The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24
TAFFY FOR KANSAS,
In Incident That Is Part OF an Epic
From the Washington Gazette.

An Incident That Is Part OF an Epic.
From the Washington Gazette.
The nomination in Kansas of Mr.. |
McCabe, for State Auditor by the Re |
publicans there, is the first instance, so |
far rs we remember, of the selection of |
q colOTed citizen for u position of such |
importance, in any one of the old tree |
and northern states. Kansas has been |
the battle ground of and pioneer in |
the movement for political equality and |
personal liberty. IL is fitting that, hav- |
ing u large body of colored citizens, one !
of their number, being, as we are assur |
ed quite competent, should be recOg- |
nized in this way. Mr. McCabe is, at |
least, the indirect result of the exodus |
nominee lives at Nicodemus, Graham |
county, in the central valley (Smoky |
HID of the western portion OF the State.
II embraces region where, eighteen
years since, the editor served through |
campaign against the Kiowas, Conan
ches and ArapahOes, fighting them over
ground now cultivated by ex-slaVes who
have migrated thither from the Southern
states. Nicodemus is. we believe, a col
Ored settlement. Mr.. McCabe took a very
active part in organizing and assisting
his brethren at the time Kansas became
place of refuge for so many thousands,
turned their dusky faces toward the for
mer home of John Brown, and where al
last, they have achieved what one of
them patheticalIy said TO US in st. Louis
at the time, "We'uns hopes TO find q
place whar the peoples will not be angry
cause we send our children to school,"
Is it not wonderful when one comes
to recall the mighty drama with which
the name Of Kansas mas been for twenty
eight years associated? Count IL over
and reflect thereon: The repeal of the
Missouri compromise in 1854, under the
sounding sham announced by Stephen
A. Douglas as "squatter sovereignty;"
the organization OF the territories, Kan
sas and Nebraska; the great debate
in congress, and Stewards acceptance of
the southern challenge; the OFganiLa-
| ton of pro-slavery emigrant society in
Charleston, 5. c., followed at Boston by
that of the New England Aid Society,""
which organized free state colonies laid
hotels, churches, school houses
and mills the movement
| of the north; the collision of the
sections; the tree state war; the sacking
| of Lawrence and other free state settle
ments; the armed emigration from the
north in 1856; the arrest and imprison-
ment of citizens on the Judge Jeffries
| charge OF "conStructlVe tFeasonS" the
organization Of frve state government,
and the dispersal by United States
troops Of its legislation OF the Demo-
eracy and through the Lecompton CON
stitution struggle. the presence, activity
and example of John Brown and what
followed at the Training Post in Kan
sas, and At Harper's Ferry, in Virginia;
Wondrous chords, all of them. in = won
derful prelude, striking the solemn
choral prologue to the majestic and
mighty tragedy of the civil war Then
Kansas was poor and feeble; now she is
rich aud powerful. with mighty brood
of industrious people settled over all
her swelling plains"
Her pioneer work did not close with
the opening of the war. In the massive
movement 0f the greater centers, the
significant part Kansas took In the
"sIave holders war; has been stirred
up and kept dim We, who were
: part, have not forgotten or ignored
its importance. Harried by confed-
crates and Guerrillas, troops as bad.
, with bloody memories. the massacres of
} Lawrence and Baxter Springs, 20 almost
sicken with the associations they recall ;
} threatened by Indians on the west and
south, far from the centers Of the strife,
} having hundreds OF miles of important