The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-01-21

allow the stock to frequently tres.
pass. Everyone knows there are
many stormy and very chilly DAYS
during spring after stock are turn
ed out, and in the fall before time
for feeding, and ali who have any
knowledge of the nature of stock.
know that, on such occasions, they
are unmanagesble and become scat.
tered to the 'four Winds" 1 re-
member such an occasion, some time
since, when all the herds in this re-
gion were scattered, for the time be-
ing, and some were not fully re-
collected for some days, being sepa
rated many miles. Without fences.
what litigation might have resulted
from this single storm? Escaping
and Struggling stock would be q
constant source of annoyance and
controversy. Where do you find the
solid farmers of the country ? Where
the sterling cattle men?
Now, Messrs. Editors, have writ.
ten all 1 intended to say, but my at
tention being called to an article
from ga. Pr" of Chase county, 1
will add a passing notice, which
is all it seems to merit. Mr., Mrs.
or Miss ga. vas the case may
be-assumes it to be his or her prov
ince to read the good people of Lyon
lecture upon morals. 1t must be
admitted that our statutes do not in :
close our vast common with q paper
fence; therefore, our friend must
plant himself upon the "higher law
A. V. would not have a privileged
class" Not by any means. Well, let
us examine the matter little. The
American or European spectators,
at an early day, sent to their agents
here, who selected and purchased
for them, at a nominal value, mil
lions of acres of the best bottom
and timber, as we'll as uplands. The
sturdy, raw.bOned pioneer after
wards comes and purchases his for
ty, eighty, or one hundred and sixty
acres-tears himself and helpless
family from kindred and friends, to
make their homes in the midst of
savage and hostile Indians, and al
the mercy of hordes of barbarous
and cruel "border-ruffians, "1slav-
ery's minions! By the aid of OK
team, amid want and privation, they
erect the cabin, break up the virgin
soil, erect mills, school houses, col.
leges, churches, build railroads
bridges, &C., thus enhancing, ten
fold, the value of the surrounding
lands of the speculatOr, IN his alb.
sence, and at very trif1ing expense
to him-he paying no taxes on those
improvements, and sharing none Of
the tolls, dangers and privations in.
, cident to new settlement during
the progress of the most stipend
, Gus civil war known to history, and
f being securely ensconced in the pal.
/ ace of some distant-perhsps econ
federate" city-sO-c called, surround
} ed by all the granduer and luxury
of prince, and fearing nothing
, from the tomahawk and scalpins
, knife of the savage, or the carbint
, and torch of the barbarian in hil
unearthly strides to throttle heaven
, born and God-given freedom in thii
infant colony, and to establish ani
rivet upon its fair soil slavery-tht
foulest, blacklist blot all tingeG
: with which furnishes oul
! otherwise glorious history as a ma
, ton. And the same nonresident
, are those who come now, with sane
timonious air, at the eleventh hour,
. as A. V. says, and demand that al
} fences of the pioneer, and all hi
herds be Outlawed, and the State b,
turned over to the spectators, thai
their uplands-their bottoms having
/ been disposed of to great advantage
5 to settlers-be made saleable also
t They would truly constitute us
l "privileged class" Privileged to d,
! what? Privileged to improve tn,
> country, inclose our farms, builC
schools, churches, mills, &C., brav
= the savage and the barbarian, ant
= then - evacuate, turn all over t.
r these blessed martyrsi
Begging your pardon for tn
8 length of this article, l now tax
9 a final leave of the subject.
Yours truly, &C., FARMER.
Allen Creek, January Is.