Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-10-04
Gov. Seward in Kansas.


Gov. Seward in Kansas.
LEAvEywoRrH, Sept. %.
Gov. Seward addressed a crowd of i've or SIX
thousand people al Lawrence yesterday. He
expressed qualification at the fulillment of &
cherished desire and duty TO visit the people o.
Kansas-to visit them in their own homes.
desire to speak to you here, where have renew
ed the memories of the contest waged upon this
soil. While see around me broken imple-
ments with which that contest was waged BY
the aggressor under the plea Of popular sover-
eighty, which left the people perfectly tree to dc
as they pleased subject to the Constitution o.
the United States, which they were left perfect
ly free to interpret as they pleased. While the
authorities ut Washington had never been able
to interpret it to their own satisfaction, or that
of the American people. While Kansas is the
youngest and least favored with political power
vet she is the most infiexible and most constant
The two richest States are New York and Mas.
sachusetts, and they are so merely because they
are freest, wisest, and most liberty loving. The
cause of all the interest / have felt in you ha:
been this, that you occupy private position in
the United States with regard to freedom and
slavery. There is no contest, no difference OIL
the subject along the line OF Northeastern States
for they are all freedom; none on the line of the
southern States for they are all for slavery; bu
there is an eternal strife for the establishment
of freedom or slavery in all the rest of the Uni.
ted States from the Missouri TO the Pacific. l
freedom was to triumph, there was no poin
where she could expect TO meet the enemy ex.
cept the place where she has met it. Here i
you had been false, slavery would have swep
| through the territory OF New Mexico and the
whole country 10 the Pacific. California wa:
imperfectly secured TO freedom, and with com.
promise you opened a new. campaign here an6
carried 1t with complete victory. Henccfortt
the battle is ended; henceforth the free labor
from every land on the earth can pursue then
onward path to the Rocky mountains. You moi
only occupy private position but this great en-.
terprise was attempted at critical period. In
1851 all guarantees of freedom were abandoned
and Kansas that had for more than forty years
been free from the footsteps of slaves, and pro.
nounced as much of a slave State at South Car
olina. AT this crisis the people of Kansas ap-
peared on the stage, reviled, despised and hated
lifted the banner of Liberty on high, and coun.
teraeted peaceably all efforts made to subdue
them. In three years you not only secured free
dom in Kansas, but in all the Territories of the
United States. No other hundred thousand
people have contributed SO much for freedom as
Kansas; before this people, then, appearing fol
the first time, bow myself as have never done
before to any other people; in profound reyer-
enee; salute you with gratitude and affection
Abiding to the drought, he said-There will
be 10 famine in Kansas because there is wealth
and credit enough to carry her through; if these
will not do, he advised an appeal to friends in
the East.
Abiding to the "Irrcprcssible Conflict" he
says-The people oil Kansas settled it there in
favor OF freedom, in New Mexico they tried tt
settle it in favor of slavery, and now find it i'm
possible.
He then reviewed the history of Slavery Elk.
tension, and said the Territories must be resery.
ed for The free labor of over-populated Europe
Missouri has lost this emigration. Had she beer
wise, the population now in Kansas would hav,
settled in her borders. She is made richer by
millions by the settlement of Kansas by free
men. He concludes as follows: Henceforth i
my confidence in the stability of the American
Union wavers. l shall come here to learn tlia
the Union is stronger than human ambition, be
cause it is founded in the affection of the Amer
lean people. If ever l shall waver in my de
votion to Liberty, 1 shall come up here to renew
there under the inspiration of the sympathy
of one hundred thousand freemen saved from
slavery.
Hcnccforth these shall not be my sentiments
| alone, but the sentiments of all men will com,
up TO Kansas as they go up to Jerusalem. Thi
| shall be the sacred city.
The Governor and party leave for the East To-
morrow morning. .t