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THE FREE PRESS.
BURLINGTON
FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 10, 1857.
KANSAS POLITICS.

Gen. Wilson spoke several times to spon-
tancously-gathercd meetings of the people,
| during his recent hurried visit to Kansas.
| Everywhere he was received with enthusi-
asn. The whole population, men, women,
and children, turned out TO greet and hear
him. The following is the report of his
speech at Topeka
Senator Wilson commenced by thanking
| the audience for the honor they had done
him, and for their cordial greetings. lie
had come to Kansas on no political mission.
lie had no advice to give the people con-
cerning any particular mode of action. lie
had entire confidence in the fidelity of the
| people Of the Territory to the cause of
Freedom, and in their capacity to decide for
themselves the best modes of action to Sc
cure the objects they had in view, and to
vindicate their own rights, without inter-
ference from friends or foes out of the Ter
ritory, lie had come to the Territory to
see the country so cherished in the hearts
Of the lovers of Liberty, and to see the
pcop.e whose endurance of wrongs and out
RACES had won the affections of the men who
loved Justice and Freedom and loathed
wrong and oppression. lie could assure the
/
people of New England of the great central
States, Of the West, cherished in their boz
SONS the proloundest admiration of their
self sacrificing constancy and devotion
Around tens Of thousands of Christian fire.
sides. prayers daily ascend to Almighty God
for Kansas and the people of Kansas. They
lived in the affections and memories of the
people of the North, and were borne in their
prayers to the God of Peace, Liberty and
Justice The fields Of Kansas which had been
pressed by the heel of Border Rufhanism and
Redeemed by the blood Of Barber, Brown.
IIovt, Phillips, Buffum, and many other
victims Of the hand Of violence, were dear
to the lovers Of treedom-the people of
Kansas who had resisted aggression, adher-
ed to principle and endured outrage, were
endcared to them by a thousand associations.
The people Of the North having failed before
the nation to secure Kansas to Freedom by
National legislation, looked now hopefully
to the people of the Territory to secure the
admission of Kansas as a Free State. 70
aid in the work they had contributed tens
of thousands Of dollars, and encouraged
their brave sons and noble daughters to leave
their homes, bid farewell to the haunts of
childhood and the associations OF kindred and
friends, to come to this new land and endure
the privatons incident to a new country,
to restore these glorious fields and Territory,
once consecrated forever to freedom for all
men, to Freedom again. Inc hopes, the
efforts. the sacrifices, the PRAYERS of the
people of the North he felt confident would be
crowned by success inc heroic ueVotion'
the ehdnrlnS cohs'ahcy, 'he answering
idellty ol the men anu women OF hahsas,
would save her' "oula YET overthrow the
infamous couc imposed upon Tue territory
by an armed usuipalion' a'tnousn IL was
recoGhiHcu' sanc'io"eu anu ul helu ny an
Administration Vna' ilu Just passeu away
ana its succeSSrL' h'l'a9 was oousecrateu
10 freeuoin, c.i3 inG Sia.G fo"er Iookeu uPoh
the uelutl,ul neIus WIN hunSrg eyes Ooh-
EreSs II. G2ei'.ieu " I aIo WI. VI e,"V Pomeri
tl;;', E.m',n So''ou' ItG ~ eoouo VI
~ thn hanG,non IonJos l,.J ,,s 'ooVstepS
,.'.,,rod ,,or tLn ,iissonr; so;,aJ
ddr,,,nont freed nnon vou.tbeir hotSTni ldIys
o,..IJ;.Lod slavery sHnnorted their octs h,,
armed invading legions. reddened vour fields
With blood, and iIIumIned vour skies win
the licht of sacked and burning nbodcs or
| treemen. The government recognized
and now sustains the usurnation But
| all the deeds of violence will ipnomin-
iously fall. In spite of all the acts
| Of border rulhtnism, in spite Of the
efforts Of political power, in spite of all the
seductions Of Office, the treemen Of Kansas
will win glorious triumph The had al
ready settled the questlOn-settled it by
their fidelity, devotion, suierlngs. Thou
sands OF men, with motives as pure and
aims as lofty as ever swaved the heart OF the
Puritans CAD rushedlto these fields, and by
their intelligence, their industry. their
streanght and their liked resolve, had made
it impossible to continue slavery In their
ialr Territory. Border ruihanism may do
its worst, the buchanan administration
may reward with oihcial position the men
from whose hands the spots OF blood will
not out, but all the efforts OF power, all
Establishments ana seductions Will tail to
perpetuate human slavery IN Kansas.
cunninsly devised plan which closed
against the actual settiers OF the season,
the ballot boxes, whlch mas enrolled men be,
yond the Missouri' on ,he other sue oi
the line; pan 50 carrleu ouI tnat the Peo-
pie are MADE po"eriess III the cholce oi oeie-
gates TO the ,ohyehtion' VIII not accom-
pllsh the oDlect OF making hahsas save
State. All, all oil the appliances would
iall, because the people were true 10 the
great principles, to the mighty impulse,
that brought them into the Territory and
bv their deeds, by the daily beauty of
their lives, they We're winning over to Free
dom many who came here to blast these rich
fields with slavery lie should return home
with the conviction that neither fraud nor
violence, nor the Establishments of power,
could perpetuate in Kansas the odious and
infamous code of Slave Laws that darken
the statue books of the Territory. These
laws had received the sanction Of the Ma
tonal Government, but they will 90 down
before the people. The census-takers
had found but $4,000 Inhabitants and 5000
voters in the Territory In fifteen counties
they would not find either inhabitants or
voters They would not fndthe throng
of men ana women before MIN because they
were all for Free Kansas but all hosethings
avail nothing, The Free-State men would
not be overborne longer. They have it
in their power to take peacefully the Gov
ernmcnt and shape the future of the Ter
ritory, and they would do it in their own