People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-09
Come, Friends, let's Reason Together.
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electing delegates and calling con-
vCntions. The object was to organ
ize for protection.
England had destroyed their mon
ey, destroyed their loyalty, destroyed
their prosperity and ruined their
country. The king, By his tyraLnical
actions, melted domestic iDSurrec-
lions and absolutely planted in the
breast of the American a desire for
freedom, a determination. born Of Op-
preston, either liberty or death"
The people were not Of one mind;
they were terribly divided and very
bitter. For several years the con-
flict was similar to the first settle
ment of Kansas from 50 to 81. Then
the opposing elements were Amer
lean citizens who were divided as to
whether Kansas should be free or
slave state. Their arguments were
the dirk, knife, the torch and the
bullet The fruits of this border
warfare was the production of John
Brown" who started out Oh a mlSsisn
of freedom, was arrested and hung
by the very same government who
picked up the cue which dropped
from the murdered hands of the i'm
mortal and martyred Brown and fin
ished the work he had undertaken.
The early settlers, or a part Of
them, at least WITH success lsIt =,
= mat nvwO,or much | might deserve =.
her detestation, in no sense was or ne
looked the mistaken fool that sbEnn
supposed me. uhi.r I,
Judith they called her, and WINGS
it'll she was, with the graz arClcleS vi
and limbs Of daughter sation. Their
OF the gods, and like here also CclOnists
sake, she too had. known as Tories
though not to Supposed the cOnfedera-
anu T, le0ut's ,elieved in loyalty to the
na rI nrim mol ID obedience to the laws, no
earth w,er how oppressive or tyrannical.
and .rlis bitter feud lasted for several
az years and consisted of burning each
others houses, hanging bees, tarring
and feathering and numbering The
tories were fighting and injuring
their best friends, and unfolding and
their enemies, who were
|"ndage, Every act
is one more
Of American
slaN.-. 1uman beings
could be so Ia. ,eir own inter-
ests then, but no stranger than it is
now. The famous STAMP Act" was
passed by Great Britain in 1865. The
law required that all promises to pay,
written or printed on paper, parch-
ment II Vellum, shall be null and
void, unless containing the British
stamp or crown. This act destroyed
the COLONIAL MONEY and history,
as well as the great Webster, says it
contributed more in uniting the
American people and melting the
revolutionary war than any other act
Of Great Britain.
Reader, does it not seem to you
that Great Britain or the money
power Of England is and has been for
quite awhile engaged in the very same
business, 1.-THE destruction of our cur
rency" and for tie very same purpose
now as then. They had helpers then;
they have helpers and assistants now.
The destruction of the colonial
money brought disaster, suffering,
peStilence poverty, seditiOn and war.
Will not the destruction of half our
money and the other half in man
ner cOrralled, produce the same effect
now as then? England is now rejoic-
ing because she has nearly accom-
plished, with money, what she failed
to do with the bayonet. Should not
our colonial history, the suffering of
our fOrtfatherS, coupled with our
present condition, inspire the true
American to demand another Decla-
ration of Independence, or at least
demand that the congress of the Uni
ted States and England dissolve
financial partnership. Well, at the
successful termination of the Rev.
olutiOnary War in 1888 the Tories
vanished. What few survived skulk.
ed back to England and like the COW,
ardly cur crawled under the skirts Of
the king. The Wings ruled the day
This may be called the first contest
of the first political parties of Amer
lea. The lesson the cOlOnists learned
which was the secret of their prosper
ity and happiness, they had not for
gotten. They had passed through
the experimental period and enjoyed
the blessings of colonial pape
currency.
Their representatives met in Car
penter's Hall, Philadelphia, July 4
1776, and the memorable documen
was signed and Known to history a
the Declaration of Independence