The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-04

Is That soul with soul can blend.
Soul-lIke were the DAYS of yore;
Let us walk in soul once more.
1t is the meeting together, hand to hand.
eye to eve; the warm sympathy or brother
hooc- And when we can't meet, we read the
report of the last meeting in the paper, and
the call for the next meeting in the paper.
The paper binds; stronger than iron are pa
per wheels. When the paper does not come
Kansas man bursts forth in the words of
Pope:
10 they dread empire, Chaos, reappear!
Who wants to be alone? Solitude is prison.
Kansas talks, and writes, and reads, and ad.
Vertises.
I'm CIVILIZED epochs," says Michelet, "men
write histories, in barharOus DAYS they act
them" FIRST, John Brown, then John In
gals. The barbarous age was brave and
risked its life. Trot out any kind of an age.
beginning. m ode or end, and the Kansas
man. king of men, vaults into the saddle.
We are the Ancients of the earth,
And IN the morning of the times
And when some outsider NEEDLES with our
Kettle OF hsh. he IS made 10 eXcla'm W IN
Byron: "Methnks have lived p some Olden
time, and this hell-the best that it's not
eternali"
The Kansas editor. going to a new field.
W tn a patent outside and shi tai fun or
type, as Prentis has il, makes name in that
county and State that will I've while the
world turns round. The millionaire. when
be dies, is cut off from his money; he gets
left"
All that editing could do for Kansas was
done bv John Brown. Through his own
blood he obtained the Terri tor al and National
redemption And almost all things are by
the law cleansed with the blood; and without
shedding of blood is no rem ssion." Capta n
Brown was quite other than an editOr-waS he
only parsonage who has trodden these pra-
rtes and lived N our cabins who bore about
with him a divine message and N ssiOn When
our poop e build statues, Brown and Greeley
will enter the pantheOn-the dOer of the
word and its predicter and recorder
greatest tlnIluh
embodies the SD rit and purpose of period,
is not equal TO the executive IN nd OF Lin
coin, or to the prophetic and divInely-driven
OsawatOmie Brown. If Brown was insane.
then he was also sacred, as the anc entS had
il. Some university professors, who took
only partial course in the human'ties think
that Lincoln and Brown were failures; but
their ads. are marked If" for the ages; and
were paid for in advance, in sacritci3l blood
an expensive offering; t comes high, and
is not apprec ated hv pedants no pedant has
ever spent drop of it, and he does not know
It when he sees L
1t NAV be remarked in passing thai took
two decadeS-frOm 1853 10 lSS5-for Quantr'n
to rece We an honorary mantle of " hiteWash.
No Kansas ed tor held the brush; the oldest
Kansas editor who will speak to you today,
NAV not have enjoyed the picture, for two
sons of John Speer were murdered by Guam
trill. and their bodies burned to ashes. But,
as Mr. TOOts said, Its of no consequence"
The 're-valuat on" of history is of more i'm
portance.
The man who has the biggest chance TO
talk to the people. without any posSibil t. of
n reply is the barber and that is the reason
that he is n barber. If you talk back 10
barber you cut YOUR own throat. For m
liar reason men become editors. They want
to write. If anv man talks back he cuts his
own throat i'm fun ew of the public. And
the editor sleeps well that night. Ought 10
have known better than write Il card" and
he SIN les in his dreams.
We can get along W thout rain and enjoy
it; make fun over the rain; say it don't
amount to much; but Kansas can not get
along without newspapers. and lots of them.
The press IS the iron. the editor the blood;
they are the first tn hgS on every town site.
The editor = harm less: sometimes inStruc-
tive and amusing. He inventS words and
phrases for us and fills the place of the
HOmeric ballad st and the middleage
troubadours. The editor is usually n.
solent; thaws the ice and disSolveS, not de-
YOURS. the fluids in all societies which he
enters. 1t is the gOOd-natured man who
makes every person feel at ease aS soon as
he comes INTO the room. Jack Downing,
Bill Hutchson, George ISbell Eugene Ware,
Noble PrentiS, George McL9nc Sol Miller,
Jim Steele. Henry King, Ed. Howe. Aleck
ButtS-kanS1S has never passed an instant
without the wit, humOr. OriG naliry. qua Mt
ness, of these pecul ar men Of gen US. ii
was thought that prob bitiOn would be fatal
to them. but they are Its most taking and
attractive friends Tnev take that dry drink
and turn I into a hcalthful and spark ny
champagne. We have prohibit on hex aUse
We want 10 save the hOys-want to save the
bOyS-they are too good to lose. The best
society is ''over there" called up IecnuSe
thew are the brightest; but we who have
Kansas TO live n find such earthly attrac-
tons around us that there is one process on
which we do not join W tn unseemlr alacrity.
We believe in The procession. have n pass,
and like the layout up there-hut Kansas is
go nC to be very Vcly N the spring. II is
different in Texas Whisky IS a remedial
measure down there, in that climate, and
W IN that tZenShp.
Suppose Alabama should sit down TO the
game with Us now! The old lady would not
know what cards were out; would not know
what to lead. Bless her old soul she mover
will knowi II is too late for her to take a
hand in the game. il iS short whist now: two
hands as one, with Kansas heads beh nj
them. Many q year * n lis grave, Alabama.
since your long haired son came up here and
tried 10 turn these prairieS into a slave and
lash plantatiOn-years of decay and death TO
you. of life and growth for US. The books
were closed at Montgomery. five and twenty
years ago The rebel government was form
ed in YOUR town lust ten DAYS after the day
we celebrate-after Kansas marched into the
onion and made the stars and stripes the
banner of the free. The editor sometimes
closes his remarks hut he never takes
seat Rising with the sun and following the
hours, his lead pencil encjrcles the earth
with continuous column of notes and news.
Kansas, at -, has as many papers as the coun-
try, starting III 1867. had in IS25. after two
centuries That IS the I me it took the Col
Onies and the Tn ted States to cstclr up tn
Kansas. We don't blow. hrag or buster hut
that IS the cold fact. Kansas has only made
bcg.nn NJ. A thousand years scarce serve
z,
true, hopeful. helpful, like the people they
represent. AZ the years go by thev will be
ahlcr richer. hut never more representa- We
of the people than they have been in the pio- &
neer per Cd. Let us hope that the b 2 and /
rich papers of the future will make as brave |
a fight for equal rights for sound morals. for !
manly men and noble women.
The New York Tribune of Tuesday, Janu- /
ary 20 1861. copied from the Rome Georgia
Courier poem beginning in this way:
Come. Mr.. Greeley. come to the South
H. 4
You can lower your chm, and open your
mouth,
When your neck strains the rope you are
tied on.
Bring old Granny G;ddings, and clustering
Fred. Douglass. and Henry Ward Beecher,
And NCgro-thief Hyatt, from Washington
And Sumner the Devils own preacher.
The Tribune of that morning. our Tribune,
our Greeley, contained the following editorial
The House Yesterday passed the Senate
hill for the admission of Kansas, which thus
becomes the thirtv-fourth State ofthe Union.
and the nineteenth free State. Tn $ act not
only OPPORTUNITY adds to the confederation
a sound and loyal member. untainted bV the
peStiferous blight of slavery. but does right
full though tardF justice 10 a State which has
suffered for five wears greater wrongs and
outrages from Federal authority than all the
slave States together have endured since the
beginning of the Government, even if the
own clamor about imaginary oppression be
admitted as well founded.
1.-The present generation * too near to
these events to see them I'm the true pro- /
portions, but in the future, n impartial -
tory, the attempts 10 force slavery upon
Kansas. and the ' olations of law, of order /
and of personal aud pOiit cal rights. that
were perpetrated in that attempt. W II rank
among the most outrageous and fragrant |
acts Of tyranny in the annals of mankind"
EVANESCENT AND EFFERVESCENT,
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