Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-29
GOV. sRWARD IN KANSAS.


Gov. Seward addressed a crowd Of 900 or 900
pe0ple at Lawrence yesterday. He expressed
graiifcatiOn at the fulfllment Of long cherish
ed desire and duty 10 visit the people Of Kansas,
10 visit them IN their homes desire 70 speak TO
YOU here where have renewed the memories of
The contest Waged upon this soil. While ! see
around me broken implements with which that
contest was waged by the aggressor under the
plea Of popular sovereignty, which left the peO-
nle perfectly free TO do rs they pleased subject TO
the Constitution ofthe United States, which they
were left perfectly free TO interpret AS tliey
pleased While the authorities al Washington
had never been able TO interpret il to their own
satisfaction, OF that Of the American pOOple.-
While Kansas is the youngest and least favored
with political power, yet she is fhe most inheXi
BILE aud most constant The two richest States
are New York and Massachusetts and they are
50 merely because they are the freest Wisest and
most liberty loving. The cause Of all the interest
/ have felt in you has been this that you OCCUPY
q private position in the United states with re-
gard to freedom and slavery. There Is no CON
Test no difference on the subject along the line of
northeastern States for they are all for freedom:
,,ore on the line OF the Southern States for 'thqv
re All for slavery; but there is eternal strife
for the establishment Of freedom or slavery in
All the rest of the United States from the Missouri
TO the Pacific. If freedom was 70 triumph, there
was no point where she could expect TO meet the
enemy except the place where she has met il
Here ifyou had been false, slavery would have
swept through the territory of New Mexico, and
the whole country TO the Pacific. California was
fmperfectIy secured 10 freedom, and with com
promise you opened a new campaign here and
carried Il with complete victory HencefOrth
the battle Is ended; hencef0rth the free labOrers
from every land on the earth can pursue their
onward path 70 the Rocky Mountains. NOu not
only occupy private position but this great en-
terprise was attempted a. a critical period In
1854 al guarantees Of freedom were abandoned
and Kansas that had for more than forty years
been free from tle footsteps Of slaves and pro
nOuneed as much Of a slave state as South Caro-.
lima. Al this crisis the people Of Kansas appear
ed on the stage, reyiled, despsed and hated 1ift
ed the banner Of Liberty on high. and connfar
acted peaeeably all efforts made 70 subdue them.
In three years you not only secured freedom In
Kansas. but in all the Territories Of the limited
States No other one hundred thousand mer
have contributed so much for freedom as Kansas
Before this people, then, appearing for the Rrs
time, bow myself as have never done befor
tOany other people, in profound reverence. So
Iuie you with gratitude and affection.
Abiding TO the drought, he said-Ihere viii b
NJ famine in Kansas because there Is wealth an
credit enough 20 carry her through; II these vii
NOT do he advised an appeal 70 friends in tn
East. JAZZ
Alluding to the "Irrepressible Conflict"
says. Tbs people of Kansas settled 1t there