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LIBERTY OR DEATH"
PRAIRIE CITY, X. T, AUG. 10, 1853
Kanzas r-Writers. -.0ur Young
Men Reckless and Irreverent.

Taking up an Eastern paper, acci-
dentally, we found in it a Slashing de-
nunciation of the etterwriters Of
,Kanzas, and charge Of irreverence
and recklessness against our young
men.
Everything was general. There
were no specifications in the article.
Yet it was OF class we'll calculated
to excite distrust and awaken i'll
feeling, both against the letter-writers
and our young men.
Let us say word, then, in behalf
Of the former.
In the battle-hour, the letter-wri-
ters were the workers in Kanzas, out
side of Kanzas. The New York 2ri-
5uae, the Chicago Tribune, and the st.
Louis Democrat did everything, al
most, that was done, to give the peo-
pie of the States a right view Of the
, state of things here. Had it not been
!, for PHILLIPS, REppATH, HINTON, TAP
: PAN, KAGI, HUTCHINSON, and other
: brave spirits hike them, nothing would
! have been comparatively known, for
, a long time, Of the deSpotlsm prac-
, ticed here, or Of the heroism with
which it was met. Nor is this all.
While these "letter- WRITER'S" now
spoken of with contempt by class,
were thus nobly busy with their pen,
they were as nobly busy in the field
of action. They never faltered when
danger threatened, nor fell back when
Imprisonment, suffering and death
were imminent and seemingly certain.
For one, then, we shall not remain
still and hear them abused. Nor will
any Of the freemen Of KanzaS, who
remember 1856, or took part in it,
tolerate it.
Now a word as to the irreverence
and recklessness Of our young men.
Irreverence " is limited in the
article, evidently, to certain persons,
and recklessness " applied to op-
position to the views of these persons,
Who are meant? We must know
that, to determine the truth Of the
charge. On this point the article is
obscure. But limited or not, we de-
nounce it as false--ialse all through
false in spirit and in fact. The
great work Of the Kanzas Revolution
was carried on, in the darkest hour,
by young men, and it triumphed
through their energy and wisdom
Doubtless they we're guilty Of errors,
doubtless they and the letter-writers
committed faults; but looking at
their whole course--what they wrote
and what they did--we say, without
any sort of qualification, that history
cannot present truer, more resolute,
or sOiser band Of freemen than is to be
found in the career and conduct Of tho
young men OF kanzas, during the
1psrils and trials of Kanzas. i
Old men sometimes preach about
"the good old times" and we don't
object. 1t is natural that they should
think and talk thus. But old and
young should look to, think Of, and
work for the future. Every father
should say to his son, F" Do better,
and be better than / have done or have
BEEN" and so one generation should
feel and speak TO another. Progress
,jis the law Of Humanity. We love
the mind, old or young, that feels its
spring and bounds up at itS call, and
.lopks ahead, anticipating, with un-
Swsvering faith, always and in the
darkest hour, +" the good time com
ing" This Is the spirit Of real man
hood, and hence wo have no sympathy
with old age, when soured by distrust,
lor weakened by doubt. 4
Heroic RusKIS tells tho truth and tho
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