Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-29
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Gov. Sewnrd in Kansas-His Address TO
the People of Lawrence.

NNeNa AhuHHh-Nha A0AFeAS 10
the People of Lawrence.
LEAvENwoRTH, September 27.-Governor
Seward addressed crowd of Z, 900 or 5000
people at Lawrence yesterday. He expressed
qualification at the ful6llment of lonescher-
ished desire and duty he owed to the peoDle
of Kansas, TO visit them in their own homes.
ii desire to 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 con-
test was waged by the aggressors under the
plea of popular sovereignty, which left the
people perfectly free to do as they pleased,
subject to the Constitution of the United
States, which they were left perfectly free to
interpret as they pleased, while the authori-
ties at Washington had never been able TO
interpret it to their own satisfaction or that of
the American people. While Kansas is the
youngest and laest favored with political
power, yet she is the most inhexible and
most constant.
"The two richest States are New York
and Massachusetts; and they are so merely
because they are the freest, wisest, most
liberty-loving.
1.-THE cause of all the interest / have felt
in you has been merely this--that you oc-
cupy pivotal 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 Northeastern
States 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 expect 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 secured In
freedom, and with a compromise you opened
new campaign here and crowned it with
complete victory. Henceforth the battle is
ended; henceforth the free laborer from every
lBnd on the earth can pursue his onward
path to the Rocky Mountains. -
-i"You not only occupy pivotal position,
but this great enterprise was attempted at a
critical period. In 1854 all guarantees of
freedom were abandoned, and Kansas, that
had tor forty years been free from the foot
steps 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, lifted the banner of liberty on high,
and counteracted, peaceably, all the efforts
to subdue them. In three years they not
only secured freedom in Kansas but in all
the Territory of the United States, -|
mo other 100000 people have contributed
SO much for freedom as Kansas. Before this
people, then, appearing for the first time, /
bow myself as | have never done before to
any other people, in profound reverence-I
salute you with gratitude and affection
Abiding to the drouth he says:
There will be no famine in Kansas, be-
cause there is wealth and credit enough to
carry her through. If these will not do, l
advise an appeal to friends in the Eastr
Alluding to their irrepressible conflict, he
says,
The people of Kansas settled it there in
favor Of freedom.
'En New Mexico they tried to settle it in
layor OF slavery, and now find il impossible.
He then reviewed the history Of slavery ex-
tension at length, and said the Territories
must be reserved for the free labor of over
populated Europe.
Missouri has lost this emigration. Had
she been wise, the population now in Kan
AS would have settled in her borders. She
must look to Kansas for deliverance. She
is made richer by Millions by the settlement
of Kansas by freemen.n
He concluded as follows: "Henceforth. if
my confidence in the stability of the Ameri-
can Union waivers, shall come here to learn
that the Union is stronger than human am
bition, because it is founded in the affections
of the American people.
If ever / shall waver in my devotion to
liberty, shall come up here to renew it,
Here, under the sympathy of 100000
freemen saved from slavery.
"Henceforth these shall not be my senti-
ments alone, but the sentiments of all men
will come up to Kansas as they go up to
Jerusalem. This shall be the sacred city"
The Governor and party leave for the East
tomorrow morning. ID, .a.I.