The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-05
SENATOR SEwARDS WESTERN TOUR.
What He Said and Did I'm
Kansas.
Visit to Topeka, Leavenworth and
Atchison.
Terrible Destitution in the.
Territory,
&C., &c., Ia.
Our Lawrence Correspondence.

as any oae might have expected Everywhere that no
has gone the people have showered compliments upon
him. You have already bad from me an account Of his
reception at Leavenworth and OF the speech which he
made there he lcft the afternoon for this place.
and spent the next day yesterday Topska-Gererai
Nye remaining behind at Leavenworth, and addressing
with great effect large sssemblage there To day
tor Seward returned from Topeka Lawrence he was
met two miles outside this by large cavalcade and
was escorted amid much enthusiasm into Lawrence.
Hundreds Of people from the Territory to and
hear him. stand Was erected outside Of the Hdrdge
House, and benches and seas placed In the street
for the convenience Of the ladies' who were present in
great force.
After eloquent expression OF the qualification which
be felt In performing what he regarded a. duty and in
finding himself face TO ase with the people of Karsas he
referred to the drought which had afflicted the Territory
and which threatened TO cause q famine and sad,--r
have carefully studied the condition of Kansas on the
banks Of s rivers and on its high and rolling praires
and happy 10 be able to you that much thst
has been said regards the ability Of people To SOS.
tain themselves has been geraed There viii be no
famine In Kansas There s already capital and credit
enough to carry them over than year Of ex-
haustion Of the soil by drought You win am sre
take care to husband this credit apply il well II
there be stll want then to your brethren in other
States for help, and IT win be afforded you myself win
W wnAt can 70 senu IN tn direction the supplies that
may be needed. Then, do not suffer yourselves 70 be
discouraged There cattle enough on these thousand
his-alshough would be great sacrifice 10 use them
SOTO carry every family through the crisis and to epa
BILE you 70 come out in the spring with mich COWS and
working cattle enough 70 resume operations under more
propitious circumstances. We, who are here coming
from several States whence emgratio proceeds and
from the Atlantic coast where emigration from other
lands arrive and whence il Is sent onward, shall do
share directing the footsteps Of the cmigrant 10 Kan
sas assuring him. from our own observation that il
land az fertile the shone upon q climate a.
genial as quickened health and strength in men 4,
were thirty forty years youuger-in the period Of
youth and vigor-.ae place Of all others that would
choose for home would be the plains Of Kansas. ZAP
plause) Passing nom this subject, he said that the
trapsactiops OF this day calculated the subject
OF the irrepreesble conflict Ian explosion Of cheers
and hughter) between freedom and slavery.
he passed review the history Of this conflict from list
down to 1884, showing that while the South agrees
i've, the North submissive and compromising Why
Was II, be asked, that all the settlements and compro.
misses not nnal? For other than that the
conflict irrepreesibe and not to be settled until
had finally forever determined that she would
be ee and would not be slave. (Applause) Ithink II
will be found that the whole question settled in The
Geverance Of Kansas and that freedom triumphant In
all the Territories Of the United States now what
do seer We In Pennsylvania that they have not
made up their minds that Ia any such conflict n
ell. On the hills and rocks and mountains OF Virginia
they are actually organizing militia 10 defend the state
OF Virginia aganst reemen who establishing freedom
Kansas and New Mexico II the people o,
Kansas wiser than themselves anoas IT, when
they wanted TO territory free they did not 20 into
with the ballot box aud schoolhouse, and set them
selves down 10 vote ree taking TO leave the slave
States perfectly keep slavery as long a. they car
knowing they win oe quite ready to remove sisyer
rom among them when they that there longer
prospect o. their keeping the empire Of the country n
$50 he sadCould thing have been than for
the government Of the lsa TO have given
fair play 10 the national developement They did
IT, On the contrary they devoted Missouri and Arkansas
tosavery and said "YOu may take the for freedom
slsve State IN Missouri in the year 1890 and thereby
shutting out spppy o. free labor from AZ south and
wanting wise men At that time who demonstrated mere
were Henry w. Taylor and James raluadgc the House
Of the Rufu King the senate Of the United
States Rufus King honored among statesmen Of The
,utonal age then new and even higher tire
TO the gratitude Of bis country and OF mankind He raised
viii prove Su, moci.ry ms land 70 Be- land q free
men, and you will repent In sackcoth and ashes anc
sss o a, sy sa ks' ant. a
Ialmadse and King were overruled, and hssouri
he federal secured the slave capita Of sse
holders IN Missouri rhey reioced and triunphed, and
freedom went mourning Inc country rose and said with
as you only save negro capital" Nov, have yoa ever
stepped 10 inquire VIA. capital Missouri had 10 SLAYER
III that time, Missouri had thcn az Africans bond
sse According 70 my recoliection-for was born q.
stakeholder and have some idea OF this thng-,hey WERE
account with the up field hands That would make
the whole value ssoe eco. Arkansas had u Loco
II and Ss,s 20 :1,. oSs s $50
that capital In negroes the great compeom of
and the march OF arrested on the banks Of the
Missouri river Now ssSo,ooo very large sum- 70
property they were efsee 70 sell There wss no coz
location o. The proposed as there never sas Mas
syvania and 80 this S3so 600 was never IN
the proposition TO make Missouri free state. Bit ever
there bad been condensation, how small sacrisce
caculable advantages Of freedom dspersed over ID broa
continent And how unavaIlpg are the devices and
nations TO counterfeit and the great moving opera
tons Of the Who would suppose that the wsest ner
sier the canals Of Nev York Pennsyivania should 10
opened, amer steamboats, should be put upon the rivers
when the schoolmaster st!an missionary were
s that they could By making Missouri slave
afer~srdsi Now the question l. al decided sad wsss
go They have got slavery into Missouri aud ar
cans s.ns's and freedom INTO Kansas int, S:ork. gr.e
and universal over the whole Pacific coast That Ia
~s.s oemes q trying 70 bind up the decre.. Of ro,
skIn Why did fsr II fsled for the simple ,sssor,
that society bss ~ rights and !. necessities. jIa
as pecessary that men should OF
OF New FORK, Of Ohio and lndiaoa and Illinois ald even
Missouri INTO .he West I. q . necessary TIA, Kaasas
sud other Territories Of the West should them
whsu they come. II is necessary that the exks
q Europe should have a place where they nirst
be perfectly free" 10 have slaves. (Lanshfsrh ~
He argued that the Consequence 81 making xisor~ =
slave state vas 10 divert emigration into the
ern sases snd Canada aud said that there ps,p
enough now In Kansas 10 have made Ms ,uri mr. :,
STATE But sais he Missouri does not 70 be gre
state she prefers 10 be slave state THIS Ia sai.s.e
for Missouri but not BY any means hopeless case Raj
SEE when aeeonri w we nrst place overrsn and ra51
gated, and then rcfasedfor virtually she alone b,s
fused-so admit her into the American Union - sa
opening the porn on her southern and weslern hofse
and e taking steTs 70 open highway from ri, Ioais a.
me fsenc Never were tho people OF any State =, 1,o
Gal 40 the people OF Missouri n she remain a sl.ve
state, A. she desires to be- thea she must be n,aa,ns
sae merely ana The vauo Of her lands will be relatively