The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-31

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was marvellous, and they and their d.
scendants gradually conquered the wilder
ness, and pushed their way westwar
across the continent, carrying with Their
the Image of their master and devoted {
his teachings With them went the Bible
!, the church aud the school. They were tn
undyIng foes of human slavery. Unde
their teachings and practice territories an,
states were formed, organized and admit
, ted into the Union, whose population be
came dense, whose education became Uni
versal, the freedom of whose citizens wa
unqueStioned
About the same time another civilization
was landed at Jamestown IN Virginia, tn
! controlling influence being part of tn
arlstocracy of Europe, composed largely o
, political eXiles, adventures and bank
rupts; cavaliers who feared neither God
man nor the devil; impious, quarrelsome
lmDetuous and hot-headed, neither tn
Bible school nor church had any influence
upou them. They embraced the system 0
human slavery and proclaimed it to be o
divine origin. The only scripture theI
knew or cared to repeat was Servant!
obey your masters, " while with the bowie
knife, the rifle and the sword they anC
their descendants conquered the wilder
ness. pushed their way on parallel line:
with the other westward across the contl-
nent. They organized territories and
states, had them admitted into the
Union with slavery therein as one of thu
corner stones of their political fabric
| The church and school house found little
favor with them, while the state of Vir.
GINA became great breeding ground fol
| the propagation of slaves for shipment 20
the new territories and states The sub
ject of its extension or restriction became
the great political question of the day be-
tween these two civilizations which dom
mated their respective sections. Under
| the banner of restriction could be found
the descendants of the Puritan, while
under the banner Of extension marched
| the descendants Of the Cavalier. March
ing on parallel lines from the east west
ward. politically fighting in solid phalanx,
| one against the other, for success, these
| two civilizations finally met upon the
! plans of Kansas in death struggle for
! the mastery. Puritan civilization sought
| to have Kansas admitted into the Union
| as free state, the other as slave. The
| Puritan, cool-headed, religious and de-
building home. The Cavaliers hot-blood-
ed, boisteroas. profane and brutal swarm
ed into the territory from Missouri, by
murder, outrage and rapine seeking to
drive the former therefrom. The virgin
flowers OF Kansas were red with blood
All the horrors of civil war became mani
fest, while every crime abhored by civ
of the jamestown civilization in order to
accomplish its infamous purpose. But the
sturdy manhood and courage on Plymouth
Rock, with a Bible in one hand rifle in
the other, was more than match for his
mouthy. profane aud drunken opponent.
aud the civilization of jamestown went
down in defeat.
The great contest was transferred from
these plains to the political arena of the
whole nation. Abraham Lincoln declared
THAT house divided against itself could
not stand" That this nation could not
endure half slave and half free" Helper
wrote his Independent Crisis, while the
eloquent William H: Seward proclaimed
his irrepressible conflict. Charles Sumner
denounced the crime against Kansas All
voicing the teachings of Puritan civii-
Zation.
On the other hand Jefferson Davis,
Robert Tombs, and other great leaders de-
clared for separation and disunion, voic-
ing the dogmas of cavalier civilization.
Under these contending influences the
great political campaign of 1860 was
fought; Abraham Lincoln was elected
president of the United States; James
town civilization again went down in de-
feat; rebellion followed; the national flag
was insulted; Fort Sumpter fired upon;
the life of the nation menaced, and these
two nations rushed to arms, one for the
preservation of the union and the other for
it's destruction. As a violation of the
laws Of health is speedily followed by dis
orders and disease to the individual, so
the violation of the declaration of the IA
theirs by the retention of the institution of
slavery in this country was followed by
dreadful consequences. By that accursed
infringement upon the rights OF men-an
unmstakable violation of the letter and
spirit of that declaration-the whole
fabric of our institutions became gan
grened, putrid and offensive to the con-
science of all right-thinking people, That
il was followed by the most destructive
and bloody war of moder times is not
surprising to the student of men and
history of peoples. Each section of our
country became ii vast army camp; the
conflict waged for four long and weary
years, each side sacrificed the bravest and
best of its blood in the midst of which
Abraham Lincoln uttered the following
memorial words. Both read the same
Bible and pray to the same God, and each
invokes his aid against the other. 1t may
seem strange that any man should dare to
ask a just Gods assistance in wringlng
their bread from the sweat of other mems
faces. But let US judge hot that we be
not judged, The prayer of both could not
be answered. That of neither has been
answe red fully. The Almighty has his
own purposes. Woe unto the world be-
cause of offences, for it must needs be that
offences come, but woe to that man by
whom the offence cometh.' Ii we shall
suppose that American slavery is one of
these offences, which in the providence of
God m ust needs come, but which having
continued through his appointed time, he
now wills to remove, and that he gives to
both north and south this terrible war as
the woe due to those by whom the offence
came, shall we discern therein any depart
ure from those divine attributes which !
the believers in the living God always
ascribe to him? Fondly do We hope, fer |
vently do we pray that this mighty scourge /
of war may speedily pass away. Yet il |
God wills that it con ,inue until all the (
wealth pulled by the bonds man's two hun
dred aud fifty years OF unrequItted toll |
shall be sunk. and until every drop of /
blood drawn with the lash shall be paid /
by another drawn by the sord. as was said /
three thousand yeare ago, so /
still it must be said, that the juds |
ments of the Lord are true aud right
eous altogether" Beautiful sen timent-
A truthful delineation of what awaits /
wrong doing In that great Conflict there |
were TWO sides; one WAS right and the 9th !
er was wrong The Union soldier was /
right; the Confederate was wrong. At its /
the young men Of the na-
ton who loved their country and hated /
secession, rebellion and slavery, left their
homes and loved ones to become actors in
one of the worlds greatest dramas. They
were the intrepid witnesses OF a mighty
revolution which shook this government
from its center TO its circumference. But
for their untiring patience, fortituds and
valor the home-lixe farm houses that
everywhere DICT your pralTies. tie hae
excellent schools, stately COL
eges, stone blocks and elegant homes
which adorn you cities. would not be
where they are. But in their stead you
would find tae novels of the slave, the
lnr and III. rrr-a, rftafss Of LIE mar