the human race an evil so with such dire to us as individuals and to our nation and threatening in its progress to the civil and religious institutions of the country with the liberties of the nation ought at once to be met and to be controlled if its power its influence and its impending dangers have already arrived at such a point that it is not safe to discuss it on this floor and it cannot now pass under consideration as a proper subject for general what will be the result when it is spread through your widely extended domain its present threatening aspect and the violence of its so far from me to yield to its progress prompt me to resist its march now is the time it must now be met and the extension of the evil must now be prevented or the occasion is lost and the evil can never be controlled sir extend your view across the over your newly acquired territory � a territory so far surpassing in extent the limits of your present country that that country which gave birth to your nation � which achieved your revolution � your union � formed your constitution and has subsequently acquired so much glory hangs but as an to the extended empire over which your republican government is now called to bear sway look own the long vista of see your empire in extent in advantageous situation without a parallel and occupying all the valuable part of one continent behold this extended empire inhabited by the hardy sons of american knowing their rights and the will to protect them � owners of the soil on which they live and interested in the institutions which they labor to defend with two your shores and to your purposes bearing on their the commerce of our people compared to yours the of europe into and the whole world is without a parallel but sir reverse this scene people this fair domain with the slaves of your extend slavery this the first struggle is of man this of heaven over your extended empire and you prepare its dissolution you turn its accumulated strength into positive weakness you cherish a in your you put poison in your bosom you place a on your heart � nay you ihe dagger and place it in the hands of a portion of your population stimulated to use it by every tie human and divine the envious contrast between your happiness and their misery between your liberty and their slavery must constantly prompt them to accomplish your destruction your enemies will learn the source and the cause of your weakness as often as external dangers shall threaten or internal await you you will then realize that by own you have placed amidst your families and in the bosom of your country a population producing at once the greatest cause of individual danger and of national weakness with this defect your government must to pieces and your people become the of the world sir we have been told with apparent confidence that wo have no right to conditions to a state on its admission into the union and it has been urged that the proposed the further introduction of slavery is this position asserted with so much confidence remains by any argument or by any authority derived from the constitution itself the constitution strongly an opposite conclusion and seems to contemplate a difference between the old and the new states the practice of the government has this difference in many respects the third section of the fourth article of the constitution says new states may be admitted by the into this union and it is silent as to the terms and conditions upon which the new states may be so admitted the fair from this is that the which might admit should the time and the terms of such admission the tenth section of the first article of the constitution says the or of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit not be by the prior to the year the words now existing clearly show the distinction for which we contend the word slave is nowhere mentioned in the constitution but this section has always been considered as to them and unquestionably reserved the right to prevent their into any new state before the year therefore have power over the subject probably as a matter of but more certainly as a right to the time and the condition upon which any new state may be admitted into the family of the union sir the bill now before us proves the of my argument it is filled with conditions and the territory is required to take a and is to be admitted only on condition that it have inhabitants i have already submitted preventing the state from the of the united states and declaring that all waters shall remain open to the other states and be from any or duties and my friend mr has also submitted the state from soldiers lands for the period of five years and to all these we have heard no objection � have passed but now when an the further introduction of slavery is proposed the house is put in agitation and we are confidently told it is to conditions to the admission of a new state into the union the � � all this is that all and conditions are proper which suit a certain class of gentlemen but whatever is proposed which does not with their interests or their views is and a of this sacred of our rights in order to be consistent gentlemen must go back and strike out the various to which they have already agreed the constitution applies equally to all or to none sir we have been told that this is a new principle for which we contend never before adopted or thought of so far 