The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-09-06
ENIPORIA, KANSAS, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER g. 1862

80 would 1t be with the secret OF liberty for
the slaves.
We, in Kansas, have the same interest in
this contest that the other free States have.
The glory of the Republic is ours as well
as theirs. The power of the Government,
which can give an American protection on
every sea, and every shore, is equally our
protection; and the glory of that flag, and
the salutes that greet it in every harbor, are
possessions and glories that belong to US.
And in the free States, our brethren are
going forth to fight as we do-to preserve
that common heritage.
For if this Rebellion were successful,
what Government would the South be- It
would be greater than what would remain
of the Union 1t would have three ffths of
the coast, and greater advantages for COM
merce or manufactures, and more than halt
of our best lands would be torn from our
Goyernment-and for what ? To foam a
Republican Government Not at all. The
ruling principle of the Confederacy is the
only one in all North America of pure arts
tocracy and despotism. Based on slavery,
the Government must be despotic.
But if five millions can thus wrest half
the wealth of country from twenty mil
lions, that people will have name and
power that we can never hope to equal.
Their Government will be what it now es-
sentially is-a monarchy. They will be a
people TRAINED and devoted to arms. And we
can never equal them, or protect ourselves
against them, unless we adopt strong mil
itary form of government, and train our
youth to arms, found military schools,
erect forts, build and sustain powerful
fleets, and change our mild Republic into a
harsh Military Government. And this will
be an end to democracy, and the hopes of
liberty to the oppressed of all lands.
We must wage this war, not for mere ma
tionality, nor for territory, but for our own
free form of government. With their slaves,
they can put million of men into the field;
and without them, or with them FESTIVE and
turbulent, they can raise not over half or
three-quarters of million. We shall now
have million and a:qdarter and If
that IS not enough, we will raise a mill
lion and quarter more. We must make
sacrifices. If twenty millions would whip
five millions, they must raise larger armies
than those of the FIVE millions. We must
abandon our business as pastime. Who do
not go to-day, must prepare to go to-mor
row. We must pour out troops, as fast as
the Government can arm them, in multi
tudes
"Like which the populous North
Poured never from her frozen 1oins to, pass
Rhine or the Danube"
The South cannot withstand the shock of
the enormous armies the loyal States will
throw upon them. Their armies will be
overwhelmed, their strongholds taken, their
Government broken up. The rebelhous
States will then, believe, return to their
allegiance, submitting to such terms as the
victorious and magnanimous Government
may dictate. But those who shall then re-
fuse to submit, and resort to stubborn
guerilla warfare, must be cleared from the
land by our armies, as country boys would
clear field of copperheads; and their lands
and homes must be taken possession of by
an emigration following the wake of our
armies. upon whose loyal shoulders the
Government may securely rest for sup
port.
Look at the result in Missouri, of the
imbecile policy of making war on peace
principles. Along the route of the Hanni-
bal q ST. Joseph and North Missouri Rail-
roads, nearly every farm has had its traitor.
Most of the old men have furnished their
best horses and saddles and brides to their
boys, given them arms and money, and
sent them to Prices army, or the guerilla
bands-while Mey stayed at home and were
quiet 'Union" people. There are the farms.
Not shock of corn or stack of hay has
been molested by Union army. Let those
men hereafter understand that if they send
their boys to destroy the Government, we
will send our boys TO destroy their property.
Let those boys understand that if they go,
they shall have no home to return to. If
they will have war, let them feel its horrors.
Let there be no more of that policy of pro-
tecting the farms, crops, stock and negroes
of traitors. l believe The Administration
has been held back, has had its hands tied,
and been forced to weak and indecisive
measures by the halling of large portions of
loyal men who would not trust it. But if
the Administration should not be prepared
for the stern measures indispensable for sue
cess, when one and half millions of intel
ligeut soldiers are in the field, the armies of
the Union will dictate to the Government an
efficient policy.
We in this State have greater interest in
the issue Of this war Than the people of other
States. If the Rebellion succeeds, neither
Ohio nor New York will 60 out. But Mis-
souri, and Kansas, linked together by posi-
ton, commerce, and interest, must go to-
gether. If Missouri goes, Kansas goes.
Not the people of Kansas-we could not be
forced with the State from the Union; but
We would be swept from the plains of Kan
sas as chaf is swept from the thieshing-
floor. Not one will be permitted to stay,
unless as the friend or the slave of the slave-
driver.
To-day, if Price returns, he will be forced
by his own people 10 devastate Kansas. We