The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-16
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testimonials cullsd ID favor of tIsss
called reform.
20 my mind it is omiuous of 4 terrible
future; for i believe that they are all based
upon txpsdiency IS their highest author
~. When the highest dignitaries of
church aud State lend their influence IN
molding public sentiment that is csleala-
zee 70 uproot society aud remodel the en-.
ttFe Social and political economy Of great
nauon. When chat social system Is of
nearly SIX thousand ysars standing. and
me political economy ackuoWJ edSsd To
Ue the pest upon which the sun has. evar
shone. Inc home of the free and tl,s
@no OF the brave; the asylum for tbs ov.-
pressed OF all lands; the normal IF sIln,.
tions' sending out its silent but potent IN.
uuenee which Ike a magic smell is mn
ioosiag the chains of oppression. soften.
ing the rigor OF crowned heads and sui.
tans. and exerting a genial spirit over
humanity everywhere. I ask. in tbs
name OF reason, shall this nation which
Is copy of that given by divine author
| Ity Ia close proximity to the mount that
beneath, with FIRE amid thunders ana
lightning and thick cloud, that causeS
The whole mount to quake greatly? Shall
this uatton which has its model form en-
rolled IN the archives of antiquity; far
anterior to Scion or Hgeurgus, bearing
upon its frontlet the divine right of avAp-
handed justice 10 all persons? Shall
Kansas upon whose soil the first blood
was shed that has redeemed the nation,
IN their jubilaut hours gather the yoke of
oppression q I'd frantically cast it upon the
neck OF women under the guise of equal
rights? Shall this young and growing
Kansas, who was the first to step forward
in defense of the right in the hour of the
nations peril, be the FIRST to lead into cap
tivity? We hope that in trumpet tones
at the ballot box her people will answer
mol
1t is usually considered sort of prof.
ination to sssail long established usagss,
and we'll founded laws without first show
ing that they are based in error or that
have so changed as to rem
der them inefficient. But not 30 in this.
The friends of this movement, like Peter
the hermit, take great dsal for granted,
aud start beyond midway in the aYgu-
ment; pursue with zsal to possess their
imaginary holy rights. Now it would
oOeuI " OS WHY LOI Us W pEO0uCS scSIis
mony to prove proposition that has been
tscidly and practically admitted by all ma
tons under heaven for nearly six thous-
and years. Il is indeed ludicrous to see
the friends of this pssndo reform attempt
to wrench the truth from the opposite
side by high sounding words aud phrase
es and apply it by the gross TO their
cherished reform, and then sit down aud
coOlly demand testimony as though they
had won the field like gallant men. tits
well known that Kansas is nearly in the
geographical center of this great nation,
and may become. in the course of events,
the TadiatiDg point of civilization to the
world. Shall we forestall her future
greatness by laying the foundation for
French Forerisrn in our midst, and thus
plant the upas tree of socialism the very
5haudow of which is death? Shall We
allow our brightest hopes to he blasted to
satisfy a few superficial thinkers, a
class of indiscriminate reformers that are
always ready to experiment at any haz-
arc? We trust that next November the
integrity of the people Of Kansas will SO
rebuke the hYdra-headed monster that he
may never again show himself 10 the
State. J. MoANULTY, 81
HARTFORD. July Goth, 1867.