Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1858 — Proposed Division of Kansas. [ARTICLE]

Proposed Division of Kansas.

The correspondent of the Boston Journal, writing from Summer, under date of September 20, makes the following statement: “There is a political movement of some importance going on in connection with these gold discoveries It is the formation of a new Territory from the western portion of Kansas. The parties in the vicinity of e Pike’s Peak, it is said, will at an early daj>< elect-a Delegate to Congress, and send him on to tire next session with the petition for a new Territorial organization. It is said that a gentleman from Kansas City, who is to start with one of the trains leaving this week, will return as the embryotic Congressman. “The grounds upon which they ask this action of Congress will lie, that situated as they are, five hundred miles from the wellsettled portions of Kansas-, and its seat of government, it will be impossible for them to find any protection from the Territorial authorities; and that unless furnished with an organization of their own, mob-law must prevail, ami they must suffer from great anarchy. Seven hundred miles, they will claim, are quite too much for the length of a State, where 'ailroads are unknown and steamboats are impracticable;”