New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-26


| they had thonsabd going let year they had tes
thousand going this year They woub have this quest-
op be hoped, put TO rest before the fcurh OF July;
for they bad got young cradle of liberty out here.
a npause. SO he wanted the Free-Stat men o. the
couup.-v To stand by them. He wanted them to fese
Iat tt.r struggle was theirs rs wen is that Of tss
men In KSn>ss. For Kansas was rich IN is poStiow<
:, WAS o.streo come day to be the center cf gresk
th.rouChl.re whsh would pas through to the factc
Gen. Pomeroy eou cluded amid tho most enthusisssic
manifestations o. spp'anse
Al the conclnsi0n OF Mr. Pomcroy's adGrcss, Mr.
JoHs A. KiSG offered the following resolgtons
RsOlr.S That soIieeon be GOV t.kea sp 70, tls AZ d
Council City, kspsss. and that COtnmit:s Of Five ~ R
POINTED to receive the
Mr.. SIsP.C.S then arose and rszs,e bSef speech.
He said that twenty eight yesrs bcse, they had ssst
money TO the oppressed Greeks. Nov We hSve cry
frc n our blood and our brothers lAppanc). Sixteen
years he bad leh politics. Two years ago lie presded
at meeting 10 protest against the Net.a p'rady,
ard then he sad he would ever oppose ne appnprt-
ton of single foot of free territory 10 Slavery Jap
psusel. Here We see the rsen who went 10 kanss.
and are they not right lApplausel. The party vte
opposed the outrages in kaosas were caIAd Niger
Worshippers by foreign scamp AIplau-e sri laugs-
teri. This nos cause for the negro, b sDr the
white man-and for shite labor. We had constituted
10 the cause Of Greece, and had we not seen ere to-
night Greeks who were Spartan Band lApiAuseI.
| cone now TO ask you for aid to contribute % the
cause Ct Free Stste-snd he hoped that there ~oud
he lbeTaty manifested by our citizc,s lApplts-eI
Loud calls were made for Hon. John A. King, who
had introduced the resolution. lie Appeared OF the
platform Amid loud applause he said'
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND FsLLow -CouSTRrsES-I Nd
not expect that would be called upon to speak 10 ~
r,eo,ution. IL speaks my sentiments and thougis
YOU had heard enough tonight already from .hoee bet
ter able actors in the scene, to give you inhrmaton
upon the subject of Kansas, Applause But still
az feel as every Northern man should feel-a
deep interest in the successful establishment IN that
Territory hst only be done as we have been told
to-pigbt-the cooperation and eid-mstenai Ad OF
and in arty
ew-York settlement, Council City-ounded' ny
New-York society, and already numbering from ax 10
eight bundled persons, settled upon higa sirs
eDurd with streams either side bordered with sim
her; but who are without the power Of cutting any
thing or grinding anything, or putting themselves n
poston 10 secure what is necessary TO De- tsen.
With little, and that can be had, these sons "a
Iberty-these men Of your state can DO sustained
lApplsusel. That is an object worthy OF New forf--
worthy of its beet sympathy and best feengs; andi
doubt not that the appeal will not be made IN vain 20
YOU tonight give such aid, here and elsewhere ~
your ans and of duty will lead you to ohsr.
At any rate it is very manifest that unless some aid
comes to them and that quickly, they may nger ana
perbsps survive but II wL be through peru, trouble
and adversely; but by your aid they Will go on with
ioy and 0ladness and with rapidy that belongs to
those new settlements when well begun aud properly
su. tanned. have seen two or three friends who went
tho re and bave returned. They tell me that we have
no conception of the feeling in the Terrtory-the
feeling that belongs to freemen who are brought uI
under the institutions Of FreedOm-of churches and
cLoos aud all the Institutions that strengthen Liberty
They tell me that those who have gone thefe ana
stsd during relentless Winter in thoee cabins, badly
put together through tho roofs OF which they could
a the tars shine and into which the snow constantly
drifted 40 that many obliged to keep in beo In
the day-ime 10 keep Themselves warm ana only ven
ture out to stand for few minutes on the sunny SIDE
of their cabiustha their hearts were animated by
love Of Liberty appal Sc that they do not despar-
that they are there 10 Go their dutyto perform trst
to carry purpose which, ~ freemen, they had
right to doa right accorded to them by the voice ID
IIaux Afa
and if they got there first 1t would be FreedomT-n
last, it would be Slavery Applau.el. Inc sons o,
Fr, edom banded together and went there 10 make h
country their home-to establish the institution oi
Frecd6m in the plains of that new State. Over
three quarters who there are the sops oil free
dom Appausel. So far, the thing is safe. Give
them that aid they ask and Freedom secure peyona
WHO believe that Freedom should prevail and not
Saveryto do little part in aid Of such purpose
IApplause.l Ii seems to mo there u no dimealsy .a
money for any such proper, laudabe purpose. IL
is to build mll, hotels SCHOOL, and make roads; upon
either matters the people there abundantly able to
take Of themselves Loud applause. It ia just
two years ago, in this very place that we were called
upon resist the passage Of the kansas and Nebraska
bill. 1t had not then become law. The citizens
here assembled were invited TO look At that question
whether it right, and to express their opn-
ion. They did so and they considered an impeaoh-
ment of an ancient and honorable contract, of
compact binding in honor and in good
were to that effect. But notwithstanding there
rot single petition in behalf of that bill. II became
law and the resut has been that We, who had hoped
that the Compromises Of 1850 would bave settled this
question Of Slavery forever find the whole overturned
by the act of 1884 which declared the Missouri Com
promise imperative and void This two years
since We were told at that very time that the effect
of this measure would be TO bring division and vo
erce in the Territory which had been heretofore set
tied peace md The result has been just feared.
The consequence was that then violent scenes were
enacted in Kansas voters were driven from the polls,
and war made upon those who met there upon the
principle of .quatter sovereignty which was TO be the
loundation Of the settlement Of that Territory. The
principle was violated in every possible way. The
quatters Themselves driven from the ground and
the only sovereignty there Missouri sovereignty.
Against that we contend and they have contended.
Fellow.countrymen, no man doubt in this age Of
the world, IN the intelligence that prevails in this
community, that this great question of whether tho
Territories in this country TO be opened to slavery
OF 10 Freedom must be the very question which b
sCon TO fix tsef upon the public mind OF the counfy.
There s no escape from il. II is the grent public
question before the people Of the United States and
what we have TO do, reasonable men--no enthu-
siass but still lovers Of liberyis to look at that
question, and measure ii in all it, relations, and see
whether it is right and just and proper that this he
public, whose independence was achieved upon
The principles of liberty whose constitution was
founded on the same broad and noble basis.
whether il is for us in our generation, to let go those
grea and noble principles and open that Whole field,
and let things take their course oT whether truo
men whom the public trusts and has right to trust
end have rghtful judgment in the decision OF this
question whether will not give our voice, and say
for and our generation, let Liberty, and not
Slavery prevail Loud aPplausel: :, There ,S,
people, by Congress and the President. Ard NOW
will YOU sustain those people who have gone mere 70
perpetuate the rights and privileges OF Tree men or
will you abandon them to theM Is's .LruiS s lue