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troublesome questions TO me- the honorable
aor from Delaware thus we are States but we are
ton people yet united people What Is inter
esng 10 ought TO be interesting 70 all hat strength
part this great country the whole what
power of onesecon dminshes the OF the wholecoun
try directly necessarily inevitably What strengthensa part
has the effect upon the whole country We been sur
prised to hear gentlemen from e south ask u.s. aWhy do
you have the impertnece TO interfere with this question
What is u TO your Why not let alone manage this
ms,er which 10 matter solely Of n So
il is matter Of your in the States where this In
sttuton exists We have agreed that it should be and
say to you that for one opposed and always have
expressed myself to interfering with that question
among you in the slave States at all directly or indirect
y 0f What have en-, no IEh. 70 DO directly ga,
whether institution which has produced such effects
which sso enfeebling necessarily TO the great whole o
which am part and Of which my State is part and
which has produced the bghtng effects there stated shall
be extended Territory vast as all the territory
which goes to make up the States OF this Union, and
this black shall be left sweep over IT. carrying with
IL effects bghtng, II becomes not only my right but
my solemn duty to stand here and protest against IT. and
go before my constituents and before the world where
and whenever cam and protest and act against re-
suit which believe will be attended with such enormous
evils That is my TO the question which is put TO
mellow our rights and institutions to be inter-
fered with by allowing ttis government to permit the
tension of slavery Territory which is free and
Mr. President one word more do not look upon this
question question of States. The States political
do not recognise the State Of Virginia the State of
Texas State having particle of interest in them
the State of Maine the State Of Massachusetts
New York any other free State II lisa question with
the people of the United States One has Just much
terest and right another has. When you come here
and talk to about the institution of slavery connect
ed with your States and say 1t Is question between ff
teen States and sixteen States ask is there no institution
in the fifteen States composing the South except the nst
tuition of sayey2 Is the ali which goes to make up these
great empires they are in the matter of extent to say
ha in fha pf
to us here as II there nothrg else in the South but
slavery cannot put out of sight the results of the
sus of all the shareholders in the Union properly SUCH
there less than five hundred housand and including
their wives and children, and all connected with them
they form certainly decided minority Of the white free
people of the slave States themselves Are these free white
people ever represented here You say you represent
them; but what remarkng is that slavery alone does
not constitute all the South. There other men than
those who slaves or are interested in slaves and for
their benefit well ours would open these Terrific
res to freedom and hold them consecrated to freedom
forever ra ala
But for the fact that it might seem invdious and
kind would allude to and read extracts from southern
writers themselves showing the effect of slavery upon
very large portion of the white population OF the slave
States. You know the fact as well as do and better
than do for you have been eye and witnesses but
what wish to say to you is that when you speak upon
this subject and of your rights In regard to it do not
talk of the rights of the States for there no State that
has any right whatever such in this connexon 1t is
question affecting all the people of the free States and
all the people OF the slave States and much the peo-
po of slave States who do not slaves as Of the peo-
pie those States who do slaves although we never
hear voice raised within these walls from that section
except in support Of the institution and almost uniyer-
sally IN favor of its extension. Sir look upon our view
of this question quite interesting TO the people
of the slave States to those of the free States of the
Union. know it is question of political power but
it is not question of political power between hfteen
slave States and sixteen free States II is question OF
political power between the half million of people who
slaves and all the rest of the free people OF the
Union, amounting perhaps to twenty-five millions at the
attempt to limit it, they do by describing it and claim
ing it before the people matter between one great
class of States and another great class of States beg
leave to it is not So The political power il comes
and if the Senate Of the United States is to pass into the
hands Of those gentlemen not into the hands OF the
great of free people inhabing the slave States OF
this Union but into the hands of class small class
however respectable however upright however patriotic
they may be- and give them In these particulars all the
credit that arrogate claim for my section OF the
country The fact stands out in bold relief and cannot
be denied that when this political power-a power to
control the legislation Of this country by ayeto In one
body least-pases into the hands Of the slave States
according your definition passes into the hands OF
less than half million of men, who control the in
eress Of all the rest Of the free people OF the Union to-
gether. ~.
That is the simple truth 1t is what we contend against
As said the Senate before have conended against IT.
have struggled prevent the extension Of slavery over
the fee territory of this country have struggled TO pre-
vent ii by endeayorng to prevail on the general govern
exercise its powers to keep the Territories free from
slavery may fail may all fail, but our purpose s
fixed and firm. notify gentlemen that no threats Of dis
solution of the Union In elect this man or that
man. no threat of any kind which they utter will turn
us least will from that purpose which have
announced heretofore and which now again
Mr.. CASS have found the coloquy between the hon
orabe from Maine and myself TO which he has al
luded | will read IL without making single comment
During his remarks Of March 3, 1854, he said
"The senator from Michigan given argument
the subject Of this constitutional power Of Congress TO pro-
hibit slavery In the new Territories.
Then comes the interruption
"Mr CAs Do you find IL In the constitution
"Mr. FEssESpEN. Suppose do not does 1t exist or
does IL not existf
"Mr Cas-. II gives you no power.
" Mr.. FEssEsDES. Is there such thing as sovereignty
recognised by the people2
"Mr CAss will state the senator that II gives you
kind Of power You sovereign in relation to other
NATIONS When you want TO know what you may do you
consult the laws Of nations to ascertain but as TO who
constitution and II you do not find there 1t with the
aMr FrssxsDEs. acknowledge the very high au,hori-
OF the honorable senator but want 70 ask again. and
thing sovereignty the to command and the power
to make aws3 IL strikes that there IL. Well, AZ
such thing existed this Territory before ceded
by France t did exist there when the territory ceded
the United States OF America did did not the
eighty pass with the territory II ceased in France Did
extinct did live and pass the United States
United States Sovereignty what not granted by the
constitution Is in the people. All sovereignty with in
the people, They parted with none except In the form OF
the psope delegate tbs. op % thew
that sovereignty Why, sir, they delegate IL 70 tho
officers Of the constitution, whom the constitution msdeto
United States What sovereignty they may have far
they did upon the subject delegated TO the Congress
the United Sste s this particular subject prov
ded for In the constitution Is nothing said about the Ter
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