The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-05-15

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i-.z- Kansas Letter.
PEABODY, MARIoM CouHrY,
:r-.. KANSAS, May Sd, 1879.
FRIEND HARRIS, SIR This b .
railroad town on the Atchison 4 Santa
Fee Railroad, containing about ono
thousand inhabitants, and IL . wide
awake town. About four hundred
thousand bushels of wheat shipped
from here last year shows we'll for n
town of four or five eyear'sgrowth. The
surrounding country is one Of the rich
est agricultural sections Of the State,
and capable of producing immense
crops of wheat, corn, oats, and sus-
tanning on the broad prairies immense
herds of cattle and sheep.
We found our old friend, W. d.
Butler. formerly of Atwater. Portage
county, O., to be one Of the old settlers
here, having been here about six years
and grown up with the place. He is
in the hardware business and his trade
amounts to about $50, 900 per year, and
when I tell youths there are two
other firms in the same business in
town it will GiHe eopethina Of ani1eA
ofY the amount OF buu4nees done IN Q
little town ON what used to be called
the Great American Desert." !" The
dry weather during the winter has in
jured the winter wheat to some extent,
but rains for the past two weeks have
been abundant and there h now .
prospect for abountifnl harvest. When
p. III. Bean said this was the best
country the sun ever shone on (except
the Indian Territory I thought he was
putting q little too much color In the
picture. But, like the Queen Of Sheba,
I find that the half had not been told
me. I have frequently heard people
say if. they were only younger they
would go to Kansas. If man = not
already in hisgrave and hassix months
to i've, he had better spend half Of it
in visit to what years ago was mark
ed on our school maps ~ the "Great
American Desert" He will then have
some idea Of the rich and beantiful
country that lies toward the setting
sun, and a sight of these grand prai-
ries, will at once unlock the secret of
this immense emmigration westward.
A man coming West must have some
means. If he can get to Kansas with
$500 and has plenty of grit he is all
right. It is no place for lazy folk /;
they will become beggars here just as
soon as in any other country. I would
advise those coming here to make up
their minds just what they want to do,
and when they get here don't fool
away much time, but proceed to busi-
ness at once.
AS to Government land, which can
be homesteaded, it is as far west Of
here as it is from here to Ohio. That
it. Land here is all the way from S.
to 500, per acre. according to location
and improvements. Wheat produces
about twenty bushels to the acre, corn
thirty-fiye bushels (shelled) to the
acre, oats forty bushels 20 the xcfe.
Tame grasses do we'll where they have
been sown. Respectfully, B.
Schurz and Evarss W. Hayes.
The following is one of the passages
Of Hayes veto message:
No soldier of the United States has
appeared under order at any place of
election in any State no complaint of
the presence of United States troops
has been made In any quarter.
When Gen. Sheridan seized the Leg
isiature of LouiSiana, and proposed to
outlaw q part of the population, and
to try them as banditti before drum
head court martial organized to con-
vict, Carl Schurz, then a liberal mind
ed Senator, spoke as follows:
"United States soldiers, with fixed
bayonets, decided the case against
them and drove them out Of tho legis-
lative hall by force. cam
not, therefore, escape from the delib-
crate conviction-a conviction c0nsci-
entiously fermed-that the deed done
on the 4th of January, in the State
House of Louisisna, by the military
forces of the United States, constitutes
a gross and manifest violation of tho
Constitution and laws of this republic
= If this can be dene in Louis
lana, and if such things be sustained
by Congress, how long will 1t be be-
fore it can be done in Massachusetts
and in Ohio?
"He who in q place like ours fails to
stop, or even justifies Q blow at the
fundamental laws Of the land, makes
himself the accomplice Of these who
strike at the life of the republic, and
at the liberties Of the people"
Before Mr.. Schurz had spoken, Mr..
Evarts had blazed the path in . me-
morable protest, at Cooper Institute,
against the military usurpation in
Louisiana. These are bis words:
"When men vote and when their
chosen officers meet, and when with
out violence and without demonstra-
ton of insurrectfOn they undertake to
government, no soldiers can interfere.
"There are two very distinct, firm
lines of Limitation, which observed,
will protect the machinery of the
Government for the people to-day,
that is that the sole intervention Of
the Federal power within State an.
thority shall be to suppress violence,
and that their Office after that shall not
assume to 60 further unless whom in
vited by the supreme authority Of the
State.
"What use is it to give the purse
and the sword to the House Of Com
mons and the House of Congress If the
King or President by military power
can determine what shall be the con-
stitution of the House of Commons or
the House of Congrcss7 And that is
what they fought for in England.
And for this reason the people
Of the United States are justified in
assuming that the supreme civil pow
er shall dominate over the military,
and that no merging of them or inter-
ference with them shall be permitted"
Possibly these utterances of Schurz
and Evarts are "no complaints" But
they certainly are indicative of the