The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-09-15
n. OLARKH,s sPREnH

said:
GEETLEMKE OF TBE COKVKrTToE; 7 AZ.
cept with feelings of profound eno,;o.
the high honor conferred upon me by
Jour unanimous Te-ncuin2tion as the
candidate of the Union REPUBLICAN party
OF Kansas for the Congress of the United
States l am The more deeply sensible
Of this expression of condolences because
feel and know lhatit is the. spontaneous
expression of the sentiments of coastit.
uency it has bean my pleasure to serve
during the last tEo ysars-a CONSTITUENCIES
educated amid the bloody conflicts of ter
ritoTlal aRa national strife, and unsWetv
ingly deyotsd to the cause Of liberty. of
justice. and the rights of man. Wher-
ever the cause of human liberty was low
! ed and TeVered; wherever the standard of
justice to all vas 6onored by 4hs GOOD
and the true; wherever the rights of man
we're upheld and defended; Wherever men
died that true representative government
might Be perpetuated TO posterity: In
brief, wherever universal aud impartial
liberty existed, 10 government, in philan-
thropy, IN story, or IN song, or in the re-
ceSses of single human heart, the peo-
| pie OF Kansas have received honor and
sympathy for their fidelity TO freedom.
and for their sublime heroisnn manifested
in both their early and late struggles.
To represent such people, and to be the
chosen embodiment Of ideas tested in the
fiery furnace of our ten years history.
fills me, I confess, with the most over
whelmiug feelings of sensibility.
But. gentlemen, honored as We have
been in our past history, and encouraged
as We must be by the remembrance Of its
heroic record, the doctrines now before Us
are of the most solemn and momeutuous
character; and, in my Judgement incIud
ing the welfare and perpetuity of popular
liberty in America. Treason in arms
with it's bloody and hellish purposes, and
carrying in its sweep devastation and
death. has been met and successfully re-
sisted by our gallant soldisry on the bat
tie felds of the Republic; but treacbery
worse than treason, aad al infidelity to
loyalty that would baseIy surrender the
! results of cur great contest into the hands
of traitors, now challenge our efforts at
| the ballot box, and summons as to a con
f1ict 1t would be criminal to eVade.
Andrew Johnson, an accidental Presi-
cent of the United States, Who declared
In 1864 that treason must be made obi
Gus and traitors must be punished and
impoyerishsd;" that ''their great pIanta-
tions must be seized and divided into
small farms, and sold TO honest, indus
trious men," who asked ''in calling q CON
Vention TO restore the State, who shall
restore and re establish it? Shall the
man tho gave his influence and his means
to destroy the Government? Is he to
participate in the great work of raorgani-
cation? Shall ne who brought this mis-
cry upon the State be permitted to con :
troll its destinies?" aud who added, 'ifthis
be 80, then all this precious blood of our
brave soldiers and officers SO freely pour
ed out will have been Wantonly spilled,
all the glorious victories WOO by our no -
bic armies will go for nought, and all the
attle-6elds which have been soWp with
dead heroes during the rebellion will have
been made memorable in vain;'' who said
''the traitor has ceased to be 3 citizen,
and in joining the rebellion has become q
public enemy. He forfeited his right to
vote with loyal men when he renouncsd
his citizer ship aud sought to destroy our
Government. We say to the most honest
and industrious foreigner who comes from
England and Germany to dwell among US,
and to add to the wealth of the country,
''BefOre you can Be citizen you must
stay here for FIVE years." If We are so
cautious about foreigners, who voluntarily
renounce their homes to live with US,
what should We say to the traitor who,
although born and reared among Us, has
raised paricidal hand against the Gov
eminent which always protected him?
Ny judgement is that be should be sub
jecled to severe ordeal before he is re:
stored to citizenship" who affirmed in
emphatic language, ''shOw me who has
been engaged in these conspiracies, who
has given instructions 70 take our forts,
custom houses, arsenals, and dock yards,
and l will show you a traitor. Were I
President of the United States, would
do as Thomas Jefferson did in 1906 With
Aaron Burr. would have them arrest
ed, and: IL convicted. within the meaning
and scope of the Constitution, by the
Eternal God l would execute them;" this
same Andrew johnson has proved false to
himself. TO liberty aud 10 his party, and
slande to-day as the recognized leader of
the disloyalists of the country, denouuc
ing the Representatives of the people, and
recklessly and defiantly conducting the
Government in the direction of anarchy
and revolution.
He now demands that traitors shall be
admitted into the halls of Congress in
stead of being ''Punisbed and imprisOn-
ed" be now restores to traitors their
''great plantations, instead of dividing
them into small farms and selling them
''tO honest, industrious men," He now
selects traitors instead of loyal men as
the chief participants IN 'stbe great work
of reOrganization'' at the South He nov
reverses his declaration that ''the traitor
has ceased TO be citizen, and in joining
the rebellion has become public enemy
aud invites him TO voice and vote in the !
conduct of q Government against Ehich |
be ''has raised a paricidal hand" He
now bugs consPirators and traitors to his |
bosom, clasps their bloody hands ia Grim
inal fraternity, and hurls de6aacs 10 the
loyal masses Who elected him to power.