Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-06-07

selves to slavery in our day and especially that
all, whether north or south, who take part direct
ly or indirectly in the conspiracy against Kansas,
do but continue tho work of the slave traders
which you condemn.
1t is true, too true, alas that our fathers
were engaged in this traffic but that is no apo
logy for it. And in repeling the authoriy of this
example, repel also the trite argument founded
on the earlier example Of England. 1t is true
that our mother country, at the peace of Utrecht,
extorted from Spain the Assiento Contract, Sc
curing the monopoly of the slave trade with the
Spanish Colonies, as the whole price of all the
blood of great victories that she higgled at
Aix-la-C a-Chapelle for another lease of this exclu-
sve traffic; and again, at the treaty of Madrid,
clung to the wretched piracy. 1t is true that in
this spirit the power Of the mother country was
prOsrated to the same base ends in her American
Colonies, against indignant protests from our
Fathers. All these things now rise up in judg-
ment against her. Let us not follow the Senator
from South Carolina to do the very evil to-day
which in another generation We condemn.
AS the Senator from South Carolina is the Don
Quixote, the Senator from illinois (Mr. Douglas)
is the squire of slavery, its very. Sancho Panza,
ready to do all its humiliating offices. This
Senator in his labored address, vindicating his
labored report-piling one mass of elaborate error
upon another mass-cOnstraned himself, as you
will remember, to unfamiliar descencies of speech.
Of that address l have nothing to say at this
moment, though before | sit down, shall show
something of it's falacies. But 60 back now
TO an earlier occasion, when, true to his native
impulses, he threw into this discussion, ''fOr
charm of powerful trouble" personalities most
discreditable to this body. will not stop to
pei the imputations which he cast upon myself,
but mention them to remind you of the ''swel-
tered venom sleeping got," which, with other
poisoned ingredients he cast into the cauldron of
this debate. Of other things speak. Standing
nut tha ol
quiring submission to the usurped power of
Kansas; and this was accompanied by manner
all his own-such belts the tyrannical
threat.
Very well. Let the Senator try. tell him now
that he cannot enforce any such submission. The
Senator with the slave power at his back, is strong
but he is not strong enough for this purpose
He is bold. He shrnks from nothing. Like
Danton he may cry, 'Paudace! Edudace tou-
jOurS Fdudace!' but even his audacity cannot
compass this work. The Senator copies the
British officer, who, with boastful swagger, said
that with the hilt Of his sword he would
cram the ''stamps'' down the throats of the
American people, and he will meet a similar fail
ure. lie may convulse this country with civil
feud. Like the ancient madman he may set fire
to this vast Temple of Constitutional Liberty,
grander than Ephesian dome but he cannot en-
force obedience to that tyrannical usurpation.
The Senator dreams that he con subdue the
North. He dsclaims the open thre 1t, but his
conduct still implies it. How little that Senator
knows himself, or the strength of the cause which
he pcrsecutes! He is but mortal man against
him is an immortal principle. With finite power
he wrestles with the Infinite, and he must fall.
Against him are stronger battaliOns than anv
marshaled by mortal arm-the inbOr., ineradica-
bic, invincble sentiments of the human heart
against him is nature in all her subtle forces
against him is God. Let him try to subdue