Year: 1860

now, as said then, that I should 60 homl


when found any reason to believe that thi


Republican majority was In any danger o


being reduced below 90 900. have had NJ
adYiees Of that kind, and no communiea.
tions from the State Of New York during thil
journey except from respectable lady resi-
ding at Auburn, who confines herself tC
taking charge OF her children and mine, and
leaves politics to take care Of themselves.


We have visited Kansas, and ! ask your
leave TO bring the condition Of that Territory
before you, for your careful and kind con-
sideration. The soil and the skies Of Kan
sas are as proPitious as any people on earth
ever enjoyed = the people as free, as
true and as brave as any in the world.
They are suffering severely from a
drought 50 severe that i think 1t was
scarcely exaggerated when they told me
they had had no rain in a large portion OF
the Territory for a whole year. We found
that whole districts had produced less vege-
table support for human life than are TO be
found in many a garden which We have
passed in coming through the State Of Ohio.
Districts IN which the winter wheat, sowed
last year, was necessarily ploWed up and
soWeQ IN the spring Win spring Wneab.
The spring wheat was plOwed up and the
ground planted with corn. The corn
proved a failure, and was followed with
potatoes. The potatoes were blasted, and
followed BY buckWheat, which also proved q
failure. I think that this is true deserip-
ton Of the condition Of tillage Of perhaps
two-thirds of Kansas. Still, there will be no
general famine or distress there. The occu-
pants who have been there for two, three,
four or five years are comfortable and we'll
70 do, as appears sbundsntly from their
stock, their tencos, their dwelling houses
framed of wood, and very often substantially
and well built of brick and stone. Large
portions Of the State are as populous, and ex-
hibit all tho signs of comfort and thrift,
equal to what are found even in Ohio. But
there are emigrants who have resided there
for only year whose whole means have
been expended in procuring farms and shell
ter, and planting their crops, which have
failed. Many Of these are leav-
ing the Territory-some say so many as enc
hundred day. They ought to be relieved,
and very little assistance would enable
them to remain there and retain their pos
sessions and improvements, and resume the
culture of their fields, under more favorable
auspices, next spring. With much diff
denee, beg to commend the subject to the
citizens Of Ohio. Perhaps larger portion Of
the Republicans of Kansas are emigrants
from Ohio than from any other State. Do
not forget that Kansas is the most impOr-
tant outpost Of the Republican army that
it is yet on paper at least, in a state OF siege
though the enemy has been driven out, a
treaty of peace and independence has not
yet been signed. --.


Fellow citizens, am unable to make you
what is called a speech, for l have left my
voice at Chicago; but will say something,
in order, if possible, TO not altogether disaP-
point any expectations which you may en-
lertain. You have come together, not for
or to crafty passion or preju-
dice. Each of you, as a citizen Of the United
States, is invested with a portion Of sover-
eighty over the greatest and most important
nation of the world. Time is divided into
past, present and the future; but there is in
truth no present. Each one of us, therefore,
lives in and for the past, or for the future
The worst use Of time that could be made is
to employ it in concerns of the past. The
past ought to have taken care of itself;
If it has not, we can do nothing to
change it. The future, only, is subject
IN any degree to our control anu di-
rection. The past was the time Of tradition
The Revolution of '76, the Republican Revo-
luton of 1900, the war of 1872, the Tariff
United States 5 a9ssBlSA s9. Of the Bank OF the
generations which discussed or acted in
Them. Aman nay have his opinion upon
one or other Of those subjects, but it leads TO
no practical conclusion now. Action for
the future concerns freedom or slavery with
in the territories of the United States, and to
discharge our responsibilities well and wisely
we must bury our traditions, emancipate
ourselves and become free, enlightened and
h,a
East-the Future is for the West. Empire
mas eliminated in the East, and is now
passing to the West. The Past was for
Slavery, which at one time was practically
universal IN the East. The Future is Free
dem, which the order of Providence is to be
universal in the West. The change from
past Eastern Slaveryt TO future Western Free
dom is TO be effected simply by bringing the
mind of the nation to a just apprehension
of what slavery is. Our Fathers in the East
understood it 70 be a question simply OF


trade. In their view while they allowed
the practice of slavery, they held a slave to
be subject of commerce. The Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution Of the
United States, announced on the other hand
that slavery is a question Of human rights


While they left the regulation Of that subject
within the States to the States themselves
they did establish the principle that in
the common Territories of the United States
and within the sphere of Federal action every
man is person, a man, a free man, who
could neither hold another in slavery nor be
held in bondage by any other man. The


past (since the adoption of tho Constitution


has been occupied with trials to eompromisC


this conflict between property in. man and


The freedom Of man, and these trials have


proved unsuecesful.- The future demands
the settlement Of it now by a return to th'


principles of the Declaration Of lndePen


dence and the Constitution. This eonclu


sion can be reached only by accepting tn


principle of the political equality Of mel
| within the exclusive range Of the Federa
| Constitution. This is simply a matter O
education. 1t is not worth while to spen,
/ much time upon this subject in trying t
convert cid men they cannot last long, an


therefore can do little harm. We all becom


settled in our opinions and con nfrmed in ou


habits as we grow old. The RePublica,
party is party chiefly Of the young men
4 Each successive year brings intoits ranks a


increasing proportion of the young men


this country.


This is the ground Of my hope, Of my con


dence, that before this generation shall hay


passed away, the Democratic party will ceai


to exist and the Republican party, or 1


least its principles, will be accepted an


universally prevail. If it be true, as Il
Declaration Of Independence asserts, that Il


right Of all men to political equality IS sci


evident, nothing can prevent the aeknoW


edgment Of that fact BY the generation no


rising, since that truth is distinctly ineulci


ted now for the first time through all Il


agencies of private and public educatio


The young man who shall reject it viii fir
himself in controversy with the ever-grov


ing sentiment of his countrymen, and 4


settled public opinion Of the world. L
him take heed how he enters upon a eOp-
which can bring nothing but unRvailiI
contention, disappointment and regret ov


the failure Of his ambition and Of his deaf
for usefulness. Train up your children
the belief Of this great principle Of our Co
f stitutioD, and they will secure for themsely
, the satisfaction Of leading useful and homo
: able lives, and follow you to your graves wi
more than even tlial yeneration.


as.u t GEN. NYEs REMAREs.


Gen. Nye was introduced and receiv


with hearty cheers. a.sgaa


He said that twenty years ago he made
: political speech in Ohio, and il was what