The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
Gen. j. X. HudsOn's Stirring
Address.
Memorial Services by Lincoln
Post G.. A. Il.
is FOR EXPANSION.
The Speaker Says 1t is the
American Idea.
Chaplain Burgess Extra Session
Prayer.

Lincoln Post No. held LleIho lAl -,
vices in the high school asseHAOiS
yesterday afternoon -, q,
The services opened with the SlnSInS
of sAmerica" by the audience. Cnap-
lain C. w. Burge offered prayer anu IA
closing his prayer SAID: ,o,
Bless General Hudson; may he Keep
a cool head and a loose tongue DEE DEE
Billy Mckinley at Washington. bless
orr new governor, and oh, God, we pray
that at the end of his two years ne wa
not call an extra session ar
A Quartette composed OF w -.
Shaver, Frank Weightman' Harry AIRY " ~ Tea O.
holt and James Moore sang Inc zoe
Without a Stain. - o4
The following names OF members "
the Post who have died during the pas
year were read and after each name Ine
drum corps sounded the soldiers last
tattoo A
Thomas H. Haskell, Company A,
Second Kansas infantry, died FEBRUARY
IA, 1898, aged SO years. ,,4
Henry Laptad, Company b, t1rSt
Vermont, H. A, died February 49, 1885,
age 5e years. ,,4,.
Wisconsin infantry, died February ZS'
1898. age Il years. ,.,.
sixth Indiana infantry, died March 2S'
William G. Webb, Thirty-seventh
wisconsin infantry, died April 20, 1885,
age IA years.
s y. Hickox. Second Kansas light ar
Gilmore Stratton, Company H, First
Ohio volunteer infantry. died July L.
1898, age 80 years.
b S Bennett, Company K, 1O4th
Pennsylvania infantry, died August ~,
1898, age 5S years.
Aimon Benton. Company I, Second
Kansas, S. militia, died September II,
Chas b Maxwell, 1andsman U. S.
steamship Michigan, died October IA,
1898, age 81 years
L TNNy1 =
Kansas, died December 10, 1888, age ~
years.
]. H. Squires introduced General ]. K.
Hudson, the speaker of the day. Cen
eral Hudson said:
Comrades and friends, we have met
to pay tribute of love and respect for
the comrades who, during past years
have gone over the silent river We
extend to friends and relatives our
sympathy and coincidence. We do not
forget those of other posts who have
gone to the great beyond. Nor do we
forget the men whose bodies lie moulder-
ing in the south and north.
They offered their services that the
Union might be perpetuated. While we
mourn for those who have gone during
the past year we do not forget that the
nation raised such men as would give
their lives that their nation might be
served.
know what the causes were that led up
to the government making such Sacri-
fees of money and life
mot long ago we listened to a man
of the south, well known in the north
General James B. Gordon. We listened
to his theory of the cause of the war
have had the pleasure of seeing him at
his home in the south where he is re
Verenced by the people. Since the sur
render of Appomattox he has worked to
cement the north and south and his ut
terances were as patriotic southerner
''He said the contest was largely
brought about by politicians of the
north and south. The theory of the
south was that they had right to Sc
cede. 1t was the old pernicious doctrine
of state rights. General Gordon did not
give the answer the north would make;
that the compact that made the govern
ment unity must go down through
generations. If the south can secede
from the north the east can secede
from the west and counties and
states can secede from each other
General Gordon said the north and
south were fighting for liberty from
their own ideas of liberty but that is
not what we wish the rising generation
to understand as the causes that led UP
to that war.
I'm respect to our comrades who Of
fered their lives for a strong central
government, we wish it understood that
the Southerners who fought to DESTROY
that government were as far from the
northern soldiers as the north pole is
from the south. 1t was the question Of
slavery that brought about the conflict
between the north and south
when the south became wealthy
from the profits on slave labor it bred
arrogance in their minds that found ut
terance on every occasion. Human la
Dor bore stamp of serVi1ity
In the north was growing a busy
hive or men who were building schools
and churches, factories and shops. and
the antagonism between freedom and
slavery was growing.
THE first political point came when
Missouri and Arkansas asked for adj
mittance into the Union. The north said
II two states were allowed to enter as
slave states, slavery should not con-
tlnue further than Sc degrees and 30
minutes north. When Kansas asked for
admittance the question again arose.
stephen A. Douglas offered his bill
to allow the people to vote and for a.
majority to decide for themselves When
that bill was made a law the northern
ers said we will save Kansas and NOT
allow 1t to be slave state. From the
south 1000 men armed themselves to
attempt to force Kansas in as a slave
state From 1854 to 1858 the war
waged in Kansas. President Pierce was
a tool of the south and then came Ru-
chanan, who carried out all the wishes
of the south
1.-The southerners passed their pro
slavery bill at Lecompton and the anti
slavery bill was passed at ToDel1a Tho
anti-slavery people had the majority
and it was the first defeat Of the south
erners to establish slavery all over the
country.
The south became alarmed at the
antI-sIavery sentiment and determined
10 stop 1t. The Dred-Scott decision
wiped out the meaning of the Douglas
Dill In 1S4S the Liberty party was
rounded and called the Free Soil party,
with the motto, We believe in free soil
ano free men, the first challenge that
, went out to the southerners.
Inc Free Soil party was broadened
ana called the Republican party, and
john G Fremont was nominated for
again met at Chicago and nornInafad
che immortal Lincoln