The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-09-18

already drawn 10 It's bosom 4 population of
iseemsa rser than \ hens crJ Sdel within
her historic gates, when her sons. under
MIitiades, won liberty fl mankind on the
field 81 Marathon; mOre than Soarts coz
tsiuel when she Tufei Greece. End sent
forth her devoted children, guickened bv
mothers benedIcIon, 10 IeIurn Win Their
shields on Them more than E,me gathered
on her seven hills, when, urdsr her kings,
he commenced that sovereign sway which
Afterwards embraced the whole earth; more
than London held, wEen, on tie f-ids of
Crecy and AgircJurt, TIE English bauer
was carried vicIor!Cusly over ihs chiyai-
rous hosts Of France"
And now, TIVE nty-four years later, when
fruition has b,til=d prophecy, and the young
republic has bIosdsned into an empire, aud
these shining ssysnnss are opened 10 all
the rsces OF man, alike those who fy from
the wars Of the Old World, and from the
double psiilence OF the old South,
We can Only sccep; the lesson
OF Kansas, aud wait for the
still greater worlds q1ickeriug in her
womb,
sa!d, lew moments ago, that the seeds
OF this tremendous transformation were
scattered By two great minds more than
three quarters OF century before Kansas
was settled aud organized -Geuree Wash
ington and Thomas JEFF rsop, Of virgins.
the first American ab5iisio0ls,7. The de.
c'araIion OF independence, written by
Thomas Jefferson, aud hi. public record
prove his inherent hostI!i TO human
| slavery, and hi- devotion TO absolute hum an
equality; snd the last will and testament OF
| George Washington, establishes his oSn
deep rooted hatred Of The whole idea OF
p-cpe-ty 10 uIan. The ordinance making
sll the northwest Territory free was Jvtisr-
| sons conception, ard TO the last his best
| Thoughts were given 10 the education OF the
people and the religious liberty. Bl, there
IL no measure which IL 80 rarely r. fsrr,d 10,
| and which has borne snch''ms guiticent re-
| suits, that | feel Justified by all the exisen
| cies OF the hour, and the memories Of mi.
| anniversary, is recalling il 10 your mind
| mean the purchase OF LgUi-laua 10 1904
| How few Americans out Of Kansas ever
| think that Kansas was part Oi this grand
| acquisition, how lev thst this same
Virginia slave holder was not only the zeal
| author OF the CREST ordinance that made
the whole Of the Northwest free, but that
he organized The expeditions Oi Lewis
and aIke, the discoveries Of the Il Jcky
Mountains and The road 10 the Pacific THAT
L-bulon Pike, VINO penetrated TO the SOURCES
oI the Upper Mississippi, ami gave his
| name 20 Pixies Peak, in the X cky Noun
| tains, was appointed and sent Iorth by the
Virginia author CI the Declaration oil In
dependence.
Bl, it Is Of the Louisiana purchase that
| | desire 10 speak u day, and Of the part
played by the South, led by Virginia, IN
subsequent additions 10 the public domain.
1 lt Is d lact mat nIne-Ienths of the territory
| acquired since the organization of the Gov
| eminent has been mainly acquired under
Southern administrations, and every foot
! has been cleaused OF slavery by doctrines
| planted in our system by Thomas Jefferson,
Virginia Statesman, 1t was a Southern
President who gave uJ louisiana Ii was
Southern President, Jane. K. Pcls, that
gave us CalIforuia. Two NIr, mia Gener-
ais, IIchary Tayl or and Winfield Scott, de-
ieatrd the Mexicans, and gave us Califor-
| MIA and New Mexico, and the latter made
the treaty. aided by Nicholas 7. Tri-t, SON.
iu-lsw and executor Of Thomas Jefferson,
which secured this vast empire. TWAS an
| other NirginiaD, Sam Houston. that secur-
GU thc IhNC pcAOSlCc Oi lcxdS anu dtlJcu IL
TO our Union, and il WAS North Carolin
| ian, Andrew Jscksou, that aided another
Nrginisn, President Monroe. to secure
Florida in 1871, as 70 II Is Jackson had
aided President james VI wilson, also OF
Virsinis, to drive back the Brilish when
| they Attempted to capture New Orleans,
| the capital Of Thomas JEDI fOn's Territory
of Louisiana
OBSERVE how logically these magnificent
acquisitions followed the great first exam
pie OF Thomas Jefferson and how irr.sisti-
oily his origin Al declaration in favor OF hu-
III an liberty finally controlled all Govern
ment aciiCn.
Add the acquisition Of Florida in 1921 ;
the annexation Of Texas in 1916 the &C
QUESTION OF California and New Mexico in
isis, and az a glance you see what Sluth-
ern statesmen and soldiers have secur, d to
cur national dom | am not here 10.
! day TO speak OF Northern ssgacity, courage
or patriotism. As Daniel Webster said IN
his reply to Hsyne, OF South CIrolina, in
1850:
| shall enter on no encomium upon
| Massachusetts she needs noue. There she
il. Behold her, and Judge for yourselves
There - her history the world knows il
| by heart. / he past, az least il secure.
There is Boston and Concord, and Lexing.
ton and Bunker Hill and there they will
remain forever. The bones of her sons.
falling IA the great struggle Tor independ-
enc-. now lie mingled with the soil of every
State from New Englsnd 10 G.orsia, and
there they wal! lie forever"
! address another aud 'elce today.
Ii Is TO the SIUJh that would read this
| lesson Of Kansas Il i To leaders like J.f-
l. r4ou Davis, OF MI. K u. 1. Huurer, Of
NITg'nIt Alex iujrr ii. Stephens, Of O. o.
git /; George ;. II ,ustOn, OF sb fma Geo
". Jne7, Of Iennes-ee; lud " Tnruck
! morton, Of Texas, shat | wouid aie:ti
steiy recommend this Inieres Ing study.
Democr1t ~ OF the Soulh, your real leade
Thomas Jtt!zr-on, has won the great fight
Strange trst he sr' uId have conquered the
federali-t Of th- Nor.h Who v1t,d against
the purchase Of Louisiana, and that his
ideas should have conquered the Wings of
TIE North who opposed the annex alton Of
Taxes and toe acquisition OF California.
And yet it ia not strange, because they
finally saw that all these acquisitions were
rot to extend but to stOp the advancing
tide OF human slavery. But il il dOubly
strange that the South, that helped to press
these great arqui-i ions, refuses az the eley-
enth hour 10 se.zs the advantages they have
now the right to share. Can they not see
that they are losing under leadership that
Ia fatal now, and must he more and more
fatal every hour? Rybsrt J. Walker,
fifteen years a.o. when sent forth by Mr..
Lincoln to Great Britain TO assist the Uaion
cause during the Rebellion, wrote a series
OF letters for English circulation, compar-
irg the old Slave and free States in popula-
ton, industry, commerce, and intelligence
HIS book electrified all Euro,e.
But had he lived to make a contrast be-
tween Kansas and Kentucky, or between
Kansas and Loui-ans, wha, a picture be
would have drawn, His living c0utsm-
poraries In the South still refuse 20 study
the great Lesson. Thev are ike blind men
in land of light; deaf men 10 land Of
song; they can neither see por hear. The
world is changing around them, and they
live in it unchanged They hug their de
lu-ions TO their Bi;hered breasts, and dance
their weird dances in their skeleton carni-
walls, listening only to the dresry strains Of
heir gha-tly theories, without dreaming
that the Nssuviu1 Of the Census is coming
on to exhaust them
All, gentlemen Of the South. the great
NIrgianian would have bUiidei better
Had he been here, he would never have al
lowed John c. CIlbOua's ideas to indcc-
triuate the South and if he had failed to
stop the poison, be would have demanded,
at the close Of the civil war, and in the
face Of the generosity cffered to the South
by the North, 'both hands full that his
people should not be held back in the new
rsce for empire. tie would poiu; them to
them to the gigantic gro~th Of the North