Year: 1862

The Interests Of Kansas and Missouri Identical


The Kansas City Journal Of Commerce,
speaking Of the late grand celebration of
the Fourth Of July in that city, in which
over Eve thousand people participated, and
of the great good to result therefrom BY its
displaying the power and strength of the
loyal clement which has been held in abey-
ance by the supposed presence of large
body Of sympathisers with treason, says:


But the results of the past week have
been such as to put it past doubt that the
Union sentiment will be torerer triumphant
hereafter in Kansas City. And on this
point We have word to say to our neigh.
bors in the State of Kansas. Were it not
for the baneful influence of treason, and
the dogged stubborness of class of men
who cannot and will not pursue any enlight-
ened policy, the interests of the people of
these two States, which are really one,
might be easily harmonized, and immense
sums of money saved to each one BY the
mutual interchange of trade and commerce
along this border. Banish this treason and
Missouri AND KANSAS ARE ONE, one in
interest, one in sentiment, one in tastita.
tioas, one in their system Of internal
improvements, one in consanguinity, and
one in prosperity and destiny.


If the people of Kansas will but look at
this great question with an enlarged aud
liberal view, they cannot fail to see the
mutual importance ct these two great States
to each Other in the grand scale of future
development. which their position and vast
resources are bound to secure to them.


Do the people of Kansas desire that this
State, lying as it does directly in her path
to tie great and populous East, should
remain in its present bowling state, or do
they desire to see it filled to ovcrdowing
with busy, energetic and live population
of free laborers, and covered with net
work of railroads connecting with her Own,
and affording her the choice of transporta-
tion over them or over her cheaper but
slower river channels.


And will they not, in taking this enlarg-
ed view, see the necessity of cooperating
with the loyal men of Missouri in bringing
about SO desirable state of things. In
the same manner is the future welfare and
improvement of the State of Kansas int.
mately connected With the growth and
development of Missouri. The immense
products of that vast region must find an
outlet through her channels and across her
territory, forever requiring the free and
mutual intercourse of the citizens of both
States. The struggle that has just now
ended in Missouri, in the triumph of the
Federal authority and of the supremacy of
Union sentiment, is only required now to
be finished up by the success Of that new
policy Of giving to the State fresh impe.
tus BY infusing into it population Of
skillful laborcrs in every branch of industry,
trade and commerce, and excluding from it
by course of gradual but just emancipa-
tion, class Of laborers which has hereto.
fore acted as clog to the development of
the State. In the success of this new
policy for the State of Missouri, which is
precisely the policy pursued in the settle
ment of Kansas, the people Of the latter
State are directly interested. Does not the
the memory of the disastrous and cruel
wars which the people of Kansas have
sustained in order to establish that policy
within her own borders, prompt her to
desire to see the same policy forever fixed
in this State, thereby destroying all liabili.
ties for the recurrence of those ancient
feuds.