Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-07-26
Ia Letter from Wyandotte, Kansas.


Mr.. Editor In your issue of the
18th of june, is an article from the
Rev. 7. S. Hubbard, in which he I'M
dertakes to speak for. Vermont and
Kansas, and all the rest of the United
States. Although Vermont is not
the State of my nativity, have spent
fifty-six years in the State, and l
think I have profted some from ex-
perience. This is my seventh sum
mer in Kansas, on the border of slave
nv on one. side, and of Indian Wars
on the other. There may be, and
doubtless is, objections to the sur
roundings of Kansas, but the New
England man that objects to the soil
or climate of Kansas does not under
stand it, he cannot be acquainted with
it.
Such a thing as destroying crops
with frost in Kansas is not known
here, and it surprises me that in 1857
we are, for the first time, to learn
/ from a Vermonter, be he Rev. or net,
that we had no sound corn in 1868.
| venture the assertion that since
Kansas has been cultivated there never
has been a single year when her soil
has not produced fair crop of sound
corn whatever the variety planted
might be. Even in 1860 the crop
was fair, where ever the soil was
properly cultivated. The Western
counties of Missouri along the line
of Kansas, had very near, if not quite
an average crop, and l saw the crops
myself in portions Of Kansas, and
know that in no single instance thai
come under my observation, was there
f failure of crop, where there haC
e been anything ike reasonable cult
5 walton. There was in 1860 a grea
! many thousand acres Of sod corn at
tempted, and this proved failure
Great fields. of fifty or a hundred
acres, or whole quarter section wa
planted with planters, and failed; ant
! bleeding Kansas had been the politi
q cal cry from 1856, and the political
t must be green that could not or
famine. OF course the cry OF drout
= must go ont to reach the pockets 0
. people ia the East. The man9uye
d was a success. Our senator in Con
p gress may we'll rejoice that the yea
y 1860 came Just before our first Senf
} torial election, and that he and hi
: satalite in New York were wis
5 enough to take up the watch word
l. famine and drouth for by that el
IL pertinent he has secured his seat fC
1t twelve years, if he lives. You doub
\ less rccoIIect that as far back as 1856
D. | questioned the sensation statement
sent East, and believed them, as
lie now know, that they were sensatio
y articles published for effect
= There were great many emigran
to in 1859 and the early part of 1856
who expected corn from the sod wit
Dt out cultivation, they failed and ST
y fered, and from that tie cry WI
''.' raised, the East was cheated, al
" politicians successful. The Rev. NJ
Hubbard says, when did we ev
know Kansas drouth killing tire
as well as corn, DC, throughout t
lie. State :? This statement is in b
N. taste because there is no tOundati
as for it. | have travelled conSiderat
an in Kansas and l never saw or ey
J. heard of a tree or shrub killed
ri. drouth. thank God most hearti
M that there are human beings that ha
is the courage and endurance 10 live
&C, Vermont, but it is unjust for them
at attempt to detract from the real me
,er Of a sister State by misrepresenti
her or rehashing political sensat
NE articles. 1t is not true that Kan.
nd and Missouri are subject to drout
hs: Only one was ever heard Of in h
no sas, and that was fiction. Vermo
rsI ers just come and see, and you v
tyr agree with a VERMONTER IN KANs
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