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The Supreme Court of Kansas.

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they parted as enemies, never to meet again. dom in Kansas, and who followed up the fight Peace to their souls! And may the bitterness through the war for the Union, may feel this long which armed against each other all the splendid ing fully satisfied. It was the sling of the strip youth of North and South disappear from their sur ling Kansas which slew the Goliath slavery. Few vivors in the proud recollections of their virtues men have ever had the chance to serve mankind

and their valor, and in the beneficent results of so signally as those of us who wrested this splen the war to North and South alike. . . . did region from the haughty and reckless Southern "And how the State has changed! The Pilgrim propaganda, and then formed the right wing of that Fathers, though tossed by rough seas and starved glorious army which swept both rebellion and slav on barren shores, were not so rudely tried as were ery from the land forever." . . . the pioneers of Kansas. When a rest came after Ex - Chief - Justice the exhausting struggle Nelson Cobb, who held to make her a free State, the position, by ap the seasons brought fam pointment, for only a ine instead of plenty in short time, was born their hands. A more in New York State in feeble State in population 1811. He was edu and property, or a greater cated at the common State in the splendid schools of the region spirit and hardihood of of his nativity, and her people never knocked studied law, in Por at the door of Congress tage, N. Y. He came for admission. With a population ofbut 1 07,000, to Kansas in 1859. impoverished by the long Eventually he re struggle against force and moved to Kansas City, fraud, she set out on her Mo., where he now re career with empty barns sides in a quiet way, and an empty treasury. doing but very little The State officers were practice, and that in paid poor salaries and in consultation only, hav scrip. As Chief-Justice, ing virtually retired. I sold my State scrip at He has a rural home, sixty cents on the dol on the outskirts of the lar, so that my whole of W. A. JOHNSTON city, and is passing ficial income was $1,080 the evening of his for the first year. We thought then the uttermost limit of cultivable land days highly respected, and surrounded by a was about the meridian of Fort Riley, and never select circle of friends. dreamed of a day when the sun would look down Ex-Chief-Justice Robert Crozier suc from west of that line on boundless wheat-fields, ceeded Hon. Nelson Cobb, having been harvested by steam, and on millions of cattle fat elected to the office on the 3d of November, tening to feed the world; nor of a day when 1873. He came to Kansas from Ohio, on Kansas, instead of being least of her sisters, should the 22d of February, 1857, and settled in stand as she does now, with 1,750,000 people, the thirteenth in power of the forty-two States of the Leavenworth. In the early history of the "Daily Times " of that city, Judge Crozier Union. "There is a longing in the human heart, akin was editorially and financially connected with to that for immortal life, to have our names live that journal, but disposed of his interest in after us associated with illustrious or benignant the paper in the fall of 1857. He was elected to the Council of the Territorial events. I think that all of us who fought for free