Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-06-16
DECLINEAND FALL OF"GREA Z
MORAL IEDAS" IN KANSAS.

3 DECLINEANDFA FALL OF"GhEAI Il
Q MORAL IEDAS" IN KANSAS.
From the New York World.
p If the State of Kansas is not afflicted
with the most merccnary crew of pol
iticans in Christendom 1t certainly
must be held, more than any equal
> number of square miles on the face Of
the habitable globe, to abound in ''liars
, of the first magnitude" We are, per
haps, unnecessarily cautious in giving
, this alternative form to our statement,
for when we consider the mournfnl
, exhibition which, on quite another
stage, has recently illustrated the close
connection that exists between public
villainy and private mendacity, we are
warranted in believing that if Kansas
is rich in types of the former she is
quite likely to be rich in types of the
latter. 1t is to be expected that soil
which breeds corruption shall also rcek
with pestilential exhalations and it is
equally to be presumed of men whose
right hands are full of bribes that their
throats will be an open sepulchre. 1t
is no ground Of surprise that Com
monwealth which is prolific in political
sportsmen like Subsidy" Pomeroy
and in decoy ducks like the treach-
erous Yorke should also be exuberant
in modern co-rivals of Ferdinand Men.
dez Pinto.
And, since these things are 80, we
are called, in reviewing the history of
Kansas, to contemplate most melan-
choly denoucment to the drama which
our s'party of great moral ideas" has
enacted on this theatre before the
eyes of the American people for the
last fifteen or eighteen years. This
mediterranean State, as everybody
knows, is the chosen arena on which
the modern Republican party joined
its battle between the civilization Of
the North and the civilization of the
South. Here are the lists within
which Senator Seward exultingly ac-
cepted the gauntlet thrown down by
the men of the South for a trial of
strength between contcnding sections.
"Come on, then" he exclained-we do
but quote his parlous words, as uttered
in the Kansas and Nebraska debate
''comc on, then, gentlemen of the slave
States Since there is no escaping
your challenge, accept il in behalf OF
freedom. We will engage in com
petition for the virgin soil of Kansas,
and God give the victory to the side
that is stronger in numbers as il is in
right" This is the paradise to save
which from the curse of slavery three
thousand clergymen of New England
joined in a prayer to Congress while
as yet the Kansas and Nebraska bill
was pending. This is the Holy Land
for whose redemption from the thral-
don of Missouri 'border ruiiians' these
same clcrgymen left their hocks, and
went through the free States in the
spirit and power of Peter the Hermit,
preaching u "crusade of freedom"
This is the American Eden to rescue
which from the polluting touch of
Stringfellow and his myrmidons the
State of Massachusetts, organized the
"New England Emigration Company"
tina. benevolent association which,
with General afterwards Senator)
s. @. Pomeroy as its agent, undertook,
on business principles, to plant school
houses, saw mills, and patent Chris
tianity in the heart of that nascent
Territory. 1t was in this hFlanders
of liberty" that the loins of the sainted
John Brown--that John the Baptist
appointed 10 usher in the new dispen-
sation-were girded up, not with cam
els hair, but with guns and pixies, that
his soul might at a later day "march
on" throughout the land under the
banners of the republic. 1t was
BLEEDING Kansas" which gave their
battle-cry to the Republican hosts in
the Fremont campaign of 1856. 1t
was with Kansas craven on their
hearts, as Calais on the heart of Bloody |
Mary, that our Bcechers descended
from their pulpits and our Sillimans
came down from their academic chairs
10 put Sharpe's rifles in the hands of
militant young saints who were early
sent out TO possess the promised land
o;ua s,,;~,,;s,,;nas Nod ondod II tbo
Lecncr ;ovs of civil warwa war for
Liberty and Uuion, now and forever,
one and inseparable'--it was still "tho
gallant State of Kansas" which con-
sr;hmtod to hat u;nsurrcc,;on of p,tri.
ot;smS n iarger ouoto of soldiers in nro.
nor,;or 20 Ier nonulotion than anv
pther state In ,be fTnion
7, Ill, bo soon than ,ha, /, everv
.sroot Kansas - the classic land NJ
'',lpSe'.,, "pies .sI;aaI;am, uoro aro Re arms
and Lere ;,s ch,r;ots lin anv state
% ue m;aht eynect 10 ace tbe Renublican
,,ar,r sh;ne rosn,endent in ;ts coat ofl
p pi,,a;i and r;aa snr,h nrosnorouslv con.
nma,.;na ~ and 90 sonnnor in ;ts moral
f f,,;ur T Wansos T. tho, state Iftbo
Ill nc ,ha ,nar,rrs 10 ,ho scod of Tho
ohnrch whot |. cron Of virtues might
,,,n ~, ownoo, n 40 rdon from so;l enrich.
od s.om III shes Of heroes who louobt
SI0d % and d"u ron ~' a,ysv nnJer Tho lca3 Of
Gonan"i 60 al t;"' Ian"y
o ~ A. e,,-.
pu'' nlas now 70 VI" ~. ndo .ia sv,u ;,.,',,, ~.
come uim, anu now nrc 'n' @ "lsnv
ial,eh INC war ngn,ns. tno saw .a
holucrs hepelloh nau '"s'cu 'css T .nal
a year peiorc 'ho howcrs Vi h"nsas
cnivalry went 70 sceu IN .hc psisons p
oil inc "Jay-nawkers 1'nat prcun'ory
gang OIL cut tnroats VINO surPasseu, ',,. .no
mugs IN their muruerous prusnn'S
80 RAPID was inc degenera.'on oi mn,
itary hohor IN hansas Una. '1walus w'
the close OF thc war ueherhi Ewing