The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1859-07-14
An Eloquent Preorarton.

HORACE GREELEY Is now route for Pike
Peak. His reception in Kansas was very euthu
siasllc aud his presence, just az the organization
OF the Republican party in the TERRITORY va
most oppostune. 1t is known, doubtless to on
readers, that, up TO this time the only parties
IN Kansas have been the Free State aud the Pro
Slavery ones. The contest to Slavery 10 tht
territory being partially ended. and the only OBJ
Jecs of the Free State party having been, to a
lntents and purposes, accomplished, there was nc
longer any need for its continued existence, aad
it has been accordingly disbanjed The territory
IS OF course overwhelmingly Republican and the
call Tor the organization of the party came up
from all quarters A Convention of Organiza
ton, was accordingly called, to meet at Ossa-
Tattomie and il fortunately happened that Hor-
ace freely was there just IN season to attend it
he made lengthy speech to the enthusiastic
Republicans OF Kansas. which find reported n
;ull in the Laurence Repubiicaa-a journal oi
decided ability. by the way, and of the best
published IN Kansas. Greeley evewed the his
ory Of the struggles in Kansas, gave some excel
ent advice to the party just organized, and closed
With the following eloquent peroration-snoagh.
,fitse,f, to establish his rank of the great
men OF the age. Greeley has written many hne
,hiags, many more than he has ever had credit
for, but he has never written any thing better
.han this
"Men of Kansas it would i'll become me on
this spot, crmsoGed by the life blood aud hallov-
ed by the ashes of the latest martyrs in the
Of Human Liberty. who were, ct the same time,
among the brayest and noblest, to doubt your f.
deity to the cause with whose struggle an1 trials
she name of your embryo State is forever hOnora-
oly blended. | will not distrust your integrity or
Tour constancy; but viii venture TO say, guard
agains dissensiols; guard against ithe corruption
of Federal patronage, or the promise of it Of
aome Of those you have been accustomed TO con-
1de in; guard against apathy; guard against
chastened ambition; guard, above all, against
new frauds on the ballot boxes.
Remember Oxford, and kickapoo. and Della
ware Crossins.an Santa Fe; Iere nber the whole
sale frauds of March 80, 1853, by which you
we're robbed OF your most precious rights, aud a
bogus Legisis ture of invaders aud usurpers i'm
posed boldly upon you; remember the opnrts-
slons, the ndignities the robberies you suffered
n consequence through weary months and years;
remember that Fraud at Elections is the chief
remaining reliance in the Free States of that par
ty which. feom Plaquemine to Aroostook 10
Maine has not scrupuled to resort to illegal vot-
ing aud false counting by wholesale and to riot
IN the spois thus secured. Remember that Min
nesoa was recently carried at its first State cleo
ton and IS still ruled by means of wholesale braz-
sn, attrocioGs frauds on her ballot boxes aud that
the ready and unscrupulo1s tool of faction who
presided over the couatng of those bogus returns,
those fabricated votes, is your Territorial
Governor. Ii full vie Of these facts, remember
that whoever opposes stringent Register of your
Legal Voters with whatever safe guards may be
fount necessary to protect your rights against
repe'tion of these villainies. prociaims himself
anxious to cheat, hopeful of profiting by the
-ascality of others, and in either case, 10 be
'purned as ao enemy, not trusted friend and
counsellor
Freemen of Kansas. would inspire you with
no unwarranted no overweening confidence OF
success in the great struggle directly before US
have passed the age of illusions, aud no longer
.1ra ur1a rtvr to tr;,, ,h
merely because | know it should On the con
trary, when consider how the interests
and Influences combined to defeat us-the Three
Thousand Millions of property in human flesh
and biood-the subserviency of Commerce TO
this great source of castom and proht--the pre-
valence of Ignorance and of seifshness affecting
the many millions prod gally lavished by the
HIeiders of Federal authority--.he lust of office,
and the prevalence of Corruption-I oftener re
gard the struggle Of 1860 with less OF hope than
Of apprehension. Yet, when l think OF the steady
diffusion OF lnteliigence-the manifest anita gonistu
between the efforts of the Slavery Extensionst.
and the interests of Free Libor-when consider
how vital and imminent is the necessity for the
passage of the Free Land Bili-wheu | fee, how
the Nineteenth Century vibrates to the puisa
tons of the great heart of Humanity, beating
higher and higher with aspirations for Uniyersn
Freedom, until even barbarous Russia is intent
on striking off the shackles OF her fettered mil
iions-l cannot repress the hope that or
the eve of grand, henefcent victory Bat |
whether destined to be waved in triumph oven |
our next great battle feld or troddeu into lis |
mire through our defeat, / eatrea, you TO keep
the Republican Jag flying in Kansas, so long a. |
one man can anywhere be rallied TO defend it,
Defe not the glorious dust Of the martyred dead
VII ose freshly erased graves lie thick around US
whose mpiorng spirits hover Us, by trailing
that flag in dshouor, or folding II in coward dis
pair this soil, lately redeemed by their pat
riot blood If it be destined in the mysteriou.
Providence of God, 10 GO down. let the sunlish.
which falls lovingly upon their graves catch the
free breeze which sweeps over these pra;ries; lei
it te burned, not surrendered, when 10 one re
mains 20 uphold it; and let its ashes rest forever
with theirs By the banks Of the Marais des Cy
gnes!
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