Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-04-17


The faowiug is the conclusion of Mr. Sew
ards great speech in the o. S. Senate, on Kan
sas affairs: M o. =
"Senators of the free States, I appeal to
Won Believe ye the prophets I know You
DO You know, then, that Slavery neither
works mines and quaries, nor POUNDS cites nor
builds ships, nor levies armies nor ma,,s nayies.
Why, then, will you insist On closing I'D this
new Territory of Kansas against all enrieh;pe
streams Of migration, while you pour into it the
turbid and poisonous waters Of African Slave
~? Which one Of you all, whether of Con-
necticut, or Of Pennsylvania or of Illinois or of
Michigan, would consent thus to extingu:sh the
chief light of civilization withia the State in
which your own fortunes are cast, and in which
your own posterty are to live Why will
you pursue policy so unkind, so ungenerous,
and so unjust, towards the helpless, defencele.s.
struggling Territory of Kansas inhabited as it
il by your own brethren depending on your pro-
lection and safety2 Will slavery in Kansas
add to your wealth of power in your own States.
or to the wealth, power or glory, of the Repub,
lie? You know that it will diminish ali of
these You profess a desire to end this ma
tional debate abont Slavery, which has become
ICT you, uVOrC1 dDC ~ ID IIOC tInc 10 rcttIuI SI
that hope? You have exhausted the virtue
for that purpose, that resided in compacts and
platforms, in the suppressions of the rights e.
petition and in arbitrary parliamentary laws,
end in sbnegation of federal authority over the
subject Of slavery within the National Terrific
RES Will you even then end the debate by
binding Kansas with chains, for the safety Of
Slavery in Missouri? Even then you must
give over Utah to Slavery, to make it secure
and permanent in Kansas and you must give
over Oregon and Washington to both Poly
gamy and Slavery, SO as to guaranty equally
the one and the other Of those peculiar domcs-
tic institutions in Utah and so you must 20
on, sacrificing on the shrine of peace, Territory,
until the prevailing nationality of freedom and
of virtue shall be lost and the vicious ano,aa-
lies, which you have hitherto vainlv hoped Al
mighty Wisdom would remove from among Won
without your own concurrence, shall become
the controlling elements in the Republic He
who found river in his path, and sat down to
wait for the food to pass away, was not more
unwise than he who expects the agitation OF
Slavery to cease while the love of Freedom ami
mates the bosom of mankind.
The soemnity Of the occasion draws over or
heads that cloud of disunion, which ALWAYS arises
whenever the subject Of Slavery is agitated.-
Still, the debate goes on, more ardcntly, Germ
estly, and angrily, than ever before. 1t en-
ploys now not merely logic, reproach menace,
retort, and defiance, but sabres, rifles, and can
non. DO you look through this incipicnt war
quite to the end, and see there peace, quiet.
and harmony, on the subject of Slavery? II
90, pray enlighten me, and show how long the
way is which leads to that repose. The free
States are loyal, and they always will remain
30. Their foothold on this Continent is firm
and sure. Their ability to maintain themselves,
unaidcd. under the present Constitution is es-
tablished. The slave States also, have been
loyal hitherto, and hope and trust they ever
may remain so. But if disuno on could ever
come, It would come in the form Of sccc--
sion OF the slavehoding States and it would
come, then, when the slayehoding power which
Is already firmly established on the Gnlf of Mex
leo. and extends thousand miles Northward
along both banks ofthe Mississippi, should have
hxed its graphing irons upon the fountains of
the Missouri aud the slopes of the Rocky
Mountains. Then that power would either he
intoierably supreme in this Republic, or it
would strike for independence or exclusive domi-
nation Then the free States and the slave
States Of the Atlantic, divided and warning
with each other, would disgust the free States
OF the Pacific, and they would have abundant
cause and Justification for withdrawing from
Union productive no longer of peacS, safety.
aud liberty to themselves, and no longer hold
ing up the cherished hopes of mankind.
Mr.. President, the Continental Congress Of
1851, on resigning the trust, which it had dis
charged with signal fidelity, into the hands of
the authorities elected under the New Const-
tuition. and in taking leave of their constitu-
nents. addressed to the people Of the United
States this memorable injunction Let it
never be forgotten, that the cause of the Uni
ted States has always been the cause of human
nature Let Us recall that precious monition:
let rs examine the ways which we have pur
sued hitherto, under the light thrown upon
them BY that instruction We shall find, in
doing 50, that we have forgotten moral right
In the pursuit Of material greatness, and we shall
cease henceforth from practicing upon ourselves
the miserable delusion, that we can safely ex-
tend Empire, when we shall have become reck-
less OF the obligations Of eternal justice and
faithless to the interests Of Universal Freedom"
NICARAGUA As IT rs.-A correspondent ofthe
New York Coarier gives word of warning
upon the manner that Americans are pressed