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synopils, sfter some music by the band and
glee club, Hon. Mark Bangs, Of 1acon, Was


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Judge Bangs said he should tate exception
to the use proposed to be made Of the ashea
Of Lawrence by the honorable gentlemen who
had Just closed. The ashes Of that former
noble but now destroyed city were too sacred
to be employed for the purpose proposed.
They we're balloHed By the SORROWS Of widows
s1a s1tal 1fe e. tsa1s t e Of orphans and were better
rather TINT Almighty God, as he did with the
earlier sodom and GomorEah, rain down fire
and birthstone upon that infamous and
doomed city. He could use no language too
strong when he spoke Of that place. He
knew of no place 50 well calculated for
a1other Red Sea, - that where Charleston
Jpde B: spoke Of the humanizlng. .civi1izlng,
christlonizing sinhnebces of-Puritanism, and
thnnked God that he was 3 deeceodanf Of oRe
Of them. The chntchessr the school houses,
the librariee, testify to their character, and
the proudest +, ,onuments to which we Ameri-
cans csn poirt are the result "a their mighty
When Ills Far was commercial We were
told that 1t y as conflict betwEGn. freedom
and slavery, and VIC have responded for frec-
dom by thousands aud tens Of thousands Of
Il ass ne rhq ea's e s sea =. shea s
they commenced 1t, counted beyond their
power THEY knew well the respect for, aud
obedience to, law which everywhere
maintained In the North. They understood
It vel Da they regard aud respect. this
rebellion confidently, .fondly anticipating
that there would be no attempt to bring them
back to duty. They-had seized upon and
corrupted Buchanan and his satellites, and
they 1ond1Y hoped that all was secure and
safc. I repeat, they counted beyond their
host, and to day they ore beginning to realize
that their hour Is at hard, and they are ready
tn pjya nm 4hA ,tnkf
= He liked those Mime resolutions fpub-
Hshed tn the TRIBUNE few days sluec]. They
~ere1u5t the thing. Let every man stand
By: these resolutions, and tho rebellion will
be put doEn In double quick time. In six
mouths twill only be known in name.
he Was sufba6f 1hat-it is constitutional to
put it down, and he was III tavor Of employ
sLg every means by which 1t can be put down.
Il Ab1abam Lincoln had been dfyinely in-*
.sI'lte1, he could not haye uttercda q more po-
1t truth-he co1ld not have placed the mat
II r more plainly and truly before the people
T. an le did when be said :. "a house divided
against itself cannot stand-the3e States must
oe. either ali. free or all slave" How like
prophecy fulfilled are those words Of AbEa-
b. m Itncolns Can any man tell me why
s,avery shall not perish? What good has It
es er done? What churches and echoolhouses
h it built? What sculs has it sayedf Where
~ ~ :. . !+e 11oan4tenta ~ oeau'{ ano ul4itJ! II
= any N man Nonlo SNOW MIN single noble work
II mas performed, he was almott ready to say
ILat ne nonld support and sustain IT: he
osa ssSea these 4geetons hundred Of times,
=. ma ne never conld Get Them answered. He
nao @ 1SsSc tS,as 1aese Questions OF eading Demo
ca. tCol Manslow) Of MS town, aud the only
response he gut was that two we're trying to
destroy slavery In order to des roy the Demo-
cratic patty Wen, It destroying slavery
Tin desuoy re Democratic psrty-by which
he n'eant the Coppe1heads-taenh he Was ready
to q! Amen"
Judge BaIgs then deee5bed with graphic
?. y. the efforts OF the Democratic party
TIC ~ mans, the Keynoldsee. the Drodheads,
tie Fiutheads, the Roundheads and the Cop.
peahs ads-to shield and save slavery from its
Certain doom. In trying to save slavery they
bad simply destroyed misunderstanding
more: no earthly power could EAYE 1t-ltA