The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
NUMBER lS---V0LUME I.

tent press was given to shake the world.
annihilate oppression, and diffuse wisdom
and freedom and truth.
The loom, the telescope, the press, the
magnet. the grayer, were all gathered at
last in England, just at the time when the
struggle began between the Cavaliers and
Roundheads. Elements of colonial en-
pire were wanted, and these two factions
were tossed and shifted to and fro until
the right elements came uppermost, when
the Cavaliers went to Virginia, and the
Roundheads to Massachusetts. The one
represented the dignifed and educated
gentleman. the other the sturdy and rough
wofkingman of the future State. While
the one laid out broad estates and planta-
tons in the fertile fields of the South,
the other was subduing the bleak and
sterile rocks of New England, and found
ing the churches and schools of America.
These Cavaliers and Roundheads were
always quarreling; and they are disposed
to quarrel still. Take small descendant
of the southern Cavaliers, and a small
specimen of the northern Roundhead el-
ement and put them together, and you
have small fight directly. In 1901 God
put the Dutchman in between them, 10
keep the peace. and he laid the fgunda-
tons of New York.
The discovery of America was a lucky
blunder. Columbus was not looking for
it, but for the northwest passage to India.
So it was with Hudson's discovery Of
New York. He was looking for the
northwest passage, and sailed up here to
Albany after it. Why were the Holland
ers brought to settle New .Yoik?, At
that time Holland was the great liberal
and commercial power of the globe
She was the carrier for all Europe. And
it was designed that the city they settled
should be the commercial metropolis
first of the continent-of the world.
The Huguenot from France-William
Penn, the representative of peace-Lord
Baltimore, the representative of tolera-
tion-these were the chief founders in
America. Then arose Patrick Henry TO
strike the first blow against civil oppres-
sion; Roger Williams to introduce for
the first time true religious toleration;
and finally, Washington, TO open the path
to universal empire and freedom.
The colonies in time became crowded.
and the President purchased Louisiana to
give them room. AS Napoleon signed
the treaty ceding it. he said, propheti-
eally: "In thus ceding Louisiana. l give
to the young States of America the pow
er to compete with the only prince in the
world that ] have reason to dread"
Just at this period, when We fell heirs
to great inland navigation, Fulton comes
in with his invention of the steamboat.
It spreads and extends our empire west
ward. While this is going on, strife
arises again between some Cavaliers and
Roundheads about the expediency of dis
solving the Union.e But there has grown
up a power behind them which they can
not resist. The freest and most patriotic
portion of the citizens have gone west
ward into the valley Of the Mississippi.
Refugees from the old world, equally de-
voted to liberty. have joined them there;
and the great West arises like giant, to
inform the little South that it means to
hold them at peace. At this moment
gold, hid till now, is found, and rush of
free labor takes place to the Pacific coast.
A free State is placed on that shore, Sc
curing union, and giving liberty forever
the preponderance.
When Fulton launched his paddle
wheels on the Hudson, and started off for
Albany against wind and tide, America
was just beginning to go. When the da-
guerreotype was perfected in New York.
America was just beginning to see-his
face in the sun. When Morse transmit
ted words hundreds of miles along wirs
in moments time, America was just
beginning to talk. 1t is no idle boast
that we are " Young America" We are
the youth six thousand years old. Six
thousand years have been spent in educa.
ton, and now we are just entering upon
our career.