The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-01-08
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 8. 1859.

Huenco OF the warm maritime CnmAtes, IL
rises high above the 40tho of latitude [; |
under the influence of the continental eli |
mate, it is depressed to the South of the |
40tho. With what the history of six |
thousand years practically demonstrates,
the proofs of physical geography agree
Along this axis have arisen excessively
the great cities of China and of India, of
Babalon, Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, Paris,
London, in the older continents-upon
our continent, the seaboard cities, New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, St. Louis. The channel
Of the Missouri is its onward track to us
whence It passes by the Kansas basins, the
Sweetwater, Snake riyer and the Column
-b;a to Vancouver's Island Upon the South
Pacific shore.
We, then, the people of the center, are
upon the lines of intense and intelligent
energy, where civilization has its largest
field, its highest developments, its inspired
form. Along this line have come, from
the Plateau of the Syria, our religion, our
sciences, our civilization, our social man
ners, 6dr arts and agriculture, the horse,
our articles of food and raiment; and here
is the eternal fire from which has been re-
kindled, when it has expired, the spirit OF
the "unconquerable mind and freedoms
holy fame
we have seen depart perverse genera
ton, distinguished by civil discord. An
INSCRIPTIONS seaboard power has espied
to found republic of the North re-
public of the South republic of the
Pacific shore. A northern federal policy
operating for forty years, has occluded
with sayages and deserts the delicious
central region of the prairies, the great
plains, the plateau and the mountains
The physical geography of our country
has been officially caricatured, concealed
and maligned. The solid continental re-
public, founded in 1776, and completed in
1887, has been nullified by interpolated
monarchies. The Land system has crush
ed and plundered the continental people
with the brutaliEing pressure of medieval
feudalism. The Indian system has walled
up as in Bastile, the whole central me-
ridian of our continent. Forced out arti-
ficially upon the TANKS, we have seen our
pioneer energies driven in fragments into
Florida, into Texas, into California, into
Oregon, into Minnesota. We behold on
the one hand tier of artificial seaboard
States, isolated upon the maritime slope
on the other hand, the continental GEN.
ter, an immense disc of bowling wilder.
ness.
Foreign wars have been waged, federal
revenues and patronage exhausted, federal
law and power stretched out to every de.
vice of tyranny, the federal constitution
violated in every sacred principle, to cree
the monarchial seaboard power and estab
fish in it perpetual dominance over thu
continent. For the center, civil wars, civi
discord, false geography, calumnies, every
form of meretricious and deceptive politi
cal agitation have been suicidally foment
ed. The foundations of the Union, lost il
the center and scattered around an ihvis
ible circumference the Union itself in
cessantly assailed and perpetually men
aced, has seemed to approach the twilight
of its existence, and, lost to the guardian
care of the people, has been in suspens
, between the Infatuated passions of extrem
5 sectional factions. Our great country de
mands a period of stern virtue, of hol,
| zeal, of regenerating patriotism, of devot
ed citizens.
1t is to the people of the great centra
| State of Missouri that l speak. To exal
!, their intrepid enthusiasm is my aim. Ope
r the track across the plateau to the othe
y sea and we are absolutely the leaders c
!, the world, heading the column to th
: oriental shores. With us are the cont
:, mental eagles and the continental caus
5 immortalized by that purity of Washing
$ ton, illuminated by the wisdom of Jeffel
a son, indicated and restored by the illus
: trous jackson. Let us condense aroun
these eagles and advance! 1t is the pre-
IS destined mission of mankind, confded I
5, America to fulfill, to our generation
t, complete.
/. Day dawns; the vapors round the mountain
:, curled,
d Burst into morn, and light awakes the world!