Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1859 — A Monument to Kansas Martyrs. [ARTICLE]

A Monument to Kansas Martyrs.

In his last Kansas letter to the Ti ihune. Mr. Greeley says that the remains of the Free State men, who were killed at Ossawata nte, ha’e been buried in a common grave on a prairie knoll, just outside the village, and it is proposed “to erect there a monument which shall teach their children and grandchildren to love and cherish the cause for which those heroes joyfully laid down their lives.” Mr. Greeley suggestsan enlargement of the scope of the enterprise—“that this monument be reared to all the martyrs of Freedom in Kansas, and that the name of each be inscribed upon it, and his mortal remains, if his relatives make no objection, be placed beneath the column which shall here Le reared as a memorial of the struggle which secured Kansas to Free Labor, and is destined finally to hasten the expulsion of SJsvery from Missouri.