Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-10-19
Gov. Seward In Konsas-.The People
Turn out by Thousands to hear Him.

VoFCiuoi SeWdru auuTeSSeu a crowd
of five or six thousand people at Law
renee, yesterday. He expressed gratif-
cation at the fulflment Of long cher
ished desire and duty he owed the peo-
pie of Kansas, to visit them at their own
homes. desire to speak to you here.
I have rene we'd the memories of the
contest waged upon this soil, while I
see around me- the broken implements
with which that contest was waged by
the aggressors, under the plea of popu-
lar sovereignty, which left the people
perfectly free to do as they please, SUBJ
ject to the Constitution of the United
States, which they were left perfectly
free to interpret as they pleased, while
the authorities at Washington had never
been able to interpretit to their own salts
faction, or that of the American people.
While Kansas is the youngest and least
favored with political power, yet she is
the most inflexible and NJ ost constant.
The two richest States are New York
and Massachusetts,, and they are so
( merely because theyar the purest, wisest
and most liberty loving. The cause of
all the interest l have felt in you has
been merely this, that you occupy pi-
rotal position in the United States, with
regard to freedom and slavery There
is no contest, no difference on this sub
ject along the line of the Northwestern
States, for they are all for freedom, none
on the line of the Southern States, for
they are all for slavery, but there is an
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 to triumph,
there was no point where she could ex-
pect to meet the enemy, except the
| place where she has met it, here. If
you had been false, slavery would have
swept through the territory Of New
Mexico, and the whole country to the
Pacific. California was imperfectly Sc
cured to freedom. You opened a new
campaign here, and will crown it with
complete victory Henceforth the. bat,
tie is ended. Henceforth the free white
laborer from every land on the earth
can pursue his onward path to the
Rocky Mountains. You not only oc-
cupy a political position, but this great
enterprise was attempted at critical
period In 1854 all guarantees of free
dom were abandoned, and Kansas, that
had for forty years been free from the
footsteps of slaves, was pronounced as
much of slave State as South Carolina
At this crisis the people of Kansas ap-
peared on the stage, reviled, despised
and hated, and lifted the banner Of Lib
erty on high, and counteracted, peacea-
bly,. all efforts made to subdue them,
and in three years they have not only
secured freedom in Kansas, but in all
the Territories Of the United States
No other one hundred thousand people
have contributed so much for freedom
as Kansas. Before this people then ap-
4 pearlng for the first time, l bow myself,
as I have never done to any other peo
pie, in profound reverence. salute
you with gratitude and affection.
Abiding to the drouth, he says there
will be no famine in Kansas, because
there is wealth and credit enough to
carry her through. If these will not
do, he advises an appeal to friends in
the East
Abiding to the "Irrepressible Con-
fict," he says the people of Kansas
settled it there in favor of freedom. In
New Mexico they tried to settle it in
favor of slavery, and now find it impos-
sible.
I He then reviews the history of slavery
extension at length, and says the Terri
tories must be reserved for the free labor
of over populated Europe. Missouri
has lost this emigration. Had she been
wise, the population now in Kansas
would have settled in her borders. She
must look to Kansas for deliyerance
She is made richer by millions by the
settlement of Kansas by freemen.
He concluded as follows: Henceforth
if my confidence in the stability of the
American Union wavers, l shall come
here to learn that the Union is stronger
than human ambition, because it is
founded in the affection of the American
people. If ever l shall waver in my
devotion to liberty, I shall come up here
to renew it, here under the inspiration
of the sympathy of 100000 freemen who
are saved from slavery. Henceforth
these shall not be my sentiments alone;
but the sentiments of all men will come
up to Kansas as they 60 up to Jerusalem
this shall be the sacred city.
The Governor and his party leave for
the East tomorrow morning.
| Southern Opinion of Old Abe.