New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-08
KANSAS Politics.
SPEECH OF THE HON. HENRY WILSON AT
TOPEKA.
CcI.e,pordeIee Of The Chicago Tribune.

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the city, and movement was made at once 10 nave
him address the people. Several gentlemen lmine-
dately waited upon Linn at the Topeka House, ana
paper circulated which received the reaiy sigma
lures Of eur citizens, urging him TO remain over night
and address the people. He consented To do 80,
although he had intended 70 return to Lecompton that
evening.
flowing by the ladies and gentlemen Of the yIcinlty:
Many could not obtain admission 20 the HAL, AMI
were obliged reluctantly To retire without hearing the
Senator.
State paper that was not suppressed during the
troubles OF ast yeaTpressnted Senator it-on 20 tlc
audience He was received with hearty aud erthusl,
asiic cheers by the entire assemblage Of ladies' AMI
geu;iemet. >.
euce fI the honor they had done him, and for their
cordial greetings. tie had come 70 Kansas on no p0-
teal mi,sou. lie had no advice to give the people
coucelr ing ary particular modes of action. lie had
entire confidence in the fidelity of the people of the
Territory 10 the cause Of Freedom, and IN their
capecy to decide for themselves the best modes Of
action 10 secure the objects they had III view, ana To
yindeate their own rights, without interference rom
friends or foes out of the Territory. lie had come
70 the Terri.oiy the country cherished IN me
hearts Of the lovers OF Liberty and to see the people
whose heroic endurance Of wrongs and outrdges had
v,r the affections Of the who loved Justice and
Freedom and loahcd wrong and oppression. lie
could assure the men aye the women of Kansas that
the people OF New England of the great central states
Of t6e West cherished in their bosoms the profound
e,t admiration for their selfsacrcing cOnsancy ana
dew ton Around tens Of thousands of Christian fire.
sides praye.s daily ascend To Almighty God for an
sas and the people OF Kansas They lived IN the eiee
tiors and the memories of the people OF the North'
and were bone in their prayers 10 the God oi
Peace, Liberty and Justice The fields Il
Kansas. which had been pressed by the heel OF
Border Ruiianism ard Redeemed by the blood OF bar
Der Brown, llOyt, Philips Bufum aud many other
victims Of the hand Of violence, were dear to the
lovers Of FreedoH-he people of Kansas who had re-
sisted aggression. adhered TO principle, and endured
outrage were erdcared to them by thousand asso-
Citations. The people OF the North having fai.ed De-
fore the nation TO secure Kansas to Freedom by Ma
tona legislation, looked now hopefully 10 the people
Of the Territory 10 secure the admission OF Kansas az
a Free State. To aid in the work they had contrib
uted tens Of thousands OF dollars ana encouraged teH
brave sons and noble daughters TO leave their houses
bid farewell 10 the Eaunts of childhood aud the asS0-
Citations If kindred and friends to come to this new
land and endure the pnvatisns incident to new coun-
try to restore these glorious Fields ana Territory! once
ccLsecrated forever 10 Freedom for all men, 20 Free
dom again The hopes, the efforts, the sacrifices. the
payers Of the people Of the North, he felt confident,
would be crowned by success. The heroic devotion,
the enduring constancy the unswerying fidelity OF the
men and women OF Kansas, would save her, would YET
overthrow the Infamous code imposed upon the Terri
tory by an AIMED usurpatlOD, although II was recog
nized sanctioned and upheld by an Administration
Il at had Just passed away and its successor Kansas
was consecrated 80 Freedom. The Slave Power
Looked upOn the beautiful reldS with hungry eyes;
Congress in obedience to the will Of that
power opened this glorious land, the mt abode
Of toiling freeuen, TO the bhghtng footsteps OF
the bondnen. Hordes of lawess invaders poured Over
the Missouri seized your government forced upon you
hateful laws, established Slavery supported their acts
by armed invading egOns, reddened your helds WIZ!
blood and lumned your skies with the light of sacked
and burning abOdes of freemen The Government
recognized and sustaius the usurpation. But al
the de- eds Of violence will ignOminously fail. In spite
Of al the acts of Border Ruiiials, IN spite OF the
", r,s nf u
Of cfiice the freemen of Kansas will win q glorious
triumph. They had already settled the qucston-set-
tied il by their fidelity, devOtiOns suhernss Ih0us-
ands Of men with motives as pure and aims as lofty
as ever swayed the heart of the Purans, had rushed
10 these fields ard by their intelligence their industry
their strength and their fixed resolve had made mpOs-
sbe continue Slavery in this fair Territory Border
Rufanism NAV DO Its worst, the buchanan admins
,raton may reward with official positions tue men
from whose hands the spots of blood will not out but
all the efforts of power, all oandlshm and seduc'
tons will fail to perpetuate human slavery IN
KauiGs. cunningly devised plan, which
closed against the actual settlers of the
season the ballot boxes, which has enrolled men be-
yond the Missouri the other side of the line, plan
carried out that the people are made poWeiie-S IN
tie choice delegates 10 the Convention will not ac
couuli,h the object Of making Kansas a Slave State
AL all Of the appliances would fail because the peo-
PIE were true to tbe great principles to the mighty im
pulse that brought, them into the Territory anu by
their deeds by the daily beauty oi their llVes they
were winning over 10 Freedom many who came here
10 blast these rich fields with Slavery. He should re-
turn home with the conviction that neither fraud nor
violence. nor the Establishments OF power, could per
peuate in Kansas the OdlOus and Infamous code oil
Slave Laws that darkened the statute book of the
Territory. These laws had received the sanction OF
the National Government, but they will 20 down be-
fore tie people. The census-tsk-rs had found but
% eco inhabitants and 1900 voters IN the Territory.
In fifteen counties they would not find either lnhab
tants OF voters They would not find the tlrOng Of
and women before him, because they were al Tor
Free Kansas; bat all these thiDgs avail nothing
The Eree.State men would not be Over5Orne longer.
They have it in their power to take peacefully the
Government and shape the future OF the Territory,
and they would DO Il in their own way and N
their own time. Their friends in the States, who
had responded 10 their appeals 10 the DAYS Oi
the misfoltunes, who had, IN the halls Of Congress
ard before the people indicated their nights and de-
f,Ided their motives aud acts, wanted Kansas not
ouly 20 be Free State but they wanted her to be on
tie sde Il Freedom. Ii would be most Illuminating
ard painful spectacle, after what has transplred IN
keDsas to see Der into the Union Pro-Slayery
State; TO her Senators voting with men who
opened her sol 70 Slavery, recognized TIE invascns,
usurpat.us and The bogus taxes, and vindicated or
spooa!zed for the acts Of Border kufianism. He
ssked the freemeh 81 Kansas not only T. make her
Free State, bI; place her on the side Of Freedom.
Other battles are e. be fought. The Slave Power
must be net n other fields. Its chettains already
ccrsOlug the shareholders OF the South for the loss of
Kansas, by assuring them that tie Territory OF the
IrcIan rGilors Will DE Slave States. The Indian Ter
litTv, lidh, Ne "-htAto, AL Tue lcrlrGy Oh tue
Iror NUS; be dedicated TO the free iaboringmen OF
he Republic. Free Kansas saved 10 Freedom by
you1 players AID toll should stand in the future not
with Arkansas, South Carolina and Alabawa-the
hands q Buford and Titus-but With New-Eu-
GLAND. tie Central States and the West; not
Win the Blue Lodges, but with glorious St.
Louis. save your friends in tue country,
the errate Chamber from the deep humiliation of
seerg tie seats al Kansas in the national councils
niled by who vii defend the motives, principles
snd acts OF the men who robbed you OF your rights,
ofIressod YOU with arbitrary wrongs, inyad.d your
c1 destro: ed your free presses, bnned your humble