Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-10-25
Mr.. seward Gives Missouri aiLif-
tie Plain talk.


the occasion of his recent visit to that city.
"He said that he had not come to see st.
Louis or the people of Missouri, but to see
Kansas which was entitled to his gratitude
and respect. Missouri could take care of
herself; she did not care for Republican
principles, but warred with them altogeth-
er. If forty years ago Missouri had cho-
sen to be Free State, she would now have
four millions of people instead of one mil
lion. He was a plain spoken man, and
was here talking treason in the streets of
st. Louis. He could not talk anything
else if he talked as an honest man, but he
found himself out of place here. Here
said be, are the people of Missouri, who
ask me to make speech, and at the same
time there are laws as to what kind of
speech I may make. The first duty that
you owe to your city and yourselves is
to repeal and abrogate every law on your
statute book that prohibits man from say
ing what his honest judgement and senti-
ment and heart tell him is the truth
Mingled surprise and appreciation on the
part of the crowd. Though / say those
things about the State of Missouri, have
no hard sentiments about it or st. Louis,
for have great faith and hope-nay, ab-
solute trust-in Providence. What Mis-
souri, wants is courage, resolution, spirit,
manhood-not consenting to take only
that privilege of speech that slave holders
allow, but insisting on complete freedom of
speech. But have full trust that it will
come all right in the end-that in ten years
you will double your population, and that
in fifteen or twenty years you viii have
four millions of people. To secure that,
yau have but to let every man who comes
here, from whatever State or nation, speak
out what he believes will promote the in
terests Of mankind.
What surprised me in Kansas was to see
the vast improvement made there within
six years, with so little wealth or strength
among her people; and what surprised mo
in Missouri was that with such a vast ter
ritory and such great resources, there was
so little of population, improvement and
strength TO be found. ought not per-
haps, to talk these things to YOU, I should
have begun at the other end Of the story,
though citizen Of any other State hasas
much liberty here as the citizens of Mis-
souri,; but be has less liberty than like.
I want more than you have; want to
speak what / think, instead of what Mis-
sourian thinks. l think you are in fair
way of shaming your Government into an
enlightend position. You are in the way
of being Germanized into it. / would
much rather you had got into it by being
Americanized instead Of Germanized; but
it is better to come to it through that way
than not to come to it at all. 1t was
though the Germans Germanizing Great
Britain that the Magma Charta was obtained,
and that great charter of English liberty
came to be the charter of the liberties of
the sons Of England throughout the whole
world. Whatever lies in my power to do
to bring into successful and practical ope-
ration the great principle that this Govern
ment is for free men, and not for slaves or
and that this country is TO be
the home of the exile from every land, L
shall do as you are going to, by supporting
Abraham Lincoln for President and Han
nibal Hamlin for Vice President,
Young's Latest Avow-
hlts -. ~. 4 nj.
Bringham Young has again entertained
he 'sSaints" with characteristic speech,
Sherein he took occasion to set at rest nu-
nerous ISLANDERS which have been in circu-
alton. The Prophet is represented to be
in the happiesst condition of
mind and body; filled with faith in the
sChurch" and himself, and indisposed to
yield whit of pretensions. We quote
rom the eDesert Neus: -
"You have read that I have an agent in
China to mix poison with the tea, to kill
all the nations; that I was at the head of
he Vigilance Committee in California;
hat managed the troubles in Kansas,
rom the beginning to the end; and that
here is not liquor shop or distillery but
What Bingham Young dedicates it; so
tate the newspapers. In these and all
'ther accusations Of evil doing, defy them
o produce the first show of evidence
gainst me. tits also asserted that Presi-
ent Buchanan and myself eoncoeted the
Ian for the army to come here, with
lew to make money. By-and-by the poor
rretches will come bending and say, swish
was Mormon"
"All the army with its teamsters, hang
rs on and followers, with the Judges and
early ali the civil officers, amounting to
ONE seventeen thousand men, have been
earching diligently for three rsto bring
ne act to light that would criminate me;
ut they have not been able to trace out
ne thread of one particle of evidence that
'ould criminate me. Do you know why!
because walk humble with my God aud
o right so far as know how. l do no
vii to any one, and as I can have faith IN
be name of the Lord Jesus Christ to him
er the wolves from tearing the sheep and
evouring them, without putting forth my
and, 1 shall do so. u
II can say honestly and truly, before
Iod and the holy Angels, and all men,
lat not one act Of murder or disorder has
,curred in this city or Territory that had
~ knowledge Of any more than
.be week old, until the event has trans
red; that is the reason they cannot trace
~ crime to me. If have faith enough
cause the devils to eat up the devils, ike
% Kilkenny cats, l shall certainly exer-
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