. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. ust and firm administration was about to INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. 191 be inaugurated, fled, carrying with, them the spoilsof their guerilla warfare. These facts explain the troubles in Kansas, showthe temper and designs of the parties, and confutefor ever all the partisan misrepresentations of the[Northern press. Their flight was confession, andconfession proved their previous hypocrisy—theirtreasonable betrayal of ,the peace of the ever the secret history of this Kansas warshould be written, it will ap
. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. ust and firm administration was about to INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. 191 be inaugurated, fled, carrying with, them the spoilsof their guerilla warfare. These facts explain the troubles in Kansas, showthe temper and designs of the parties, and confutefor ever all the partisan misrepresentations of the[Northern press. Their flight was confession, andconfession proved their previous hypocrisy—theirtreasonable betrayal of ,the peace of the ever the secret history of this Kansas warshould be written, it will appear that the South, sofar from attempting to cheat the North, either byfraud or force, has been either careless of her owninterest, or has confided too much in the justice ofher enemies. It is not the first time in the pro-gress of the world that the wronged have beencharged with the crimes of those who betrayedthem, nor that the offending party have sought thesympathy of mankind for persecutions they neverendured, but only inflicted. Such is life, and man,and 192 INCIDENTS OF WBSTEEN TRAVEL. LETTER XXIII. WESTON—CHINESE SUGAR-CANE—GROWTH OF THE WEST WELL-MOUNTED PREACHERS—TAKING IN NEW APPOINT-MENTS—RICH COUNTRY—FRAUDS ON THE GOVERNMENT GLASGOW, FAYETTE, PARIS, MEXICO—MODERN CONFUSIONOF TONGUES CONFERENCE AT LOUISIANA. Having concluded the Conference, we crossedthe river to Weston, intending there to spend theSabbath. We found comfortable quarters with theRev. Wm. GL Caples, one of the preachers of Conference. In his garden, I saw the now famous Chinesesugar-cane. If it will grow elsewhere as in thatplace, I do not wonder at its rapidly spreadingreputation. I think the stalks were fully seven-teen feet in height. The field of corn, however,by its size attested great depth and richness of soil—a soil seldom found, save in the Platte Countryof Missouri. Unless I were very familiar with the localities, Ishould not like to walk about Weston
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