is not a principle alone that is involved what do they expect to gain the but that those who crowd this measure with so honorable from much and earnestness must expect that says that by thus the freedom or slavery shall gain something promise they a by it in those regions the case then stands on which tbe inhabitants of and thus in and freedom may may write whatever they will this is the lose but certainly can gain nothing while great principle of the bill as he it very may gain but as certainly can lose no well gain is there in that you ate a constitution of freedom if they write a so far ae i am concerned the time for looking new constitution of freedom can the new be on the dark side has passed i feel quite sure than tbe old if they write a slavery at most can get nothing more than tion of slavery will it not be a worse one i while the wider northern ask the honorable that hut tho will under existing circumstances says that people of fur the reason that its soil and climate are will have the privilege of establishing institutions ir themselves they have now the privilege of free institutions is it a privilege then to establish slavery if so what a sugar cotton and tobacco moreover establishing free institutions is it a directed toward tbe i ery are all our which a hope that slavery may be prevented oven inhabitants from free from gaining a in institutions and establishing institutions of gives consent but it does not and cannot very i sir it is a a to talk of introduce slavery there slavery will be em upon a country already secure in tbe by own no blessings of freedom the power of i am sure the possible re tion of the african slave trade the tide of what mankind everywhere want is not tbe to is therefore to be supplied removal of the of freedom which there solely by tbe domestic fountain of slave pro they have that they may make at their pleasure but slavery also other regions be of slavery or of freedom but tbe be filled from that fountain there privilege of retaining of freedom are all of new and all of already when they already have them and tho removal within the united states and then there of of slavery when they have thorn that slave labor and life as fast as any that they may establish of freedom states can supply it and in their place we hold on to all besides these regions there remains ad of existing of freedom who down to the the stream of slave any man for diligently to such labor flowing from so small a fountain and who would dare to ken into several will not any one for to our existing the struggle for slavery if they wore of and slavery but it is supposed by some that this principle is less important in regard to and than as a general one � a general principle to all other present and u re of the united states do honorable then indeed suppose they are establishing a principle at all if so i think they whether the principle is either good or bad right or wrong they are not establishing it and cannot establish it in this way you one law by making another law in its place that is all will your law have any more weight authority solemnity or binding force on future than the first had you the law of your others will have equal power and equal liberty to yours you allow no around the old law to protect it from you erect none around your new law to stay the hand of future on what ground do yoa expect the new law to stand if you are candid you will confess that you rest your assumption on the ground that the free states will never but always it may be that you are right i am not going to the course of the free states i claim no authority to speak for them and still less to say what they will do but i may venture to say that if they shall not this law it will not be because they are not strong enough to do it they have power in the house of representatives greater than that of the slave states � nd when they choose to exercise it a power greater even here in the the free states re not dull scholars even in practical political when you shall have taught them that a compromise law establishing freedom can be and the union nevertheless stand you will have let them into another secret namely that a law permitting or establishing slavery can be and the union nevertheless remain firm if you inquire why they do not stand by their rights and their interests more firmly i will tell you to the best of my ability it is because they are conscious of their strength and therefore and slow to apprehend danger the reason why you prevail in so many because you are in perpetual fear there cannot be a of in hall or the though it consists of men and women who have separated themselves from all effective political parties and who have all political even though they resolve that they will vote for nobody not even for themselves to carry out their purposes and though they practice on that resolution but you take alarm and your agitation renders necessary such as those of and of we are young in the arts of politics you are old we are strong you are weak wo are therefore careless and indifferent you are and active these are traits that to your praise they are mentioned not in your i say only that there may be an extent of of on 