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eipitation Of the KanEas Nebraska bill startled
the country, and resolved the North To treat
the PrOPagandism Of slavery as the issue
the only issue in politics. This has brought
US all together We never differed, except as
to The time for meeting the issue, and now al.
ready the issue is made. Il is not possible To
avoid it. We are, then, all brought together
on the common principle that sLAvERY is SEC.
TfOEAL, no: national. We occupy the same
ground with Patrick Henry, with Jefferson,
with Washington. We will not interfere with
slavery in Kentucky. Let not the place-hOld.
ing enemies Of the Republican movement for
one moment falsiy our position. We will not
interfere with slavery in Kentucky, and slave
ry in Kentucky must not interfere with Us
here. Earnest applause. have said that l
only stand where stood the Fathers of the
Republic. Il was the object Of Thomas JEFF
ierson to exclude slavery from all new terrific.
ry, and he only failed because Of rule re.
curing, in the passage Of such an ordinance,
a majority Of all the States but nine States
being represented when the first ordinance
came up for adoption, six out Of the nine
supported the general prohibition. Jefferson
was Democratic Saint, but the late leaders
Of the Democracy have set up Saint Frank
and Saint Stephen Arnold. [Laughter.l
When the Constitution was framed, the
Slave States prevailed in the adoption Of
clause providing that Congress should have
no power to legislate slavery out of the
States also in the clauses giving the right to
representation to Congress for twO-iflhs of all
their slaves, and for the right of recapturiDg
persons owing service or labor escaping from
one State into another. Nevertheless, the Faith
ers of the Nation were not willing slavery
should become dominant, and following close
upon the adoption Of the Constitution came
from their hands the ordinance OF 1897. forey
er prohibiting slavery from territory moth hWest
of the Ohio.
By and BY, however, the policy of the Faith.
ers was departed from. remember the wit of
an Ohio Representative in Congress when des>
cribing the new theory of parturitiOn and ges-
taLion which was for the nation to bring forth
not every time free State, as provided for
by the Fathers Of the Republic, but two, one
white and one black. Laughter The sla-
very propagandists style the new theory, more
politely, political equilibrium Contrary to
the prohibition of the institution from speci-
fed territory, Missouri applied for admission as
a slave State. Our fathers rebelIed, The
whole country was stirred as never since, till
now; The Missouri Compromise was made. Iu
consideration Of that great concession by the
North, all territory north SO deg. 80 min. was
secured to freedom. Did the South observe
the compact they themselves named "a solemn
compact?' So generally was the new prohibi-
tOn regarded as forever binding. that as late
as the first proposition for organizing Nebraska
Territory, Senator Atchison stated in the Sen
ate that he should not oppose it, for he had no
hope for the repeal of the Missouri Compro.
mise.
Douglas, Senator from the free State of Il-
nOis, came forward with his Kansas, Nebras-
ka bill, and with his aid the South repealed
that Missouri Compromise. Myself and my
colleague struggled and voted no. My friend
Campbell and his colleagues in the House,
fought the treason gallantly, but at midnight.
the act was accomplished. ! remember that
dark hour of that deed of darkness. When the |
struggle was over. the Senate adjourned, we
were walking down from the Capitol Hill, a.
armed, desponding, when the insulting can
non doomed over the city, fully eliminating
he outrages of the night,
The echoes of The INSULT ng cannon reached !
% Maine, and from every river and forest came
an indignant response. Iowa heard them and
yet upon the act her seal OF condemnation. -
Yes, and you here, in my own Ohio, heard the
premature, revel Of the Violators, and hurled
rom their seats Of ill-gotton power all within
your reach-you have sent to Congress an un-
broken delegation Of twenty-one staunch men
and true.
We we're united for a result so benefcient
last Fall, What was the bond of Union then?
The mere passage Of the Kanzas-N Nebraska act,
.hOugh its friends perambulated the State to
assure you that the interests of freedom were
safe in Kanzas, because the Northern emigra-
ion lhither was strong: squat!er sovereignty
would make them free States. What unites us
his Fall? The greater bond Of union that
Kanzas is already in the hands of the slavery
propagandists-in the hands of Atchison and
he stringfellows. Cheering. The danger is
no longer one of anticipation; the designs of the
EiOlatOrs are develOped--The crime is commit
ed. We are united. united now to rescue
hat fair land from the clutch of the slave State
bands who have invaded Kanzas, subdued the
squatter sovereigns and organized themselves
into Kanzas legislature,