Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-01

states were in political utilization with
that party. No other test except that
of party utilization has ever been ap-
piled BY the Democratic party. and it
has consistently opposed the admis-
sion of all States into the Union which
were not in political accord with it.
Are we on the threshold of a con-
tention about the admission of new
States which will be carried out of
these halls aud divide the American
people as they divided upon Ksnsas?
The Kansas struggle foreshadowed the
greater one which followed for the
preservation of the Union. 1t was in
those days bleeding Kansas, "abOli-
ton Kansas" abolition traitors, Yam
keea, higher-law men-any and all
terms which expressed for the Free
State settlers of Kansas contempt, and
designed to cover them with obloquy,
to show their utter worthlessness and
unfitness for self-goyernment. The
felicitous language OF the Senator
from Missouri enabled him TO charac-
terize the people of Dakota III some
thing like the same yirulent fashion;
and yet appeal TO facts within the
knowledge OF every Senator on this
floor when say that the Kansas of
that early time was worthy of associa-
ton with the States then or since
composing the American Union. The
Kansas of bitter contention, treated
with irdign;ty and contumely by the
slave oligarchy and its servile tool,
the Democratic party, became, in the
language of Mr.. Sumner, 1.-The minis
1 To- 20 10
Kansas came into ths Union when
the Union was breaking-seemingly
beyond the hope of ever again recOv-
ering-as the States whose representa-
tives in House and Senate had perse-
cuted her and caused her fair face to
be defiied with blood were leaving
their places in The Union 10 join i'll a
wicked and causeless rebellion. 1t did
not seem an attractive place TO get
irto-a Union assailed by nearly one
half its inbabitants-but the people of
Kansas were not dismayed. Admis-
sion TO the national Union as a
free State had been for all
the wear years of their
struggle the goal of their ambition,
and they cheerfully came in, knowing
that the toll and blood by means of
which their ambition had been
wrought out would necessarily be fol-
lowed by similar sacrifices to maintain
the Union, place in which they had
at last achieved. In that hour of
supreme peril they never doubted that
the principles OF freedom for which
they had commended and by the sign of
which they had conquered, would
save the Republic, and SO they not
only willingly, joyfully, cast their for
| tunes into the balance with what was
left of the American Union of States
and people, but having literally
fought 20 get in, they fought under
the flag of the Union 20 bring the
seeding states back-fought out all
thst long struggle, manfuily giving TO
the ranks of the Union army more
men than there ever had been votes
cast in Kansas, more in proportion 10
population than any of the States
which adhered to the Union
| The ole hundred thousand people
in Kansas in 1861 have become one
million and half The settlements
of that da,, which were mainly found
! in the tier Of counties which boriered
on Missouri, now cover nearly all The
1900 square miles composing the
State. The burden of the desert has
been lifted. The Industrious, energetic,
and adventurous peopl" of Kansas
stamped their feet upon the ground
and there came forth not only fruits of
| the soil in abundance, bu; pleasant
and comfortable dwellings, orchards,
school houses, churches, railroads,
towns, cities. and all the appliances
| and blessings of 3 high state OF civil
ization, of State free ia fact, as in name
one not ashamed 10 hold no its head
| alongside the oldest and proudcst
| members OF the Republic. They have
nothing 10 be ashamed OF by compar-
| isOn with those who persecutet them
in The days OF their trial. They do
not boast OF their ancestry; they have
| been too busy 10 gather up much in
| the shape of i pedigree. but the re-
suits of their labors civilization, pros
| peri,y ,liberty-they viii put against any
lineage, however proud Four tnous-
| and miles Of railroad. school houses of
| the value OF S7,000,0O0, Il present an
nual expenditure for school purpose,
of nearly s., 000, 0G0-the>c are no in
| considerable results from the poverty
OF twenty-five years ago, but they are
the results of ambitious. well-direcied
labor, inspired by a determination
which has been appalled, at no obsta-
cles and shrrnk FROM no difficulty.
No supp.iants they Il national
bounty, no jealousy OF other commu-
mites DESTROYS OF place in the
national Union. They know that the
more props under the national arch
the stronger it !: that the Union OF
States increases il strength a. new and
write communities are added to it:
anu when, as in the case of Dakota,
there is embraced within her limit, the
blood and Drawn of all the races aud
conditions of men whose association
on the North American continent has
made the greatest republic the world /!
ever saw, they gladly welcome Der. |
They are willing that two Seniors |
representing Dakota shall sit Oh this /
floor. The added power to the Re- |
public will more than make up for any |
loss of power to Kansas. Kansas SAYS |
to all the Territories possessing he 1
requisite population and struggling |
for that which she struggled |
for and paid for with the price |
of her blood, ''Come inio !
the Union; we know you are equally |
virtuous with us, and We know that /
your hopes and aspirations are as ours |
are. and we would clasp and bring to-
gether under the 9gis of the Republic |
il the exercise of the precious right of |
>elf-government every American citi- /
zen who has an honest aspiration for
freedom and a determination to de- |
fend aud perpetuate it."
Perhaps, Mr.. President. the voice of 1
South Carolina and of Missouri is /
more entitled to weight than that of /
Kansas They are older States; they |
boast of their generations OF able and |
distinguished pubic men, of an an
cestry that goes back to the earlier |
days of the Republic. would not
speak lightly OF this, but Kansas /
strinks from no comparison as to
present condition in all vital particu-
lars. She asks no question about age, |
birth, or previous condition; all she /
asks is what the person coming within I
her borders proposes 10 do for the
future. If to be good citizen. then I!
he is welcome. Aud so Kansas es-
pouses the cause of Dakota. perhaps a
little stronger because she secs her |
contending with the same influences
IN the Senate, against the same leader