The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-01-12
THE NEW KANSAS SENATOR.

"0lS dAAiOSI1 uAeO at tluSS1 lueIc low
siis private soIdier-the only one who
has as yet taken his place among our
Senators.
OF medium hight. ratLer slight, yet
well formed. with finely shaped head
covered with an abundance Of brown
hair, with clear, pleasant eye. with reg
ular features. lighted up by q genial
manner when conversiDg-such Is the
new Senator. While drawn toward him
by certain oveihcwiug of whole souled
fellowship aud the kindlness which
seems 10 dwell in lis eye, there comes the
feeling that the man before you is born
soldier 10 battle sternly and maniully
for The right, whenever and wherever he
finds It's sacred precincts invaded, and
such he has bsen and such his pas; giv,s
sure promiss that he will be.
Edmund G.. Ross, of Lawrence, Kan
sas, has he'd an interesting career. When
Northern men were first turning their
faces toward the new Territories so lately
carved out of the Indian possessions,
Mr.. Ross was foreman OF the Milwaukee
Sentinel printing office. When the liule
party which accompanied him started for
their destination, Northern men could not
safely cross the Stale Of Missouri, and
with their * team they were obliged TO
drive around through Nebraska.
Ten years have wrought wonderful
changes. After reaching Kansas his
first act was to haul stone with his OK
team for the foundation of a printing
Office. From this Office, when construc-
ted, he issued the Topeka Tribune, and
very often, for weeks together, it was
printed on sheets slashed with bowie
knives, the border luffians habilualv
finding the bundles at Kansas Cay land
ing, and running their knives into them
But the rude work Of planting civilza-
lion on those praries gave way to the
nder woIk of war. On the breaking
out Of The free State troubles Mr.. Ross
shouldeled his rlae and did the duty of a
freeman in the field. Through all these
difficulties he was thus engaged In 10
SO he was a delegate to the Constitutional
Convention which formed the present
constitution, and 10 that body lie was re-
garded as orc Of the reliable free State
men, aud be made himself felt in the
shaping Of all Radical measures. In
1861 Q came national war, and again be
stood private soldier in the ranks, and
marched and loiled and fought as our
private soldiers did. He was eventually
promoted to the rank of Captain in his
regiment, the lllh Kansas, and ALTER
ward, on It's reorganization as cavalry,
he became Major, aud escaping the pro
Yoking farce OF being brevetted Briga-
der General, he Is Major Ross still, and
though his record Is bright as an officer.
the merit which shines upward from The
ranks where he served eciipses it. To
follow him a a soldier is to march over
the fields Ut all the fighting in the or, at
Southwest, field almost equal in extent
TO The hunting grounds OF the indians.
The war ended, he returned TO his paper.
and was ediuug the Lawrence Tribune
when selected b. Governor Crawford TO
take the sest IN the Senate made vacant
by the death OF Mr.. Lane.
The term for which he is serving ex
piges upon the election by Tue Legislature
which meets in January next. The
chances, as now calculated by Kansas
men, are decidedly in favor of Mr.. Ross
Some forty members of the Legislature
were his comrades in the field. The ar.
gument that the private soldiers who
fought the war deserve TO have one oil
their number in The highest Legislative
assembly Of tie land, is an argument
which can be used for no other Senator
In this respect he would not only repre-
sent the soldiers Of hrs own State, bu
the hundreds Of thousands out of it, who
marched for years in sun and SHOWS and
rain, and battle sleet, with haversack
blankets and gun.
Ii would be a source of constant sails
faction to all soldiers. who, for six years,
will visit the Capitol, TO be able TO poinI
out one among all the Senators who fully
understands what it Is to bear the bur
deDs of this war as the soldier in thc
ranks did-who could think as they
looked at him that man slept in Li:
blankets as We did. pounded his coffee
when be had any, with his bayonet, il
his tin cup. cut up his bacon with his
pocket-kniie. divided his hard tack witt
his comrades. iorsged for chickens, ant
shot pigs, and dId other acts by whict
hungry soldiers kept themselves IN fight
ing trim, burn fence rails. marched with
bhstsIed feel, and sometimes tied hi:
shoes to the top Of his mu.ket and wen
barefoot, to ease the pain of walking
That man has cut timber for forts. anC
dug rifle pits, and thrown up iutrench
ments. He has curried horses, aud fs,
them, aud watered them. Iu the bauL
be bore himself q man. And now he i
SenatoT-oHe of us and yet a Senator
Surely the people of Kansas do not for
get the real heroes of the war. Suci
thoughts will run through the mind G
every soldier who looks from the Senau
galleries upon Senator R1ss.- Washing
scR Gryespondeat Cincinnati Gazette, De-
24lh.
Do spOt txinguI- n acoai oil lamp b.
blowing into The top OF .hs chimney.
man IN Peoria. Illinois. had his eyes blow
GU. by en- explosion resulting from shcl
a German humOrist g;avely says th
Pans 70 death are .'allopathy, bydropa
shy and HON. epaihy.''
The Cleveland papers claim a poDula