Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-06-11


v darkened the statute book of the Territory
i These laws had received the sanction of the
National Government, but they will 90
t down before the people. The census taker.
5 had found but $4,000 inhabitants and 9.
QUO voters in the Territory. In fifteen
counties they would not find either inhabi
tants or voters. They would not find The
throng of men and women before him be-
cause they were all for Free Kansas. but
all these things avail nothing. The Free
state men would not be overborne longer.
The have it in their power to take peace.
fully the government, and shape the future
of the Territory, and they would do If in
their own way and in their own time
Their friends, in the States, who had los
pended to their appeals in the DAYS of their
misfortunes, who had in the halls of Con
gress and before the people vindieated their
rights and defended their motives and acts
wanted Kansas not only to be free State
but they wanted her to be OH the side of free
dom. 1t would be a most humiliatinc
and painful spectacle, after what has trans
pred IN Kansas to see her come into the
Union pro-slavery state; to see her Sena-
tors voting with men who opened her soil
to slavery; recognized the inyasions, usur-
pations and the bogus taxes, and vindica-
TED or apologized fort tho acts of Border
Ruffianism. He asked the frecmcn of Kan
sas not only to make her Free State. but
! place her on the side of freedom. Other
battles are to be fought The slave mower
must be met on other fields. Its chicftains
are already consoing the shareholders of
the South for the loss of Kansas. by assur-
ing them that the Territory of the Indian
Nations will be slave States. The Indian
Territory, Utah. New Mexico, all the Ter
rity of the Union must he dedicated TO the
free laboring men of the Republic. Free
Kansas, saved to freedom bv your PRAYERS
and toll should stand in the future not with
Arkansas, South Carolina, and Alabama
the bands of Bufo-d and Titus. but with
New England, the Central States and the
West, not with the Blue Lodges. but with
glorious st. Louis. Save your friends in
the country, in the Senate Chamber. from
the deep humiliation of seeing the seats of
Kansas in the National Councils filed bv
men who will defend the motives n,;nc;-
pies and acts of the mon who robbed Won
OF your rights, oppressed you with arbitra-
ny wrongs, invaded your soil, DESTROYED
your free Presses, burned your humble cab
ms, and plunderci AM murdered vour
brethren for the crime of loving Liberty
tie was fully convinced that Kansas
was lost to the Save Power, that she worL
take her place in the list OF fire., States
The Senate might sustain Leco,npt tho
President might reward the men who have
wrongel, outraged and murlerc the peo-
pie with official honors; but no power no.
even tn, saores Of dragoons-corli rpbolj
mach longer. or perpctratc hrman slavery
IN Kansas 1 he Geyotion. the cndur;n.,
courage, all sublime fidelity of the men
and women OF kansa, hal touched the heart
OF the nation; their brethren ha left ,heir
homes and come there BY tens Of thousand,
to share thcir homes, to share with them in
the trials All: holo-s of making Kansas n
Free State. Th, contest was not vet cIo-
sci bit the Issue was set,lel beyond tn,
power OF man to reverse il. Kaasas wa.
ce>tineI specially to repudiate Saver.
thrust upon her. aat to engravc Gron Ec-
bcsati,l 'pra;ries the word Liberty. in char
acters of burning light. She would do
tais, not by the vsgne promises Of IN, Ma
tionai Government o. It's officials but by
th9 power OF her ownEsons, sustained Nv
the generous sympathcs Of the Flecmen of
the North lie saw that the contest was
not so much DOW to make Kansas a Slave
State, as to divide the noble sons who stool
together IN resistance to iavasions, usurpa-
pations, arbitrary laws ami lawless outla
Ses, and make her a Pro- Slavery Admin
lstra;ion State. He hal no advice to pi,.
the people of * ansas In regard te, mode, of
action; they knew better how to at than
he could know; but he warned them against
the seiuotive Influences which wouh be an
plled--now that the battle was going A.
gainst Slavery-to make her Pro-Slaverx
Democratic State. Kansas has been bap-
tizcl IN the tears, prayers, tolls anil suffer-
lngs OF the friends of Freedom. She sho',i
be free herself, and be ever for freedom Of
others. If his voice could be heard bv the
iwellers in the cabins scattered over her
prairies, he would say to them, Your f.
lefty, toll and endurance have made Kan
'as Free State; see to it that you place
her on the side of equal, universal and i'm
partial Liberty for all men, in the contests
Of the future. He should return home FILL
I'll with admiration of their Territory: il
would be great and proud commonwealth.
He could almost forgive the Border Ruff
ans who sought so fair heritage, but he
ould never cease to condemn that policy
which opened that glorious land to slavery.
trifc and bloodsllcd. He could assure
hem that in the future, as in the past, he
hould give his vote, and his vote in public
nd private life, to the vindication of the
lights and to the defence of the fame of the
rec State men of Kansas
Senator Wilson spoke for more thanan
our. and his remarks were received with
luch applause. At the close he was intro
need to several ladies and gentlemen
n.