The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-10-13


service against it. Practically it was to be
destroyed peaceabiy, under the Constitution
of the Unied States. Those good men be-
lieved it would reach its end long before
this period; but the people became demon
slised. The war went back. back, BACK,
until 1854. when all guarantees of Freedom.
in every part of the United States, were
abandoned, and Kansas, that had for forty
years been perfectly free from the footsteps
of the slaves, was pronounced by the high
est power of the Government as much a
slave State as South Carolina. The flag of
the United States was made The harbinger,
not of Freedom, but of Human Bondage.
1t was at this crisis that the people Of
Kansas appeared on the stage, reviled, de-
spised and hated, and lifted the banner Of
Liberty on high, and, bore it manfully for
ward, defIed all force, and yet counteracted
peaceably all the efforts made to subdue
them. In three years they not only se-
sured Freedom in Kansas. but in all the ter
rItory of the United States.
Freedom made Kansas as free as Massa-
ehusetts, and made the Federal Government,
on and after the 4th of March next, the pa
tron of Freedoms it was at the begin
ming. You have made Freedom national.
and slavery sectional. Had you receded af-
ter your first conditional or provisional gov
eminent was dispersed at Topeka. by can
non and bayonet; had you surrendered and
accepted the Lecompton Constitution had
you even abandoned the Wyandot Co9sti-
tuition, at any stage of the battle, it would
have destroyed the cause of Freedom, not
only in Kansas, but also throughout the
whole Union.
know 1 shall be justified in history
shall not be justified by contemporaries
Wise, rest, bravest of citizens; no other
thousand people in the United States have
contributed so much for the cause of Free
dom, as Kansas. Before this people, then
appearing for the first time, l bow myself
as have never done before to any other
people, in profound reverence. Sensation
l salute you with gratitude and affection.
Fellow citizens. my time here, as well as
yours, is brief 1t is but few of many sub
jects upon which we can even touch. AS
to the least important subject of all, myself
laughter I give you. in one word. my sin
cere and heartfelt thanks. l had formed
my opinion of you from your past conduc
and history, and 1 am not surprised by
your kindness. Henceforth. take no fur
Their thought about me. / will not affec
to doubt that my poor name will find place
in the history of California and Kansas
All the ambition have ever cherished i:
then more than abundantly satisfied.
The second consideration to which
would advert for moment, is the sadness;
J the Territory of Kansas-the result of The
withdrawal of the rain for period so Ions
as TO excite apprehensions of famine.
Hov FILL he
of Kansas-the river bottoms and the prai
} ries, and my conclusion is not alone from
the condition of the crops, but also from
be no famine in Kansas, because there il
wealth and credit enough in Kansas TO car
ry you through more than one year lik
this. You will take care of this credit, ant
retain it, so far as possible. If this will no
do then appeal to your friends in the East
and they will not see you suffer. mysel
) will do what 1 can for you. Be of goo'
: cheer. Suffer yourselves not to be discour
aged. There are cattle enough on you
thousand hills--although it is fearful sac
rifce-to carry you through and sustain
you during the winter, and still come GU
in the spring with mich COWS and workin,
r oxen. And we who are here-coming iron
the Atlantic States, where emigration is T
j ceived and sent onward-will all do GU
: share to direct emigrants to Kansas, assur
ing them from our own observation that
e is q climate as salubrious as any in til
t world. and soil as rich as any the sun ev
e er shown upon. This is smiling and fai
e domain, and we think, were we set bac
il twenty or thirty years, the place of all other
~ In he Init I Sfatc
e would be the plains of Kansas.
q One other consideration. The transat
), tons of this day, do they not illustrate til
= Cheers and laughter. Did not our for'
: fathers, in 1897. settle this whole subjec
: and, by an OF dinance, put at rest forevt
h the question of Freedom and slavery in Il
: United States Certainly they did. d
e we not, in 1920, settle this conflict forever
u Did we declare that all north of 36 deg.
a min. and west of the Missouri River shoul
i be given up to Freedom ? Certainly "
= did, Was it not settled finally a third tim
y in 1850, when Kansas and Nebraska we
II still saved to freedom, and all west of then
n Was it not settled fourth time in 1856
e when it was ordained that the people of KaI
Of sas were free to choose Freedom or SLAYER
IOT tHcAuoclfOSB ouUJSOI INC Inc OoHStisutle
J. of the United Ssates? Was it not settle
Ie for the fifth time, when the Lecompton Coz
lie stitution was adopted by one scratch of Il
% pen of the United States and the Supren
4, Court-and this fair Territory become
IT land of Slavery
,e A voice-We did not take that Cover
N ment.
81 Mr.. Seward-we didn't take it-that
0. just what l was going TO say.
he Why was not Slavery settled by all the
final settleme nts ? For no other reast
e. than because the conflict was irrepressib
ID But you determined. in your struggle f
ID Kansas. that she shall be forever free-aI
lie that settles the question.
NJ A VoIcE.-It is not settled yet--there
e. New Mexico.
~ MR. SKwARD-My friend tells nee it
s. not settled yet, bus it is settled in Kans
I'd and for Kansas. In New Mexico they tri
m 20 settle it in favor of Slavery, but they nc
) /; find ous it is irrepressible. l think y,
be will find that the whole battle was ended