The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-05-09
SPEECH OF SENATOR INGALLS,.
At the LeaVenwOrth Banquet.

At the LeayenwOrth Banquet.
On the Path Of April the bust
ness men gave Senator John j
Ingalls, a banquet, at which the
following was one of the toasts:
Our Guest-the Hon. John j
ingalls,. We hail his election as
the beginning of a new era in Kan
sas politics.
In response to this sentiment
the Senator arose and said:
1fl-. President and FeIto,c- Citt-
Gems Of LearengOrth::
This occasion is to me one OF
unmingled pleasure and satisfac-
ton. 1t seems almost like reali-
cation of the political millennium.
The Democratic lion and the Radi-
cal lamb have lain down together,
and Liberal Republican may
leau IuGIH.
Leavenworth and Atchison have
for once forgotten their tradition
al feuds, and struck hands in good
fellowship across the festal board,
and were it now in order, would
pause in my remarks long enough
to propose the sentiment "May
their friendship be perpetual" for
surely our State is large enough
and its future is broad enough to
warrant us in abandoning sense
less .iealousies, and going forward
in the race toward the goal of
commercial supremacy, stimulated
by 4 generous emulation that will
rejoice at all honestly acquired
success, and regret all unmerited
discontinue. To such a course |
can pledge myself personally, and
| think l am warranted in com
hitting the community with which
/ am specially Unidentified, but
which in my official character will
ask of me 20 other recognition
than that which is accorded to
every other locality in the State
and that is exact and equal jus
tice, without favoritism or par
TALLY
Recognizing the fact that the
people are the source and fountain
of power, l propose to abandon
the test of personalism in my po-
litical conduct and in all matters
affecting the public welfare to as
certain the desires of the people
in the localities interested, and
having ascertained them, to ac-
complish them regardless of per-
sonal consequences.
For the first time in twelve
years, Mr.. President, this expert
ment can be attempted with some
prospect of success. For the first
time during our political exist
ence, the clements are at rest and
the discordant warfare of contend
ing factions has ceased. These
are the halcyon days, brooding
with untroubled wing above the
tranquil repose of a sleeping sea
The political life of Kansas has
exhibited a complication of disur-
ders and arrangements whose rap
id succession has had no parallel
in history. Begotten in sectional
strife and born in a national CON
vulsion, her infancy was scene
of bloodshed and rapine whose
animosities were but the herald of
those internecine feuds which
have thus far characterized our
existence as a State.
Conventions and counter con
ventiOns, futile constitutions, in
Vulnerable elections, resolutions
and manifestoes, conflicting exec
utives, hostile representations in
Congress, impcachments, vindic-
tive and violent contests for su-
premacy at home and abroad have
successfully infamed the temper
and arrested the progress of the
people, till excitement became
their normal condition, and serene
and healthy activity was unknown
to the body polite. Any deceit
full lull in the tempest was merely
the preparation for n renewal OF
the contest, or the eXhaustation OF
energies which rested only to re
peat the onset. When the ele-
ments seemed at peace, and it APP
peared as if the ingenuity of de-
mons could invent no occasion fol
disturbance, the thunder pealed
from 4 cloudless sky, and tile un-
expected bolt descended upon
some victim selected for vengeance
And the worst feature of this
melancholy phase has been that
these discussions and antagonisms
occurred among men of similar
political faiths. Had a stranger
! familiar with the conflicts engen
dered by hostile principles in 9th
er communities and accustomed tC
see men of the same creed allied
for the achievement OF victory
been suddenly acquainted with The
anomalous and bcwildering frenzy
of our local contests, had he wit
messed the vulgar recriminationi
of the press and the wild fury o
the rostrum, he might well have
4 supposed that our people were Iii
yided on questions of nationa
moment, and that two great par
ties weres truggling for the suprem
acy.
How great would have been hi
surprise to know that we were not
and had never been divided upo
any great question affecting tn
integrity of the nation, and tina
the party in power has been in
majority SO great as to be pract
cally linanimousi He would vain
~ have sought a solution of th
proplem of Kansas politics by re
erence to any ascertained stand
ards of political conduct, and bee
compelled to differ from Solomo
: when he declared that there wa
: no new thing under the sun.
l do not now propose to attemI
3 solution Of this enigma, thong
the solution is evident, for this
not political meeting, but 81
ciai, friendly, business interview,
love feast, where we are to e.
change confessions and mai
promises Of penitence and refo
nation; and before the eyenin
: closes 1 expect my brother CO.