Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-06-05
Great Kansas Meeting in Milwaukee.

They had large and enthusiastic Kansas Meeting
in Milwaukee, on Monday evening last, at which
Col LANE, of Kansas was present, and delivered a
stirring speech on Kansas matters. Great enthusi-
asm prevailed, and liberal subscriptions were made
to the cause.
We make the following extracts from the Senta-
ners report of Col. Lanes speech on the occasion:
The people of Kansas are conservative people;
and he who charged them with being abolitionsts in
the sense OF wishing to isturb Slavery IN the States,
is slanderer and a liar, lie himself had been de-
nounced abolition lecturer, when he was trying
to organize the demo,e cratic platform of % And he
would say, that the day was near, when a6oIl-
ttonfst would signify all that was patriotic and good
On the day of the Kansas election the people were
preparing peaceably to VOTE when they found among
them bands of Missourians, walking arsenals: lie
hoped there were here no apoogists for the Nilsson
let him go to Platte County The men there are proud
OF their deed They said the Missouri river should
run in blood, but Kansas should be slave State
The very boys Wisconsin ought to lash such north
ern apologsts naked ont OF the State.
Well, now Frank Piesea--don't talk because
say Frankie was the work of nay hands, as | was
State Elector from Indiana, and cast the vote for
him. Didn't we make pretty mess OF II /! fierce
says must obey these laws and these proslayery
editors say that must be hung for not obeying them
So these men come up and appeal to
the Irshmen and GefTfHis because they say, their
opponents ORA AuUWAOiHSs Lei IL hot bc sdlu III
ter tonight! These very men took away from the
alien born in Kansas the right to vote their first
papers. And now they say that those who repudate
the Missouri code are Know Nothings!
| Almost all of you fogegnersah aye adhered to the
Democratic party. feh you the pro-slavery wing
of the party is sold TO Slavery, and yeur btterest
enemy. Only the other day, poor Irish waiter waa
shot down by Congressman and killed; and every
one of these traitors voted against investigation
call on you to remember that these Kansas laws
of these Assourians disf'anchise you. You OPP
posed to Slavery, but Pierce and Douglas, and these
other traitors are in favor OF it. and your enemies
Since have been in Kansas, / have seen IA per
sons, free state tarred and feathcred.
Within miles of where live, orc man has been
murdered and three tarTed and teathered. -Four OF
my most intimate friends have been murdered, mere
| ly for being free state men, Collins, Dow, sc.
| Now men of w Wisconsin fpoint you to these things
and TO the ruins Of Lawrence, and The people muir
dered and driven out, and ask you whether we dc
not need protection. point you to the friend of Kan
sas in the Senate, struck down there brutally. Re
member that, frecmen! Remember laboring men
that you are i'll the society ofsave states the lowest
i'll the scale. Do you want Kansas, and the States
west of it to be Slave States!
! Compare the free and slave States. Why, You have
more railroads here in this county than they have
the whole State OF Missouri
Col Lane closed amidst great applause j asa ap
peal to those who voted with him for Mr.. Fierce
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70 We are happy to see that the statement maj.
by Dr. HUNTER of New@York, in his Medical SPe
eialist ofJanuary and April, showing the steady dc
crease of death from Consumption, since his intro
duction of the treatment by medicated Inhalation
and confirmed in the fullest manner by the New Yorl
papers
The n. y Tribune of the 25th April, among others
comments on the gratifying facts and observes, tha
considering the population of the city is rapidly in
creasng, and that the temperature of the first thrc
months of the current year was uncommonly severe
such is accounted trying TO fragile and worn on
constitutions. This exhibit argues increasing capa
city and skill in in the Doctors contest with the in
sidious destroyer-Consumption 1t certainly is
subject of general congratulation.