White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1864-10-13

uinufepce 70 your materlai expansion.
Again. in frontier State there is dan
ger Of guerrilla system ct the close of
the war. / am almost ashamed to say
it, but every good man in the State no
derstsnds me when say that there IL q
tendency to decentralization in our army
and its attaches, which ia not suffs GENTLY
frowned on BY the people. I make you
NO popular. soothing address, but to warn
you of dangers which tend TO min. How
can we countenance the getter Of stolen or
corrupt gains? How can we permit to
mingle incur society men who are rapid
ly becoming highwaymen? Has our pub:
lic sense become so venal that it cannot
sse crime? II nothing was taken in war
bus what the government got, We would
save. IN morals ten times ell We could
make BY plunder. All history teaches
thGt bands of robbers grow from the
debris .of.demorslizsd Enio. I believe
it is robbers. so made. more thsn any.
thing else. who are stirring up the dissst.
i.fsd Indians. LIST public safety imme-
diately demand stern reform. Let pub.
lie sentiment and just punishment so
visit.' that he who stole shall steal no
more, Fail TO do this, and highway
men at every cross road will clsp pistols
to. your beads and demand your money.
and men clad in worn out and disgracsd
Federal uniform will prowl over the State
to..i1yhawk" from you everything from
Q horse to silver spoon. -, r.,
In this connection, let me further say
that immense herds of stolen cattle-from
10000 to 20. .000-hsve been driven from
the Indian Nation into or over Kansas
this season. Men of E Kansas. those Indisn
soidiers of mine have been as Q wall of
defense between your homes and the ene-
my: In the trenches at Fort Gibson,
over the broad prairiss and through the
deep woods, they hsve csaselessly march
ed and fought-often less than half fed,
and scoffed at by those who had but half
their courage, and less than half their
honesty and patriotism. Their homes,
which Dere comfortable, have been desc
lated BY the enemy there held at bay !;
think. while they are thus fighting and
sufering in the Union cause, of thieves
from the State stealing their cattle. while
they are in front making the cover. Can
you, without sentiments of deep emotion,
behold such men thus stripped of the last
property they have in the world? call
on every citizen of the State to ferret out
the evil doers-to hold them up as lepers
to the scorn of an indignant public, and
to aid these people in recovering their
property. / call on every Grand Jury
IN the State to see that they are indicted
for their crime Already the eyes of
these Indians look coldly on Kansans for
the crimes of few evil doers. You do
not wish to make them enemies, or to
induce them to 60 to Kansas in raids to
drive back their stock-whieh you ,sould
assaredly do. Your true policy is to
cultivate friendly relations with them,
from which would spring a rich COM
merce for both.
In closing. I would say tha. l have
always felt a just pride in the history of
Kansas. have felt for it as l have felt
for my child, and wayward though it has
often been, l love it too much to lose
faith in its future. I appeal to every
good man in the State. l Iappesl to every
intslligent man in the State. appeal to
every religious man in the State, to aid
in giving q more correct tone to our pub
iie morals. Religion is the ark of our
safety. and every public institution must
be planted on it. Without this, the bark
Of State is adrift. No bad man can
make q good public servant, and the peo-
pie, who in the vain hope of selfish gain,
tolsrats proaigate, having lost faith in
he supremacy of good, have commit
led political crime, and are Fastening
10 political punishment.
To-day we stand without party the
nation is our party, the Union our princi-
pies. There never was time when the
people were freer to select their best men.
There never was time that offered so
happy an opportunity to remedy the
wills shat were prostituting your State
Conventions and party machinery. 1t is
he fate Of oil such machinery to be first
1seful, then polluted-then cast aside.
In the just merits of men and principles,
10 tie people let as go. 1t is in the nature
'f An incipient and corrupt aristocracy to
make oil persons and communities bend
% the interests OF some man. who be-
comes for them party. principles. exist
nee. Improper ways of perpetuating
power have always been the FIRST steps of
tyranny and aristocracy. His appointees
IRE his Pretorian basds. On the other
isnd. it is the nature Of republican liberty
o keep all the public servants indepen.
lent, and to thrust every man aside the
instant ne develops the. presumption to
mud himself up as power. Nor must
ron shrink or hesitate from the elements
IT 9 just opposition. A common pru-
isnce calls on you to harmonize all the
,srtiss or persons who can go with you
o the work. So oil good parties are
made for 9 good purpose. say this all
be more readily because I am not with
'ou. Tomorrow the first State Conven.
ion will be held. and in q week see
here will be another. Although my
lame has been freely used ss Q probable
,ublie servant. as I have been prevented
rom attending either, I presume that
neither will offer it to you, and, therefore,
address you with al the earnestnsss of
! plain cisisen. ID
We sre told that it is at times neces-
ary to rscur to frst principles. To rec.
,llsct that governments are Of. and for
be people, and to come back to the les
ona of rennhlican lihertx Man of Kan.