Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1860-10-04
Gov Stewards Speech at Lawrence.

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LEAvkNwoHTH, X. T., Sept. 27.-Gov.
Seward addressed crowd OF five or six
thoussnd poople, at Lawrence yesterday.-
de expressed qualification at the fulfllment
OF long cherished desire and duty he og
ed the people Of Kansas. TO visit them in
their own homes. | desire to speak to
you here, where have renewed the mem
cries OF tho contest wassd upon this soil
while see around me broken implements
with which that contest was waged by the
agsfessors, under The plea of popular
sovereignty, which left the people perfectly |
free to do as they pleased subject 10 the !
Constitution Of the United States. which |
they were left perfectly free to interpret
as they pleased, while the authorities of
Washington had never been able TO inter
pref il TO their own satisfaction or that of
the American people.
While Kansas is the youngest and least
favored with political power, yet she is the
most infexible and most cons tant. The
two richest States are New Y erk and Mas
sachusetts, and they are so merely because
they are ireest, wisest, and most liberty
loving. The cause Of all the interest have
felt in you has been merely this, that you
occupy a pivotal position in the United
States with regard TO freedom and slavery.
There is no contest, no difference on this
subject along the line of Northeastern States
for they arc all for freedom; none on The
line of the Southern States, for they are
for slavery. But there is an eternal strife
: for the establishment Of freedom or slavery
in all the rest of the United States, if free
dom was 70 triumph, there was no point
/, where she could expect to meet the enemy
except the place where she has met 1t here.
Ii you had been false slavery would have
swept through the Territory of New Mex
: leo and the whole country to the Pacific.
: California was imperfectly secured to free
dom, and with compromise. You opened
a new campaign here and crowned it with
complete victory. Henceforth the battle is
: ended. Henceforth the free laborer from
= every land on the earth can pursue this on
ward path to the Rocky Mountains. You
not only occupy pivotal position, but this
great enterprise was attempted at crIti-
cal period.
= In 1854 all guarantees Of freedom were
abandoned, and Kansas, that had for forty
o years been free from the footsteps of slaves
was pronounced as much Of a slave State
Z as South Carolina. At this crisis the peo-
o pie Of Kansas appeared on the stage, revll-
# ed, despised and hated, lifted the ban
ner OF liberty on high, and coun'efacted
s peacaby all efTeris made 10 subdue them
= In three years they not only secured free.
: dom in Kansas, but in all the territory o.
II the United States. No other one hundred
e thousand people have contributed so muct
, for freedom as Kansas. Before this PEG
pie then, appearing for the first time, boa
{ myself as never have done before 10 snN
: other people, in profound reverence. sa
e lutte you with gratitude and affection.
|. Abiding TO the droulh, he says there vii
be no famine in Kansas, because there il
- wealth and credit enough to carry he,
through. If these will not do, he advises
N an appeal TO friends in the East Alludir,
II to the "irrepressible conflict" he says tn
:. people OF Kansas settled it there in favor o
freedom. In New Mexico they tried t
- settle it in favor of slavery, and now INT
IN it impossible.
is He then reviews the history of slavery
I, extension Of length, and says the Terrific
=, ries must be reserved for the free labor o
over populated Europe. Missouri has los
= this emigration. Had she been wise, tn,
s. population now in Kansas would have set
h tied in her borders. She mus. look 4
Ia Kansas for deliveranoe. She is made rich
=. er by millions by the settlement of Kansa
y BY freemen.
al He concluded as follows: Hencefor,h i
at nay confidence in the stability of the Amer
l. lean Union wavers shall come here I
n, learn that the Union is stronger than hu
r man ambition, because it is founded in tn
: affection CT the American people. II eve
e, ! shall waver in my devotion to liberty
l. shall come up here to renew il, here undo
+ the inspiration of the sympathy of 1000
freemen saved from slavery. Hehcefort
these shall not BIO my sentiments Alone
Men will come up TO Kansas as they 60 Il
to Jerusalem. This shall be the sncret
H. city.