Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18

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liz. Congressional Globe, of Wednes-
day. January so. 1861, under the sub-nead,
Messages from the president" announ-
ees the approval Of IAN act for the admis-
sion or hansas. The Globe was a paper
that rec 'rded the talk of others, out made
no talk on its own account, and vet. on
this occasion the Globe said: 1.-The
announcement of the approval of the bill
for the admission of Kansas was received
with slight applause on the floor and in
the galleries.
That little ripple of applause, begun on the
Potomac, has been gradually deepening
and broadening until it is now a tidal
wave OF JOY. good cheer and enthusiasm,
flooding the whole earth.
Kansas Is the child of the north, not of
the union; the union was her enemy until
she made it. And s. is the child of the
newspapers. Before we had an influential
press the editors Horace Greeley. Joseph
Medill. Chas. A. Dana, DR.. Ray, Henry
Ward Beecher, John Wentworth, Chas. 7.
Congdon. VIM. c. Bryant, Parke Goo win,
the aggressive republican editors of the
north, made our cause their own, fought
tor US, raised money for US. and sent Us
men, clothing and rifles. During
the darkest days of Sc, Greel-
ey published daily in the
Tribune Kansas fund; it reached more
than $50 600, and was one of the news
paper gifts to US. The present was re-
peated during the drought of 1860. These
gifts from so many persons, like Gerrit
Smith, George L. Stearns and Horace B.
Clahin, saved the life of Kansas, and
made US kindly, charitable people
saved US from ruffians and from locust
plaques, and taught us TO paw back in kind
when other people were afflicted. Now
Kansas sends money to yellow fever Mem
phis, TO inundated Cincinnati, to burned
Boston and Chicago, and to suffering Ire
land and Germany. The kansas editors
long ears are joked about, but they do not
Zap above his head without hearing
the cry of distress raised any
where on Gods green earth.
A kindly people. these to whom 80 much
was given; good to each other, good to
foreigners; and the evangel to spread he
glad tidings and to put the red blood of
love into the hearts of the people.
High upon the roll of writers for Kan
sas must ever remain the names of two ed
itorS and brave men who had no papers
William A. Phillips. correspondent of the
New York Tribune, and James Redpath,
| OF the st. Louis Democrat. and of the Bos-
ton press. Phillips, Scotchman. Red
path, an Englishman. but both Kansas
men In the heart; much abused once as
foreigners. they have made bright Ameri-
can names.
The Kansas man may be born any
where, OF any race or color: he makes good
his abstract of title, and secures his herit-
age when he comes to Kansas. Though
blind in both eyes, his heart will lead him
here, if he is Kansas man.
He might have been a Rooshun, a
Spaniard or Prooshun, or an Italian. but
In spite of all temptations, to belong to
other nations. he is Kansas man! They
are all glad to get here. and they can't
see each other too often. From the LIST of
July to the LIST of January there are insti-
tutes. fairs, reunions. grand lodges, con-
ventlons, associations; six months of
sociability; he glad and happy me .tings
Of Kansas men and women.
That which binds az, friend to friend
Is that soul with soul can tlend.
Soni-like were the days of yore;
Let Us walk in soul once more
1t is the meeting together. hand to hand,
eye to eye; the warm sympathy of brother
hood. And, when VT 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 paper wheels. When the
paper does not come around at its ac-
accustomed hour, then the Kansas man
bursts forth in the words of Pope:
Lo, they dread empire. Chaos, reappearsl
Who wants TO be alone? Solitude is
prison. Kansas talks, and writes, and
reads, and advertises.
I'm civilized epochs," says Michelet,
linen write histories, in barbarous days
they act them." First, John Brown. then
John ingalls,. The barbarous age was
brave and risked its life. Trot out any
kind of an age, beginning, middle 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 fish, he is made to exclaim with |
Byron: "Methinks have lived in some
olden time, and this is hell-the best that |
it s not eternal"
The Kansas editor. going to a new field,
with patent outside and shirt tail full |
Of type" as Prentis has it, makes a name
in that county and state that will live
while the world turns round. The mill
ionaire. when he dies, is cut off from his
money; he ''gets left"
All that editing could do for Kansas was
lone by Editor Greeley. The overt act
was done by John Brown. Through his
own blood he obtained the territorial and
national redemption. And almost all
things are by the law cleansed with blood;
and without shedding of blood is no re-
mission" Captain Brown was quite 9TH
.r than an editor-was the only parsonage
who has trodden these prairies and lived
n our cabins who bore about with him a
Irvine message and mission. When our
people build statues, Brown and Greeley
will enter the pantheon-the doer of the
xord and its predicter and recorder.
The greatest editor. though he creates or
the spirit and purpose of peri
ID. is not equal to the executive mind of
Lincoln. or to the prophetic and divinely-
driven Osawatomie Brown. If Brown was
insane. then he was also sacred, as the
,ncients had it. Some university profes.
.ors, who took only partial course in the
think that Lincoln and Brown
we're failures; but their ads art marked
If. " for the ages; and were paid for in