The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-01-29

II any one SLdi on the Nciu u Oiu dlUi y
should be allowed to CLEAN with the red
glow of the planet Mars It would be the
twenty-first star the one placed there
when Kansas was admitted 10 the Union
just forty-seven years ago to-day. II was
through a path of blood. spilled in civil
warfare. that she reached her high estate
True the first thirteen stars and the star
that Texas brought had been baptized in
blood, out it was the blood of the for
eigner that had oppressed them. Kansas
was drenched In the blood Of her own
people. and from the soil so extensively
nurtUred has come the great prairie en-
/ pire Of to-day, one Of the great granaries
| of the world
Kansas was several years reaching
Statehood after having served her Terri
torial apprenticeship The Missouri Com
/ promise Of 1920. which declared ali States
| erected north Of the southern boundary
line of Missouri to be free States. had
been repealed. in order that Kansas and
/ Nebraska might become Territories. and
/ the Free Sellers and PTo-Slayery party
had things moving AT such a kaleidoscope
rate in the new Territories that the eyes
of the nation were kept turned that way
for several successive years. The bill adj
hitting Kansas as a State passed the
/ House Of Representatives in 1850, but with
a majority I'm the Senate in favor Of slav-
cry the bill failed. However. the secession
Of the Southern States meant opportunity
( for Kansas, and when the Southern Sen
/ ators withdrew the bill came up again, on
! January q, 1861 and was passed by "A vote
/ of % TO l6, President Buchanan affixng
/ his signature January g.
Never was the nation more bitterly di-
vided and more widely interested over
any enc State than it was over Kansas.
/ Internal dissension set at naught the do
nestle tranquility" and general well
/ fare" for whose psrpetuation the Consti-
| tuition had been framed. Parties were or
/ gained all over the country for and
against the slavery movement in Kansas.
/ From New England colonies were sent
out by the Emigrant Aid Society Of New
| York and Connecticut and the EmigTant
/ Aid Society Of Massachusetts, both Of
which were charted for this work ia 1884.
/ Il is interesting 20 note that the last sur
( viyor Of this latter society is the ven
/ cradle chaplain of the Senate Edward
I Everett Hale South Carolina sent q coli
ony that could muster 100 abie-DOdied
men, and across the borders from Mis-
souri, "a slave-holdng State, went hun
dreds of others.
Tho inevitable happened. Elections were
stolen. riots desecrated the polls. and the
/ free towns Of Lawrence and Topeka and
I the slave towns of Atchison and Leaven-
worth were at daggeTs drawn. The Wa
karusa War showed the general govern
/ ment what was happening in the West.
and United States troops went over 20
+ bear O very stern olive branch Of peace.
I Then came that picturesque fanatic, ready
+ % give his life for the liberation Of slaves
and the establishment Of Kansas as free
State-John Brown. He began badly, for
T he massacred five men of the prO-siaVery
party at Ossawatomie without being able
10 give a thoroughly satisfactory expla-
nation He helped free q few slaves, en-
( listed the sympathy Of New England. and,
attempting his unsuccessful raid on the
United States arsenal al Harpers Ferry,
{ Va. paid the final penalty for his en-
thusiasm az ChaTlestOWn. Va, in 1853.
The first United states flag with the
star Of Kansas on the field was raised
over Independence Hall Philadelphia, on
Z Washington's birthday. 1861 and history
claims that IL was the hand Of Abraham
I Lincoln. soon 10 be President that raised
/ IT, Since then twelve other stars have
I been added and I'm the near half century
that has marked the erection Of the
States. Kansas has been making good use
Of the Statehood that she bought so dear
lv. on the broad stretches Of Gods out
o. doors" homes have been built cities
have grown up and transportation has
been provided for 1850 90 people, who are
among the nations most sterling citizens
and who are realizing the great agricul-
turaI and mineral possibilities Of their
state.
In 1853 Kansas was vaguely denoted as
part of the Great American Desert "a
name applied 10 the unknown sweep Of
prairie toward the West. It IS supposed
that Coronado must have planted the
banner Of Spain there in 15i1, and that
explorers for the French King passed
over part Of II in 17l9, but il is not surely
known. In 1894 Lewis and Clark passed
across this State on their great eXplora-
ton of the West and named Independ-
ence Creek. IN 1906 ZebulOn Pike went
into the Osages' country TO return some
captIves that he had taken away from
the Pottawatomies. and ordered the flag
Of Spain down from a Pawnee village and
trading post Then came the mission
aries. doing good work among the Kama,
Usage. Pawnee. and COmanche Indians,
until the settlers began TO creak that way
in great covered wagons or on road
weary horses and pushed the Indians
farther westward. In 1877 Fort LeaVeH-
worth, in 1872 Fort Scott. and in 1853 Fort
Riley were built TO protect the frontier
lines-for there we're frontiers in those
days and the Indian WAS not 50 willing
20 see his hunting grounds 90 rs ne seems
to-day In 1853 Indian lands were puT-
chased by the government and opened for
settlement
Chen began much OF Kansas pictur-
esque ufe-for It was probably more pic
turesque than that Of any other State.
The Santa Fe tgaH was opened across
the great West. running many hundred
miles through Kansas from St Joseph,
Mo. 10 the old MexicaB-Spanish town of
Santa Fe, and over that road went many
who made history. Before telegraph lines
knit the West with the East. and when
news was weeks old before it reached
either side of the Great Divide, resource
ful men established the pony express
that carried the first overland mail from
san Francisco TO st. Joseph. Mo Each
rides rode fifty miles at full speed on his
wiry pony, changing horses at relay sta
tons placed twenty-five miles apart, re-
ducing the time Of communication by
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.