Will Kansas have the courage to place there the statue of John Brown, of Osawatomie? He yet is a type of that unconventional State, which regards no precedent, follows no pattern; that State which, in a blind way, is striving to put the Ten Commandments on top and to uphold the principles of the Sermon on the Mount, no difference what man or what party goes down in the strife; that State of which Whittier truthfully said:
We cross the prairie as of old
The pilgrims crossed the sea,
To make the West, as they the East,
The homestead of the free.
Upbearing, like the ark of old,
The Bible in our van,
We go to test the truth of God
Against the fraud of man.
A brave fight the State has made against fraud. The fight is yet on; but who doubts that the truth of God “shall yet prevail,” and who would better stand for such a people than one who went down in that fight with the “martyr’s aureole” around his grizzled head?