White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-08
The "People of Lawrence

The "people of Lawrence "are most remar-
kable people," They are "chosen people.
Behold the people Of Lawrence" the inhabit-
ants of small town far away upon the plains of
Kansas Territory, holding in their hands the
proud destiny of the great North American Re-
public. How magnifcently grand and majesti-
cally sublime is the mighty fate quiescently re-
poring beneath the sceptre swayed by the spec
pie of Lawrence" All eyes are riveted upon
the "people of lawrence" The glory Of
Greece and Rome, and the more modern splen-
dor of Great Britain, France and Russia appear
but sights in raree show, when compared with
the overshAdowing and overwhelming power ra-
dating from the "people of Lawrence" The
organized will Of the people of Kansas threa-
tens with awful portent the very foundation Of
this Republic. America citizens North, South,
East and West are magnetized and spsll-bound,
even amazed and horror-struck by the "people
of lawrence"
The United States Government, with all its
power By constitutional authority and its force of
established precedent, is but toy, plaything
wherewith the "people of Lawrence enjoy
themselves in their healthy pas:imes while play
ing truant. When the "people of Lawrence {"
desire any peculiar form of government that in
the course of events the "peOple of Lawrence {"
think fit to have, them the "people Of Law
renee " do enact, and anything the "people of
Lawrence do act upon is highly good and use
full, because such action is taken BY the "people
of Lawrence" Trgly, wonderful people are these
"people of Lawrence"
There has been nothing discovered within the
last half century, half as exciting and interest
ing as the people of Lawrence " and the "mur-
der of DR.. Burdell." The "peOple of Kansas
are not only the people of Lawrence, but they
are still more, they are the "people Of Law
renee" Taken collectively they are the most
interesting people of which history, ancient or
modern, contains a record. Individually they
mcl not be far superior to the people Of the Uni
ted States, but take them all in all, the people
of Lawrence " have given to the world unmis-
taxable evidence that they are an original and
most extraordinary people. The "people of
Lawrence have furnished for the newspapers
such an abundance of good reading matter that
the sudden loss Of that people would be very
sad and melancholy calamity. But they are i'm
mortal because Lycurgus Greeley and Homer
Whittier have made their deeds as imperishable
as time, or perhaps eternity.
The Governor Of Kansas would do the people
of the United States great favor If he could
induce the President of this Republic to visit
that interesting people, and let him study their
manners and customs, and the form Of govern
ment under which they live. The President is
well acquainted with the Go, ernments Of Eu-
rope, but the "people of Lawrence " are ac-
knowledged 10 be (and most deservedly SOY the
most interesting people upon the face of the
globe. The "people Of Lawrence may posi-
bly, have prerogative higher and beyond the
ordinary province Of any other people with which
the civilized world is acquainted, but let thathy-
pothesis be as it may, they are the first people
that ever successfully set at naught the entire
constitutional authority of the United States
with such reckless and unblushing impudeHce.-
Rec York Nesos.