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i-E NfELLIGENGER NO COMPROMISE: WITH POLITICAL PERFIDY. VOL. I IIILLSBORO, MARION COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH, 3 1882. NO. 25' miiii M.mjjB' PROFESSIONAL' CARDS.

SELECT POETRY. rights, by tho weapons that upheld public wrongs. In place of the old way of acquiescing in compromising with it, or arguing over it, or resisting its extension, ho adopted the way Theodore Parker, and the death-defying Lovejoy, with their compatriots. Praise to Abraham Lincoln with his proclamation of abolition, and I'lyses Grant, with liis sword of abolition to those who reaped tho harvest that was planted by John Brown's hand in tho furrows that wero turned by John Brown'a plough. According to tha song that swelled from our embattled hosts 'during the years of strife, John Brown was a body and soul which became a mouldering body and a marching soul.

Behold John Brown in the body erect, rugged and grim, battling for man and for freedom, closing his career on the gallows. Behold John Brown's soul luminous and august, compassionate and benignant, enriching us by its radiance, raising us by its puissance, and softening us all by its tender grace, of which he made such sublime display during the closing scenes of his lifo A monument to John Brown hero in onr city! Would that my fiat could raise it aloft! There is: already a monument to John Brown at North Elba, whore he is buried; there is another at Osawatomie, on the plains of Kansas his statue is to be put up in the capital at Washinton his sculptured figure is in- the Union League Club of this city and in the quiet Massachusetts town of Concord you may see in the Summer School of Philosophy, beside the busts of Anaxagoras- Plato, Pestalczzi, and Emerson, the bust of John Brown. But I should like to see two ctllcr memorials or monuments to this man one of them here in our city at this gate of tho continent; tho other at Charleston in Virginia, on the site o.f his scaffold so that the North, and the South and all the world would thus again have a perpetual reminder that here was a man of' our nineteenth century who accounting his own lifo and treasures as naught, gave himself to battle and death that lie might deliver those who were crushed and lost, even black slaves. How hopeful were the times and the skies, had we among us but a few men ay, or one man -of John Brown's conscience, judgment, valor, righteousness, and, above all, of his self-sacrificing life! Now, as my last words for tonight, I exclaim Great were John Brown's life and work and triumph Worthy, thrice worthy, is John Brown that somehow or orther ho might yet become tno instrument of liberation. Thus the man advanced, and also the, time.

John hour struck when the slavery-propagandist seized Kansas, and thon Captain John Brown took the field. I have said that in thoso years of strife for Kansas we had other men of his kind there yet we had no other man like unto him. An excellent historian of Kansas, William Phillips, in ono of his chapters, tolls of'Oje advent of John Brown thcre-Jchn Brown himself being described at thAt time, by this historian who knew him, as a "strange, resolute, iron-willed, inexorablo old man, standing like a solitary rock in a more mobile society, a firery naturo and a cool head, a volcano beneath a 'covering of snow." Here, then, John Brown of Osawato-mie, with his four sons and a few other companions, began that war on slavery which ho waged, and from Which he rested not until his death Of John Brown's work and warfare in Kansas every man here ought to know. The presenr-o of his spirit there was at once felt. It gave new energy to the Free State pioneers, while his surprising operations the Border Ruffians of slavery tliowed the methods of success.

We first notice him, with his sons, all fully armed, at the siege of Lawerenee from which he learned thereafter his operations must be con-ducted in his own wav, under tho authority of his own mind. Now we behold Captain John Brown, with hisninj men, in the affair of Black Jack, the first fight of his life, the first victory of his crusade and then he appears, in all energy, gallantry and skill, and with an army thrice as strong as that of Black Jack, at the affair of Osawatomie, where one of his sons was slain; and again he appears here and there nth hislihje troopuntil within a year from the day' of Black Jack the Western plains are safe from slavery! To the strongholds of slavery in the old Statos he then turned his mind, and before the close of 18.18 he bad struck the first blow for abolition in Missouri. He was liberator not less than fighter and well do I remember that winter night when, at the head of a body of eleven fugative slaves of both sexes from Missouri, of whom he was guide and defender, he struck out northward over the plains, under pursuit of forty men, who fled when John Brown's four offered them battle'. The next year developed the crowning triumph of John Brown'g life. Then we beheld his scheme of martial abolition his preparation for warfare in the mountains of Virginia, his venturous expedition to Harper's Ferry with some twenty white and black young men, three of whom Avere his sons, his short, fierce, and forlorn struggle there with the rallying squads of tho enemy the slaying of nearly all of his companions, including two of his sons his own capture, after beiug seven times mangled by sword and bayonet his, trial and sranglement at Charlestown the burial of his body at North Film, in this State and the opening of that march of his deathless soul which presaged the cam-piagns of the mighty army that gave victory to abolitionism withi five years after his death.

It were hard to tell in what way we should properly estimate the depth and the of scope of the influence of this man John Brown upon our country's history. We know that after ages of ascendancy for American slavery, he was the first man to enter its strongholds and smite it with tho sword and we know how quickly the sword that was struck from his hand brought destruction to American slavery. We know-how slavery stood in safety before he delivered his blow we know how it reeled to ruin under that blow. We know how the South was startled by Harper's Ferry, and how the North. It was the challenge to battle, the first shot in the war.

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I New York It was a heavenly time of life When first I went to Spain, The lovely land of silver mists, Tho land of golden (train. My littlo ship through tnknown sens Sailed many a changing day; Sometimes tho chilling winds came up And blew across her way Sometimes the rain came- down and hid The shinning shorosof Spain, Tho beauty of tho silver mists And of the golden grain. Rut through the rains and through the winds, Upon tho untried ea, My fairy ship sailed on and ort With all my dreams and me. And now, no more a child, I long For that sweet time ngain, When on tho far horizon bar Rose up the shores of Spain, 0 lovely laud of silver mists, 0 land of golden grain, I look for you with smiles, with tears, Bnt look for you in vain! OLD OSAWATOMIE BROWN. Speech on the Twenty-Second Anniversary of John Brown's Death, in Turn Theatre, New York December 2d 1SS1, by John Sitinion.

So far as I recollect John Brown of Osawatomie, when lie was among the pioneers of Kansas, he was a man like unto whom Kansas at that time of strife and stress had not a few nien, a plain, rugged-faced, stern-looking, spare-built, erect, rougly-clad American man, but having spent most of the fifty-five year- of his life as a trader and farmer in Ohio and New York. John Brown had gone to these distant and newly opened Western plains as others of his kind had gone from many of our States, to take a man's part in the Free State struggle against the black flag of slavery John Brown, however, being not as one man, but as five giants, for with him were his four sons. This Connecticut-American, John Brown, was an ordinary man of extra-Ordinary manhood. He was a man of full, free, strong mind. He was a man shrewd and of hard sense, sound of judgment and of tough will, upright in spirit, straightforward in fashion.

He was a man of the wisdom that grows from thought, experience and observation, from trade, travel, farming and the practical businessof the world, from the conflicts of American politics and the Democratic-Republicahism of American life. He was a man of Hebraic, Calvanistic theological cast austere, enthusiastic, domatic who operated from his own mind and conscience under the authority of the Bible maintaining the freedom and responsibility of man's soul and the sufficiency of individual judgment, upholding the supremacy of moral law over tho world and over the life of man, and bringing all things under heaven to the bar of practical right. Not till his beard was gray did John Brown take the field, and howbrief was the time of his warfare! The great work of his years was done, we are apt to say, near the close of his life, within four years from its end for he was fifty- five when he left this state for, Kansaei and fifty-nine when hanged infVirginia, Yet this five years' warlike career of John Brown "must have had a long fore-grnund somewhere." Perhaps his conquest of himself, the self-conquest UUlillg Alia Htm -unvmj vyj. jj wa3 the necessary prelude to the great work of his life. It had been a half century of schooling and of preparation for the victorious years.

His mind had been advancing to the heights of self-sacrifice- His moral powers hd been reaching their full growth. He had been acquiring perfect self-command and supreme courage. His knowledge of life and the world's affairs had been ripening he had learned about Southern slavery and studied the ways of overthrowing it. He had been shedding every vestige of vanity and selfishness. He had been clearing his way to Charleston In his very boyhood, when as yet slavery seemed to be the foundation of the world, and when hardly a voice was raised against it, he conceived that detestation of it which became tho master passion of his life and when in the prime of manhood, ho had a hope of asialing it by tho only means that gave any hope of destroying it.

John Browns way was justified by tho event justified amid flame and smoke by Abraham Lincoln's proclamatincf abolition, It needs that wo recall the stupendous of the old slavery establishment its bulwarks' in constitution alism, legality politics, mercantilism, capi.talism,and ecclesiasticism it needs that wa recall tho power of the interests and passions that environed it, and the subserviency or timidity of even its opponents, with few exceptions before we can comprehend the influence of the man who, by his own right and strength as a man, struck through them all, and struck to the heart. By this great deed he showed that slavery could be reached, that it wa3 vulnerable. Thus he raised the spirit of its foes, gave them a new purpose, and offered them a great example, in a day he changed the mind of millions, and the fruits of that charge were garnered in good time. I proclaim it here to-night, as my judgment, that the man who goes highest in his estimate of the immediate, the far off, and the permanent efficacy of John Brown's influence is most nearly right. Now then, in this view of his life and work, and from this advantage of the years, I acclaim as Prophet, Hero, Martyr, and victor, the man named John Brown prophet fcr half a century, hero for five years; martyr for a day, and victor forever, victorious in Kansas with his rffle, victorious in Virginia on his icaffold, victor against slavery in the United' States victor over the earth imd through the r.ges his name as a pillar oi fire in the sky, guiding men to the Canaan, which ha himself saw net.

But hark! I hear the drool of Old Legality that John Brown was condemn ed and hanged under the authority of government and law. Ay, it is true. Do we then hold that John Brown was guilty Nay, nay, nay; but let our-guilty system of government and law beware lest his Condemnation be its doom. What is this thing that arrogates to itself the titje of "law," the records of which are Ion with wrong the hands of which are red with the world's best blood the administrators of which were so perfectly described by Zeph-aniah, the Hebrew prophet, who said, "The Judg( are the wolves, kna'wing the bones" which has supported a very power' il culprit and every incorporate menstrosity which poisoned Socrates, ew the Graccih, strangled Savanaroh, bejheaded Vane, burned Servetus, haiNgpd John Brown ay, yoking Galilean himself the devices of which are the scourge, the wrock, the wheel, the" strike, the gibbetthe cross, and every invention of torture? Who are those belqyed felons at law arrayed in white, for they are worthy thei names effulgent in the sky, burnishing the dull world? How many, of tlW apostles and the prophets of the ages have fallen victims to the fraud misnamed law? The world is to-day as busily engaged as ever it was in sacrificing them, Look at the scaffolds V)f Russia, the dungeons of Germany But, my hearers, this will not last forever. As Samson in his death brought down the temple of Dagon, as John Brown in his death shivered the bulwarks of chattel slavery, so every martyr hastens the end of the system under which he is sacrificed.

Other times need other work and ways of other men. Ma. rises to each occasion. For every emergency, bountiful nature furnishes the man. John Brown, the revolutionist of American abolitionism, was born within four months after the death of George Washington, the revolutionist of American independence! It were befitting for us here and now to praise both the heralds and tho victors of abolitionism.

Braise to the ofulgent Wendell Phillips, th? intrepid Yes, Sir, I'd Shpot Him, Six or eight congenial sprits sat a- round a stove in Grand Review grocery the other night and after several other subjects had been exhausted some ono introduced that of panics in churches theaters and halls. This gave Mr. Hopeful a chance to remark "Gentlemen, I jvjst long to be "Where?" "Why in one of those panics. I'd give a new twenty dollar bill to be in the theater one night when there was an occasion for a panic." "Why?" "Because one cool, level headed man could stop tho thing as easily as you could end up that barrel of flour," "Well, I dunno about that," observed one of the sisters. "There is something awful in the cry of fire, and hear it where and when you may it startles and frightens.

What would you do in a theater in case there was a cry of fire and a rush?" I'd stand upon my seat, pull a revolv from my pocket and shout out tha I'd shoot the first man that attempted to crowd or rush, One cool man would. chock the panic in ten While the subject was being discuss ed the grocer withdrew to the rear end of the store, pourad a little powder on a board, and gave three or four men the wink. Directly there was a bright flash, yells of fire, and powder!" and every man sprang 4p and rushed. Hopeful did'nt spring up and talk Of shooting. the contrary, he fetf over a lot of baskets piled between him and the door, got np to blow his way over a rack of biooms, and when he reached the sidewalk he was on all fours, white as a ghost' ami so frightened that he never looked In ck until he reached the opposite sido oi tho street..