The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-23
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
To the Legislature:

To the Legislature:
Kansas, during the two years intervening
since your last session, has enjoyed . degree of
prosperity without = parallel during the same
period in any of the States in the Union. The
population of the State has increased at the
rate of 100000 per annum; the labor of the
husbaudman has been rewarded with abun-
dant harvests; the facilities for transportation
have been greatly increased; onr manufactur-
ing interests are in an encouraging condition;
the mineral resources of the State have been
rapidly developed; civilization has planted it
self on the western frontier where, but few
years ago. were found only the broad, fertile
prairies, which are row populated by class Of
citizens whose school bouseA churches. thriving
towns and well cultivated farms furnish abun-
dant evidence of their intelligence. industry,
enterprise, and progressive spirit.
Business enterprises have revived and in
creased; and to-day, Kansas, Young in years
but strong in natural resources, with an indus
triOus, intelligent population of nine hundred
Thousand people, located near the geographic
cal. and in course of time to be the CONNER
cial, center of the United States. profting by
the lessons learned through past reverses and
hardships necessarily incident to pioneer life,
looks to the future full of hope and promise
for the prosperity and happiness of her people.
INDIAN RAID.
1 regret that the existence of the fact that
during the months of last September and Oc-
tober a band of Cheyenne Indians. variously
estimated at from one hundred to two hundred
in number. raided the western border of our
State, makes it my duty to call your attention
to this matter; and without stopping to discuss
the causes, if any existed that led to this raid,
IT is sufficient to be able to state, from a per-
sonal investigation of the facts, that no citizen
of Kansas, nor any other person within our
State, gave the slightest provocation for the
brutal outrages committed by this rowing band
of murderers.
1t is fact, no less humiliating than true,
that about twenty five days elapsed from the
time these Indians crossed the southern bonnd-
airy of our State until they reached the county
of Decatur, on its northern limit; moving in
their line of march northward along the west
ern border of the frontier settlements, making
incursions into sparsely settled districts, where
the people were wholly unable to protect them
selves, killing they did about forty citi-
zens, destroying and carrying away large
amounts of property, and committing out
RACES upon defenseless women and children,
so brutal, heinous, and revolving in
their nature as to never be forgiven OF for
gotten. In declining to discuss the question
touching the effort made by orr State and ma
tional authorities to protect the settlers against
the outrages committed by this lawless band of
savages, do not wish to be understood as cast
ing any unjust reflections upon any one.
The duty of the hour is not SO much to deal
with the past, but to look to the future with a
determination that a repetition of these out
RACES shall never again occur in our State. The
doors OF Kansas have been thrown open WIDE
and a cordial invitation extended to the indus
trious, aw-abiding people of all portions of the
civilized world to come among us and build for
themselves homes. Many who have accepted
this invitation have chosen for their habtation
our western frontier. and 1t becomes an inner
alive duty of our State to protect the lives and
property OF these citizens against every inva-
SION by predatory bands of lawless sayages who
attempt or threaten to deprive them of either,
and to administer to such bands within our
borders prompt and merited punishment, and
ueiay .he se'.ienehl OF al tschhicai questions
'rA. may DC In.erPo'eo until aIter inc safety
u .ne ol'iZeh mas oeeh ,uiis secureu.
.l no vi onsP'ei w. vi 'he seheiaI s'a'-
"' an. OF iooo' provinces:
INA. IN case Oh ihsurrect'oh' INVASION; %.
threatened invasion, the commander-in-chef
l"y oiuei in.o as."e service any COMPANY,
isi , ': VI vi any Poi',ou VI ei.ne'
ne may oesiShate IN such forms OF organization
as ne may oiiect etc.
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ate fcr rn;i;,arv ,nrn,.s ny a,'a;,p P.i,
draw his warrant ON the treasurer nh, shall
nav the same"
Under section II the commandments. b,s
invasion. or Threatened invasion Fxperiepce
has taught us that hostile Indians do not send
advance couriers to notify the frontiersman
either of their coming or intent but the
first notice generally given, OF received is by