities
in several parts of the State. Two branch
es of the Great Pacific Railroad are rap
idly pushing westward through the heart
Of the State, and soon 3 large proportion
of the commerce of the world VIII pass
Through our borders. Colleges, semlns
ries and schools, are springing mp in ev
ery direction. Land can be purchased a
from two to twenty dollars per acre. &C
eordino to location and improvement
Ia short, no State or Territory Offers
greater Inducements 10 those who propos'
seeking homes IN the Great west thar
Kansas. We have rocm for thousandi
more. Send them along from your
crowded cities and rural districts. "a
broad, rich praiTies viii hail their coming
with prosperity and Plenty.-1Ae Meta
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